The Surrender of Granada, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, 1882
Or as the Brits say: Slag tags.
Open Thread – Tue 31 Jan 2023
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Ben Garrison.
Gary Varvel.
Hilarious. Ta Matey. 🙂
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne #2.
This is unbelievable.
Can anyone verify if this book is genuine?
Dinesh D’Souza has tweeted:
Is America in terminal decline? What are the signs? Who is responsible?
Yes. The signs are everywhere. Too many bad actors in too many places.
Benedict’s former private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, also helped edit the volume. Four of the book’s 16 essays had never previously published.
another article published by the Fsspx
I’m not particularly surprised that there are ‘homosexual clubs in several seminaries’ but my general impression is that the majority of candidates for the priesthood these days are more ‘traditional’.
Catholic herald.
rickw says:
January 31, 2023 at 11:49 pm
Fascinating to see the advances in 3D printing.
Will only get better, stronger, longer lasting.
Over the past couple of days there has been some serious analysis of the Chalmers manifesto.
One of the key points that’s been missed is that it’s the opposite of Keating’s policy stance while treasurer.
Mandating the use of private capital to support “nation building” (ie economically unviable) projects is the opposite of the productivity based approach Keating advocated.
If Chalmers wants to piss a pot of capital up against the wall, he can tap the Future Fund first.
Not the private punters super funds.
I’m not particularly surprised that there are ‘homosexual clubs in several seminaries’ but my general impression is that the majority of candidates for the priesthood these days are more ‘traditional’.
Yeah, nah.
They can’t find Aussies to do the job anymore, so they’ve been importing Curry Munchers from India for the past 20 years.
Yesterday I discovered something new
There is no place in England called Richborough even tho it is on the map. It is the site of an early Roman fort. There is only one lonely road leading into it and nearby a couple of houses. The site is closed for big works re tourism and we could only see it aross a paddock, still a lot of it left. Surrounded by swamps, and once where the Roman fleet sailed in.
Steffen? He was 75. The old dog!
Verily, he owned a doghouse.
You’d hafta assume he was Vaxxed.
The question is:
How many boosters did he have?
Yesterday the story was Pancreatic Cancer.
Today we find out he dropped dead.
From Daily Mail article below. One might think Booy and Griffin might be benefitting from their continued pushing of the jabs. Both are in the Immunization Coalition which is sponsored by big pharma.
‘I think it’s pretty straightforward, to be honest. We’ve got winter coming. We’ve got waning immunity against Omicron,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.
‘We’ve got vulnerable people who haven’t had a booster for six months and a minimum once a year booster is appropriate at the moment that could be delivered in April May at the same time as flu jabs are being rolled out,’ he said.
‘It’s not exactly rocket science to have a commercial availability for those who want to pay. Just as long as that those who are vulnerable get it for free,’
Professor Booy’s call for the vaccine to be free for those over 65 people with multiple medical problems, disabilities and indigenous Australians has been backed by other academics, including University of Queensland’s vaccine expert Professor Paul Griffin.
However, in November Health Minister Mark Butler said The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) decided not to recommend fifth dose after ‘considering international evidence as well as the local data around.’
The ATAGI noted that severe disease and death during a recent wave of the virus in Singapore was very rare for people who had had at least two doses of a Covid shot.
Begging your pardon ma’am, which one?
Have you seen the recent (2021 ?) research papers based on DNA analysis showing an explanation for Q and P Celtic is that there was a very early wave of migration into Britain and Ireland and then followed up by a more recent one which only went into what is more or less England and Wales (& Pictland IIRC)? So you got a newer culture speaking Brythonic with a PIE based religion closer to the Nordics whereas Goidelic being the basic for Scots Gaelic, Irish & Manx and the Irish religion of the shining ones being similar (like the good god being a lot like Odin) but overall a little different in a lot of ways.
The point is the Irish are an exceptional version of Celtic culture because arguably they broke off as proto Celts and they’re not generally representative of all Celtry.
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Verily, he owned a doghouse.
Are you saying he was a deeply closeted gay man?
(said in a Norm voice)
Cool table on energy production.
Keep in mind, these aren’t export numbers, just production.
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/the-scale-of-fossil-fuel-production/
and this will make the crazy anti English “Celtic Britains” of modern day go crazy.
Celtic influence on Old English: phonological and phonetic evidence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2009
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-language-and-linguistics/article/abs/celtic-influence-on-old-english-phonological-and-phonetic-evidence/031D934EFDAC66296D2E26E4A8D946E9
In Taree for a few days. A bit of a strange place. Seems to be in decline, the CBD has more than a few ferals around, swear I saw Michelle and Ferret yesterday. The roads in town are terrible, potholes everywhere. Many of the shops have dirty cobwebbed windows.
There’s a soup kitchen that had a queue about 20+ long, there is an old church probably once Methodist or Baptist that is now BWS, the original stained glass windows have been replaced and the new ones have pentagrams in them, quite satanic, off for more looking around today.
Lol.
Whole Foods Asks Suppliers to Lower Prices as Costs Ebb
Whole Foods is asking suppliers to help lower prices as grocery shoppers cut back and search for cheaper options.
Poor Amazon.
Mrs D’s aunt and uncle always referred to Whole Foods as Whole Paycheck
I grew up with a Thalidomide child, a classmate born with no arms but luckily a thumb and forefinger on the end of each shoulder which he eventually was even able to drive a special car with. (No idea what happened after that as we lost contact a few years after he started driving).
Can anyone recall how the prescribing of Thalidomide for pregnant mothers was stopped? Was it the result of scientists doing studies, and bureaucrats making a decision based on new data for example?
Sorry if this has already been discussed but I’m not a regular.
Sfw, I wonder if the bypass has anything to do with it. There is no through traffic any more.
Also, the place suffered huge damage in floods a year or so ago. Many of the shops were under water. The repair bill must be tremendous.
9th August, 1962 for the banning of Thalidomide, one old bruce.
Maybe. But I remember you. 😀
Calli, the traffic over the old bridge is pretty solid and plenty of people around, way more derros and homeless than I would’ve expected. Apparently a very high unemployment rate.
Moderna says RSV vaccine is 84% effective at preventing disease in older adults
The RSV vaccine was 83.7% effective at preventing lower respiratory tract disease, defined as two or more symptoms, in people ages 60 and older, according to Moderna.
RSV infections kill between 6,000 and 10,000 older adults every year and result in 60,000 to 120,000 hospitalizations, according to the CDC.
Moderna’s RSV vaccine uses the same messenger RNA technology as its successful Covid-19 shots.
What reasons could you have to oppose this?”
Again, words fail me. Do you have any concept of ethics?
