The Seven Arches Adel Woods, John Atkinson Grimshaw, mid-late 1800s
Sheesh Winston that’s got Total Recall vibes about it. Cheap holiday memory implant???
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I listened to some of the hearing. Pete Hegseth did an incredible job in front of the nomination committee. Cool…
Yeeeeah boyz, give em that acknowledgement, good and hard. “We Earthians are gathered here on communally owned land, and we…
Excellent news ZK2A. Get a good slug of the single malt before hitting the sack. I’m sure Mme is chuffed.
He has suddenly lost strength, he can’t walk as much as he used to, can’t climb more than a flight…
Further from comments about social media and young women yesterday:
Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence (23 Feb, via Instapundit)
There’s that year again, although I put it at 2013. I think the targeting of young women is also at least partly overt, along the lines of what I wrote at 10.52am.
Ukrainians have reached the stage where they don’t even bother hiding their war crimes
Just like their Grandfathers!
SIMPLICIUS The Thinker ?
@simpatico771
Wow – Watch this stunningly powerful NATO-Ukraine M.I.C. Ad – 1 Min 22 Secs
This is a little over the top. Just because the governing class perpetuate the dysfunction makes it no less the responsibility of the elders past present and emerging to feed their own kids, to raise them to be decent people, and to do the right thing by their neighbours.
China to supply Russia with arms…
Linky.
Test.
I am not so charitable – their craven compliance ruined my children’s future….
Completely agree, most Australians are scared sheep. Having personally tested most aspects of the lockdown shit. The Government had virtually no physical control. What they did have was control of peoples minds.
China have apparently opened up their weapons “depot” and are going to send arms to Russia… the link I keep pasting breaks the Cat (so you’ll just have to believe me!!! :P)
Sure.
What is the problem exactly?
Oh, right.
The friendlies at Twitter Asia-Pacific “public policy” who used to censor for the Green-Liars have been rissoled, so we need to go to HQ to shut down any criticism. But Mzzzz Rowland is whistling in the wind if she thinks anyone at Twitter HQ will go out on a limb for this one. Musk doesn’t give a shit about Da Voice either way, but his guys will be on the lookout for any manual interventions which have political undertones.
Damn straight.
Sit down money + grog = low expectations fulfilled.
Indigenous folk have moral agency and should be held accoutnable for their actions. Whilst ever the progressives deny that the dysfunction will continue and likely get worse, if that’s at all imaginable.
Finished Series 2 of Clarkson’s Farm last night.
Top stuff.
I see the UK papers are reporting “Record Streaming Ratings Despite Clarkson’s Comments About Megan Markle”.
Despite?
Err, no.
The ratings are driven by people outside the media bubble who either heartily agree with Clarkson or don’t care either way.
QLD Human Rights Commissioner urges QPol to be alert for vigilantism in wake of youth crime wave. Apparently it’s not in his remit to urge them to be more proactive in preventing youth crime.
Also he’s a gifted entertainer! Like Neil Oliver. From Paul Homewood’s blog today:
‘My money says a rationing app is already sitting ready on a hard drive somewhere’ | Neil Oliver (26 Feb)
Andrew Bolt: ‘Wilful ignorance’ on climate change is making people ‘poorer and weaker’ (26 Feb)
Homewood’s editorial comment is: “We could do with Andrew Bolt and Sky Australia over here!” To which I could say we’d just love Neil Oliver on Sky News.
Lysander says:
February 27, 2023 at 11:37 am
China have apparently opened up their weapons “depot” and are going to send arms to Russia… the link I keep pasting breaks the Cat (so you’ll just have to believe me!!! :P)
SITREP 2/26 – Urgent Update
Another persistent rumor is that the Chinese military is nearing a sort of Lend Lease of its own to Russia. Not only have there been increasing statements from the CIA that China is about to supply “hundreds of drones” to Russia:
But now a Chinese military blogger has stated the following:
From the largest storage of reserves of the Chinese army in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (not far from the border with Russia), artillery systems began to be reactivated and brought into combat condition, writes military analyst Zhu Shufang.
Among other things, these are PLZ-05 howitzers with a caliber of 152 mm (an analogue of the Russian Msta-S), as well as Chinese AR1A multiple launch rocket systems (an analogue of the Russian Smerch MLRS). It was here that high-ranking Russian military personnel arrived 8 days ago, the author writes.
If this should prove true—some might wonder, why would Russia need vast Chinese military support of this sort? But remember, Russia is openly preparing for something much larger than just Ukraine. The pieces currently in motion feel increasingly like they’re headed toward an eventual ‘Great Power’ clash, in whatever form that may take. So it’s obviously prudent for Russia to begin stockpiling weapons from everywhere it can against a potential clash against the U.S. or various other NATO countries.
The U.S. themselves admitted recently they have 10,000 American troops in Poland as we speak, and that’s presumably not counting the additional ~10,000 that were said to be in Romania months ago (101st Airborne and 2nd Cavalry ‘Dragoons’ fast response force).
Russia doesn’t want to be caught ‘with its pants down’ should NATO open up a much larger war, but we’ll see if there’s even any merit to these Chinese rumors. Recall that there were rumors for a long time about Iranian ballistic missiles which never came to fruition.
Lastly, as a quick update to Bakhmut – the situation is getting dire for Ukraine.
I saw this being discussed yesterday here and here.
Just rumors atm.
BTW, comment was spammed. Now fixed.
The Energy Department, previously undecided on how the virus emerged, joins the FBI in saying Covid-19 likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory.
And who was the poisonous elf funding and guiding the Chinese lab work?
Walked into the cafe this morning. Cappuccino please! “Yes we know! We’ve almost finished it!” They’re not locals, happy to serve people who don’t grunt at them!
haven’t scrolled back (just back from my bike ridin’ ..!) so not sure if anyone has posted today’s excellent column from TIM BLAIR on the VOICE .. I’m assuming it’s pay-walled in the Tele so this is a pix of the page .. enjoy!
https://postimg.cc/dhD3624h
Thx DB 🙂
shatterzzz says:
February 27, 2023 at 12:10 pm
haven’t scrolled back (just back from my bike ridin’ ..!) so not sure if anyone has posted today’s excellent column from TIM BLAIR on the VOICE .. I’m assuming it’s pay-walled in the Tele so this is a pix of the page .. enjoy!
https://postimg.cc/dhD3624h
Thanks shatterzzz – with + was able to easily read Tele Article from Tim Blair
Amazon Prime is also well aware of this – hence Clarkson’s Farm 3.0 is going to remain in production for release in 2024.
Be a brave production executive who, in late 2023, says: “Yes it’s making us a motza, sure it’s going to appear on some other platform and load-shed viewers from Prime – but he’s upset the Sussex’s and people who don’t watch him, and it’s the right thing to do…”
Slow-release woke.
The ratings are driven by people outside the media bubble who either heartily agree with Clarkson or don’t care either way.
Clarkson is probably the only person in the entire entertainment industry worthy of having a beer with.
UKRAINIAN HERESIES
I’ve seen several perspicacious queries about media coverage of the Ukrainian war, namely, why don’t we see very much battle footage—or very much front line footage for that matter? All we seem to get are some set-piece videos, practically b-roll at this point, of long-range artillery being fired. Are there no reporters embedded at or near the front lines?
Back in the primitive days of Vietnam, when any film footage had to be developed and shipped back to the U.S., we still got a lot of front line footage from journalists like Dan Rather and Morley Safer.
Why not in this case?
Another comparative question: back in the Vietnam War, the media was relentlessly hostile to the U.S.-aligned leaders of South Vietnam, especially President Thieu. We heard endless reports about his authoritarianism and corruption. But if anyone today raises the same issues with regard to Ukraine’s government of President Zelensky, you are immediately accused of being a pro-Putin apologist
Look, I think Zelensky is doing a good job leading the country (and especially playing to American media and thought leaders—you’d expect no less from someone with a TV entertainment background),
but isn’t the media canonization of him more than a bit thick?
Moreover, does anyone have confidence in Biden Administration’s ability to manage the conflict?
Seems to me they are making the exact same mistakes as the Democratic defense and foreign policy geniuses of the 1960s—the “best and the brightest” in David Halberstam’s memorable phrase—did in thinking we could “calibrate” our involvement in Vietnam through their doctrine of “flexible response,” and thereby manage a favorable outcome. How’d that work out for us—and for Vietnam?
So it comes as something of a surprise to see Timothy Garton Ash, one of the leading analysts of Eastern Europe since the 1980s, depart slightly from the Ukraine Party Line recently in the New York Review of Books. Here are the relevant excerpts:
Ukraine is asking questions of the West, but there are also questions for Ukraine. Many Ukrainians are privately asking themselves these questions, as are many in the West.
