Open Thread – Tues 11 April 2023
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Dutton touches down in Alice Springs
Liam Mendes
Liam MendesOpposition leader Peter Dutton has arrived in Alice Springs as the outback town deals with a surge in youth and alcohol-fuelled violence.
Mr Dutton is expected to meet with local small business owners, youth organisations who work with indigenous children and members of the state and local governments.
Following his last trip to Alice Springs in October 2022, he called on the federal government to call for a Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities.
He will also hold meetings at sporting facilities.
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However, Oryx has been audited and found wanting.
Armchair Warlord
@ArmchairW
Alright team, I think I’ll close out my independent audit of Oryx’s work with a “meta-analysis” – a review of my five reviews so far to determine what this tells us about their reliability as a source on this war.By this point the data set’s big enough to draw conclusions.
There are a variety of issues that cause them to overcount Russian losses, in some cases drastically. These include double counting (multiple pictures of the same vehicle), wrongly identifying Ukrainian vehicles as Russian losses, counting as lost vehicles that have no apparent damage, accepting images that have obviously been photoshopped, and so on. In one particularly egregious case, a picture of a Ukrainian Msta howitzer had its crew photoshopped out and was marked as destroyed Russian artillery piece.
I mean, look at this:
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rosiesays:
April 12, 2023 at 1:24 pm
Even the ubiquitous Mazda CX5 can take three children’s seats in the back.
which 5 seat cars will for 3 child sears across the back row.Yes, I think it is a stretch to suggest car companies and baby seat manufacturers are conspiring to de-populate the West.
Car companies will shave a few millimetres off the width of cars to save 0.1 litres per 100 kmh, and car seat manufacturers bulk up their seats to either achieve real protection benefits, or simply make their seats look safe with lots of bulky padding. -
The difference between the Matters and Lehmann cases – and even more so their media coverage – is very revealing.
There is another example of politically correct hypocrisy in display at the moment. I won’t use names – that would be detraction, which, although it is not calumny, is still to be avoided. But The Me Too push shows no interest in a man being lionised in ABC and Fairfax obituaries, and the ‘journalists’ writing them must have never talked to the junior women in his workplaces. -
Unfortunately, it takes more than being intelligent and articulate to be a good and successful Minister. Everything depends on having superb personal staff, and decent support from the Departments and agencies you are responsible for.
As a Shadow Minister, you need the first to the nth, and the second is irrelevant.
If Jacinta has the right people, she could be magnificent. If not, she could faceplant big time.
Being in the Senate is a handicap, but not an insurmountable one. It does require having staff who understand the intricacies of the relationship between the Chambers.
I don’t know whether it is a good idea or not. Being a Shadow Minister means a lot more paperwork, and it may well be that she is more effective as a relatively free agent.
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And she’s never lived in The Communities anyway.
Homeland truths unspoken
OPINION: Jacinta PriceThe West Australian
Fri, 12 August 2016 2:04PMJacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price is a singer from Alice Springs. This is an extract from the Centre for Independent Studies’ Helen Hughes Lecture for Emerging Thinkers.
My name is Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price. I was born in the tropical town of Darwin in 1981 to my Warlpiri mother Bess Nungurrayi Price and Australian born Anglo-Celtic father Dave Price. My dreamings are Yirrikipai (Crocodile) from my conception site on Melville Island in salt-water country and my inherited dreamings from my other Warlpiri fathers are Ngapa (Rain) and Warlu (Fire) from desert country. I am a mother of four sons, three who are my own and the youngest my stepson. My partner is a proud Scotsman and between our four boys, their heritages are made up of Mauritian, Warlpiri, Malay Indian, Chinese, Scots, Irish, Welsh, Scandinavian, African and German. But above all they are modern Australia.
As I sit down to write this speech, news comes to me that one of my skin mother’s nieces has been stabbed in the head in a town camp in Alice Springs. The details are not yet fully known but I’m sure I will learn more over the days to come.
I have essentially grown up in Alice Springs but spent a great deal of my childhood in remote communities in the Northern Territory and Yuendumu in particular.
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The Me Too push shows no interest in a man being lionised in ABC and Fairfax obituaries, and the ‘journalists’ writing them must have never talked to the junior women in his workplaces.
The same applies to a recently deceased Aboriginal ‘hero’, not to mention another deceased Aboriginal actor. Both of them were absolute pigs to women, plenty of violence. But the MSM and the luvvies fell over themselves to tell us what wonderful chaps they were.
Effing hypocrites.
