Boulevard Montmartre – Spring Rain, Camille Pissarro, 1897
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Bit quiet on the Catscape. Seems it’s Tom’s Toons what was bringing in the punters all along…
Not really Ranga. I just did a quick scroll through and out of idle curiosity had a look at the…
While it is possible the Dems and deep state may fall short, I think there will be ballot drops at…
Rosie you must spend a lot of time sorting out the rubbish from all your feeds. I am grateful to…
Went into all this a few months ago. It only works economically (for the user) if it’s massively subsidised.
In other words, it’s expensive and stupid.
Thanks for clarifying Pogria. In that case, I heartily agree with you.
I still think it is not a bad idea to keep a few spare bog rolls and tins of grub though. 😀
One of the most interesting things about socka is that for such an effeminate pastime, the results spark diametrically opposite reactions (the Hun):
Entertaining.
Hugh:
My garden beds are fallow atm, because the roos and birds are getting more of my stuff than I can.
Netting is perishable up here in the heat so it’s a bit silly to waste the stuff for little economic return.
Which is why it’s a good idea to keep six months of tucker on hand before the crops can come in.
Interesting thing about the Japanese forces in WWII: the Navy were far more humane to captives than the Army.
Earth Now Has 8 Billion Humans. This Man Wishes There Were None.
Knight, 75, is the founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction movement, which is less a movement than a loose consortium of people who believe that the best thing humans can do to help the Earth is to stop having children.
I don’t think Joh is attacking me these days.
People come to this site for all sorts of reasons. I enjoy the general company and hearing people from many different places and backgrounds hold forth on politics and life in general, which is what most here seem to enjoy.
Breaking Report: The Brazilian military stands with Bolsonaro… is prepared to invoke Article 142…
Sometimes it seems like nothing ever happens, but this seems like it could be a big deal…
Background: The Brazilian people have flooded the streets in protest at an allegedly rigged and stolen election. Truckers are blocking all highways. Farmers have blocked all ports from exporting agriculture. Bolsonaro has exhausted his legal options, with his election appeal being rejected by a corrupt, opposition-appointed Chief Supreme Court justice.
Bolsonaro is now huddling with the military to plot his next move
Agree that it’s not perfect, certainly not initially. There is no ideal solution if the State unfairly brings its power to bare.
However, a network of professionals could allow you to circumvent monitored transactions, and a whole range of ways to buck the tyranny. You may not feel quite so helpless.
For a change of pace, came across this by John Betjeman-
The Planster’s Vision
Cut down that timber! Bells, too many and strong,
Pouring their music through the branches bare,
From moon-white church-towers down the windy air
Have pealed the centuries out with Evensong.
Remove those cottages, a huddled throng!
Too many babies have been born in there,
Too many coffins, bumping down the stair,
Carried the old their garden paths along.
I have a Vision of The Future, chum,
The worker’s flats in fields of soya beans
Tower up like silver pencils, score on score:
And Surging Millions hear the Challenge come
From microphones in communal canteens
“No Right! No wrong! All’s perfect, evermore.
In these climate cult and gender bending times of heading into economic and civilisational disaster it is always good to find that there are others who also wish to call out this insanity. Living in a world otherwise peopled by lemmings can get you down unless there is somewhere like this, or the comments on the Oz, where you can see that you are not alone in your dismay. In fact, there is a sizeable proportion of the population who are worried about where Australia is likely to end up on current trajectories. Keeping that sense of dismay alive and well is a good purpose in itself.
Hugh,
stocking up on toilet paper is prudent at the moment. Kleenex has stated that as their power cost have gone up 290%, they can no longer absorb the costs. The price of loo roll is set to double.
Bob,
heartily agree. You are being self-reliant. If one thing isn’t working out, you have a back up. I only have a small raised bed with herbs right now. My place has enormous potential but it had been neglected for years before I bought it. Slowly getting there. I have plenty of food stored. Non perishables. A tip for long term storage, if you buy rice, flour, pasta and pulses to store, place them in the deep freeze for two days. This will kill any lurking eggs that will hatch out when you least expect it, especially in warm, moist climes. After freezing, make sure of course to keep the product in airtight containers to prevent re-infestation.
Cheers all, I have a ton of weeds to spray. The wheel, as we know is mankinds’ greatest invention. I have always maintained that Round up is the second greatest.
How not to have any electricity:
Germany Sets Windfall Tax At 90% (27 Nov)
“Germany has set out its plan to claw back 90% of the earnings from some clean power generators as the government seeks funding for its consumer aid package. The government is planning to skim earnings above €130 a megawatt-hour for solar, wind and nuclear, according to a draft law seen by Bloomberg News. Politicians are trying to reclaim some of the profits that companies like RWE AG are making from high power prices.
The windfall tax will be applied to electricity producers based on the fuel they use. Lignite plants will be taxed on earnings above €82 a megawatt hour and oil plants above €280. The measures will apply for 10 months, backdated to start of September 2022, until end June 2023 and could be extended to end of 2024.”
I think that means all electricity capital works are going to be coming to a crashing halt. Why bother investing money when the government takes 90% of the profit?
That’s a great poem, Wally Dali.
All those empty high rises in China come to mind. Sentinals to a real estate bubble.
Sadly, urban life everywhere is high rise and increasing. Land and space are the luxuries.
Freedom from buraucratic over-reach too is also becoming a luxuxy.
Interesting to see in China that people are pushing back against the social credit system.
Which we should also resist with all possible means.
zanne63
@ar07107280
CHINA – locals find frozen children being transported for organ harvesting…
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Pogria, thanks for the tip re pastas and rice. I will do it to any I buy in future, even if only intended to keep for a few months. In Sydney’s Feburary stickiness dem little moths do get busy.
Meanwhile it’s looking like winter in the northern hemisphere is going to be brutal.
Snow Extent in the Northern Hemisphere now Among the Highest in 56 years Increases the Likelihood of Cold Early Winter Forecast both in North America and Europe (26 Nov, via Climate Depot)
Ace Forecaster Bastardi: “Something We Used To See In 1970s”, Warns Of “Spectacular Cold” (27 Nov)
And the hurricane season has been much weaker than NOAA forecast, despite the big one which hit Florida.
2022 global tropical cyclone activity ‘likely to finish lowest in the satellite record’ (27 Nov)
All of which makes the net zero stuff look very silly.
Pogria:
Yep. Already do this – even with flour which has zero chance of being nasty contaminated. Just a habit I picked up somewhere. Even prepared spaghetti uncooked. Frozen milk gives a good cold mass in the freezer if the power goes off.
Anything bad is “Climate Change”, anything good and pleasant is “The Weather”.
They have it all worked out.
Social Justice in a Nutshell
The flour we used to get in Goroka came complete with weevils. Sift them out. Sadly their poo remained. Not a lot you could do about it.
Anyone living in a city would be wise to have a stock of essentials, plus an alternative means of cooking, phone charging, lighting and water supply sufficient for at least a week’s disruption.
After that, if there is no governmental organised assistance, then you are on your own in a jungle.
