“There was a fatal police beating in Memphis of a black dude. Five black cops are facing murder charges.”

ABC News Radio reported this beating of a black man as I was listening to my pocket radio late this afternoon. They failed to mention that the cops were black. Obviously, were the cops white, there would be additional commentary re: Rodney King and endemic racism in the USA.

Embarrasing, the amount of empty seats at the women’s tennis final.
More embarrasing, the white rectangle where Belarus’ flag should be. I hope she gives the cucks who run this country a serve as she lifts the trophy.

Somebody, over on the Oz website, has been unkind enough to point out that Elbow has spent longer, with a beer in his hand, watching the Australian Open, then he spent “on the ground” at Alice Springs.

Fair go.
It’s going to be a lot harder arranging for someone to hand out a symbolic grog ban at Rod Laver Arena.

EU approves insects for human consumption in food products like cereal, chocolate and pizza
Nigel Farage reacts to the EU approving insects for human consumption in food products like cereal, chocolate and pizza.

Mme Zulu is on the mend …

Has she been unwell?

Shyte, that was uncalled for, and ignorance is no excuse.
Well publicized and commented on this blog for a long time as initial illness, treatment and recovery progressed.

Zulu,
after she’s been to the beautician, you get her on a holiday pronto!

I was also into Astro Boy, Fearless Fly .

So the latest mediocrity for Treasurer (not just BA(Hons) like Swan trash but another ‘doctor’) is going to have a torrid affair with the marxist eggheads in treasury and ‘redesign’ the Australian economy. Remember they had a go at doing this c. 12 years ago. If anything, it shows what a menace this parasite class is and what a menace intellectual cesspits like the ANUs are.

Maybe they could bring Juni Morosi back too- I think she’s still around.

Thanks for the Palermo tips, rosie. Sicily sounds like an unreconstructed, non touristy sort of place at least at this time of year. I’m intrigued.

And thanks for the tripe warning. I will beware.

Neil Oliver: ‘We are sleepwalking into a ZERO TRUST new world

The booze bans and cashless debit cards are necessary to save lives; to ensure children are fed and women are not bashed.

I’m sorry why aren’t people being put in gaol for this behaviour?

I don’t care how racist people think I am or how many people have to go to gaol.

PS If you bought five slabs a week, you’d pay $100 in excise tax.

Cassie of Sydney says:
January 28, 2023 at 8:12 pm

The NSW Liberals are going to be decimated in March but, as with what happened in the Victorian election, I reckon the Teals are not going to have an impact.

Teal independent Jacqui Scruby defends family holiday in Aspen

A ‘Teal’ candidate in the northern beaches suburb of Pittwater has been accused of pretending she was at a local rally while she was hitting the slopes in Aspen. Another has been accused of photoshopping pictures from the same rally. It’s in The Sauce.

Hundreds of angry locals turned up to a public rally to protest against plans to allow tourists to stay overnight at a lighthouse complex located in the northern beaches seat of Pittwater last Sunday.

cassie,

I knew the lady who had the lease on the Lighthouse keepers house in early 60s, she was the Aunt of some friends, an artist, she drove in a Series 1 Landrover up the main track to the Lighthosue, I tried to get the lease on one of the 2 lighthouse assistant cottages, but was unable to.

Memories with Uni Architecture mate sitting on back balcony facing west with her one evening, them sipping red wine, me soft drink (Temperance Pledge – did not drink 15 to 21), watching the setting sun and the bush fire raging opposite through West Head.

On another occasion, we attended a 18th Birthday Party for one of her nieces, all dressed in Formal gear, having walked up the main track, descended by the bush short cut straight down underneath the house, under full moon, the girls in Short Formal Dress doing well down bush track, then across the Sand Dunes rather than along the Pittwater Side Beach.

Amazing place, and stories of the 2 guys who had the lease before her.

BB my Anglo sons do what you do, support their family to the best of their ability, which is quite considerable. Can you imagine if all the greats of civilisation were flamers, they’d be the most exalted and we’d hear about how repressed they were and what did the Romans ever do for us.