In 2021, Freedom House, the American NGO well known for its freedom index, classified Ukraine as only “partly free,” highlighting corruption and problems with the judiciary. On Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, Ukraine was the worst-scoring European country—unless you count Russia, which scored even lower. The country’s oligarchs still had far too much power. Ukraine is certainly fighting for democracy against tyranny today, but it would be wrong to pretend that yesterday it was a model liberal democracy. It had a heap of problems then and has a heap more now. If the high hopes of brave Ukrainians are not to be disappointed, these need to be identified and addressed. . .
Decentralization is one of the success stories of Ukraine’s pre-war reforms, but at the moment—understandably, since there’s a war on—the country is essentially being run by the presidential administration. A member of parliament from Zelensky’s own Servant of the People party told me that she and her colleagues are hardly consulted.
What is more, all the main TV channels run just one version of the news, 24/7.
The United News telethon is watched by some nine out of ten of the estimated 36 percent of Ukrainians for whom television is their main source of news.
Independent online publications and social media diversify the information flow for those who regularly access them, but such a television-news monopoly will be a major democratic deficit if it continues into the next presidential election, due in March 2024.
Media running “just one version of the news”? Sounds rather familiar, doesn’t it? Needless to say we’d be better served with some media skepticism about everything, but especially our grand strategy with regard to a conflict that could easily spin out of control.
This is a little over the top. Just because the governing class perpetuate the dysfunction makes it no less the responsibility of the elders past present and emerging to feed their own kids, to raise them to be decent people, and to do the right thing by their neighbours.
Understood. 3rd nations avoid personal responsibility for a variety of reasons including their tribalised social structure. But for years they have been told about the non-existent wrongs done to them by white society and how noble and better they are by the left. They have been used by the left as a perpetual victim with no consequences for their actions simultaneous with the left’s denigration of Western democracy. This is a situation created and exacerbated by the left. Some aboriginals have broken free of this trap but the left is expert at doing this; and combined with the 3rd nation grubs from thorpie to lagton to pearson the average aboriginal is stuffed.
I’m making a prediction here: this story is the tip of a very large green iceberg of corruption and rorting:
How Italy’s generous green homes scheme turned ‘wicked’ (via Phys.org, 26 Feb)
“An Italian scheme to make homes more energy efficient has been wildly popular, but the government is seeking to rein in its “out of control” costs amid fears it could send the deficit soaring.
…
Environmentalists were skeptical about its benefits but Italians rushed to take advantage of the program, in which the state paid 110 percent of the cost of making homes greener, with the subsidy delivered via a tax credit or tax reduction.
As intended, it boosted the construction sector—but it has so far cost the state 61.2 billion euros ($64.8 billion), according to the finance ministry.
…
She said the scheme had led to fraud worth nine billion euros, while the tradeable nature of the tax credits had “generated a sort of parallel currency, and that parallel currency risks having a devastating impact on the budget”.
…
The superbonus scheme was introduced by former premier Giuseppe Conte, whose populist, environmentalist Five Star Movement led the coalition government at the time.
It allowed homeowners to either deduct the cost of work from their taxes over several years or sell the tax credit to their builder, who would sell it to a bank, which would then claim the money from the state.”
Oh, wow. They gave people 110% of the price of solar panels and whatnot? Then allowed them to trade that tax credit to the builder for cash in hand? In the nation which invented the Mafia? Let me guess here, they’re going to find millions of mythical solar panels and oodles of non-existent insulation which was never installed. Then they’ll finally find how much of the money found its way to Mafia bank accounts in Switzerland.
A ray of light ?
NRL club bosses overwhelmingly against Pride Round
I’m guessin’ they’ve taken the huff cos Manly got a knock-back on their queer parade float .. LOL!
blockquote fail.
The above is all my view on the matter.
COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship
By Jonathan Turley
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak.
The conclusion is reportedly based on a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress. Many will be exploring why the scientific evidence of a lab leak was so slow to emerge from intelligence agencies.
However, for my part, the most alarming aspect was the censorship, not the science.
There will continue to be a debate over the origins of COVID-19, but now there will be a debate.
For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racists or racist conspiracy theorists.
Academics joined this chorus in marginalizing anyone raising the theory. One study cited the theory as an example of “anti-Chinese racism” and “toxic white masculinity.”
As late as May 2021, the New York Times’ Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli was calling any mention of the lab theory as “racist.”
She embodies the model of the new “advocacy journalism” at the Times. Reporters who remained wedded to the dated view of objective journalism were purged from the ranks of The Times long ago.
Mandavilli and others made clear that reporters covering the theory were COVID’s little Bull Connors.
She tweeted wistfully “someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here.”
However, one former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade chastised his former colleagues for ignoring the obvious evidence supporting a lab theory as well as Chinese efforts to arrest scientists and destroy evidence that could establish the origin.
Others in academia quickly joined the bandwagon to assure the public that there is no scientific basis for their theory, leaving only racist or politics as the motivation behind the theory.
In early 2020, with little available evidence, two op-eds in The Lancet in February and Nature Medicine went all-in on the denial front.
The Lancet op-ed stated, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin.”
We were also supposed to forget about massive payments from the Chinese government to American universities and grants of some of these writers to both Chinese interests or even the specific Wuhan lab.
No reference to the lab theory was to be tolerated. When Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) merely mentioned the possibility in 2020, he was set upon by the usual flash media mob. The Washington Post ridiculed him of repeating a “debunked” coronavirus “conspiracy theory.”
The categorical rejection of the lab theory is only the latest media narrative proven to be false. The Russian collusion scandal, the Hunter Biden “Russian Disinformation,” the Lafayette Park “Photo Op” conspiracy, the Nick Sandmann controversy, the Jussie Smollett case, the Migrant Whipping scandal.
On the lab theory, media like the Washington Post piled on senators like Cruz and Cotton for mentioning the lab theory only later to admit that it could be legitimate.
All of those experts and writers who were called racists or suspended by social media were simply forgotten in media coverage.
That is why this is really about censorship.
The media guaranteed that we did not have a full debate over the origins of the virus and attacked those who had the temerity to state the obvious that there was a plausible basis for suspecting the Wuhan lab.
None of this has diminished demands for more censorship. Even after Twitter admitted that it wrongly blocked The New York Post story before the 2020 election, Democratic senators responded by warning the company not to cut back on censorship and even demanded more censorship.
Recently, the Twitter Files revealed an extensive and secret FBI effort to censor citizens on social media.
This included undisclosed efforts by members like Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.) to get Twitter to ban a columnist and target critics. In a House hearing, democratic leaders like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md). called for more censorship and opposed investigations into the censorship efforts
These same figures in politics and media are just moving on to the next approved narrative.
President Biden previously called for more censorship and accused Big Tech of “killing people” by not censoring more views deemed “COVID misinformation.”
The opposite is true. By suppressing alternative scientific and policy views, the public was denied a full debate over mask efficacy, vaccine side effects, COVID origins and other important issues.
Many of those questions are only now being recognized as legitimate and worthy of debate.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 27, 2023 at 10:52 am
The food supply
The fuel supply
The transport system
The electricity system.
*ALL* 4 above are being attacked by the green movement.
“In the Land of Promise”: An Encounter with a Pro-Life Painting
During a brief sojourn in my nation’s capital to participate in the March for Life this year, a few friends and I were able to visit the National Gallery of Art. With limited time, I was intent on prioritizing works by such great painters as Sargent, Whistler, or Monet. Though I was able to examine some of their works in person and marvel at their mastery, a chance encounter with a somewhat unknown artist was what left the deepest impression on me.
Correct, I committed the following ‘COVID crimes’, yet in the end they had to fall back on an AFP frame up – which I beat too.
1) (AHPRAs words) “stated in the media that Ivermectin was an
effective treatment for COVID-19 in contradiction to ATAGI
guidelines”
2) (AHPRAs words) “issued patients with instructions on how to
obtain Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 in contradiction with ATAGI
guidelines”
3) (AHPRAs words) “stated in the media that the COVID-19
vaccines were unsafe and this information was being
systematically suppressed by governments, professional bodies
and the media in contradiction to Ahpra and the National Boards
position statement regarding COVID-19 vaccines”
4) Discouraged vaccination of children for COVID (my words: “Dont rush it, healthy children have ZERO risk of serious COVID, yet face a lifetime of risk of side effects … pause to consider the ethics of vaccinating children to protect their grandparents”
5) (AHPRA’s words) – acted anti-semetically by comparing the ‘othering process’ of the unvaccinated to that of the jews in the lead up to the holocaust – including reference to the ‘Ten Stages of Genocide”
6) Crossed a closed border (multiple times)
7) Failed to wear a mask in contravention to CHO directive (multiple times)
8) Left home (whilst under lockdown) without lawful excuse – multiple times
9) Criticised my state MP, persistently and publicly (earned a home visit from the Police for this)
10) Failed to report of ‘contact tracing’ (multiple times).