Doesn’t bear thinking on really. My view is that you cannot live your life hidden away as a rural prepper awaiting any Armadeggon. A sensible and probably temporary ex-urbis move at the right time, or holding out in a city during a short-term disaster, that’s a different thing.
Mater:
That is the key. Feeling helpless is never good.
Simple. China has exactly the level of power over the population that he wants.
Why is Klaus Schwab Sucking up to China?
sounds more like “I did something stupid and impulsive and now I will blame them to get my money back”
a lot of the businesses I deal with are cash only.
Fauci: Americans shouldn’t feel we’re completely ‘done’ with COVID
There’s no doubt that the likes of Andrews are going to use the bankroll of taxpayers and the inertia of unions and “industry” super funds to build their transport-linkage-and-dogbox utopia. And then brick in the serfs, native and voteherd alike.
I wondered why he cancelled the East-West link, like Roe 8 was cancelled toot sweet in WA- because the Lizard People are not against clearfell concrete pours per se, they’re just against the ones for which they didn’t do the sketches themselves, from their first-class jet seat, high above the masses.
Zelenskyy Asks for Another $55 Billion to Pay for Budget, Infrastructure, Government Expenses and Pensions of Ukraine
Wave of civil unrest grips China ‘in largest anti-government protests since Tiananmen Square’: Police attack anti-lockdown activists on bus and rallies openly call for Xi to resign as fury over Zero-Covid policy flares for THIRD day after deadly flat fire
Zatarasays:
November 27, 2022 at 10:31 pm
The US posture was clear in all three locations: maintain the perimeter especially around the strategic aerodromes and don’t push out from it.
Understandable, but if I understood you correctly you were speaking of post-war reparation of Japanese forces to the home islands. US operations did exactly that and shipped hundreds of thousands home.
Hard to do with a no-contact order I’d think.
Australia in Long Tan adopted the same perimeter approach
The 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) began arriving in Ph??c Tuy Province of South Vietnam between April and June 1966.[1] Following the establishment of its base at Nui Dat in Operation Hardihood, standing patrols were established outside the base in the evening and clearing patrols sent out every morning and evening along the 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) perimeter.[2] Daily platoon patrols and ambushes were initially conducted out to Line Alpha (4,000 metres (4,400 yd)), which was the range of the Viet Cong (VC) mortars, but were later extended out to Line Bravo (10,000 metres (11,000 yd)) to counter the threat from artillery.[3]
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam
All inhabitants of Long Ph??c and Long H?i villages within Line Alpha were removed, and resettled nearby. A protective security zone was established and a free-fire zone declared. Although unusual for allied installations in Vietnam, many of which were located near populated areas, the Australians hoped to deny the VC observation of Nui Dat, and afford greater security to patrols entering and exiting the area.[4][5] While adding to the physical security of the base through disrupting a major VC support area and removing the local population from danger,[6] such measures may have been counter-productive.[5] The resettlement resulted in widespread resentment.[7][8]
The VC continued to observe the base from the Nui Dinh hills.[3] Movement was heard around the perimeter over the first few nights as they attempted to locate the Australian defences under the cover of darkness and heavy rain. Although no clashes occurred and the reconnaissance soon ceased, they were believed to be preparations for an attack. On 10 June reports indicated that a VC regiment was moving towards Nui Dat from the north west and was about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.[9] The same day three 120 mm mortar rounds landed just outside the base.[10] That night Australian artillery fired on suspected movement along Route 2, but no casualties were found the next day. Further warnings of an attack hastened the call-forward of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6 RAR), which arrived from V?ng Tàu 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the south on 14 June.[9] No attack occurred, and the initial reaction to 1 ATF’s lodgement proved unexpectedly limited.[11]
PS – An excellent 15 Page Summary from the
THE RAAF AT LONG TAN
Dr Chris Clark
This paper is an edited transcript of a seminar that was presented on behalf of the Air Power
Development Centre on Wednesday, 20 July 2010.
Schumer Forced To Admit Trump Was RIGHT About ‘Enormous Threat’ (TikTok)
REPORT: Ukrainians Freeze As Government Unprepared For Winter During War. Where Did The Billions Go?
so you were slightly less likely to be gruesomely murdered by the IJN than by the IJA?
I was an urban escapee in the early seventies, holed up in hippiedom in the Blue Mountains clutching The Whole Earth Catalogue. Self-sufficiency soon paled. It takes a long peasant tradition to nourish the skills for it. And we were still linked economically to part-time work in the city.
Three years later my first husband and I sold up our cheapo mountain cottage on big land, purchased on a shoestring for $4,500 and imaginatively renovated with paint, to a wealthier sort of urban escapee for a not inconsiderable sum many times higher. We moved back to the city and hopped on the property ladder there with the proceeds.
China Covid: Protests continue in major cities across the country
Indolentsays:
November 28, 2022 at 8:47 am
zanne63
@ar07107280
CHINA – locals find frozen children being transported for organ harvesting…
Is there any corroborating evidence for this, Indolent?
forcing the brave to stand alone
western silence (or worse, praise) for china’s government is shameful
We need to keep telling people this. Bringing it to general attention.
Small slow steps. Big results.
As an Oncologist I Am Seeing People With Stable Cancer Rapidly Progress After Being Forced to Have a Booster
With the mountains of evidence of harm emerging, this is what Fauci has to say. Evil personified.
Fauci Says We May Need to Go Back to Multiple COVID Shots Each Year
The Chinese protests I noted here last week have escalated considerably.
Will Xi send the tanks in?
Whatever he does, this unrest is not going to be easy to keep a lid on.
As a relief from LGBTQI+ propaganda from the ABC, some pro-abortion propaganda instead:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/call-jane-review-elizabeth-banks-abortion-movie-prime-video/101690724
But will the author fall foul of the ABC politburo for not giving enough attention to pregnant men?
All very well to laugh at Klaus as a would-be Bond villain but we are at serious risk from his megalomania.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former Secretary-General of the Vatican, warns that:
The WEF through the C19 crisis has either direct control or blackmailed world leaders into following the plan of mass devastation through vaccination & submission to a new world order.
The climate culters though will never give up.
Unseasonably cold weather will simply be ticked up to climate change.
Little Ice Age? They’ll find an anthropogenic CO2 or related reason for that too.
The cult simply can’t accept natural processes when evil humans are sinfully the problem.
We saw an excellent program on Joan of Arc last nite, historically well analysed, setting her activities in the context of theologies of the time about devilish apparitions. The sort of history that isn’t taught in universities anymore where only one theology is taught, aka Marxist theology with a strong dash of climate change hysteria to push it along.
Ex VIC Lib leader Ted Baillieu with Neil Mitchell saying it’ll be eight years before the LNP could get back to a winning position.
Advice from the likes of Ted got them to where they are now. There could not have been a more neutered show pony than Ted as leader.
Well, a naval historian would say that!
I have read after the Battle of River Plate the German Captain also surrendered as an Imperial Officer, decoupling himself from, although not truly disavowing the Nazis.
Pfizer’s CEO rapped by regulator for making ‘misleading’ statements about children’s vaccines
Please explain?
Please refer to the Shield of the Trinity.