The Covid pandemic drives Pfizer’s 2022 revenue to a record $100 billion
Pfizer sold $37.8 billion of its Covid vaccine last year, a small increase of 3% compared with 2021 as demand for the shots slowed.
Sales of Paxlovid, however, surged to $18.9 billion in 2022, which was the first full year the antiviral pill was available.
Pfizer expects its revenue to decline in 2023 by as much as 33% to a range of $67 billion to $71 billion as the world emerges from the pandemic and demand for its blockbuster Covid drugs slows.
Black Ballsays:
January 31, 2023 at 9:35 pm
Was just on, just one of the great scenes in any movie ever made
I keep missing Jaws when its on, BB. Apparently Shaw co-wrote that scene. Brilliant stuff.
Whoever wrote that ad on TV for Superannuation hasn’t spent much time around Oak trees. After using an acorn as a prop, saying big things from little things grow, her daughter comes running and says “Look mum I found an acorn!”
“Show me where” says the mum.
It’s a large Oak tree, and there would be acorns all over the place.
The US could do with some Global Warming about now. That’s why the script had to be changed.
I love this sort of lazy demographics.. as if people don’t change their attitudes as they age.
If it was just people on New Twitter, Fox, Newsmax etc decrying the document delinquency of Biden that would be one thing but the fact the rest of the Media, long since lapdogs and attack dogs for the Dems, are deserting the putrid old malignancy means the Dems have a plan.
It may well be that they had not planned to dump and replace Joe at this time, but that events have got away from them. Point is that they are no longer defending him, they are busy doing something else.
Can it really be Kamala?
If she can be trained to read teleprompters then she might be able to avoid the haphazard excursions into flypaper forests that characterise her extemporised speaking. Biden was not the author of his Presidency. Just a corrupt hustler. Even now I don’t think he thinks about Presidential matters. He is allowed to play in his dotage while other people make the decisions. Kamala could do the same thing.
Or, are they planning on somehow manoeuvring into position someone worse?
What are they up to?
Book is legit: https://www.mondadori.it/libri/che-cose-il-cristianesimo-benedetto-xvi/
Screeching and rending of garments today about Exxon making a big profit.
Exxon Reports Record Profit Of $59 Billion In 2022; Earns $7 Million Every Hour (1 Feb)
White House outraged by Exxon’s record profits (1 Feb)
The second one is fun since it’s Biden’s energy policy that is causing Exxon’s profit, just as it was his Covid policy causing Pfizer’s profit. I wonder if he’ll be outraged over Pfizer too?
Also: http://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2023/01/breakingnews-new-book-by-pope-benedict.html
Apparently he stabbed someone, and the fuzz thought he would then throw the knife at them:
A group of California police officers shot and killed a double amputee on Thursday as he tried to run away from them on his stumps after jumping out of his wheelchair.
The three cops from Huntington Park Police Department were filmed firing at least eight shots at Anthony Lowe Jr…
Daily Mail
Thanks Calli.
In the most recent Intergenerational Report, net overseas migration is projected to contribute a whopping 75 per cent of Australia’s population growth in 40 years’ time.
The two biggest source countries for immigrants nowadays? China and India. And the fastest growing countries of birth between the 2016 and 2021 census periods were India, Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam and China. Not many monarchists there.
Two points.
First para above, this is as close as anyone in politics is prepared to go in acknowledging the reality of the “Great Replacement”.
Second para above, if Craig Emerson thinks that the indigenous are going to get $33 billion a year (updated for inflation) when Chinese and Indian immigrants and their descendants wield real political power in Australia, then he is even stupider than I thought possible.
Bruce
A Sister at the Crown Street Womens hospital ( Pat Sparrow ) noticed the deformities in babies whose Mothers were prescribed Thalydomide by Dr William McBride. Later driven out by the ABC s Dr Norman Swan work for which he was discredited. Those were the days when the ABC were not automatically dismissed as disinformation.
I don’t think it is unethical (actually I don’t think it is immoral at all) but I did frame it as the ideal situation.
Tell me what I don’t understand, then I can learn from it.
The situation being ideal does not make the concept in itself unethical nor does the potential for abuse. Most chemistry, physics and engineering post 1900 could be banned on that basis.
My point originally was:
1. This has probably happened in secret and may have been done carelessly.
2. It is coming, we don’t have a choice and it will change society forever.
3. Humans created this way are undoubtedly human. They deserve respect and equal rights.
4. The hypothetical situation I describe is vastly more ethical than IVF. There are (theoretically and possibly) no discarded embryos and no surrogates. If the couple is the ideal candidate for adoption but can have their own biological child without the ethical problems of IVF or surrogacy the reasons to be opposed to it are very limited.
5. It is the ideal situation and there is nothing immoral about it.
6. Whilst I’m not comfortable myself with drugs tested from abortion sourced cell lines etc, I am happy to be treated with surgical and rescue emergency medicine derived from rather unwholesome industries of the enlightenment and 20th century.
7. Government is the most likely to abuse this, in the most serious and bizarre way in totalitarian countries.
8. If we shouldn’t play god we shouldn’t have an army, probe how life may have come to exist, have a death penalty, save car crash victims, give sick people antibiotics or treat cancer. Some people have different ideas what “playing god” means.
What are they up to?
President Newsome
In Taree for a few days.
Keep going.
A SIL ran the pub near the river for a while around 2001, and we visited. Taree was a major dump then, and apparently did little to improve over the years. The major occupation for most of the residents, said the SIL, was fighting each other while drunk or stoned.
Thalidomide background.
https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/t/thalidomide.html
The boffins tried to make it safe but simply did not know enough. Utterly tragic.
Governments are all shocked and indignant about the fact the private sector, through its own ingenuity, with its own resources, in cooperation with other private entities in precisely defined (contracted) terms, its own ingenuity, is able to deliver results (measured by the fact they make the profit they plan for) that government with all of everybody else’s resources, with ownership of legal and regulatory infrastructure, and with a vast army of public servants, cannot.
Chalmers’ plan is to rectify this affront to political vanity and incompetence.
The simulation has a sense of humour. Driving down Flinders Lane in Melbourne, a one way street, and a cyclist riding on the footpath going the wrong way goes head over handlebars. And we all laughed.
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God isn’t a (1) general, (2) a scientist, (3) an executioner, (4) a paramedic or (5) a doctor.
We do those things in order to:
1. Survive in a hostile and tribal world.
2. Discover God’s work.
3. Show we value life by giving an appropriate sanction to those who selfishly take it.
4. Again to show we value every human life.
5. Ditto again.
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: President Trump announces his plan to stop the chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of our youth.
