The Shipwreck on Northern sea, Ivan Aivazovski, 1875
Open Thread – Weekend 11 Feb 2023
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Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf
The Pain of Listening To Twitter Censorship Testimony
Nasty, Ill-Dressed Technocrats, I Want My Life Back
So I finally am seeing them — up close, in real life, in person. I am finally able to look at the faces of the heretofore faceless technocrats who took it upon themselves to try to destroy my life and ruin my name.
Here at last are the very people who took it upon themselves, or who oversaw their colleagues, to single me out, to collude with the White House, and with Carol Crawford of CDC, and with DHS perhaps, to suspend me — following an accurate tweet of mine that warned women of menstrual harms following mRNA injection.
The positions of these people, the views of them — their self-regarding, self-satisfied, smug certainty that their rightness is the only rightness that could ever be — do not remind me of the testimony or views of actual Americans. They remind me rather of the affect of functionaries in a Stalinist show trial, or of the nameless bureaucrats in Kafka’s The Trial.
It is so painful for me to see these faces. I have a very intimate relationship to these people.
They tried to destroy me, and did a fair job of it, by some measures.
These are the people — “my”people, paradoxically; people educated like me, people who shared my political views until 2020; these are people who vacationed where I used to vacation, who hang out with people I know — who were the agents behind full- on Stalinist-type persecution of innocent Americans; of me; these are the people who ruined my life, or sought to do so, and destroyed my career, or sought to do so. These emotionally ugly, these nasty, self-satisfied folks, so sure that they are right, so very, very wrong; are here at last; right here on C-Span.
They persecuted not just me but Dr Martin Kulldorff; Dr Jay Bhattacharya; Dr Paul Alexander; Dr Peter McCullough. So many others. They scrubbed and manipulated the discourse of a platform that has no right to be any more censorious than a telecom company, because they were willing to collude illegally with the government to decide what can be said in America.
The messaging from the FBI via “the super-secret James Bond tele-portal”, as Rep Jim Jordan so brilliantly and rightly put it, reached into the voices of Americans and strangled Americans’ rights; but Twitter and the company’s political friends went further than mere silencing. These smarmy people ultimately hurt, and may have helped to injure and kill, many thousands.
These are the people who decided to remove the accurate tweet of mine about menstrual symptoms subsequent to MRNA vaccines, that could have saved millions of women from the current agony and infertility that they now endure.
These are the people who obeyed the instructions of their colleagues in government to censor me.
I looked at the bios of the people cc’d on Twitter’s communications with the White House about attacking my accurate tweet; they were a lot of young functionaries at the US Bureau of the Census, at least two of them, oddly, educated at the University of Delaware. These low-level Gen Z apparatchiks, and their incompletely articulate bosses, thought it was fine to destroy the career and try to shred the reputation of someone who had written eight international bestsellers, who had been a Rhodes scholar, and an advisor to a Presidential campaign and to a Vice President; who had gone back to school at midlife and had worked for seven years successfully to complete a D Phil at Oxford University; who had been invited onto every major platform and written for every major newspaper and was a commentator on every major news network for 35 years, and who, for those decades, by those same platforms and news sites, had been identified as a global leader in the feminist movement.
I cannot believe that “my own”people, my former tribe on the elite left, are joining forces with the government to violate the First Amendment rights of all Americans and then, worse still, to justify having done so. I can’t believe that Democrat after Democrat, liberal after liberal, is on C-Span singing the praises of censorship and inventing imaginary roles for government officials and social media platforms to keep Americans “safe” from the “threats“ of discourse and ideas. We used to be the side of Howl and Lady Chatterley’s Lover; of The Well of Loneliness. Heck, of the Free Speech Movement! What happened to us?
I can’t believe that people I thought were hostile to America’s interests — in this case, the Republicans demanding answers from the hacks and flunkies of Big Tech — are the allies in this hearing’s case at least, of truth and the Constitution and freedom of speech.