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Gaines and Losses
Though I haven’t asked her directly, I suspect that having just given a talk at San Francisco State University this past Thursday evening on the importance of women’s-only spaces and the intrusion into women’s athletics of biological men clad in sports bras and tuck tape, Riley Gaines — a decorated NCAA women’s swimming champion and now accidental activist for women’s sports — likely never imagined she’d soon after be assaulted by a male trans activist, then chased down a hallway by frenzied “protesters” before spending the next three hours barricaded inside a classroom, a vicious mob of rainbow-haired Minnie Maos gathered just outside the door discussing how best to financially capitalize (Marxism be damned! We’re talking weed money here, brah! ) on the release of their hostage.
Nor can you much blame her: after all, it’s a relatively new phenomenon to find yourself kidnapped or even shot to death by trans victim-tourists agitated into a Marxist fervor of radical-chic cosplay. The capture of our institutions of higher education, which has been key to the capture of all of our major institutions, has created an army of histrionic and raw Paolo Freire-constructed “activists” where once students educated in the traditions of western classical liberalism calmly and confidently stood. Many of us have for years warned that this was happening. But our principled “conservative” pundit class was too busy luxuriating over twerking trannies initiating captured toddlers into Queer Theory — “a blessing of liberty!” they assured us, stroking vigorously the shaft of their tumescent principles — to pay us any heed. To we ickies, fighting the culture wars was a poor use of resources, they explained, marshaling the mannered patience of scotch-sodden cigar saints. What we really need to fortify our country’s status as the moral conscience of the globe is to find some backward country and bomb it into democracy. For freedom!
Gaines, soon after her ordeal, tried to put the attack into perspective: “Imagine,” she wrote, “if the roles were reversed and a group of white, conservatives ambushed someone within the LGBTQ community, physically assaulted them, and held them for ransom for 3 hrs…
“There would be arrests and repercussions for the perpetrators and administration who allowed this.”
Of course, this is likely the case. But it nevertheless misses the larger — and I think far more bracing — cultural point: the double standard she decries is both brazen and entirely intentional.
As I’ve explained elsewhere, it’s a show of force. An offensive. And the impotence with which our side reacts — including even the failure of police to arrest the attackers — makes us look weak, and is meant to dispirit us.
To add insult to unacknowledged injury, SFSU Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Jamillah Moore released a statement in the aftermath of the event — which, mind you, had been captured on video — praising both her university and the activists involved in the public assault.
Wrote Ms Moore:
Published two days after the event, the statement Ms. Moore crafts completely whitewashes from the historical record any mention of Riley Gaines. Nowhere is the specific substance of Ms. Gaines’ presentation addressed or even acknowledged. The protests, when they’re mentioned, are presented without the context of the assault and the ransom demand, and are instead lauded as an example of the cherished value of campus free speech.
Up is down.
Black is white.
Thelma is Louise.
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Old Ozzie:
When are women going to stand up to these idiots? Or are they waiting to be rescued by men?
Girls, it isn’t happening – it’s men in dresses and leotards who are attacking you and the ones who could have defended you have had a gut full of the Women Can Do Anything movement.
Righto, girls. Defend yourselves. -
Gaines and Losses
Championing a True Presentation of Womanhood
COMMENTARY: What Riley Gaines, a clarion call to a life of love and dignified dress can teach us as a culture. -
The Brittany Higgins Wannabees
Today another woman was caught out lying her way through our justice system.
Bettina Arndt
An absolute classic has been playing out in the ACT Supreme Court in the last week; a case which has received remarkably little reporting, when you consider that Alexander Matters, the accused, like Bruce Lehrmann worked in Canberra politics.
The difference is that here the young man was an electorate officer for a Labor MP, which may explain the disinterest from much of our media only keen on exposing conservatives in trouble.
Alex Matters has just been found not guilty in a unanimous decision by a Canberra jury – one of the wokest parts of Australia. That’s a miracle, given that it would only take one true believer to result in a hung jury. Here a decision was reached after only 5-6 hours of jury deliberation. And the reason? The accuser was revealed, in the words of Alex’s barrister as “unreliable and unresponsive,” her evidence full of “lies and inconsistencies” which were exposed in court. This Brittany Higgins Wannabee didn’t further the feminist cause at all – hence the stony silence from most of our media.
When the alleged rape happened, Alexander Matters was an ANU law student who started a “f@ck-buddy” relationship with a student activist, a young woman who had an official role advocating for rape victims, and who had taken part in the Women’s March alongside Higgins.
The couple had been having occasional hook-ups for months before the alleged rape took place in a college dorm room in May 2021. Their first hook-up happened after Ms Advocate told friends that she wanted to have “revenge sex” to punish a guy she’d been seeing who’d annoyed her by leaving town for reserve army training. Her text to friends suggested she’d “have sex with Alex Matters to get back at him.” But that experience clearly proved pleasing and she came back for many repeat performances.
The “friends with benefits” relationship proceeded for four months. Then in September Ms Advocate discovered Matters had been charged with sexual assault following an accusation by another woman – a case which would ultimately be dropped by the well-known DPP Shane Drumgold SC.