Whatever happens, I can hold my head high and know I stood up for my childrens future. Otherwise, the noose just continues to tighten. They regard themselves as our rulers now, not our servants.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
February 27, 2023 at 12:38 pm
Housing, in Alice Springs/blockquote>
Good on Avi for getting to the heart of the matter with his report.
It should be aired on every TV station in Australia, because the solution is so simple (I’ve mentioned it previously here myself) –
a hostel where kids can go to feel safe, and loved, get a decent bed, get cleaned up, and where they can get fed, amuse themselves, and learn from trusted adults about boundaries to behaviour and present themselves ready for daily school.
Lizzie,
“Stolen Generation Again” – To the Stocks for such a Sensible Suggestion
Therapeutic Albanese speaks for himself on super in 29 Secs – Spot the Lie!
ABCcess posts a “its totally a conspiracy theory” sharticle on the “15 minute cities”.
Unasked: Why we should give government the benefit of the doubt after the last 3 years of covid bastardry?
Unfortunately their x-spurts parrot the WEF lines.
“Your carbon footprint is a lot lower, so it’s a powerful climate change mitigation tool … It promotes urban health and thus promotes the actual reduction of public health costs … It promotes individual affordability and household affordability because you don’t need to own the second car or maybe even the third car.”
…
As NSW minister Rob Stokes put it last year: “The pandemic has seen demand for walking and cycling infrastructure soar, and outdoor spaces valued more than ever. Our vision for 15-minute neighbourhoods will also improve health and wellbeing outcomes, and ensure local communities thrive.”
Government have proven, for 3 years they are mendacious shits only too happy to use the organs of state to violate people lives and livelihoods.
So excuse me if it automatically assume bad intentions for your every proposal going forward.
I should also add that I think a flying squad of clean-up assistants would be a very good investment, because often these people are so damaged, depressed or simply incapable, that they don’t know where to start once they have let things get so bad. It should be made clear that this is a one-off gift, and that next time they will be out on their ear. Free or subsidised cleaning materials would also be a good investment, available from a central depot to tenants, because people on benefits don’t have the money to spend on such things. A culture of cleaning could be established, and it would be a start. Similarly, in remote communities, picking up litter should be prioritised and ensure by litter fines of some sort (maybe withdrawal of certain privileges). If it all sounds authoritarian and intrusive, well, it needs to be.
The ‘fix the broken window’ system enlarged to cover housing care.
Link to sharticle
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-27/the-15-minute-city-conspiracy/102015446
Several years ago, in Western Australia, with a State election looming, the Liberal Party proposed a similar scheme for Aboriginal children.
Les then a day later, a certain Aboriginal politician played the “Stolen Generation” card.
OldOzzie says:
February 27, 2023 at 12:00 pm
Lysander says:
February 27, 2023 at 11:37 am
SITREP 2/26 – Urgent Update – Today it has been confirmed by reputable sources that the AFU has attacked Belarusian soil—specifically a drone attack on a Russian early warning A-50U Beriev plane parked in Machulishchi airbase, just outside of Minsk. The UA side claims the A-50U was damaged, while there is no confirmation from the Russian side.
If true, this is a significant escalation by Ukrainian forces.
Quite unbelievable looking through some of the comments on the abortion story linked upthread. Here is an example:
A ‘spontaneous abortion’ is a miscarriage. She wasn’t ‘undergoing’ it, it had happened; there was no fetal heartbeat so the child in utero was now dead. The D&C was not of a live child in utero, but of a now dead child in utero that now threatened sepsis and death if not attended. No one is opposed to the removal of dead child in utero via D&C. Trying to pretend there is no morally relevant difference between spontaneous abortion and induced abortion is manifest dishonesty.
Essentially what the missions used to do.
Well, Avi’s interviewee, the ex-cop housing contractor, who knows more than a thing or two, has solved that one. He has suggested the kids should ‘self-refer’, and thinks many of them would so do.
Home visits to encourage creation of an environment that would attract the kids back could be part of the deal. Kids probably would only use such a service on a part-time basis anyway – but it would be a good start. Staffed by ‘aunties’ please, of the indigenous variety. Many of the women are fed up with what is happening to the kids, but can’t say too much nor change much without help.
1) they aren’t free – I pay for them
2) ‘free shit’ is NEVER valued by the recipients – it cannot be – they have no means of judging what its worth if they didnt have to pay for it – this is the ‘Communist Calculation Problem’ devolved all the way down to the individual level.
Innovative programs involving aboriginal input would do so much more to improve these remote community (or township) situations than the wretched Voice, with its victim-building culture and huge waste of money, would ever do. That money, along with what we give now, could be put to such better purposes. I am all for the decent aboriginal people I grew up with, and who married into my family, returning to the cultural fore and demanding that joining in with the mainstream culture is the way to go and looking after your kids is the number one purpose in life.
Or a false flag to increase the pressure for Belorussian entry.
Someone has been scoffing red pills like Smarties.
Tulsi Gabbard: Biden and Democrats Now Share Same ‘Core Principles’ As Hitler and Nazis (26 Feb)
Welcome to the right side of politics Ms Gabbard. Maybe you and Mark Latham should have a conversation some time.
The Government had virtually no physical control. What they did have was control of peoples minds.
yep, my 4 adult kids, at the time, had nothing but praise for the gummint(s) “saving lives” with vax and prompt actions to the extent of cutting me off from grandee contact .. cos no vax! .. 2 of ’em still believe it.. FFS!
From the Tim Blair blog referred to earlier:
Staffed by ‘aunties’ please, of the indigenous variety.
With a large burly pacific Islander “uncle” there with the express remit of flogging 7 shades of poop out of any parasites/abusers trying to access the place.
Plenty of things are ‘subsidised’, including pharmaceutical prescriptions and university education.
We don’t live in a libertarian Ayn Rand paradise. Look at it rationally, saying it is what it is.
Public housing is also subsidised, and not an ideal solution, but when a ‘stopgap’ as it used to be, while people got on their feet, it still has value. Getting a minor form of subsidy on cleaning gear to maintain public housing in a hygienic state will also have an ROI. Fewer repairs and biocleans needed.
Yelling ‘let them die in their own squalor’, especially when children are involved, is no solution to anything. The current situation, as Avi’s interviewed cop/contractor knows, has been let go on for so long that something is required to repair the current set of practices that have led to this squalor. I am suggesting some positive actions which could have positive effects. A change in the public housing culture about hygiene and care of property.
Wolfman & Cassie:
I still wear my Tshirts with the Morgan David & Biohazard symbol. And will continue until the legislation which enables this atrocious removal of one class of citizen from our society.
I can carry a grudge with the best of them now.
Duk the only thing you did wrong was 9. You failed to rip the head off the said politician and shove it up his bountiful posterior.
Calli:
I swapped my TV for a bread maker, which gets more use than the TV. The lounge room looks refreshingly uncluttered.
Yes. As a role model. Many of these kids have never seen what a good man can do to keep order, they have been effectively fatherless and the only men they have known have been drunks and druggies.
Bourne1879:
And a large percentage of people said “That’s about right”.
I should also add that I think a flying squad of clean-up assistants would be a very good investment, because often these people are so damaged, depressed or simply incapable, that they don’t know where to start once they have let things get so bad. It should be made clear that this is a one-off gift, and that next time they will be out on their ear. Free or subsidised cleaning materials would also be a good investment, available from a central depot to tenants, because people on benefits don’t have the money to spend on such things. A culture of cleaning could be established, and it would be a start.
I’m assuming you aren’t aware that, these dayz, NSW Housing has no, automatic, right of access to properties without good reason? .. like all landlords in NSW they have to ask for, prior, permission in writing to enter from you, the tenant, or go thru the Rent Tribunal with a damn good excuse! .. just turning up at the door is classed as “harassment” if you decide to complain ..!
I wouldn’t fancy the chance of HC fronting the Tribunal and claiming the joint needs cleaning!..
Ist they’d have to prove it and, of course, once you were made aware as the rules say you have to be .. you’d clean-up vid it .. lob into the Tribunal and say, “Who, moi? .. look at this.. victimzation, they is always pickin’ on me!” ..
All part of the everyone-winz-a-prize-cos-we-is-all-equal syndrome that the woke have inflicted thru-out the gummint rule books …….. and when your dealing wiv “houso” ‘professionals” .. duuuuh!
B’Hell – just reading SMH Article
Fertility, obesity, productivity… The crazy cost of a Sydney house is not just financial
and my wife, who had been weeding the driveway, came in to tell me she had spoken to the Guy who is now doing our lawns (my Lawn guy of over 20 years had sold his lawn run & bought one in Kiama late last year – The new Guy, who I assume works for the Strata Maintenance Person who bought the run), about doing our lawns on thursday nearer weekend –
Turns out the Guy drives down from Tamworth, where he lives, stays at his Father’s House in Lake MacQuarie and comes down to Sydney to do 3 -4 days Lawns/Hedging work
Ouch!
just reading SMH Article
Fertility, obesity, productivity… The crazy cost of a Sydney house is not just financial
I got an update on this recently. In the context of my mothers death, the aboriginal kids she taught came to her funeral or spoke to me personally before and afterward.