And I can’t believe that the forces who tore my life apart, temporarily half-destroyed my business, ended any hopes of my realizing my one life’s best dream, and set a match to my reputation, turn out, now that the curtain has been pulled back, as at the end of The Wizard of Oz – to be such small, small, sad, petty, miserable, mediocre people.
The larger issue is not the damage these smirking, small-minded people did to me. The larger issue is what the experience I underwent at their hands, represents for our culture.
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Steve Trickler can explain everything.
I would like to hear his explanation for this co-incidence.
1. Movie https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/1624891650194415619
2. Reality https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1624910190847094784 -
Milt
The US is not the same as here. State governments wield far more power and can govern in either a left or right-wing fashion. Take California, for instance. It’s a very blue state that’s not dissimilar to living in Melbourne. Then look at Texas and Florida as the other sides of the coin. Texas is introducing a voucher system for schools, and Florida is going apeshit against wokism.
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US public life know seems to be like the orgy scene from I Claudius.
I want to see death by rose petal.
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Ant Cats looking for a job?
Permanent replacements sought for top Correctives Services positions amid WA’s prison turmoil
Rebecca Le MayThe West Australian
Mon, 13 February 2023 3:12PM
CommentsPermanent replacements are being sought for two of the four most senior Corrective Services positions under commissioner Mike Reynolds at a tumultuous time in WA’s prisons system.
Job ads simultaneously posted recently showed salaries of $185,558 for the deputy commissioner of adult male prisons role and also for the deputy commissioner of operational support position — which Mr Reynolds respectively held in 2019 and 2020 before taking the top job.
A Department of Justice spokesman said the roles had been filled in an acting capacity, with assistant commissioner of custodial operations David Brampton now handling adult male jails and security and response services director Kama Connolly heading operational support.
“A merit-based selection process has commenced to substantively fill the two positions,” he said.
Both roles were described in the ads as having “a transformation agenda” at an “incredibly exciting time for hands-on, high performing, senior executives” to join the department.
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H B Bearsays:
February 13, 2023 at 8:51 pm
JC – Yep. Moved back Sept last year. Have a support worker come in a couple of times a day for meds and PEG feed at night (around MAFS time).
Oh, right.
I assume one of the advantages of PEG feeding is that you can watch MAFS and keep your dinner down.
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Last month, we found out that the Biden administration was considering banning gas stoves because they’re allegedly bad for the environment and also kinda racist for some reason. After outrage seemed to cause the admin to back down, it looks like the plan is still on.
Joe Biden Is Still Coming for Your Gas Stove
Even though about 40% of homes (including mine) have gas stoves,
the administration claimed that Biden’s best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who read a study that claims that these appliances are silent killers because of the pollution they put out.
I guess it’s pretty serious.
Curiously, the Biden administration refused to cite any specific studies to back up its claim.
But it did add that the alleged environmental impact of gas stoves allegedly disproportionately affects minority and low-income groups more than other demographics. So don’t question the narrative, you racist!
The plan to ban gas stoves was widely mocked, and the Biden administration quickly backtracked. But a month after the proposal was first revealed, Washington is trying to move it forward.
Last week, Biden’s Department of Energy proposed new regulations that would create stricter efficiency standards for gas stoves. The DOE acknowledges that more than half of gas stove models on the market today wouldn’t comport with the proposed standards. but the department insists it’s not pushing a ban.
The head of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) claims that the agency had no plans for a ban, and the White House says that Joe Biden doesn’t support banning gas stoves.
“We are not proposing bans on either,” the DOE said in a statement. “Every major manufacturer has products that meet or exceed the requirements proposed today.”
But according to Americans for Tax Reform, the DOE’s new standards would actually block as much as 95% of gas stove models — which sure feels like a ban to me.
It’s not surprising that the Biden administration wasn’t going to give up after the backlash. In fact, Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) admitted that despite claims to the contrary from the administration, an all-out ban on gas stoves was still very possible.
And it seems they’re following through with it, and they couldn’t care less what the public thinks.