Ze enemy is not left, right, labor, liberal or even green. Ze enemy is the Klimate Changers.
Long term, civilization will not withstand the assault on energy generation.
A world where cats cannot curl up in front of some form of human heating, is no world at all.
The CofE has been a bit gay ever since the Puritans were evicted in 1662.
Around here, we say off the pace.
Nevertheless, now is a great time to be long oil.
Da Fisk
Swallowing Russian propaganda is one thing, but going along with China is a step too far for me.
I have a mate who sends me articles from Larry Romanov, I think he’s certifiable.
TF outta here. Being truly medically transgendered is to be very misfortunate.
Trans people, be it XXY or feeling they are assigned the wrong gender, have a very high suicide rate. I assert they are not very happy people.
What an insane waste of effort the Church being autonomous in England was.
Apparently little Costa Rico did well in the World Cup prelims.
There will be great joy and rejoicing in the sloth sanctuary about this.
Today in Liberalism:
Look how beautiful a million dollar ad budget can make the sordid business of suicide/ euthanasia. However, for the vast majority of Canadians that use MAID, it will be anything but. Also, its pretty clear now, has been for a long time really, that big business is antithetical to centre-right politics, not simply because some of their second order effects are deleterious to family and/ or communal life, but because they now positively oppose the views of the centre-right.
Victorians are not normal.
Putting a green at the helm of the Department of Transport and Climate is a bit of Oirish genius, when you think about it.
so you were slightly less likely to be gruesomely murdered by the IJN than by the IJA?
In general IJN rescued survivors in the water if it was possible, and when taken on board IJN ships treated them quite well. I have come across many examples, and was somewhat surprised initially, but they seem to be more than isolated examples. I’d have to do a lot of work to say it was the rule though.
That’s not to say there weren’t instances – as there were on both sides – of machinegunning of sailors who were abandoning ship. There was also an attitude – again on both sides – of “kill them now, or tomorrow they will be back in action killing us.”
Once prisoners were handed over to the Army, however, that was when the brutality began.
Something aint right in Viktoria.
Tell me you don’t understand the Trinity without telling me you don’t understand the Trinity:
I won’t post Fuentes here because he’s a little prick with authoritarian perversions.
However, go and watch his comments on Gab about Senator Hawley.
He’s right even if you think some of the policies he would want implemented are wrong.
1. The right are being drawn into arguing about definitions.
2. What left wing social or economic policies are being rolled back?
3. Let alone, small government?
4. The victories the right have are piecemeal and temporary.
5. The right are not serious people. Yeah “MAGA people owned the House elections”. Nope, you will get RINOs and communist Democrats forming a new ruling class. Keep your mind on the game and not the ball.
6. We’re losing.
Patricia Karvelas opines today that Andrews’s re-election was a victory for “the quiet Victorians.”
Comatose, perhaps?
Something ain’t right in Canada either.
The imported vote herds showing their gratitude at the ballot box?
Ted’s son is one of the main strategists for the Teals. Chip off ……..
And Pesutto is just another Ted. No idea.
Re the Joan of Arc doco, Joan incriminated herself by her desire to tell her theologian interrogators more and more detail about her apparitions, such as the angel that climbed up stairs with her to meet the Dauphin and persuade him to war. Unfortunately, the more detail Joan provided in her efforts to persuade the legitimacy of her visions, the more she was suspected of devil dealing, because the theology of that period felt that only the devil, not God, ever appeared in solid form as aparitions rather than as a voice or a bright light or a heavenly show of unknown power etc. A margin note on the transcript of her trial noted that the excess detail was the final proof of her heresy in devil-dealing.
She was burned alive, the fate of heretics.
‘The Devil is in the detail’, I murmur to Hairy. Probably where that useful little meme first surfaced.
A “network of professionals”, eh. Is that what they call organised crime these days.
Cancers rapidly progressing after Boosters
Angus Dalgleish is a Professor of Oncology in the Infection and Immunity Research Institute at St George’s University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK and Australia, Royal College of Pathologists and the Academy of Medical Scientists. In his current post he studies the immunology of cancer and the development of immunotherapies to treat, in particular, melanoma.
The Trinity line was a joke, lighten up fuzzballs.
Organized crime, AKA the ALP.
School indoctrination is turning British youth woke – and Tories remain silent
Those under 26 are increasingly under the sway of cultural socialism, and not tackling it is producing a strongly Left-wing generation
So there is no official opposition in vicco in other words.
I’ve been thinking the Argentina analogy applies to Australia.
That’s if we are very lucky. Venezuela is on the cards.
…and they say I’m crazy for saying France has no right to exist.
I was confirmed with the name of Francis of Assissi so I remembered this before Googling it.
He had a vision of Christ which told him to fix the house of the lord.
Julian of Norwich had her mystic experiences only ~70 years before Joan of Arc’s trial and execution.
Yep.
Can we have the whole package, including the waterfalls?
Latest Speccie:
FLAT WHITE The Victorian Liberals are totally…
Terry Barnes
The article is ok but far too polite. My comment, which is also too polite:
The LNP, with a few exceptions, stand for nothing. Scomo, a feckless coward, won in 2019 by walking around with a lump of coal and with the assistance of that streak of misery Bob Brown and his convoy of cretins. And what did scomo do by way of thanks: sign up for the latest Climate BS, disavow any interest in the cultural wars and gave the state premiers unfettered power during the Chinese virus invasion while secretly taking over his ministers’ portfolios. Seriously.
In every state election since, WA, SA, victoristan, the LNP has done its best to impersonate the ALP/Greens. Matthew Guy looks like a Marmoset on drugs and would not attack the bat eared thug running victoristan, but managed to kick out every real conservative from his party. He has now resigned and can pursue his true calling of running a store selling woke greeting cards.
Victoristan will now fall off the cliff of dear leader’s vision of no power, huge debt, signing up to belt and road and having photos of Klaus Schwab plastered all over Melbourne.
NSW next to fall with Matty Kean becoming the leader of the opposition and minsy handing out free candles to the punters.
The Roots of Woke: The Devil and Bella Dodd
A new book examines the life of a communist who worked to infiltrate Catholic seminaries and higher education—before Fulton Sheen brought her home.
Ian “Mr Slug” Cook has been on 3AW with Neil Mitchell calling bullshit on the whole idea of voting and democracy. He wants a recount, LOL. Nah Slug, you lost fair and square mate, back in your box.
Ah yes. The political radicals whose salaries we’re forced to pay are so jealous of Menzies’ “quiet Australians”.
If only they could hijack that meme, we’d be a communist dictatorship in no time — kept in power by the propaganda of well-paid useful idiots on the government payroll like Patricia Karvelas and VicPol’s blokes in black with automatic weapons.
Outback Wrangler Matt Wright has had a warrant for his arrest issued for perverting the course of justice and a host of other offences relating to a chopper crash in February.
The word is that he was running a crap fleet of unmaintained R22 eggbeaters to go around harvesting crocodile eggs and so on. One of his pilots was so jack of it he told Wright that the flight he was about to go on would be his last.