The face worn by bigots

Is this Australia? The incandescent rage of bullies who won’t allow truth to inform their convictions threatens to disrupt Cardinal Pell’s funeral

At least one “official” protest – titled ‘Pell go to Hell! LGBTI protest at George Pell’s funeral’ – has been planned. It has been advertised as including a march and speakers, with protesters encouraged to bring their own banners and placards. It has been advertised on social media and given space in the mainstream media as well.

The silence is deafening – from both sides of parliament, state and federal.

The whole F*cktard Meja Complex is a steaming toxic rubbish heap- just think of the erasure of white guys from corporate advertising, the refusal the hold the evil hypocrites of Davos to account. Enemies of the people.

American Greatness – Inside the Nazi Whitewash of Ukraine

Linked to from https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/podcast-the-3whh-on-tanking-ukraine.php – Note – Table 1 – Inventory Replacement Time for key Systems

from CSIS – Rebuilding U.S. Inventories: Six Critical Systems

The uniparty warmongers are whitewashing these Nazis in order to justify their treachery and fool the public.

On January 1, the world celebrated New Year’s Day—a holiday of self-reflection, self-renewal, and hope. In Ukraine, the focus was different. There, January 1 marks the birthday of Stepan Bandera, Ukraine’s Nazi national hero.

Bandera is the founding father of Ukrainian Nazism and his birthday is a national holiday. In Ukraine, paying homage to their most famous antisemite and leading Nazi collaborator of World War II, is a very big deal.

Calling All Nazis

Under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the level of Nazi influence and control in Ukraine has been unprecedented. Zelenskyy outlawed all 11 independent and opposition political parties but left the parties and organizations of his Nazi partners and allies intact and in power. So, it’s not surprising that on Bandera’s birthday, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament (with nobody but Nazis left in it)—erupted into wild cheers. Later, General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s military commander in chief, posted a photo of himself proudly posing in front of Bandera’s portrait.

To understand the reason for Polish fury over Ukraine’s Bandera worship, we must briefly review what happened in Ukraine during World War II—and separate facts from propaganda.

“Unimaginable Bestiality”

Bandera was the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)—Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who dreamt of a racially pure Ukraine, free of Jews, ethnic Russians, and Poles. During World War II, primarily in the Wolyn region of the Ukrainian countryside, the OUN massacred at least 100,000 Poles.

The 2016 Polish film, “Hatred,” (also titled “Wolyn” or “Volhynia”) is an historically accurate account of the Banderites’ crimes. The movie is shockingly graphic—many scenes are almost impossible to watch. Because of the truth it tells, Ukrainian authorities have banned its showing.

Bandera and the Holocaust in Ukraine

One in every four Jewish victims of the Holocaust—1.5 million people—was murdered in Ukraine.

The massacre of Jews in Lvov was duly recorded by the Nazi collaborators themselves. The photos are shocking. But today in Lvov, a $47 million monument stands to honor Bandera and one of the city’s major streets has been named after him.

Zelenskyy Is A Willing Accomplice

For more than 70 years, Ukrainian Nazis and their apologists both within and without the country have conducted a disinformation campaign to whitewash Bandera and rewrite history. Their primary objective has been to fabricate Bandera the Nazi into a “freedom fighter.” This effort has increased with Ukraine’s accelerated Nazification under Zelenskyy. Across Ukraine, more than 50 monuments and statues have been built in Bandera’s honor and 500 streets named after him.

Zelenskky’s idea of freedom is different from that of most Americans. In addition to extinguishing freedom of the press, outlawing all non-Nazi political parties, and banning the Russian Orthodox Church, Zelenskyy has overseen and directed Nazi infestation into every level of the Ukrainian government and military. Zelenskyy’s significant promotions of Nazis include awarding the “Hero of Ukraine” medal to a Right Sector commander, appointing Right Sector co-founder Dmytro Yarosh, as advisor to the commander in chief of the Armed Forces, and replacing the head of the Odessa Regional Administration with a commander of the Nazi Aidar Battalion.