“This approach by DOE could effectively ban gas appliances,” Jill Notini, vice president at the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, told Bloomberg News. “We are concerned this approach could eliminate fully featured gas products.”
Does that mean the restriction of gas stoves is inevitable? Not necessarily. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have filed bipartisan legislation to ban the federal government from using public funds to regulate gas stoves. This legislation would effectively prevent the CPSC from enforcing any rule that would “result in a limitation on the use or sale of gas stoves in the United States or would otherwise significantly increase the average price of gas stoves in the United States.”
Will there be enough bipartisan support to block the Biden administration from effectively banning gas stoves?
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Still can’t bring myself to pay for television. I might be the last person with a fat back TV in WA.
At least the sound is better on those pre-flatties. These days, you have to spend money on buying a sound bar because the raw sound coming from a flat screen is freaking terrible. Just terrible. We had to have English subtitles because you can’t always understand what is being said.
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H B Bearsays:
February 13, 2023 at 9:01 pm
Still can’t bring myself to pay for television. I might be the last person with a fat back TV in WA.
Ha ha.
We had a Loewe fat-back which I couldn’t get rid of because it cost a bomb.
Finally chucked it out after enduring the shame of being the only fat-back owner in Victoria (apparently).
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Yale professor: “Mandatory euthanasia” will be on the table
I hadn’t actually run across this character before so I thought perhaps some of our readers might not have had him on their radar either. His name is Yusuke Narita and he’s a professor of economics at Yale with a very large social media following in both the United States and his native Japan. But his theories on debt, inflation or interest rates aren’t what draw so much attention.
Though his specialty is supposed to be economics, Dr. Narita seems to spend a great deal of time pondering the issue of falling birth rates and increasing life spans, particularly in Japan. And he seems to believe that he knows the answer. That would be “mass suicide and mass seppuku of the elderly.” And he talks about it a lot.
This guy is so far out there on the fringe of this topic that even the very liberal New York Times described him by saying “his pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic.”
In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society.
“I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” Seppuku is an act of ritual disembowelment that was a code among dishonored samurai in the 19th century.
Last year, when asked by a school-age boy to elaborate on his mass seppuku theories, Dr. Narita graphically described to a group of assembled students a scene from “Midsommar,” a 2019 horror film in which a Swedish cult sends one of its oldest members to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.
In another interview, Narita suggested there might be an alternative for those without the will to take their own life. That would be euthanasia.
And if the elderly person in question is still being stubborn? No problem. “The possibility of making [euthanasia] mandatory in the future will come up in discussion.”
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Still can’t bring myself to pay for television. I might be the last person with a fat back TV in WA.
I have my late parents’ 1960s TV in a stained, polished American cherry wood cabinet.
It’s in mint condition and weighs a ton.———————-
File these in ‘the absolute state of conservatives in this country…’Paul Murray praises Peter Dutton for apologising for doing the “wrong thing” re Kevin Rudd’s apology. As Windschuttle, Bolt and others have established, there were no “stolen generations.”
The Persian Princess ??: ‘I supported same-sex marriage but trans mutilation.’
No no, Rita. You quit the truth and we’re now paying the price.
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The Climate Crusaders Are Coming for Electric Cars Too
A new report makes clear the ultimate goal: tiny, uncomfortable apartments and bicycles for all.
Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles won’t be enough to prevent the world from overheating. So people will have to give up their cars. That’s the alarming conclusion of a new report from the University of California, Davis and “a network of academics and policy experts” called the Climate and Community Project.
The report offers an honest look at the vast personal, environmental and economic sacrifices needed to meet the left’s net-zero climate goals. Progressives’ dirty little secret is that everyone will have to make do with much less—fewer cars, smaller houses and yards, and a significantly lower standard of living.
Problem No. 1:
Electric-vehicle batteries require loads of minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel, which must be extracted from the ground like fossil fuels. “If today’s demand for EVs is projected to 2050, the lithium requirements of the US EV market alone would require triple the amount of lithium currently produced for the entire global market,” the report notes.