Made me realise how completely our lives had separated from theirs since primary school.
But one neighbour who was still in contact told me about a shelter they made in the garden; they went to the Aboriginal houses in town and scrounged all the flagons left from long ago, and built them into concrete as a glass garden wall. The aboriginal kids we knew, now in their sixties, said what we didn’t get about those times was that the problems we knew were only on pension day. The rest of the time they had great lives!
My takeaway is that I actually know little about their lives, and will let them speak for themselves.
TV is very non-U anyway.
Who had China hosting Ukraine/Russian peace talks on their 2023 bingo card?
“Touching grass” is a great idea but building a lot cabin and drinking raw milk is illegal. Very, very illegal!
Live in ze pod, eat ze bugz!
I would have picked Japan, bern.
Exactly. I am a great fan of rewriting the historical role of missions in improving aboriginal welfare and education, and knocking over the ‘stolen generations’ mythologies. We are currently seeing in places like Alice Springs what happens when people are left without attachments to the wider society and its norms. They become feckless, all the more so when they become dependent on welfare funding, especially when it comes with no reciprocal strings attached. When one significant string, the cashless welfare card, was removed by the ideological Labor government, no prizes for guessing the result. These are the people who denigrated missions, pushed for outback ‘settlements’, invented a ‘stolen generation’ and gifted land rights royalties without strings to be squandered. This money then became controlled Big Men who profit from further moneys offered to ‘improve’ the very conditions created by the monies already offered.
But it is what it is, we’ve got what we’ve got, and I start from there with policies for change.
the Liberal/National Coalition comes to mind – as well as all the Conservatives criticising Matt Walsh for his robust language.
Ok here a in-voice hypothetical.
We have seen the “super early for Abbos” court case.
It will probably fail in court.
If the constitutionally enshrined in-voice gets up and “advises” that this is actually something that should be in place, its guaranteed a rails run to the High court (if the government doesnt capitulate immediately).
No run nearly every legal challenge with a tenuous connection to Aboriginality through that same filter- does it seem a modest proposal to anybody now?
Such as this one
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/thousands-call-on-pm-to-help-reunite-heartbroken-aboriginal-mother-with-2-year-old-daughter/gt54ame3n
Remember they dont have to justify any intervention
The aboriginal kids we knew, now in their sixties, said what we didn’t get about those times was that the problems we knew were only on pension day. The rest of the time they had great lives!
Government “help” is capable of destroying any peoples.
Consumer fatigue has always been a big threat to the State Department’s grand plans.
So he’s Foggy Bottom’s marketable face. For the moment.
If he is smart, he’ll know he needs to be more recognisable to the general US public than whoever’s currently hot on American Idol.
So that when the Administration decides to cut their losses,
Joe PaycheckKaren Whitewhine will be the insurance policythat ensures he gets to walk away too.
Indeed, Chris. But not with Albo’s Voice, which will not be listening to them but an urban elite.
Does ‘speaking for themselves’ involve any local organisation, and to whom should they speak?
Or perhaps they are doing fine as they are? From most appearances though, that doesn’t seem to be the case in many more remote areas.
Very sceptical of the China supplying Russia with weapons story.
Selling them the building blocks & tech?
Sure.
But to do more than that without several cut outs in between would be too inflammatory for the US.
I just see the Voice as being the vehicle for such an urban elite.
It may also be a version of ‘stories my Nana told me’. Back in the early 1970s my Mum the teacher said that the threat of removal meant that the parents sent the kids to school; those kids were literate at a high rate, but I understand half their grandchildren are not.
But then half the kids I was at school with have died, too.
I am very aware of this Shaterzzz. You are not the only person on this blog intimately acquainted with NSW Housing. Housing have the right to make regular inspections of property, which they do, informing of the date by letter first. My bipolar son, whose place is often a squalid mess, gets regular visits that I am thankful about, because they do make him clean up a bit. I provide the equipment.
That Housing are slack in these duties is also true, they take the path of least resistance with difficult tenants. On one occasion in a public housing unit in a three story walk up block in Sydney I had to write to the Fire Department notifying them of their legal responsibilities in case of fire. I pointed out that I had notified Housing three times that the corridors were being filled with lumbar and other pieces of construction material that one tenant wanted to keep. It was so bad that I had to crawl over it to get to visit my grandchidren living there at that time. Only after I did this was the material removed. That tenant was also dealing drugs. The police knew about him, and the Police Welfare Officer told me they couldn’t do anything about it as they hadn’t caught him doing it. Come round any night and you will see the druggies lined up in the corridor, often fighting, and you can get him, I said.
He’s still there and still dealing and there is still noise and fighting all the time.
My grandkids don’t live there any more, but other people’s kids still do.
Aboriginal children attending country boarding hostels had all their school fees paid, right down to textbooks, school uniforms and pocket money.
Trump’s Ukrainian peace plan mocked:
But Trump understands that’s exactly how big men in that part of the world resolve issues.
There could be a cease fire in Ukraine today if the US & China agreed on the terms that would be force fed to Ukraine & Russia.
The Heartland Institute’s speakers; about 3 under 50 years of age. The sceptics have lost the young:
https://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/
You are correct Lizzie. There is no purpose in remote communities. No-one in the MSM, except a few on Sky News, state the obvious: remote communities are a dumb idea. Take any group of people, stick ’em out in the boondocks, with no prospects of employment or doing something constructive with the land, and they will degenerate. In my experience the indigenous people who did well were those who chose to live in the present and take advantage of the opportunities possible through mainstream culture.
I’ve commented long ago here on my experiences with NSW Housing and I don’t relish returning to them, even those that are ongoing; however, the blog has constant newcomers so that’s why I still relate them. A voice from the coal-face, now joined by Shaterzzz. It is also why I get the extreme irrits with those dickless uptickers who think I know nothing of the world beyond Vaucluse, and not just from my own childhood in Housing Commission in Sydney’s outer west.
I’ve just brought a new Subaru. $1k cheaper than a second hand one with 30,000km on the clock. How does that work? Salesman said people want to drive out with a car, not wait. Pick it up tomorrow. It had to be white otherwise it was next week delivery.
“Assimilation” was Government policy until the 1970’s – 80% of Aborigines live in the present – but, no, along came that pair of fools, Gough Whitlam and “Nugget” Coombes, with their policy of “the noble savage, living on his traditional lands” , and it’s been downhill ever since.
Mine too. They are suffering under indigenous and western socialism. Seems the only solution left is to cut funding. Grand ideas of what others should do just don’t cut it.
Pfizer in Early-Stage Talks to Acquire Seagen
Pfizer is in early-stage talks to acquire biotech Seagen, valued at about $30 billion, and its pioneering targeted cancer therapies.
Seagen is doing some incredible stuff.
If Pfizer get it, it will stifle their innovation.
Flyingduk, you can take the convict out of serfdom but, even generations later, the impulse to put on the shackles again remains.
Most Australians detest politicians and politics and believe they can be left alone by busybodies and the chattering classes simply by wishing it.
They’re now getting an intense practical education about the fascists who’ve seized the power to control us, most of them unelected government bureaucrats.
I’m optimistic a new generation of courageous warriors and leaders will emerge from the moral ashes of the past three years.
Remember HP buying Apollo! The innovators were frrrrizzled like frrritters.
You’ll note that it’s all the effects of “colonialism” and “Oppression.”
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
February 27, 2023 at 2:22 pm
NationalVictoriaYoorrook Justice Commission
Opinion
‘Family violence is not part of Aboriginal culture’, but Katrina knows it too well
By Katrina Harrison
February 27, 2023 — 5.00am
I am a 58-year-old proud Palawa woman, living on Gunaikurnai land.
You’ll note that it’s all the effects of “colonialism” and “Oppression.”
Zulu,
at what stage do “Aboriginals” pull the Finger out & start taking responsibily for their Own Lives
I spent 19 years with one man, I had a strong desire for a healthy marriage, and I longed to model a respectful partnership for my children. Instead, I was subjected to sexual, physical, emotional, financial and psychological abuse by my husband. I was 35 weeks pregnant during one physical assault that resulted in the loss of my baby girl. My heart still aches for her today; she is my stolen child.
Throughout those 19 years, I worked hard to protect my children. I attempted to leave several times, but each time I hung on to a promise of change from him while I discarded intervention orders from the state. No service walked alongside me or offered understanding, but I felt the judgment of many white institutions.
At what stage does she understand Self Responsibilty?
