OCO, the Iranian media has been saying that drone factories were targeted, there are rafts of tweets about that. The originals are of course in Arabic and on live TV, bit hard to repost that stuff so quickly.
The Israeli target acquisition people are off their pace.
They usually hit baby formulae factories, hospitals, old folks homes and mosques.
Oh. And orphanages.
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(The wife and I)
Strange coming from someone who continually demands bans on Cats who refuse to put up with your verbal abuse.
You’re lying as usual, Turtlehead. I think this blog would be much better off without you (and a couple of others), but that’s not my call.
In my opinion, you’re a total disgrace, and it irks me to associate with you on this blog. In fact, I find it disgusting. But that’s just me.
Let us also recall that you went to the old blog owner, sobbing that I was a jerk to you, and told me you were threatening him with legal action unless it stopped. He suggested (at my behest) that there should be no more conversations between us, and you of course broke that agreement by grovelling to me, as though I would think better of you? Really?
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You’re lying as usual, Turtlehead. I think this blog would be much better off without you (and a couple of others), but that’s not my call.
In my opinion, you’re a total disgrace, and it irks me to associate with you on this blog. In fact, I find it disgusting. But that’s just me.
Let us also recall that you went to the old blog owner, sobbing that I was a jerk to you, and told me you were threatening him with legal action unless it stopped. He suggested (at my behest) that there should be no more conversations between us, and you of course broke that agreement by grovelling to me, as though I would think better of you? Really?
The exhibition of maturity continues.
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I wonder who will read this?
Can you give me a quick precis?
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DrBeauGan says:
January 29, 2023 at 10:13 pm
..
There’s this:
..
You know the story… There was once a Baron – one of those powerful land barons back in 18th century Europe – who had the power of life and death over those living in their townships… Most of them were notorious anti-Semites, but this particular Baron happened to have been pretty decent toward the Jews in his region… They were good for business, and he didn’t abuse or persecute them…
Of all the prized possessions owned by this Baron, the one he favored most was his pet dog… How he loved that dog!… Talk about man’s best friend – that mutt was the apple of his eye; the center of his universe…
One day, some of the anti-Semitic locals decided to stir up trouble for the Jews of the city… They approached the Baron – who was a pretty gullible guy – and said: “You think those Jews are loyal to you?…. They’re no such thing!… Did you know that Jews have the power to teach dogs to speak the language of man?… That’s right – if they really wanted to do, they could teach your beloved Fido to talk! You’d be able to have conversation with him every day!… But they won’t do it for you… They keep this talent to themselves and refuse to share it with the gentiles for whom they have total disdain… You watch!… Try asking them to train your dog to talk and they will refuse you”…
YOM KIPPUR SERMON 5769
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This indeed angered the Baron… The Jews could teach his best friend to talk and they would dare refuse him – after he’d been so good to them all these years!?… He summoned the Jewish leaders of the city and demanded that they teach Fido to speak… The more these leaders insisted that they had no such powers, the angrier the Baron became… Finally, he laid out an ultimatum: “Either they teach the dog to talk or they’d all be expelled from the city in three days time!”
The Jewish community was baffled and terrified… Having no choice they began to pack their bags and load their wagons… They called a meeting at the synagogue… They wrung their hands, they cried, they prayed… What to do?… What kind of insanity has gotten into the Baron?… How can they teach a dog to speak – and Russian at that!?… But the man was adamant… What to do?
Suddenly, Yankel the tailor stepped forward: “Let me go meet with the Baron!”
“You?” they exclaimed… “You’re just a simple tailor!… What do you know from training dogs to talk?”… But Yankel insisted that he wanted a shot… At that point, what did they have to lose?… So off he went…
An hour later, Yankel the tailor comes back to the synagogue – leading Fido by his leash… He announces to the community: “Unload the wagons everyone… We are staying!”…
The people are flabbergasted… “What did you do?… What did you tell him?”
“Very simple”, he says, “I explained to him that I’d be happy to teach Fido to talk, but that he had to be fair and reasonable about this… Even a human being, who is much more intelligent than a dog, takes two years before mastering the ability to speak… For a dog, it takes at least four years!… The Baron couldn’t refute my logic, so he handed me his dog so that I could get to work…”
“Yankel, are you mad!?… What’s going to happen in four years from now when the Baron comes to you to collect his dog – expecting the animal to be talking???”
Yankel says: “Four years from now?… You know what can happen in four years?… Within four years time, perhaps the Baron will die… Perhaps I will die… Or perhaps the dog will die!… A lot can change in four years….. Everybody just go home and relax…”
.. http://chabadpw.org/media/pdf/239/KcuG2396864.pdf
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The biggest threat to our way of life is from the American left. Most recent example, Gates filth polluting out shores.
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Ma’am you’ve just swapped over $10,000 of cash for the new notes at various banks. Pray tell, where did it come from?
This is ridiculous.
Banks and many other entities in Australia and many other countries including the UK have been required to report cash transactions over $10,000 since around 1990.
They’ve also been reporting suspicious transactions ie structuring under 10k which is a judgement decision by the teller in question.
People in the UK with uncomfortable amounts of paper notes in a particular denomination, in this case £20s, have had plenty of time to spend them in the lead up to the change.
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Makka:
I lived there for 2 1/2 years and traveled from the Arctic down to the stans. With my family. Worked alongside and met many Russians. We enjoyed every minute of it and made some wonderful Russian friends. My daughter was made to feel thoroughly welcomed at her Russian kindy. They are different from us, much to do with their horrible history. Very distant until they know you.
It’s the personal vs the nation.
You’d have jumped into a near frozen river to rescue a Russian child who fell in and was drowning, yes? Of course you would.
And you’d cheer on a thousand bomber raid to hit Hamburg where thousands of little girls perished?
Yes, we did.
People in the masses are very different to the individual and that’s one of the curses of the mob.
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And the Armstong claim was suddenly your notes were worthless.
The expansionary evil empire overrunning neighbouring counties
… the EU?
Of course, not with tanks but with legislation.
…wait what?
Oh Ok, tanks too
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People in the UK with uncomfortable amounts of paper notes in a particular denomination, in this case £20s, have had plenty of time to spend them in the lead up to the change.
Just take it to a cash business & change it for new.
(You’d probably have to know the operator, or be a good customer)
Australia has scrapped & issued a new $50 three times.
Likewise the $100 note has been scrapped & reissued three times.
Each time there has been mild panic among the significant community of hoarders. (Independent miners & others who sell their product for significant cash)
Each time I’ve changed significant amount for people. No problem.
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Sancho Panzer:
Sancho Panzersays:
January 29, 2023 at 8:13 pm
There seem to be a disturbing number of people here who are keen for the big red nuke button to be pushed.
No. But for the Israelis, it isn’t the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes a policy of massive retaliation can deter where a single or two strikes won’t. Most leaders of Iran think they are safe from nuclear reprisal from Israel. They are also aware massive retaliation shortens their own life spans as well as their peoples.
They may be fanatics, but they aren’t stupid.
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Click on the link Sancho , I dare you!
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Well, he showed them
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Phuck you SloMo and Hawke you turds.
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Doubters find their voice on recognition: ‘fix is destined to fail’
By SIMON BENSON
Political Editor
and JOE KELLY
Canberra Bureau Chief
@joekellyoz
9:33PM January 29, 2023
13 Comments
A formal committee advancing the No case for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament will be launched on Monday and warns the body would forever change the way Australia was governed while failing to improve results for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Comprised of former and current MPs and prominent Indigenous figures, the No campaign will propose a preamble to the Constitution and a new parliamentary committee to focus on the rights of native title holders under existing legislation.
The six-member committee has enlisted leading Indigenous voices including Country Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and former Labor Party president Nyunggai Warren Mundine. Former Nationals leader John Anderson will also be a key spokesman, and the committee will be administered by former Labor minister and charities commissioner Gary Johns.
Other members include Indigenous Australians Bob Liddle, who owns Kemara enterprises, and Ian Conway, who started Kings Creek Station in the Northern Territory and developed an educational trust for disadvantaged remote children.
The No Case Committee claims it will be the “foundation” group around which the No case will be fought, and is calling its campaign Recognise a Better Way.
Anthony Albanese said on Friday the referendum would be about a vote for “consultation with Indigenous people on matters that affect them. That is simply the principle that is there.”
But the No case will contest the idea a federal voice would have a benign influence on Australia’s system of parliamentary democracy, with Senator Price saying it could follow in the footsteps of the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria, which had its first meeting in December 2019.
Describing itself as “the voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Treaty Process”, the First Peoples Assembly has proposed ideas that Senator Price warned could “split” the country.
These include making “a number of seats” in state parliament open to election exclusively by Indigenous Australians; creating a “permanent representative body with meaningful decision-making powers” that it likens to a “black parliament” and delivering “First Peoples oversight of the Victorian government and public service”.
The Victorian Labor government has also provided $65m towards “fair and equitable” treaty negotiations, something Senator Price warned would become a key focus of a federal voice.
“I think the Prime Minister needs to inform the Australian public of what his intentions are – would he block a model like what’s unfolding in Victoria so as not to create another chamber of parliament,” Senator Price said. “The current model of the First Peoples Assembly is a model that could absolutely be adopted and adopted in our Constitution if this referendum is successful.”
Mr Anderson also said that if the proposal was “as modest as the Prime Minister wants us to believe, where is the advice from the Solicitor-General? If it were as essentially benign as they say, all my experience tells me we would have had that advice by now,” he said.
Writing in The Australian, Senator Price, Mr Mundine and Mr Johns said the government’s proposal was misplaced and unnecessary. “The Albanese government’s proposed voice in the Australian constitution is the wrong way to recognise Aboriginal people, or help Aborigines in need,” they said.
“The voice is a second voice, a second bite at the cherry, for one group only.
“The voice proposal smacks of the paternalism of an earlier time, without proof that it will help those in need. It is an insult to the fact that Aborigines are capable of being heard in the public arena.”
With Mr Albanese deciding there will be no public funding for either side, the committee has formed a fundraising arm to bankroll its campaign through donations, with significant corporate backing expected for the Yes campaign.
Mr Johns told The Australian that he believed the referendum would swing largely on a soft Yes vote.
“Every Australian is sympathetic and empathetic to the cause of Aboriginal people,” he said. “The question is whether this instrument will do the job. We say it won’t.
“The important point is that this whole debate started out as a means of recognition, unfortunately it went way over the top and came up with a piece of architecture with enormous implications for democracy.”
Regardless of the outcome of Peter Dutton’s expected meeting with the government’s Voice referendum… working group, we’ll continue to see “resistance” from him, says Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “And he will continue to push for a royal commission into child sexual abuse in the Territory all the More
He said there was nothing in the construction of a voice to parliament that would resolve the issues of recent violence in Alice Springs.
The committee has proposed an alternative to the referendum and voice, with a three-point plan that seeks to recognise prior occupation of Aboriginal people in a preamble to the Constitution.
“Prior occupation is a sensible ask. Any more, such as descriptions of people’s culture, is not. We all have culture,” the committee said.
It also proposed an all-party parliamentary standing committee for native title holders, recognising that legislation already existed that was unique but needed to be able to assist those in need to “find a way into the modern economy”.
It also called for more support for “Aboriginal community-controlled organisations”.
“If we were to characterise the voice proposal, it is a great deal more than a housekeeping provision, it is a serious change to the way we govern,” they said.
Right-wing activist group Advance will also throw its weight behind the No campaign on Monday, warning that a federal voice will embrace the agenda of the First Peoples Assembly in Victoria.
“The state parliament’s version of the ‘voice’ is an unpredicted power grab that threatens to turn representative democracy in that state on its head,” the group said. “The Prime Minister must come clean and admit that this referendum is about more than just a principle. It’s the first step in a wholesale transfer of money and power to one privileged group based on race.”
Assistant Indigenous Affairs Minister Malarndirri McCarthy on Sunday said the negotiation of the treaty process was under way at a state government level. She made the observation after Greens’ Indigenous affairs spokeswoman Lidia Thorpe signalled she would not support the voice amid concern it did not go far enough, including a commitment of reconciliation through treaty.
On Australia Day, hardline Indigenous activists – including Senator Thorpe – used anti-Australia Day rallies to strike out at the voice campaign and demand the treaty process take priority over the referendum.
“(It’s) interesting that Senator Thorpe has made the position and the stance that she has,” Senator McCarthy told Sky News. “Treaty is occurring in each state and territory … In fact, Victoria is actually one of the first. I’m very interested to have a further discussion on that in the Senate when we return next month.”
Senator McCarthy also acknowledged this week was a “critical moment” ahead of a report handed down by Central Australian Regional Controller Dorrelle Anderson after she conducted community consultation regarding the reintroduction of alcohol restrictions and an opt-out system for communities across Alice Springs.
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Yep, NoVaxx scores payback at AO.
Absolutely bawling.
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Well done Djoker!
He’s shown us the way: we never give up.
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Presidential Executive orders 13818 and 13848 have yet to be seriously considered by this blog.
Sunset clauses and their renewal under the (so called Biden administration) don’t make sense.
They are an anathema to a legitimate DS, Democrat money laundering regime.
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January 29, 2023 at 10:35 pm
Ma’am you’ve just swapped over $10,000 of cash for the new notes at various banks. Pray tell, where did it come from?
This is ridiculous.
Banks and many other entities in Australia and many other countries including the UK have been required to report cash transactions over $10,000 since around 1990.
Yes, I thought the same thing, but I didn’t realise the $10k reporting limit had been around for so long.
rosiesays:
January 29, 2023 at 10:37 pm
And the Armstong claim was suddenly your notes were worthless.
So.
He’s a thief and a liar?
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custardsays:
January 29, 2023 at 10:42 pm
Click on the link Sancho , I dare you!
I am afraid to!
Am I off the pace?
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It has been 739 days since the mythical Q failed to send Military Intelligence in black helicopters down onto the Capitol dais to slap the cuffs on Joe. And still Custard keeps the faith.
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Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
January 29, 2023 at 10:58 pm
It has been 739 days since the mythical Q failed to send Military Intelligence in black helicopters down onto the Capitol dais to slap the cuffs on Joe. And still Custard keeps the faith.
All will be revealed.
Remain patient.
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I’m a bit hazy about the exact date Sancho, Austrac was born in 1989 and there was some sort of international consensus in 1990.
Doesn’t matter; it’s been at least a couple of decades.
I certainly always carry a little cash, when travelling more than a little.
Lots of places are still cash only.
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
January 29, 2023 at 10:46 pm
Well done Djoker!
He’s shown us the way: we never give up.
First open I watched for yonks, just to see if he still had it.
Some say he is arrogant, I didn’t see it, but if he is, he has lot to be arrogant about at least as far as playing tennis goes.
Great match.
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custardsays:
January 29, 2023 at 10:42 pm
Click on the link Sancho , I dare you!
I read it all. It defends QAnon from the charge of nuttiness by pointing out all the bad things that are happening, and claims that believing in the forces of evil being organised is not crazy.
Yes, it is. There’s a confluence of bad things as ppl go dotty and governments try to take even more power over us. But the idea that there’s a small cabal running it all is to say the least implausible.
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rosiesays:
January 29, 2023 at 11:01 pm
I’m a bit hazy about the exact date Sancho, Austrac was born in 1989 and there was some sort of international consensus in 1990.
Doesn’t matter; it’s been at least a couple of decades.
I certainly always carry a little cash, when travelling more than a little.
Lots of places are still cash only.
Prudent.
No-one is going to jail for carrying $500 in cash (despite what Martin says).
Tsitsipas trying to say it’s a great privilege to play Djokovic. And he’s done great things for the sport. Rewind 12 months
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Dan Andrews will be sending his sincere congratulations to Djoker – he’s that sort of guy.
Alex Hawke can shove it up as far as it can go – “civil unrest” – what a tool.
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Farmer Gezsays:
January 29, 2023 at 11:09 pm
Dan Andrews will be sending his sincere congratulations to Djoker – he’s that sort of guy.
Alex Hawke can shove it up as far as it can go – “civil unrest” – what a tool.
Dan a no-show tonight?
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Please Djoker, dedicate your win to Dan Andrews and Alex Hawke.
They can shove it up as far as it can go.
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Sorry double up. India to Oz takes time.
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Sancho Panzer:
Most cotton buds are used indoors, so would most likely end up in the rubbish bin or in the sewer, but not stormwater.
That’s the part that should be ringing the bullshit bell, but it isn’t.
Please Djoker, dedicate your win to Dan Andrews and Alex Hawke.
They can shove it up as far as it can go.
And Nanny Neil Mitchell and all at 3AW who have been going hysterical over him for a month.
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Sancho Panzer:
There seem to be a disturbing number of people here who are keen for the big red nuke button to be pushed.
Don’t mistake the need to understand the weapon and the ways to protect ourselves from it for eagerness to use it.
Ignorance isn’t bliss. That’s a rookie mistake.
I have a very good idea of what happens if the “Big Red Button” is pushed. Medical & Nursing Corps makes sure we know. And I’ve sat through Educational/Professional film and lectures about Chemical, Nuclear and Biological that would have you vomiting in your lap.
Knowledge is one thing that can save your life.
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Daily Mail has a candid photo of Albo stuffing his gob with ice cream while watching the tennis. No leadership in Alice Springs, watching the tennis is far more important!
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… a candid photo of Albo stuffing his gob with ice cream while watching the tennis. No leadership in Alice Springs, watching the tennis is far more important!
Albo is “leading & taking responsibility”
I don’t hold a hose er.. give a stuff, mate.
Anthony Albanese @AlboMP
Australia government official
Two years ago Scott Morrison told Australians he “doesn’t hold a hose”.
Australians deserve a Prime Minister who actually leads and takes responsibility.
8:38 AM · Dec 20, 2021
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Wally:
Wally Dalísays:
January 29, 2023 at 10:13 pm
Arky
What keeps my courage up now at what I’m sure is the threshold of the dark days ahead is pulling the foundations of western civilization closer around my family. Not saying it’s been easy rallying the troupe- in fact the blues which have gone on between me and my wife these last three years would probably have killed any relationship if not for the fact that we’re battling over fundamentals, not just petty niceties and fickle opinions, and because that’s the calibre we both respect the battle lines, and embrace the truce and respect the new detente when and if it comes.
Right now, we’re looking like a 50’s house all over again. We’re Catholic education, Methodist entertainment, Hayek money, Friedman economy.
I’m putting noses out of joint amongst some of our friends- reminder, a lot more important for wimmin and children than for me- but it seems I’m annoying all the right people.
I am worried that our kids will become pariahs, tho. Firstborn was a precocious talker and therefore listener, and is starting to come up with some darkly vicious one-liners… youngest is still coming to tdeal with anxiety, which I have to bear much of the blame for… unfortunately the only solution is to support her to get her stronger.
We- and there might be a few Cats n Kitts in this- might have to spend a generation or two living like the Amish or the Ashkenazis. Coercion is one thing I can easily resist… conscription? I’ll lead the charge against, don’t care which bug eating surrender monkeys I’m holding up the banner with.
There’s some damn fine thinking in that there couple of paragraphs.
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JC:
You’re lying as usual, Turtlehead. I think this blog would be much better off without you (and a couple of others), but that’s not my call.
Let us also recall that you went to the old blog owner…
Fifteen years ago? I couldn’t be bothered looking for the original post, and you’re still telling that lie?
I bet you still hate that kid you bragged about bullying in school.
Talk about carrying a grudge over something that didn’t happen.
Strange world you inhabit when “Good manners” = “Grovelling.” …of course you can’t tell the difference.
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ZK2A:
Seeing that the Aboriginal People are doubly overrepresented in Parliament, which ones will have to give up their seats to accommodate the Voice?
I bet they weren’t thinking of that when they decided to lunge at the feeding trough?
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Seeing that the Aboriginal People are doubly overrepresented in Parliament, which ones will have to give up their seats to accommodate the Voice?
Most logical would be: Linda Burney.
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Fifteen years ago? I couldn’t be bothered looking for the original post, and you’re still telling that lie?
Shanta-struth is still making up stories?
(without any citation)
* Yawn *
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Your theory is that Israel would sit back and watch Iran set up an air shield? Courageous.
Firstly, my theory is very much contingent on your bonkers theory being correct, which I highly doubt. I still haven’t seen sufficient evidence of any great attack. At this point, it looks as though one facility was attacked by three small drones and very little damage was done. If that’s the best the Israelis can muster, it was a complete debacle and several senior people in Israeli intelligence need to be fired. It would be a national humiliation. I don’t think the Israelis were behind it, unless it was a feint of some kind. And even then it would be rather crude – they would pull off a more convincing distraction than that.
Anyway, my point is this – IF the Israelis did to the Russians in Iran what you claim, the Russians in such a scenario would almost certainly step in to make sure it didn’t happen again. And yes, in that situation the Israelis would indeed have to sit back and watch Russia install air defences in the parts of Iran where it wants to protect its interests. However, this is extraordinarily unlikely to occur as it is extraordinarily unlikely that the Israelis are responsible for what you claim them to be., for the reasons I have mentioned above.
There are some clever people around.
I just saw Iran’s drones described as ‘Obama bombs’.
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Scummo turned up to Jim’s funeral which left me feeling uncomfortable.
He was not one of the far too many speakers, but just his presence forced me to exercise a more than accustomed degree of self control.
I didn’t realise how visceral was my loathing.
Re the discussion upthread about a cashless society, we have used hardly any cash in Britain, carding it most places, so Hairy gives me some cash and says you’d better spend it before we leave. Then we called into what was once Britain’s first Services on the M1, on our way down to Tunbridge Wells, a late and cold afternoon at 5 degrees with the surroundings equally distressed-looking and dismal. It wasn’t very busy. At the entry sat a young man, looking cold with a light sleeping bag on his legs beside his hat with had a few coins in it. Hairy passed me a pound coin and unusually for him who doesn’t reward begging said give it to him, which I did. I stopped to talk to the lad, who was about 25, and asked him how the collecting was going and what was it for. He said he’d got twenty-three pounds, but not from sitting there, mostly left from his savings. He added that he was hoping to make a further eighteen pounds in order to get a hostel place for a week. That clearly was not going to happen for him tonight. I thought about that for a second or two, thinking that we would decide to add a sea view to our room for an extra twenty pounds, or not, simply on the basis of only having it for an hour or two till dark, and I felt supremely over-privileged. I passed him a crisp twenty pound note and said I hope this helps. He was so surprised. Big tears welled up in his eyes as he said no-one’s ever done anything like that for me before and he asked if he could hug me. No need, I said. I clasped his hands instead for he was still seated and said good luck to you, just go and do what you have to do, and I raced inside after Hairy.
