Israel ‘set to approve ceasefire with Hezbollah’ From the Oz.
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It did well enough, it appears, to force a ceasefire.
They’d suffocate, as in most you depend on air con for air quality as well. You can’t open windows in…
Anyone who invests in this lunacy is an idiot. It takes a minute or two with a calculator and access…
Good point Roger- I recall something about a secret deal between the British and frog senior military. Hateful people. Just…
Lidia certainly is representative of the morals and honesty of the Green voters.
For a more recent waste of money, you can add the purchase of the Covid vaxxs to that list. The Australian Government ordered 10 doses of the stuff for every man, woman & child in Australia, and we have to pay the pharma companies for these vaxxs whether we use them or not.
Story goes that here, in the Wild West, last century, a station manager shot his head stockman dead for impregnating his (the station manager’s) sixteen year old daughter.
The station manger was duly charged with wilful murder. At the trial, the judge lectured the jury at length – while he could not direct the jury to bring in a verdict of “Guilty”, there was only one verdict they could arrive at, and he hoped they would see sense, and bring in the appropriate verdict.
The jurors, having decided after the first fifteen minutes, that the father of the girl had only done what any of them would have done, spent three hours talking about horse racing, the price cattle and life in general, before returning a verdict of “Not Guilty” – the judicial rage was said to be terrible to behold.
argh – pyroclastic, not plastic.
Hairy was urging me to come to the sail out. But now it is postponed for an hour and I can proof read.
Read this a long time ago and it stuck:
Err, was this not a possibility under a paper title system?
The same could be said of the old paper share certificate vs the CHESS trading system. I have never heard of any share fraud resulting from an integrity breach in the CHESS system.
Drag yourselves into the 21st century, dudes!
EXCLUSIVE: Devastated ex of firebrand senator Lidia Thorpe only ‘found out’ about her ‘affair’ with the Rebels bikie boss when he saw it on the news – as it emerges they used encrypted text messages to communicate
Why would this be news?.. why should an EX expect to get, exclusive, first-in info about anything to do with her? ..
areffsays:
October 21, 2022 at 12:41 pm
From a daily media bulletin I receive:
Laura Gartry awarded Donald McDonald Oxford Scholarship
Digital Producer at ABC’s Four Corners, Laura Gartry, has been awarded the 2023 ABC Donald McDonald Scholarship.
Journalism did better when newsrooms were full of pisspots, cynics, outsiders and worldly sorts with whom you would not want to play Trivial Pursuit, especially for money.
Fond Memories of Early Morning Drinks and Music at Journalists Club building
Hotel, Office block, Entertainment venue
Club building at 36-40 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills, that was purchased by the Sydney Journalists Club in 1956 and opened as their club in 1958. The club was the scene of controversy in the 1970s when women journalists launched a symbolic fight over gender equality, which included the right to order a beer at the bar. It was also a well known venue for live music in the 1980s. The venue closed in 1996 and the association was wound up in 1997. The building was demolished by its new owners and apartments were constructed on the site.
BTW, I think electronic titles is more of a national thing, rather than Gladys operating as the Lone Ranger.
It was introduced in Victoria about the same time, and I think Queensland has had it for a while.
We have done a couple of transfers under that system, and it strikes me as more secure than a wet signature system.
Denialism?
Is that ‘Word of The Day’ or something?
The Mayan population predominates over the Mezitos, those with Spanish blood.
And 40% of the Mayan population still adhere to many of the traditional religious views.
At the heritage site we were fortunate enough to witness some locals making a traditional shamanistic presentation to the gods in a remote area of the site now set aside from the heritage areas and used for current day Mayan ceremonies. A lot of smoking wood was involved, but it did have provenance!
I may have missed it being posted earlier .. but if I didn’t .. requiem for Lidia .. Vroom, vroom!
https://youtu.be/t5vFOpVGjVc
Oh Sancho you poor trusting fool.
At the click and drag of a mouse, property titles can be taken from the common law desktop and dropped into the locked file labelled Always Was Always Will Be.
Yes, very droll, Wally.
If property was to be knicked by First Nations dudes, do you think a paper title gives you better protection than an electronic title?
And what is a “common law desktop”?
Why would this be news?.
Because the Lizard People want to portray a permanently adolescent underclass who actually pride themselves by wallowing in the glory of dating, ex-s, outbursts, betrayal, emotion, and scandal.
The serial failure at 11.02:
Uh huh. In the DeaTh CaMps, presumably.
The bantam’s feathers are puffing up, and the strut (or waddle, as it’s hard to tell) is approaching Bee Gees level.
It’s a metaphor you eejit, have a bit of poetry about you why dontcha
Pelosi Dismisses Call For New Democrat Leadership: “There’s No Substitute For Experience”
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St. Ruth to the front desk, please. St. Ruth to the front desk.
What about competence?
The Always Was Always Will Be file has algorithms which automatically calculate colonialism reparations money, death duties and carbon costs. It’s connected to bank accounts- and that’s not a metaphor, I know that my farm title is- and soon the Lizard People will start trying on just how much they can bleed off, with fellow traveller First Nationses Traditional Owners installed as their administrative laundry men.
A bullshit metaphor and completely irrelevant to the Chicken Little panic about electronic titles.
The Fetterwoman apparently only owns one suit, so presumably that was it.
Roger:
I remember damn near every country town had a wizened old Asian bloke and his family who grew 99% of the locally consumed fruit vegetables etc.
But then the Supermarkets foist a new, more profitable, environmentally superior way of of growing the stuff in Toowoomba, shipping it to Brisbane via Perf, and after aging in the back of a truck stuck outside Threeways near Tennant Crik for a month because flooding, was then able to deliver tomatoes that could settle for kinetic warfare ammunition if the Martians ever got stirred up about our habit of parking rovers in the middle of a flyover junction separating the north and south of the Mars Valles Marineris.
In fact the whole idea of growing low mileage, fresh and tasty food was seen to be so threatening to global warminggggg that State Parliaments have passed laws enabling the destruction of these farms if they became too popular.
Now I have this in my head:-
America – Blatant Hypocrisy- US Says Iranian Troops “Directly Engaged” In Crimea; EU Sanctions Tehran For Drone Deliveries
The picture of Thorpey and “the beefy thug” is quite instructive. Not a scowling grimacing cat’s bum mouth face on the stupid slag to be seen. She actually almost looks happy, presumably a first for her.
shatterzzzsays:
October 21, 2022 at 1:02 pm
EXCLUSIVE: Devastated ex of firebrand senator Lidia Thorpe only ‘found out’ about her ‘affair’ with the Rebels bikie boss when he saw it on the news – as it emerges they used encrypted text messages to communicate
Why would this be news?.. why should an EX expect to get, exclusive, first-in info about anything to do with her? ..
The “ex” might not have been “ex” at the time?
Wallee, the east coast version is “get a bit of poetry* up yer”.
*Preferably of the Vogons’ ouvre …
Ms Thorpe has 1/16th Aboriginal background.
Quite possibly true, but culturally she is a proud member the SmithStreet Nation, of which the Thorpes are born to the purple possum skin royalty.
My brain edited that to ‘room full of journalists’ and ’30 calibre’
My reading of the story indicates that that was the case – La Lidia was in a relationship with this character, and the bikie was just a little fling on the side.
Totally bizarre that “conservatives” are clamoring for Johnson’s return.