The NDIS and Aboriginal welfare are such a joke.
We could give everyone in those schemes 65k and 41k each every year if we just have them an equal amount of money and scrapped the bureaucracy.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
January 31, 2023 at 11:52 pm
Emerson was the dickhead who … [insert here from a broad selection of Emerson acts of dickheadsmanship] …
This thing was on the front bench!
Aliens arriving from outer space would conclude we don’t elect our best or brightest.
And the aliens would be correct in that assessment.
You’re equivocating. If the child is wronged it has been harmed. The wrong is depriving it of the custody of its parents. Deprivation constitutes loss which constitutes harm.
How does that distinguish wrong from harm?
See first reply above.
Byron York
@ByronYork
NYT says ‘Doctors are now a major barrier to Paxlovid.’ Maybe there’s a reason for that. Article pits doctors, who worry about Paxlovid side effects, drug interactions, evidence of effectiveness, against ‘experts’ who want to see it prescribed more often.
ACCC:
Labor has no plan to fix looming gas shortfall.
Domestic prices to skyrocket, export commitments in doubt.
Down the track, Japan will discover what Albanese’s promises are worth.
Alec Baldwin has officially been charged with involuntary manslaughter for shooting dead Halyna Hucthins on the set of their movie Rust in October 2021.
Prosecutors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, formally filed charges today.
They announced their intention to charge Baldwin earlier this month, but delayed filing the paperwork to allow themselves time to explain the controversial decision.
Vaccinated MSNBC Host Reveals She Developed Pericarditis and Myocarditis Due to “Common Cold”
Note I’m asking ‘how?’, not when.
That’s a harder question, but adults at that time would have been aware of the contemporary struggle. I read one mother’s experience for example, where she was disowned by the doctor who prescribed it to her. Claimed he had no record of her being a patient. I choose to believe her story, because I remember those days and my own family doctor who treated me since infancy gave some very questionable advice at times. And I’m not overly concerned with doctors who after all rely on others for information. I’d be happy if doctors all got together to discuss what they see in their clinics and campaigned to end an unsafe treatment which had been recommended to them by ‘authorities’.
Did something like that happen re Thalidomide leading to the 1962 withdrawal? Was it a media campaign featuring victims?
BTW, 1962 seems very late considering my disabled schoolmate was born ten years earlier. Does it take ten years to stop such things? Was it a new generation perhaps? Who weren’t trusting of, and compliant with ‘authorities’ as their parents had been? What does it take?
delusion and mental illness supporting mutilation
77th Brigade Exposed: The Secretive UK Military Unit spying on YOU if you can see through the lies
‘Dr’ Emerson is a poisonous mediocrity. What does the waste of space do with itself these days I wonder. More steaming trash. Typical ANU.
How the “Unvaccinated” Got It Right
Still hanging around the ANU and RMIT it seems.
Another tired old turd. Another campus Marxist.
Well, we were all skeptics but you gotta hand it to custard, he was right. Welcome back President Trump, well played sir.
Defeatism.
Exactly the same pleas were used re IVF and within 40 years we find the technology made available to those unmarried, singles, and couples that could never even in-principle conceive.
Pfizer pleads Criminally Guilty to Fraud
From Armstrong Economics –
“Pfizer has agreed to pay $2.3 billion, which is the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice. Like the bankers, they are just giving the Justice Department their share of the cut and nobody goes to jail. Pfizer has the GET-OUT-OF-JAIL card and the Justice Department has been bribed to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products.
No doubt, they are immune from civil liability even if they killed a member of your family because they have bribed Congress for that privilege to kill people with total immunity. The Italian Mafia should have just bought a drug company to take care of business and they would have been immune.
As to those who have asked if we have ever advised Pfizer. The answer is NO. I am not Pontius Pilate pretending to wash the blood from my hands after dealing with a company I have ZERO respect for.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/vaccine/pfizer-pleads-criminally-guilty-to-fraud/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Can’t believe I’m plugging Woolworths, but for once, they have a genuine special this week (Wed thru Tues) .. Fresh chicken drumsticks @ $2.50kg , usually around the $5 upward mark …
Donald Trump Says He Trusts Putin More Than U.S. Intelligence ‘Lowlifes’
Armstrong reporting on a guilty plea to fraud, at least he knows a lot about the subject.
Or, are they planning on somehow maneuvering into position someone worse?
What are they up to?
Harris retires to spend more time helping at the border, replaced by Hillary, Biden sent to dementia home, Hillary to new Prez.
Taree.
Townsville.
Alice Springs.
Tennant Creek.
Carnarvon.
Broome.
Katherine.
Geraldton.
Darwin.
The same. The grass is not greener anywhere, largely due to a common theme.
Wilcannia Bourke
Dot:
This is just bullying. It’s like those American arse holes who turn up to funerals to protest against soldiers KIA.
Dot, neither side is smelling of roses. Just remember who broke the conventions first, though.
Brewarrina Walgett
They are deliberately creating the conditions to be able to FORCE bugs on us.
Catturd
@catturd2
If you think the same people who won’t stop screwing with viruses in labs, won’t screw with the egg and food supply – you still don’t get it.
Hint … it’s the same people who tell you to eat bugs and take the bus – while they dine on lobster, steak, and fly on private jets.
Bruce, I did notice the “how”. Thought I’d get the ball rolling with the banning date.
The “how” appears to have developed slowly culminating in McBride’s letter in late 1961 to the Lancet. Observational through the Crown St hospital patients. Beggars belief that it took so long after his letter to have the thing banned here. There will have been women prescribed the substance during the nine months hiatus and give birth to injured children.
Absolutely must see. Hilarious.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
(In a whispered voice) Here, we catch a glimpse of the elusive Covid Cuckoo in his natural habitat eating another deeply fried bird for dinner.
Common sense health is becoming extinct.
Science. Finger-licking goof.
How long do you think $41K would last with someone addicted to booze, gambling & porn?
Coffs was unimpressive also. Obviously not because of the non-existent bypass.
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Remember when the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs confirmed under oath that Ukraine has bioweapon facilities?
And the Pentagon publicly confirmed that it is “partnered” with 46 of them?
And the media called it all a “conspiracy theory”?
Welp, defund the police!
Boambee John:
The chances of that happening are so close to zero…
It’s not defeatism Dover, it is reality.
The argument is distinctly different from IVF.
You can’t just handwave it away.
Sadly, McBride developed a bit of a Messiah complex later in life.
Not unheard of in the medical profession.
Arky:
Me too, and my BiL also.
He does some really interesting stuff.
“nothing in my lifetime matches the rank stupidity of roonable electricity.
Nothing.