Ms Advocate faced a dilemma. As Matter’s barrister Steven Whybrow SC suggested in court, it “wasn’t a good look” for a student women’s advocate to be known to be “sleeping with someone alleged to be a rapist.”
Sure enough, within days Ms Advocate was reporting a rape to police. She alleged that, back in May, on one occasion when they had sex Matters hadn’t stopped exactly when she asked him to – he thrust three more times.
He was the very model of woke manhood.
The very first time they had sex she became upset, he stopped, he comforted her, they did not continue.
Party line perfect.
On the night in question, he wanted a blow job, she said no, he heard her and moved on. He asked to go down on her, she agreed and so he did that. They then started to have intercourse, it was painful, she told him to slow down, and he did so. Exemplary behaviour.
Then, Ms Advocate claimed, he slipped up. He allegedly failed to stop immediately which he claimed was because he was close to coming and overly excited, and continued for three more thrusts before stopping. But soon he was back to model behaviour. “Can I finish in your mouth?” he asked. She said no, he accepted that. “Can I finish on your tits?” and she said, “Sure, sure” (and later lied about this to police).
The simple fact is that even if men do the right thing every step of the way, women can lie about what happened. In this culture, simply because they are women they may well be believed.
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Ed – Admit it, you cannot stand the sight of an indigenous leader who doesn’t take her views from a bunch of white, middle-class, failed trotskyites sitting in & around ABC “country” i.e. inner city Sydney. This is the real view of the Labor shills who detest and cannot bear to listen when others like Jacinta speak.
The Voice “wedge” issue is showing up many interesting facets of the ruling elites pushing this nonsense – mainly around their ignorance of and bias against Australia as it really exists outside their bubble.
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Gender Insanity Ends Only When Women Decide to Stop Tolerating It
Kurt Schlichter
I get a lot of grief from some quarters because of my assessment that radical transsexuals are tolerated and allow to move into women’s spaces and allowed the ability to abuse women only because women as a whole put up with this crap. Yeah, women.
Look, as a guy, I’m not worried about some chick walking into the men’s room and pretending to be a dude. It’s not a huge deal to us, because we are dudes, and we don’t really care. But the aesthetics aside, there is a practical reason that men are less worried about it. There’s zero chance she’s going to jump on me and beat me senseless and force me into sexual congress. But that’s not true of a man in a women’s restroom. In fact, rape of normal women by weirdos pretending to be women is disgustingly common.
Let’s be clear. There are two kinds of transsexuals. There are real transsexuals, who are people suffering real gender dysmorphia and who actually believe they are women and want to be treated as women.
It’s weird, but as long as they don’t impose their bizarre pathology on us, and as long as they stay out of my face, I’m not going to bother with them.
But the other kind are freaking perverts. Some are just pedophiles who want to get close to kids. Those are the ones that go read at transsexual story hour.
Here is an unarguable fact: No normal adult male wants to do anything even remotely sexual around a child. The only people who do want to have sex with children. And if you want to have sex with children, you should be hunted for sport.
The other kind of bad trans people are heterosexual weirdos who want to go into the women’s spaces and watch women (or expose themselves to women) in an intimate setting. Sometimes they want to be in a position where they can use their physical strength to force women into sex. We have seen that again and again. But sometimes it merely means onanism in front of women to horrify them, which gets these freaks off.
I’m not picky. I say hunt them for sport too.
I don’t believe we normal people have any moral imperative to tolerate any of this.
We tried toleration, and now they’re trying to have sex with our kids and abuse our women.
We expressed our willingness to live and let live, but that wasn’t the deal that they wanted.
The deal they wanted was we have to pretend they actually are women, which they are manifestly not, and to use that lie as a license to prey on women. That’s not the deal.
Now, I contend that women are the decisive point in this conflict, and it’s important that you understand what I mean.
So many people are willing to be stupid, and to willfully refuse to understand what other people are actually saying so they can impose their personal view on what other people are saying in order to assume some sort of higher moral ground.
Read the comments and you will see people doing that here.
Let me be clear for the dumb and obtuse people – this is not blaming women.
This is recognizing the fact that women are the center of gravity of this issue. Men can’t stop this. This is a problem because women tolerate these freaks coming into their bathrooms, locker rooms, swimming competitions, weightlifting competitions, fashion runways and everywhere else. Yes, many resist, like the courageous Riley Gaines, but too many go along with it, and those tend to be lib women who wield institutional power.
So much for feminism – all the -isms are subordinate to cultural Marxism, and transism is so hot right now. It does not matter to them that this trans offensive is an attack on women. Men pretending to be women are dominating women’s sports.
Men pretending to be women are held up as more beautiful and sexy than women by the fashion world.
