Newspoll is traditionally woeful at State level polling, this is hardly something new. The Oz, largely focused on National matters can poll ~1200 people and get a “National feel” but you can’t split that ~1200 across all States and Territories.

They said Barnett could hold on in 2017 and nobody has ever lost by so much.

Dr. Kat Lindley
@KLVeritas

Totalitarianism definition – a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

I heard a very interesting podcast earlier today about the possibility (and at this stage, it’s speculative) that one of the “Krakens” has been lying hidden and is not too far away from being found and proven. The claim is that it’s a big piece of the puzzle where Demonrats cheated in the election.

There’s an electoral accounting system called ERIC, which a number of states use to count the people coming in and out of the state and supposedly calibrate the state based electoral rolls.
Fancy that, but a big-time Demonrat has been running ERIC, and the supposition is that this is where there’s an enormous amount of cheating going on.
Let’s see.

‘Alcohol in his baby bottles’: Terence Kelly’s childhood of ‘chronic, severe and complex’ trauma
Rebecca Peppiatt
By Rebecca Peppiatt
April 5, 2023 — 1.04pm

The nighttime theft of a four-year-old girl while she slept beside her parents on a camping trip in Western Australia’s coastal north made headlines across the nation and around the world.

Now, for the first time, details about the life of the man behind Australia’s most infamous kidnapping have been revealed as a District Court judge sentenced Terence Darrell Kelly to more than 13 years in prison.

Kelly was an Indigenous child born in Wickham, north of Karratha in WA’s Pilbara, to disadvantaged parents who drank, fought and abused each other and their children.

Chief Judge Julie Wager stated the now-37-year-old experienced “chronic and complex trauma and profound disadvantage”, as well as early neurodevelopmental impairment during his young life.

Wager spoke quietly and directly to Kelly during the sentencing as she detailed his upbringing.

“Your mother drank heavily and used cannabis,” she said.

“Your father was abusive and violent.”

At two years old, Kelly was placed into the care of his aunt Penny Walker, who he viewed as his grandmother, after his parents abandoned him and child protection services found alcohol in his baby bottles.

“The lack of care you received as an infant was damaging,” Wager said.

Kelly had a hearing impairment which he was supposed to wear aids for, but refused to because it led to him being bullied.

Cleo heard her name on radio while held captive by Terence Kelly during 18-day ordeal

Wager said the hearing and associated speech issues, “likely separated you further from people”.

As a young boy, Kelly was also diagnosed with ADHD, which he was prescribed medication for.

Around seven years old, his behaviour changed suddenly, Wager said, with Kelly becoming behaviourally challenged and difficult to manage.

“In 1997 when you were 12, your behaviour was noted to have changed further after a visit to your parents,” she said.

“You became suicidal and were hospitalised. Sharp objects found under your bed.”

On discharge, doctors diagnosed him with oppositional defiance disorder, ADHD, nocturnal enuresis, and bilateral conductive hearing loss.

A few years later, at almost 14 years old, Kelly spent two weeks in his father’s care.

“Child protection notes [Kelly’s father] was abusive and violent during that visit,” Wager said.

It was also around that time Kelly saw his mother for the last time and later that year his “difficult and disruptive behaviour” saw him expelled from school. That same year a good friend, aged 12, died by suicide.

Walker could no longer handle him, and Kelly was sent away because of “violent”, “antisocial” and “inappropriate” behaviours.

By then he was becoming increasingly isolated and alone.

“Your conduct, including your ADHD, bed-wetting and bulky stature had contributed to your alienation from school,” Wager said.

By 2014, Kelly was locked up for aggravated burglary and other burglary offences, and had also received a fine for being in possession of methamphetamine.

By then he was 28 years old and, after his release in 2017, he went back to live with Walker.

Kelly had no further interactions with police until he sat in an interview late one night in November 2021 and confessed to the abduction of Cleo Smith.

Doctors have extensively evaluated Kelly since in a bid to try and understand why he had committed one of Australia’s most notorious kidnappings.

Their assessment? Complex developmental and personality dysfunction.