We have closed generators that used to produce electricity at <4c per kwh and replaced them with occasional generation at 10 times* the price."
It’s worse than you think.
A coal plant will last minimum of 30 years and many get past 50 years.
Wind and solar are lucky to get to 20 years.
Most of a coal plant is recyclable.
Most of wind and solar is NOT – it gets dumped into landfill and is NOT bio-degradable (composite aluminium/carbon fibre/ resin etc).
A large coal plant take up maybe 50 hectares, a comparable solar or wind supply consumes
at least 10 times as much space, and more like 100 times as much.
A coal plant requires mainly relatively low-tech stuff like boilers etc – lots of metal and hard work,
but not too bad. A wind farm requires several tonnes of concrete and steel for each turbine, plus lots of “rare earth” material, while solar requires silicon solar cell which are highly energy intensive to manufacture – I have not seen much info on this, but wind and solar have EROI’s around the minimum required to make investment (financial ROI) worth it, while fossil fueled plants are as much as 10 times higher in EROI and ROI, making them a sound investment.
Not only that, but if we had replaced aging coal plant with new HELE, we could have reduced CO2 (and coal consumption!) by 30%.
Perhaps long enough to feed their kids if they weren’t paying excise tax on smokes and booze.
Hey. I did say it was a massive joke on the rest of us.
The most crippling realisation one can reach today is that the Left have almost completed their march through not only institutions in the western world – but through almost every facet of our lives.
For a comprehensive examination of the extent of this triumph see the prescient article of Victor Davis Hanson : https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/30/anarchy-american-style/
The best we can do now is consolidate our relationships with the like minded in order to have an extensive network to enable us to survive with dignity in this new world that is evolving. Sadly, the only obstacle to the stranglehold of the Left on western civilisation is a sizeable war with “the real Left” aka Russia & China.
Ha ha
Climate scientists baffled as to why Antarctica has not warmed in 70 years despite rising CO2 levels
shut up and do as your told
Clandestine
@WarClandestine
1) Now that I have everyone’s attention, allow me to address why US establishment politicians are sending tanks, jets, weapons, equipment, and $100+ billion to Ukraine.
It has nothing to do with Ukrainian citizens, and everything to do with Deep State assets/secrets in Ukraine.
OMG an east coast low, we’re all going to die!!
As we’re correcting each others errors
Hallward, it’s Newsom. No “e”.
More Marxist dons.
“I recall an AbFab episode…”
“The last mosquito that bit me had to book itself into the Betty Ford clinic!” – Patsy Stone.
Anthony Albanese must grasp nettle or kiss Yes vote goodbye
SIMON BENSON
The troubles in Alice Springs have been decades in the making. Nothing has worked.
Anthony Albanese, whether he likes it or not, must find a solution.
The welfare of Indigenous communities demands it.
And the success of the Prime Minister’s proposed referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament may also depend on it.
For that reason, he is presented with a critical decision.
There needs to be an immediate fix for the acute issues facing communities in Alice Springs. This is not in dispute.
In modern Australia, a nation whose wealth elevates it to being among just a few that may avoid recession this year, the greater national shame rests with a reality that such depraved conditions for Indigenous children still exist.
Second, a new long-term plan to address the underlying causes, including education as identified by Noel Pearson, should be addressed as a policy priority.
This is a burning moral obligation for the Albanese government. And Albanese has acknowledged both these needs rhetorically.
But the Prime Minister’s case has been weakened from the outset by a politically reflexive response.
Blaming the former Coalition government has diminished his authority while ignoring the pleas of community leaders who have had a gutful of politics.
What is required of Albanese, at least in the short term, is the temporary abandonment of Labor’s ideological fixations.
It demands that he, not only as Prime Minister but as leader of Labor’s left, do things that will be uncomfortable and contrary to that faction’s rigid and, in this case, misaligned principles.
This will require him to step in over the top of the Northern Territory Labor government, which has singularly presided over Alice Springs’ recent descent into violence.
Having acknowledged the political pressure to at least show up in Alice Springs, Albanese now owns the problem.
It is widely accepted that a non-discriminatory grog ban must be reimposed. More policing resources must also be put into the town.
The commonwealth must also return to being the lead jurisdiction, or at a minimum become a joint venture partner with the NT government, which has proven both incapable and lacking in the resources needed to deal with a disaster of its own making.
This is the first step.
The second step is for a thorough and clear-eyed examination of endemic social problems that have cultivated the crisis, which are undeniably in the commonwealth’s remit.
Albanese is at risk of losing the politics on this issue, which has broader implications for the Yes case on the referendum.
If the issues in Alice Springs, which also exist in other regional communities, are allowed to linger, the politics may well turn against the government.
Even advocates of the voice recognise the hypocrisy of the disastrous decision by Labor to wind back alcohol restrictions in the NT despite the pleas from some communities that they remain.
This contradiction extends to the Albanese government’s decision to abolish the cashless welfare card in other jurisdictions under the same principle, while blaming the Coalition for allowing the intervention to lapse in the NT.
Protraction of the political argument will weaken rather than bolster the government’s case.
If the Yes campaign is to prevail, the federal Labor government must make clear that a voice to parliament would recognise that different communities retain the right to have their own views.
This is a central point that will undermine the case for a voice to parliament; failure to recognise that a collective position will be a miscarriage of justice for communities that have problems and issues unique to them.
Unless the troubles in Alice Springs are addressed quickly, the Yes campaign is at risk of being eroded by cynicism not only among remote Indigenous communities but also among the broader soft Yes vote upon which Albanese relies to succeed.
SIMON BENSON
POLITICAL EDITOR
Oz
m0ntysays:
February 1, 2023 at 8:46 am
Well, we were all skeptics but you gotta hand it to custard, he was right. Welcome back President Trump, well played sir.
Well, we were all sceptics, but you gotta hand it to m0nty=fa. He almost got it right. It just turns out that it wasn’t actually the Twatter Files that were a nothingburger, it was the “swarms of Wussian bots”, which turned out to be not swarms, not Wussian and not bots.
Top Ender:
I cannot think of any government in the last 40 years that has done anything properly.
The expert class has been a disaster for Australia.
Agree welfare needs a rethink.
I suppose you could privatise the bureaucracy.
An annual lump sum managed for a small fee which might even be paid out of investment income.
Anti proton induced fission of U 238 (via Instapundit)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1997057
Unlike neutron-induced fission, depleted uranium 238U undergoes antiproton-induced fission just as easily as fissile 235U.
Hmmmm.