Apart from their intensive crash course in big government fascism, Australians are now getting an in-your-face education in the use of propaganda language techniques wielded by activists and the media, which is now effectively a new political party to the left of the Greens.
Tom, perhaps. It would be great. I am searching for how to be part of building it but I am convinced that the real outcome will be sideways of our generation’s better hopes.
Military Cats, thoughts on:
Australia’s Secret Army
By: Michael Veitch
Also, this looks interesting:
Pakeha Slave, Maori Masters
By: Trevor Bentley
Dammit, Im just going to post mincing Marr sans commentary, as something is pissing off wordpress.
Hes a mincing anti-Catholic bigot.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/catholic-schools-hang-on-for-dear-life-to-the-shame-of-homosexuality
Shame is the business model of most churches. Understand that and so much becomes clear. Fifty years ago their pews were packed, but numbers are way down and falling as they lose source after source of shame.
So they are hanging on for dear life to the shame of homosexuality even in the face of the exuberant celebrations this week of Sydney WorldPride.
When the dancing is done, hardliner faiths and congregations will be back on the warpath against the decent proposal of the Australian Law Reform Commission that faith schools lose their right to sack gay teachers and expel gay kids.
It matters to them. It’s business. It’s influence and cashflow. Without shame like this, how can you sell forgiveness?
So many lucrative sources of shame have disappeared in the last 60 or 70 years. How can faiths recruit any more by putting the boot into single mothers and “illegitimate” kids?
Society won’t have a bar of it.
Fulminating against sex outside marriage goes on, of course. But the shame factor has been whittled away almost to nothing. It no longer fills the pews and the plate.
So the continued loathing of homosexuality and transgender matters a great deal for these operations – particularly the so-called conservative wings of the Catholic and Anglican churches and evangelical congregations here and across America.
Humans are strange beasts. In expert hands, their capacity for shame and guilt about sex is depthless. Those same experts promise their members forgiveness, redemption and everlasting life.
But first, to the depths of your soul, you must experience shame
That gay and transgender kids kill themselves as a result with appalling frequency does not worry the shame brigade. George Pell stood outside St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne one day and declared the risk of gay children killing themselves was “another reason to be discouraging people going in that direction”.
He was also a great fan of gay conversion, now being energetically defended as New South Wales at last prepares to ban this particular cruelty. Try to find a place in your heart for these churches. How can they win customers unless they can keep promising to eradicate with prayer and sometimes electrodes the profound evil of homosexuality?
Church schools are both reassuring and baffling when they promise to treat gay pupils will with dignity but insist that the law leave them free to expel those kids at any time they wish. Pastoral care on one hand and, on the other, a threat of humiliation too profound to imagine.
It’s a glitch in the business model. Parents, apart from a few crazies, insist all their kids be treated decently. But the churches that own the schools insist homosexuality still be flagged in the law of the land as evil.
Candour is not a KPI of the leaders of these faiths. They don’t admit it’s good for business. They say they need to be able to sack gay teachers and expel gay kids to preserve the ethos of their faiths.
What a wonderful, lofty word. We are invited to pull back and see the big picture, to admit (and it is true) that churches are capable of wisdom, love and charity. But what sort of ethos is this that has as a key component legal dispensation to deal brutally with homosexuals of any age who come within their reach?
It’s up to us – the rag tag people of Australia, straights and gays, people of many faiths and none – to decide if the law Labor passed in 2013 should still give them this cruel privilege.
The churches say they’re fighting in the name of freedom. I hear, out in the vestry, the faint ring of the cash register.
Perhaps it was referring to him as a human cum gargling anus?
Exercise more effective than medicines to manage mental health, says study
Via instapundit.
Or hoping the burning shame he was feeling was more than the burning feeling in his monkey-pox riddled nether regions.
It’s yet another trough for the parasites to get their snouts in.
I’m always struck by the difference between the indig and islander communities in QLD.
Admittedly most islander families have been here longer than most Euros.
But they have kept their culture, are family focused and are solid community members.
Going to the rugby in SEQ is a ball because of the islander families. They turn up in droves with their giant eskies and flocks of kids and have a ball. The kids charge around like nutters but cause no trouble. Everyone is happy.
It would be a good thing if some of the staid “go you good thing” euro crowd exercised some islander passion.
A bit of diet reform could be useful, but it ain’t gonna happen.
It could be considered racist to compare the two communities simply because they are both black. Colour is not the criteria for comparison, but rather
conmunity groups identifiable by their culture.
As I just advised some friends a key symptom of depression is psychomotor retardation. Good luck with their strategy because they’ll need it.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
February 27, 2023 at 2:22 pm
NationalVictoriaYoorrook Justice Commission
Opinion
‘Family violence is not part of Aboriginal culture’, but Katrina knows it too well
By Katrina Harrison
February 27, 2023 — 5.00am
I am a 58-year-old proud Palawa woman, living on Gunaikurnai land.
Good essay; apart from this bullshit paragraph:
We must have real recognition that family violence is not part of Aboriginal culture, and that recognition must include an acknowledgement of the injustices that Aboriginal women like me have faced throughout our lives. Each of those injustices are attached directly to the dark, violent history of this country.
That’s hard to argue against.
Was Pell a spook?
Discuss.
The reason I bring that up is that I find the “born that way” argument credible, but we are told there is no scientific basis to gender, that’s a social construct.
Certainly, one hears the words ‘freedom’ ‘tyranny’ and ‘fascism’ from the mouths of the public more often now than 3 years ago.
From todays ‘Australian’:
That should read ‘making retirement, and the funding thereoff, a personal responsibility, would solve many of our problems…’
Lizzie:
I should also add that I think a flying squad of clean-up assistants would be a very good investment, because often these people are so damaged, depressed or simply incapable, that they don’t know where to start once they have let things get so bad.
You first Lizzie.
Australia needs a reset.
Someone turn it off, wait 5 seconds & then turn it back on again.
He he, he he, give it a Brogan adjustment.
How many aboriginal women on this continent in 1770 had nine children?
Chuckle. That’s second on the list after “did you turn it on”.
er …. no skulls, no salting, no ‘fire them all from orbit’ etc etc etc?
I am mystified by this pride insistence. Is it like the gay pride thing?
re the idea of a place where the kids can go for a feed and to feel safe.
.1 How about arresting and locking up the ones who make them feel unsafe?
.2 Who is mad enough to take on the job as a male protector? Within a week the sorry bastard will accused of kiddie fiddling!
.3 At the end of the week, the entire tribe will pull down the protective fences, raid the sanctuary, take the kids back and burn it down. All while the ABC televises it live.
.4 Notice the ones making the most noise are thousands of kilometers away from where the need for their intervention is highest, and living in conditions that would be considered Paradise to the ones living in the wreckage?
You’re all being taken for mugs.
Just walk away, the cost of doing that is high, but it will be a damn sight higher if we interfere.
Gender is definitely a social construct. It refers to parts of speech, for example der, die, das in German.
Sex is something else. There are a lot of physical factors, but whether or not you have a dick is a big giveaway. This isn’t a social construct.
Had to do that with the fat back last night. Am thinking of caving.
That Housing are slack in these duties is also true, they take the path of least resistance with difficult tenants.
NSW Housing is still operating work-from-home with local offices closed (except by appointment) .. at least out here .. one of the reasons they don’t/can’t deal with ‘difficult” tenants is that head office is top heavy with folk who were lower grade area clerks in the 90s .. the folks who took the drug bribes & other rorts (sex for swaps was quite popular)..
lotza tenants, like me, still around who are capable of naming & shaming so they operate on the 3 monkeys principle ….
We ain’t playing 2019 rules anymore .. it isn’t proof that matters just the accusation, these days …
Very interesting article this arvo in the Oz by Robert Gottliebsen
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/robert-gottliebsen-superannuation-changes-a-repeat-of-horror-1987-labor-union-fund/news-story/7eccef92bcc2cfdd4bd85c29cb45e2ef
Superannuation reform: Super changes a repeat of horror 1987 Labor, union fund, says Robert Gottliebsen | The Australian
The Albanese government’s confusing superannuation agenda is becoming clearer – they are in the process of introducing a 2023 version of the Australian Labor Party/Australian Council of Trade Unions’ 1987 superannuation blueprint – and that blueprint is horrific.
It proposed that the Hawke-Keating government of the day conscript 20 per cent of Australian superannuation income for a body to be set up to promote government-favoured projects and union agendas.
When former ACTU official and current Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones last week stunned the superannuation community by claiming that members money was “honey” that should be managed in the best interest of the “hive” (i.e. the government hive) – no mention of returns – old timers, like me, went scrambling back to the records to confirm memories.
The superannuation community is currently being confused by the gymnastics that trigger higher taxes or bans on superannuation balances above $5m or $3m. But that is only part of base agenda which revolves around the ALP’s entrenched belief that superannuation is government rather than members’ money.