I don’t know if he was scamming for drug money or whatever, but I suspect not. He seemed a nice sort of young fellow, just for whatever reason down on his luck, and wanting to pay for a warm bed.
That night I felt so glad that when I thought about him that he wouldn’t have to be sleeping in the cold although doubtless thousands of others were. I am not saying this for any ‘my lady bountiful’ kudos, so those who think so can get lost. I am just saying it because it was sad and because I could make it less so. And because he said that most people passed him by saying they didn’t have any cash on them to help him. And I did. I had heaps. Perhaps I should have given him more .. my guilt trip kicking in.
They wiped out La Kalsa on 9 May 1943. Bombers came to destroy the port, and while they were at it, they demolished the area behind it. Photographs from the days following its destruction show little else but rubble, rubble and more rubble. Beyond the many dead and the extensive damage the 1943 bombing also created an environmental disaster yet to be resolved. The massive quantity of rubble was simply dumped into the nearby sea.
You just can’t escape some horrible history in Europe. Everywhere are reminders. Yet people picked themselves up and started to rebuild.
We have watched some fairly stark reminders of the awfulness of what happened in Europe around the time of my birth in Britain, because one TV channel was running continual Holocaust documentaries for Holocaust Memorial Week, finishing with Schindler’s List, which we have seen of course but which still packed its punch with another viewing. The message in that movie of doing what you can, albeit imperfect, against evil being done to others is still an important one.
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Tom, probably not practical, but is there a chance of giving a hint, a one line at least, what the ‘toon is about?
I know I’m not speaking for the majority here, who are up-to date with all the world’s affairs but most of the cartoons are meaningless to me, the OZ ones are easy.
Sorry.
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Sorry for interrupting your toons, Tom.
I should have waited a while. It’s only 5.45 in the evening here, dark, and I’d lost track of time.
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It seems to me impossible to do justice even to la kalsa let alone Palermo in a month let alone a week, I haven’t even ventured to the port area yet, a few hundreds metres in the other direction.
Gabor, I try to use British and American ‘toons that are not too regional or specific to a topic that would require you to live there to understand. I’ve taken note of your concerns.
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Thanks Tom.
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Rosie, thanks for the link to the blog post about La Kalsa. You’re in an interesting country.
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Comprised of former and current MPs and prominent Indigenous figures, the No campaign will propose a preamble to the Constitution and a new parliamentary committee to focus on the rights of native title holders under existing legislation.
BullShit.
You donna like the Albanese Voice?
Here ya go, get the Anderson/Price/Mundine Voice up ya!
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They can have a voice in the same way everyone else has to – by voting, lobbying, discussing.
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The extreme Right are certainly getting hysterical over Peter Dutton not choosing the No position and allowing Albanese and NewsCorp to get down and dirty in the gutter.
A Preamble acknowledging Aborigines as the Rightful Owners, eh?
What’s next?
Bring out The Gimp?
They can have a voice in the same way everyone else has to – by voting, lobbying, discussing.
No.
Albanese can Legislate a Body and call it The Voice, he’s got the numbers and a Mandate.
What he can’t do is change the Constitution.
He needs to go to an Election and seek a Mandate for that.
How pathetic can Tennis Australia get? .. out comes the “begging bowl’ AGAIN .. cos Ukrainian players ect, apparently, can’t go home!..
These are folk that travel the world all year earning $squillions and only see the homeland for holidays but TA feels the prize money isn’t enuf toget home on so needs everyone, except TA, to dig deep .. FFS! ..
How thick can special ed be? Luigi’s got a mandate. He can’t change the constitution. Luigi has to go to an election and seek a mandate. The constitution can only be changed by Referendum.
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That’s the “A” List? Eeeek.
Have to laugh at the Mail’s captioning.
Gates – sixth richest man
Luigi – busy, greedy and careless
Tsitsipas – Greek hero, underdog
Hemmes – pub “baron”
Griffiths – raised in Melbourne
Wilkinson – veteran showbusiness
Dutton and Costello – and the price of seats. Damned elites!
Although it was updated at 2340 last night, there appears to be no mention of who won. Was it that “divisive” fellow?
Of course, I can assure everyone that the elites in Davos didn’t eat any bugs.
Possibly some ate Moreton Bay Bugs?
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Their cozzies shrank, sfw. That’s what happens when you set the machine at 60degrees.
Be kind to textiles.
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One of my favourite hidden gems in Palermo is the Museo Palazzo Branciforte. It has odd opening hours from memory but it’s puppet museum is worth the trouble.
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Was it that “divisive” fellow
It was indeed, calli, and more strength to his nonvaxxed arm. He certainly stuck it up ’em.
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PS. Craig Tiley is an A grade idiot. Bever saw a government $ he didn’t covet.
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Bever???? Never!!!
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Scummo turned up to Jim’s funeral which left me feeling uncomfortable.
“Jim” was one of his favourite “YES” men so why wouldn’t BRADBURY acknowledge him?
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Gates – Epstein buddy, regular flyer on the Lolita Express
Luigi – inept, vulgar, far-left, Trot, spent more time at the tennis than he did in Alice. Gifted to the nation by the more inept Scumbag Morrison and the stupid effing Liberals
Tsitsipas – Half Russian/half Greek, what a combination, an Adonis, the image of my gorgeous nephew.
Hemmes – I could say something else but it would be extremely defamatory
Griffiths – Hypocrite, anti-Catholic bigot, mediocre actress.
Wilkinson – The Queen of amphibians, the Queen of Subjudice, should be charged
Dutton and Costello – one should have been PM, the other will probably never be PM
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It seems to me impossible to do justice even to la kalsa let alone Palermo in a month let alone a wee
I first visited Palermo in 1973 and the scars of war were still very much apparent. The water in our host’s apartment was turned off every night and 7pm. Next door was still a rubbled, empty reminder of the bombardment and the wall of our building facing still carried the scars of bullets holes scored from top to bottom. The city was a depressing, filthy, rubbish strewn mess.
I did not appreciate it’s astonishing history and beautiful treasures in my callow youth. Many subsequent visits have cured me of that immature perspective. Never judge books/covers etc.
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Calli.
The djivisive one did, in fact, win.
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Sorry. Wilkins, not Wilkinson. Sporting a bottle of insta-tan on his face.
You are wise to say nothing about that baron guy. Although I used to buy his mum’s lovely frocks back in the day.
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That’s why we decided on Sicily, Megan. What lies beneath.
one TV channel was running continual Holocaust documentaries for Holocaust Memorial Week,
I watched a doco last night, HOW THE HOLOCAUST STARTED, British BBC production .. most of it was stuff that anyone who has read/watched HOLOCAUST atrocities would be familiar with but then towards the end came a real shocker ! .. one I’d never heard of before .. an SS major Lange was ordered by Himmler to devise ‘economic” methods for killing & disposal of large numbers of people .. between 1938 & 1941 he killed around 3 000 disabled, Jewish, gypsies and political prisoners using various techniques before settling on gas as the quickest and most “cost” effective .. one of the experiments detailed was truly horrific, frightening to believe anyone even thought it up ..!
A pit 3 mtres deep was dug the the bottom foot or so was filled with quicklime .. the “victims” were then thrown alive into the pit/quicklime and the trench half-filled with water .. the reaction of quicklime/water is boiling .. these people were boiled alive! .. the “experiment” was deemed a failure because it took several hours for all the victims to succumb …….!
SS Major Rudolph Lange was last seen alive in 1945, tho his body was never identified, he is believed to have commited suicide rather than be captured during the seige/battle for Posen …….
36 year old Lindsey Lanoux has #DiedSuddenly from sudden cardiac arrest. She bragged on Facebook about getting her last booster and and dismissed safety concerns: “F*ck the haters”
She even changed her cover photo to trust the “science”
As you read the #TwitterFiles, remember that from the beginning Fauci worked to malign fellow scientists to obscure his culpability in funding the Wuhan lab.
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Was it that “divisive” fellow…. It was indeed, calli, and more strength to his nonvaxxed arm. He certainly stuck it up ’em.
And i got an SMS, not 30 seconds later, saying ‘NOvax wins! – another victory for the freedom fighters!’
Methinks our wise masters have seriously underestimated the depth and durability of feeling of those they chose to make into second class citizens – They have certainly expanded the cadre of people who will never trust the government, or most of their fellow citizens, again.
Ed Casesays:
January 30, 2023 at 6:28 am
Comprised of former and current MPs and prominent Indigenous figures, the No campaign will propose a preamble to the Constitution and a new parliamentary committee to focus on the rights of native title holders under existing legislation.
BullShit.
You donna like the Albanese Voice?
Here ya go, get the Anderson/Price/Mundine Voice up ya!
Richard Cranium continues his shilling for the Liars and the Voice.
He’d be better of trying to learn how to Google, so he could work out the difference between the two Kermit Roosevelts, son and grandson of Teddy.
Then he could research the two Quentins and Teddy Jnr, and maybe learn something.
shatterzzzsays:
January 30, 2023 at 7:17 am
How pathetic can Tennis Australia get? .. out comes the “begging bowl’ AGAIN .. cos Ukrainian players ect, apparently, can’t go home!..
They’re not keen on some training hitting grenades towards the Wussians on the Donbas front line?
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Adam Creighton has a good article up at the Oz about MSM covering up the Pfizer Director story.
Comments also talking about media cover up. Jonova site even gets a mention.
One year after being banned from Australia for refusing to take the worthless covid shot,
@DjokerNole wins the Aussie Open. This is what actual bravery, conviction, & validation looks like. Love it. Novak is the GOAT & he was 100% right on the covid shot.
At this rate, the ‘sudden death’ of refineries and food factories is going to start vying with the sudden death of athletes in this years ‘coincidence’ stakes.
Imagine if the shots—rather than giving people clots, strokes, myocarditis and “sudden death”—gave people alopecia.
How long would it take for the shots to be withdrawn from the market?
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OldOzziesays:
January 30, 2023 at 8:51 am
Louise 7-Nil-Again with another hatchet job on Catholics and the Liberal Party
It’s amusing (in a cynical way) to contemplate that Labor used to be the Party of the rural and urban working class, and had a strong Catholic base.
Now, Labor bigwigs hobnob with the Big End of town, and the party harbours anti-Christian bigots (well, maybe not anti-Uniting Church).
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Tennis Elbow…
Albanese’s been at the Australian Open 3 nights running.
Keeps him out of mischief, I suppose.
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Shaterzzz, we watched that same BBC video and were also sickened by that tale of ‘experimental’ brutality. As was the interviewer, a relatively young man. I noticed he went white and looked as if he was about to throw up when he heard this.
So much brutality done by evil people to others during that truly horrific period.
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It’s gotta be the Simulation. “Novax”wins the Australian Open.
H/T Twitter
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Hemmes is very good at giving Sydney what it wants. No, not like the Mardi Gras after party. Hospitality is a tough game. Arguably no one does it at scale better.
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For the fools who think handing in old bank notes is no problem – a government can simply say that after a certain date the old notes are no longer legal tender, so hand them in before that date.
As usual rosie missed my point. You may have a fair bit of money in notes, say over $10,000 and you think that swapping for new notes over a period of weeks or months in smallish, variable amounts means that you will not get noticed. Ha! With modern tracking, recording and face recognition you can bet that when governments now do a note swap they will record EVERY time somebody does a swap and then it is simply a small matter to put your personal record together.
Side note: I actually designed and manufactured some prototype gear for the Reserve Bank note printing branch when they were doing the original plastic $5 notes.
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OldOzziesays:
January 30, 2023 at 8:51 am
Louise 7-Nil-Again with another hatchet job on Catholics and the Liberal Party
Mr Perrottet was school captain at Redfield College in 2000. Many staffers and candidates for pre-selection for the New South Wales Liberal government also went to the schools and have been involved in this community.
We’ve all read Dan Brown; it’s crystal clear that Perrottet and the Liberal government are covering up secret chapels for rituals with chosen virgins and murderous albino Angus Day monks. And scourging.
Perrottet himself admits to coming from a family of 12 children.
Hmmm?
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The ALPPBC does their usual Monday Four Corners promo as News. Seven Nilligan does some vox to make sure Perrottet is linked with Opus Dei. Oooo spooky.
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Perrottet does a Gillard by folding like a cheap tent and announces an inquiry and goes back to his deckchair on the Titanic.
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Albanese’s been at the Australian Open 3 nights running.
Small reward for 30 years in the Liar party room. I would rather try and scrounge whatever tickets aren’t given to the corporates.
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PHON reportedly polling well in western Sydney.
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I was cheering him on too.
Yep, I generally find Tennis batshit boring and almost never watch it, not even the big matches.
Last night, however, I did tune in to see Novax stick it up em.
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30 January.
Tomorrow Trump will be resurrected!
Gitmo full! Indictments unsealed! Mass arrests! ‘Army tanks’ in the streets!
It’s Happening!
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Safe and effective!! Rosie this is for you.
Catastrophic COVID-19 Vaccine Casualties in 2021
New Data Estimate 278,000 Americans Had Life Ended by Immunization Campaign.
Several sources of data emerged in 2021 pointing to a biopharmaceutical public health disaster with the COVID-19 vaccine campaign. Pfizer recorded 1223 deaths occurring shortly after administration of their product within the first 90 days of use starting December 10, 2020. Pantazatos and Seligmann reported an excess in all-cause mortality from vaccine administration and US census data during 2021 between 146k and 187k, with a midpoint of 166k deaths. By the end of December, 2021, the CDC VAERS system had reported ~8K with an under-reporting factor of 30, the casualty estimate from that source was 240k. In a recent paper published in BMC Infectious Diseases, Dr. Mark Skidmore used a valid representative survey to learn from population reporting. A total of 22% knew of someone who was seriously injured by the vaccine and the estimate based upon deaths attributed to the vaccine by respondents was 278K deaths.
As an added powerful point, note that the recently published analysis of Pfizer documents used to get FDA emergency use authorization for the vaccine revealed that the fatality rate among clinical trial volunteers was an amazing 3.7%. This is an extremely high death rate for any medicine or vaccine. With hundreds of millions of vaccine shots used worldwide that means millions would die from the vaccine shots. Some soon after getting vaccinated and others over months and years because of damage by spike proteins, especially damage to immune systems. And that figure may be too low because Pfizer intentionally included a small fraction of men (just 22%) who are especially vulnerable to cardiac problems from the shots, including deaths.
When thinking in terms of risks and benefits, what this analysis shows is that for nearly all people the risks of the vaccine far outweighs its benefits.
Anthony Albanese leads nation’s charge to Australian Open centre court
By James Madden
Media Editor
and Sophie Elsworth
Media Writer
@sophieelsworth
7:54AM January 30, 2023
144 Comments
While crowd favourite Rafael Nadal made an early exit to Tullamarine and hometown hero Nick Kyrgios didn’t even hit a ball – or anything else – in anger at this year’s Australian Open, there was no shortage of big names in the corporate suites and courtside seats at Rod Laver Arena.
The nation’s top seed, Anthony “Tennis Albo” Albanese, enjoyed a front row view for Friday’s men’s semi-final between Serbian Novak Djokovic and American Tommy Paul, and in what may have been a first for an Australian prime minister at a major sporting event, he wasn’t even booed when he was introduced to the crowd. Clearly, the PM’s honeymoon period rolls on, although tennis crowds do have a reputation for being excessively polite.
Albanese, with partner Jodie Haydon by his side, was seen in deep conversation with various acquaintances during his three-hour courtside stay on Friday, most notably the US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, who arrived late but proudly clutched, waved and unfurled the Stars and Stripes as she urged her countryman Paul to rally against Djokovic. No luck there for the US ambo, but at least she didn’t get in any trouble for posing with a flag, which is more than could be said for the Djoker’s dad, Srdjan.
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For the fools who think handing in old bank notes is no problem – a government can simply say that after a certain date the old notes are no longer legal tender, so hand them in before that date.
And don’t forget, history has shown us that government can ‘demonetise’ cash in a number of ways (this would now apply to digital dollars as well).
This would include
– The country going broke/failing militarily (Saddam Dinar, US ‘Continental’)
– Inflationary printing (numerous examples, but I have a 2007 Zim dollar on my fridge, and a 2008 Ten Trilliion dollar next to it)
– Simply stating that certain denominations are no longer ‘legal tender’ , as India has done at times
– Ceasing to make the larger denominations whilst relentlessly destroying the value of the remaining denominations via inflationary printing
– Barring certain ‘undesirables’ from accessing their accounts – Canadian Truckers etc
– Dipping into your account and freezing your money or confiscating it.
Guns, gold and Bitcoin are the only sound moneys now.
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It’s Happening!
KD, are you still in the ancestral homeland or have you retreated to South Peking on the Timor Sea?
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Going down to the Latrobe Valley tomorrow (while Trump’s coronation occurs) to see my younger sister and 12 year old nephew for a day or two.
Am packing some extra pig’s heads into the tray of the ute, just in case I need to throw one through someone’s window.
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Gaborsays:
January 30, 2023 at 4:39 am
Tom, probably not practical, but is there a chance of giving a hint, a one line at least, what the ‘toon is about?
Gabor whilst I understand your frustration, I don’t think it is up to Tom or anyone else to interpret the cartoonist’s work for the public. Cartoons speak for themselves. The cartoonist would be insulted and it would also put a heavy burden on Tom to get the gist of the cartoonist’s message, and frequently cartoons can’t be put into words. Perhaps ask other cat’s to tell you what they think the toon is about. You might get several different answers though.
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You may have a fair bit of money in notes, say over $10,000 and you think that swapping for new notes over a period of weeks or months in smallish, variable amounts means that you will not get noticed.
Given modern surveillance technology, if the government wants to track you, it’s going to be extremely difficult (albeit not impossible) to avoid.
The best reason for using cash is to prevent the state from switching to an electronic currency (which would make mass surveillance even easier). If a critical mass of consumers insists on paying in cash, it’ll be that much more difficult to transition to a fully electronic payment system.
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Today on my Shakespeare insult date block:
Thou art violently carried away from grace: there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man – Henry IV, Part I
Can’t help but think of the Davos crowd.
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Three hours in Alice, three nights at the AO.
What’s next…a Hawaian holiday?
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Tom,
Won’t do the retreat until later next month. Still in Mongyang, catching up with various punters and so on. The Valley this week, potentially back to God’s Country the next.
Incidentally, while up in wheat country last week I made a trip into Horsham to drop off some of the old man’s stuff at Vinnie’s, at my dear old Mum’s request.
While there, and asking the nice old love working the counter where she wanted the stuff I noticed a shelf there with boxes and boxes of RAT tests for sale. I remember them being flogged off at Colesworths for $50 or more for a pack of three, although I never bought one.
They’re now at op shops. Two packs for $3. That’s where we’re at.
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Given modern surveillance technology, if the government wants to track you, it’s going to be extremely difficult (albeit not impossible) to avoid.
Unless you’re on their fixated persons watchlist.
In which case their resources are limited, apparently.
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Has anyone seen the musical Hamilton.? We went yesterday. We had decided not to after reading the reviews of the US production but we received tickets from Santa.
Let’s summarise by saying that we wanted to leave at the interval but couldn’t because of our companions.
Two hours and fifty minutes of rap was, shall we say, testing.
I’m probably wrong but I got the feeling that the (very accomplished) cast were contemptuous of the audience.
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BREAKING
Trudeau arrested by patriotic American border patrol militiamen group, “WWG1WGA” near Detroit crossing over from Windsor, Ontario to thwart a plot to stop Congress removing Biden and Harris and making Trump the U.S. President again.
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That’s why we decided on Sicily, Megan. What lies beneath.
It has taken the Prince almost 70 years to develop a sense of pride in being Sicilian. Looked down upon and exploited by mainland Italy since reunification it has taken many visits and exploration of Sicily for him to come out from under the widely held stereotype of the mafia’s steel grip on all aspects of society since the last war.
It has been an interesting journey to have witnessed. Invaded by virtually every other tribe in the vicinity it has endured through sheer grit and hard work.
When i stood amonst the ruins at Selinunte Goethe’s quote that ‘To have seen Italy without seeing Sicily is to not have seen Otaly at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.’ pretty much summed up my own feelings of love for this enchanted island.
What really explains why the country is in the state it’s in, with inflation, worker shortages, propaganda replacing education, race huckstering galore, and Oprah-style gooey sentiment getting poured over everything?
I can’t answer that in one post, but I can at least begin. Our reaction to COVID is a good place to start. COVID was a new and ominous disease, and a good deal of caution was justified when we were first dealing with it. But it soon became clear that it posed significant mortal danger only to old people and those with serious health problems to start with. There was some danger to people under 60 but not much, and next to no danger to children, teenagers, and people in their twenties.
Nonetheless, we were seized with fear. We shut down schools, where COVID’s danger was minimal, telling parents that education would proceed via Zoom (or, you know, whatever). That was false. An entire generation of kids lost major ground in their education, as Paul has documented elsewhere on Ringside.
We also shut down the economy, even though for the great majority of workers and consumers, that was an obvious overreaction. Because workers were at home, and not earning paychecks at their jobs, they got sent government checks ($1400, if I recall correctly — I never got one) for doing nothing. Then they got sent a second round, also for doing nothing. The may have been sent a third; I’ve lost track.
What happens when you pay people for doing nothing? Well, two things to start with. First, they get used to getting paid for doing nothing, so they’re in no big rush to get back to work, and haven’t. Hence worker shortages from coast to coast, and masses of those still employed are still, even now, allowed to “work” from home on, say, Mondays and Fridays. If you think a loss of productivity is a big surprise when millions of people are “working” from home for 40% of the workweek, I have this bridge……….
The second thing that happens when you print of millions of fat government checks that correspond to no goods or services getting produced is inflation. No surprise there either: The very definition of inflation is expanding the money supply without a corresponding expansion of real wealth.
In other words, while alarm and caution were plainly justified initial reactions to COVID, they ballooned into something resembling national cowardice, then stuck around longer and in a more stringent form than even arguably warranted, producing disastrous effects for the education of our kids and our national wealth. A principal reason they stuck around was dishonesty.
The dangers of COVID were relentlessly fearmongered and overhyped; any questioning of this orthodoxy was condemned and suppressed, including on social media; and there was never anything approaching an honest accounting of the enormous and probably years-long cost of the shutdowns, lockdowns and authoritarian stay-at-home orders.
But what I’ve said up to now is only by way of introducing a piece by Andrew Sullivan in The Weekly Dish. Sullivan is far to my left on policy questions, but wonderfully honest and straightforward in calling out the devastation Wokeism has wreaked and is wreaking.