Google Leak Shows Company’s Mad Scramble to Do Damage Control for Pfizer After Project Veritas’ Bombshell Video
Meme
There’s story in the NT News today about how shoppers are being turned off going to the Darwin Colesworths because of unsavoury behaviour by the usual pisswrecks attracted to nearby bottle shops.
On this occasion, said pisswreck – presumably cranky after being knocked back by the bottle shop staff – smashed a heap of pot plants in the foyer before being turfed by security*.
The comments on the story are the standard tut-tutting, but include this gem:
‘People creating a narrative that all indigenous people are like this is untrue because a lot of us are not like this and it’s quite unfair the narrative would get pushed from this.’
Dear commenter – if you choose to brand yourself in that manner (ie, indig) and you are complaining that other indig are giving you a bad name – what are YOU DOING ABOUT IT?
*The issue of why security is required in supermarkets is a separate yet related issue.
Mmm…yes; but we’re now witnessing a special kind of idiocy.
Inflicted on us us by people who are blithely unaware of how much they don’t know.
And won’t be told otherwise.
Making antimatter seems like a very roundabout way to make U 238 go boom.
“What are the chances of two major food processing centres in the US each being hit by a plane in the same week?”
100% – after all, it actually happened, as you know. 🙂
Also, what are the chances that during an avian flu outbreak that has doubled or more the price of eggs, the largest egg handling plant in the USA burns to the ground, killing more than 100,000 chooks – you guessed it, 100%, because that happened too! With such high prices, this hardly seems like the time for a Jewish stocktake, right?
Don’t panic though – the bug plants are quite lucky, none destroyed yet. So plenty of protein sources left.
Live in the pod.
Eat the bugs.
Be surveilled 24/7.
Be happy.
It is your destiny.
I posted the full interview yesterday but here is a good snippet that gives the lie about Wagner employing ‘human waves’ and other dumb tactics.
Rogersays:
February 1, 2023 at 9:01 am
The NDIS and Aboriginal welfare are such a joke.
We could give everyone in those schemes 65k and 41k each every year if we just have them an equal amount of money and scrapped the bureaucracy.
How long do you think $41K would last with someone addicted to booze, gambling & porn?
Not very long, but what benefit does such an individual get under the current system? Let evolution prevail.
So this burglar breaks into a house in a pretty well-to-do area to lighten their load one night. As he’s scouting around the living room and sizing up the electronics, he hears a whisper from out of the dark, from where he can’t quite tell:
“Jesus is watching you”.
He flips his lid, naturally, clicks the flashlight off and freezes but he’s trembling. Doesn’t move for a solid minute, but there are no other sounds. After a second minute, he starts thinking he must be going crazy and just heard it in his head. It wasn’t very loud after all. Shake it off. Get the job done.
He reaches the lounge room and just as he’s about to help himself to an iPad…
“Jesus is watching you”.
THIS time he knows he heard SOMEONE say it, it was definitely not in his head, and the flashlight is off almost before the voice finished talking. He tries his best to blend into the dark and after a while manages the courage to flip on the flashlight and search around the room. But no one is there. He’s completely wigged out at this point so he decides to grab the iPad, cut his losses, and get the hell out of this house. But he doesn’t even make it halfway back across the room before…
“Jesus is watching you”.
But it’s coming from RIGHT NEXT TO HIM so he jumps and spins in fright and trains his flashlight on a bird cage in the corner of the room that he had previously missed. There’s a parrot sitting inside of it.
“Was that YOU?” he demands of the parrot.
“Awwwk! Yes!” answers the parrot.
“You scared the shite out of me you stupid bird. What’s your name?”
“Awwwk! Moses”.
“That’s a stupid name. What kind of stupid people name their bird Moses?”
“Awwwk! Kind that name a Rottweiler Jesus!”
Part of the reason Alice Springs is so bad is (I reckon) “the government” (mainstream party MPs, jacks, DPP and bench) have been complete dicks and marginalised any citizen who exercises reasonable force in asserting their own self protection – not just in the NT but in every state and Federally.
Robert Sewellsays:
February 1, 2023 at 9:03 am
Boambee John:
Arrest anyone who utters the word “paedophile”, charge them with hate speech against a man found innocent by a margin of 7-0 in the High Court. Use the leftards’ lawfare against them.
The chances of that happening are so close to zero…
We are all allowed to dream.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
– Milton Friedman
Sancho Panzersays:
February 1, 2023 at 9:04 am
Sadly, McBride developed a bit of a Messiah complex later in life.
Not unheard of in the medical profession.
See also Swan, “Dr” Norman.
Try by Pink sounds a bit like I Wanna Be Adored by the Stone Roses.
It’s not convincing until you hear the bridge played after the chorus is sang the second time.
“Exactly the same pleas were used re IVF and within 40 years we find the technology made available to those unmarried, singles, and couples that could never even in-principle conceive.”
Correct.
Albo/Twomey
Please vote for a blank cheque for a blank cheque.
Call it the Opes Prime school of constitutional interpretation.
What is a “Jewish stocktake”?
Cohenite:
I mentioned it before, but it really does bear repeating, I have a cousin who is a sparky. He’s fully bought into the Global Warming argument and Renewables. He is convinced that when the last coal fired power station goes offline then prices will come down.
How?
Renewables will no longer be subsidising coal.
Wouldn’t the Brits just love being lectured about their colonial past?
An extreme version of neighbourhood watch preventing yoof crime.
Seattle 1989. Army Rangers smoke up Crips at a friendly BBQ.
https://youtu.be/Z4iQxpwYhAg
Further to KD’s post, every large supermarket – and quite a few smaller ones – in the NT, have security guards present. A lot, and certainly the ones with large bottleshops, usually have a uniformed police officer out the front.
The supermarkets also have 1) a Banned Drinker Register where everyone – even confused backpackers – has to to supply photo I/d for a scanner to be approved to buy, and 2) a Minimum Floor Price which raises the prices of a lowly bottle of $2.99 wine down south to $10.
Even with all these measures, most shops have derros – a lot of them loud and/or violent – hanging around. A favourite occupation is to walk in, grab a roast chook or anything else handy, and simply walk out. Done in a group this negates security – a single, even “large” Tongan doesn’t take on five males albeit skinny pisswrecks.
All of this has been going on for years. Good luck Also – you now own the problem.
In modern Australia, a nation whose wealth elevates it to being among just a few that may avoid recession this year, the greater national shame rests with a reality that such depraved conditions for Indigenous children still exist.
Wonderful sentiment but you can’t force people to look after their kids .. the only option available is to place the kids in a safer environment .. and we all know the “bleeding heart” answer to that ..
stolen .. give us more money cos guilt …
Anyone who, seriously, believes gummint(s) care .. I’ve got a bridge for sale ..!