Men pretending to be women are replacing women and some real women are applauding and abetting it.
Many women, especially influential ones (like the Bud Light ad exec) enable this crap.
What needs to happen is that women need to say “Wait, stop this,” and you know what? Men will go along with it. But men can’t force women to stand up for themselves. Men can’t force women to protect each other. Men can’t force women who control women’s sports and women’s fashion, and all the other institutions that women control, to do the things that will protect other women. We men can’t do it. Only women can. And since women are suffering from this, I think it behooves them to do it.
Look, J. K. Rowling, who’s generally a communist about everything else except intellectual property rights, is absolutely correct.
Men and women are different, and they need different accommodations, spaces, and considerations. I understand that women are not a cohesive whole who all think alike.
There are women of all shapes and sizes and mental disorders. But until women get together collectively and form a consensus that they deserve their own spaces and their own ability to compete and their own ability to be women without some dude pretending to be a chick horning in on the action, there’s not a damn thing any of us men can do about it.
When women stop allowing it, great. We will be happy to back them up 110% when they say “No, if you’ve got a penis, you aren’t one of us.”
But until they do that, until they make a collective decision to not allow this nonsense to continue, there’s not a damn thing men can do about it.
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Bruce O’Nuke:
Oh wow! This could be the biggest GWGB faceplant in history.
If I were on the management and sales team, I’d be polishing up the resumé and adding in that I’d been in gaol for the last two years.
It reminds me of the Red Bull fracas – the entire sales team was sacked on the spot when their wokeness was exposed. -
More insanity.
Unfortunately he wasn’t able to complete his shift and the trannie ruined a good time.
A 30-year-old male transsexual has been charged with fatally stabbing a taxi driver in Portland on Easter Sunday. The Oregonian reported that the victim was a longtime driver with Radio Cab.
The company said in a statement on Facebook that the victim — whom police have yet to name — was a “great person who came to work hoping to have a great Easter Sunday shift.”
Darin Campbell, a spokesman for Radio Cab, indicated the victim’s shift was cut short when a passenger butchered him just a few minutes into a fare.
It was “vicious, senseless and brutal,” said Campbell. “There was no conversation. No altercation. Nothing.”
No kidding, couldn’t the writer be a little more circumspect?
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“What needs to happen is that women need to say “Wait, stop this,”
Some of us are, we follow Kellie-Jay Keen and we attend rallies to Let Women Speak. For this we’re smeared as “Nazis”.
and you know what? Men will go along with it.”
Alas not the Victorian Opposition Leader, he’s fully captured. After all, he takes his facts from Wikipedia.
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Ed Casesays:
April 12, 2023 at 2:04 pm
PS, Is Katz Jewish?Who cares, we’re talkin’ ’bout Tatz.
Thanks for confirming that you read the comment, Grandpa Ed Simpson. I noter that you avoided answering the question, even though the typo was obvious.
Your response seems to confirm that you are anti-Semitic, as Tatz is indeed of Jewish origin. Your comment to Kneel suggests that you are also racist, as do your many comments alleging that aborigines have a low IQ.
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TheirABC reports that tourism is tanking in the NT, especially in Alice Springs. Factors include high airfares (true), inflation eating away at disposable income (true) and fears for personal safety (true).
There is only one of these factors that the NT government can do much about, and it has failed miserably so far. Every time I click on a story about the Walker case, they show a photo of him that makes him look like a budding choirboy, not the nasty little thug that he was. They sacked the cop who embarrassed them, and the Commissioner is on leave for unexplained reasons. What a shambles.
If I were Bev and Nev, travelling around Australia in a motor home, I wouldn’t be taking the expensive detour to Alice Springs. Not only are your experiences there constricted by what is considered culturally appropriate, you stand a fair chance of being pelted with rocks or having your vehicle rammed by a stolen police car.
BTW, does anyone know how the alligator shaped hotel which was handed over to the local indigeous is faring? Several years ago I looked at doing a trip to Alice Springs, including staying there. The costs were almost equivalent to a weekend in Europe, so I didn’t go. (Same when I investigated a trip to Broome).
Perhaps the hip pocket nerve has finally been activated, and the hand-patting and hand-wringing will come to an end. I fail to see how enabling more children being born with FAS because it would be ‘racist’ to do anything about it is either ethical or practical.
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I distinctly remember that the five day forecast from the BoM was that today would be scattered cloud, max 19.
Well, it’s just reached 12.9C and it’s been drizzling all day.
Look, I get it that predictions can be wrong. What irks me is that they insist that their predictions are always right, and that everyone from farmers and graziers to politicians should base their actions on them.
One of the bitterest recollections from the Turnbull coup is that he canned the review of the BoM.
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A fun exercise when it comes to value for money.