– Ukrainian Jews Supporting Nazis
– The Western Media’s Nazi Whitewash
– Globalist Elites Are All In
– Congress Knows The Truth About The Azov Nazis
-A National Disgrace

Is there a more dishonorable cause than America supporting Nazis? The whitewash and support of Ukrainian Nazis by American media and lawmakers is a national disgrace.

Zelenskyy is a puppet, and Washington pulls the strings. The war would end the minute that Biden picks up the phone, tells Zelenskyy the game is over, and that it’s time for peace.

It’s time that Republicans in Congress demand that Biden pick up the phone.

WAR ROOM: Steven Bannon & James O’Keefe Discuss Viral #DirectedEvolution Investigation

lotocoti says:
January 29, 2023 at 9:12 am

In other terrible policies have terrible consequences news:
Speedballs for everyone.

Meanwhile

Fentanyl’s deathly grip on America: Cheap synthetic opioid flooding US street drug supply is dragging down life expectancy, turning our cities into Zombielands and killing 1,500 people a WEEK

Plus

Holidaying British father died of ‘accidental’ fentanyl overdose after leaving his family in Disney World British father who died on Disney World trip may have accidentally used fentanyl

. Philip Weybourne suffered fatal cardiac arrest during a holiday with his family
. Official reports suggest he likely did not intend to purchase the killer street drug

Indolentsays:
January 28, 2023 at 7:51 pm
Otherwise known as pricing building work out of the market.

US company gets $120 million boost to make ‘green steel’https://apnews.com/article/production-facilities-climate-and-environment-business-d095684168e9f6a2634ee9316007f994
From the article;

Offshore wind is key to many plans to address climate change, because it partially replaces fossil fuel-burning electricity. It will require massive amounts of steel as turbines are built miles offshore from U.S. coastlines. Nearly 90% of an offshore turbine’s weight is steel, and each one, including the foundation, requires roughly 180 tons of steel per megawatt, according to the industry group American Clean Power.

The sheer scale of the resource requirements to build, let alone install this infrastructure is mindboggling. And all this to provide partial and unreliable replacement for fossil fuels to reduce CO2? Or is it more about making money for the big investors and subsidy hoovers and nothing really to do with climate?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/15/i-once-supported-putin-now-i-know-the-truth-00031740

Later todays the end of the article:

To my shame, it was the annexation of Crimea that placed me squarely into the pro-Putin camp. The Euromaidan revolution of 2013-2014 in Ukraine received a decent amount of airtime on Russian news. But instead of showing Ukrainians protesting a corrupt government and successfully ousting pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian narrative painted the new Ukrainian government as a fascist gang and extolled Putin’s effort to save Crimea and its ethnic-Russian population from fascist rule. The process was democratic, the propaganda swore. I remember seeing a photo online of an allegedly Crimean apartment building with many Russian flags hanging out of the windows and thinking that this was the most genuine piece of evidence one might need. My dad heard somewhere that even our hometown welcomed Ukrainian refugees, that Russians were giving up their spots in line for social assistance. I gained a respect for Putin I didn’t have before.

Putin was most likely elected on a literal false flag terrorist event and he murdered people to cover it up.

When Putin emerged as a bright star, my grandmother was as excited as could be. He was appointed as prime minister in 1999 by then-President Boris Yeltsin, and his meteoric rise came from his handling of the response to a series of apartment building bombings the same year — a Russian 9/11 that took more than 300 lives and injured many more. Putin blamed the bombings on Chechens, and it became one of the justifications for the Second Chechen War.

I learned much later that some historians and journalists attribute those bombings to an attempt by the Federal Security Service, commonly referred to as the FSB, to get their former director Putin elected. But back when I was a child, Putin seemed young and promising. My grandmother took me with her to vote for him in the 2000 elections. To share the excitement about this historic moment, she lifted me up and showed me where to mark the ballot for her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings

A suspicious device resembling those used in the bombings was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of Ryazan on 22 September.[3][4] On 23 September, Vladimir Putin praised the vigilance of the inhabitants of Ryazan and ordered the air bombing of Grozny, which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War.[5] Three FSB agents who had planted the devices at Ryazan were arrested by the local police.[6] The next day, FSB director Nikolay Patrushev announced that the incident in Ryazan had been an anti-terror drill and the device found there contained only sugar.[7]