On that flight, another bloke was hanging from a 30 metre cord underneath the chopper, where he could be lowered into the areas around nests and so on. The chopper failed, auto-rotated and stacked, killing the bloke on the rope and critically injuring the pilot.
Wright, another prominent NT ‘businessman’ and a serving copper were told before a report was made of the crash. The (now-ex) copper got hold of another of Wright’s pilots, flew to the scene, removed harnesses and disturbed the body to try and mitigate any damage to the company.
Satisfyingly, it’s now all turned to shit.
Fair and square is Dan Andrews in gaol.
He’s corrupt as fuck monty.
It will be a good day in Victoria when the filthy slug (Andrews) is squished by his own caucus, then hung out to dry in court.
You’re not wrong. Lift your game cocksmokers.
This is bilious, awful and invidious.
They’re stealing my bit. I’m envious.
Yeah Dot, you just quoted Nick Fuentes, so I don’t think your point of view is particularly valid.
KD, one of my brothers used to be a helicopter salesman so he worded me up about the industry.
The R22 is the most underpowered, dangerous piece of shit ever built, which is why it tops Australia’s annual helicopter crash statistics.
Dickless is out and about talking shit; time for his theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4
I didn’t “quote Fuentes” you dishonest barrel of fat.
I also said he was right overall (the left keep on winning, the right are just larping) and also said I didn’t like him and I dislike his policy ideas.
You are incapable of anything other than the most simple of concepts.
Zipstersays:
November 28, 2022 at 9:58 am
School indoctrination is turning British youth woke – and Tories remain silent
Those under 26 are increasingly under the sway of cultural socialism, and not tackling it is producing a strongly Left-wing generation
Britain is becoming more illiberal and unpatriotic as today’s increasingly woke young people become voters.
What I term cultural socialism – the desire to engineer equal outcomes and protect minority identity groups from psychological harm – all too often takes priority for Gen-Z and Millennials over historic British values such as freedom of speech, objective truth and attachment to the nation’s historical accomplishments.
Contrary to the fairy tales Conservative politicians tell themselves, these young people will not change their views as they pass through milestones like taking a job, owning a home, or having children. The woke revolution is cultural, not material.
Consider the findings of my recent Policy Exchange reports on the politics of young Britons and public opinion on culture war issues. Among survey respondents under 26, more were opposed to than supportive of the vice-chancellor of Sussex University’s defence of the academic freedom of gender-critical philosopher Kathleen Stock, who was hounded by a mob of campus trans activists. This age group is evenly divided between those who want J K Rowling dropped by her publisher and those who think she should stay, or between those who want Churchill’s statue to be removed or for it to remain in Parliament Square. By contrast, those over 50 support Rowling and Churchill by an overwhelming 85 to five margin.
Young people are influenced by social media, but schools play an important part in reinforcing woke beliefs. A clear majority of British schoolchildren are being indoctrinated with cultural socialist ideas. Among the 18-year-olds I sampled, 63 per cent were taught or heard from an adult at school about at least one of “white privilege”, “unconscious bias” or “systemic racism” – three concepts derived from critical race theory. If we include radical feminist ideas such as “patriarchy” or the idea of many genders, this rises to 78 per cent.
Those who have been taught more of these critical social justice (CSJ) ideas are more likely to favour political correctness as a way of protecting disadvantaged groups, rather than viewing PC as stifling free expression.
Those young people who dissent from orthodoxy do so at their own risk, and the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) agenda forces them to self-censor. A majority of Right-leaning young people who said they were taught at least three of five CSJ concepts worried about being expelled or punished for voicing their opinions. Nearly half of Right-leaning employees under 35 who have taken diversity training worry about being fired or losing their reputation.
Peer pressure is often immense, adding to institutional sanctions. The vast majority of young people support Remain, and only a third of Remainer youth say they would date a Leave supporter. Those who discriminate in dating are also far more likely to discriminate in hiring. Eight in 10 young Remainers who say they would be “very uncomfortable” dating a Leaver say, all else being equal, that they would favour a Remainer over a Leaver for a job.
Description above, perfect for Australia!
Important point re the burning of St Joan of Arc, she was executed by the English aka the enemy she was fighting against.
I see the resident spiv and landlord is posting again this morning.
You’re right Old Ozzie.
If people know nothing but lies, they will struggle to find the truth themselves.
My whole point before was sometimes you get a catalyst to upset the apple cart.
Maybe Eris was not pure of heart. How the other gods reacted was despicable and comparatively made her neutral at worst.
The catalyst may be a tragedy or a complete arsehole of a person.
What comes after that can be an improvement.
Nah Ted you twinkle toed silver spooner, the LNP just has to promise new clean coal power.
In four years 80 percent of the Victorian population will be wondered what they were thinking.
I’m sure this is because all the FTA channels have mooched further leftwards, along with the Hun, Tele and the Oz. Especially dumping on Trump and spouting green rubbish. Just goes to show if Newscorpse outlets try to move left all that does is leave behind the people who formerly read and watched them, who then all go and find what they want from some other place.
Sky News Australia is now the country’s most engaging digital news brand following record audiences in 2022 (28 Nov)
Don’t get cocky Sky peoples. We all have noticed your drift leftwards too, but fortunately for you there isn’t much else. Which isn’t to say people won’t migrate if you piss them off too much. I no longer have a TV because of this trend. There’re plenty other places to get news and opinion.
Incidentally – shortly after the chopper prang, Wright packed his family up and move3d to Queensland.
The NT News:
Yeah. Like the pilot was going to play the game while he’s hospital with spinal injuries.
A whole pile of people got quite a bit more important than they actually turned out to be.
It was interesting that Trump hosted Fuentes and Ye the other day, where no doubt they discussed how to better implement fascism in America since they are all committed to it in their own way. Fox ignored the story but it was all over Breitbart.
Is DeSantis going to also play footsie with outright Holocaust deniers like Fuentes, or is he going to choose a different lane? Trump still dominates primary polls, he has retained the base. What can DeSantis do to not look like Jeb! 2.0?
Where’s Sancho?
PK really made the transition from Teh Paywallian to the hive completely seamlessly. A true professional j’ismist.
Andrews long ago identified and grafted himself into the right networks in Victoria. Lindsay Fox is a key ally. Setka. The gay Pride Centre. Cops. There would be others.
It’s a small place, Melbourne, and if you assist the right groups at the trough they will help out. “He’s good for the State.” Good for us they mean.
Words, abused till they huddle in the corner of the shower with “the crying game” soundtrack in the background…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/27/queensland-faces-significant-wellbeing-decline-if-it-doesnt-quickly-transition-to-renewables-report-says
A Queensland government-commissioned report by Deloitte says there could be “significant” declines in wellbeing*, assets left stranded and a stagnating economy if the state doesn’t quickly transition to renewables.**
The report by the global accounting giant, obtained under the state’s right to information regime, also suggests Queensland could*** have a bright economic future should it rapidly decarbonise in coordination with the rest of the world.****
The New Futures, New Resources report says there “is no middle ground”, and the state must be open to a “whatever it takes approach” to adjust for “structural disruption”*****, or its biggest industry could face “rapid decline”.