30 years in a NSW “houso” estate in SW Sydney riddled with drugs and everyone in authority turning a blind eye, whilst pocketing their kickback, and no media coverage of any sorthighlights the fact that gummint(s) only concern for the 251 problem(s) is how to get it off the media front page not solution ..
The media demonstrated again this week how easy they are treating this Labor mob .. dozens of headline pix & stories surrounding Luigi’s excursions to the “tennis” but very little other than throw-away paragraphs way down the page covering the ongoing problems of Alice Springs …..
Thery would have excoriated BRADBURY the same way they did with his Hawaii trip ..
but Luigi he gets the let’s-laff, PM needs to relax, as well, treatment …..!
Top Men.
The sure sign of their influence is where a simple function becomes complex, impenetrable, and opaque.
Milton was an optimist.
Seriously, when the aforementioned idiocy of the present world gets too much, withdrawing to read his books or watch his videos on Youtube is a good tonic.
Bloody spell checker changed “Albo” to “Also” – hardly appropriate!
Milton Friedman was a great man who failed because:
1. Real life is High School 2.0.
2. People know what they know and that’s all they want to know.
3. If voting made a difference it would have been banned a long time ago.
I reckon his life felt like the life of the protagonist in Idiocracy.
That’s probably why David Foster Wallace tragically took his own life.
n a major speech at King’s College, London, that may raise eyebrows among her hosts, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has challenged the former great colonial power to share “uncomfortable” stories of colonisation with Pacific nations.
Hey Soos wept! .. is “the chap” O/S .. AGAIN?! ..
Luigi’s gonna have to get his skates on .. the competition for “frequent flyer” points is really taking off ..!
He’s opted for an arts led solution.
Democratic lawmakers in California introduced a package of climate bills Monday aimed at holding corporations accountable for their greenhouse gas emissions.
The bills include legislation to require companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions to the public, ban the state’s public pension funds from investing in major fossil fuel companies, and create a group to analyze climate-caused financial risks for corporations. Similar efforts in prior sessions have failed to win enough support, but the Democratic lawmakers behind them say they’re hopeful for a different outcome this year.
”… a boom euthanasia industry.”
What happens to them after they have had their organs harvested?
Straight to the “organic composting” (now legal in NY!) for grain to feed animals?
Or just feed it straight to the pigs?
Or is that the bugs?
Or just bypass the whole lot and go straight to the soylent green factory?
‘a Messiah complex later in life. Not unheard of in the medical profession.’
*plop*
Cassie:
A ‘Jewish stocktake’ is one term for a business going poorly that suddenly burns down, followed by an insurance claim. Generally, said event is usually preceded by a raising of the property and contents’ insurance value, thus making them easy to spot.
It is also known as a ‘Mediterranean stocktake’ and – my personal favourite, ‘Romanian stocktake’.
Looking forward to Penny addressing the Japanese on the same topic.
sfw/Callie:
IIRC, there were a couple of fairly big timber mills in the area, but the Greens had managed to get them closed down. What you’re seeing is the price of that action – trees more valuable than lives. + the price of timber over the last few years as we ship it in from OS. The linked graph isn’t very instructive, change it to table.
“ceding their sovereignty”- can a people, who claimed not to own the land, have sovereignty to cede in the first place?
“Truthtelling” – “Stories my Nanna told me” – See the “massacres” at Forrest River and Bedford Downs.
New Yorkers berate Democrat district leader Adriano Espaillat:
“50 years in Harlem and it’s still f—ed up ? People are slumped over. On 125th street… We’re on the verge of nuclear war because of you. So much money for Ukraine but what about Harlem?”
A fire in an insured premises.
See also, “Offset Alpine Printing”.
You idiot, Dot.
You’d be a lot smarter if you stopped trying to be the cleverest man in the room.
A suspicious fire, I should say.
Where does that 2.3 go? Then where does it go? Then where. And then where?
It’s just more money laundering.
Like Offset Alpine? Let your mates know.
Thanks Indolent for the Trump video.
Best line – Under my leadership this madness will end.
I don’t see anyone other than Latham and PHON saying anything similar in Australia.
Sad.
Anyone got a coin? Any coin will do for my purpose.
Went to Sydney to pickup misses. Her flight was delayed so I ended up spending 2hrs at the airport. There is a food and bar outlet close by. In 2 hrs 4 customers, then I recalled ech time I’ve been there that place has very little custom. How does a place at Sydney International get by with no customers. Money laundering. You can only pay by card. I bet they they put a ton of money through as cash to wash it.
After months of obnoxious pro-Ukraine jingoistic war propaganda, Welt suddenly admits to its centre-right audience that it’s “essentially impossible for Ukraine to win”
From Eugyppius quoting Welt:
Calli:
Coffs Harbour (A lot of my family live there.) a few years ago elected a new council – many of the elected immediately threw off their conservative cloaks and went deep green. They’ve since spent $74 million on new lodgings for themselves – borrowed – and have made such a meal of administration that rates have gone through the roof and basic services have been cut back to minimums and are now being charged for instead of being taken from general rates.
The locals are really pissed off but have no recourse.
The locals are really pissed off but have no recourse.
Coffs council is some form of hereditary title?
Big Banana republic?
I see what you did there.
A big man will know the value of a small coin.
If Tom was right, Jim Chalmers would read Friedman and pull back from his insanity.
No. He knows what he knows and it is all he wants to know.
“Economics…is for nerds” and people keep on voting for this crap.
And to develop skills and networks to make us resilient for when the whole stinking mess falls completely apart.
Dotsays:
January 31, 2023 at 11:24 pm
Me: Just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be done. As to whether the product of this technology is human, that remains to be seen.
Dot: You have to say yes.
This technology will happen if we like it or not. It will change society forever.
Changing society forever, as you point out, is the concern. Yes, technology and can improve lives immeasurably but to go that bit further, to interfere in the way of “humanness” of the development of the person; outside of the body of the female; to change their way of coming into into the world – cannot be a good thing for the person, for society and for its future. After that, where to?
Dot: I don’t want children created in this manner being treated differently to everyone else.
The only way these new beings will not be treated differently, is if everyone turns to (is made to? go down that path because to do otherwise would be discrimination). And it’d be great for a nation’s future productivity needs, I can hear industry and business point out. The development of an army? I see a win-win there.
Dot: Should we do it? A couple through no fault of their own becomes infertile. They are married and are stable & affluent. You can make them a child which is biologically their own with no ethical dilemma like with IVF, no embryos are wasted. The artificial womb has a lower risk of complications than natural birth.