Now check out the data on how the DC Public School system is faring. A key metric is what they call “proficiency rates” — a test of whether the kids are passing the essentials of reading and math at every stage of their education. Overall, only 31 percent of DC students have proficiency in reading and just 19 percent have proficiency in math. Drill down further in the racial demographics and the picture is even worse: among African-American kids, the numbers are 20 percent and 9 percent, respectively.
Among black boys, it’s 15 percent and 9 percent. Which means to say that DC Public Schools graduate kids who are overwhelmingly unable to do the most basic reading and math that any employer would need.
This is not a function of money. In the most recent federal analysis: DC spends far more per student — $30,000 a year — than any other state, double the amount in many states across the country.
Let’s put it this way: if this were a corporation, it would be in liquidation. If it were a house, it would be condemned. But since it’s a public school system, it can avoid this catastrophic failure by emphasizing “equity”!
Then there’s the other stat that blew my mind — on the post-BLM surge in murders of African-Americans, including many children. The rise in homicide has cooled off somewhat, as Robert Verbruggen notes. But check this out:
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Being an ambo in the Alice:
Triple-0 surge in Northern Territory after strict alcohol ban lifted
Northern Territory ambulances have attended to nearly double the number of assaults and sexual attacks since strict alcohol bans lapsed late last year, as Alice Springs residents braced for chaos amid a new sweep of grog restrictions this week.
New St John Ambulance NT data obtained by The Australian shows that after the lapse of Stronger Futures legislation, the number of call-outs attended by paramedics in the Northern Territory for reported assaults and sexual assaults increased by a massive 88.5 per cent – with 522 cases reported last June and 984 cases in December.
For the first six months of last year, 3520 calls were attended by paramedics territory-wide for assault or sexual assault, and 4802 for the second six months – marking a 36 per cent increase.
Paramedics in Alice Springs experienced a 40 per cent increase in attended calls, with the total call-outs last January recorded at 1281 cases compared to 1795 call-outs in December – the busiest month of the year.
It comes as households and licenced venues braced for a huge increase in break-ins as the town faces a two-day takeaway alcohol ban from Monday.
Locals fear the number of break-ins will “skyrocket” with people who haven’t pre-purchased alcohol invading homes and businesses to seek it.
“The problem drinkers of this town, the people from out bush, they are not going to buy alcohol today to last them three days, that’s just not how it works,” local business owner Darren Clark said.
“By Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon they’re going to realise, ‘Geez we’ve got no grog,’” he said. “That’s what people are fearful of in town.
“You’ve taken away the takeaway supply on Monday and Tuesday, so if there’s no supply of takeaway alcohol on those days, they’ll have to go and look for alcohol somewhere.”
“I just love it; it’s just awesome, hey,” Mr Cox says with a cheeky laugh just before his shift on Saturday night. A Wiradjuri man who moved to Alice Springs eight months ago, he says his background has helped him connect with many of the Indigenous population he works closely with.
He says when locals have seen the Aboriginal flag on his name tag, they’ve shown him “a bit more respect and understanding”.
“Trying to educate the Indigenous population is quite rewarding, but it is very challenging as well,” Mr Cox said.
Many jobs the paramedics in the region attend are mid to low acuity, with a large part of their job involving educating locals.
“When you put in the effort and try to educate them as well, you may see further down the line some benefit from that as they may not call for their sore toe in the future because you educate them on what to do and how to handle those things,” Mr Cox said.
His partner for the evening, Mr Bye, who has worked in Alice Springs for 18 months, says he’s noticed a heavy increase in the workload over the last 18 months.
“The moment you sign in on either shift, you’re just straight out the door,” he said. “There’s a great scope of practice in the NT; you get a variety of jobs you might not get elsewhere, a lot of times it is very much low acuity work.
“The environment we work in as far as the landscape, every sunrise is beautiful, every sunset is beautiful, it’s just the little things, the lifestyle is really good.”
Ambulance Services NT director Andrew Thomas said while working in a region such as Alice Springs had its challenges, it was a “really great experience for paramedics”.
“Some of the work that you do you would never get anywhere else in Australia,” he said.
When The Australian joined Mr Thomas for a ridealong last week, we gained first-hand experience of the uniqueness of the role of a paramedic in Alice Springs when a female patient called from a payphone with chest pains – a priority job attended to under lights and sirens.
Upon arrival, the patient was on the ground beneath the payphone, with her distressed dog comforting her, and when loaded on to the stretcher, the dog jumped on the stretcher too.
Mr Thomas loaded the dog into the rear seats of his vehicle, and drove to the town camp where the patient lived.
“Hopefully, the dog will be safe in the camp and reunited with the patient once she comes out of hospital,” he said. “Working in the NT has its unique challenges and opportunities and this is an example where you need to think out of the box to deliver the best care for the patient, and that care goes beyond just that physical treatment.”
Oz. Note the tone of the article though – it’s all wonderful out here, and more ambos should be Aboriginal etc.
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Anyway, my point is this – IF the Israelis did to the Russians in Iran what you claim, the Russians in such a scenario would almost certainly step in to make sure it didn’t happen again. And yes, in that situation the Israelis would indeed have to sit back and watch Russia install air defences in the parts of Iran where it wants to protect its interests.
The Israelis would not “have to sit back”. They have just shown that they are capable and willing to conduct special ops inside Iran. This is a pretty silly talking point you are running.
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From the Oz.
Date disaster exposes big pharma, big tech, mediaADAM CREIGHTON
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Pfizer executive Jordan Tristan Walker is approached by James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas.
12:00AM JANUARY 30, 2023 173 COMMENTS
The worst first date ever unfolded somewhere in Brooklyn, New York, last week. A Pfizer executive, seeking to impress his potential beau, casually boasted that his employer might be mutating dangerous viruses for profit. This was followed by a series of other bombshell claims that, a few hours later, tens of millions of people would be watching on social media.
“Don’t tell anyone, promise you won’t tell anyone,” Jordan Tristan Walker said to his date, who, unbeknown to Walker was an undercover reporter with Project Veritas and had videoed the entire conversation. “Well, that’s not what we say to the public, no,” Walker added, when asked if Pfizer was deliberately mutating viruses that caused Covid-19.
“One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it ourselves so we could create – pre-emptively develop new vaccines, right? If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine – no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f..king viruses,” he explains, noting Covid-19 would be a “cash cow for a while yet”.
When the first video appeared – it has so far attracted about 40 million impressions on Twitter – many, myself included, suspected it must be a fake. The claims were simply too shocking: “You have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn’t create something that just goes everywhere, which I suspect is the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest,” Walker said on the date, as if his comments weren’t controversial enough already. “It makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere. It’s bullshit.”
Yet around 24 hours later Veritas released a second video, perhaps even more jaw-dropping than the first. After the date concluded, James O’Keefe, the 38-year-old founder of Veritas, approached Walker with cameras in tow and asked him to explain his statements. Walker, a Yale-educated scientist, then had what appears to be a complete and understandable mental breakdown as he realised the awful implications for the rest of his life of what had just happened.
He said he was “just lying” to impress a date, before angrily trying to call the police and even playing the race card by claiming O’Keefe and his four similarly white colleagues were a threat. You have to see it to believe it.
Strikingly, Pfizer itself issued a response on Friday night, which neither confirmed nor denied Walker’s employment and conceded “in a limited number of cases” viruses “may be engineered”. Maybe Walker wasn’t lying.
Shocking claims: Walker talks during his ‘date’ with an undercover reporter with Project Veritas.
But none of this was enough for much of the US media, which almost universally ignored the story, with Fox News a notable exception, despite the huge public interest. Even if Walker’s claims were totally false, the fact tens of millions of people had seen them and Pfizer itself hadn’t denied his employment surely warranted at least a short article or two.
The silence was, for me, an unsettling insight into the power of pharmaceutical giants (among the biggest advertisers in the US), the groupthink in elite US media, and the Orwellian role of big tech in deciding what’s permissible.
As the first video went live on social media, Google, which has a near total monopoly on internet searches in the US as in Australia, appeared to start removing references to Walker’s career and background.
Indeed, YouTube, owned by Google, scrubbed the two Veritas videos altogether on Friday, vaguely citing “community standards” – presumably not a reference to how Walker’s date went.
One wonders if an employee similarly caught on a “date”, but instead bragging about cheating on carbon dioxide emission reports or racism, would have been similarly ignored.
Big tech and mainstream US news outlets loathe O’Keefe, whose reporters have previously caught CNN employees – in similar “date” situations – conceding their channel was “propaganda (that) got Trump out”, and their coverage of his relations with Russia “mostly bullshit”. A Facebook director was similarly charmed by one of Veritas’ team of attractive employees, revealing he worked for a company that “was doing a lot of damage in the world” and “should be broken up”.
Pfizer said in a statement ‘in a limited number of cases’ viruses ‘may be engineered’. Picture: AFP
But the loathing for O’Keefe is also philosophical: his style of undercover muckraking is contrary to how most journalism is conducted these days, where a variety of named and unnamed sources provide journalists with statements and information.
Indeed, in NSW, the Veritas videos would have been illegal, but the US is more lax; in New York, for instance, recordings are legal as long as at least one party has consented.
Deception has real costs. It’s hard not to feel sorry for Walker, who now faces potentially crippling infamy for the rest of his life, so much so he’ll probably have to change his name to avoid death threats. But as O’Keefe writes in his impressive 2021 book, American Muckraker – Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century, journalists have a moral obligation to society to deceive their subject if that’s the best or perhaps the only way to obtain facts that could have potentially profound consequences.
The two Veritas videos prompted powerful Republican senator Marco Rubio to write a public letter to Pfizer last week demanding answers, sentiments echoed by numerous other congressmen in their own public condemnations on social media. “As has been proven time and time again, attempts to mutate a virus, particularly one as potent as Covid, are dangerous,” Rubio wrote.
His colleague, Ron Johnson, said “it was time congress thoroughly investigated vaccine manufacturers and the entire Covid-19 vaccine approval process”, an eventuality that’s only a matter of time in coming months in the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
In the meantime, one imagines far fewer people in the pharmaceutical industry will be going on dates.
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Am packing some extra pig’s heads into the tray of the ute, just in case I need to throw one through someone’s window.
So, moccasins on everyone, then?
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The 000 workers and hospital staff must hit the piss very hard themselves in the Alice.
Guy I played hockey with and was a few grades above me told me about 000 parties before they were common knowledge. Blew my mind, the degenerate rascals.
Would you trade your family for money? Which one of your kids would you swap for certain wealth?
All parents know what they would answer. None. Never. No way.
Yet a new Pew study shows parents would prefer — by a lot — their children prioritize financial independence and a good career over family and children. Eighty-eight percent of parents said it’s “extremely or very important” for their children to be financially independent when they reach adulthood; 88% also said the same of their children having a job they enjoy.
Only 21% of parents said it was “extremely or very important” for their child to get married, and just 20% felt that strongly about their progeny reproducing.
This is a giant mistake.
For one thing, with the stability of family comes a higher income. Want a better shot at having a good career? Get married.
It makes sense. The dude swiping on Tinder every night just isn’t going to have the same focus on succeeding as the man who has a family to support.
It doesn’t apply just to men, either. An October 2021 Pew study reported that in the last 30 years, the coupled have come to outearn the singles. Coupled women make $8,000 more a year on average than single women.
“The gaps in economic outcomes between unpartnered and partnered adults have widened since 1990,” Pew noted. “Among men, the gaps are widening because unpartnered men are faring worse than they were in 1990. Among women, however, these gaps have gotten wider because partnered women are faring substantially better than in 1990.”
Married people also pool their resources. Want your kid to be financially secure? Move marriage to the top of his or her to-do list
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Daily Mail has a candid photo of Albo stuffing his gob with ice cream while watching the tennis. No leadership in Alice Springs, watching the tennis is far more important!
I feel that if the journalists got a better photo, it would all be OK.
For instance, a photo of Morrison queuing for a flight home after cancelling his Hawaii trip to spend more time watching the ABC talk about watching the volunteers fight bushfires.
Daily Mail has a candid photo of Albo stuffing his gob with ice cream while watching the tennis. No leadership in Alice Springs, watching the tennis is far more important!
For one thing, with the stability of family comes a higher income. Want a better shot at having a good career? Get married.
Your causation is probably backwards on the second point.
Married people also pool their resources. Want your kid to be financially secure? Move marriage to the top of his or her to-do list
Americans would rather die than let their kids live at home until they can save for a home deposit. Eastern cultures don’t countenance this fetishisation of pick up culture where living alone is viewed as a success in of itself.
“The gaps in economic outcomes between unpartnered and partnered adults have widened since 1990,” Pew noted. “Among men, the gaps are widening because unpartnered men are faring worse than they were in 1990. Among women, however, these gaps have gotten wider because partnered women are faring substantially better than in 1990.”
Dunno ‘bout this one.
1. Divorced men in America get cleaned out.
2. Women want to get married older and have similar jobs to men.
3. There are so many more job opportunities for skilled labour now than in 1990, particularly in North America and Australia.
Gas has the same problem as coal fired electricity.
It is just too cheap for the end consumer. Even with government taxes, royalties and a massive retail markup.
An executive with the drug firm previously said that the company was creating more potent strains of the virus in a laboratory
US drugmaker Pfizer admitted on Friday that it “engineered” treatment-resistant variants of Covid-19 in order to test its antiviral medicine.\
The admission partially backs up earlier claims by an executive with the company who told an undercover reporter that Pfizer was deliberately “mutating” the virus to “preemptively develop new vaccines.”
In a statement posted on its website, Pfizer said that it “has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research,” referring to the practice of amplifying a virus’ ability to infect humans and the process of selecting ‘desirable’ traits of a virus to reproduce, respectively.
However, the pharma giant said that it combined the spike proteins of new coronavirus variants with the original strain in order to test its vaccines, and that it created mutations of the virus to test Paxlovid, its antiviral drug.
“In a limited number of cases…such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells,” the company said, adding that this work was carried out in a secure laboratory. The work also sought to create “resistant strains of the virus,” it added, describing a process commonly understood as being ‘gain of function’ research.
Pfizer’s statement came two days after Jordon Trishton Walker, an executive involved in the firm’s mRNA division, told an undercover reporter that the company was “exploring” ways to “mutate [Covid] ourselves so we could create, preemptively develop, new vaccines.” Walker said that scientists were considering infecting monkeys with the virus, who would then “keep infecting each other.”
“From what I’ve heard, they [Pfizer scientists] are optimizing it, but they’re going slow because everyone is very cautious,” he explained. “Obviously they don’t want to accelerate it too much. I think they are also just trying to do it as an exploratory thing because you obviously don’t want to advertise that you are figuring out future mutation
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Kevin McCarthy as Speaker.
A Democrat controlled Senate.
How the hell is custard still holding onto these Q fantasies of Trump being President again without winning a general election?
Remarkable tenacity, to say the least.
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Megan:
Going through Moe rather than to it.
I figure I can just throw the pig bonces out the window as I go through, like Santa pegging lollies at kids from the back of a fire truck at Christmas parties.
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Carnarvon Shire President invites Prime Minister to get a first-hand look at local crime crisis
Shannon Hampton
The West Australian
Mon, 30 January 2023 2:00AM
Shannon Hampton
Anthony Albanese’s whirlwind visit to Alice Springs has prompted calls for the Prime Minister to visit regional WA towns such as Carnarvon, which is also in the grip of an alcohol-fuelled crime crisis that has left residents feeling like “prisoners in their own homes”.
Mr Albanese visited the central Northern Territory town last week amid surging crime rates, which led to the introduction of alcohol restrictions and an announcement that almost $50 million would be spent on a range of initiatives.
Carnarvon has recently made front-page headlines in this State for similar reasons, with anti-social behaviour and youth crime in the town breaking up families and leaving one resident so stressed he has lost all of his hair.
On Sunday, Carnarvon shire president Eddie Smith said a visit from the Prime Minister to see firsthand the issues his town was facing would be “of great benefit” to the town.
But he said he was a “realist”. “Do you really think the Prime Minister is going to come to Carnarvon in WA where he’s probably only got 3500 voters? I could spend a lot of time trying to make that happen, and beg and request, but would it succeed? I very much doubt it,” he said.
You expect Albo to give up scoffing ice cream at the tennis, and show some leadership?
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“The problem drinkers of this town, the people from out bush, they are not going to buy alcohol today to last them three days, that’s just not how it works,” local business owner Darren Clark said. “By Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon they’re going to realise, ‘Geez we’ve got no grog,’” he said. “That’s what people are fearful of in town.”
Were non-indigenous Alice Springs residents represented at the meeting which came up with this ridiculous decision? Are they not entitled to a voice in the matter?
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How the hell is custard still holding onto these Q fantasies of Trump being President again without winning a general election?
wasnt custard supposed to abandon Q if the prediction didnt happen by end of jan or something?
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000 pissups are a thing.
The Tennant Creek ambos used to gas up in world-class fashion, then turn up the next day for work. Being inventive types, they put themselves on a bit of the old O2 first, and if necessary a saline drip.
Apparently it worked a treat.
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According to the supplied link demand for elecreicity in NSW and QLD is 18GW, say 9GW each.
VIC – a miserable 5GW. So our second most populous state has a comparably low electricity demand.
Is this because there is not much industry left in VIC?
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They have just shown that they are capable and willing to conduct special ops inside Iran
So your position is that the Israelis would strike Russian forces if they began to install a half decent air defence system in Iran?
And you call me silly.
Look, m0nts. The last 12 hours have not been kind to your excitable claims of some huge strike inside Iran. You need to come to grips with this.
In the 1980s and early ’90s, a reforming Labor government revived Australian prosperity. The enduring principles of incentive, enterprise, entrepreneurship and reward are lost in the Treasurer’s model of ‘values-based capitalism’.
Jim Chalmers’ 6000-word manifesto for a new form of “values-based capitalism” vows to jettison the “neoliberalism” supposedly responsible for a wasted decade of conservative government that left Australia ill-equipped for the post-pandemic world.
But the Treasurer’s basic purpose is to discredit the modern relevance of the previous Hawke-Keating Labor reform era that liberalised Australia’s protected and over-regulated economy and built today’s national prosperity.
It harks back to an essentially old model of more government intervention and higher taxes, camouflaged in the contemporary language of social inclusion, skills, aged care, women’s equality, climate action, social impact investing and corporatist co-investment between government, union-influenced big super funds and business in areas such as social housing.
Dr Chalmers’ manifesto in the latest edition of The Monthly hardly mentions the incentives, enterprise, entrepreneurship and rewards needed to drive the productivity rebound to pay for Labor’s big-spending programs, to pay down the pandemic-induced public debt and to allow a high-wage economy to compete in the global marketplace.
With its early reregulation of the job market and the protection of the law-breaking CFMEU, it is Labor that is running an old-fashioned conservative agenda. In opposition, Dr Chalmers put in a lot of work to appear non-threatening to corporate Australia. Now, he will seek to co-opt business into Labor’s new form of social capitalism – or risk the consequences, as Australia’s great gas export industry has found, even as its taxes and royalties help return Dr Chalmers’ budget deficit to balance.
His manifesto starts with the idea that times change and that each crisis is different and so demands a different response. Thanks to a decade of Coalition government, he says, conservative prejudices and vested interests have left Australia with a “negative form of supply-side economics” unsuited to the post-pandemic world.
Yet, despite Anthony Albanese’s promise to govern in the style of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, the Treasurer’s historical narrative hardly mentions how the Hawke-Keating government – and then the Howard-Costello Coalition – reversed Australia’s post-war decline towards becoming the poor, white trash of Asia (as Singapore’s prime minister Lee Kuan Yew famously warned) and set up three decades of uninterrupted economic growth unmatched in the developed world.
Dodging recessions
During this neoliberal nightmare, Australia dodged recessions during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, America’s early 2000s tech-wreck recession and the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Australia’s national income per capita rose in real terms by 73 per cent in the three decades between the previous recession in the early 1990s and the peak of its China resources boom in 2011. It slowed as commodity export prices fell, but has still increased currently to be 90 per cent higher than in 1991.
Dr Chalmers rightly points to the policy drift and retreats of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Coalition governments amid the divisiveness of Australia’s climate wars. But the problem here was the Coalition’s drift and retreat from a pro-market and incentive-based agenda – it was hardly neoliberal – and not that the agenda itself was flawed, needing to be replaced by bigger government.
While the Treasurer damns the conservative rule for supposedly setting up a race to the bottom on wages and public investment, Australia maintains one of the highest minimum wages in the world and is struggling to find the workers and materials to keep up with the massive public infrastructure pipeline financed partly by the privatised asset sales of the NSW Coalition government.
Meanwhile, NBN Co, Kevin Rudd’s government monopoly, has just written down its regulatory value by $31 billion, a loss that presumably will disappear into the public debt that Dr Chalmers pins on the previous Coalition government.
Tellingly, two key examples of modern Labor’s values-based governing can be seen first in the $320 billion directed to the Gonski schools program under the Rudd-Gillard government, which the Productivity Commission savaged last week as having failed to arrest the decline in Australian student learning, including for the disadvantaged students it was supposed to help the most.
The underlying problem going into the pandemic was the step-down in productivity growth due to the lack of enduring economic reform.
Second, the Rudd-Gillard government’s demand-driven National Disability Insurance Scheme is running out of control, now eating up more of the taxpayers’ money than Medicare, despite early claims that it would pay for itself by getting disabled people back to work. It is projected to cost $90 billion a year, perhaps more, by 2032.
Gonski and the NDIS rank as two of the most poorly designed and expensive social policy programs in Australian history. Together, these Labor spending monuments have helped ratchet up government spending from 24 per cent of GDP when Dr Rudd first became prime minister to a new plateau of 27 per cent.
Dr Chalmers’ straw man critique of neoliberalism explicitly builds on Dr Rudd’s February 2009 attack on the 30-year epoch of “free market capitalism, extreme capitalism and economic greed” blamed for causing the 2008 global financial crisis. Seeking election in 2007, Dr Rudd was happy to portray himself as an “economic conservative”, a sort of Hawke-Keating renaissance figure.
The debate on what caused the GFC includes the haphazard regulation of America’s banking system, the hidden risks built into newfangled financial instruments and political pressures to encourage lending to minority groups with questionable capacity to repay.
Contrary to efficient markets theory, global capital markets did seize up during the crisis. But Australia did not join the global recession, thanks to the supply-side reforms of the Hawke-Keating and Howard-Costello governments that made it harder for the unions to blow up the resources boom of the 2000s as they did in the late 1970s; the budget surpluses bequeathed by the previous Coalition government; the independent Reserve Bank’s new-found low inflation credibility; the well-supervised and mostly prudent banks; and the globalisation stimulus that Chinese demand provided to our miners.