“Neuropsychology could not confirm your mother’s use of alcohol but it is entirely likely your deficits are due to alcohol spectrum disorder,” the court was told on Wednesday.

“There is a family history of alcohol in utero and ADHD in childhood.”

Doctors described Kelly as detached, anti-social, depressive and narcissistic with a severe personality disorder and paranoid schizophrenia with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, a moderate depressive disorder and anxiety.

“I accept that you were exposed to chronic, severe and complex trauma in childhood,” Wager said.

She also agreed that it was these complex issues that led Kelly into a fantasy world where he was a father and a husband, collected dolls, and wanted to dress Cleo up and play with her.

“He has a severely fragile, disturbed and fragmented identity and low esteem, which his fantasy world protects him from,” was one doctor’s assessment of him.

“It’s likely that this fantasy world developed in the context of his early neglect and trauma in childhood as a self-protective mechanism.”

The court heard how Kelly told police he had a number of children.

“These family members are, I find, fictitious,” Wager said.

“However, they are very real members of your family to you. You’d opened Facebook pages for your fantasy children and communicated with them. You also had a significant interest in Bratz dolls and
owned many of them, and this hobby is consistent with your fantasy family life.”

The death of Walker, who had raised Kelly since he was a toddler, and his subsequent drug-taking “tipped him over the edge” and led to his impulsive decision to take little Cleo from her tent that fateful night.

Wager said it was “very unlikely” he would have stolen her if he did not have such significant mental impairments, with the combination of drug use.

Ultimately, Wager acknowledged the sad life that Kelly had led and took his past into consideration when sentencing him.

“I also fully accept your background of deprivation,” she said.

“You’re not to be punished for it. No child in Western Australia should have suffered the neurodevelopmental difficulties, the trauma, the grief and the neglect that you suffered as
a child and as a young person.

“Sadly, in Western Australia, many Aboriginal people have suffered the adverse impacts of colonisation. I fully accept that you’re one of them and I accept that you’ve turned to drug misuse because of the pain and trauma that you’ve suffered throughout your life.”

Colonisation. Yeah, right.

m0nty says:
April 5, 2023 at 2:14 pm

Either way, the likely Republican Senate super majority won by Republicans in Wisconsin today means your Demonrat Supreme Court Justice can now be impeached and convicted by the Wisonsin Senate! And why not, when you hold 22 of the 33 voting seats.

Impeach and convict for what? Oh right, that’s doesn’t matter.

It does matter, Monst. It matters a hell of a lot. She’s a Demonrat and therefore deserves to be jailed. You know, no one is above the law, right? That’s the working assumption now.

Monty, my mother died recently at the age of 95. Are you seriously suggesting that for a third of her life she had “no skin in the game”?

“The Wisconsin result for SC will overturn their abortion ban. Another anti-Dobbs result.”

Heh – you do know, don’t you, that over-turning the Roe v Wade handed back the power to the states, whereit always was and always should have been. So no-one is particularly upset over this.

To be honest, when you hit 65 years of age you should lose the franchise.

Does that mean you should be exempt from paying taxes, as well?

In news that may shock you. Or perhaps not, Hun:

Liberal Party president Greg Mirabella says the party is being crippled by a major brand problem that has made it unelectable.

In a scathing assessment of Saturday‘s shock Aston by-election defeat, Mr Mirabella told members Victorians had sent the party a very clear message.

It was the first time in a century a federal government won a seat from opposition at a by-election.

“In the last 12 months the people of Victoria have made it perfectly clear that we are not electable,” he said.

“I think the major problem remains: us. Brand Liberal.”

The comments came in an email to members in which Mr Mirabella lamented the loss of the seat of Aston, which was formerly held by Alan Tudge, to Labor‘s Mary Doyle.

He again repeated his public praise for Liberal Candidate Roshena Campbell who he said “worked night and day, and gave it her all.”

“We must better understand the nature of how the electorate perceives Brand-Liberal, because we need to urgently begin the process of repositioning.

“This will not be a quick process, and we need to be doing it in conjunction with the Federal Executive, but we must start.”

Mr Mirabella said the party had commissioned detailed research to better analyse the by-election loss.