Climate campaigners who obtained the internal document said the Palaszczuk government could no longer “walk both sides of the street on climate change and fossil fuels”.
* Wellbeing- what you use when you want the “vibe” to back you up.
** Quick, all the cool kids are doing this..
*** Lets wreck an existing industry because “could” is in the report.
**** China, paging China to the “destroy your economy and impoverish the plebs leading to the overthrow of your system of government and shooting in the head of the current leadership” desk.
***** We know this will cause massive hits to the economy, but remember the sunlit uplands *COULD* be just around the corner.
The VEC has formally rejected Ian Cook’s call for a Mulgrave recount.
Evidently the margin of 20 points wasn’t close enough, LOL.
Trump cut government spending and regulation. He ended many foreign wars. He otherwise bombed a literal fascist theocracy out of existence. He blunted Putin’s territorial ambitions in Syria, Ukraine etc. He started arming the Ukrainians against Putin’s land grab and fake elections. He never discriminated by race or sex. He threatened the military industrial complex, demanding half price on the bloated F-35s or just getting a better Super Hornet.
He had very few allies in the media and they were very critical of him.
By definition, it is not fascist, unless you outline some other policies he wants now.
That’s the only way he’ll be rolled.
I suspect a good deal of his totally graceless victory speech was directed to his colleagues in the caucus and their union overlords.
Yes Andrews really is one of the nastier pieces of work out there.
Dan Andrews will go when he wants to go, just like Steve Bracks.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he swanned off during this term, I reckon his back problems might give him more gyp over time.
Most NATO members have run out of weapons for Ukraine – NYT
Only larger states have untapped potential to continue arming Kiev, newspaper claims
Arms transfers to Ukraine have left Western weapon stockpiles strained, making it increasingly difficult for NATO militaries to honor politicians’ pledges to supply Kiev, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
“Smaller countries have exhausted their potential,” and according to one NATO official, at least 20 of the bloc’s 30 members are “pretty tapped out,” the newspaper wrote. Only “larger allies,” including France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, have enough stockpiles to continue or potentially increase their weapon shipments to Ukraine.
Since the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in late February, the US and its Western allies have been providing Kiev with billions of dollars in security assistance, to the tune of nearly $40 billion, now comparable to the entire annual defense budget of France. Moscow has repeatedly warned that the weapon shipments will only prolong the conflict and increase the risk of a direct conflict between Russia and NATO.
As Ukraine continues to call for more weapons, EU stockpiles are running low, with Germany already “reaching its limit” as of early September. Meanwhile, Lithuania, which does not have any more weapons to donate, has urged the allies to give Ukraine “everything we have.”
US President Joe Biden has vowed to keep the arms pipeline open for “as long as it takes,” but even American military stockpiles have taken a toll after repeated shipments to Kiev. As early as March, just weeks after the conflict in Ukraine kicked off, the US Defense Department was already scrambling to replenish thousands of shoulder-fired missiles supplied to Kiev. By August, US stockpiles of 155mm artillery ammunition were “uncomfortably low,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Pentagon’s latest fact sheet detailed more than $19 billion in direct military aid approved since February, including over 46,000 anti-armor systems, nearly 200 Howitzers, 38 long-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), and a litany of other heavy weapons, vehicles and ammunition – as well as over 920,000 of 155mm artillery rounds.
Meanwhile in Dreamland
NATO is heavily invested in Ukraine, with the alliance’s members also providing training and intelligence capability. Despite this “unprecedented support,” the military bloc’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has repeatedly claimed that “NATO is not a party to the conflict.”
Moscow sees things differently. Multiple top officials, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, have accused NATO of waging war against Russia “by proxy,” while Putin has described Russia as fighting “the entire Western military machine.”
That it happened in Blairgowrie was divine justice.
Monty parroting more propaganda. Must be a day ending in “y”.
“Is DeSantis going to also play footsie with outright Holocaust deniers like Fuentes”
But you don’t mind some “outright Holocaust deniers”, do you? Those ones with “legitimate grievances”.
You really are a despicable hypocrite.
And break a promise?
Tucker Carlson slams Zelensky for ‘demanding’ money
The Fox News host earlier argued that intervening in the Ukraine conflict is not in the US’ interest
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is a “corrupt strongman” who “demands” money from the US taxpayer, Fox News host Tucker Carlson declared on Thursday. Carlson is a prominent critic of Zelensky, whom he already accused of attempting to drag the US into a “third world war.”
The nation has allocated a total of $68 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine this year and the White House asked Congress last week to approve another $37 billion before Republicans retake control of the House of Representatives in January.
This combined expenditure is “double what we spent every year in Afghanistan,” Carlson exclaimed on Thursday, adding that Zelensky “doesn’t just ask the US Congress for money, he demands it.”
“Who is that guy?” he asked. “He’s some corrupt Ukrainian strongman. Where does he get that attitude?”
Happens when you ignore the concept of Westphalian Sovereignty.
Russia is 374 years off the pace.
Picking up behind Don Quixote’s horse which just “won” the Victorian ‘Premiership’.
Good to see steel cut oats used for The Greens voting porridge featured in Nick Carter’s Paywallian column. Possibly the only useful contribution Used Carr ever made to Australian public life. They’re good, do not use anything else. Rhubarb compote sounds nice too. And post-stroke friendly.
‘Hard times’ ahead for Europe – NATO
Backing Ukraine is causing living costs to soar, the bloc’s chief Jens Stoltenberg admitted
Europeans are about to face numerous hardships due to the Ukraine conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany’s Welt an Sonntag newspaper on Sunday.
Nevertheless, he insisted that the members of the US-led military bloc and their allies should boost their efforts to bolster Ukrainian forces and keep the fighting going.
In his comments, Stoltenberg admitted that citizens of Western countries are being negatively affected by the conflict in Ukraine. “Rising food and energy bills mean hard times for many households in Europe,” he said, adding, however, that those affected “should remember that the people of Ukraine pay with their blood every day.”
The NATO chief also noted that the West could “strengthen Ukraine’s position at the negotiating table if we provide military support to the country.” “The best way to support peace is to support Ukraine,” he stated.
He praised Germany for the weapons it is sending to Kiev, claiming that they “save lives.”
According to Stoltenberg, Russia will try to use “winter as a weapon” against Ukraine. This statement echoes recent remarks in which he warned that the coming months would be difficult for Kiev.
Russia started targeting Ukrainian energy facilities in early October after accusing Kiev of attacking its critical infrastructure, including the strategic Crimean Bridge.
Western nations imposed new sweeping sanctions on Russia in the wake of Moscow having launched its military operation in Ukraine. The restrictions led to skyrocketing gas prices, thus fueling the burgeoning energy crisis in the EU. This also came as the bloc announced plans to wean itself off of Russian energy.
However, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, these policies will lead to “very deplorable consequences” for the EU, with up to 20 years of deindustrialization ahead. In early October, he also noted that by relying on expensive energy from the US, the bloc is making its economy “less competitive.”
qld needs gender affirming care now!
A tale of two Americas
Red states are growing, while blue states are mired in lawlessness and decline.