The ACTU and the Hawke/ Keating government combined in 1987 to set out an “Australia Reconstructed” strategy document that included the establishment of a “hive” called the National Development Fund to invest government money in enterprises in accordance with the agenda of the day.
The Albanese government has embraced a duplicate body called the National Reconstruction Fund (the word “development” has been replaced by “reconstruction”) to “support, diversify and transform the Australian industry and economy helping to create secure and well-paid jobs, securing future prosperity and driving economic growth”.
Behind that lofty ambition is a plan to invest across seven priority areas including renewable and low-emission technologies; medical science; transport; value added agriculture; forestry and fisheries; value added resources and defence capability.
The government has allocated $15bn for this enormous task. It is clearly not nearly enough to do the job properly. Where will the extra money come from? We go back to “Australia Reconstructed” for the likely answer.
Back in 1987 the ALP/ACTU proposed National Development Fund aimed to provide equity capital and “soft loans” to invest in industrial capacity. Priority would be given to investments in import replacement, export expansion, industry modernisation and reconstruction activities – an incredibly similar set of aims to the 2023 fund.
But added to the priorities was a set of extra criteria for enterprises to be eligible for funds including union approved dispute settlement procedures, work and management practices and other union agendas – for example, the recipients of the 1987 development fund money would be fully unionised.
To fund the proposed National Development Fund “all superannuation funds will be required to make available up to 20 per cent of their future income to be drawn on by the “National Development Fund”. Presumably that would include retail and self-managed funds.
At that time the Keating compulsory superannuation levies were still in the pipeline so total superannuation funds were much smaller than today. “Australia Reconstructed” proposed that if there was insufficient money there would be a one per cent tax on all imports supplemented by a surcharge on luxury imports.
The 1987 fund would be managed by the government’s Australian Industry Development Corporation (AIDC) which was established in 1971 by a Coalition government and by 1987 had a large portfolio of investments.
The 1987 National Development Fund/superannuation strategy was interrupted by a Wall Street crash, a recession and a government change. But had it proceeded then almost all the “conscripted” members’ superannuation money would have been lost given the massive $3bn plus losses that were later incurred in the AIDC “hive”.
Victoria’s ALP government tried a similar government investment strategy and the consequent mountain of losses that followed cost Victoria its State Bank which was snapped up by the Commonwealth Bank. Government sponsored bodies are not good at investment selection
Back to 2023 and the Albanese government will no doubt deny in strong terms that it has plans to conscript 20 per cent of Australians’ superannuation funds income for the “National Reconstruction Fund”
But in last year’s election campaign the government promised that there would be no changes to superannuation when we now know major changes were being plotted.
Government denials and statements on future superannuation policy therefore now have limited credibility.
One of the Industry Fund masterminds Garry Weaven bemoans that what’s happening under the Albanese government is “undermining the whole basis of super”.
Fascinatingly Jim Chalmers did a PHD on the Paul Keating era which included “Australia Reconstructed”. Accordingly Chalmers now appears to be defining superannuation in a way to make it easy for Australian superannuation members’ money to be the “honey” that can be conscripted for the government “hive” – the National Reconstruction Fund.
Chalmers is also proposing that his definition of superannuation include the word “retirement”. These days most people know that the best retirement asset is owning a dwelling. Superannuation is great but it is second.
Unlike Chalmers, the ALP/ ACTU designers of “Australia Reconstructed” also understood the importance of dwelling ownership in retirement and set out that the “National Development Fund”, should provide loans for houses preferably for first home buyers and low income earners.
The government will almost certainly ignore this part of the “Australia Reconstructed” master plan because its too close to Coalition policy.
Instead it looks like industry fund money will be sucked into social housing projects instead of helping new home buyers.
If the full 1987 Australia Reconstructed agenda (outside housing) is embraced there will be a 15 per cent of invested funds limit on how much superannuation funds can invest overseas.
The sad thing is that governments, and particularly Australian governments are not good at running these enterprise investment funds so if superannuation income is conscripted the outlook for superannuation in Australia is bleak.
Pell was right and Marr is wrong, as simple as that. I doubt Marr had ever considered the possibility that it wasn’t the shame that shocked the kids but the reality of their new lifestyle.
What a great troll account, can’t tell if this is real or not.
https://twitter.com/TrackInflation/status/1624447924229836801?cxt=HHwWgsC4_fixmYstAAAA
I met a guy at the bar in 2021 who told me he was a multimillionaire from Dogecoin. I took him home that night and cuffed him to the bed and forced him to get off inside of me. I got pregnant with a hope to secure some money. He lost it all and can’t pay child support. Single mom
Phillip Retweeted
Phillip
@TrackInflation
I met a guy at the bar in 2021 who told me he was a multimillionaire from Dogecoin. I took him home that night and cuffed him to the bed and forced him to get off inside of me. I got pregnant with a hope to secure some money. He lost it all and can’t pay child support. Single mom
3:39 AM · Feb 12, 2023
Feb 12
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@TrackInflation
Is this real?
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@TrackInflation
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Feb 12
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@jesse_z06
Yes
Simple. Aborigines are nomads used to the privations of famine, drought and flood.
Islanders are mostly sea-going melanesians who, compared to Aborigines, are much more like indigenous southern Africans who thrive on community and its rituals, like singing in harmony, and home-making.
Sadly, the Mills sisters no longer sing their harmonies outside the Federal Hotel on Thursday Island, but I bet the same harmonies have been passed down to a new generation.
Islander culture is a happy culture. Aboriginal culture is a culture of survival in a harsh land.
As far as I know nobody is expelled for being gay but for openly practicing that lifestyle.
Odd how Marr does not mention homosexual rape in schools as part of his tirade against…nasty churches. Doesn’t do to imagine something that would spoil the narrative.
That’s actually quite low and envy based crap.
If you’re never going to work again, why discourage people from avoiding the OAP the best they can?
And beyond I would wager.
They’ve thrown a bone to the noisy mob and made cancellation noises which they have no intention of following through on. Truth is, Amazon Prime probably just see it as an opportunity to hose down any requests from Clarkson for more money.
Exactly. Winners are hard to find in a content-hungry world where tonnes of banal crap like MAFS gets served up. When you find a gold nugget like this, you don’t bin it.
How did “Top Gear” go after the departure of Clarkson, May and Hammond?
I am mystified by this pride insistence. Is it like the gay pride thing?
The media luvs it .. it sets them apart from “us” .. tho whether folk actually, use it, or not, in real speech, I’ve no idea bit like the “auntie & uncle” waffle, smoke ceremonies, welcome to country which all come across as “newbie” stuff .. i can’t imagine the “noble savage” striding Oz 300 000 years ago was addressing & greeting each other with those terms or “ceremonies” .. probably more concerned with catching a kangaroo for tea …
If the rumor that China is beginning arms shipments to the Ruskies is true, we could end up being royally rooted. If the US imposes wholesale sanctions on the Chinese, they could demand we stop shipping commods to the fcukers.
They are also practicing Christians who adhere to the individual responsibility philosophy.
The superannuation community is currently being confused by the gymnastics that trigger higher taxes or bans on superannuation balances above $5m or $3m.
Being an OAP (75) can someone explain to me the joys of having $Amillions in super once you pass 65?
Your entering old age (can’t be avoided) and money is the MAIN concern? .. wierd! ..
by 65 your health should be the BIG issue not wealth .. doesn’t matter how much you have if you don’t have good health you ain’t gonna enjoy it …….
I still swim 1kms at least twice a week and bike ride around 250kms a week, haven’t seen a quacktician since the all clear from Cancer 10 years ago, take no pills or had any of the vaxs .. and wouldn’t swap this level of old age health for any amount of money …….!
Hopefully, this will last until I get my “telegram” .. not because I want to live forever but because I, thoroughly, enjoy having CentreLink cough up every fortnight ….
most of which i don’t spend, anyway … LOL!
30 years on Aged Pension numbers have barely changed. Garry Weaven and the unions have made off like bandits. How long before you just scrap the lot?
“insistance on pride”
It makes a statement: placing their aboriginal heritage above their white heritage
oh no .. insistence
Public v Private Education | Professor James Tooley
John Anderson
full interview
Educating the World | Prof. James Tooley
John Anderson
Shatterzz thoroughly, enjoys having CentreLink cough up every fortnight.
I can’t imagine why, when it is taxpayer’s money which is being coughed up.
I turn 76 next month and despite having gone through two divorces (the quickest way to destroy wealth), I am fully self-funded and will stay that way.
Work hard, spend less than you make, stay healthy and stay out of trouble.
Simple.
Monica Doumit: Sacrificing children to gender ideology’s brutal god
By Marilyn Rodrigues -February 24, 2023
Pseudoscience begins to unravel: Westmead doctors raise major doubts on Trans procedures for kids
There was an earlier succession movement in the US prior to the Civil War.