Unlike fossil fuels, these minerals are mostly found in undeveloped areas that have abundant natural fauna and are often inhabited by indigenous people. “Large-scale mining entails social and environmental harm, in many cases irreversibly damaging landscapes without the consent of affected communities,” the report says. Mining can be done safely, but in poor countries it often isn’t.
Problem No. 2:
Mining requires huge amounts of energy and water, and the process of refining minerals requires even more. According to the report, mining accounts for 4% to 7% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Auto makers have made a priority of manufacturing electric pick-up trucks and SUVs because drivers like them, but they require much bigger batteries and more minerals.
More mining to make more EVs will increase CO2 emissions. It will also destroy tropical forests and deserts that currently suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, the report says.
Problem No. 3:
“Producing EVs and building and maintaining roads, highways, and parking lots are energy- and emissions-intensive processes with high levels of embodied carbon,” the report says. “Electrification of the US transportation system will massively increase the demand for electricity while the transition to a decarbonized electricity grid is still underway.”
The report concludes that the auto sector’s “current dominant strategy,” which involves replacing gasoline-powered vehicles with EVs without decreasing car ownership and use, “is likely incompatible” with climate activists’ goal to keep the planet from warming by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with preindustrial times. Instead, the report recommends government policies that promote walking, cycling and mass transit.
Governments, the report says, could reduce “financial subsidies for private vehicles,” such as on-street and free parking. They could also impose charges on pickup trucks and SUVs (including electric ones) and build more bike lanes.
Urbanites who suspect the expansion of bike lanes in their cities is intended to force people to stop driving aren’t wrong.
But what about suburbanites who need cars to get around? Reducing “car dependency” will require “densifying low-density suburbs while allowing more people to live in existing high-density urban spaces,” the report says. Translation: Force more people to live in shoe-box apartments in cities by making suburbs denser and less appealing.
All this may sound crazy, but it isn’t a fringe view on the left. A Natural Resources Defense Council report last year on lithium mining also concluded that the government needs “to reduce long-term dependency on single-passenger vehicles.” The Inflation Reduction Act included billions of dollars to promote bicycling and so-called livable neighborhoods.
California’s Democratic Legislature last year even passed a bill creating a $1,000 tax credit (originally proposed at $7,500) for households that don’t own cars. “We can invest in the future by providing financial incentives for Californians to transition from vehicles to more sustainable options,” state Sen. Anthony Portantino said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill, citing its budget cost, but he said he supported “approaches to incentivize a transition from vehicles to more sustainable transportation.” Eliminating cars—not only gasoline-powered ones—is the left’s ultimate goal. This is why progressives have mobilized against nearly every mineral mining project in the U.S.
The looming shortage of minerals will cause prices for EVs—the only cars Americans will be allowed to buy if Mr. Newsom and his green friends have their way—to rise inexorably.
Soon Americans may not be able to afford to buy a car even with a government subsidy. Then they will have no choice but to use mass transit or dust off their old 10-speed bike.
Note, too, that there won’t be nearly enough minerals to make the massive batteries necessary to back up an electric grid powered by unreliable wind and solar. So Americans will have to consume less energy—for instance, by setting their thermostats to 80 in summer and 65 in winter—and pay more for it.
Progressives’ ultimate goal is to reduce consumption—and living standards—because they believe humans are a menace to the Earth.
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H B Bear says:
February 13, 2023 at 9:11 pmJC – it’s a conversation piece. An object d’art if you will.
We’re close to having that.
I hope it never gives way. We have plasma TV in the bedroom. I like the visual far more than the most recent tvs. It’s not clear like the lastest HD, but it has depth.
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Russia’s Wagner Group Claims Gains Near Bakhmut in Eastern Ukraine
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the deputy commander of the National Guard of Ukraine on Saturday. In addition, four deputy ministers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, plus the first deputy minister of economy, were dismissed on Friday, according to Taras Melnychuk, the government’s representative to the Ukrainian Parliament.