The covid/climate/war-mongering lunatic who created Britain’s collapse in the first place.
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The market gardens are long gone & built over. Dairy struggles. But the lamb, beef and pork produced in that region survives in the high quality/high price segment of the market. Which means they must be in the government’s sights.
She misspoke- she meant ‘following the Covid vaccination pandemic’
why should an EX expect to get, exclusive, first-in info about anything to do with her?
Probably became ex .5 seconds after he learned Lydia was being used as a bike rack by the rebels.
Greatest bikie song ever…
And of which the Temple of Cash Converters draws in the faithful, and the true believers.
Why the US dollar still rules the world
America only makes up a little over 20 per cent of the world economy but through good times and crises the US dollar remains king of the currencies. Will it last?
The dollar is king. This year the strength of the US currency has humbled the yen, the euro and the pound sterling. US interest rates are putting pressure on dollar debtors around the world.
This is not a surprise. It is often said that the dollar wins whatever the state of the world economy. It is a safe haven in crisis; in a boom, money surges into the dollar because US business is the prime generator of profits. But what is increasingly hard to ignore is how the dollar’s monetary pre-eminence is out of proportion to America’s actual economic standing in the world.
Thanks to the explosive growth of emerging markets such as China and India, the world economy is increasingly multipolar. As a result, the US accounts for little more than 20 per cent of global GDP and yet its share of currency reserves is closer to 60 per cent and the dollar is involved in 85 per cent of all foreign currency transactions.
If currency is conventionally thought of as an attribute of sovereignty, then this preponderance of the dollar would seem to confirm the continued existence of a US financial empire. And yet in 2022 this is at odds with America’s polarised and dysfunctional politics and the great power competition it faces abroad. It seems almost anachronistic that the Federal Reserve still functions as the de facto central bank of the world, like a hangover from the era of the Marshall Plan in the mid-20th century, or the moment of unipolarity in the 1990s.
How long can this anomaly continue? Are there alternatives to the dollar? In times of war the question becomes an urgent one.
The century of the dollar
At the start of 2022 economists debated the possibility of a Sino-Russian axis (with India as a potential third member), and a new currency system based on commodities such as oil, wheat or minerals. Cryptocurrencies were touted as the unpolitical, private alternative.
Such speculation has faded and the exchange rate of the US currency is once more a dominant force on the world economy. Talk of alternatives to the dollar seems like an exercise in wishful or alarmist thinking, a sign of an unease with an unbalanced world, rather than a realistic analysis of likely macroeconomic trends.
The century of dollar dominance has always been marked by controversy. The dollar emerged as the commanding world currency owing to the First and Second World Wars. While the Europeans and Japanese consumed themselves in conflict, the Americans were war profiteers. That did not endear them to the rest of the world.
For the British elite in the wake of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the realisation that the future of the war effort, and with it the empire, hinged on American money came as an unholy shock. In France in the 1920s, American tourists were both loved and hated for their purchasing power. Trotsky mocked the way Europe’s old elite humbled themselves before midwestern bankers such as Charles Dawes, who brokered the reparations settlement with Germany of 1924. Things were not helped by America’s aggressive deflations, first in 1920 and again in 1929, which tipped the world into recession, and by the ludicrously dysfunctional American policy mix.
Full-blown isolationism would at least have been consistent. Instead, while the American government refused to muddy its hands with the difficult business of reparations, Wall Street lent to European governments and businesses on a vast scale. Meanwhile, Congress imposed rigorous protectionism, making it impossible to service those debts. By 1933, not just Hitler’s regime but the governments of Britain and France had defaulted on their debts to the US.
Global monetary corset
When it came to devising a new currency system for the world after the Second World War, John Maynard Keynes was determined to avoid dollar hegemony. To tame America’s capricious policy, he proposed a system that would subject everyone to the same pressure to adjust domestic policy to international economic constraints.
It is an idea that has repeatedly resurfaced, most significantly in 2009, in Chinese demands for a new currency system to be based on a synthetic global currency, presumably managed by the IMF or another global body. But the idea never stood a chance. Even under the gold standard, in the pomp of its power after 1945, Washington was not going to accept its subordination to a global monetary corset.
Instead, from the 1950s onwards, the gold reserves of Fort Knox were used to anchor the dollar and the rest of the world’s currencies that were pegged to the US currency. This made the US currency as good as gold – provoking protests from the French about exorbitant privilege. It was a highly unstable arrangement. How could the Fed, a national central bank, which had a commitment to national stability, ensure enough liquidity for a global system?
As Belgian economist Robert Triffin pointed out in 1960, if the Fed acted to correct excess demand in the US, it risked choking off the world economy. Once again, the call went up: world stability depended on a universal currency. In the 1960s the IMF created a synthetic global currency, the SDR, but like Esperanto it never caught on. Instead, the system was held together with swap lines that allowed the Fed to provide dollars to fellow central banks in addition to other interventions, such as bans on open trading in gold.
Then in 1971, facing even larger deficits than in the 1960s, Richard Nixon, the president, simply abandoned the dollar peg. Global currencies gyrated wildly. But as the White House tapes recorded, Nixon said he “didn’t give a s*** about the lira”. The dollar plunged, the price of dollar-denominated commodities like oil surged. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) considered repricing oil in another currency. But the shift never happened. No one else wanted to be the global anchor, certainly not the Germans, whose Deutsche mark was the obvious alternative. The government didn’t want to jeopardise Germany’s status as a champion exporter.
The ‘Volcker Shock’
In 1979 Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed, finally did the unthinkable. To end the inflation that had troubled the US (and world) economy since the late 1960s, he tightened monetary policy, driving interest rates up and unleashing the economic crisis that many had long feared. The US economy slumped and dollar debtors around the world went into crisis. The US had to bail out its own over-extended banks.
Yet what emerged from the “Volcker Shock” was a new dollar system based on floating exchange rates, the further empowerment of Wall Street and the final defeat of organised labour. Budget constraints on the US were removed again, and from the 1980s it made full use of this freedom, borrowing on a huge scale from Japan and then from China.
By the early 2000s analysts were warning of a dollar crisis ahead. Beijing would surely exercise the whip hand its ownership of trillions of dollars of US Treasury securities gave it. Enraged by NATO’s offer of membership to Ukraine and Georgia, in 2008 Vladimir Putin suggested a concerted Sino-Russian raid on the dollar. This would entail dumping their holdings of Treasuries so as to deliberately crash the market. The Russians sold out. The Chinese did not.
The crisis that year was one internal to the dollar system – the meltdown of bank balance sheets. But rather than plunging in 2008, the dollar rose. From Europe to East Asia, banks around the world were pleading for dollar liquidity. The Fed obliged, dishing out dollars on an epic scale. The same thing happened in 2020: faced with the COVID crisis, the Fed flushed the entire global financial system with the dollar. As ever, instead of overturning dollar hegemony a crisis reinforced the central role of the American currency.
The pattern repeated in 2022. In response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine the US and Europe imposed sanctions on Russia. In an unprecedented move they violated their commitment to honour central bank claims in favour of the Russian central bank. But after some feverish talk about alternatives to the dollar, what has happened? Instead of selling dollars and fleeing into any other currency, global demand for dollars is stronger than ever.