The official Russian investigation of the Buynaksk bombing was completed in 2001, while the investigation of Moscow and Volgodonsk bombings was completed in 2002. In 2000, seven people were convicted of perpetrating the Buynaksk attack. According to the court ruling on the Moscow and Volgodonsk bombings, which was announced in 2004, the attacks were organised and led by Achemez Gochiyaev, who remains at large. All bombings, the court ruled, were ordered by Islamist warlords Ibn Al-Khattab and Abu Omar al-Saif, who have been killed. Five other suspects have been killed and six have been convicted by Russian courts on terrorism-related charges.

State Duma deputy Yuri Shchekochikhin filed two motions for a parliamentary investigation of the events, but the motions were rejected by the State Duma in March 2000. An independent public commission to investigate the bombings was chaired by Duma deputy Sergei Kovalev.[8] The commission was rendered ineffective because of government refusal to respond to its inquiries. Two key members of the Kovalev Commission, Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin, have since died in apparent assassinations.[9][10] The Commission’s lawyer and investigator Mikhail Trepashkin was arrested and served four years in prison for revealing state secrets.[11] Former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who defected and blamed the FSB for the bombings, was poisoned and killed in London in 2006. A British inquiry later determined that Litvinenko’s murder was “probably” carried out with the approval of Putin and Patrushev.[12]

The attacks were widely attributed to Chechen terrorists.[13] Some historians and journalists say the bombings were coordinated by Russian state security services to help bring Putin into the presidency.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Others disagree with such theories or argue that there is insufficient evidence to assign responsibility for the attacks.[22][23][24][25][26] Independent investigations have faced obstruction from the Russian government.[27][28]

He’s a thoroughly evil person.

err, towards..

Only when you stop. Quite frankly, your analogy the other day, saying that Putin was worse than Stalin was and remains a low point on this blog.

He is a worse military leader (possibly the worst in Russian history) and I agree Stalin was sub par in that regard.

Stella Goldschlag

Why would you even bring this up in regards to current events?

described Putin as worse than Stalin

Yes, in regards to the Russian State as an ongoing entity.

Please stop. You are just repeating Kremlin propaganda. It is disgusting and the President of Poland has rebuked Putin for this crap.

The US State Dept assessment on human rights in Ukraine dated early 2021 (issued before the invasion) clearly condemned the Ukraine Govt for state sponsored murder , torture and totalitarian policies. It explicitly pointed out the murderous nature of Ukr’s Security Services as they wiped out opposing political activities. These are the sainted grubs you are shilling for.

You continue to swallow and repeat the pro-western propaganda garbage and regurgitating the shit here.

Of course Russia is not blameless, that is a given. It’s acknowledged the Russian Govt is corrupt and oppresses opposition. Just as the Ukr regime does. But idiots like you cheering for this abomination of a corrupt Ukr Govt will only prolong this carnage that was clearly PROVOKED BY THE WEST and could very well instigate a nuclear exchange. That is what morons like you are cheering for.

The Donbas is not worth a nuclear war you fkg dickhead.

https://www.minusrus.com/en

Personnel
~503.040 +3200
killed ~125.510
wounded ~376.530
prisoner of war ~1.000

Tanks
3189 +7

The only threat to Russian sovereignty and territorial integrity is Vladimir Putin’s false flag campaigns to start bloodthirsty wars of expansion, where he fails badly as a military leader and leaves Russia weak and unable to challenge President Xi.

The Donbas is not worth a nuclear war you fkg dickhead.

Putin could withdraw tomorrow and just interdict any new attacks until Ukraine stops being aggressive. He threatened nuclear war in September 2022.

In 2022 he couldn’t stop artillery attacks except for a full blown invasion, now the new western donated artillery is useless because good old Russian know how can stop it in its tracks, destroying each unit and their crews?

If only you could trust Putin only wants the provinces he claims as majority Russian.