Limited relevance to the debate
Australia’s so-called neoliberalism, microeconomic reform or economic rationalism was basically orthodox and practical supply-side economics. To flavour the cartoonish case against neoliberalism, Dr Chalmers throws the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – thankfully not the World Trade Organisation – into the pot. But this is of limited relevance to the debate about Australia’s post-pandemic future. For instance, as treasurer, Peter Costello stood up to the Americans, including Democrat Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary, Larry Summers, over the IMF’s unnecessarily rough treatment of Indonesia during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
Yes, every crisis is different. In opposition, Dr Chalmers suggested the Morrison government would be judged on unemployment, not surprisingly expecting an enduring labour market shakeout from the COVID-19 shock. Then the supposedly neoliberal Coalition government embarked on Australia’s biggest-ever Keynesian package of fiscal support.
Rather than deficient demand, however, the economy’s sharp contraction in 2020 was caused by an enforced blockage of supply from local lockdowns and global supply chain disruption.
In opposition, Labor warned that ending the JobKeeper subsidies would push the economy off a cliff. Instead, the massive demand boost from the budget spending and the Reserve Bank’s unprecedented excess monetary easing hit the economy’s reduced supply limits and spilt over into Australia’s biggest inflation breakout for three decades, aggravated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Australia’s jobless rate fell to 3.4 per cent, the lowest since the early 1970s. Rather than Labor and the ACTU’s anti-neoliberal insecure work agenda, Australian workers have never had more job openings to choose from.
The GFC disrupted global politics, including through the rise of Donald Trump’s right-wing populism and the polarisation of culture wars around identity politics. The COVID-19 health crisis has encouraged governments to throw more money at social programs and, amid rising geopolitical risks, to revert to various forms of sovereign industry protectionism.
However, as a high-income commodity-exporting nation, Australia’s prosperity depends on how well it can compete in an open, global trading system. The underlying economic problem going into the pandemic was the step-down in productivity growth because of the lack of enduring productivity-enhancing economic reform since the Howard-Costello GST-based tax package of 2000.
The Hawke-Keating government provides a case study of how to boost productivity. Within its first year, it floated the Australian dollar. Mr Keating further defied Labor orthodoxy by letting in 16 foreign banks. The Treasurer brought in a capital gains tax, dividend imputation (to end the double-taxation of company profits) and lower marginal rates for personal and company tax to sharpen incentives. (Mr Keating favoured a top personal income tax rate no higher than 40 per cent.)
Labor dismantled the import tariff and quota wall that shielded Australian industry from foreign competition. It privatised government businesses, including Commonwealth Bank, Qantas and CSL. The national competition policy was extended to electricity, gas and water.
In macroeconomic policy, Mr Hawke and Mr Keating began with an income policy (the accord with the ACTU) that The Australian Financial Review supported in advance following the Fraser government’s failures to tame trade union power. The accord began by deliberately cutting real wages to restore corporate profits, bring down the joblessness of the early 1980s recession and fight inflation.
A decade later, Mr Keating sought to replace centralised wage-fixing with decentralised enterprise bargaining to drive productivity growth at the firm level: the agenda that the trade unions have sought to stall and reverse over the past 15 years. Particularly after the 1986 “banana republic” currency crisis, this was matched by fiscal discipline and sound public finances.
Budget repair demonised
Under finance minister Peter Walsh, Labor’s budget repair was repeated by the first Costello budget of 1996. But it successfully demonised the comparable budget repair attempted by Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in 2014, which Dr Chalmers now damns as neoliberal austerity.
That is, the Hawke-Keating government was held up internationally – such as by the OECD – as a model of economic reform. It combined macro-discipline with an incentives-based and pro-competition agenda of supply-side reform that included a broader tax base to finance lower tax rates.
Although it might have looked neoliberal to the Labor-left opponents of the time, such as Mr Albanese, this was still a reputably Labor government. It restored the Whitlam government’s Medicare. It innovated with the income-contingent Higher Education Contribution Scheme to help pay for demand-driven university education while not pricing out students from disadvantaged backgrounds. It rewarded the unions with effective part-ownership of compulsory superannuation that has grown into a $3.3 trillion pool of worker savings. It generated productivity-based economic growth that gave millions of Australians the opportunities for well-paying jobs.
With climate change, Australia today confronts an economic transformation as big as the 1980s and ’90s liberalisation. Yet, while it contains clean-economy opportunities, decarbonising a fossil fuel-based economy inevitably will be costly, more so if re-regulation and higher taxes make the economy less flexible.
Labor has clarified Australia’s emissions goals and is in the process of adopting more price signals. But it also has reverted to heavy-handed interventions – such as the gas price controls – that will increase the risk premium on the massive investment required to deliver a lower carbon economy. And, for political reasons, it is accommodating the hardening constraints on the supply of gas, an essential fuel to keep the lights on during the transition.
Dr Chalmers’ nation-building and social purpose co-investment model between government, big super funds and business risks the individual retirement savings of ordinary Australians who will have no say in the matter. Skilling the workforce is important, but it should begin with reversing the alarming decline in Australian student learning. That surely should be a headline issue in Dr Chalmers’ “well-being budget”.
As it gets older, Australia will need to put more resources into aged care. But this must include more self-provision as part of a wider agenda of tax and welfare reform that would sharpen incentives and improve the focus on subsidies.
As the NDIS suggests, overall, the “equality” agenda is likely to be more about redistributing income and consumption opportunities rather than a production-boosting investment. Society may decide to do all this. But without the productivity and economic growth reforms that should be included in Dr Chalmers’ manifesto, particularly to the critical labour market and tax system, the money will have to come from somewhere else.
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A popular Israeli source.
Amir Tsarfati @beholdisrael
To summarize the events of the last 24 hours:
Major drones attack on important military facilities of the revolutionary guards of Iran in the cities of Isfahan, Azarshahr, Rasht, Karaj and Mahabad.
Iranian and Russian fingers are pointed at Israel.
a few hours ago a convoy of 24 cargo trucks was attacked from the air at the border crossing between Iraq and Syria in what appears to be an Israeli air strike. 6 refrigerated trucks were destroys as they transported Iranian-made missiles.
Al Jazeera rounding up US news sources all hinting very strongly that it was Israel.
Iran said on Sunday that it intercepted drones targeting the facility near the central city of Isfahan, adding there were no casualties.
Israel was behind the drone attack, The Wall Street Journal cited unnamed US officials and people familiar with the strike as saying. No response was immediately available from Israeli authorities.
One US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters news agency that it did appear Israel was involved. Other American officials declined to comment beyond saying the US played no role.
Meanwhile in Ukraine, which accuses Iran of supplying hundreds of drones to Russia to attack targets in Ukrainian cities, a senior aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy linked the incident directly to the war there.
“Explosive night in Iran,” Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted. “Did warn you.”
If you can’t read those tea leaves (or refuse to), there’s not much that can be done to educate you.
Roger
Were non-indigenous Alice Springs residents represented at the meeting which came up with this ridiculous decision? Are they not entitled to a voice in the matter?
The whole idea of the Voice is to suppress the voices of the non-indigenous (except for leftards, of course).
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Being inventive types, they put themselves on a bit of the old O2 first, and if necessary a saline drip.
I think oxygen and saline are what we call “the official version of events”.
Might be other stuff involved.
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Yet, despite Anthony Albanese’s promise to govern in the style of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating…
Albanese’s promise…evidently it was “non-core”.
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Yep, I generally find Tennis batshit boring and almost never watch it, not even the big matches.
Last night, however, I did tune in to see Novax stick it up em.
And wasn’t it delicious? Just wish the terrible “Dan” had have been there personally to see Novax triumph. Our household was with him every step of the tournament.
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Dr Chalmers’ straw man critique of neoliberalism explicitly builds on Dr Rudd’s February 2009 attack on the 30-year epoch of “free market capitalism, extreme capitalism and economic greed” blamed for causing the 2008 global financial crisis
Building on Dr Rudd’s intellectual framework? Ouch.
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When did KRuddy become Dr Rudd? This isn’t one of those Phatty Adams doctorates is it?
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I’m so old I can remember when the Left were automatically suspicious of Big Pharma.
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The whole idea of the Voice is to suppress the voices of the non-indigenous…
The Alice Springs meeting is indeed an example of the one of the greatest follies of the Voice – the notion that what indigenous people might decide for themselves will have no negative impact on non-indigeous people.
Whether that is a feature or a bug, it is an insidious development in a democracy.
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So your position is that the Israelis would strike Russian forces if they began to install a half decent air defence system in Iran?
“Russian forces” LOL, do you think the Russians would deploy a brigade in tight formation to ship a fleet of automated vehicles, just ready to be blown up like Asterix punching a phalanx of legionnaires. What queer notions you have, OCO.
Iran already has air defence systems including four S-300s. That is how they were able to shoot down two of three missiles aimed at Isfahan (allegedly). That cat is already out of the bag.
Not forgetting Dr Gillard, whose earlier intellectual efforts saw her terminated with extreme prejudice from Slugs & Grubs before being thrown a lifeline by the late Mother Russia. Who still doesn’t have a tennis arena named after her.
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When did KRuddy become Dr Rudd? This isn’t one of those Phatty Adams doctorates is it?
Alomst…
Submitted a thesis on Xi to Oxford.
Seems course work & oral exams are only for little people.
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Field Marshal mUntgomery changes battlefields. I didn’t hold out much hope for Middle East peace anyway.
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Submitted a thesis on Xi to Oxford.
These tongue baths as theses seem quite popular.
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OldOzzie says:
January 30, 2023 at 10:34 am
The AFR View
Chalmers’ new manifesto ignores all the lessons of Hawke and Keating
The AFR rarely does such a thorough political analysis.
Aside from establishing the fact that Chalmers is a political tool, the AFR piece sums up Australia’s new problem in its last sentence:
But without the productivity and economic growth reforms that should be included in Dr Chalmers’ manifesto, particularly to the critical labour market and tax system, the money will have to come from somewhere else.
The Australian hollow logs are:
• Regulated superannuation savings;
• The residential property market.
Try not to be at the upper quartile of either – because ‘equity’ is coming for you.
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“Amir Tsarfati @beholdisrael”
LOL, Tsarfati is an Israeli Evangelical Pentecostalist, he converted from Judaism to Christianity, known for his Bible prophecies and bible readings*.
Geez louise Monty, you go from Tsarfati to Al Jazeera (a media outlet not known for its pro-Israel or pro-Jewish reporting, always happy to paint Israel in a nasty light and known for very some nasty ant-Semitic libels). Perhaps you should use better and more reliable sources.
* oh and despite the fact that Tsarfati converted to Christianity, Israel (and Tsarfati’s family) don’t kill apostates, unlike its neighbours.
Monty now relies on bible prophesy!
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Seems course work & oral exams are only for little people.
Probably a good thing they didn’t test his proficiency in Mandarin.
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Re the Project Veritas video.
Can soneone tell me what Walker’s position at Pfizer was?
I can’t figure it out.
He claims he wasn’t in a sciency role, but there are claims he was?
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H B Bearsays:
January 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Field Marshal mUntgomery changes battlefields. I didn’t hold out much hope for Middle East peace anyway.
He has loyally followed most of the old anti-war left into neocon warmongering against a nuclear power. CND, eat your hearts out, you have been superceded.
But when will m0nty=fa enlist for the Great War Against Wussian Imperialism that he has called for on several occasions? Will we have to wait for his kids to be old enough to enlist?
The AFR rarely does such a thorough political analysis.
When even the AFR is worried things must be grim.
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In the commercial diving world, and Navy diving – apparently – the bottle of Oxygen carried on board is not only for the various injuries that require pure oxy.
Works as a great cure for a hangover.
Not that I’d recommend it. Of course.
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And wasn’t it delicious? Just wish the terrible “Dan” had have been there personally to see Novax triumph.
Wasnt he banned for a carrying a (CCP) flag or something? …. you know, to keep the rules consistent/
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‘Fickle’ sentiment not sufficient to alter Constitution for voice
The No Case Committee on the referendum for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices is called Recognise a Better Way. The No Case Committee will be the foundation committee around which the No case will be fought in the forthcoming referendum. Many other voices, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, will be in opposition to the government’s misplaced and unnecessary proposal.
The Albanese government’s proposed voice in the Constitution is the wrong way to recognise Aboriginal people, or help Aborigines in need. The voice is a second voice, a second bite at the cherry, for one group only.
The voice proposal smacks of the paternalism of an earlier time, without proof that it will help those in need. It is an insult to the fact that Aborigines are capable of being heard in the public arena. Aboriginal leaders are never out of the media.
What started with a trickle of Aboriginal voices, the election in 1971 of Neville Bonner from Queensland to the Senate on behalf of the Liberal Party, is now an avalanche with 11 members of the commonwealth parliament of Aboriginal heritage. Each of these members has a voice backed by voters in the proper democratic process. Any mechanism, other than the normal parliamentary processes available to all citizens, undermines parliament and the voters’ right to choose their representatives.
Referendums rarely succeed, and for good reason. The last successful referendum in Australia was in 1977, to ensure that Senate and House of Representatives elections were held at the same time; rules for Senate casual vacancies; to allow electors in the territories to vote in referendums, and; to set a retirement age for Federal Court judges. All housekeeping.
The voice proposal is not housekeeping; it seeks to upend the parliament, by adding a group with a constitutionally embedded second voice. Just as independent senators can hold out the prospect of their vote to a desperate government, so too will the voice hold up legislation in return for favours.
Independent senators can be removed by voters, and often are. The voice could not be removed. Imagine a future Labor-Greens opposition wishing to block Coalition legislation. It would run to the voice and have it hold up legislation on all sorts of pretexts – lack of consultation, insufficient resources – and, if spurned by the Coalition, run to the courts. Governments are under enough pressure to deliver for all Australians; the voice will cost Australians, forever.
In 1967, 90 per cent of the population and all states supported the proposal for the commonwealth to enact laws for Aborigines. Incidentally, at the same time, a proposition to increase the number of members of the House of Representatives failed, carrying only NSW and 40 per cent of the population of Australia. Proponents of the Yes case will be hoping for the same result as for Aborigines; we think the more likely result is that for increasing the number of members of the House of Representatives.
The voters believe there are enough voices; they want parliament to get on with its work, not be unduly held up by one group that may use the privilege to look after themselves at the expense of all citizens.
A more recent example is the failed 1999 referendum seeking to insert a preamble to the Constitution (and on the republic), which garnered only 40 per cent of the national vote and failed in all states. As some hopefuls commented at the time, “the preamble question … stands a good chance of being ratified if voters accept the sentiments expressed in the words, and believe it important to add these to the Constitution”. The sentiments were not enough and the importance of adding to the Constitution was unproved. So it will be with the voice. Sentiment is a dangerous commodity; it is fickle and should be nowhere near the Australian Constitution.
If we were to characterise the voice proposal, it is a great deal more than a housekeeping provision; it is a serious change to the way we govern. One group alone will get a second voice. The voice proposal is an attempt to change the rules to both recognise prior occupation of Aboriginal peoples, and get a “better” outcome for Aborigines. Voters will ask: “Better for whom?” While Australians want the best outcomes for Aboriginal people, where is the proof that changing the Constitution will help? As for recognition, there is a better way, although as the preamble referendum proved, it is no certainty.
Recognise a Better Way understands there is much to do in Aboriginal Australia. It has a three-point positive plan to recognise prior occupation and help those in need.
Recognise prior occupation of Aboriginal people in a preamble to the Constitution. Prior occupation is a sensible ask. Any more, such as descriptions of people’s culture, is not. We all have culture.
Establish an all-party parliamentary standing committee for native title holders. Legislation is unique to these citizens and there is no awkwardness about identifying who is entitled. These people need to find a way into the modern economy.
Support Aboriginal community-controlled organisations. There is a huge level of organisation in Aboriginal Australia. Politicians never stop consulting with those many voices.
Aboriginal Australians do not need more voices; a minority need a way into the wider society.
Written by Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Gary Johns on behalf of Recognise A Better Way, the No Case Committee for the voice referendum recogniseabetterway.org.au
Did they really imagine they were getting Hawke-Keating redux?
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I’m so old I can remember when the Left were automatically suspicious of Big Pharma.
Pepperidge Farms remembers!
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“But the loathing for O’Keefe is also philosophical: his style of undercover muckraking is contrary to how most journalism is conducted these days, where a variety of named and unnamed sources provide journalists with statements and information.”
What journalism “these days“?
The truth is that O’Keefe would not be doing what he’s doing if the MSM, in the US and here in Oz, did its job but no, almost all of the MSM are now activists and they shill for their big daddies….big government, big corporations, big tech and big pharma. If they bother to do any investigatory work, it’s only to attack the left’s favourite pinatas, be it Trump or the Catholic Church or conservative and right of centre politicians. So “journalism” is left to a muckracker like O’Keefe.
Oh and by the way, further to those few journalists and commentators who do think outside the box and are willing to question/critique Ukraine/Covid/transgender gunk and so on, Spiked Online uploaded this earlier today..
The Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 were an unprecedented assault on liberty – not only on our freedom to go about our daily lives, but also on our freedom of expression and our freedom to dissent. Just as we were ordered to ‘stay at home’ for months on end, we were also told to stop asking questions about the draconian restrictions.
Today, a report by Big Brother Watch has revealed the alarming lengths the UK government went to in order to hush up its critics. We now know that three government bodies, including a shady Ministry of Defence unit tasked with fighting ‘information warfare’, surveilled and monitored UK citizens, public figures and media outlets who criticised the lockdown – and spiked was caught up in that net.
This mini Ministry of Truth was composed of the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) in the Cabinet Office, the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the army’s 77th Brigade. The 77th Brigade exists to monitor and counter so-called disinformation being spread by adversarial foreign powers. But, as a whistleblower from the unit told Big Brother Watch, ‘the banner of disinformation was a guise under which the British military was being deployed to monitor and flag our own concerned citizens’. The other bodies worked together to monitor ‘harmful narratives online’ and to push back on them, by promoting government lines in the press and by flagging posts to social-media companies in order to have them removed.
The public figures targeted by these shadowy units included Conservative MP David Davis, Lockdown Sceptics founder Toby Young, talkRADIO’s Julia Hartley-Brewer and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens. All of whom had warned about the consequences of lockdown and had raised questions about the UK government’s alarmist modelling of the virus.
Documents obtained by Big Brother Watch, using subject-access requests, reveal that Peter Hitchens was flagged for, among other things, sharing a spiked article. A cross-Whitehall disinformation report from the RRU in June 2020 notes that, ‘The spiked article was shared on Twitter by Peter Hitchens, which led to renewed engagement on that specific platform’. The RRU also monitored the level of public agreement, noting that ‘some highly engaged comments’ agreed with the article, while others were critical.
It isn’t pretty, is it?
As C.L. writes on his blog, what values are we defending in Ukraine again? It surely can’t be for freedom and free speech. Can someone please tell me?
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Another incredible thing about the Project Veritas video:-
A gay guy, on a first date with another gay guy says, “This is really top secret, so you can’t tell anyone, OK.”
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Did they really imagine they were getting Hawke-Keating redux?
That coat is looking pretty tattered by now.
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The Australian hollow logs are: Regulated superannuation savings
Looking forward to Keating’s critique.
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Gonski and the NDIS rank as two of the most poorly designed and expensive social policy programs in Australian history. Together, these Labor spending monuments have helped ratchet up government spending from 24 per cent of GDP when Dr Rudd first became prime minister to a new plateau of 27 per cent.
No!
Look at TOTAL government spending.
Gillard: 38% of GDP
COVID fascist unity national cabinet: 44% of GDP.
The NDIS is such a joke if it just gave people money they’d get 65k each tax free, excluding any DSP or other benefits.
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The old chocolate honey pot. Worked for the Russians.
According to ‘The Telegraph,’ several British colleges have placed warnings on ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Hamlet’ and some Greek tragedies.
Well I suppose talking to a skull might be threatening to some people.
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OldOzzie says:
January 30, 2023 at 10:34 am
The AFR View
Chalmers’ new manifesto ignores all the lessons of Hawke and Keating
The AFR rarely does such a thorough political analysis.
Aside from establishing the fact that Chalmers is a political tool, the AFR piece sums up Australia’s new problem in its last sentence:
But without the productivity and economic growth reforms that should be included in Dr Chalmers’ manifesto, particularly to the critical labour market and tax system, the money will have to come from somewhere else.
The Australian hollow logs are:
• Regulated superannuation savings;
• The residential property market.
Try not to be at the upper quartile of either – because ‘equity’ is coming for you.
What the AFR article failed to point out is that Chalmers Manifesto is leftist revolution by stealth. There is no way that you could change our economic system from one primarily based on a market system of supply and demand, to one of a “value based” system without implementing significant government control over economic forces and political and individual freedoms. Just ask yourself, who determines “the values”? It won’t be you or I, it will be an inner sanctum of the leftist elite.
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Looking forward to Keating’s critique.
“Raiding” super to pay for surgical bills because public hospitals are stuffed – bad.
Using super to subsidise an economy based on basket weaving…what say ye, Paul?
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Bons tickets for Hamilton is a step down from a piece of coal. Someone doesn’t like you.
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The AFR View
I gave up on that organ after one too many Alberici-quality leftynomic prejudiced articles. And now years late, they write a defense against the crazed left on behalf of a no-longer-existent ‘sensible left’?
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Television from 2024 will consist of an infinite number of repeats of Rabbit-Proof Fence.
And nothing else.
The government is set to reveal a plan to bolster Australia’s entertainment sector which will include Australian content quotas for streaming platforms and a $286 million campaign over four years. The rules will apply from July 1, 2024.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has launched a new arts policy in a bid to bolster the Australian entertainment sector and expand Indigenous representation. “For tens of thousands of years this land has been alive with stories,” Mr Albanese said in a media conference on Monday.
Rather than bolster the Australian entertainment sector it’s going to kill it deader than Mungo Man. The streaming companies aren’t going to bother with the Australian content rules, they’ll just geoblock us. And Aussie voters will get VPNs and buy their movies direct from the US servers.
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“Dr” Chalmers as a purveyor of well being remedies should be a rich vein for cartoonists.
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Did they really imagine they were getting Hawke-Keating redux?
…the moment of truth is approaching to judge whether the Prime Minister and Treasurer are really Hawke-Keating economic reformers, or just conveniently invoking the rhetoric of Labor’s greatest prime minister and treasurer.
And the answer is: Pig’s Arse.
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Sancho
It is clear you have not actually bothered to look but it was third date and there is a huge amount of information verifying his Director position. I highly recommend Twitter as many have scraped internet before the clean up began.