The secret ingredient
How does an inherently unstable system, whose emergence from 1916 was resisted and whose end has been repeatedly foretold, endure every crisis? What is the secret ingredient that holds the dollar system together?
The significance of Money and Empire, the new book by the economist Perry Mehrling, is that he takes us to the heart of this question. Like Mehrling’s previous books, Money and Empire uses the biography of a leading economist as a device for making a far more general argument. In this case, Mehrling’s medium is Charles P. Kindleberger.
Kindleberger’s career began and took off in the years of the Great Depression, the Second World War and the Marshall Plan. Disillusioned with Washington politics and blacklisted on account of his association with American leftists by McCarthy’s witch hunts, Kindleberger made his career in the prestigious economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kindleberger is best known for his argument that every successful phase in the world financial system has depended on the presence of a willing hegemon. The Bank of England played this role during Pax Britannica in the 19th century, as has the Fed in recent decades. The disaster of the interwar period, which Kindleberger chronicled in The World in Depression: 1929-1939 (1973), was partly down to the fact that there was no equivalent hegemonic central bank.
It is a compelling theory. But, as Mehrling shows, talk of hegemony is easily misunderstood. Hegemony suggests the authority of governments and states. And central banks, as we know them today, are national state institutions.
But as their history illustrates, the state is not a given thing. It is made historically and through interactions with interests at large. And the boundaries of the state are porous. Private interests intermingle with state power. The Bank of England may have been founded in 1694 but it was not nationalised until 1946. The United States did not have a central bank at all until 1913. Its financial system was regionalised. New York was umbilically connected to the City of London. The regional Fed branches in the United States are to this day stacked with business executives from the districts they represent. Only the Fed board in Washington DC is a truly public institution.
Kindleberger was trained in the 1920s by a generation of American monetary economists who saw themselves as simultaneously helping to engineer a nationally integrated US financial system (centred on the Fed) and a global financial system (centred on the dollar). The First World War both created the US national financial system and began to remake the international system around the US. As the centre of finance shifted from London to Wall Street, the dollar emerged, according to Kindleberger, not so much as a national currency foreign to the rest of the world – in which they nevertheless borrowed, lent and transacted – but as the native currency of the 20th-century global financial system. In this sense the dollar was truly a successor to gold – the common denominator of the pre-1914 London-based regime.
As Mehrling argues, Kindleberger is best thought of less as an international economist than as a cosmopolitan economic thinker. To describe the world economy and its currency system as international implies that its building blocks are national economies. For Kindleberger, what counted was the mesh of private financial transactions running from commercial centre to commercial centre, across national boundaries and in whatever currency happened to be most convenient and offer attractive margins.
Kindleberger was at odds with both the monetarist and Keynesian spirit of the post-1945 period. Despite their differences, over how best to control inflation and manage unemployment, both main schools of macroeconomics focused on the stabilisation of the national economy, while international connections were of secondary import. The world economy appeared as a series of national islands rather than what Hyun Song Shin, a senior economist at the Bank for International Settlements, would later call the interlocking matrix of private balance sheets.
No real alternative
For much of his working life Kindleberger was an economist at odds with his times. His career spanned the heyday of the national economy between the 1930s and the 1980s, whereas his conception of the economy was better suited to the world of globalisation before 1914 and the second phase of globalisation from the 1970s.
This tension was evident in Kindleberger’s confident insistence that far from being doomed by America’s budget deficit and its trade imbalance, the Bretton Woods international monetary system could be saved. What the US authorities needed to do was not to impose national restrictions on capital flows. On the contrary, the key was to trust to the logic of the US-centred financial system. Some money might flow out in the short-term, but it would come back and the safest way to ensure that was to not prevent its exit. After all, where was large-scale global money to go? Then as now, there was no real alternative to the dollar.
For Kindleberger, Nixon’s freeing of the dollar from gold, the deliberate destruction of an international monetary system for the sake of national economic and political priorities, was the disastrous denouement of the national economic point of view. But his own alarm also proved to be overdone.
Rather than tearing the world economy apart, the end of Bretton Woods would confirm Kindleberger’s basic point: the resilience of the dollar system lies not in the robust health of the US national economy or its national politics, but in the strength of a global financial network that is woven in dollars, and the willingness of the Fed to support that network as a lender of last resort.
This remains the central insight today. When we evaluate the world economy and conclude that the dollar’s role in global finance is disproportionate to its share of global GDP, that America’s trade deficit is unsustainable, that congressional politics is a mess and presidential leadership is dangerously erratic, we are conflating two fundamentally incommensurate visions of the world economy: the one cosmopolitan, the other national or inter-national.
The resilience of the dollar is pre-eminently the effect of a cosmopolitan power structure. And as Mehrling writes, “while the United States may well have become unable to lead”, the global dollar system not only survives but expands, as private actors find ways through derivatives trades to insulate themselves against national shocks and the network of central banks centred on the Fed finds ever new instruments “to put a floor underneath the muddle”.
— New Statesman
What will be interesting (in a rather alarming way) will be the Christmas break this year.
Remember how the price of fuel jumps like a frog on amphetamines every December? Well what’s going to happen this year?
People will be holidaying at home.
Anyone want to bet on $3.50 litre of diesel anywhere in Australia in any day in December?
Brendan O’Neill sums up Truss well. Not a conservative at all, sorry m0nty-fa.
How serious must the want of leaders be for someone like Ms Truss to ascend to the highest office in the land? She had virtually nothing to recommend her. Not in the way of belief, or style, or ability to connect. Ideologically she was a Lib Dem cosplaying as a Tory.
Trump Embarrasses the ‘Elites’
How could it be otherwise? He is willing to expose them for who they really are.
Donald Trump is still the most popular politician in America. Despite the best efforts of a Deep State–supporting, fake news–peddling, globalist-puppeteering Axis of Evil dedicated to his disposal, President Trump still stands. That any man could be so continuously pummeled by the corrupt efforts of America’s criminal (in)justice system, sociopathic officeholders, shady spies for hire, and propaganda-spewing press and yet rise with such vim and vigor is a sight to see! Courage and resilience in the face of unrelenting torment and scorn tend to galvanize those witnessing the bloody spectacle to the sufferer’s cause. To remain undefeated while the torturers’ whipping arms become weak and weary inspires legions to remain undefeated, too. How do great and powerful systems come toppling down? When one man stands fearlessly before the rot and rancidness with a giant mirror and says, “Look at what you’ve become.”
Obama’s RINO friend Paul Ryan made a bit of news this last week by confidently predicting that Donald Trump would not be the Republicans’ 2024 presidential nominee. The former do-nothing speaker of the House finds it preposterous that primary voters would choose Trump over so many more attractive candidates unburdened by his personal baggage, as if that were not the exact same argument Establishment Saboteurs made against him in 2016. As Yogi Berra would say, “it’s déjà vu all over again.” To the unending surprise of a great number of card-carrying RINO-crats, neither Jeb Bush nor any of the other “approved” globalists running in 2016’s All-Star class of candidates sailed to victory. Far from enjoying the presidential perks of a second term today, Ol’ Jeb is right now tossing bread crumbs into a pond of mallard ducks, sadly asking just one to “please, quack.”