No reason was given for the dismissals, but in his nightly address the same day, Mr. Zelensky said an effort to weed out corruption was continuing.
“The state will continue modernizing the institutions, their processes and procedures,” he said. “The clarity in the work of the public structures should be guaranteed not only by what depends on the people but also by the creation of transparency and accountability functionality.”
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It’s no secret that I think Peter Dutton is not worthy of leading the Opposition. He confirmed it today by apologising for his walkout of Kevni’s Sorry Spectacle. It’s only a matter of weeks before he is all for Tha Voice. If he is still the leader at the next election Liberals will lose even more seats regardless of how badly Labor screw the country.
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13 Feb, 2023 – Musk explains purpose of Starlink in Ukraine
SpaceX will not allow its system to be used to start World War III, the CEO has said
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed the rationale behind the company’s decision to restrict the use of its Starlink internet system by the Ukrainian military. He doesn’t want the conflict to escalate into World War III, he said.
The explanation was part of Musk’s response to astronaut Scott Kelly, who is a vocal supporter of the Ukrainian cause. Kelly urged restoration of full functionality of the system.
The restriction announced last week bars the Ukrainian military from using Starlink to pilot drones, which SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell described as “weaponization” of the product.
Musk said Kelly was “smart enough not to swallow media & other propaganda bs” and pointed out that Starlink remained available for military communications in Ukraine, even though as a private company SpaceX had the right to switch the terminals off.
“We’re trying hard to do the right thing, where the ‘right thing’ is an extremely difficult moral question,” Musk stated.
The Starlink system was hailed by US officials as a gamechanger for the Ukrainian military, providing a reliable communication system that Russia allegedly could not disrupt through hacking. But Musk has provoked the ire of Kiev on several occasions, including by proposing a peace plan in October that would have required Ukraine to make concessions to Russia. He faced criticism and insults from Ukrainian officials in response.
Responding to the Starlink change, Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, declared that Musk and Shotwell had only two options: they could either be on Ukraine’s side and not seek “ways to do harm” or be counted as pro-Russian.
The same official previously claimed that the Musk-owned social media platform Twitter was limiting the reach of Ukrainian government accounts and helping “Russian propaganda.” Podoliak offered no evidence to support the claim, but threatened regulatory action.
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And if the elderly person in question is still being stubborn? No problem. “The possibility of making [euthanasia] mandatory in the future will come up in discussion.”
These monsters need to be exiled from our world. I hope one of Elon’s rockets can be used for that purpose. These people can then set up their own system on their new world.
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Via OldOzzie
The Climate Crusaders Are Coming for Electric Cars Too
A new report makes clear the ultimate goal: tiny, uncomfortable apartments and bicycles for all.
Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles won’t be enough to prevent the world from overheating. So people will have to give up their cars.
Lead by example, Klimate Krusaders. You first.
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Obviously did not use the Paul Hogan approach for Identification
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How Bill Gates’ body language RHYMES with “EPSTEIN”
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Sancho
Ha ha.
We had a Loewe fat-back which I couldn’t get rid of because it cost a bomb.
Finally chucked it out after enduring the shame of being the only fat-back owner in Victoria (apparently).
Still worked fine.We inherited a Loewe fat back from my M-I-L when she bought a plasma in the late noughties. Wonderful bit of kit with great sound. When we finally upgraded to LED in about 2014 we passed it onto a lady who lost everything in a house fire. It was then lost in her next house fire. She was discovered to be a nutty firebug.
We didn’t pass on any more TVs and turned down her offer to rent our house when our family moved for work.
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It’s no secret that I think Peter Dutton is not worthy of leading the Opposition.
It’s no secret that you’re a Labor Party shill, either.
He confirmed it today by apologising for his walkout of Kevni’s Sorry Spectacle.
The Walkout was an embarrassing stunt.
He’s apologised.
It’s only a matter of weeks before he is all for Tha Voice.That would be a stunning turnaround, and the end of his leadership.