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Keating has always been conflicted on basket weaving. Da bruvvas not so much after they’ve taken their clip.
Dot that 44% of GDP is in fact a lot more as some forms of government spending are included in GDP.
The government is set to reveal a plan to bolster Australia’s entertainment sector which will include Australian content quotas for streaming platforms…
Not sure how well this is going to fit with BritBox.
I guess they can dub Vera into Strine.
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For those interested Jo Nova has a good thread two days ago on Pfizer guy.
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“For tens of thousands of years this land has been alive with stories,” Mr Albanese said in a media conference on Monday.
Thank heavens for S.116 of the Constitution.
But for that he’d be requring us to acquire a totemic spirit before long.
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As C.L. writes on his blog, what values are we defending in Ukraine again? It surely can’t be for freedom and free speech. Can someone please tell me?
er…..um……10% for the big guy?
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For the fools who think handing in old bank notes is no problem – a government can simply say that after a certain date the old notes are no longer legal tender, so hand them in before that date.
No they won’t. That’s just paranoid bullshit as usual. They make take names down etc. but they will not stop conversion and in fact it could be unconstitutional through the fair compensation clause. But neither of us are lawyers so it would be good if the site constitutional lawyer chimes in. (Cronkite).
My mother had a bunch and 2 dollar notes socked away, which I found after she passed away, and the bank took them without a whisper.
Stick to toy planes, Hallward.
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AFR Conclusion –
“the money will have to come from somewhere else”.
Cue for –
1. More Taxes
2. More Debt
3. Sell more of the ‘Family Silver’ (if there is any left that is).
Does Chalmers have Finance/Economic qualifications/work experience in the real world? Does ‘Albo’ have any experience in the real world? Does ‘Blackout’ Bowen have any understanding of electrical engineering and how an Electricity Grid Power System should work?
Vale Australia
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Noice! .. ta getz one of those mornings when things just click into place .. swam in the local pool (just a walk) this morning cos “Hughie” visiting and a ride to Fairfield would have been extremely soggy, both wayz as well as in the pool ..
got into the mood and knocked over 2200 mts (44 laps) before cramping up ..
1st time over 1000mts this year .. not bad for 75 ……!
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This is where you will find lot of background. Taken from Jo Nova thread.
Experienced what can only be bit of white privileged yesterday. Pouring rain, needed to catch a taxi, realised the notes I had were baht instead of rufyiaa.
When to my local coffee shop, asked if I could buy a coffee and then charge me 120 extra and give me the cash (cash out). Can’t do that, will just lend you the cash. Thanks!!! Paid back in the arvo.
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As C.L. writes on his blog, what values are we defending in Ukraine again? It surely can’t be for freedom and free speech. Can someone please tell me?
How telling Putin to f right off as well as turning that so-called military superpower into a zero.
And yes, there are misgivings with Hiden.
Are Albanese, Chalmers really the new Hawke and Keating?
Funny way of spelling “Whitlam and Cairns”.
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The government is set to reveal a plan to bolster Australia’s entertainment sector which will include Australian content quotas for streaming platforms…
Quotas, you say…
Aussie Pickers
Ozzy Pawn Stars
Keeping up with Michael Clarke
Eastenders “Down Under”
Escape to the Bush Block
Michael Portillo’s Outback Railway Journeys
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A gay guy, on a first date with another gay guy says, “This is really top secret, so you can’t tell anyone, OK.”
When diversity hires go bad…
The bait must have been a real pro. Diversity guy asks multiple times if there’s a chance of the discussion being recorded. Three drinks later spills the beans.
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flyingduk says:
January 30, 2023 at 9:37 am
I was cheering him on too.
Yep, I generally find Tennis batshit boring and almost never watch it, not even the big matches.
Last night, however, I did tune in to see Novax stick it up em.
Same her first time in many years, at a friend’s place.
Not an expert on tennis but he seemed to be a class above, even given 10 years more experience.
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Bourne1879says:
January 30, 2023 at 11:50 am
Sancho
It is clear you have not actually bothered to look but it was third date ..
Third … first. Whatever.
First line of the Oz report …
“The worst first date ever unfolded somewhere in Brooklyn, New York, last week.”
I was looking on my phone which had some overlays which looked like they related to his credentials but were too small to read.
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what values are we defending in Ukraine again
We’re defending the right of Ukes to have as many swastika tatts as they like without fear of judgement.
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For what it’s worth, the Walker/Pfizer revelation looks fairly genuinish in a grotty, low rent way:
From the sting video, Walker (despite apparently owning a science and research job title) seems to have very little idea about science, or research – but he stupidly drops overheard tittle-tattle about gain of function research.
Research that Pfizer then obliquely confirmed.
Whether or not he ever was, I suspect that nobody rejoicing as Jordon Trishton Walker is currently employed by Pfizer.
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1st time over 1000mts this year .. not bad for 75 ……!
Well done shatterzzz!
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For what it’s worth, the Walker/Pfizer revelation looks fairly genuinish in a grotty, low rent way
Phrasing?
ABC. Jerusalem ‘tensions’. Apparently there has also been ‘violence’.
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STOP PRESS
? AUSTRALIAN REPUBLIC MOVEMENT’S SUPPORT FOR AN AUSTRALIAN HEAD OF STATE INCREASES AFTER PETER FITZSIMONS STEPS DOWN AS ARM CHAIR
In the aftermath of Australia Day and all that, the word from Matt Thistlethwaite – the Assistant Minister for the Republic in the Albanese Labor government – is that Australia Day might change from 26 January if Australia becomes a republic. The new date would reflect the day on which a majority of Australian voters in a majority of states voted “Yes” to Australia becoming a republic with an Australian head of state. For the record, Media Watch Dog supports Australia becoming a republic provided the change reflects Australia’s current system of representative government.
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On Thursday, the Sydney Morning Herald carried a report by its chief political correspondent David Crowe which commenced as follows:
Australians have increased their support for a republic at a time of intense publicity over Prince Harry and his falling out with the royal family, with some voters saying his revelations have influenced their shift towards breaking ties with the monarchy. Support for the republic increased from 36 to 39 per cent among eligible voters over the four months since the death of Queen Elizabeth, while the number of voters against the change fell from 37 to 31 per cent.
Sandy Biar, the national director of the Australian Republic Movement, had this to say:
We knew that once the reality of having King Charles set in, support would swing back towards a republic with a vengeance. The royals are too busy fighting among themselves to represent Australia or stand up for our interests.
What a load of absolute tosh. For starters, Australia does not look to the Royal Family to “stand up for our interests”. They preside over a constitutional monarchy, that’s all.
Moreover, an increase in support for a republic of a mere 3 per cent four months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II is of no consequence. After all, the secularist leftist Peter FitzSimons – until recently the chair of the ARM – was reported as saying on 31 October that support for a republic was growing by the day since the Queen’s death.
Not so. It’s possible that the meagre increase in support for the republic as measured in its Resolve Political Monitor poll reflects the ascent to the throne of King Charles. But it is more than likely that it has been caused by the exit of Comrade FitzSimons – aka The Red Bandannaed One – from his position as head of the Australian Republic Movement.
Fitz’s position has been taken by another fashionable and well-off left-of-centre comrade – to wit former Socceroo Craig Foster. Sure, your man Foster is unlikely to alienate as many Australians as the guy who wore a red rag on his head for a decade. But he is not the answer to a moderate republican’s prayer.
If the ARM wants to succeed, it needs to attract and maintain conservative votes. The ideal ARM chair is likely to be a conservative woman of no great wealth who lives in the suburbs or regional areas.
It would seem that the likes of Comrade FitzSimons, Biar and Foster – all of whom are Sydney-based blokes – do not understand the limits of their appeal to the voters whose support they need to attain before Australia becomes a republic.
Just as long as ex – Prime Ministers are barred from ever becoming President..
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A young southern gentleman moved to New York City to find fame and fortune. There he met and proposed to a Yankee girl. His very prim and proper elderly mother came to New York for the wedding festivities.
She was invited to a luncheon for the wedding party, and found herself seated next to a woman to whom she had not been introduced. She very politely turned to the woman and said “Let me introduce myself, I’m the mother of the groom. And where are you from?”
The Yankee lady stuck her nose in the air, and in a condescending tone replied “Well, I’m from an area where we know better than to end our sentences with a preposition”.
The elderly southern lady sat quietly for a moment and then replied “How silly of me, you are so right. Let me rephrase that question: So, where are you from, bitch?”
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We’re defending the right of Ukes to have as many swastika tatts as they like without fear of judgement.
The Russians have lots of swastika tatts too. It’s the vibe in that part of the world.
We should always remember that our Nazis are better than their Nazis though.
And don’t forget 10% for the Big Guy.
(As I recall both the Ukrainian and Russian chief rabbis have told their local Jewry that now is an excellent time to migrate to Israel. I think that’s an excellent idea.)
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Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
– David Lee Roth
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“You know the story… There was once a Baron…”
IIRC, the tale is actually Arabic in origin, the Baron is a King, man than is convicted of a capital crime, it is a horse that will be taught to sing, and the time period is a year. But otherwise, it ends the same “Who knows what might happen? The king may die, I may die, the horse may die. And who knows, the horse may learn to sing!”
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If the ARM wants to succeed, it needs to attract and maintain conservative votes. The ideal ARM chair is likely to be a conservative woman of no great wealth who lives in the suburbs or regional areas.
Pandering!
We need Ted Mack!
Just wish the terrible “Dan” had have been there personally to see Novax triumph.
I have no doubt it was incredibly irritating for the hunchbacked imbecile. One reason why it’s so sweet!
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Knocking together some book cases for extra storage in a spare room.
Made in Malaysia, not China, and the instructions couldn’t be clearer.
Thanks, Mr. Xi.
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“People in the masses are very different to the individual and that’s one of the curses of the mob.”
More movie quotes (life imitates art?) From Men in Black:
“People are smart, they’ll understand.”
“No! A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it!”
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“How telling Putin to f right off as well as turning that so-called military superpower into a zero.”
No, whilst I understand the hostility towards Putin, the last thing we need is “a zero Russia”.
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Top Ender:
Being an ambo in the Alice:
Far too often the ambulance service and the hospital are treated as just another joke by nursing staff in the smaller towns.
Patient – drunk – stands at front door at 0100 stating “I’m having a fit, Sistah.”
Patient just wants a bed and a feed for the night.
The girls encourage this behaviour by providing sandwiches and a bed.
Winston provides #14 gauge cannula, NBM & A&E bed along with neuro observations until 0500 when patient, fed up with being woken every 15 minutes, lights shone in eyes, goes home self discharged.
Locals work out fairly early “Old Grey Nurse doesn’t put up with shit” and ring up first to see who is on duty. Nurses also realise they’re being taken for a ride. Aboriginal Health carers start telling the locals the old grey nurse is on duty every night. The bullshit soon stops.*
Many many stories of this nature. Too often the locals see a mark and take it for what it’s worth.
* The major issue is that the medical humbugging doesn’t stop even if you’ve got an A&E full of critical patients “You provided an ambulance, sandwiches, an a comfy bed last payday and now you’re saying ‘no’ you racist effing white C.”
You need a bloody thick hide some days. 🙂
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That’s just paranoid bullshit as usual. They make take names down etc. but they will not stop conversion and in fact it could be unconstitutional through the fair compensation clause
BTW, us paranoid conspiracy theorists prefer the term ‘ forecasters’ .
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“Deception has real costs. It’s hard not to feel sorry for Walker, who now faces potentially crippling infamy for the rest of his life, so much so he’ll probably have to change his name to avoid death threats.”
True, but I also felt sorry for Amy Cooper, who was set up. She also received death threats, was sacked from her job and had to move.
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Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does buy a superior grade of misery.
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Last night, however, I did tune in to see Novax stick it up em….. Same her(e) first time in many years, at a friend’s place.
SHIT!!
You too? I am starting to feel like we have fallen prey to an elaborate marketing ploy by ‘Big Tennis’ ! #$%^*&^%$
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Zipster says:
January 30, 2023 at 10:30 am
How the hell is custard still holding onto these Q fantasies of Trump being President again without winning a general election?
wasnt custard supposed to abandon Q if the prediction didnt happen by end of jan or something?
It’s sad to see, he is still clinging to that prediction.
Good man lost to crackpot ideas.
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Roger:
Were non-indigenous Alice Springs residents represented at the meeting which came up with this ridiculous decision? Are they not entitled to a voice in the matter?
Obviously not.
Next question?
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Germans won the Hockey final last night in Bhubaneswar.
They’re staying at our hotel and we just beat them home before the fire works and beer hall singing commenced.
The hotel had a big celebration cake on a table in the foyer with ‘Congratulations Winners’ piped on the top.
My oldest daughter walked past as said “They didn’t get a cake like that in 1945.”
Classic!
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The major issue is that the medical humbugging doesn’t stop even if you’ve got an A&E full of critical patients
There’s a certain sector among the locals, who take their revolting brats to A&E with the most trivial of ailments, and play the race card loud and long, if they aren’t attended to promptly.
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Rogersays:
January 30, 2023 at 12:32 pm
Knocking together some book cases for extra storage in a spare room.
Made in Malaysia, not China, and the instructions couldn’t be clearer.
Using Google translate from Swedish to Bahasa to English may not be optimum.
They have tried to get around that by using diagrams only, which is OK to a point, except that the cartoon figures doing the assembly are smiling at every stage.
Not for reals.
The Australian hollow logs are:
• Regulated superannuation savings;
• The residential property market.
Try not to be at the upper quartile of either – because ‘equity’ is coming for you.
Damn straight, maate.
There will be some exceptions via Family Trusts etc as well as inventive tax returns and writedowns for those with the right connections…
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Dr F at 12:18.
There might … just maybe … a legitimate case for the type of research being talked about.
For example, research on anti-biotics to counter next generation super-bugs.
But it needs to be tightly controlled and regulated.
Of course, if Pfizer have spent $100m engineering viruses and vaccines, and the viruses cause illness but aren’t lethal, there is then a temptation …
It also spoke volumes to me that this was something you might brag about to impress someone.
You know, the irony of a gay man talking about deliberately mutating a virus for shits and giggles.
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Imagine a future Labor-Greens opposition wishing to block Coalition legislation. It would run to the voice and have it hold up legislation on all sorts of pretexts – lack of consultation, insufficient resources – and, if spurned by the Coalition, run to the courts.
And the contra.
Imagine the political backdraft for opposing legislation brought to parliament, wrapped in a possum skin cloak, with the blessing of the Voice.
Mr Speaker, those Opposite are pandering to racism, racism Mr Speaker, to oppose the amendments to the Retirement Savings Account Providers Supervisory Levy Imposition Act 1998 – amendments which have been approved by the ancient wisdoms of the Voice, Mr Speaker…
..
You just described much of what we ourselves have thought and been through lately.
https://imyourmoderator.substack.com/p/who-is-q-part-one-those-wacky-anons
I wonder who will read this?
Monty:
The Israeli target acquisition people are off their pace.
They usually hit baby formulae factories, hospitals, old folks homes and mosques.
Oh. And orphanages.
(The wife and I)
You’re lying as usual, Turtlehead. I think this blog would be much better off without you (and a couple of others), but that’s not my call.
In my opinion, you’re a total disgrace, and it irks me to associate with you on this blog. In fact, I find it disgusting. But that’s just me.
Let us also recall that you went to the old blog owner, sobbing that I was a jerk to you, and told me you were threatening him with legal action unless it stopped. He suggested (at my behest) that there should be no more conversations between us, and you of course broke that agreement by grovelling to me, as though I would think better of you? Really?
The exhibition of maturity continues.
Can you give me a quick precis?
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There’s this:
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The biggest threat to our way of life is from the American left. Most recent example, Gates filth polluting out shores.
This is ridiculous.
Banks and many other entities in Australia and many other countries including the UK have been required to report cash transactions over $10,000 since around 1990.
They’ve also been reporting suspicious transactions ie structuring under 10k which is a judgement decision by the teller in question.
People in the UK with uncomfortable amounts of paper notes in a particular denomination, in this case £20s, have had plenty of time to spend them in the lead up to the change.
Makka:
It’s the personal vs the nation.
You’d have jumped into a near frozen river to rescue a Russian child who fell in and was drowning, yes? Of course you would.
And you’d cheer on a thousand bomber raid to hit Hamburg where thousands of little girls perished?
Yes, we did.
People in the masses are very different to the individual and that’s one of the curses of the mob.
And the Armstong claim was suddenly your notes were worthless.
Don’t think they were in the crowd tonight
… the EU?
Of course, not with tanks but with legislation.
…wait what?
Oh Ok, tanks too
Just take it to a cash business & change it for new.
(You’d probably have to know the operator, or be a good customer)
Australia has scrapped & issued a new $50 three times.
Likewise the $100 note has been scrapped & reissued three times.
Each time there has been mild panic among the significant community of hoarders. (Independent miners & others who sell their product for significant cash)
Each time I’ve changed significant amount for people. No problem.
Sancho Panzer:
Sancho Panzersays:
January 29, 2023 at 8:13 pm
No. But for the Israelis, it isn’t the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes a policy of massive retaliation can deter where a single or two strikes won’t. Most leaders of Iran think they are safe from nuclear reprisal from Israel. They are also aware massive retaliation shortens their own life spans as well as their peoples.
They may be fanatics, but they aren’t stupid.
Click on the link Sancho , I dare you!
Well, he showed them
Phuck you SloMo and Hawke you turds.
Yep, NoVaxx scores payback at AO.
Absolutely bawling.
Well done Djoker!
He’s shown us the way: we never give up.
Presidential Executive orders 13818 and 13848 have yet to be seriously considered by this blog.
Sunset clauses and their renewal under the (so called Biden administration) don’t make sense.
They are an anathema to a legitimate DS, Democrat money laundering regime.
Yes, I thought the same thing, but I didn’t realise the $10k reporting limit had been around for so long.
So.
He’s a thief and a liar?
I am afraid to!
Am I off the pace?
It has been 739 days since the mythical Q failed to send Military Intelligence in black helicopters down onto the Capitol dais to slap the cuffs on Joe. And still Custard keeps the faith.
All will be revealed.
Remain patient.
I’m a bit hazy about the exact date Sancho, Austrac was born in 1989 and there was some sort of international consensus in 1990.
Doesn’t matter; it’s been at least a couple of decades.
I certainly always carry a little cash, when travelling more than a little.
Lots of places are still cash only.
Bar Beach Swimmer says:
January 29, 2023 at 10:46 pm
First open I watched for yonks, just to see if he still had it.
Some say he is arrogant, I didn’t see it, but if he is, he has lot to be arrogant about at least as far as playing tennis goes.
Great match.
I read it all. It defends QAnon from the charge of nuttiness by pointing out all the bad things that are happening, and claims that believing in the forces of evil being organised is not crazy.
Yes, it is. There’s a confluence of bad things as ppl go dotty and governments try to take even more power over us. But the idea that there’s a small cabal running it all is to say the least implausible.
Prudent.
No-one is going to jail for carrying $500 in cash (despite what Martin says).
Tsitsipas trying to say it’s a great privilege to play Djokovic. And he’s done great things for the sport.
Rewind 12 months
Dan Andrews will be sending his sincere congratulations to Djoker – he’s that sort of guy.
Alex Hawke can shove it up as far as it can go – “civil unrest” – what a tool.
Dan a no-show tonight?
Please Djoker, dedicate your win to Dan Andrews and Alex Hawke.
They can shove it up as far as it can go.
Sorry double up. India to Oz takes time.
Sancho Panzer:
That’s the part that should be ringing the bullshit bell, but it isn’t.
TFM:
https://www.ambergrisconnect.com/buyambergris.asp
Ouch.
This Old Tony on collets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbJkz1zHOI
And Nanny Neil Mitchell and all at 3AW who have been going hysterical over him for a month.
Sancho Panzer:
Don’t mistake the need to understand the weapon and the ways to protect ourselves from it for eagerness to use it.
Ignorance isn’t bliss. That’s a rookie mistake.
I have a very good idea of what happens if the “Big Red Button” is pushed. Medical & Nursing Corps makes sure we know. And I’ve sat through Educational/Professional film and lectures about Chemical, Nuclear and Biological that would have you vomiting in your lap.
Knowledge is one thing that can save your life.
Daily Mail has a candid photo of Albo stuffing his gob with ice cream while watching the tennis. No leadership in Alice Springs, watching the tennis is far more important!
Albo is “leading & taking responsibility”
I don’t
hold a hoseer.. give a stuff, mate.Anthony Albanese @AlboMP
Australia government official
Two years ago Scott Morrison told Australians he “doesn’t hold a hose”.
Australians deserve a Prime Minister who actually leads and takes responsibility.
8:38 AM · Dec 20, 2021
Wally:
Wally Dalísays:
January 29, 2023 at 10:13 pm
There’s some damn fine thinking in that there couple of paragraphs.
JC:
Fifteen years ago? I couldn’t be bothered looking for the original post, and you’re still telling that lie?
I bet you still hate that kid you bragged about bullying in school.
Talk about carrying a grudge over something that didn’t happen.
Strange world you inhabit when “Good manners” = “Grovelling.” …of course you can’t tell the difference.
ZK2A:
Seeing that the Aboriginal People are doubly overrepresented in Parliament, which ones will have to give up their seats to accommodate the Voice?
I bet they weren’t thinking of that when they decided to lunge at the feeding trough?
Most logical would be: Linda Burney.
Shanta-struth is still making up stories?
(without any citation)
* Yawn *
Firstly, my theory is very much contingent on your bonkers theory being correct, which I highly doubt. I still haven’t seen sufficient evidence of any great attack. At this point, it looks as though one facility was attacked by three small drones and very little damage was done. If that’s the best the Israelis can muster, it was a complete debacle and several senior people in Israeli intelligence need to be fired. It would be a national humiliation. I don’t think the Israelis were behind it, unless it was a feint of some kind. And even then it would be rather crude – they would pull off a more convincing distraction than that.
Anyway, my point is this – IF the Israelis did to the Russians in Iran what you claim, the Russians in such a scenario would almost certainly step in to make sure it didn’t happen again. And yes, in that situation the Israelis would indeed have to sit back and watch Russia install air defences in the parts of Iran where it wants to protect its interests. However, this is extraordinarily unlikely to occur as it is extraordinarily unlikely that the Israelis are responsible for what you claim them to be., for the reasons I have mentioned above.
The American civil war veteran who served in WWI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7bbd-ckiHc
this is the district where I am staying, I think the chickens are gone.
There are some clever people around.
I just saw Iran’s drones described as ‘Obama bombs’.
Scummo turned up to Jim’s funeral which left me feeling uncomfortable.