Midterms were not a victory for conservative or progressive ideology, but an assertion of the growing power of geography in American politics. It was less a national election than a clash of civilisations.
Virtually nowhere in blue areas did Republicans make gains. Both the north-east and California – the central players in Democratic Party politics – stayed solidly blue. Even the most well-regarded GOP candidates, such as Lanhee Chen who ran for California state controller, struggled to make inroads in Democratic territory.
Meanwhile, the senators and governors of the leading red states – Texas’s Greg Abbott, Georgia’s Brian Kemp, Florida’s Ron DeSantis, Ohio’s Mike DeWine – all won handily. Almost all blue-state governors remained the same as well, although the Democratic incumbents often won by smaller margins.
So, what is happening in this increasingly inexplicable country? Essentially, there are now two prevailing realities in the US. One is primarily urban, single and, despite some GOP gains in this demographic, still largely non-white. It functions on the backs of finance, tech and the service industries. The other is largely suburban or exurban, family centric and more likely involved in basic industries like manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and energy.
Usually, the media assume these two Americas represent equally viable political economies. But this is increasingly not the case. In population terms at least, red America is now growing far more rapidly than blue America. And this makes it more important politically. Since 1990, Texas has gained eight congressional seats, Florida five and Arizona three. In contrast, New York has lost five, Pennsylvania four and Illinois three. California, which now suffers higher net outbound-migration rates than most Rustbelt states, lost a congressional seat in 2020 for the first time in its history.
This decline in blue America has accelerated since the pandemic, due to rising crime and the availability of remote work. Last year, New York, California and Illinois lost more people to outbound migration than all other states. Demographer Wendell Cox notes that the largest percentage loss of residents has occurred in big core cities such as New York City, Chicago and San Francisco. In contrast, population burgeoned in sprawling areas such as Phoenix, Dallas and Orlando.
Let’s hope the Pony Club has banked some of the revenue flooding in to the state through the interconnectors.
Some thoughts for Advent:
The First Sunday of Advent
November 27, 2022 | Menagerie
Please, if you are not Catholic, don’t be put off by this video. It’s simply great advice for another way to think about celebrating Advent and preparing for Christmas and the Second Coming of the Lord as well. Actually, I found Fr. Mike’s thoughts to be more like what I used to hear in Baptist churches.
well no,Europeans are about to face numerous hardships due to their stupid politicians
Global chip shortage expected to drag on – Bosch
The deficit is mainly due to the rapidly growing electric vehicles industry, the engineering giant Bosch has warned
The global semiconductor shortage will continue to affect the auto industry until 2024 as chip suppliers cannot meet procurement demands, executive vice-president of Bosch China Xu Daquan has said.
He told China Daily this week that the main reason for the shortage is the rapid growth of the new energy vehicle industry.
Bosch is one of the world’s biggest auto parts suppliers, providing intelligent driving solutions for carmakers, including chassis control systems.
Its Chinese operation is reportedly looking for domestic raw materials suppliers, but has yet to find one for mass production. The company expects more domestic chip suppliers to achieve large-scale and high-quality production in the next two or three years.
According to Auto Forecast Solutions, cited in the report, the global car market slashed production by about 3.91 million vehicles due to chip shortages in the first ten months of this year. Nearly 4.28 million units are projected to be cut for the whole year.
The global chip shortage that started during the Covid-19 pandemic has caused severe supply issues and delays with the automotive and other industries.
The conflict in Ukraine has aggravated the problem. Global prices for neon and xenon gasses have surged since Ukrainian suppliers Ingas and Cryoin, which deliver about 50% of the world’s neon gas for semiconductor uses, stopped production. Russia reportedly supplies up to 30% of the neon consumed globally. China and Japan are other major producers of noble gasses, but their supplies are mainly consumed domestically.
Not geography but rather demography.
Why would you trust any report from Deloitte’s??
They, like the rest of the so called experts, operate in China for the benefit of the CCP!
Of course the Vic elections were above board.
This isn’t the USA after all.
Monday after the election.
Worksafe Vic has released early findings that the quarantine hotel debacle will lead to dozens of charges of running an unsafe workplace.
TaliDan has his political fingers in all pies.
Only denialism could lead to faith in our elections.
Got a job as a truck driver. Apparently it’s piss easy.
He’s on the Nullarbor as we speak, downloading Madam Zeee podcasts.
Looks like the idiocy I ( and probably lots of other people) foresaw has begun. Already had obviously some time ago. What a brilliant idea. 100km range now then 350km/ 1000km later on. So these as well as having explosive electric batteries on board would need to be charged or abandoned after a day or less of theater use. And they have “ruggedized” solar panels!!! Suppose that will eliminate the need for a functional electric grid of course.
Jesus these things would obviously face no operational challenges in places like Ukraine or remote parts of Australia ( as in most of it).
There’s a sign on the front window:
Refugees* Welcome Here
*From The Shop, which is emaciated and dying.
dover0beachsays:
November 28, 2022 at 9:47 am
Tell me you don’t understand the Trinity without telling me you don’t understand the Trinity:
Well, given the whole Trinity thing, technically Jesus’ pronouns were they/them.
The deepest thoughts of the pseudo-Catholic m0nty=fa expose his theological illiteracy.
Of course it was above board, after all we have the impartial Victorian Electoral Commission.
m0nty=fa
A “network of professionals”, eh. Is that what they call organised crime these days.
Enough about the Liars Party, a crime syndicate masquerading as a political party, to borrow some words from elsewhere.
Getting emotional again KD?
Was my question inciting rebellion?
Dipshit
We know choo choo jabbed himself to death
But where’s Sancho?
And Aussies are complaining?
Pakistan’s central bank on Nov. 25 raised its key policy rate by 100 basis points to 16 percent—the highest level since 1999—amid persistent global and domestic supply shocks that have pushed inflation higher.
The country’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) said the decision was made to prevent inflation from spiraling out of control as inflationary pressures have turned out to be “stronger and more persistent than expected.”
That headline caused a run on frozen crinkle cuts at the local supermarket.
More than 7,000 people were murdered over three months in South Africa, according to new police statistics, which showed a rise in violent crime from the same period last year.
KD said he’s gone Nullarbor looking for the Nymph.
From the story KD quoted above:
The helicopter involved in the crash had been used by Mr Wright’s company, Helibrook, for scenic and adventure tours in the Top End between 2020 and 2022, as well as crocodile egg harvesting.
Nice! Imagine being an unsuspecting tourist in a helo well over its hours.
https://ia801903.us.archive.org/5/items/DecodingNaziSecrets/NOVA.S26E14.Decoding.Nazi.Secrets.1999.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264-astro.mp4
Watch the start – Germans were thorough in Training – Wireless Operators Training
Pamcho’s gone to Queensland droving, and we don’t know where he are.
I saw him at the Hay truck stop. Only through an open window. Was kinda grimacing and asked if I had any prunes.
Meanwhile, over in Kiwi land they’re trying on a new shonky:
The misuse of power to entrench NZ’s Three Waters legislation
When governments become tired and lose their popularity – usually in their third term – they often become desperate to get their way and prone to misusing their power.