This question is too contrived, Dot. Your case happens to be the best of people. Of course, such a case cries out for consideration. But what about the worst of cases – for in your world of no discrimination, no-one can be left out. This is the way, from a narrow boundary, slowly the coverage is extended. See euthanasia in places like Canada.
Organ donation is moving slowly to a “demand” service by trying to change the modus from opt out to opt in. Should it be done, because the state – or someone – has identified a need and a resource and there is the technology to do it?
Dot: What reasons could you have to oppose this?
Think of the worst of stories – someone other than your “beautiful people argument”.
It is amazing how much money the Central Cost Council spent and they went under. IIRC their annual budget for salaries alone was 220 mn.
You can argue they have a huge area to service with roads, but their rates would bring in considerable revenue.
The Entrance might be awful these days but the land prices are obviously influenced by Sydney.
Per the ABC online 26/9/21
Population is ~ 350k.
Top Ender:
Thanx for the reprint.
Northern Territorians want Statehood?
Really?
from opt out to opt in.
from opt in to opt out.
He’s opted for an arts led solution.
Chortle. Yes that $200m art gallery in the Red Centre will just wash away all the problems. Will Peter Garrett sing at the opening?
So many baffled experts these days!
1) A manageable expense, given this years 100 billion profit
2) Given such conduct is a core part of Pfizers business model, is said settlement a deductible business expense?
An interesting paper on thalidomide </a. It is seeing a resurgence in the treatment of a variety of conditions, despite its terrible past.
Scroll down to the “conclusions” section and weep. All of this caution was obvious and necessary until 2020.
Putting hat in ring for Poet Laureate position.
Whether il pranzo
Or even la cena
Nothing is better
Than lemon granita
That doesn’t mean we have a blanket ban.
I doubt that there are thousands of couples like this on the adoption list who do not exist.
If these people should be rejected then adoption in the best circumstances becomes questionable too.
Sorry. I should have closed the link properly.
Poet laureate?
It will be some idiot sprouting abusive blank verse. I’ll wager folding money on it.
Thalidomide and aspirin are used to increase the effectiveness of older chemotherapy drugs.
:Jim Chalmers’ flights of fancy are economic fairy tales’ writes Terry McCrann. Allow me to bring the article here:
Oh dear and I thought our only ‘problem’ was that we had yet another trainee treasurer – given to shooting off his mouth, with unwise, and utterly untrue, pronouncements like “inflation is out of control”.
Now we discover – heck, he’s chosen to shove it down our throats – that he’s a trainee with teenage-style, Thunberg-level, delusions of grandeur and profundity.
Heck again, ‘delusions’ doesn’t begin to capture it: why our very own Jim Chalmers knows how to completely remake our entire economic system and way of life to deliver something that’s defeated generations
Almost literally Nirvana on Earth, or at least Australia.
Chalmers aims to take us enthusiastically back to 1789 and 1917 and 1958 futures, all wrapped up together in embarrassingly simplistic 21st century naiveté, breathtaking ignorance and utter lack of even a smidgen of self-awareness.
Drawing on his vast knowledge and even greater experience – why, he’s spent over 20 years, almost every day since he emerged from university, in the backrooms and bowels, plenty of bowels, of the Labor Party and even ministerial offices indeed.
Remember our greatest-ever treasurer – until, I have to add, Sunday May 22 last year: Wayne ‘Four Surpluses’ Swan?
Well, what you probably didn’t know, is that Chalmers was ‘a’ and even ‘the’ principal advisor to Swan through Swan’s entire six years of mastery of our economy, the federal budget and the myriad of deep and complex challenges an ugly world threw at us.
It’s a good thing that second rate economists like Friedman, Schumpeter and even the (formerly) great Keynes are not still alive; to say nothing of political and philosophical (former) greats from Plato and Socrates, down through the Humes and Hegels and all the rest.
Why, they’d all have to, symbolically, hand in their pens, in supplication to the arrival of ‘the master’, with ‘the answer’; all wrapped up in 6000 words of turgid, trite, embarrassingly yet terrifyingly, verbal fairy-floss.
There’s no point, and I certainly have neither the time nor the interest, to deconstruct what Chalmers purports to offer.
Although, it’s clear he doesn’t have the most basic clue of what he is actually proposing – all the clichéd ineptitude of every totalitarian, of Soviet left and Fascist right, and the odd well-meaning Utopian fool, down through history.
Other than to note that the combination proffered by Chalmers – the government will spend more of your money and direct how you will spend what’s left – has always ended in tears, both metaphorical and indeed literal.
The great non-economist Abraham Lincoln captured it best: “it’s the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it”.
There are more immediate questions; they must be directed at our peripatetic PM, if necessary between flights of fancy overseas and visits to sporting events.
Incidentally, who says our PM needs a ‘Melbourne residence’?
Why, he seemingly has one in the plush executive, sponsor and general free-loader confines of Melbourne Park, taking up residence there from last Friday afternoon through to Monday morning?
Nevertheless, starting with question one: has the Treasurer just enunciated official Albanese Labor Government policy, starting with the ‘renovation’ of the Reserve Bank?
If so, whatever happened to ‘The Plan’, referred to repeatedly – at least 100 times by Albanese himself – through the campaign?
Is ‘The Plan’’ now, in that famous word from Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler: “inoperative”? More bluntly, defunct?
So, were we all lied to through the election campaign? Was it always intended that we be ambushed by this enthusiastically childish but dangerously toxic soviet-style command economy, with 21st century Dark Green and tech tinges?
Or is it all just another one of those ’good ideas’ – at no time, never – dreamed up by Chalmers over a summer holiday, Kevin 07-style?
There was a massive double if of staff, who were protected for a few years when Gosford & Wyong councils were amalgamated at gun point
When it was merged Wyong Shire had a small defect, but Gosford Council was heavily in debt, and the residents of Gosford paid lower rates and were protected for several years from rate rises.
We could withhold all welfare payments, wait a week, and then simply ask “How about now?”
The idea of a great pan-Aboriginal identity is a myth. Did not exist when whitey turned up, and with the corrosion of traditional life it exists (somehow) even less now. Only the whitish activists do anything for such a cause, and they never do it if it puts them personally out.
This was published in 2002.
Eyrie:
Really?
That’s exciting.
We’ve just got to get the engineering done…
sigh.
Cory Bernardi believes after three years of COVID bullying, we are living in anarchy.
Those cops beating up people buying masks & autistic guys going for a walk, arresting army vets and pregnant mothers organising peaceful protests & smashing grannies to the ground.
A lack of government?
A lack of legitimacy, sure.
As for Alice Springs, abdication of responsibility is not anarchy. No one else is allowed to take up the responsibility.