Purchase a Big-Muck from McMuck Donald’s and compare it to a burger with the lot from a local lunch bar.
Give it a try. The price range is about equal. One weighs nothing ( full of sugary sh*t and secret sauces ) and the other with a clear weight differential; chock with salad…tomatoes, onions and cucumber etc and no 30% sugary buns.
I remember a lunch-bar in Canning Vale that offered up juicy burgers that shat all over McMucks prior to McGowan shutting them down. The owner was close to tears knowing the writing was on the wall. I’ll never forget the look on her face. McMucks was allowed to exist, yet her small business got the shaft offering up a better healthier product and had to close due to c-19 dictates.
Much the same across the nation.
Support your local lunch bar. The measure of their quality always equates to quality of their hot chips. Never hesitate to ask for freshly cooked. If they happily oblige, it usually means they value your business. Those that balk wanting you to eat chips that have been in a bain marie for over 30 minutes can f-off.
All true.
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Alamak!
The Voice “wedge” issue is showing up many interesting facets of the ruling elites pushing this nonsense – mainly around their ignorance of and bias against Australia as it really exists outside their bubble.
See my comment at 1342, above. The final point:
“Many of our self-selected so-called “elites” show signs of hating the society that gave them birth and success, why should Tatz be different?”
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BTW, does anyone know how the alligator shaped hotel which was handed over to the local indigeous is faring? Several years ago I looked at doing a trip to Alice Springs, including staying there.
You’d have been disappointed johanna. That crocodile-shaped hotel is in Jabiru, two and a bit hours out of Darwin.
It was built as a triumph of self-determination, using a combination of royalty and taxpayer money and was supposed to bring in basquillions of tourist dollars. Instead, and in the traditional fashion its ‘owners’ siphoned off the initial rivers of cash to pay for private jetskis and grog:
In 1999, The Guardian reported that the association was forced to sell off assets from the hotel to pay debts owing from other parts of its operations. It was revealed that a large percentage of other mining royalties had been spent on alcohol while the local aboriginal community lived in poverty.
They were forced to sell it. Now it’s a Mercure operation, and also slowly declining because the current policies are making mincemeat out of the town and surrounds, and holidaying through there has become an exercise in draining your bank account.
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This dude spent US$43 billion buying a company and he now appears to just be f…ing around.
Why?’
In other Musk related funny stuff, he’s tagged NPR and BBC as state funded entities. It’s a notation obviously informing readers to beware of propaganda. When I read that I suggested that he do the same with our ABC and ABC shows that appear to tweet separately. God I hope he does it. Their ABC arseholes would go off their head. -
johanna
BTW, does anyone know how the alligator shaped hotel which was handed over to the local indigeous is faring? Several years ago I looked at doing a trip to Alice Springs, including staying there. The costs were almost equivalent to a weekend in Europe, so I didn’t go. (Same when I investigated a trip to Broome).
I think that establishment is in Kakadu.
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Notice how, every time, it’s the gummint’s fault and more money is needed:
he said one idea put forward was to hold a forum involving Aboriginal organisations, service providers and government departments so they could conduct a ‘mapping-and-gapping analysis’ of current programs that tackle youth crime and disadvantage.
“To identify … do we have the resources on the ground? And have a good reflection on our services and see where we all may need to improve and change the way we do things in our community,” Ms Garstone said.
“Have the issues superseded the services that are currently being provided? Or do we need more services or more resources?”
What they can and must never do is sheet responsibility home to the parents and the extended family we are always told are a safety net. So, where are they? Where are all these loving aunties and uncles and grandparents when 10 year olds are roaming the streets at 2 am?
Fully clothed Emperors rool in indigenous politics.
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She’s had a comfortable Middle Class existence from Day 1.
Bullshit crotchless; she was literally born under a bush.
As for Tatz; the good men are the most dangerous. He equated what had happened to the Jews with what had NOT happened to the 3rd nations. There was no aboriginal genocide. Or if it did happen it was a strange one which doubled the aboriginal population.
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I saw what you did head prefect. Posting photos of dickless gyrating to the L’Internationale does not a cute owl make. These are cute owls.
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DrBeauGansays:
April 12, 2023 at 3:23 pm
A 30-year-old male transsexualWell the 30-year old is clear enough. But what exactly is a male transsexual? Is it a bloke pretending to be a chick, or the other way around? There’s just no way to know.
Doc wait until the new trans trend becomes more obvious. I’ve read a few studies which point to a very different trans phenomenon emerging. Historically it has been male to female but over the last decade in particular the emerging trend is female to male. According to some studies this is happening through social media influence. One study highlighted that the while the teenage girls did not demonstrate trans behavior prior to social media, upon the relevant exposure they began insisting on transition. That’s very concerning because ignoring that key marker of prior trans behavior opens the door to ever increasing numbers being allowed to transition. The tragedy is that in years to come so many of those poor souls will realise they have made a terrible mistake that is irreversible and has ruined their lives. In the future expect a few mass shootings at trans clinics.