He was not one of the far too many speakers, but just his presence forced me to exercise a more than accustomed degree of self control.
I didn’t realise how visceral was my loathing.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Andy Davey.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
Re the discussion upthread about a cashless society, we have used hardly any cash in Britain, carding it most places, so Hairy gives me some cash and says you’d better spend it before we leave. Then we called into what was once Britain’s first Services on the M1, on our way down to Tunbridge Wells, a late and cold afternoon at 5 degrees with the surroundings equally distressed-looking and dismal. It wasn’t very busy. At the entry sat a young man, looking cold with a light sleeping bag on his legs beside his hat with had a few coins in it. Hairy passed me a pound coin and unusually for him who doesn’t reward begging said give it to him, which I did. I stopped to talk to the lad, who was about 25, and asked him how the collecting was going and what was it for. He said he’d got twenty-three pounds, but not from sitting there, mostly left from his savings. He added that he was hoping to make a further eighteen pounds in order to get a hostel place for a week. That clearly was not going to happen for him tonight. I thought about that for a second or two, thinking that we would decide to add a sea view to our room for an extra twenty pounds, or not, simply on the basis of only having it for an hour or two till dark, and I felt supremely over-privileged. I passed him a crisp twenty pound note and said I hope this helps. He was so surprised. Big tears welled up in his eyes as he said no-one’s ever done anything like that for me before and he asked if he could hug me. No need, I said. I clasped his hands instead for he was still seated and said good luck to you, just go and do what you have to do, and I raced inside after Hairy.
I don’t know if he was scamming for drug money or whatever, but I suspect not. He seemed a nice sort of young fellow, just for whatever reason down on his luck, and wanting to pay for a warm bed.
That night I felt so glad that when I thought about him that he wouldn’t have to be sleeping in the cold although doubtless thousands of others were. I am not saying this for any ‘my lady bountiful’ kudos, so those who think so can get lost. I am just saying it because it was sad and because I could make it less so. And because he said that most people passed him by saying they didn’t have any cash on them to help him. And I did. I had heaps. Perhaps I should have given him more .. my guilt trip kicking in.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
You just can’t escape some horrible history in Europe. Everywhere are reminders. Yet people picked themselves up and started to rebuild.
We have watched some fairly stark reminders of the awfulness of what happened in Europe around the time of my birth in Britain, because one TV channel was running continual Holocaust documentaries for Holocaust Memorial Week, finishing with Schindler’s List, which we have seen of course but which still packed its punch with another viewing. The message in that movie of doing what you can, albeit imperfect, against evil being done to others is still an important one.
Tom, probably not practical, but is there a chance of giving a hint, a one line at least, what the ‘toon is about?
I know I’m not speaking for the majority here, who are up-to date with all the world’s affairs but most of the cartoons are meaningless to me, the OZ ones are easy.
Sorry.
Sorry for interrupting your toons, Tom.
I should have waited a while. It’s only 5.45 in the evening here, dark, and I’d lost track of time.
It seems to me impossible to do justice even to la kalsa let alone Palermo in a month let alone a week, I haven’t even ventured to the port area yet, a few hundreds metres in the other direction.
a blogger on la kalsa in 2013
Gabor, I try to use British and American ‘toons that are not too regional or specific to a topic that would require you to live there to understand. I’ve taken note of your concerns.
Thanks Tom.
Rosie, thanks for the link to the blog post about La Kalsa. You’re in an interesting country.
Comprised of former and current MPs and prominent Indigenous figures, the No campaign will propose a preamble to the Constitution and a new parliamentary committee to focus on the rights of native title holders under existing legislation.
BullShit.
You donna like the Albanese Voice?
Here ya go, get the Anderson/Price/Mundine Voice up ya!
They can have a voice in the same way everyone else has to – by voting, lobbying, discussing.
The extreme Right are certainly getting hysterical over Peter Dutton not choosing the No position and allowing Albanese and NewsCorp to get down and dirty in the gutter.
A Preamble acknowledging Aborigines as the Rightful Owners, eh?
What’s next?
Bring out The Gimp?
They can have a voice in the same way everyone else has to – by voting, lobbying, discussing.
No.
Albanese can Legislate a Body and call it The Voice, he’s got the numbers and a Mandate.
What he can’t do is change the Constitution.
He needs to go to an Election and seek a Mandate for that.
Rep. McCaul: I haven’t seen anything like this ‘since WWII’
How pathetic can Tennis Australia get? .. out comes the “begging bowl’ AGAIN .. cos Ukrainian players ect, apparently, can’t go home!..
These are folk that travel the world all year earning $squillions and only see the homeland for holidays but TA feels the prize money isn’t enuf toget home on so needs everyone, except TA, to dig deep .. FFS! ..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-29/craig-tiley-urges-sports-support-war-affected-ukrainian-players/101904498
I’m guessin’ the main criteria for making the Oz “A List” is just to turn-up! .. LOL!
A bunch of “C” graders (& I’m being generous!) getz promoted beyond their ‘celebrity” appeal ..!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11689057/Australian-Open-celebrities-courtside-tennis-Anthony-Albanese-Bill-Gates-Rachel-Griffiths.html
How thick can special ed be? Luigi’s got a mandate. He can’t change the constitution. Luigi has to go to an election and seek a mandate. The constitution can only be changed by Referendum.
That’s the “A” List? Eeeek.
Have to laugh at the Mail’s captioning.
Gates – sixth richest man
Luigi – busy, greedy and careless
Tsitsipas – Greek hero, underdog
Hemmes – pub “baron”
Griffiths – raised in Melbourne
Wilkinson – veteran showbusiness
Dutton and Costello – and the price of seats. Damned elites!
Although it was updated at 2340 last night, there appears to be no mention of who won. Was it that “divisive” fellow?
Apparently these pics are computer generated, 100% not real women.
https://twitter.com/heartereum/status/1619053999008931840
Cassie
Of course, I can assure everyone that the elites in Davos didn’t eat any bugs.
Possibly some ate Moreton Bay Bugs?
Their cozzies shrank, sfw. That’s what happens when you set the machine at 60degrees.
Be kind to textiles.
One of my favourite hidden gems in Palermo is the Museo Palazzo Branciforte. It has odd opening hours from memory but it’s puppet museum is worth the trouble.
It was indeed, calli, and more strength to his nonvaxxed arm. He certainly stuck it up ’em.
PS. Craig Tiley is an A grade idiot. Bever saw a government $ he didn’t covet.
Bever???? Never!!!
Scummo turned up to Jim’s funeral which left me feeling uncomfortable.
“Jim” was one of his favourite “YES” men so why wouldn’t BRADBURY acknowledge him?
Gates – Epstein buddy, regular flyer on the Lolita Express
Luigi – inept, vulgar, far-left, Trot, spent more time at the tennis than he did in Alice. Gifted to the nation by the more inept Scumbag Morrison and the stupid effing Liberals
Tsitsipas – Half Russian/half Greek, what a combination, an Adonis, the image of my gorgeous nephew.
Hemmes – I could say something else but it would be extremely defamatory
Griffiths – Hypocrite, anti-Catholic bigot, mediocre actress.
Wilkinson – The Queen of amphibians, the Queen of Subjudice, should be charged
Dutton and Costello – one should have been PM, the other will probably never be PM
I first visited Palermo in 1973 and the scars of war were still very much apparent. The water in our host’s apartment was turned off every night and 7pm. Next door was still a rubbled, empty reminder of the bombardment and the wall of our building facing still carried the scars of bullets holes scored from top to bottom. The city was a depressing, filthy, rubbish strewn mess.
I did not appreciate it’s astonishing history and beautiful treasures in my callow youth. Many subsequent visits have cured me of that immature perspective. Never judge books/covers etc.
Calli.
The djivisive one did, in fact, win.
Sorry. Wilkins, not Wilkinson. Sporting a bottle of insta-tan on his face.
You are wise to say nothing about that baron guy. Although I used to buy his mum’s lovely frocks back in the day.
That’s why we decided on Sicily, Megan. What lies beneath.
CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Ray Epps Led Break-In of First Set of US Capitol Barriers – Now We Have Video He Was Also in Lead Pack During Break-In of Second Set of Barriers on Jan. 6
one TV channel was running continual Holocaust documentaries for Holocaust Memorial Week,
I watched a doco last night, HOW THE HOLOCAUST STARTED, British BBC production .. most of it was stuff that anyone who has read/watched HOLOCAUST atrocities would be familiar with but then towards the end came a real shocker ! .. one I’d never heard of before .. an SS major Lange was ordered by Himmler to devise ‘economic” methods for killing & disposal of large numbers of people .. between 1938 & 1941 he killed around 3 000 disabled, Jewish, gypsies and political prisoners using various techniques before settling on gas as the quickest and most “cost” effective .. one of the experiments detailed was truly horrific, frightening to believe anyone even thought it up ..!
A pit 3 mtres deep was dug the the bottom foot or so was filled with quicklime .. the “victims” were then thrown alive into the pit/quicklime and the trench half-filled with water .. the reaction of quicklime/water is boiling .. these people were boiled alive! .. the “experiment” was deemed a failure because it took several hours for all the victims to succumb …….!
SS Major Rudolph Lange was last seen alive in 1945, tho his body was never identified, he is believed to have commited suicide rather than be captured during the seige/battle for Posen …….
Doctor Who Tried to Save Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 Charged With 4 Misdemeanors for Time at the US Capitol
Heartache as ‘fit and healthy’ young man dies after sudden chest pains at home
and
Football Player Collapses Suddenly After Suffering from Cardiac Arrest During Beitostølen Cup in Norway
DiedSuddenly
@DiedSuddenly_
36 year old Lindsey Lanoux has #DiedSuddenly from sudden cardiac arrest. She bragged on Facebook about getting her last booster and and dismissed safety concerns: “F*ck the haters”
She even changed her cover photo to trust the “science”
How many more need to die?
Rand Paul
@RandPaul
As you read the #TwitterFiles, remember that from the beginning Fauci worked to malign fellow scientists to obscure his culpability in funding the Wuhan lab.
And i got an SMS, not 30 seconds later, saying ‘NOvax wins! – another victory for the freedom fighters!’
Methinks our wise masters have seriously underestimated the depth and durability of feeling of those they chose to make into second class citizens – They have certainly expanded the cadre of people who will never trust the government, or most of their fellow citizens, again.
The FDA is Sued in Federal Court Over Withholding Vaccine Safety Data
Ed Casesays:
January 30, 2023 at 6:28 am
Comprised of former and current MPs and prominent Indigenous figures, the No campaign will propose a preamble to the Constitution and a new parliamentary committee to focus on the rights of native title holders under existing legislation.
BullShit.
You donna like the Albanese Voice?
Here ya go, get the Anderson/Price/Mundine Voice up ya!
Richard Cranium continues his shilling for the Liars and the Voice.
He’d be better of trying to learn how to Google, so he could work out the difference between the two Kermit Roosevelts, son and grandson of Teddy.
Then he could research the two Quentins and Teddy Jnr, and maybe learn something.
They seem to have found a new way to kill people.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
2 Year Old Girl Dies Day After Covid And Flu Shot Toxic Combo
A Deadly Combo with 147 Already Dead and Over 6000 Injured
There are now over 6000 injuries reported to the Gov VAERS database, 147 deaths, from those who took both shots together.
Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
What is Pfizer Doing in it’s BSL3 Laboratory in Pearl River, NY?
A thread…
Louise 7-Nil-Again with another hatchet job on Catholics and the Liberal Party
shatterzzzsays:
January 30, 2023 at 7:17 am
How pathetic can Tennis Australia get? .. out comes the “begging bowl’ AGAIN .. cos Ukrainian players ect, apparently, can’t go home!..
They’re not keen on some training hitting grenades towards the Wussians on the Donbas front line?
Adam Creighton has a good article up at the Oz about MSM covering up the Pfizer Director story.
Comments also talking about media cover up. Jonova site even gets a mention.
I was cheering him on too.
Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
One year after being banned from Australia for refusing to take the worthless covid shot,
@DjokerNole wins the Aussie Open. This is what actual bravery, conviction, & validation looks like. Love it. Novak is the GOAT & he was 100% right on the covid shot.
Wanted – dignity.
Did Any Say
Magnum?
And in more ‘burned down suddenly’ news:
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/01/29/strange-things-are-happening
At this rate, the ‘sudden death’ of refineries and food factories is going to start vying with the sudden death of athletes in this years ‘coincidence’ stakes.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Here’s an ugly truth about our civilization:
Imagine if the shots—rather than giving people clots, strokes, myocarditis and “sudden death”—gave people alopecia.
How long would it take for the shots to be withdrawn from the market?
OldOzziesays:
January 30, 2023 at 8:51 am
Louise 7-Nil-Again with another hatchet job on Catholics and the Liberal Party
It’s amusing (in a cynical way) to contemplate that Labor used to be the Party of the rural and urban working class, and had a strong Catholic base.
Now, Labor bigwigs hobnob with the Big End of town, and the party harbours anti-Christian bigots (well, maybe not anti-Uniting Church).
Tennis Elbow…
Albanese’s been at the Australian Open 3 nights running.
Keeps him out of mischief, I suppose.
Shaterzzz, we watched that same BBC video and were also sickened by that tale of ‘experimental’ brutality. As was the interviewer, a relatively young man. I noticed he went white and looked as if he was about to throw up when he heard this.
So much brutality done by evil people to others during that truly horrific period.
It’s gotta be the Simulation. “Novax”wins the Australian Open.
H/T Twitter
Hemmes is very good at giving Sydney what it wants. No, not like the Mardi Gras after party. Hospitality is a tough game. Arguably no one does it at scale better.
For the fools who think handing in old bank notes is no problem – a government can simply say that after a certain date the old notes are no longer legal tender, so hand them in before that date.
As usual rosie missed my point. You may have a fair bit of money in notes, say over $10,000 and you think that swapping for new notes over a period of weeks or months in smallish, variable amounts means that you will not get noticed. Ha! With modern tracking, recording and face recognition you can bet that when governments now do a note swap they will record EVERY time somebody does a swap and then it is simply a small matter to put your personal record together.
Side note: I actually designed and manufactured some prototype gear for the Reserve Bank note printing branch when they were doing the original plastic $5 notes.
OldOzziesays:
January 30, 2023 at 8:51 am
Louise 7-Nil-Again with another hatchet job on Catholics and the Liberal Party
Hatchet job?
How can you say that when she’s uncovered an actual cilice?
We’ve all read Dan Brown; it’s crystal clear that Perrottet and the Liberal government are covering up secret chapels for rituals with chosen virgins and murderous albino Angus Day monks. And scourging.
Perrottet himself admits to coming from a family of 12 children.
Hmmm?
The ALPPBC does their usual Monday Four Corners promo as News. Seven Nilligan does some vox to make sure Perrottet is linked with Opus Dei. Oooo spooky.
Perrottet does a Gillard by folding like a cheap tent and announces an inquiry and goes back to his deckchair on the Titanic.
Small reward for 30 years in the Liar party room. I would rather try and scrounge whatever tickets aren’t given to the corporates.
PHON reportedly polling well in western Sydney.
Yep, I generally find Tennis batshit boring and almost never watch it, not even the big matches.
Last night, however, I did tune in to see Novax stick it up em.
30 January.
Tomorrow Trump will be resurrected!
Gitmo full! Indictments unsealed! Mass arrests! ‘Army tanks’ in the streets!
It’s Happening!
Safe and effective!! Rosie this is for you.
Catastrophic COVID-19 Vaccine Casualties in 2021
New Data Estimate 278,000 Americans Had Life Ended by Immunization Campaign.
Several sources of data emerged in 2021 pointing to a biopharmaceutical public health disaster with the COVID-19 vaccine campaign. Pfizer recorded 1223 deaths occurring shortly after administration of their product within the first 90 days of use starting December 10, 2020. Pantazatos and Seligmann reported an excess in all-cause mortality from vaccine administration and US census data during 2021 between 146k and 187k, with a midpoint of 166k deaths. By the end of December, 2021, the CDC VAERS system had reported ~8K with an under-reporting factor of 30, the casualty estimate from that source was 240k. In a recent paper published in BMC Infectious Diseases, Dr. Mark Skidmore used a valid representative survey to learn from population reporting. A total of 22% knew of someone who was seriously injured by the vaccine and the estimate based upon deaths attributed to the vaccine by respondents was 278K deaths.
As an added powerful point, note that the recently published analysis of Pfizer documents used to get FDA emergency use authorization for the vaccine revealed that the fatality rate among clinical trial volunteers was an amazing 3.7%. This is an extremely high death rate for any medicine or vaccine. With hundreds of millions of vaccine shots used worldwide that means millions would die from the vaccine shots. Some soon after getting vaccinated and others over months and years because of damage by spike proteins, especially damage to immune systems. And that figure may be too low because Pfizer intentionally included a small fraction of men (just 22%) who are especially vulnerable to cardiac problems from the shots, including deaths.
When thinking in terms of risks and benefits, what this analysis shows is that for nearly all people the risks of the vaccine far outweighs its benefits.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/biggest-pandemic-shocker-deaths-from-covid-vaccines-greater-than-from-covid-infection-37e03d13
And don’t forget, history has shown us that government can ‘demonetise’ cash in a number of ways (this would now apply to digital dollars as well).
This would include
– The country going broke/failing militarily (Saddam Dinar, US ‘Continental’)
– Inflationary printing (numerous examples, but I have a 2007 Zim dollar on my fridge, and a 2008 Ten Trilliion dollar next to it)
– Simply stating that certain denominations are no longer ‘legal tender’ , as India has done at times
– Ceasing to make the larger denominations whilst relentlessly destroying the value of the remaining denominations via inflationary printing
– Barring certain ‘undesirables’ from accessing their accounts – Canadian Truckers etc
– Dipping into your account and freezing your money or confiscating it.
Guns, gold and Bitcoin are the only sound moneys now.
KD, are you still in the ancestral homeland or have you retreated to South Peking on the Timor Sea?
Going down to the Latrobe Valley tomorrow (while Trump’s coronation occurs) to see my younger sister and 12 year old nephew for a day or two.
Am packing some extra pig’s heads into the tray of the ute, just in case I need to throw one through someone’s window.
Gabor whilst I understand your frustration, I don’t think it is up to Tom or anyone else to interpret the cartoonist’s work for the public. Cartoons speak for themselves. The cartoonist would be insulted and it would also put a heavy burden on Tom to get the gist of the cartoonist’s message, and frequently cartoons can’t be put into words. Perhaps ask other cat’s to tell you what they think the toon is about. You might get several different answers though.
Given modern surveillance technology, if the government wants to track you, it’s going to be extremely difficult (albeit not impossible) to avoid.
The best reason for using cash is to prevent the state from switching to an electronic currency (which would make mass surveillance even easier). If a critical mass of consumers insists on paying in cash, it’ll be that much more difficult to transition to a fully electronic payment system.
Today on my Shakespeare insult date block:
Can’t help but think of the Davos crowd.
Three hours in Alice, three nights at the AO.
What’s next…a Hawaian holiday?
Tom,
Won’t do the retreat until later next month. Still in Mongyang, catching up with various punters and so on. The Valley this week, potentially back to God’s Country the next.
Incidentally, while up in wheat country last week I made a trip into Horsham to drop off some of the old man’s stuff at Vinnie’s, at my dear old Mum’s request.
While there, and asking the nice old love working the counter where she wanted the stuff I noticed a shelf there with boxes and boxes of RAT tests for sale. I remember them being flogged off at Colesworths for $50 or more for a pack of three, although I never bought one.
They’re now at op shops. Two packs for $3. That’s where we’re at.
Unless you’re on their fixated persons watchlist.
In which case their resources are limited, apparently.
Has anyone seen the musical Hamilton.? We went yesterday. We had decided not to after reading the reviews of the US production but we received tickets from Santa.
Let’s summarise by saying that we wanted to leave at the interval but couldn’t because of our companions.
Two hours and fifty minutes of rap was, shall we say, testing.
I’m probably wrong but I got the feeling that the (very accomplished) cast were contemptuous of the audience.
BREAKING
Trudeau arrested by patriotic American border patrol militiamen group, “WWG1WGA” near Detroit crossing over from Windsor, Ontario to thwart a plot to stop Congress removing Biden and Harris and making Trump the U.S. President again.
It has taken the Prince almost 70 years to develop a sense of pride in being Sicilian. Looked down upon and exploited by mainland Italy since reunification it has taken many visits and exploration of Sicily for him to come out from under the widely held stereotype of the mafia’s steel grip on all aspects of society since the last war.
It has been an interesting journey to have witnessed. Invaded by virtually every other tribe in the vicinity it has endured through sheer grit and hard work.
When i stood amonst the ruins at Selinunte Goethe’s quote that ‘To have seen Italy without seeing Sicily is to not have seen Otaly at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.’ pretty much summed up my own feelings of love for this enchanted island.
Ringside at the Reckoning
Five Things That Are Killing America
Cowardice, Dishonesty, Ignorance, Sloth and Mush
What really explains why the country is in the state it’s in, with inflation, worker shortages, propaganda replacing education, race huckstering galore, and Oprah-style gooey sentiment getting poured over everything?
I can’t answer that in one post, but I can at least begin. Our reaction to COVID is a good place to start. COVID was a new and ominous disease, and a good deal of caution was justified when we were first dealing with it. But it soon became clear that it posed significant mortal danger only to old people and those with serious health problems to start with. There was some danger to people under 60 but not much, and next to no danger to children, teenagers, and people in their twenties.
Nonetheless, we were seized with fear. We shut down schools, where COVID’s danger was minimal, telling parents that education would proceed via Zoom (or, you know, whatever). That was false. An entire generation of kids lost major ground in their education, as Paul has documented elsewhere on Ringside.
We also shut down the economy, even though for the great majority of workers and consumers, that was an obvious overreaction. Because workers were at home, and not earning paychecks at their jobs, they got sent government checks ($1400, if I recall correctly — I never got one) for doing nothing. Then they got sent a second round, also for doing nothing. The may have been sent a third; I’ve lost track.
What happens when you pay people for doing nothing? Well, two things to start with. First, they get used to getting paid for doing nothing, so they’re in no big rush to get back to work, and haven’t. Hence worker shortages from coast to coast, and masses of those still employed are still, even now, allowed to “work” from home on, say, Mondays and Fridays. If you think a loss of productivity is a big surprise when millions of people are “working” from home for 40% of the workweek, I have this bridge……….
The second thing that happens when you print of millions of fat government checks that correspond to no goods or services getting produced is inflation. No surprise there either: The very definition of inflation is expanding the money supply without a corresponding expansion of real wealth.