Dot: I doubt that there are thousands of couples like this on the adoption list who do not exist.
If these people should be rejected then adoption in the best circumstances becomes questionable too.
Adoption is not baby making extra-uterine. Those kids already exist and there are thousands of them. As there are prospective adoptee parents. The problem is not the lack of kids or the lack of parents, it’s the determination by the state to stuff both sets of lives by refusing(?)/making it extremely difficult(?) to adopt. Foster care is the preferred path. Why? Because fostering requires a large and expensive bureaucracy.
I think Jim Chalmers has the Gosford Disease.
What is the specific argument against this?
It might be done from a transplant from the biological mother (to posh to push) and embryos can be made without sexual reproduction now – possibly without wasting embryos like in IVF.
A mother might be able to conceive but not hold a pregnancy to term.
Surely the application of this technology in these circumstances is a good thing?
older chemotherapy drugs.
I know someone who has been given six months to live who has been granted access to a monoclonal antibody treatment that is part of a trial here in Australia.
Almost seven years of surgeries & treatment.
At least this is non invasive.
You wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone.
Okay, agree, but what’s the Gosford disease?
Screeching to be heard on Mars.
‘Human beings’: Locals calls for children to be removed from families in Alice Springs as the young crime crisis deepens (1 Feb)
I think we should call these poor kids the Stolen Generation since the Left has stolen their lives from them.
The word ‘anarchy’ does not mean ‘no rules’, it means ‘ no rulers’ – ie the individual is responsible for each and every aspect of their lives, and how they interact with others.
I think the last 3 years have made it perfectly clear that we have governments that think they rule us rather than serve us.
It’s an interesting question…
Why hasn’t one single MP or leader told anti-Pell protestors to stay at home tomorrow?
Hard cases make bad law. Prudence would advise a blanket ban.
Why? The point of adoption is to find a mother and father for an existing child that has by circumstance lost its biological mother and father. The relevant difference between this and your hypothetical is an actually existing child and its not being deliberately denied its mother and father.
We had a close friend diagnosed with breast cancer around 2005, which then progressed to bone cancer. Two years ago she was diagnosed with brain cancer – nothing to do with the others. She was on chemo for around 15 years. She was a real trooper. The chemo always made her I’ll.
Aunty Penny spreading truth and reconciliation:
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has urged the United Kingdom to confront its colonial past in the Indo-Pacific as Britain pushes ahead with a tilt towards the region.
In a landmark speech to King’s College in London, Senator Wong highlighted the deep links between the two countries, saying many Australians continued to think of themselves as British after federation more than a century ago.
Senator Wong said many people from the same Chinese clans as her father laboured in tin mines and plantations for the British North Borneo company, while others – including her grandmother – worked as domestic servants for British colonists.
So:
Welcome to country?
Shaming the handful of surviving über Monarchists in Australian nursing homes?
A reparations claim against the Brits for hard done-by historic Wongs?
A Marles explainer is never a good sign.
Richard Marles explaining foreign policy in the context of The Voice is like a duck explaining quantum mechanics.
“What is the specific argument against this?
It might be done from a transplant from the biological mother (to posh to push) and embryos can be made without sexual reproduction now – possibly without wasting embryos like in IVF.
A mother might be able to conceive but not hold a pregnancy to term.
Surely the application of this technology in these circumstances is a good thing?”
Surely NOT. This kind of nonsense gives libertarianism a bad name. In fact, it’s an advertisement for a dystopian libertarian nightmare.
Zipster:
Can’t vote the corrupt bastards out, can’t get them to do their jobs of representing their people.
When are the people of Harlem going to realise the system is corrupt and broken?
Truth telling: Raw edition
Victoria Nelson was such a drug rooted pisswreck her own “loved ones” allowed her to die of malnutrition, an unspecified rare disorder and drug withdrawal.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-31/veronica-nelson-victoria-aboriginal-death-in-custody/101900156
Thats if we are going to play the “she had no agency of her own” game.
Held in a cell in a maximum-security prison on shoplifting-related charges, Veronica repeatedly asked for help as a combination of malnutrition, severe withdrawal symptoms and a rare medical condition claimed her life.
BBS
it’s the determination by the state to stuff both sets of lives by refusing(?)/making it extremely difficult(?) to adopt. Foster care is the preferred path. Why? Because fostering requires a large and expensive bureaucracy.
That would be the type of large and expensive bureaucracy that has completely buggered up the child protection system?
(Not the whole quote, but a logical argument against the below would be appreciated).
You’re not making an argument, you’re just complaining.
What is your argument against this?
Well, let’s say it was a freshly minted coin…he’d recognise the big man on the obverse side.
Point proven without a word needing to be spoken.
She was 40 and turning 41 this year.
Alcoholics often don’t make it past 50. I have lost one friend in such a manner. He aged very quickly after 45 and made it another two years.
Crippling debt and a feverish belief in magic pudding MMT trees.
Feelthebern:
Of course not, FTB – elections are held as normal but there are no grounds to make councillors or politicians live up to the promises they make during elections. If there were, we’d be having elections every weekend at every level of government in the country.
Me: Foster care is the preferred path. Why? Because fostering requires a large and expensive bureaucracy.
For aboriginal kids, fostering became a way to maintain their link to “culture”. This is the origin of the disaster. Maybe it was a genuine and worthy goal. But the politicians and bureaucrats should’ve gone to some of these “cultural” areas to see where it would lead.
Keeping this cultural connection led also to a widespread policy. Now, there are so many kids – aboriginal and nonaboriginal – who fit into the fostering group. So, from the specific to the general, (mostly) to ensure non-discrimination.
Dot, from your “beautiful people” and onto everyone else.
Local councils are also accountable to the state government.
Black Ball:
For munni. Yes.
The world’s biggest owner of stocks takes $232b hit
Norway’s $US1.3 trillion ($1.8 trillion) sovereign wealth fund reported its biggest loss since the 2008 financial crisis after markets were pummelled by faster inflation, higher credit costs and the fallout from the war in Ukraine.
You might not, I however am not that generous. Its a tough world and examples have to be made, failure and bad behaviour has to be punished, particularly when it was deliberate and malicious.
I would wish not only cancer but, arse cancer on the following for starters:
1) My local MP, then SA Attorney General Josh Teague who abused his powers and sent the police around to threaten me rather than look at the evidence I wanted to show him that lockdowns and mandates were counter productive.
2) The 3 AFP officers who conspired to arrest me on false traffic charges in Canberra, then fabricate evidence of my guilt and destroy evidence of my innocence to send me to jail for up to 10 years.
3) Scomo, and every one else who ruined my country and my childrens future.
Lets start with that lot.