Have to agree.
and your ‘thankyou from a grateful nation’ …. they will demonise you and steal your shit!
Cheers
wolfman, can I alert you to a youtube contributor called ‘British B movies and more.’
Right up your alley, and some excellent content. 🙂
Shatterzz thoroughly, enjoys having CentreLink cough up every fortnight.
I can’t imagine why, when it is taxpayer’s money which is being coughed up.
Your assuming folk on the OAP never paid taxes? .. not everyone has a job earning enuf to ensure a self-funded retirement ….. or support two exes .. LOL!
Cliff Boof says:
February 27, 2023 at 4:25 pm
I fully agree with your comment.
Boasting about getting taxpayers money way above what you paid in tax in your working life is not on.
It is right and proper that we look after our old, and I have no problem with that at all.
I’ve met gay men that say the only reason they are that was is because they got buggered as a youngster. I believe them. There are others that are such obvious queens it is impossible to imagine them ever shacking up with a woman.
I have to pay full whack this week for my MRI. LOL!
Apparently I’m too old for the Medicare rebate and too rich for the pension card.
Lucky me. 😀
Death of The Derailleur? Honda’s Incredible Bicycle Gearboxes (All 3 Generations)
Inside The Revolutionary Honda Bicycle Gearboxes (All 3 Generations)
byAlee Denham
February 18, 2023
Table of Contents
. The Advantages of a Gearbox Drivetrain for Racing
. Why Are Derailleurs Still Common in Racing?
. The Honda CVT Gearboxes
. The Honda Derailleur in a Box
. The Downsides of a Derailleur in a Box
. The Next Generation
. How Does the Honda CVT Gearbox Work?
. Summary
But Honda’s innovation isn’t just limited to products with motors. Two decades ago, they were experimenting with some top-secret bicycle gearbox drivetrains. And after a handful of seasons on the downhill World Cup MTB circuit, the Honda gearbox bikes had won the world championships and five World Cup rounds.
Unfortunately for us, the gearboxes that Honda developed were never meant to be commercial products. It turned out that Honda poured money into this program purely to challenge the minds of their engineers.
As the patents on these gearboxes are expiring soon, I thought this would be a great time for us to analyse all three generations of the Honda bicycle gearboxes. You’ll learn about the designs and how they all work, we’ll examine why there aren’t more gearboxes following similar designs, and we’ll look into the next generation of gearboxes in this space.
But first, let’s find out the advantages and disadvantages of using a gearbox over a derailleur drivetrain for mountain bike racing.
Plus
https://gearjunkie.com/biking/derailleur-death-bicycle-gearboxes-future
I think some of this Arizona cartel story is horseshit.
A beer? Just one? Not bloody likely! 🙂
His story about dealing with the local council so that he could open a restaurant, using local meat and veg, was very powerful. They blocked him at every turn, the council being full of greenies who hate any kind of change or growth. They got ridiculed and attacked from all over the UK.
But this is Oxfordshire, where the infamous 15 minute city is to be trialled.
I note that TheirABC ran a ‘story’ (yes, it is) today about how those opposed to it are ‘conspiracy theorists’ and all round nutters.
Here we go again.
You need a better accountant.
Inside Info: Honda RN01 – The Silver Bullet
One of the most mysterious, secret and probably expensive downhill bikes ever created was the Honda RN01. Raced from 2004-2006 by the G Cross Honda Team, the RN01 was a bike in a class of its own.
The chrome finish and the Honda wings all added to the UFO nature of the bike, RN01 stood for Racing, Natural (apparently referring to natures power) and 01 was because it was their first attempt/modelA. Very little information was released to the public in regards to this bike when Greg Minnaar, Matti Lehikonen, Brendan Fairclough and various Japanese riders were racing them. Mechanics would remove the gearbox from the frame so if the bikes were stolen the gearboxes weren’t.
This did pay dividends and two of the team bikese were stolen, without gearboxes! One ended up on Ebay and was later recovered. The hugely secretive nature of the program came at a time when downhill was no where near as professional as it is today, Steve Peat and Cedric Gracia (of course) ran into the restricted accessA. Honda tent at a race with a camera snapping pictures to have a cheeky dig at the way Honda were running things.
The first series of the gearbox was said to allow a huge number of gears to be accessed by the riders, so much so the UCI introduced a rule limiting the number of gears to nine for downhill bikes. It was a CVT system as found in modern day cars.
That does pose an interesting question as to whether this rule has been updated now that ten speed systems are available?!
The second series of these gearboxes were a simpler designer basically a derailleur and cassette within the housing. Other parts on the bike, such as the forks and brakes were made specifically for Honda and this bike by various Japanese manufacturers.
The linkage was a single pivot design, rumored to try and replicate their motorbike suspension. The total bike weight was around 18.5kg/41 pounds, depending on the build. The R and D costs alone ran into the hundreds of thousands! Unfortunately these bikes were never made available to the public, despite many reports they would be and almost all were apparently crushed at the end of the project with only Greg Minnaar having one at his house/shop sans the gearbox. We are willing to bet some Japanese collector managed to get their hands on one though… Then of course there was the four-cross/dual slalom bike Greg occasionally used!
feelthebern says:
February 27, 2023 at 5:06 pm
I think some of this Arizona cartel story is horseshit.
Have a read of Sundance – Goes into Detail
About That “Explosive” Arizona Senate Testimony Alleging Sinaloa Cartel Influence Over Public Officials
February 26, 2023 – Sundance
If it sounds too good to be true….
Okay folks, this is a story that dragged me into a rabbit hole for two days. If you have seen the video testimony of Ms. Jacqueline Breger in front of the Arizona Senate Committee investigating election issues, this outline is intended to help you navigate the story
Are you starting to get that… “wait, wha.. OMG.. nah, hard pass” feeling yet?
Given the nature of the personal background of the people involved, their relationships and the emotional overlay of an ongoing child custody battle, it becomes almost impossible to assert the claims by Mr. Thaler and Ms. Breger are not motivated by the family drama.
Unfortunately, the claims by Thaler and Breger may be accurate as documented. The scale and scope do seem “delusional and fantastical,” and that might be… because it is.
Decide on your own.
I simply advise to proceed with caution, and I have now spent two days in this rabbit hole…. so there’s that.
Trust your instincts…
Teacher’s thread claiming sex between adults and minors is not ‘intrinsically harmful’ HORRIFIES Twitter
No. I need a better birthday. There might be some overlap but I’m not holding my breath.
Ek roll ap die vloor…
Give the Collingwood story a miss on new.com.au if you want enjoy your dinner.
THIS teacher is more than horrified.
Thanks . . . I’ve subscribed and will have a look.
Calli, the magic age is 50 and then it has to be a suspected anterior cruciate ligament tear or acute meniscal tear with inability to straighten the knee.
The rationale is that at age > 50years, you supposedly need a knee replacement rather than remedial arthroscopic surgery as the studies, “The Science”, show no benefit to arthroscopic surgery at age > 50 years. Treating patients for many years, using the right carpenter, tells me this is crap.
The explainer is here on the medicare site.
And a pension card makes no difference.
I don’t know whether sex between adults and minors is harmful or not. Since I don’t get turned on by minors, this is an academic point, and although the conventional wisdom among conservatives is that it has terrible effects, I’m prepared to look at any evidence. Conservatives have been wrong before.
The trouble is that anyone taking the position that it’s possible for a child to consent, and there’s no harm in it, is immediately suspect of being a pedophile and hence incapable of being disinterested.
I am mystified by this pride insistence. Is it like the gay pride thing?
It’s the Murdoch Press running another Narrative.
Another example is spelling black Blak and capitalising it.
Another is Pat Dodson, known as the Father of Reconciliation
An oldie was HIV, the disease which causes AIDS
And yet I still have to pay. And that’s exactly what is suspected.
I’m not really whingeing…well, yes I am. And no, a pension card is useless anyway.
Ageists!
On the other hand, I’m thankful that the technology exists to work out what the dickens is wrong with my knee. I earned many…many Brownie points with the grandsons with the suspected hamstring injury.
They imagined I’d been wrecked on the field defending the ball. 😀
Geebus! I hope your just being contrarion, DrBG. Still poor judgement.
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Tony Wood before the senate today demanding that in effect all coal power be closed down. When the shit hits the fan and blackouts occur and this economy turns into a puddle of scrap metal, food queues and fortified elites no consequences will be sheeted home to this bastard.
Stupid Old Fogey alert:
Bons opines:
I’m always struck by the difference between the indig and islander communities in QLD.
Bons is confusing Torres Strait Islanders, who have little presence in Brisbane and are Rugby League followers, with Pacific Islanders, who do have a large presence in Brisbane and are interested in Rugby Union where their children make up 60% of the State side.
Tom blunders in:
Simple. Aborigines are nomads used to the privations of famine, drought and flood.