President Trump won fifteen million more votes in 2020 than any other Republican candidate in history and did so with the greatest support from black and Hispanic Americans in sixty years. He has reconstituted the old and irrelevant Republican Party into something new and exciting that directly appeals to workers, parents, the religious faithful, and patriotic Americans of every color and creed. He is the standard-bearer of an imaginative and daring path forward for America in the twenty-first century. Wherever he goes today, thousands line up for hours to hear him speak. He is the single most important endorsement in the 2022 midterm election cycle. He leads every poll pitting him in a hypothetical matchup against the decrepit Manchurian candidate currently installed in the White House.
For Americans who want to see him complete what he already began and for those who demand justice for the tainted, fraud-filled 2020 election, he is the only choice who will do in 2024. Yet, having “learned nothing and forgotten nothing,” Paul Ryan and his dodo flock of extinct, flightless birds still haven’t got a clue.
President Trump embarrasses the “elites” precisely because he is willing to expose them for who they really are.
OldOzzie says:
October 21, 2022 at 1:27 pm
As time goes on I don’t think we should be surprised to see more equipment offered from other nations friendly to Russia, particularly Iran. For the past three decades Iran has manufactured plenty of its own missiles, radar systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and a host of other items.
If I was Iranian military/manufacturer, I’d want to test the newer weapons under actual combat conditions rather than a mock scenario. Especially those with advanced evasion capabilities. Coat of paint, stick a Russian flag on it and some cyrillic letters……..
Perhaps that’s just me.
And surely we don’t imagine that the West is not super-interested in how their weapons supplied to Ukraine have performed (inc failure rates).
She’ll probably take the weekend to think about it, but I reckon she’ll realise her position is untenable….
Lidia Thorpe scandal proves Greens believe integrity is a one-way street
JACK THE INSIDER
The Lidia Thorpe scandal proves the Greens believe integrity is a one-way street but the moral superiority was exposed as hypocrisy as the mask slipped yesterday.
The Greens’ cheerleaders on Twitter offered the defence of the indefensible. In the wake of the explosive claims that led to Thorpe’s resignation as deputy leader of the party in the Senate, there were false comparisons, shameless whataboutery, and worse, accusations of racism hurled at the staffers who blew the whistle on the Senator.
Barely a day goes by without Bandt demanding someone or other resign but when it came time for him to act, he squibbed it.
Bandt had demanded and received the resignation of Thorpe not from her portfolio or committee responsibilities but as deputy leader of the party in the Senate, a largely symbolic title.
Thorpe remains the Greens spokesperson on First Nations, the Republic and Sport. She continues to be a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, a member of the Joint Statutory Committee on Human Rights and a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.
Thorpe’s membership of the Joint Statutory Committee on Law Enforcement commenced in February 2021, concluding at the dissolution of parliament prior to this year’s election.
It is this period where she also held the position of Greens’ spokesperson on Justice that has come under scrutiny. Around this time, she had a relationship with Dean Martin, a former president of the Victorian chapter of the Rebels Motorcycle Club. He left the Rebels in 2018. Martin has no criminal antecedents.
As it stands, the conflict of interest is breathtaking. We know that staffers approached Thorpe to warn her of the risk she faced. A work diary note from the staffer and now part of a sworn statement, “(Thorpe) has chosen not to take it… I highlighted the huge, real risk. She assured me the relationship was no longer underway.”
As part of her committee duties, Thorpe received confidential documents from law enforcement agencies in August 2021. There is no evidence that Thorpe shared this information with Martin or any other person. The documents, Bandt said, were “treated in confidence.”
Yet until yesterday, Bandt had no idea who Martin was, let alone that Thorpe had failed to advise the Greens leader that she had been in a relationship with the former Rebels’ boss.
“Obviously I am concerned about the criminal activities of outlaw motorcycle clubs in general. But when we met, Mr Martin was no longer involved in that world,” Thorpe told the ABC.
According to the staffer’s statutory declaration, Thorpe had informed the office that she had met with Martin some hours earlier that day.
There are calls for Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe to quit politics after she stepped down from the party’s leadership… team on Thursday over her controversial relationship with a former bikie.
The two anonymous staffers decided to inform the party leadership in October 2021 but in an act of “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ the information was withheld from Bandt by his chief of staff, Damien Lawson. Bandt told the media yesterday he had counselled Lawson. Lawson claims he decided instead to raise the matter directly with Thorpe.
The staffers also stated Martin and Thorpe met again in Thorpe’s electorate office in February of this year.
The Rebels have been in decline in recent years due largely to the fact their national leader, Alex Vella, has been prohibited from re-entering Australia. Vella, an Australian resident for 47 years but not a citizen, took a trip to his birthplace in Malta and had his visa cancelled in 2015.
Nevertheless, the Rebels have more than 1000 patched members and 70 chapters around the country.
It is worth pondering the Rebels’ colours. Heavily tattooed men straddling Harley Davidsons get about in their leathers emblazoned with a skull bearing a confederate soldier’s cap in front of a confederate flag, undeniable symbols of white supremacy and slavery. The Rebels were originally founded in Australia in Queensland under the name Confederates.
Almost all outlaw motorcycle gangs carried a culture of white supremacy, led by the Hells Angels who formed in Fontana, California in 1948. That all changed in Australia in the early 1990s. In 1992, the Angels had a solitary chapter in Sydney and could barely scramble a cricket team of greybeards together. The Nomads, a western Sydney OMCG, began patching members from Islander and Middle East communities and everyone, including the Rebels, quickly followed suit. Membership boosted and new chapters arose to the point where turf wars over criminal activities arose and that is pretty much where we are today.
While the nature and identity of OMCGs have changed in the last 30 years, it is beyond passing strange that a Senator who has a habit of performative outrage, shrieking about colonialism and dispossession, would align herself with a group who have a history of white supremacy and the colours to prove it.
In addition to her current woes, Senator Thorpe’s office has been under review from the Department of Finance following a complaint made to the then President of the Senate, Scott Ryan and to Adam Bandt. The complaint relates to a meeting with indigenous elder, Aunty Geraldine Atkinson who was so shaken by what she described as verbal abuse from Thorpe, that she had to be treated by the parliamentary nurse.
Thorpe’s former chief of staff, David Mejia-Canales who was in the meeting, later described the senator’s conduct as “appalling” and “one of the most unprofessional displays I have ever seen, not just during the length of my career, but in my life.”
Thorpe declined to apologise.
“We enter Parliament not to make friends but to get results for our people,” Thorpe told Nine Media back in 2021.
The relationship between Thorpe and Martin needs to be properly investigated. It should fall under the bailiwick of the National Anti-Corruption Commission when it convenes. There is talk of intervention from the Parliamentary Privileges Committee and of parliamentary censure.
But the Greens and Bandt need to do more. The moral high ground the Greens love to loiter in has become a slippery slope. Thorpe’s conduct demands she have all her portfolio and committee responsibilities removed. Anything else is hollow holier than thou posturing.
Oz – comments not allowed
Yes, her ouster is philosophically confusing to many on the right because they want to cheer her tax cut as some sort of brave Hayekian stand – for which she has been unduly reined in by globalists and discarded. I’m sure the WEFsters and Brussels and Washington did indeed dislike her budget and are indeed glad to see her go. But it isn’t as simple as that. She had no commitment to real right-leaning change in the UK. Nor do any of her colleagues.
snap Zulu!
I’m a bit slow – took me awhile to get the Kangaroo Connotation
“The covid/climate/war-mongering lunatic who created Britain’s collapse in the first place.”