In other words, while alarm and caution were plainly justified initial reactions to COVID, they ballooned into something resembling national cowardice, then stuck around longer and in a more stringent form than even arguably warranted, producing disastrous effects for the education of our kids and our national wealth. A principal reason they stuck around was dishonesty.
The dangers of COVID were relentlessly fearmongered and overhyped; any questioning of this orthodoxy was condemned and suppressed, including on social media; and there was never anything approaching an honest accounting of the enormous and probably years-long cost of the shutdowns, lockdowns and authoritarian stay-at-home orders.
But what I’ve said up to now is only by way of introducing a piece by Andrew Sullivan in The Weekly Dish. Sullivan is far to my left on policy questions, but wonderfully honest and straightforward in calling out the devastation Wokeism has wreaked and is wreaking.
Now check out the data on how the DC Public School system is faring. A key metric is what they call “proficiency rates” — a test of whether the kids are passing the essentials of reading and math at every stage of their education. Overall, only 31 percent of DC students have proficiency in reading and just 19 percent have proficiency in math. Drill down further in the racial demographics and the picture is even worse: among African-American kids, the numbers are 20 percent and 9 percent, respectively.
Among black boys, it’s 15 percent and 9 percent. Which means to say that DC Public Schools graduate kids who are overwhelmingly unable to do the most basic reading and math that any employer would need.
This is not a function of money. In the most recent federal analysis: DC spends far more per student — $30,000 a year — than any other state, double the amount in many states across the country.
Let’s put it this way: if this were a corporation, it would be in liquidation. If it were a house, it would be condemned. But since it’s a public school system, it can avoid this catastrophic failure by emphasizing “equity”!
Then there’s the other stat that blew my mind — on the post-BLM surge in murders of African-Americans, including many children. The rise in homicide has cooled off somewhat, as Robert Verbruggen notes. But check this out:
Being an ambo in the Alice:
Triple-0 surge in Northern Territory after strict alcohol ban lifted
Northern Territory ambulances have attended to nearly double the number of assaults and sexual attacks since strict alcohol bans lapsed late last year, as Alice Springs residents braced for chaos amid a new sweep of grog restrictions this week.
New St John Ambulance NT data obtained by The Australian shows that after the lapse of Stronger Futures legislation, the number of call-outs attended by paramedics in the Northern Territory for reported assaults and sexual assaults increased by a massive 88.5 per cent – with 522 cases reported last June and 984 cases in December.
For the first six months of last year, 3520 calls were attended by paramedics territory-wide for assault or sexual assault, and 4802 for the second six months – marking a 36 per cent increase.
Paramedics in Alice Springs experienced a 40 per cent increase in attended calls, with the total call-outs last January recorded at 1281 cases compared to 1795 call-outs in December – the busiest month of the year.
It comes as households and licenced venues braced for a huge increase in break-ins as the town faces a two-day takeaway alcohol ban from Monday.
Locals fear the number of break-ins will “skyrocket” with people who haven’t pre-purchased alcohol invading homes and businesses to seek it.
“The problem drinkers of this town, the people from out bush, they are not going to buy alcohol today to last them three days, that’s just not how it works,” local business owner Darren Clark said.
“By Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon they’re going to realise, ‘Geez we’ve got no grog,’” he said. “That’s what people are fearful of in town.
“You’ve taken away the takeaway supply on Monday and Tuesday, so if there’s no supply of takeaway alcohol on those days, they’ll have to go and look for alcohol somewhere.”
“I just love it; it’s just awesome, hey,” Mr Cox says with a cheeky laugh just before his shift on Saturday night. A Wiradjuri man who moved to Alice Springs eight months ago, he says his background has helped him connect with many of the Indigenous population he works closely with.
He says when locals have seen the Aboriginal flag on his name tag, they’ve shown him “a bit more respect and understanding”.
“Trying to educate the Indigenous population is quite rewarding, but it is very challenging as well,” Mr Cox said.
Many jobs the paramedics in the region attend are mid to low acuity, with a large part of their job involving educating locals.
“When you put in the effort and try to educate them as well, you may see further down the line some benefit from that as they may not call for their sore toe in the future because you educate them on what to do and how to handle those things,” Mr Cox said.
His partner for the evening, Mr Bye, who has worked in Alice Springs for 18 months, says he’s noticed a heavy increase in the workload over the last 18 months.
“The moment you sign in on either shift, you’re just straight out the door,” he said. “There’s a great scope of practice in the NT; you get a variety of jobs you might not get elsewhere, a lot of times it is very much low acuity work.
“The environment we work in as far as the landscape, every sunrise is beautiful, every sunset is beautiful, it’s just the little things, the lifestyle is really good.”
Ambulance Services NT director Andrew Thomas said while working in a region such as Alice Springs had its challenges, it was a “really great experience for paramedics”.
“Some of the work that you do you would never get anywhere else in Australia,” he said.
When The Australian joined Mr Thomas for a ridealong last week, we gained first-hand experience of the uniqueness of the role of a paramedic in Alice Springs when a female patient called from a payphone with chest pains – a priority job attended to under lights and sirens.
Upon arrival, the patient was on the ground beneath the payphone, with her distressed dog comforting her, and when loaded on to the stretcher, the dog jumped on the stretcher too.
Mr Thomas loaded the dog into the rear seats of his vehicle, and drove to the town camp where the patient lived.
“Hopefully, the dog will be safe in the camp and reunited with the patient once she comes out of hospital,” he said. “Working in the NT has its unique challenges and opportunities and this is an example where you need to think out of the box to deliver the best care for the patient, and that care goes beyond just that physical treatment.”
Oz. Note the tone of the article though – it’s all wonderful out here, and more ambos should be Aboriginal etc.
The Israelis would not “have to sit back”. They have just shown that they are capable and willing to conduct special ops inside Iran. This is a pretty silly talking point you are running.
From the Oz.
So, moccasins on everyone, then?
The 000 workers and hospital staff must hit the piss very hard themselves in the Alice.
Guy I played hockey with and was a few grades above me told me about 000 parties before they were common knowledge. Blew my mind, the degenerate rascals.
Hamilton.?
Won’t the rock-rocks broke their bok-boks?
Skip to 3m30s for song, but the whole series illustrates what a cringe fest Hamilton is.
Good idea. I tried the butcher in Moe. Durrr.
Tell your kids marriage is more important than money or career — because it IS
Would you trade your family for money? Which one of your kids would you swap for certain wealth?
All parents know what they would answer. None. Never. No way.
Yet a new Pew study shows parents would prefer — by a lot — their children prioritize financial independence and a good career over family and children. Eighty-eight percent of parents said it’s “extremely or very important” for their children to be financially independent when they reach adulthood; 88% also said the same of their children having a job they enjoy.
Only 21% of parents said it was “extremely or very important” for their child to get married, and just 20% felt that strongly about their progeny reproducing.
This is a giant mistake.
For one thing, with the stability of family comes a higher income. Want a better shot at having a good career? Get married.
It makes sense. The dude swiping on Tinder every night just isn’t going to have the same focus on succeeding as the man who has a family to support.
It doesn’t apply just to men, either. An October 2021 Pew study reported that in the last 30 years, the coupled have come to outearn the singles. Coupled women make $8,000 more a year on average than single women.
“The gaps in economic outcomes between unpartnered and partnered adults have widened since 1990,” Pew noted. “Among men, the gaps are widening because unpartnered men are faring worse than they were in 1990. Among women, however, these gaps have gotten wider because partnered women are faring substantially better than in 1990.”
Married people also pool their resources. Want your kid to be financially secure? Move marriage to the top of his or her to-do list
I feel that if the journalists got a better photo, it would all be OK.
For instance, a photo of Morrison queuing for a flight home after cancelling his Hawaii trip to spend more time watching the ABC talk about watching the volunteers fight bushfires.
The Billionaires Behind The Gas Bans
Silver stakes needed there.
Chris says:
January 30, 2023 at 10:11 am
Daily Mail has a candid photo of Albo stuffing his gob with ice cream while watching the tennis. No leadership in Alice Springs, watching the tennis is far more important!
Magnum
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/01/29/09/67088365-11689057-image-a-24_1674984638345.jpg
Your causation is probably backwards on the second point.
Americans would rather die than let their kids live at home until they can save for a home deposit. Eastern cultures don’t countenance this fetishisation of pick up culture where living alone is viewed as a success in of itself.
Dunno ‘bout this one.
1. Divorced men in America get cleaned out.
2. Women want to get married older and have similar jobs to men.
3. There are so many more job opportunities for skilled labour now than in 1990, particularly in North America and Australia.
Gas has the same problem as coal fired electricity.
It is just too cheap for the end consumer. Even with government taxes, royalties and a massive retail markup.
Pfizer admits it ‘engineered’ new Covid mutations
An executive with the drug firm previously said that the company was creating more potent strains of the virus in a laboratory
US drugmaker Pfizer admitted on Friday that it “engineered” treatment-resistant variants of Covid-19 in order to test its antiviral medicine.\
The admission partially backs up earlier claims by an executive with the company who told an undercover reporter that Pfizer was deliberately “mutating” the virus to “preemptively develop new vaccines.”
In a statement posted on its website, Pfizer said that it “has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research,” referring to the practice of amplifying a virus’ ability to infect humans and the process of selecting ‘desirable’ traits of a virus to reproduce, respectively.
However, the pharma giant said that it combined the spike proteins of new coronavirus variants with the original strain in order to test its vaccines, and that it created mutations of the virus to test Paxlovid, its antiviral drug.
“In a limited number of cases…such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells,” the company said, adding that this work was carried out in a secure laboratory. The work also sought to create “resistant strains of the virus,” it added, describing a process commonly understood as being ‘gain of function’ research.
Pfizer’s statement came two days after Jordon Trishton Walker, an executive involved in the firm’s mRNA division, told an undercover reporter that the company was “exploring” ways to “mutate [Covid] ourselves so we could create, preemptively develop, new vaccines.” Walker said that scientists were considering infecting monkeys with the virus, who would then “keep infecting each other.”
“From what I’ve heard, they [Pfizer scientists] are optimizing it, but they’re going slow because everyone is very cautious,” he explained. “Obviously they don’t want to accelerate it too much. I think they are also just trying to do it as an exploratory thing because you obviously don’t want to advertise that you are figuring out future mutation
Kevin McCarthy as Speaker.
A Democrat controlled Senate.
How the hell is custard still holding onto these Q fantasies of Trump being President again without winning a general election?
Remarkable tenacity, to say the least.
Megan:
Going through Moe rather than to it.
I figure I can just throw the pig bonces out the window as I go through, like Santa pegging lollies at kids from the back of a fire truck at Christmas parties.
You expect Albo to give up scoffing ice cream at the tennis, and show some leadership?
Were non-indigenous Alice Springs residents represented at the meeting which came up with this ridiculous decision? Are they not entitled to a voice in the matter?
wasnt custard supposed to abandon Q if the prediction didnt happen by end of jan or something?
000 pissups are a thing.
The Tennant Creek ambos used to gas up in world-class fashion, then turn up the next day for work. Being inventive types, they put themselves on a bit of the old O2 first, and if necessary a saline drip.
Apparently it worked a treat.
According to the supplied link demand for elecreicity in NSW and QLD is 18GW, say 9GW each.
VIC – a miserable 5GW. So our second most populous state has a comparably low electricity demand.
Is this because there is not much industry left in VIC?
So your position is that the Israelis would strike Russian forces if they began to install a half decent air defence system in Iran?
And you call me silly.
Look, m0nts. The last 12 hours have not been kind to your excitable claims of some huge strike inside Iran. You need to come to grips with this.
The AFR View
Chalmers’ new manifesto ignores all the lessons of Hawke and Keating
In the 1980s and early ’90s, a reforming Labor government revived Australian prosperity. The enduring principles of incentive, enterprise, entrepreneurship and reward are lost in the Treasurer’s model of ‘values-based capitalism’.
Jim Chalmers’ 6000-word manifesto for a new form of “values-based capitalism” vows to jettison the “neoliberalism” supposedly responsible for a wasted decade of conservative government that left Australia ill-equipped for the post-pandemic world.
But the Treasurer’s basic purpose is to discredit the modern relevance of the previous Hawke-Keating Labor reform era that liberalised Australia’s protected and over-regulated economy and built today’s national prosperity.
It harks back to an essentially old model of more government intervention and higher taxes, camouflaged in the contemporary language of social inclusion, skills, aged care, women’s equality, climate action, social impact investing and corporatist co-investment between government, union-influenced big super funds and business in areas such as social housing.
Dr Chalmers’ manifesto in the latest edition of The Monthly hardly mentions the incentives, enterprise, entrepreneurship and rewards needed to drive the productivity rebound to pay for Labor’s big-spending programs, to pay down the pandemic-induced public debt and to allow a high-wage economy to compete in the global marketplace.
With its early reregulation of the job market and the protection of the law-breaking CFMEU, it is Labor that is running an old-fashioned conservative agenda. In opposition, Dr Chalmers put in a lot of work to appear non-threatening to corporate Australia. Now, he will seek to co-opt business into Labor’s new form of social capitalism – or risk the consequences, as Australia’s great gas export industry has found, even as its taxes and royalties help return Dr Chalmers’ budget deficit to balance.
His manifesto starts with the idea that times change and that each crisis is different and so demands a different response. Thanks to a decade of Coalition government, he says, conservative prejudices and vested interests have left Australia with a “negative form of supply-side economics” unsuited to the post-pandemic world.
Yet, despite Anthony Albanese’s promise to govern in the style of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, the Treasurer’s historical narrative hardly mentions how the Hawke-Keating government – and then the Howard-Costello Coalition – reversed Australia’s post-war decline towards becoming the poor, white trash of Asia (as Singapore’s prime minister Lee Kuan Yew famously warned) and set up three decades of uninterrupted economic growth unmatched in the developed world.
Dodging recessions
During this neoliberal nightmare, Australia dodged recessions during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, America’s early 2000s tech-wreck recession and the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Australia’s national income per capita rose in real terms by 73 per cent in the three decades between the previous recession in the early 1990s and the peak of its China resources boom in 2011. It slowed as commodity export prices fell, but has still increased currently to be 90 per cent higher than in 1991.
Dr Chalmers rightly points to the policy drift and retreats of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Coalition governments amid the divisiveness of Australia’s climate wars. But the problem here was the Coalition’s drift and retreat from a pro-market and incentive-based agenda – it was hardly neoliberal – and not that the agenda itself was flawed, needing to be replaced by bigger government.
While the Treasurer damns the conservative rule for supposedly setting up a race to the bottom on wages and public investment, Australia maintains one of the highest minimum wages in the world and is struggling to find the workers and materials to keep up with the massive public infrastructure pipeline financed partly by the privatised asset sales of the NSW Coalition government.
Meanwhile, NBN Co, Kevin Rudd’s government monopoly, has just written down its regulatory value by $31 billion, a loss that presumably will disappear into the public debt that Dr Chalmers pins on the previous Coalition government.
Tellingly, two key examples of modern Labor’s values-based governing can be seen first in the $320 billion directed to the Gonski schools program under the Rudd-Gillard government, which the Productivity Commission savaged last week as having failed to arrest the decline in Australian student learning, including for the disadvantaged students it was supposed to help the most.
The underlying problem going into the pandemic was the step-down in productivity growth due to the lack of enduring economic reform.
Second, the Rudd-Gillard government’s demand-driven National Disability Insurance Scheme is running out of control, now eating up more of the taxpayers’ money than Medicare, despite early claims that it would pay for itself by getting disabled people back to work. It is projected to cost $90 billion a year, perhaps more, by 2032.
Gonski and the NDIS rank as two of the most poorly designed and expensive social policy programs in Australian history. Together, these Labor spending monuments have helped ratchet up government spending from 24 per cent of GDP when Dr Rudd first became prime minister to a new plateau of 27 per cent.
Dr Chalmers’ straw man critique of neoliberalism explicitly builds on Dr Rudd’s February 2009 attack on the 30-year epoch of “free market capitalism, extreme capitalism and economic greed” blamed for causing the 2008 global financial crisis. Seeking election in 2007, Dr Rudd was happy to portray himself as an “economic conservative”, a sort of Hawke-Keating renaissance figure.
The debate on what caused the GFC includes the haphazard regulation of America’s banking system, the hidden risks built into newfangled financial instruments and political pressures to encourage lending to minority groups with questionable capacity to repay.
Contrary to efficient markets theory, global capital markets did seize up during the crisis. But Australia did not join the global recession, thanks to the supply-side reforms of the Hawke-Keating and Howard-Costello governments that made it harder for the unions to blow up the resources boom of the 2000s as they did in the late 1970s; the budget surpluses bequeathed by the previous Coalition government; the independent Reserve Bank’s new-found low inflation credibility; the well-supervised and mostly prudent banks; and the globalisation stimulus that Chinese demand provided to our miners.
Limited relevance to the debate
Australia’s so-called neoliberalism, microeconomic reform or economic rationalism was basically orthodox and practical supply-side economics. To flavour the cartoonish case against neoliberalism, Dr Chalmers throws the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – thankfully not the World Trade Organisation – into the pot. But this is of limited relevance to the debate about Australia’s post-pandemic future. For instance, as treasurer, Peter Costello stood up to the Americans, including Democrat Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary, Larry Summers, over the IMF’s unnecessarily rough treatment of Indonesia during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
Yes, every crisis is different. In opposition, Dr Chalmers suggested the Morrison government would be judged on unemployment, not surprisingly expecting an enduring labour market shakeout from the COVID-19 shock. Then the supposedly neoliberal Coalition government embarked on Australia’s biggest-ever Keynesian package of fiscal support.
Rather than deficient demand, however, the economy’s sharp contraction in 2020 was caused by an enforced blockage of supply from local lockdowns and global supply chain disruption.
In opposition, Labor warned that ending the JobKeeper subsidies would push the economy off a cliff. Instead, the massive demand boost from the budget spending and the Reserve Bank’s unprecedented excess monetary easing hit the economy’s reduced supply limits and spilt over into Australia’s biggest inflation breakout for three decades, aggravated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Australia’s jobless rate fell to 3.4 per cent, the lowest since the early 1970s. Rather than Labor and the ACTU’s anti-neoliberal insecure work agenda, Australian workers have never had more job openings to choose from.
The GFC disrupted global politics, including through the rise of Donald Trump’s right-wing populism and the polarisation of culture wars around identity politics. The COVID-19 health crisis has encouraged governments to throw more money at social programs and, amid rising geopolitical risks, to revert to various forms of sovereign industry protectionism.
However, as a high-income commodity-exporting nation, Australia’s prosperity depends on how well it can compete in an open, global trading system. The underlying economic problem going into the pandemic was the step-down in productivity growth because of the lack of enduring productivity-enhancing economic reform since the Howard-Costello GST-based tax package of 2000.
The Hawke-Keating government provides a case study of how to boost productivity. Within its first year, it floated the Australian dollar. Mr Keating further defied Labor orthodoxy by letting in 16 foreign banks. The Treasurer brought in a capital gains tax, dividend imputation (to end the double-taxation of company profits) and lower marginal rates for personal and company tax to sharpen incentives. (Mr Keating favoured a top personal income tax rate no higher than 40 per cent.)
Labor dismantled the import tariff and quota wall that shielded Australian industry from foreign competition. It privatised government businesses, including Commonwealth Bank, Qantas and CSL. The national competition policy was extended to electricity, gas and water.
In macroeconomic policy, Mr Hawke and Mr Keating began with an income policy (the accord with the ACTU) that The Australian Financial Review supported in advance following the Fraser government’s failures to tame trade union power. The accord began by deliberately cutting real wages to restore corporate profits, bring down the joblessness of the early 1980s recession and fight inflation.
A decade later, Mr Keating sought to replace centralised wage-fixing with decentralised enterprise bargaining to drive productivity growth at the firm level: the agenda that the trade unions have sought to stall and reverse over the past 15 years. Particularly after the 1986 “banana republic” currency crisis, this was matched by fiscal discipline and sound public finances.
Budget repair demonised
Under finance minister Peter Walsh, Labor’s budget repair was repeated by the first Costello budget of 1996. But it successfully demonised the comparable budget repair attempted by Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in 2014, which Dr Chalmers now damns as neoliberal austerity.
That is, the Hawke-Keating government was held up internationally – such as by the OECD – as a model of economic reform. It combined macro-discipline with an incentives-based and pro-competition agenda of supply-side reform that included a broader tax base to finance lower tax rates.
Although it might have looked neoliberal to the Labor-left opponents of the time, such as Mr Albanese, this was still a reputably Labor government. It restored the Whitlam government’s Medicare. It innovated with the income-contingent Higher Education Contribution Scheme to help pay for demand-driven university education while not pricing out students from disadvantaged backgrounds. It rewarded the unions with effective part-ownership of compulsory superannuation that has grown into a $3.3 trillion pool of worker savings. It generated productivity-based economic growth that gave millions of Australians the opportunities for well-paying jobs.
With climate change, Australia today confronts an economic transformation as big as the 1980s and ’90s liberalisation. Yet, while it contains clean-economy opportunities, decarbonising a fossil fuel-based economy inevitably will be costly, more so if re-regulation and higher taxes make the economy less flexible.
Labor has clarified Australia’s emissions goals and is in the process of adopting more price signals. But it also has reverted to heavy-handed interventions – such as the gas price controls – that will increase the risk premium on the massive investment required to deliver a lower carbon economy. And, for political reasons, it is accommodating the hardening constraints on the supply of gas, an essential fuel to keep the lights on during the transition.
Dr Chalmers’ nation-building and social purpose co-investment model between government, big super funds and business risks the individual retirement savings of ordinary Australians who will have no say in the matter. Skilling the workforce is important, but it should begin with reversing the alarming decline in Australian student learning. That surely should be a headline issue in Dr Chalmers’ “well-being budget”.
As it gets older, Australia will need to put more resources into aged care. But this must include more self-provision as part of a wider agenda of tax and welfare reform that would sharpen incentives and improve the focus on subsidies.
As the NDIS suggests, overall, the “equality” agenda is likely to be more about redistributing income and consumption opportunities rather than a production-boosting investment. Society may decide to do all this. But without the productivity and economic growth reforms that should be included in Dr Chalmers’ manifesto, particularly to the critical labour market and tax system, the money will have to come from somewhere else.
A popular Israeli source.
Al Jazeera rounding up US news sources all hinting very strongly that it was Israel.
If you can’t read those tea leaves (or refuse to), there’s not much that can be done to educate you.
Roger
Were non-indigenous Alice Springs residents represented at the meeting which came up with this ridiculous decision? Are they not entitled to a voice in the matter?
The whole idea of the Voice is to suppress the voices of the non-indigenous (except for leftards, of course).