If he is still the leader at the next election Liberals will lose even more seats regardless of how badly Labor screw the country.
Depends how he emerges from the Sofronoff Inquiry.
If he interfered in the Prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann while Home Affairs Minister, he’s political crow bait and Labor are home.
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“Read the bombshell letter Colombian student wrote describing the ‘night of madness’ where he allegedly killed a sex worker after learning she was transgender”
I’ll just rewrite this so that it’s more accurate, “killed a prostitute after learning HE was transsexual.
Describing a prostitute as a “sex worker” demeans sex and work.
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U.S. shoots down fourth aerial object in two weeks | Latest News | English News | Top News | WION
U.S military shot down a mysterious object to have appeared in the skies of Lake Huron close to the Canadian border. This is the fourth flying object that has been taken down over North America in two weeks. -
“I didn’t think much of David Littleproud when he took over the leadership of the Nationals but he is doing the right thing by supporting Jacinta Price in her opposition to Tha Voice. He has definitely grown in office unlike Dutton who has shrunk. Funny how things turn out.”
Whilst I’m still not writing Dutton off, I do agree with you about Littleproud.
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Gender equality envoy Stephanie Copus Campbell attacks ‘offensive’ remarks
By ROSIE LEWIS
Political Correspondent
@rosieslewis
8:44PM February 13, 2023
No CommentsAustralia’s new ambassador for gender equality has hit back at “offensive” comments about gender diversity and her appearance after a video she tweeted promoting her job went viral in the US.
A defiant Stephanie Copus Campbell, who is married to Defence Force chief Angus Campbell, said the reaction was proof her ambassadorship was needed and she vowed to use the platform to “proudly promote Australia’s strong commitment to gender equality”.
Donald Trump Jr retweeted the video – in which Dr Copus Campbell also promised to advocate for people with diverse gender identities and said gender equality was central to Australia’s diplomatic, economic development and regional security – with the comment: “It’s always the eyes that give it away before they say a word. Australia’s new ambassador for gender equality.” There have been more than 6000 comments and 2000 retweets of the video, which also ran on American television.
Read Next“The fact that many of the 6000-plus comments about my first tweet either related to my appearance or made offensive remarks on gender diversity demonstrates why my role as ambassador is so important,” Dr Copus Campbell told The Australian.
Her comments about gender equality boosting regional security also were endorsed by former Liberal Pacific minister Alex Hawke and experts in the field, though 2GB host Ben Fordham rubbished the idea.
“Does she think that China is worrying about gender quotas in Australia? If so, tell her she’s dreaming,” Fordham said.
Dr Copus Campbell, who was appointed to the role by the Albanese government in December and who has worked extensively in Papua New Guinea, said there was no way any country could meet its economic, social or development goals when women and girls were unable to meet their full potential.
NSW Liberal Party Vice President Teena McQueen says the Ambassador for Gender Equality Stephanie Copus… Campbell’s video on gender equality is “scary” and we have “no need” for this in Australia. “The whole video is scary – this is an ambassador we have no need for in Australia,” Ms More
“Women and girls experience far greater barriers across most sectors,” she said.
“When barriers are removed and women prosper, children, families and communities are healthier and better educated, GDP increases, conflict decreases and everyone is better off.”
Mr Hawke, also an immigration minister in the Morrison government, said it was his strong view that empowering women in the region had a big impact on security and a broader benefit for everyone.
“Australia strongly supports individual and human rights, which are central to our own security, and this includes gender equality,” he told The Australian.
“We need as many like-minded partners with rights respecting democracies in our region and beyond.
“It is why as Australians we so strongly oppose the Taliban and their horrific treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan. But also Australia works hard to promote women’s rights throughout our region, where women need security and equality to make Pacific societies more resilient.”
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Tom Harwood
@tomhfh
It is so unspeakably cruel that the state will list Brianna Ghey as a boy on her death certificate.A Gender Recognition Certificate is not a passport to spaces – you don’t need one for that. What it allows for is basic dignity on documents like marriage or death certificates.