Quite so. The flat blob who, with his posh wife…
1. Partied whilst he and his government locked people up in their homes.
2. Partied the night before a decent, noble and dignified woman, a woman who did serve and love her country and its people, buried her husband of over seventy years.
Boris endorsed Truss as his replacement for two reasons, she was red-hot for this Ukrainian thing, and also because she was totally incompetent so would fail early then Boris could return to his rightful place at number 10.
It won’t happen though, Sunak will get the job but not for long, it will go to Starmer at an early election.
Wodger:
I don’t think it would be possible for our Strategic Reserve to be any further away from Australia, assuming it is in Louisiana/Texas.
Kari Lake is BRUTAL…
… and Tucker’s reaction is also hilarious:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1583251525366730753
Alte mann:
Done…. Ta.
Are they, though?
Or is it just his boosters (mostly Carrie’s PR pals) planting those stories?
Head of Lettuce Declared Winner After it ‘Outlasts’ British PM Liz Truss in Bizarre Online Contest
Liz Truss has resigned as the British prime minister after only 44 days, making a head of iceberg lettuce in a blond wig the victor in a grimly humourous online contest.
The British tabloid paper the Daily Star started a livestream on YouTube on Oct. 14 with the title, “Will Liz Truss still be Prime Minister within the 10-day shelf-life of a lettuce?”
Thursday morning, Truss announced her resignation after economic turmoil in the country caused a rebellion in her party and destroyed her authority.
Following the speech, the Daily Star’s livestream updated by crowning the head of lettuce and lowering the photo of Truss as the National Anthem played and disco lights flashed.
New post on Guardian’s attempt to resuscitate ‘clump of cells’ trope via the phrase ‘pregnancy tissue’ now up.
Great minds, Top Ender.
We no longer have a strategic reserve, it was “loaned” to the US a while ago in Biden’s first attempt to lower petrol prices. I can’t see it being returned any time soon.
Boris Johnson had his opportunity and he squibbed it, badly. However, I still don’t think he should have resigned, the hysteria for him to resign was driven by the “party gate” fiasco and so the progressive MSM, in cahoots with Starmer’s Labour, hounded and haunted Boris until it became untenable and so, Tory MPs got scared and the rest is history. Keir Starmer and others in Labour have also been outed for partying during lockdowns, but the progressive MSM are always happy to ignore that. I believe most Britons would have forgiven Boris for partying and his casual fibbing had he pursued a more rigorous conservative policy platform and in particular, had he dealt with out of control legal and illegal immigration. But no, instead Boris, like a fat man wearing a tutu in a comic opera, stumbled, lurched, lumbered and galumphed from one side of the stage to another, never taking a stand on anything, always scared of blowbacks from an MSM who despised him, always beholden to faceless bureaucrats and always kowtowing to his princess green wife. His legacy, well he did get Brexit done, but even that’s shambolic, given the Northern Ireland problems. Instead, as C.L. said above, it’s a legacy of covid/climate/war-mongering clowning. No wonder he liked to visit the Ukrainian clown.
As Rowan Dean said on Sunday morning 22 May 2022…..”when you betray your principles and your base, you will lose“.
Perhaps it would be best to deport the Bishops to Rome.
The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee chastised the Biden administration and red-state governors for their handling of immigration and called for all sides to collaborate on better treatment.
Given that folk worry a lot about the rising cost of their gas/electric bills I’m surprised that water never gets a mention! .. looking at my quarterly water bill and it’s bigger than my last electricity bill .. not bad considering I live alone and only use the stuff for showering, washing machine, normal things ect .. haven’t even turned a hose on for months due to the weather watering the garden .. these rising costs just keep on keeping on! .. FFS!
Germany has introduced a new program to relocate Afghans suffering persecution at the hands of the Taliban. Civil society members and minorities are considered most at-risk.
Dentist song?
Don’t you mean, and the next song, with thanks to Mr David Allen Coe…
As Rowan Dean said on Sunday morning 22 May 2022…..”when you betray your principles and your base, you will lose“.
Boris lost it Big Time when the Queen had to sit on her own at her Husband’s Funeral 15,000 million miles away from everyone else and he like the Big Tosser he was and he is was pissing it up the night before. A PM? I don’t fink’ so……………………..
Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?
– Benny Hill
“We enter Parliament not to make friends but to get results for our people,” Thorpe told Nine Media back in 2021.
Racist slag.
Republicans Lead By Expanding Margin on Generic Ballot
GOP Boosted By College Educated Independents, Women Returning:
If you dont hold it, you dont own it
WTF?! AOC becomes insulting (racist?) caricature of Hispanic woman when heckled by her OWN supporters (watch this hot mess)
Not looking like the jury will report today?
No. Competence is no substitute for experience. Worse than that, it can be a distraction.
And another one for JC and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose…………………………….Happy Friday !!!!!!
The kids filed back into class on Monday morning.
They were very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on productive salesmanship.
Little Sally led off. “I sold Girl Scout cookies and I made $30” she said proudly “my sales approach was to appeal to the customer’s civil spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success”.
“Very good” said the teacher.
Little Jenny was next. “I sold magazines” she said “I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events”.
“Very good, Jenny” said the teacher.
Eventually, it was Little Johnny’s turn. The teacher held her breath…
Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher’s desk.
“$2,467” he said. “$2,467!” cried the teacher “What in the world were you selling?” “Toothbrushes” said Little Johnny.
“Toothbrushes!” echoed the teacher “How could you possibly sell enough tooth brushes to make that much money?” “I found the busiest corner in town” said Little Johnny “I set up a Dip & Chip stand and gave everybody who walked by a free sample. They all said the same thing: ‘Hey, this tastes like dog shit!’ Then I would say ‘It is dog shit. Wanna buy a toothbrush?’ I used the governmental approach of giving you something shitty for free, and then making you pay to get the shitty taste out of your mouth……………………….
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize? and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
– Rowan Atkinson
flyingduksays:
October 21, 2022 at 2:47 pm
We no longer have a strategic reserve, it was “loaned” to the US a while ago in Biden’s first attempt to lower petrol prices. I can’t see it being returned any time soon
If you dont hold it, you dont own it
And Australia’s Petrol Reserve is held in Texas. FFS and we are the Clever Country? LOL
Seems like there’s a good deal of reasonable doubt.
Biden Admin Shells Out $2.8 Billion To Battery Makers That Pledge Commitment To Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
The Biden administration announced a $2.8 billion investment in U.S.-based battery manufacturing Wednesday that contributed to the administration’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives.
The administration selected 20 companies to receive awards from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed into law in November 2021, with projects evaluated by their ability to “contribute meaningfully” to the administration’s Justice40 initiative, which sets a target of 40% of all federal clean energy investments benefitting “disadvantaged and underrepresented communities,” the Department of Energy (DOE) announced Wednesday.
The award will result in the construction of 5 new facilities in “disadvantaged communities,” with 15 located adjacent, according to the DOE. Of the 21 total projects, 15 will involve collaboration between companies and Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and are expected to create a total of 5,000 permanent jobs.
“This U.S.-based high-tech demonstration plant will employ a workforce of up to 150, including a minimum of 40% of new employees coming from disadvantaged communities and being paid wages higher than the prevailing rate,” said materials fabricator 6k Inc., who received $50 million, according to the DOE. “Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility principles are incorporated into all aspects of the project and 6K will work with local and regional workforce development agencies to create training and intern programs with high schools, technical and community colleges, and local universities.”