PROVOKED BY THE WEST

How was Putin provoked by the west into infiltrating the Donbas with GRU special forces in 2008?

Re the reported Russian Losses in the Ukraine war:

Personnel
~503.040 +3200
killed ~125.510
wounded ~376.530
prisoner of war ~1.000

This piece https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/01/28/a-nato-assessment-of-ukrainian-armys-condition says NATO itself calculates that almost none of the pre war professionals are left in the Ukraine armed forces, producing severe declines in morale and capability.

The Russian strategy for a while now (although perhaps not from the start) has been to extract a disproportionate loss ratio on the Ukrainians, rather than pursue immediate territorial gains etc – this can be done one the Ukrainian Armed forces are degraded to the point where they become combat ineffective.

When a larger force consistently destroys a greater number of the men and material of a smaller force, the ultimate outcome can be only one thing.

Geeez, go away for 2 months only to find Australia is officially heading toward full communism.

We will have public servants coming out of every orifice. To administer of course.

Much like Stanford, 11,000 administrators, 15,000 students.

is that Big Guy 10% Biden, Demorats & RINOS 10 percenters and US Military Complex are all pusing towards WW III and Nuclear War –

No Putin though, who threatened nuclear war so he can own more land.

Why the Victorian or federal governments need to move to save the wreck of the Cerberus….

Link

Zelenskyy is a puppet, and Washington pulls the strings. The war would end the minute that Biden picks up the phone, tells Zelenskyy the game is over, and that it’s time for peace.

To achieve American Greatness, one must chant Russian propaganda.

What a joke of a site that is.

Wally: true about typical AO crowds, but one can maybe invest a little hope in the Serbs and Greeks honouring the grand traditions of woggery and getting all ethnic agitato.

I will lecture others and put up alternative propaganda whenever unchecked Russian propaganda is sprayed everywhere at full pressure mindlessly each morning.

Sorry Roger, read “statue” as “Laver Arena”. VicPol will do diddly squat out there..
…as you were

“those who aren’t going to play ball, those who will try and get media attention for their grandstanding, what there needs to be is, as there is with Labor, what there needs to be is some consequences if you’ve signed up to the Liberal Party yet you do not stand by their policies and if you want to cross the floor …

Umm, Rita …
The Voice is a Liberal Party policy of the Morrison Government.
It hasn’t been repudiated, so, basically, you’re a rabble rouser and should pull your head in.

TRAGEDY: Man Crushed by ‘Telescopic Urinal’ In London

Russia/Putin has no intention of withdrawing

So you’re asserting Putin will refuse any peace deal, even withdrawing to their own lines in areas they claim to control, even temporarily? I don’t think Russia is that unreasonable, unless they are lying about their war aims.

It’s NATO/EU /US neocons who are using Ukr as a proxy to generate Billion$ in corrupt money harvesting, get massive contracts into the MIL/IND complex and endeavoring to set up their nuclear arms in a semi-failed state (shithole) on Russia’s doorstep.

There is no doubt Biden is thoroughly corrupt but if Russia didn’t invade, they wouldn’t have this massive opportunity for graft.

You’re too stupid to even realise you are cheering for these DC neo-con a/holes and the corruptocrats in the Biden Crime Syndicate. BIRM.

Except that I’m not. Rejecting Kremlin propaganda or DC propaganda isn’t binary. Everyone can chew gum and walk at the same time.

The Climate Faithful Have Developed Religious Dietary Restrictions (and You Guessed It — We’ll All Be Expected to Eat This Way)

Jews eat kosher, Muslims have halal, Hindus eschew meat, and many Christians fast during Lent.

So naturally, the fastest-growing religion today — earth and climate worship — is developing its own faith-based dietary restrictions.

“Climatarians” (also called “reducitarians” or “climavores”)

are people who make their food choices based on how what they eat will impact the earth, with the aim of reducing their carbon “foodprint.” The Earthist version of original sin is that, simply by living, people commit climate sin every time they eat, breathe, travel, and heat or cool their homes. Naturally, the younger generations are the most pious Earthists, having been recently exposed to the most evangelical Earthist education system yet.