This is currently in evidence with the Labour government’s push to lock in elements of their Three Waters reform program by sneaking in a rule that says a future parliament would need 60 per cent of MPs to vote to change the ownership of the new water services. Constitutional legal experts are outraged by a move they say is unparalleled and sets a dangerous new precedent for how governments make law.
The change occurred late on Wednesday night, when parliament was sitting under urgency, with Labour and the Greens ramming through legislation on their Three Waters reform program. Out of nowhere, Green MP Eugenie Sage proposed an amendment to the Three Waters legislation that would require future parliaments to achieve a 60 per cent vote in order to privatise the new water entities.
This was slipped in without proper debate, and certainly without the chance for the public to make submissions on this key part of the law. Critics suggest that the Minister of Local Government Nanaia Mahuta arranged with the Green MP to slip the change in at the last minute. Both Mahuta and Sage have since publicly defended the change that Labour and the Greens voted in favour of.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is now under pressure to backtrack on the law change, and on Monday she told RNZ “We’ll discuss that in caucus and take another look at that.”
Why the change is controversial
It’s a core democratic principle that parliament should be able to make and change laws when they have a majority of support – over 50 per cent of MPs. But this Three Waters decision changes that to that 60 per cent. A future parliament is therefore bound by the decisions of the current one – which is regarded as unconstitutional by legal scholars.
There are some accepted constitutional exceptions to the 50 per cent rule for changing laws, but these are only for certain laws relating to elections. For example, changing the voting age requires a “super-majority” of 75 per cent of MPs.
Oz
Jacinda needs to declare herself Divine Empress for Life next.
Chinese broadcasters are censoring World Cup footage so as not to show tens of thousands of fans enjoying themselves without masks.
re https://ia801903.us.archive.org/5/items/DecodingNaziSecrets/NOVA.S26E14.Decoding.Nazi.Secrets.1999.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264-astro.mp4
Watch the start – Germans were thorough in Training – Wireless Operators Training
1:51:58
Have downloaded H.264 – 672 Mb for transfer to external hard drive and watch on Big Screen TV
On Amazon prime purchased The Imitation Game last night
THE IMITATION GAME is a dramatic portrayal of the life and work of one of Britain’s most extraordinary unsung heroes, Alan Turing. Based on the real life story of Alan Turing, who is credited with cracking the German Enigma code, THE IMITATION GAME portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre.
Starring – Benedict Cumberbatch, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode
Hey, I’m not the one wordwalling my way through the days calling other people traitorous cocksmokers.
No, it was inciting laughter. How’s Big Corporate?
Is FlashCat the only audience you’re getting these days?
That Turnbull is promoting the lie that the Vic Libs led by Guy were the ‘hard right’ is the cherry on top of Sat night debacle. At least two things are at play here. Firstly, left-liberals can retain the pretense that they defeated the ‘hard-right’, while, secondly, right-liberals can deflect blame from their ‘ please give me left-liberalism but more slowly’ strategy on to the ‘hard right’.
So KD was bullshitting about the truck driving??
Sancho’s
Dorpers?
Hunchback is bankrolling a Murderna plant at Monash. Imagine the rolling mandates for all manner of clotshots.
Oi !!! They’re only as ‘dangerous‘ as you want them to be.
(btw: the machine in question is an R44 which has plenty more power)
When the engine quits, a helicopter, regardless of make & model, is ‘underpowered’ to the nth degree.
See this is when the manager is invited to take travel and sex advice, with a pineapple.
Wellcome Collection in London shuts ‘racist, sexist and ableist’ medical history gallery
Medicine Man exhibits included painting of a black African kneeling in front of a white missionary
A museum in London run by the Wellcome foundation health charity is to close one of its key galleries because it perpetuates “a version of medical history that is based on racist, sexist and ableist theories and language”.
The Wellcome Collection’s announcement on Saturday affects a free permanent display called Medicine Man, which includes objects relating to sex, birth and death and includes anatomical models in wood, ivory and wax dating back to the 17th century. These were collected by Sir Henry Wellcome who amassed more than a million items on the history of health and medicine.
“The very fact that these items have ended up in one place, the story we told was that of a man with enormous wealth, power and privilege,” the museum said on Twitter.
…
The director of the Wellcome Collection, Melanie Keen, was appointed in 2019. A year later she pledged to be courageous in dealing with the most contentious items on display there. “It feels like an impossible place to be worrying about this material we hold without interrogating what it is, what narratives there are to be understood in a more profound way, and how the material came to be in our collection,” she said.
Keen highlighted one painting of a black African kneeling in front of a white missionary. “A Medical Missionary Attending to a Sick African” (1916) by Harold Copping, which she has since had put in storage on the grounds that it risked “perpetuating racial stereotypes and hierarchies”.
Other interventions have been made since then but the latest announcement said the Medicine Man display “still perpetuates a version of medical history that is based on racist, sexist and ableist theories and language”.
“When our founder, Henry Wellcome started collecting in the 19th century, the aim then was to acquire vast numbers of objects that would enable a better understanding of the art and science of healing throughout the ages.
“The result was a collection that told a global story of health and medicine in which disabled people, Black people, Indigenous peoples and people of colour were exoticised, marginalised and exploited – or even missed out altogether. As a result we will close Medicine Man on 27 November 2022.”
She 8knows* shes far more moral than the man who bequeathed this institution for her to run, because its current year and shes dusky hue.
Waffleworth knows all about electoral success. We should listen to him.
Mr. Matt Wright is in deep sheep. Very deep.
Canadian clothes retailer Simons is actually using suicide to market their products.
No, this isn’t made up. It’s part of a sweeping effort to introduce medically assisted suicide as a treatment for mental illness, PTSD and even children with defects in Canada.
Notice how the ad features all white people.
Anyone who thinks whites aren’t under attack are fools.
Mr. Matt Wright is in deep sheep. Very deep
The love that dare not bleat its name?
Lol. With the strife he’s in he’d gladly swap it for only having been caught behind the hangar with a boy.
How terrible that people should forego comfortable careers at home to ensure medical care was available to the most neglected peoples in the fartherst corners of the known world.
How typically white supremacist of them!
The ABC now moves on to a promo piece for euthanasia: it’s legal but not accessible enough so we neeed to spend billions of the taxpayers’ hard-earned….
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/voluntary-assisted-dying-legal-in-tasmania-but-wait-remains/101703358
So the answer is yes.
Highly emotional.
The line that the Victorian Liberals suffered at the polls because they are hard right is delusional. For one thing, they have rolled over meekly on nearly all of Andrews’ woke social engineering. But they have also abandoned what should be their strong suit, competent financial management. Anyone with more than half a brain in Victoria should be terrified about the levels of debt Andrews has been building up. So what did Guy do? Promise 34 billion dollars more spending.
Similar push from them here last week to make sure “VAD” services are available in regional and remote QLD.
Sniff……check your emails. …..
Turnbull and John Brumby singing off the same sheet…of talking points.
Colour me surprised.
Are there any statistics yet on the number of non-voters in the Victorian election?