No.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
– William Shakespeare
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in an expensive suit, Gucci shoes, Gucci sunglasses and a YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers “Sure, why not?”
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Surface Pro, pairs it to his iPhone, surfs to the NASA website, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location, which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution and then exports the data to his AWS account.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Photoshop and exports the image for processing using facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturised HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves”.
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves” says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says “Okay, sure why not?”
“You’re a senator in the government?” says the cowboy.
“Wow! That’s correct” says the yuppie “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars’ worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about how working people make a living – or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep… now give me back my dog”.
That’s not very nice.
Sancho of the slip lane suffers many mental problems and character flaws.
He is a self admitted liar.
He has many daddy issues to try and overcome.
How can you be so cruel?
Take a leaf from my book and show a bit of respect to the useless dead c…t.
Fark me.
The socialist blob gets something right.
It’s the word of the last two and a half years.
How the government is manufacturing unemployment and the financial crisis | Crossroads
I was invited to a fundraiser for Congressman Ro Khanna. Here’s my RSVP.
This is the billboard that we will be running right outside CDC headquarters in Atlanta
What do you think?
Yep. Can’t see her surviving this one.
Death to traitors, right screechy?
By whose hand and under whose imprimatur, I wonder?
Oh yeah. That was already answered.
*oh yeah you can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk*
And still to this day, if you had not tuned in to MSM you wouldn’t know such a thing called covid existed.
You never got covid.
You caught a cold.
OH NO cry the brainwashed…I lost my sense of smell!
Oh how the sane laugh imagining how snot filled cold sufferers ever could smell.
You caught a cold.
In many cases, you caught nothing but the Chinese test kit picked you at random and you wanted a bit of attention.
Admit it.
The silly part is your taxes paid for your poisoning via the jab.
You literally paid for and lined up to be slaughtered.
And now 600 plus a week in Australia above the average are dying.
Back to the cricket.
Nothing is happening.
tick, tick, tick.
She’ll play the race card…
I knew this would get under the compliant KD’s skin.
Horrified he is.
I’m inciting rebellion, doncha know.
He’s got some fucking hang ups , that’s for sure.
Once a Vicplod always a Vicplod.
Nothing wrong with announcing traitors should be shot.
No one in Australia should have anything to worry about, surely.
“Bidenflation” Rises to 12.8% as Americans Are Watching Their Paychecks and Savings Disappear
Oh FFS, it’s a one trick pony.
Stick the ticking up your rear, you useless piece of white trash. Go on, fuck off back to the furniture store, you boring nincompoop. Go change Faulty’s adult diaper.
How long have you got?
Don’t think that will do it. She’ll get censured by the UniParty in a rare display of bipartisanship. The only thing that might save her is the Greens are such a freak show and Bandt is utterly impotent inside the party.
Report finds evidence of 459 crimes in Hunter Biden’s laptop
Laid-off pipeline worker rips Biden’s denial about oil production
There were some forced to get the jab.
You weren’t JC.
What’s coming to you couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke.
You not white anymore, JC?
Wog is now what colour?
This may help:
The jury knocks off for the weekend @ 16.30 hrs
Clocks on again Monday @ 10.00
At your cubicle in the department (in either CPS or ACTgovt) you’re expected to sit there until 17.00 today & be there before 09.00 on Monday.
96 doctors in Quebec call for an end to vaccinating children for COVID
NSW are 5/209.
6 to 36 months.
Spotted in a retweet somewhere on the Twitter:
(Can only lurk, as I’m not allowed a Twitter account – due to my attitude toward the Vikstasi at the time they were using truncheons on Gran)
I haven’t been following the “fine” print on this indecent assault case involving a swim coach and kids but as a Grandad who taught several of my grandees to swim I can’t understand why anyone thinks you can teach youngsters to swim without “touching” them .. it’s the easiest thing to do to put your hand(s) inadvertently in a compromising position whilst supporting them in the water .. but it’s a long bow to draw accusing someone who makes their living teaching kids to swim of “assault” rather than accidental touching happens .. fortunately, for the young bloke it seems this jury agrees ……
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11339159/Sydney-swim-coach-Kyle-James-Henk-Daniels-acquitted-sexual-abuse-charges.html
You’ve been spinning this broken record for 2 1/2 years now, you redneck retard. You’re not smart, you’re a boring bread delivery driver with zero to add. As I said, go change faulty’s diaper.
RC AIRBUS A-380
car insurance went from 1.8k last year to 2.4k this year. WTF!
Be careful Drills. Twitter recently banned someone for defending a plagiarist. That’s a twofer for you.
Or less….for choo choo
Sad.
Defeated.
The definition of smart is not paying for and lining up for someone to kill you.
Actually, that isn’t the definition of smart.
It’s just the definition of not being an utter moron.
Protestors Glued to Floor Upset Porsche Won’t Give Them Bowl To Poop In
Salty is not sympathetic.
Greens are such a freak show and Bandt is utterly impotent inside the party.
The silence from Sarah Two Daddies is also nerve tingling .. will she ride with Lidia or saddle up with Adam there’s a deputy’s star up for grabs! .. as for the rest of the sitting Greens they’ll remain as anonymous and inconsequential to the vote-herd, as always ..!
Cheers Rex, enjoy the holiday.
This is.
You redneck retard.
Democrats Are Already Telling Americans To Expect Delayed Election Results This Fall
And to all those who chose to get jabbed, to be part of the privileged class in an apartheid society,……..Karma is a bitch.
Never do deals with the devil.
Liz Truss’ warning to America: You can’t just keep spending and ignoring voters
Only the Greens could get wedged on supporting a bikie’s moll.
Maybe.
But at least I still have my boats.
Boats plural.
Two of them.
No, so it sounds like it is even easier to steal a house than before. Ensuring that a bank has a (at least minor) interest in your real property is recommended
Of course, we now have overwhelming proof the jab is killing large numbers…….and just getting started.
We have proof the jab could never stop transmission, and they knew it.
We have proof that suicides went through the roof as did death from alcohol abuse.
Traitors put themselves above the rule of Law and went to war on the west.
Back to the cricket.
FULL INTERVIEW: Don’t be fooled that #Russia is losing the war, the worst is yet to come
So you say…..
But we know you lie.
And I don’t mean exaggerate, as in you have two little boats you play with in the bath…..you have told us you lie.
Completely fabricate stories.
Poor Sancho of the Skidmark, sit down, there’s a good boy, no one believes a word you say.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/vw-climate-protesters-demand-bowl-to-urinate-and-defecate-after-gluing-themselves-to-floor/news-story/c6607e415934d4e36d3188b2d0c7e2b5
Har har. Let them sit in their own filth, in the dark and cold.
I can’t understand why anyone thinks you can teach youngsters to swim without “touching” them .. it’s the easiest thing to do to put your hand(s) inadvertently in a compromising position whilst supporting them in the water
This…
Teaching ‘fugee kids to swim/ chucking them in the air at the pool etc… I look back and shudder at just how big the circus could have been if a couple of parents had thought it would be a good idea to visa-wrangle via an accusation from a couple of kids.