Islanders are mostly sea-going melanesians who, compared to Aborigines, are much more like indigenous southern Africans who thrive on community and its rituals, like singing in harmony, and home-making.
Tom:
Bons was confusing economic migrant Pacific Islander Polynesians with indigenous Torres Strait Melanesians.
They might seem happy to you, but the violence against females up there beggars belief.
These people never ever seem go away. Why I have no idea. Like Kroger and Loosley they pop up like cockroaches at every election.
NSW Labor win may just be because ‘it’s time to change the government’ (27 Feb)
She has not a single clue in her empty skull. Ms Chikarovski is why I voted Labor for the first and only time in my life when she dropped a lie about Carr which was so outrageous that I voted for him in complete fury at her. Which I regret. But having Chika commenting on this election is like getting educated in climate science by Greta.
DrBG the problem, in many instances, and especially in teaching, is a power imbalance. Did the child really consent or were they gaslit into believing they consented?
I cannot speak to harms generally as each person reacts differently, but the problem occurs when the person looks back and realises they didn’t actually consent and were tricked.
Please don’t ask me how I know this.
30 years on Aged Pension numbers have barely changed. Garry Weaven and the unions have made off like bandits. How long before you just scrap the lot?
Many people can’t save money, so they’re happy to let the Government do it for them.
The only way to kill it is to make it optional.
The non savers will change their tune when the Opt Outers get an instant 10% Pay rise.
so they’re happy to let the Government do it for them
Nothing says happiness like compulsion.
You utter mong.
yep, old age is not for the faint-hearted.
Pulled a ligament in my hip more than a year ago, and it still hurts like buggery.
But they have kept their culture, are family focused and are solid community members.
Islander Family:
Christian with a Dad.
Aboriginal “Family”:
Pagan sans a Dad.
Tom. The Mills Sisters wow.
That brings back great memories and long delayed hangover trauma – almost intergenerational.
I’m not sure our ‘gone native’ behaviour on TI was memorable but the sisters banging out their harmony certainly was.
A pal was up there about 10 years ago and went looking for them – no luck, but he did locate the young (then) priest who used to keep an eye on the girls and the pub generally.
They were all Hemingwayesque characters pre bureaucratic takeover. Unique memories.
My reference to Islander communities was not related to TI’s, rather to Kanaka descendants including the bloke who put me in hospital for a long stay following an impossibly violent tackle.
Cohenite:
Wrong.
Violence toward women and children has been an essential part of aboriginal culture since they arrived here 12,000 years ago. It’s time that fact was acknowledged and dealt with, no matter how distasteful it is.
Duk.
That statement needs to be up in neon lights.
Get on with it.
My reference to Islander communities was not related to TI’s, rather to Kanaka descendants including the bloke who put me in hospital for a long stay following an impossibly violent tackle.
Well you’re still wrong.
Kanakas don’t go to Queensland Reds games, their presence in Brisbane is almost non existent, they aren’t particularly religious, and they follow Rugby League.
Ed
You are invited, my treat, to QLD Uni field any winter Saturday afternoon to observe the people who aren’t there.
bons
Who will you believe, special-ed or your own lying eyes (and damaged organs)?
Lathe of the week!
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I take it you’re not attracted to mynahs?
Bons:
Samoans, Tongans and Fijians are not Kanakas.
Name one Kanaka who ever played for University or the Queensland Reds?
Yet another visit to Emergency. This time me.
I was stupid enough to go out on the ride-on mower to mow, in a stiff wind, without protective eye glasses. Don’t trust local hospital – so drove down to Sydney to Sydney Eye Hospital.
I wasn’t aware that it also serves as a general Emergency for inner Sydney city. Wow – an eye opener (no pun intended!). People seeking “clean needles”, and other assistance.
Waited several hours and was beckoned into the inner sanction where a young nurse examined me prior to the specialist. She asked whether she could have at establishing what was causing the extreme pain in my left eye. She wiped the inner eyelid with a cotton bud and Lo! slow please from the intense irritation of the last 5 hours – 3 hours travel & 2 hours waiting. Shortly after the young eye specialist repeated her work on the other eye – slightly miffed, I might add, that a mere nurse had been so successful.
Anyway, learned a painful lesson – put the damn glasses on before you mow or do hedging!
BTW after years of medical free life – including the last 3 Covid years – husband has been in Emergency 3 times (impacted bowel/suspected cellulitis (it was gout)/ & more recently 3 stitches to back of head after fall down spiral stairs in Sydney cleaning up after storm) …& now me with garbage in eye.
Cant help but think it is heaven’s correction to excessive hubris!
The radiologist looks over his glasses and says “Well, your knees really have seen better days, haven’t they?”
I am mystified by this pride insistence.
I’m not exactly sure what there is to be proud about.
Who will you believe, special-ed or your own lying eyes (and damaged organs)?
Look out!
It’s idiot O’clock at the New Cat.
Bons has been caught out rewriting history to discredit Aborigines, now CornHolio wants to jump in?
Kanakas are extremely religious, play Rugby Union and have intact families, you’re kidding yourself.
I ain’t playing DrBG. You gave the same rationale as predators do ” they liked it”. Own it.
Violence toward women and children has been an essential part of aboriginal culture since they arrived here 12,000 years ago. It’s time that fact was acknowledged and dealt with, no matter how distasteful it is.
Sadly right, Robert.
I am really surprised, Cohenite, that you claim that violence towards women is not inherent in Aboriginal culture. I respect your belief. But many archeological records show awful damage to female skulls going back a very long way. There is so much later evidence when early surveyors and explorers made first contact – that it is impossible to ignore. It was, and is, a fundamentally patriarchal culture – even though matrilineal lines are important to identity.
There is much to be deplored and regretted in EVERY culture. But it is a pointless path down the track of denial.
I’m distressed at this talk of singing outside a pub.
They should go inside & liven the place up.
Vicki! They used to have an ad for people like us.
The Weekend Wounded of Australia.
Exactly.
And the shame and guilt for homosexuals is the result of how they live.
Bathhouses and all the rest.
Well, I thought I’d try one of Mr. Motivator’s ‘sit downs’. It’s ok, it works. Try it.
Number 3 in his daily schedule is all sit down, for both of them, the garrulous Mr. M. and his silent lady.
I’m sweating from it, so it must have done some good. Or maybe it’s just Sydney’s February sauna.
I did his all-stretch one before, so with a 24 minute total think I’ve earned a cool-down G & T now.
Women destroy Culture, we’re seeing it in Australia right now.
Aborigines had a choice, protect their way of life or let Women wear the pants.
Aborigines chose the only thing that makes any sense, Europeans chose Pussy Worship.
Ed-Mong is Bruce Pascoe- confirmed.
in many instances, and especially in teaching, is a power imbalance. Did the child really consent or were they gaslit into believing they consented?
The power imbalance is the key.
Teachers rooting kids has to stop & needs to be dealt with more seriously.
The elites don’t buy their own climate propaganda, so why should we?
I hate having to edit a post for using the f-word.
But it’s dover’s blog so thems the rules.
“I am really surprised, Cohenite, that you claim that violence towards women is not inherent in Aboriginal culture. I respect your belief. But many archeological records show awful damage to female skulls going back a very long way. There is so much later evidence when early surveyors and explorers made first contact – that it is impossible to ignore. It was, and is, a fundamentally patriarchal culture – even though matrilineal lines are important to identity.
There is much to be deplored and regretted in EVERY culture. But it is a pointless path down the track of denial.”
I agree, although I believe almost all stone age cultures were violent, particularly towards women.
That’s a bold statement I haven’t seen till now: Women are destroying culture in Australia.
Certainly in the vanguard
Women in droves happily took the advice of the false prophet Greer; ‘for better, for worse’ was ditched.
They’ve had their sights set on culture for some time.
New World Odor
@hugh_mankind
Follow The Narrative™? and you’re a media darling.
If you dare oppose it, you’re just another crazy conspiracy theorist.
Hmm….
1. The amphibian from Mosman prejudices a rape trial with her Logies speech. Has she been charged? No.
2. Brittany Higgins and her partner, David Sharaz, illegally tape private telephone conversations. Have they been charged? No.
3. In October 2022, Brittany Higgins, minutes after being warned by the judge in court, walks out of court and further prejudices any further rape trial. Has she been charged? No.
4. Lidia Thorpe lies down in front of a float at Mardi Gras and then when forced to stand up, menaces a police officer. Has she been charged? No.
One thing is now clear, very clear, the rules and laws are for me but not for Brittaneeee, or David, or the Amphibian or Thorpe.
What Vicki said at 7.09. Of interest though is that traditional aboriginal culture, while very harsh on women’s craniums, was quite soft re children, who were never severely physically disciplined. They had very little restraint placed upon them until puberty, when cruel initiations began.
Governments hold first detailed discussions on proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations
More freedom on twitter these days. Good luck.