While I’m here, this popped up in today’s news. It suggests that people are tolerating the trans stupidity but only up to a point. It is only one example so I won’t push the argument too far. It will be interesting to see how many other companies go down this road and what the public response will be.
Bud Light suffers bloodbath as longtime and loyal consumers revolt against transgender campaign
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Also from the Matters trial:
Much of the evidence in the case came from text messages between the pair, and between the woman and her friends.
Two audio messages were also played to the court, in which, on the day after the alleged rape, the woman asked him for sex.
“F*** me Daddy,” she texted in the first.
“I want you to f*** me so hard,” she wrote in the second message.
The woman, who gave evidence from a remote room, could be heard crying when the audio messages were played.
She told the court she had been drunk and not in a good space.
Mr Matters questioned her about the messages at the time, sending a shocked face emoji, and accusing her of being cheeky.
The woman rejected Mr Whybrow’s suggestion that the messages indicated the incident the night before had been consensual.
When is this lying nutcase being charged?
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I just sent this again. If enough people send the same or similar tweet to Musk, he may actually tag the ABC like the others.
@elonmusk Hi Elon, the Australian entity, also known as The ABC is a state funded news operation that should be tagged (as state funded).
@ABCTV, @QandA, @abcnews, @ABCthedrum, @4corners -
The BBC, you know, because the guvmint doesn’t directly collect the TV tax.
LOl. He’s going out of his way to piss them off. He removed the NYTimes blue check because they refused to fork up.
Look, Titter has probably halved in value, bur FMD, he appears to be having lots of fun. $20 billion loss well spent, I reckon.
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It is the same whenever a viable business is handed over to a tribal culture. The obligation to give freebees and discounts is far more important than keeping the business solvent.
The management of one Kimberly cattle station, handed over to the indigenous, was terse. “We aren’t here to give free handouts to all and sundry. If you aren’t here to work, fvck off!”
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“Remember where I showed you that TRump increased his 2016 Negro Vote by 4,000 votes in 2020.
4,000 out of an extra 29,000,000 votes cast.”You might care to revisit that – I have quoted an article quoting the New York Times as an increase from 8% to 12%. Several other articles as well, saying the same thing.
I recall you cited Pew (without linking to the actual article or data) – well, I have a link to Pew as well, showing an increase in votes for Trump.And I will note that you continue to back-pedal on this – your claim was that DJT’s share of the black vote fell between 2016 and 2020, which it clearly did not.
Still refusing to say you were wrong about that I see.
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Oops, apologies for mixing up the location of the Alligator hotel.
Your Aussie credentials are at risk Johanna. We have crocodiles.
AFAIK these days the declining (hat tip KD) Croc shaped pub is catering mostly to business travellers to Jabiru.
The past three years of Scomocovidism have not been easy for them. It’s been downright bluddee impossible for them to get staff.
Dunno who owns it, but as KD says, it is operated as an Accor* property.(*bigtime French pub group)
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Time running out for Vladimir Putin’s man in Australia, Simeon Boikov … if Putin knew who he was
Jack the Insider Follow @JacktheInsider Jack the Insider3:57PM April 12, 2023
Simeon Boikov, the self-proclaimed Aussie Cossack likes to refer to himself as a political prisoner. A defector in need of political asylum. A freedom lovin’ internet soldier just doing his job. Assange with an eating disorder.
Boikov was turfed from YouTube late last month and was obliged to screen his message to another lesser video platform, Rumble, earlier this week. For the consumption of his 2700 followers there he urged Evgeniy Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, to capture Australians and New Zealanders who had volunteered to fight with the Ukrainians.
Boikov ran a list of names of Australians and New Zealanders who he believed were fighting in Ukraine. If Prigozhin would be so kind, could he capture them at gunpoint and arrange a swift prison swap?
Prigozhin is one of the world’s most wanted men. The FBI issued a warrant for his arrest in February 2018 alleging Prigozhin was “the primary funder of the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA). He allegedly oversaw and approved [its] political and electoral interference operations in the United States which included the purchase of American computer server space, the creation of hundreds of fictitious online personas, and the use of stolen identities of persons from the United States. These actions were allegedly taken to reach significant numbers of Americans for the purposes of interfering with the United States political system, including the 2016 Presidential Election.”
The arms trafficker who has committed mass murder on two continents, was filmed last year executing a member of the Wagner Group who had defected to the Ukrainians before being captured. The man was killed with repeated blows of a sledgehammer to his head.