There was a record number of people who refused to vote at all in the recent federal election, something like triple the normal rate.
Global chip shortage expected to drag on….salt and vinegar could be next.
Hard to work out what Turnbull means. The Libs in Victoria had a platform which was essentially identical to Labor. So the only way they could go any further left would be to the left of Labor. Sitting in the microscopic gap between the ALP and Greens doesn’t sound very practical.
Worked well in WA.
Meantime, the Islamic community in VIC have come out winners (Sunnis, I presume).
Both major parties were promising them millions for their museum, aged care, health centres, and “outreach” programs, and they’re not the sort of people you want to disappoint.
The idea came from a 2020 Army discussion paper on power and energy.
As compared to a discussion paper on killing the enemy….
Meantime, the Islamic community in VIC have come out winners (Sunnis, I presume).
We really need to get them fired up on the idea that Australia’s shit gun laws deny them access to an essential element of their culture and heritage.
‘Bitter Truth’: EU Parliament Told It Has Done ‘A Lot of Damage’ to Europe at Anniversary Event
Seventy years after the founding of the forerunner to the European Union, the bloc has done “a lot of damage” to the continent, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) said during a “birthday” event.
Professor Ryszard Legutko, a Polish MEP who serves as head of the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists group, has lambasted the European Parliament in particular as having done “a lot of damage” to the continent during an anniversary event for the EU body held on Tuesday.
While many eurocrats have celebrated the supposed parliament’s role in Europe, Legutko lambasted the organisation as having significantly harmed Europe, saying that it now functioned to solely push the politics of the left.
“The bitter truth is that the European Parliament has done a lot of damage in Europe,” the Law and Justice party politician said amid gasps from the floor of the assembly.
Legutko, a Plato scholar and professor of philosophy, went on to accuse the body of promulgating a false belief that there is a single European “demos” — that is, a common European nation capable of being properly represented in a single shared assembly — and warned that the body had been used as a vehicle to push leftist ideology without democratic accountability.
“It has been sending a false message it represents the European demos. There isn’t, and there won’t be any European demos,” he said, adding that it has “infected Europe with shameless partisanship and the infection became so contagious that it spread to other institutions such as the European Commission.”
“The Parliament has become a political vehicle of the left to impose their monopoly with their fierce intolerance towards any dissenting view,” the MEP continued. “No matter how many times you repeat the word ‘diversity’. Diversity is becoming an extinct species in the European Union and particularly in this chamber.”
“The idea that, say, Spanish, German, French, et cetera, deputies accountable to their own national electorates can dictate something to, shall we say, Hungarian society or any other society to which they cannot be held accountable and which cannot take them to task is simply preposterous,” he added.
“Call it what you will, but democracy it is not.”
surely he meant far right, ie literal nazis. mask comes off revealing a communist
do we have some hope of the same process here changing the HoR?
Qld is growing (+92k in ’21/22), while the mendicant states of Tas (+4.1k), NT (+1k), ACT (+3.4k) and SA (+15.4k) fall behind.
At that rate, Qld should get a reallocated HoR seat in about 2 years. I wonder when that +166k people (25M / 151 seats) is triggered?
Shop in Democrat-Run Portland Closes After 15 Break-ins: ‘Our City Is in Peril’
Marcy Landolfo, who owns the Rains PDX store in Democrat-run Portland, Oregon, is fed up after experiencing break-in number 15.
Landolfo told KATU she decided to shut it down because, “The products that are being targeted are the very expensive winter products and I just felt like the minute I get those in the store they’re going to get stolen,” the outlet reported Saturday.
She is also concerned for her employees’ safety and acknowledged, “The problem is, as small businesses, we cannot sustain those types of losses and stay in business. I won’t even go into the numbers of how much has been out of pocket.”
A notice on the shop’s door said the location was permanently closed and told visitors to use the website instead.
The notice also told customers:
Our city is in peril. Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business in our city’s current state. We have no protection or recourse against the criminal behavior that goes unpunished. Do not be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We have sustained 15 break-ins. We have not received any financial reimbursement since the 3rd.
Please do your part to support small businesses this holiday season and beyond. Please be vigilant in voting to make our city safe again.
SloMo to be sanctioned by Parliament. Does this make now officially shithouse?
Stale old white guy fends off aggressive person of no description
Hunchback is going to urgently reconvene parliament before Christmas. 100% that fucker is going to mandate the booster to keep your job. It’s a vote winner, so why not do it?
A colleague parroted this line this morning, so I challenged him to identify one of these ‘hard right’ policies of which he spoke.
As expected, couldn’t do it. He fumbled around and incoherently mentioned ‘Christian beliefs’, but couldn’t come up with a policy which filled the bill.
Sheep indeed.
The idea that insurers pay for losses is as mistaken as thinking Parliament pays for government spending. I would not be surprised to find it is widespread.
Sick denialism!
All you need to know about euthanasia vis-a-vis other policies.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-wests-uncivilised-euthanasia-policy/
The more you observe Trumble, the more you see how despicable he is. What did Howard see in him?
Get nervous in large crowds? Optus Stadium and the First Test is a safe bet. Forget being 3 deep trying to take a slash at the WACA. Too bad if you actually like microwaved Red Rooster rolls in hot plastic tents.
Really?
What a destructive turd.
“At the heart of the Liberal Party’s defeat in the Victorian election on Saturday is the paradox that in this, the most small “l” liberal state in Australia, the Liberal Party has been taken over by the hard right”
Turdbull, the most miserable malevolent ghost. He knows the Liberals are a pale shade of Green. He knows this makes them unelectable. His plan is to destroy the Liberal Party and it’s working to plan. He is so consumed by malice and hate towards the party that made him PM.
Meanwhile, of course, the stupid fucking Liberal Party refuse to expel this most miserable malevolent ghost.
Let’s see if Dan Xi supports the Chinese protests or even mentions it in public.
Oh the ironing!
Lol, Matthew (#IstandwithDan) Guy accused Renee Heath of attending church services & publicly disowned her.
Might as well get it over with.
This is normal.
And fine
Not the sort of thing parents have nightmares about.
LOL Dr Norman missing from his usual gig on ALPBC Radio Perf. Damage control? Get the Media Watchdog on the trail.
How much do consultants donate to the Queensland government to report what they want to hear? In other news, dog wags tail.
It’s time to connect the dots on excess deaths – Senate Estimates 10.11.22
Senator Gerard Rennick
A successor.
The only difference between the two was that Trumble wore designer suits, Howard wore Wallabies trackies.
Howard’s attitude towards Trump exposed his true colours.
All Hunchback has to do is mandate the clotshots again and spark a mass exodus. Only the faithful will stay, solidifying its power. It’s a no brainer.
“It’s a no brainer.”
I thought Dan’s preferred pronouns were “he/him”, not “it/that”.
Thanks, Dover. Roared laughing.
From, the previous artice
I found this sentence very curious. What has GOP gains to do with the racial make-up of these urban areas? Or am I misreading this?
“the Liberal Party has been taken over by the hard right”
Obviously not hard enough – they apparently didn’t punch your lights out, Mal.