I think oxygen and saline are what we call “the official version of events”.
Might be other stuff involved.
Albanese’s promise…evidently it was “non-core”.
Yep, I generally find Tennis batshit boring and almost never watch it, not even the big matches.
Last night, however, I did tune in to see Novax stick it up em.
And wasn’t it delicious? Just wish the terrible “Dan” had have been there personally to see Novax triumph. Our household was with him every step of the tournament.
Building on Dr Rudd’s intellectual framework? Ouch.
When did KRuddy become Dr Rudd? This isn’t one of those Phatty Adams doctorates is it?
I’m so old I can remember when the Left were automatically suspicious of Big Pharma.
The Alice Springs meeting is indeed an example of the one of the greatest follies of the Voice – the notion that what indigenous people might decide for themselves will have no negative impact on non-indigeous people.
Whether that is a feature or a bug, it is an insidious development in a democracy.
“Russian forces” LOL, do you think the Russians would deploy a brigade in tight formation to ship a fleet of automated vehicles, just ready to be blown up like Asterix punching a phalanx of legionnaires. What queer notions you have, OCO.
Iran already has air defence systems including four S-300s. That is how they were able to shoot down two of three missiles aimed at Isfahan (allegedly). That cat is already out of the bag.
Not forgetting Dr Gillard, whose earlier intellectual efforts saw her terminated with extreme prejudice from Slugs & Grubs before being thrown a lifeline by the late Mother Russia. Who still doesn’t have a tennis arena named after her.
Alomst…
Submitted a thesis on Xi to Oxford.
Seems course work & oral exams are only for little people.
Field Marshal mUntgomery changes battlefields. I didn’t hold out much hope for Middle East peace anyway.
These tongue baths as theses seem quite popular.
The AFR rarely does such a thorough political analysis.
Aside from establishing the fact that Chalmers is a political tool, the AFR piece sums up Australia’s new problem in its last sentence:
The Australian hollow logs are:
• Regulated superannuation savings;
• The residential property market.
Try not to be at the upper quartile of either – because ‘equity’ is coming for you.
“Amir Tsarfati @beholdisrael”
LOL, Tsarfati is an Israeli Evangelical Pentecostalist, he converted from Judaism to Christianity, known for his Bible prophecies and bible readings*.
Geez louise Monty, you go from Tsarfati to Al Jazeera (a media outlet not known for its pro-Israel or pro-Jewish reporting, always happy to paint Israel in a nasty light and known for very some nasty ant-Semitic libels). Perhaps you should use better and more reliable sources.
* oh and despite the fact that Tsarfati converted to Christianity, Israel (and Tsarfati’s family) don’t kill apostates, unlike its neighbours.
Monty now relies on bible prophesy!
Probably a good thing they didn’t test his proficiency in Mandarin.
Re the Project Veritas video.
Can soneone tell me what Walker’s position at Pfizer was?
I can’t figure it out.
He claims he wasn’t in a sciency role, but there are claims he was?
H B Bearsays:
January 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Field Marshal mUntgomery changes battlefields. I didn’t hold out much hope for Middle East peace anyway.
He has loyally followed most of the old anti-war left into neocon warmongering against a nuclear power. CND, eat your hearts out, you have been superceded.
But when will m0nty=fa enlist for the Great War Against Wussian Imperialism that he has called for on several occasions? Will we have to wait for his kids to be old enough to enlist?
When even the AFR is worried things must be grim.
In the commercial diving world, and Navy diving – apparently – the bottle of Oxygen carried on board is not only for the various injuries that require pure oxy.
Works as a great cure for a hangover.
Not that I’d recommend it. Of course.
Wasnt he banned for a carrying a (CCP) flag or something? …. you know, to keep the rules consistent/
‘Fickle’ sentiment not sufficient to alter Constitution for voice
The No Case Committee on the referendum for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices is called Recognise a Better Way. The No Case Committee will be the foundation committee around which the No case will be fought in the forthcoming referendum. Many other voices, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, will be in opposition to the government’s misplaced and unnecessary proposal.
The Albanese government’s proposed voice in the Constitution is the wrong way to recognise Aboriginal people, or help Aborigines in need. The voice is a second voice, a second bite at the cherry, for one group only.
The voice proposal smacks of the paternalism of an earlier time, without proof that it will help those in need. It is an insult to the fact that Aborigines are capable of being heard in the public arena. Aboriginal leaders are never out of the media.
What started with a trickle of Aboriginal voices, the election in 1971 of Neville Bonner from Queensland to the Senate on behalf of the Liberal Party, is now an avalanche with 11 members of the commonwealth parliament of Aboriginal heritage. Each of these members has a voice backed by voters in the proper democratic process. Any mechanism, other than the normal parliamentary processes available to all citizens, undermines parliament and the voters’ right to choose their representatives.
Referendums rarely succeed, and for good reason. The last successful referendum in Australia was in 1977, to ensure that Senate and House of Representatives elections were held at the same time; rules for Senate casual vacancies; to allow electors in the territories to vote in referendums, and; to set a retirement age for Federal Court judges. All housekeeping.
The voice proposal is not housekeeping; it seeks to upend the parliament, by adding a group with a constitutionally embedded second voice. Just as independent senators can hold out the prospect of their vote to a desperate government, so too will the voice hold up legislation in return for favours.
Independent senators can be removed by voters, and often are. The voice could not be removed. Imagine a future Labor-Greens opposition wishing to block Coalition legislation. It would run to the voice and have it hold up legislation on all sorts of pretexts – lack of consultation, insufficient resources – and, if spurned by the Coalition, run to the courts. Governments are under enough pressure to deliver for all Australians; the voice will cost Australians, forever.
In 1967, 90 per cent of the population and all states supported the proposal for the commonwealth to enact laws for Aborigines. Incidentally, at the same time, a proposition to increase the number of members of the House of Representatives failed, carrying only NSW and 40 per cent of the population of Australia. Proponents of the Yes case will be hoping for the same result as for Aborigines; we think the more likely result is that for increasing the number of members of the House of Representatives.
The voters believe there are enough voices; they want parliament to get on with its work, not be unduly held up by one group that may use the privilege to look after themselves at the expense of all citizens.
A more recent example is the failed 1999 referendum seeking to insert a preamble to the Constitution (and on the republic), which garnered only 40 per cent of the national vote and failed in all states. As some hopefuls commented at the time, “the preamble question … stands a good chance of being ratified if voters accept the sentiments expressed in the words, and believe it important to add these to the Constitution”. The sentiments were not enough and the importance of adding to the Constitution was unproved. So it will be with the voice. Sentiment is a dangerous commodity; it is fickle and should be nowhere near the Australian Constitution.
If we were to characterise the voice proposal, it is a great deal more than a housekeeping provision; it is a serious change to the way we govern. One group alone will get a second voice. The voice proposal is an attempt to change the rules to both recognise prior occupation of Aboriginal peoples, and get a “better” outcome for Aborigines. Voters will ask: “Better for whom?” While Australians want the best outcomes for Aboriginal people, where is the proof that changing the Constitution will help? As for recognition, there is a better way, although as the preamble referendum proved, it is no certainty.
Recognise a Better Way understands there is much to do in Aboriginal Australia. It has a three-point positive plan to recognise prior occupation and help those in need.
Recognise prior occupation of Aboriginal people in a preamble to the Constitution. Prior occupation is a sensible ask. Any more, such as descriptions of people’s culture, is not. We all have culture.
Establish an all-party parliamentary standing committee for native title holders. Legislation is unique to these citizens and there is no awkwardness about identifying who is entitled. These people need to find a way into the modern economy.
Support Aboriginal community-controlled organisations. There is a huge level of organisation in Aboriginal Australia. Politicians never stop consulting with those many voices.
Aboriginal Australians do not need more voices; a minority need a way into the wider society.
Written by Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Gary Johns on behalf of Recognise A Better Way, the No Case Committee for the voice referendum recogniseabetterway.org.au
Oz
Did they really imagine they were getting Hawke-Keating redux?
Pepperidge Farms remembers!
“But the loathing for O’Keefe is also philosophical: his style of undercover muckraking is contrary to how most journalism is conducted these days, where a variety of named and unnamed sources provide journalists with statements and information.”
What journalism “these days“?
The truth is that O’Keefe would not be doing what he’s doing if the MSM, in the US and here in Oz, did its job but no, almost all of the MSM are now activists and they shill for their big daddies….big government, big corporations, big tech and big pharma. If they bother to do any investigatory work, it’s only to attack the left’s favourite pinatas, be it Trump or the Catholic Church or conservative and right of centre politicians. So “journalism” is left to a muckracker like O’Keefe.
Oh and by the way, further to those few journalists and commentators who do think outside the box and are willing to question/critique Ukraine/Covid/transgender gunk and so on, Spiked Online uploaded this earlier today..
The Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 were an unprecedented assault on liberty – not only on our freedom to go about our daily lives, but also on our freedom of expression and our freedom to dissent. Just as we were ordered to ‘stay at home’ for months on end, we were also told to stop asking questions about the draconian restrictions.
Today, a report by Big Brother Watch has revealed the alarming lengths the UK government went to in order to hush up its critics. We now know that three government bodies, including a shady Ministry of Defence unit tasked with fighting ‘information warfare’, surveilled and monitored UK citizens, public figures and media outlets who criticised the lockdown – and spiked was caught up in that net.
This mini Ministry of Truth was composed of the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) in the Cabinet Office, the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the army’s 77th Brigade. The 77th Brigade exists to monitor and counter so-called disinformation being spread by adversarial foreign powers. But, as a whistleblower from the unit told Big Brother Watch, ‘the banner of disinformation was a guise under which the British military was being deployed to monitor and flag our own concerned citizens’. The other bodies worked together to monitor ‘harmful narratives online’ and to push back on them, by promoting government lines in the press and by flagging posts to social-media companies in order to have them removed.
The public figures targeted by these shadowy units included Conservative MP David Davis, Lockdown Sceptics founder Toby Young, talkRADIO’s Julia Hartley-Brewer and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens. All of whom had warned about the consequences of lockdown and had raised questions about the UK government’s alarmist modelling of the virus.
Documents obtained by Big Brother Watch, using subject-access requests, reveal that Peter Hitchens was flagged for, among other things, sharing a spiked article. A cross-Whitehall disinformation report from the RRU in June 2020 notes that, ‘The spiked article was shared on Twitter by Peter Hitchens, which led to renewed engagement on that specific platform’. The RRU also monitored the level of public agreement, noting that ‘some highly engaged comments’ agreed with the article, while others were critical.
It isn’t pretty, is it?
As C.L. writes on his blog, what values are we defending in Ukraine again? It surely can’t be for freedom and free speech. Can someone please tell me?
Another incredible thing about the Project Veritas video:-
A gay guy, on a first date with another gay guy says, “This is really top secret, so you can’t tell anyone, OK.”
That coat is looking pretty tattered by now.
Looking forward to Keating’s critique.
No!
Look at TOTAL government spending.
Gillard: 38% of GDP
COVID fascist unity national cabinet: 44% of GDP.
The NDIS is such a joke if it just gave people money they’d get 65k each tax free, excluding any DSP or other benefits.
The old chocolate honey pot. Worked for the Russians.
That’s triggering!
British universities putting ‘trigger warnings’ on Shakespeare, Greek tragedies for being too dark (26 Jan)
Well I suppose talking to a skull might be threatening to some people.
What the AFR article failed to point out is that Chalmers Manifesto is leftist revolution by stealth. There is no way that you could change our economic system from one primarily based on a market system of supply and demand, to one of a “value based” system without implementing significant government control over economic forces and political and individual freedoms. Just ask yourself, who determines “the values”? It won’t be you or I, it will be an inner sanctum of the leftist elite.
“Raiding” super to pay for surgical bills because public hospitals are stuffed – bad.
Using super to subsidise an economy based on basket weaving…what say ye, Paul?
Bons tickets for Hamilton is a step down from a piece of coal. Someone doesn’t like you.
I gave up on that organ after one too many Alberici-quality leftynomic prejudiced articles. And now years late, they write a defense against the crazed left on behalf of a no-longer-existent ‘sensible left’?
Television from 2024 will consist of an infinite number of repeats of Rabbit-Proof Fence.
And nothing else.
Govt to launch new National Cultural Policy for entertainment (Sky News, 30 Jan)
Albanese launches cultural arts policy for Aus entertainment (Sky News, 30 Jan)
Rather than bolster the Australian entertainment sector it’s going to kill it deader than Mungo Man. The streaming companies aren’t going to bother with the Australian content rules, they’ll just geoblock us. And Aussie voters will get VPNs and buy their movies direct from the US servers.
“Dr” Chalmers as a purveyor of well being remedies should be a rich vein for cartoonists.
Why, yes.
Yes they did.
‘Build back stronger’: Albanese promises to govern like Hawke
That was before the election, of course.
Then the doubts started to set in…
Are Albanese, Chalmers really the new Hawke and Keating?
And the answer is: Pig’s Arse.
Sancho
It is clear you have not actually bothered to look but it was third date and there is a huge amount of information verifying his Director position. I highly recommend Twitter as many have scraped internet before the clean up began.
Keating has always been conflicted on basket weaving. Da bruvvas not so much after they’ve taken their clip.
Dot that 44% of GDP is in fact a lot more as some forms of government spending are included in GDP.
Not sure how well this is going to fit with BritBox.
I guess they can dub Vera into Strine.
For those interested Jo Nova has a good thread two days ago on Pfizer guy.
Thank heavens for S.116 of the Constitution.
But for that he’d be requring us to acquire a totemic spirit before long.
er…..um……10% for the big guy?
No they won’t. That’s just paranoid bullshit as usual. They make take names down etc. but they will not stop conversion and in fact it could be unconstitutional through the fair compensation clause. But neither of us are lawyers so it would be good if the site constitutional lawyer chimes in. (Cronkite).
My mother had a bunch and 2 dollar notes socked away, which I found after she passed away, and the bank took them without a whisper.
Stick to toy planes, Hallward.
AFR Conclusion –
“the money will have to come from somewhere else”.
Cue for –
1. More Taxes
2. More Debt
3. Sell more of the ‘Family Silver’ (if there is any left that is).
Does Chalmers have Finance/Economic qualifications/work experience in the real world? Does ‘Albo’ have any experience in the real world? Does ‘Blackout’ Bowen have any understanding of electrical engineering and how an Electricity Grid Power System should work?
Vale Australia
Noice! .. ta getz one of those mornings when things just click into place .. swam in the local pool (just a walk) this morning cos “Hughie” visiting and a ride to Fairfield would have been extremely soggy, both wayz as well as in the pool ..
got into the mood and knocked over 2200 mts (44 laps) before cramping up ..
1st time over 1000mts this year .. not bad for 75 ……!
This is where you will find lot of background. Taken from Jo Nova thread.
Cardimona
January 28, 2023 at 12:40 pm · Reply
‘Private Intelligence and Security Consultant’ Brian O’Shea over on Substack – https://brianoshea.substack.com/p/who-is-jordon-trishton-walker – has done the deep dive on Walker.
Experienced what can only be bit of white privileged yesterday. Pouring rain, needed to catch a taxi, realised the notes I had were baht instead of rufyiaa.
When to my local coffee shop, asked if I could buy a coffee and then charge me 120 extra and give me the cash (cash out). Can’t do that, will just lend you the cash. Thanks!!! Paid back in the arvo.
How telling Putin to f right off as well as turning that so-called military superpower into a zero.
And yes, there are misgivings with Hiden.
Funny way of spelling “Whitlam and Cairns”.
Quotas, you say…
Aussie Pickers
Ozzy Pawn Stars
Keeping up with Michael Clarke
Eastenders “Down Under”
Escape to the Bush Block
Michael Portillo’s Outback Railway Journeys
A gay guy, on a first date with another gay guy says, “This is really top secret, so you can’t tell anyone, OK.”
When diversity hires go bad…
The bait must have been a real pro. Diversity guy asks multiple times if there’s a chance of the discussion being recorded. Three drinks later spills the beans.
flyingduk says:
January 30, 2023 at 9:37 am
Same her first time in many years, at a friend’s place.
Not an expert on tennis but he seemed to be a class above, even given 10 years more experience.
Third … first. Whatever.
First line of the Oz report …
I was looking on my phone which had some overlays which looked like they related to his credentials but were too small to read.
what values are we defending in Ukraine again
We’re defending the right of Ukes to have as many swastika tatts as they like without fear of judgement.
For what it’s worth, the Walker/Pfizer revelation looks fairly genuinish in a grotty, low rent way:
From the sting video, Walker (despite apparently owning a science and research job title) seems to have very little idea about science, or research – but he stupidly drops overheard tittle-tattle about gain of function research.
Research that Pfizer then obliquely confirmed.
Whether or not he ever was, I suspect that nobody rejoicing as Jordon Trishton Walker is currently employed by Pfizer.
Well done shatterzzz!
Phrasing?
ABC. Jerusalem ‘tensions’. Apparently there has also been ‘violence’.
Just as long as ex – Prime Ministers are barred from ever becoming President..
A young southern gentleman moved to New York City to find fame and fortune. There he met and proposed to a Yankee girl. His very prim and proper elderly mother came to New York for the wedding festivities.
She was invited to a luncheon for the wedding party, and found herself seated next to a woman to whom she had not been introduced. She very politely turned to the woman and said “Let me introduce myself, I’m the mother of the groom. And where are you from?”
The Yankee lady stuck her nose in the air, and in a condescending tone replied “Well, I’m from an area where we know better than to end our sentences with a preposition”.
The elderly southern lady sat quietly for a moment and then replied “How silly of me, you are so right. Let me rephrase that question: So, where are you from, bitch?”
The Russians have lots of swastika tatts too. It’s the vibe in that part of the world.
We should always remember that our Nazis are better than their Nazis though.
And don’t forget 10% for the Big Guy.
(As I recall both the Ukrainian and Russian chief rabbis have told their local Jewry that now is an excellent time to migrate to Israel. I think that’s an excellent idea.)
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
– David Lee Roth
“You know the story… There was once a Baron…”
IIRC, the tale is actually Arabic in origin, the Baron is a King, man than is convicted of a capital crime, it is a horse that will be taught to sing, and the time period is a year. But otherwise, it ends the same “Who knows what might happen? The king may die, I may die, the horse may die. And who knows, the horse may learn to sing!”
Pandering!
We need Ted Mack!
Just wish the terrible “Dan” had have been there personally to see Novax triumph.
I have no doubt it was incredibly irritating for the hunchbacked imbecile. One reason why it’s so sweet!
Knocking together some book cases for extra storage in a spare room.
Made in Malaysia, not China, and the instructions couldn’t be clearer.
Thanks, Mr. Xi.
“People in the masses are very different to the individual and that’s one of the curses of the mob.”
More movie quotes (life imitates art?) From Men in Black:
“People are smart, they’ll understand.”
“No! A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it!”
“How telling Putin to f right off as well as turning that so-called military superpower into a zero.”
No, whilst I understand the hostility towards Putin, the last thing we need is “a zero Russia”.
Top Ender:
Far too often the ambulance service and the hospital are treated as just another joke by nursing staff in the smaller towns.
Patient – drunk – stands at front door at 0100 stating “I’m having a fit, Sistah.”
Patient just wants a bed and a feed for the night.
The girls encourage this behaviour by providing sandwiches and a bed.
Winston provides #14 gauge cannula, NBM & A&E bed along with neuro observations until 0500 when patient, fed up with being woken every 15 minutes, lights shone in eyes, goes home self discharged.
Locals work out fairly early “Old Grey Nurse doesn’t put up with shit” and ring up first to see who is on duty. Nurses also realise they’re being taken for a ride. Aboriginal Health carers start telling the locals the old grey nurse is on duty every night. The bullshit soon stops.*
Many many stories of this nature. Too often the locals see a mark and take it for what it’s worth.
* The major issue is that the medical humbugging doesn’t stop even if you’ve got an A&E full of critical patients “You provided an ambulance, sandwiches, an a comfy bed last payday and now you’re saying ‘no’ you racist effing white C.”
You need a bloody thick hide some days. 🙂
Dear oh dear! Unconstitutional ? Fair Compensation??
BTW, us paranoid conspiracy theorists prefer the term ‘ forecasters’ .
“Deception has real costs. It’s hard not to feel sorry for Walker, who now faces potentially crippling infamy for the rest of his life, so much so he’ll probably have to change his name to avoid death threats.”
True, but I also felt sorry for Amy Cooper, who was set up. She also received death threats, was sacked from her job and had to move.
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does buy a superior grade of misery.
SHIT!!
You too? I am starting to feel like we have fallen prey to an elaborate marketing ploy by ‘Big Tennis’ ! #$%^*&^%$
Zipster says:
January 30, 2023 at 10:30 am
It’s sad to see, he is still clinging to that prediction.
Good man lost to crackpot ideas.
Roger:
Obviously not.
Next question?
Germans won the Hockey final last night in Bhubaneswar.
They’re staying at our hotel and we just beat them home before the fire works and beer hall singing commenced.
The hotel had a big celebration cake on a table in the foyer with ‘Congratulations Winners’ piped on the top.
My oldest daughter walked past as said “They didn’t get a cake like that in 1945.”
Classic!
There’s a certain sector among the locals, who take their revolting brats to A&E with the most trivial of ailments, and play the race card loud and long, if they aren’t attended to promptly.
Using Google translate from Swedish to Bahasa to English may not be optimum.
They have tried to get around that by using diagrams only, which is OK to a point, except that the cartoon figures doing the assembly are smiling at every stage.
Not for reals.
Why Lego Isn’t (Just) a Toy Company | WSJ 5 Mins 54 Secs
Doc Faustus:
Damn straight, maate.
There will be some exceptions via Family Trusts etc as well as inventive tax returns and writedowns for those with the right connections…
Dr F at 12:18.
There might … just maybe … a legitimate case for the type of research being talked about.
For example, research on anti-biotics to counter next generation super-bugs.
But it needs to be tightly controlled and regulated.
Of course, if Pfizer have spent $100m engineering viruses and vaccines, and the viruses cause illness but aren’t lethal, there is then a temptation …
It also spoke volumes to me that this was something you might brag about to impress someone.
You know, the irony of a gay man talking about deliberately mutating a virus for shits and giggles.
And the contra.
Imagine the political backdraft for opposing legislation brought to parliament, wrapped in a possum skin cloak, with the blessing of the Voice.
Mr Speaker, those Opposite are pandering to racism, racism Mr Speaker, to oppose the amendments to the Retirement Savings Account Providers Supervisory Levy Imposition Act 1998 – amendments which have been approved by the ancient wisdoms of the Voice, Mr Speaker…