In December Mr Mirabella ruled out a formal review into the party‘s disastrous 2022 state election campaign.

“We had comprehensive reviews after the 2014 and 2018 state losses, and I’ve been briefed on the 2022 Federal loss review as well,” he said at the time.

“Several of the campaign staff have spent the past week analysing the old reviews, as well as the ALP’s own review from 2019.

“As you might expect, so many of the “lessons” are the same, and so many of the recommendations seem to remain unimplemented.”

He ultimately concluded a relentlessly negative campaign had failed to win over voters who struggled to accept former leader Matthew Guy as a credible alternative to Daniel Andrews.

Mr Mirabella is facing a potential challenge for his presidency.

Maybe Mirabella can tell candidates to not run on Labor Lite policies.

The Trump Indictment is So Bad it Shows The Lack of any Dignity Left in NY Courts

“This Indictment is an ABUSE OF POWER and it is totally in violation of the DUE PROCESS OF LAW where a citizen MUST be provided clear evidence of such a charge – fair notice. New York’s legal system VIOLATES the Constitution and is about time that the State of New York be brought to its knees for all the abuse they have inflicted upon the people with this half-ass criminal system. As a former NY Judge himself admitted that the system was corrupt and written to the core.

Lawyers for decades have said a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich because the system is outright corrupt beyond compare. That phrase was first coined by a New York State Judge named Sol Wachtler (born 1930). Wachtler was the former chief judge of New York state who coined that term in a January 1985 interview with the New York Daily News‘ Marcia Kramer and Frank Lombardi. The relevant portion:

“In a bid to make prosecutors more accountable for their actions, Chief Judge Sol Wachtler has proposed that the state scrap the grand jury system of bringing criminal indictments.

Wachtler, who became the state’s top judge earlier this month, said district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.”

A month later, the New York Times noted that Wachtler believed grand juries “operate more often as the prosecutor’s pawn than the citizen’s shield.” This belief—that prosecutors can get grand juries to do whatever they want them to do is universal and if this is not seriously changed, we will see massive civil unrest tear the system apart limb for limb.

If I were Trump, I would move to dismiss this indictment for a plain violation of Due Process and the lack of a right to be clearly informed of uyour crime.

This judge is politically corrupt. He will deny that, it should be take to the US Supreme Court and the State of New York should be hauled into court and ordered to pay retribution to every person who has been criminally charged with such an indictment lacking formal notice of the charge. This has shown to the entire world, that the United States no longer respects the Constitution or the rule of law.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/the-trump-indictment-is-so-bad-it-shows-the-lack-of-any-dignity-left-in-ny-courts/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Tickler at 12:57.
Does the Red Cross segregate the blood of the vaxxed and unvaxxed?
What if they’d said sign the form as is or no operation?

Two priests were going to Hawaii on vacation and decided that they would make this a real vacation by not wearing anything that would identify them as clergy. As soon as the plane landed, they headed for a store and bought some really outrageous shorts and shirts, sandals, sunglasses, etc.

The next morning, they went to the beach, dressed in their tourist garb and were sitting on beach chairs enjoying a drink, the sunshine and the scenery.

Soon enough, a drop dead gorgeous blonde in a tiny bikini came walking straight toward them. They couldn’t help but stare.

As she passed them she turned, smiled, and said: “Good morning father, good morning father”. Nodding and addressing each of them individually. They were both stunned; how in the world were they recognised as priests?

They went back to the store, bought even more outrageous outfits and again they settled on the beach in their chairs to enjoy the sunshine again.

After a while, the same gorgeous blonde, wearing a string bikini this time, came walking toward them again. They were glad they had sunglasses, because their eyes were about to pop out of their heads!

Again, she approached them and greeted them individually: “Good morning father. Good morning father” and started to walk away.

One of the priests couldn’t stand it and said “Just a minute young lady. Yes, we are priests, and proud of it, but I have to know, how in the world did YOU know?”

“Oh father, don’t you recognise me? I’m Sister Kathryn!”