“Climavores,

as you might expect, follow a diet less defined by ingredients—unlike veganism, for example,” global consulting firm Kearney informs us. “Instead, Climavores actively make food choices based on climate impacts, practicing climate-conscious eating based on a series of dietary trade-offs intended to benefit the planet.”

Climavores see beef, lamb, and cheese at the very top of the environmental damage scale; pork is in the middle, followed by chicken and eggs. Plants of all kinds typically have the lowest impact. …

Most Climavores eschew labels, viewing climate-conscious food choices paired with their efforts to “live and shop green” beyond food as a meaningful way to personally impact environmental outcomes. Our survey found this is especially true among younger consumers. Respondents 18 to 44 years old were up to twice as likely to consider the environmental impact of their food choices.

And as the older faiths are gradually supplanted by the Church of the Climate, societal changes are in the works that reflect and support the new religion.

Axios reports: – Climatarian? Regenivore? New diets take aim at climate change

Robert Malone (vax injured inventor of mRNA tech) gives his take on the Pfizer/Veritas story.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/pfizer-responses-to-veritas-expose

Short summary – he thinks its definitely genuine, and its ‘memory holing’ by the MSM (including Google) shows just how much power Pfizer has.

But There’s More

There’s a dizzying nomenclature affiliated with climate-conscious eating, with meaningful yet hard-to-parse differences.

“Sustainatarians” eat some meat but filter their diet through an environmental lens.

So do “climatarians” and “climavores,” who tend to be concerned — as one manifesto put it — “not only about the origin of ingredients, but also about the agency that those ingredients have in providing responses to human-induced climatic events.”

“Reducetarians” try to eat less meat for reasons ranging from animal welfare to their health or the environment.

“They might be concerned about biodiversity loss, fresh water availability, or food justice — or trying to save money,” Brian Kateman, president and co-founder of the Reducetarian Foundation, tells Axios.

What’s trending: “Regenivore” is the latest and hottest eating label, the New York Times recently reported.

“A new generation wants food from companies that are actively healing the planet through carbon-reducing agriculture, more rigorous animal welfare policies, and equitable treatment of the people who grow and process food,” per Times ace food writer Kim Severson.

Yes, but: Eyebrows must be raised about the amount of greenwashing involved in corporate efforts to embrace climatarianism.

“All food products suffer from greenwashing, including pet food,” asserts Earth.org, an environmental news and data platform.

The most common examples: Promoting a product as “organic” or “made from real ingredients” when it’s actually from a factory farm or uses genetically modified ingredients.

Russia belongs in the western sphere but not with Putin.

Libertarian fantasy. So let’s have a nuke exchange and take it from him? Ffs , get real.

The only sensible outcome now is a settlement – and enforceable settlement. One that restrains all parties – Russia, NATO and the US. The sooner the better.

ABC program ‘seems to be an attack on the Catholic faith’

A group of schools has warned parents of a “targeted attack” by the ABC it says is designed to smear them, the Church and the New South Wales Liberal Party as religious extremists. Source: Daily Telegraph.

The letter, signed by the principals of schools run by the Pared Foundation which includes Redfield College, which New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet attended, said next Monday’s episode of the ABC’s Four Corners “seems to be an attack on the Catholic faith and an attempt at damaging the political career of one of Redfield’s former students in the short lead-up to the 2023 NSW State Election in March.”

Promotional material for the episode, titled “Purity: An education in Opus Dei” and hosted by ABC journalist Louise Milligan, promises viewers an investigation into “the disturbing practices of the conservative Catholic organisation and its influence in the NSW Liberal Party”.

Panahi penned:

What is happening in places like Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine and in many other communities should shame all Australians.

When is anybody responsible for someone else’s behaviour? Clearly this is non-causal, so only by mental gymnastics can we blame person A for person B’s behaviour, and only by social artifice can we make person A responsible for person B’s behaviour. The blame half of responsibility should be accompanied by the empowerment half of responsibility if the responsibility is to be realistic and fair. Whenever someone says person A is responsible for person B’s behaviour, ask yourself how much realistic control person A has over what person B does.