(which reflects well on the parents in general no-one did that)
Sancho
Please don’t ape a certain other poster’s penchant for amping up for a stoush- there’s no chicken little panic about the central digitization of real estate records. But I am pointing out the obvious flaws and dangers. To not do so is a failure of the imagination.
For practice- and assuming you’re a real person, not just JC’s sock- next time you approach a bank, pause a minute and say out loud to yourself, “the absolute digitization of currency is a really good idea, it will lower costs, increase efficiency, security, and transparency, and no-one in power will ever look to the system as a resource.”
And then go to your local council office- which may or may not be outright Green- and recite “the absolute digitization of land certificate records is a really good idea, it will lower costs and improve efficiency, and no-one in a position of power or for ideological reasons will ever look to the system as a resource.”
And THEN- if the time is right- the next time you line up to vote in an election, say to yourself “the absolute digitization of the voting process is a bonzer concept, we’ll have the most secure elections evah”
AND THENNNNN- the next time you slot your head into the iris ID scanner, say to yourself “now this is living! Skynet has finally meant that the average bloke has got free and equal access to the information age, and petty bureaucrats can no longer shut us out of the control room for everyday transactions, enquiries and accounting!”
OK maybe i am a bit we-wee’d up, but like I said, it’s a failure of the imagination to simply keep schtum and roll over for this shit.
Sure.
Things I’m not losing sleep about:
1. Inserting my head into an iris scanner;
… to be continued
Wally Waffler
Stop talking about me please. It’s not a great look to be pleading with me we shouldn’t correspond and then you do. Perhaps, I’m Sanchez’s sock and not the other way around, you waffling ignoramus.
That certain sad pathetic person is the only one not respecting the requirement to post abusive & vituperative argument on the duelling thread & the duelling thread only.
Apart from that one sad pathetic abusive poster, this site is now a lurker’s paradise.
Oh look, it’s Turt’s sock
Hey.
JC… why the hell are you reading my posts, if you disdain them so much?
..are you doing a quick ctrl-F scan for your holy initials?
Why are you still labouring under the misapprehension that I give a good god damn about anything you say?
I won’t treat you like a princess, Princess.
And I would be shocked and appalled if any other reader is deriving some sort of vicarious voyeur’s pleasure from witnessing your outbursts.
Now that we’re talking Waffles.
If a state was intent on cancelling someone’s ownership of property, a piece of paper would be as useful as a digitized report. It would make no difference. Additionally, you can make a screen shot of a digitized copy. Stop panicking.
So while the Fed fights inflation (that it created and at first denied) by crushing families with onerous interest rates and desperately trying to increase joblessness , this silly pervert in the WH is doing his utmost to provide stimulus in loan forgiveness, grantees and subsidy – all on the taxpayer’s credit card through deficits.
What a fkg clownshow.
Lights off in the Jury Room; back on Monday.
I have a tingling little sense that lifelong friendships are not being made. Maybe even moments of screechiness.
The Importance of Being Ethical, with Jordan Peterson
Stoush my arse.
Don’t be a petal Wally.
Since when has it been stoushing to point out that electronic storage of asset entitlements has been around for 20-30 years on the ASX without a fraud resulting from mis-use of those records, so why the panic over a considerably less liquid and less high volume market than shares.
Did you get in a tizz when electronic self-correcting golfball typewriters came in too?
What about when the electronic calculator replaced the abacus?
Fainting couch required then as well?
I don’t actually, But I see my name mentioned while scanning through your indecipherable crap.
No, just scrolling down the page.
You obviously do, which is why you continue to mention me. I haven’t mentioned you and with good reason, you’re boring.
Okay. However, it works both ways. I’m happy to ignore your incessant waffling so don’t mention me again.
I’m equally shocked if anyone reads you dull drivel. But there you go. Respect your rule or fuck off.
Waffles.
And Sanchez is 100% right. We’ve had electronic reporting of stock ownership etc and don’t even know when a stock certificate was done away with and here you are taking off your stockings& garter belt waving them around the air like an angry Karen.
Sancho, you’d have to admit that it’s the stated intent of the Green Left to dissolve private property. And consider my earlier hunch that it’s more an initial target for mission creep and a slow bleed-off, an incrementally increasing amount of obligations and charges, increasing complexity and an always out-of-reach promise of full transparency that somehow never comes. It is the way of bureaucracy that it becomes a self-sustaining closed club, and the Land Titles Office will remain just that, whether it has a crest on the letterhead or a Pty Ltd suffix.
Wally Dalí says:
October 21, 2022 at 4:39 pm
No, I actually disagree with that. I think you’re karanizing again. They certainly would love to control it much more and raise all sorts of taxes etc on private property, but I don’t believe they wish to dissolve it. I don’t believe Bob Brown would want to, no. That’s just you being a draw queen.
Why aren’t you demanding we go back to stock certificates too?
Can anyone figure out this word salad?
The same they’ve done with stock ownership, car ownership and even bank accounts? Oh wait, it hasn’t happened.
Karen Alert.
Bear, have you travelled with a biometric passport?
Paranoia aside, do you reckon it’s sped your way through the customs and immigration process at all?
JCsays:
October 21, 2022 at 4:44 pm
Wally Dalí says:
October 21, 2022 at 4:39 pm
Sancho, you’d have to admit that it’s the stated intent of the Green Left to dissolve private property.
No, I actually disagree with that.
Socks in a tangle there boyos, sort your shit out eh
Struth, sorry but you continue to sound like a dickhead.
I blame the VICPOL.
I’ll answer. Yep tons. If only they could speed up baggage.
Denialism.
When after being locked down and told to shut shop, lose jobs, and not venture 5 k’s from your home.
After not being able to leave the country for two years, the denialist retards can’t put together the world has changed and our governments no longer are under the rule of law.
So it hasn’t happened yet they say to Wally!!
No need to worry about digitilisation in the hands of these criminals.
Their twisted little minds are back in 2019.
Unlike your stockings and garter waving, you boring little karen.
And for the Lurkers here you may take note.
They have no argument so they go for the man , not the ball……every time.
Childish, emotional, and very left wing.
Yea, Tick, tick, tick.
I recently travelled with someone who had a luggage tracker app. She knew where her bags were at all times.
I didn’t know such a thing existed. Going to get one for the next trip, having had my bags to-ing and fro-ing around the world a couple of times before finally landing in Fairbanks.
No. I let my passport lapse last year and have to get another identification document for all these BS 100 point checks.
Undersea cables are being cut, I wonder why anyone would do that?
Communications Cables CUT for Portion of UK
Major Undersea Communications Cable Cut off southern France
Choo Choo, Oh Choo Choo
Where f’art thou Choo Choo!?
Doth it not arf make us pondereth?
Is thou art in the great union shop-eth in the sky?
Hivis, hard hat-eth and safety boots still required?
Or art thou part of the misery of hell, where you must decide without government direction, what to wear every morning………. before going to a compulsory truck show and shine everyday for eternity?
Hmm, sounds like a former Australian PM who wouldn’t know a principle if he tripped over one, who was given the boot several months ago …
Scathing article on the Pell miscarriage in Vic Bar’s latest magazine:
https://www.vicbar.com.au/sites/default/files/VBN171-Web.pdf
Also slams Nil-Again. See Page 29 onward…
Struthspeare now.
This is the story that keeps on giving. One of the lead guys is gianluca grimalda. His twitter feed last night was full of comments suggesting he update everyone on when he finally shit himself.