Meanwhile in Sydney, Boikov was convicted in absentia with assault occasioning bodily harm of a 72-year-old man. He fled to the Russian Consulate immediately after assaulting the septuagenarian knowing that he had breached his parole and would be returned post haste to HM Silverwater.
Boikov had previously been jailed for breaching suppression orders in relation to the identity of a man charged with sex offences.
Australia’s Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, has declined to comment on Boikov’s latest ‘look at me’ outrage.
Is Boikov a pro-Putin fantasist or a man with genuine links to Russian intelligence networks? The answer probably is that he’s a fair bit of the former and a little bit of the latter but only at a pinch.
Since President Vladimir Putin first came into power he wanted to “recreate the Russian empire” and return all… former Soviet republics to that empire, former US Army vice chief of staff General Jack Keane says. “Ukraine is the centrepiece of that but so are the aligned NATO counties as More
As the cabin fever kicks in at Boikov’s apartment within the consulate building – not much bigger than a prison cell by the way, his bleating on social media has become more desperate and unhinged, amid reports the Russian consulate has no idea what to do with him.
At the same time when Russia announced sanctions against 121 Australians in June last year, including yours truly, the explanatory note from the Russian Foreign Ministry (FSB) named Boikov specifically with his florid title as ataman of the Australian branch of TransBaikal Cossacks, claiming he had been persecuted by horrible Australians.
Which is odd because in 2017, the Council of Atamans of the TransBaikal Cossacks in Chita, western Russia, sent Boikov to the naughty step, removing him as an ataman, apparently unhappy with his behaviour.
Two months earlier, the Russian Australian Representatives Council (RARC) took Boikov off their Christmas card list stating, “his numerous public statements on behalf of the organisation contradict the purposes and aims of RARC and have a negative impact on the reputation of RARC and its members.”
Ultimately, Putin’s man in Australia, if Putin knew who he was, may just be a very naughty boy who hangs around with anti-vaxxers and freedom movement desperados to garner clout he may have once had but doesn’t anymore.
Confirmation that Putin doesn’t know who Boikov is came through earlier this week when a genuine defector, Gleb Karakulov, an engineer with Russia’s Federal Protective Service (FSO), who spent years in Putin’s service at close quarters with the Russian President for more than 12 years.
Karakulov described his former boss as a war criminal and a gibbering paranoid who is terrified of Covid and doesn’t own or use a mobile phone. He moves from office to office with the furnishings, decor and the paintings on the walls replicated.
At last, Putin’s long table meetings with each table longer than the last, has been explained. According to Karakulov who fled Russia last year, Putin also assiduously avoids using the internet.
He’s not a YouTuber. Thus, Boikov’s braggadocio has largely faded into the ether somewhere above the Kremlin unwatched and unloved by the one man he seeks to impress.
Karakulov is something of a hero who flew from Kazakhstan to Turkey and safety with his small family in October last year. He and his family fled with just three suitcases. There are warrants for his arrest in Russia and he will almost certainly be a target of retribution, possibly of the Novichok poisoning kind. He had watched Putin and his cronies shuffle about with obscene displays of personal wealth. When Russia invaded Ukraine, he knew he had to get out.
Boikov, too, is wanted by police. The New South Wales Police Force. Albeit for the less courageous offence of pushing an old man down a couple of steps in Sydney’s CBD.
The Ukrainian embassy has called for Russia’s consular office to be closed but that would be a step too far. Nevertheless, the Australian government needs to quietly place some diplomatic pressure on the Russians to have this man emerge into the hands of police with little or no loss of face.
There can be no prison swaps or deals for Simeon Boikov. Out you come, son.
It’s time to face the consequences.
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johanna says:
April 12, 2023 at 4:06 pm
Oops, apologies for mixing up the location of the Alligator hotel.
Its fate is not surprising.
It is the same whenever a viable business is handed over to a tribal culture. The obligation to give freebees and discounts is far more important than keeping the business solvent.Things cannot be different as long as the culture of communal property persists. Everybody feels entitled to proceeds of the business but almost nobody has a commitment to make it work. The ones who are willing to work are then expected to hand over their money to the idlers and so they give up. It turns out that the indigenous who want to keep the fruits of their labours must leave and join the rest of Australian society.
Public projects are possible in the wider Australian society simply because workers are paid and non-workers get nothing.
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Winston Smithsays:
April 12, 2023 at 4:06 pm
Steve Trickler:Bombshell vaccine safety surveillance data out of Western Australia shows it was reactions from the Covid vaccine that were overwhelming local hospitals. Data shows Australia’s zero-Covid plan was for nothing, as cases have spiked.
Enraged all over again.
The average person walking down the street that purchases the “newspaper” is oblivious on the subject.
They’ll donate to Telethon with the big nosed Greek prick running cover for Big-Pharma under the order of Stokes.