To be honest, when you hit 65 years of age you should lose the franchise. You have no skin in the game any more

I have never had more “skin in the game.” Have spent a lifetime defining and creating the space I have been allotted in this world. We all have. Working hard, encountering opposition, winning and losing, loving and slowly understanding what we are here to do.

Don’t ever demean or dismiss the value of the years gone by…….and to come.

Psays:
April 5, 2023 at 5:32 pm
at 5:17 pm

Some of us would appreciate if those forwarding jokes here would note that this is Holy Week.

And what is so Holy about this week? If you don’t like the jokes then just pass them by.

“Liberal Party president Greg Mirabella says the party is being crippled by a major brand problem that has made it unelectable.”

What a clueless nincompoop.

These people don’t want to pay the ‘InVoice’. Maybe you do.

The agenda has been in place since 1975.

“Voice- Treaty – Truth-telling.”

For “Truth – telling” read “Stories my Nanna told me.”

A follow up about blood / unvaxxed blood.

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Stew Peters Show:

The Red Cross refuses to separate vaxxed and unvaxxed blood.
Dr. Kathleen Ruddy is here to reveal that DNA has been found in the Covid “vaccine”.
A Danish study revealed there is a distinct difference between vaxxed and unvaxxed blood and the spike protein created via mRNA is detectable.
The spike protein was designed as a bioweapon.
The Red Cross answers to the FDA and has decided not to look at the potential hazards of spike protein contaminated blood.
There is a need for unvaxxed blood and it will only continue to grow.
27% of the genetic content in the Covid-19 “vaccines” is DNA.
The DNA in the bioweapon shots is causing the human resistance to antibiotics.
This means people are more likely to get sick and die from bacterial infections.

BREAKING: DNA Found In Vaxx: Vaxxed Blood Transfusion DANGER: DNA In VAXX Causing DRUG RESISTANCE

A 65yo retiree has cashed out their chips. They are no longer in the game.

Perhaps the unemployed should lose the vote too?

Pedro, it’s the Aussie dollar against the US that’s taking a hit. The Aussie hit a high of ~67.90 against the greenback yesterday and has been retreating ever since to 67.06 now, likely because the RBA didn’t move. Gold is pretty stable against the big buck today.

The Medicare records clearly show the vaccines are killing people

You know BBS your continued and clearly deliberate misrepresentation of my views are getting more than tedious.
I’m inclined now to simply call you merely tendentious.
I’m not now or ever have ‘shilled’ for any vaccine.
I have no interest in what anyone here does regarding their own personal health decisions.
I threw in a reference to mRna solely in the interest of truthfulness, novavax is on offer along with variant targeted mRna vaccines. That is a matter of fact.
As for the rest, what was your point? Astrazeneca was the first vaccine generally available in 2021 but when booster time came along in 2022 mRna was the preferred vaccine on offer (in fact even in December 2021 you pretty much had to get a mRna booster .
In addition to not making Astrazeneca generally available as a booster in 2022 it was in fact very difficult to get Novavax as a booster in 2022, I asked for it but it wasn’t available at any of the pharmacies where I enquired in December 2022.

It should be obvious to all and sundry that everyone here has taken a very firm decision about the pros and cons of covid vaccines, it certainly is to me..
If we have to put up with a constant barrage of graphene oxide this and sudden death that I should be able to occassionally put a mild enough contrary view without being personally attacked.
It’s just ridiculous that I can’t respond to any confected outrage without getting SRR type accusations leveled against me.

the Aussie dollar against the US that’s taking a hit.

-JC.
Got that JC, but still been about a 2.5% rise today in $US on their markets.

Worth a bit of a happy dance.

This is the big threat now to Trump: a partisan, ideological judge who personally hates Trump:

Trump demands Stormy Daniels hush money case is moved to Staten Island hours before arraignment: Says Manhattan voted ‘1% Republican’ and tears into ‘Trump-hater’ judge whose daughter ‘worked for Kamala’

Amazon…Buys out competition…closes it down.
Totally not market monopoly practices

They would have needed ACCC approval in 2004. It’s been Amazon from that point forward effectively. Just more Emmanomics.

Use booktopia if you’re concerned. Or better still a local bookstore.

Beautiful full, pink moon tonight.