Right-liberal telling us that calling a boy a girl simply because that is what they would have wanted is basic dignity.
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Dear friends and I mean that most sincerely as each of you have a bearing upon the way I look at life whether good or bad but mostly good. I’m in NZ visiting my only real friend of 58 years. We enjoyed life over a beer or 20. Giving advice when none was required and the probably the wrong advice when needed but wouldn’t be in the position we are happy with today. Tonight I knew why we are happy with our long relationship. After a discussion about Sagan and Erlichs book Cold and Dark. He told me about a talk he gave to some school students about life, history and the future. He used an onionand some rocks. The onion as a metaphor for time. The students laughed. Where do you want to start with the truth of life. On the outside, where time was today, yesterday, or 200 years ago or the next layer 2000 years ago to 100,000 years ago. They laughed. How about you start with the core in the Devion period when we were 60 million years old as fishes and produced a rock with a fish in it. Maybe you want to start with a newer one with scales heavier making it harder to eat, producing another rock with a fossil ecapsulated. His lecture was about the local museum of the last 200 years but the time period of the last 60 million years was to show the students the insignificance of yesterday is compared to today and tomorrow. We only know what yesterday bought but have no idea what tomorrow will bring. After the lecture although not supposed to be a lecture the teacher told my friend he did his head in. All the things he said were about today but coloured by the past which we cannot ignore. I don’t think I’ve ever had a philosophical discussion the likes of. The beer was dispensed with and the Port Charlotte flowed freely. If I only have one friend I’m glad it is him.
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After travelling today and catching up with my mate who I discovered is a lefty wit his second wife around and a conservative when se can’t hear I am scrolling back so only catching up slowly. The he’s a she or is it a she’s a he I do not know. I have only known 3 prostitues in my life and not in the Bibliacal sense. The first one a friend from a broken home with Daddy issues and a Mother who showed far too much to the male friends of her daughter. A young lady I worked with who had no skills but an immaculate body who thought that being paid for being laid was pretty good as she never got enough anyway. Don’t ask me. And a family member that was going bankrupt and her degenerate husband thought that would save their lifestyle and she couldn’t face the humiliation he was a bi sexual. As far as she was concerned it never happened. I no longer have anything to do with them. I’ve never understood this prostitution thing. Some guys I’ve known get off on it and some women can’t wait to give it away. Just seems strange to me, but that’s me.
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My mates granddaughter visited recently, she spouted all the marxist bullshit a 14 yr old can. Taken to task over anatomical differences on the dog and the bitch he has, she could not distinguish that they didn’t choose their gender but accepted that the male couldn’t produce a pup. Did you notice that only the male lifts his leg and the female squats. Yes. Why do you think this happens. Reality hit the road. Next day, he produces a picture of a young girl. Granddad, why do you have a picture of me when I was little coz I never had a dress like that. See that picture of the room my great grandfather is in. Yes. Is that the same room your photo is in. Yes. That photo of you is over 120 years old and I don’t know who she is. Granddad you’re spooking me out. He doesn’t know who it is but its definitely his granddaughter 120 years ago. Amazing. My niece is the spitting image of my grandmother.
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Dover, thank you for Twitter link to Claes G. Ryn’s Hubris Kills Diplomacy.
This is the finest exposition of the Ukraine situation I’ve read.
Essential.
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Ed Casesays:
February 13, 2023 at 10:09 pm
What’s Jacinta Price’s grounds for opposing The Voice?
She started out touring with Labor renegade Warren Mundine, now she’s switched camps.
What’s Price’s claim to fame?
Has she any achievements to her name?What’s your claim to fame?
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At a bar, Tony’s, using WiFi because my Italian windtre refuses to work. I even tried turning it off and on.
First task will be a new sim, I have directions so there’s that.I’m near the ferry port for Sliema to Valletta ferry, a mystery solved.
Everything is in English, there is even a Mark and Spencer shop next door
Also the Maltese word for Queen is Sultana.
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