I say no, most Australians are not responsible for the frictions and crimes occurring in those named towns. If we are not responsible for that behaviour, then under what logic should we feel ashamed of it? I don’t think there is any logic that establishes that. We should not worry about things we do not control and have accepted no obligation over.

There are many people in those named towns who are naturally empowered to stop the behaviour, such as the lawbreakers themselves as number one, then their parents as number two. Legally there are also police to provide deterrent and prosecution.

Throwing more money and people at the problem will be as successful as all the money and people thrown at the problem before have been, which is to say unsuccessful. It is not really a resource shortage problem, it is an existing resource utilisation problem. Money is not irrelevant, there are definitely also economic considerations in why so much abuse, vandalism, and theft occurs. I accept desperate people will do desperate actions. For starters, when a person has no purpose to their life, nothing to strive for, no job to work at, there will be no value to their time for prioritising and so no apparent cost to wasting time. So filling their day with wasting time is a likely outcome. But their activities are worse than that, they are counter-productive. Add alienation from the entire European culture of property rights, plus nonstop victim-farming from the Regressive Left, and the disaffected are unlikely to respect a social system which they don’t believe they have benefited from and don’t believe they will ever be permitted to benefit from, leading to disrespect of property. I wish I could also suggest a simple explanation for why they also abuse each other (not just property), but it would be simplistic and your guess is probably better than mine.

Clearly new thinking is needed by everybody involved to resolve this concern.
1. Everybody who is not responsible should not feel ashamed about it, although wanting a harmonious society is still a fair concern.
2. A two-state solution, with a new ATSIC nation-within-a-nation and its own (lack of) laws would actually be one of two potential resolutions to the friction in this issue. But surely most Australians would prefer to see a fully integrated harmony instead of a “Wild West”-style scenario. Thus we still have the obligation to think differently and find a way to live together instead of living apart.
3. We must understand the psychology of the offenders to understand why they do it and how to shift to mutually beneficial social interactions (i.e. stop abuse). The question is not so much how abuse happens, it is how have other societies successfully discouraged abuse and how can that pattern be adopted by Aboriginal elders and town communities?
4. Find thought leaders within these towns who can champion this idea and who therefore (fairly, no special treatment) visibly benefit from adopting it early so that there are good examples to emulate.

This just seems obvious. Therefore there must be some roadblock, some flaw in this plan, that has stopped people from succeeding in it before, so what is that flaw?

Dotsays:
January 29, 2023 at 10:25 am
Russia/Putin has no intention of withdrawing

So you’re asserting Putin will refuse any peace deal, even withdrawing to their own lines in areas they claim to control, even temporarily? I don’t think Russia is that unreasonable, unless they are lying about their war aims.

It’s NATO/EU /US neocons who are using Ukr as a proxy to generate Billion$ in corrupt money harvesting, get massive contracts into the MIL/IND complex and endeavoring to set up their nuclear arms in a semi-failed state (shithole) on Russia’s doorstep.

There is no doubt Biden is thoroughly corrupt but if Russia didn’t invade, they wouldn’t have this massive opportunity for graft.

You’re too stupid to even realise you are cheering for these DC neo-con a/holes and the corruptocrats in the Biden Crime Syndicate. BIRM.

Except that I’m not. Rejecting Kremlin propaganda or DC propaganda isn’t binary. Everyone can chew gum and walk at the same time.

I’d like to see your explanation of why any Russian leader would accept a peace deal negotiated after parties such as Germany have admitted prior treaties were never going to be adhered to.
As far as I can tell, you’re of the mindset that Russia, regardless of the leadership, should have no national interests unless approved by the USA. That is in no way realistic.

I don’t have any solutions to the situation that I would view as reasonably likely to end the conflict, all I can realistically do is guess at the final outcome based on what I reckon the capabilities are. I don’t see any outcome now that leaves Ukraine in a decent position. Too many fled, too many lives lost, infrastructure destruction, debt and corruption leave it destitute.

Pfizer Pleased To Announce Their New Vaccine 90% Effective Against New Virus They Created