His most recent update was that he received medical advice that he could have blood clots in his hand so he promptly gave up his protest and went to hospital. Comments are a mixture of calling him a pussy for copping out so easily and asking him if the ambulance was electric or powered by those nasty fossil fuels.
Laugh a minute.
The serial failure:
Today I would like to hear the ripping and not at all fabricated tale of the hero truckie who stepped in a turd outside a roadhouse, and who could immediately tell it was a) human and b) Indian, and then got into his truck anyway where the pong was such that he had to take his pants off – while driving a semi- and throw them out the window.
That’s a cracking story. Not one little bit fabricated.
I do hope “RAPE APOLOGIST!” hasn’t been shouted across the jury room.
As we found on Old Cat, screechy women screaming “All men are rapists!” doesn’t get a lot of traction.
Shakespeare is even more relevent today.
Lysander at 5:00.
Thanks for that.
Looks like a good read.
Couldn’t read it all on my phone.
Need to look at it on the Big Compuda.
Bing-Bong!
Low trouser warning!
Bing-Bong!
Why Modern Movies Suck – They Hate Their Own Fans
There was a fabricated part.
But it was you that fabricated it.
I never said it was an Indian turd.
I was speaking about Indians regarding another story.
Typically, being a moron and a liar, you put the two together and run with it.
And although I don’t mind you calling me a hero, It was also not mentioned.
You’re a goose KD, always were.
Which some airlines insist you turn off before checking in.
That would be the ultimate.
Seeing your bag stationary at Mascot as you fly over Broome after they pulled it because of the tracker.
How do you fabricate an Indian turd?
MACBETH: I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet,
And to be baited with the rabble’s curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, 30
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’
Then:
[Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH’s head]
MACDUFF: Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands
The usurper’s cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compass’d with thy kingdom’s pearl,
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
Hail, King of Scotland!
Death to traitors!
Shakespeare is Sun Tzu.
Sun Tzu is Shakespeare.
The denialist gangeth, smarting over their own stupidity as unmuzzled, tickle brained, bum bailies.
Thou art, one and all, no more than dissembling, flap mouthed fustilarians.
Nope, and nope. That was part of your story. ‘They are a filthy people’, you said.
You can run this as another ‘well what else would you have concluded’ moment, but the internet is forever.
First there were the Nord Stream explosions, then the cable to Shetland cut and now to parts of France. Are sinister tests underway or somebody playing silly buggers? Before the covid I would have said coincidence or silly games, now I’m not so sure.
This posted about one of the most readable commenters, by one who even after bad language and abuse is banished to the duelling thread, posts 70% abuse, foul language and attempts to start fights, yet is allowed to remain on the main thread.
Rules apply only to the nice people.
“Death to traitors” has our froward,beetle headed flap dragon all in a tizzy.
Hey KD….
Death to TRAITORS.
One desirable aspect of the old title certificate system was the beauty of the things. I have some Old System title documents and they are works of art. Look at this beautiful title deed.
Climate protesters who glue themselves to anything at all must be ridiculed as much as possible. Only when they realise that they are not admired but made fun of will they stop the nonsense.
Why would they want you to turn it off? Does it interfere with the airplane’s navigation or the airline’s prestige?
I wonder if you can turn it on remotely?
Thou art a glue sniffing,pox marked foot licker.
Thou art are cursed and swag bellied.
For thou art can cry Nope and Nope as much as thou seeks to.
This does not cloud truth.
You stink fingered, idle headed skainsmate
There it is!
There’s his century!
100 “Denialists” and derivatives thereof in a day.
Well batted St Ruth!
Raise the bat!
Turtlehead/CMD
“Nice people” is a personal opinion.
Waffler demanded we stop speaking to each other and about each other. I respected that, but Waffler broke the agreement he himself initiated. Secondly, his comment about digitizing property ownership while ignoring the digitization of stock ownership, car rego, bank accounts is bordering on retarded.
Now fuck off, dickhead. Go snitch to the owner.
Ha ha ha. The hook’s fully in.
DeaTh tO TraITOrs!!!11!1!11!!
‘Captain to engine room – engage Dark n Stormy mode.’
‘But Sir, we’re running at full Bosi already!’
‘Dammit man! Full steam ahead!’
Don’t know x 3.
Last chance for a week to mow your lawns in Sicktoria!
Trackers have lithium batteries.
Lufthansa for one have banned them.
Stop it, Cronkite.
I’m in solidarity with the road rager. I’m off to the Cenotaph then back to sook on the couch. Oh yes, all you denialists are traitors. Have I missed anything. You’re all gunna die. Probably the only thing he got right.
Just did a quick search. Lufthansa said they were banning them, then back-pedalled. They appear to be the only airline that had anything to say. Aussie airlines allow them.
Looks like they’re a-okay.
Thou art are seeing rebellion inciters everywhere.
Thou cringes in fear, as the cry goes out…death to traitors.
DEATH TO TRAITORS!!
For only a puny,onion eyed joit head would disagree.
Until the first plane becomes a fiery lithium powered torch.
I for one believe that the trucking industry deserves all the support it can get. Specifically, and to address the labour shortage this country should import more foreign drivers to give our homegrown ones a break.
Their driving skills are tip-top, as everybody knows. Fully qualled-up. Best in the world, so much so they could teach our local ‘professionals’ a thing or two.
Life is so unfair. If only people would make things fairer.
Forsake us not with the presence of the GREY RANGA, for he is known as an annoying , artless, beslubbering, pribbling poonce, who only excells in physical self love.
Icky-eth.
Perhaps. I’d be gobsmacked if there aren’t dozens of tiny lithium batteries in the hold on any one flight. People think they’ve got them in their on board luggage, then realise there’s some device of other packed neatly away. I’ve done it, and I’m not Robinson Crusoe.
There is plenty of protection against fire in the cargo hold.
Where’s Hallward?
Calli.
I just heard it in passing on radio the other day.
I didn’t even know they existed until then.
I bought a tracker a few years ago to put on the collar of a recalcitrant escapee dawg.
Range …. 10 metres tops.
One Bosi is worth a million KD’s.
A million-eth
And that’s even after Bosi fuckethed up.
He’s still more of a man of virtue than Vicplod Mc Barfly will ever be.
If indoors – deny all food, drink, toilets and any form of amenity, pelting with rotten fruit is optional.
Outdoors – Hose them down in fresh water, salt water preferred although livestock urine would get the point across easier. Pelt liberally with rotten fruit and no form of human amenity.
Protesting in a car – weld the doors shut, smash the rear window and suspend by crane over the nearest body of water, (minimum height suspended at 20m).
If only things were made fairer still.
It’s CNN so probably a tissue of lies.
Airtags given the all-clear by the FAA because the amount of Lithium involved is miniscule.
Just don’t pack a Tesla, m’kay?
I like your thinking, Carpe.
It could all be filmed for one of those Japanese torture shows too.
Fun and profit!
As do pacemakers and other medical implants, mobile phones, laptops, tablets, digital cameras, watches, etc.. Banning them on an airliner would go far beyond mere luggage trackers.
Lufthansa attempted to ban trackers because Lufthansa led the world’s airlines in lost/missing/stolen baggage and didn’t want passengers to be able to prove their incompetence with actual evidence of where their bags went.
The piss, thou art taking.
(Yoda doing Shakespeare)