Let us not forget Big Nose Basil saying to the parents of a sick child in hospital, that they should get the jabs in order to visit them in hospital.
Happy to see someone [ no comment ]
For the record, most of the money goes to the fat females pigs attached the Children’s Hospital in Perth.
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bespokesays:
April 12, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Science, the Transgender Phenomenon, and the Young | Abigail ShrierAuthor, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Thanks Bespoke.
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Old Ozzie, earlier.
Can I finish in your mouth?” he asked. She said no, he accepted that. “Can I finish on your tits?” and she said, “Sure, sure” (and later lied about this to police).
What a chivalrous and courtly young man he is. Back in the day I would ask a young lady out. Dinner at Pizza Hut, a movie, a trip home on the train. Possibly you would extend your arm to walk her to her home. A firm and gentlemanly handshake at the front door or even possibly a peck on the cheek.
Now?
Can I finish in your mouth?” No. “Can I finish on your tits?” “Sure, sure”.Of course.
Tempora mutantur
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TheirABC reports that tourism is tanking in the NT, especially in Alice Springs.
Sigh…… so glad we have done most of our bucket list in the NT/WA/Qld. – travelled with sequential camper trailers – Jayco (bought home in a body bag), in later years -Eco-Tourer & then the Ultimate. Most challenging – the Tanami Track from north of Alice to near Halls Creek….Gibb River Rd & Kalemburu Road in Kimberley & crossing the King Edward River.
Most loved area- the Mitchell Plateau in the Kimberley & Bell Gorge; most loved town – Kununurra; most underrated destination- El Questro & the unpublicised West Leichhardt Station. Most overrated (in our opinion) – Coober Pedy.
One of most memorable : flying to Darwin with grandchildren (then 9 & 6), hiring a Winnebago, & taking them “to see Country”!!First to Kakadu. First stop was the “jumping crocodiles” on the Adelaide River – a suitable culture shock for the little city slickers when the first monster leapt out of the river. On to Ubirr & then Nourlangie Rock where they saw wildlife and had the magnificent cave art explained simply to them. On to Jabiru & then to Bundy Station where we had stayed years before. Then on to beautiful Lichfield National Park where they swam in crystal clear streams under waterfalls. They remember the whole trip – now 20 & 17 years old. Never to be forgotten by them or us.
We have been to Darwin many times. I have never liked it that much – though husband went with mates on a separate trip (to Maningrida barramundi fishing) & enjoyed the tour of the war sites.
Similarly the Alice – to be just visited for supplies & otherwise avoided. At the farm we get TV by satellite through the NT station Imparza & there is an optimistic advertisement urging young people to come to Alice Springs – they have got to be joking. -
Knuckle Draggersays:
April 12, 2023 at 5:01 pm
For the record, most of the money goes to the fat females pigs attached the Children’s Hospital in PerthAnd 6PR. Morning teas at 6PR.
Close to 4 years now without listening to them. The “producers” are still probably fresh out of Uni-snowflakes. No fat women to be seen…funny that when I walked in the doors during renovations.
The entire staff was left wing. I guess nothing has changed since?
You tell me.
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Sancho Panzer says:
April 12, 2023 at 5:22 pmExcellent news for Razey-san and the other 4.99999% of purebloods.
From May 8th, all vax requirements will be dropped for travel from Straya to Land of Rising Sun.Does Hiden Biden signing end of pandemic mean Vax for America has been dropped for Legal Visitors?
Not those coming across America’s Southern Border Illegally, who have never needed to be Vaxxed – America – “The Stupid Country”
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Sharri Markson, if you don’t want to turn up for work at Sky News in the week after Easter, put it in the program guide. Don’t substitute yourself with a dud politician like Cory Bernardi, who is unwatchable.
You should have known your supporters (like me) would turn off in seconds. Sigh. Just another media princess.
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Another go at sorting out the teaching crisis:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2023/04/how-to-help-teachers-make-the-grade/
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Sancho Panzersays:
April 12, 2023 at 5:32 pm
Tickler at 5:29And 6PR. Morning teas at 6PR.
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Close to 4 years now without listening to them.Surely you can’t be critical of them if you haven’t listened to them.
From what I can tell, 6PR is pretty fair and balanced.
When I tuned out they were renewable energy promoting f-wits, riding on the “climate change” gravy train with not anyone challenging it. When Sattler stroked out it was game over.
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War crimes shocks ‘not over yet’, says Angus Campbell
By JESS MALCOLM
Reporter
@jessmalcolm1
Updated 4:08PM April 12, 2023, First published at 10:01PM April 11, 2023The nation’s most senior military officer has braced Australians to expect more charges against Defence personnel over alleged war crimes, saying there could be some “very, very uncomfortable” days ahead but that the defence force needed to face up to failures if they had occurred.
In an address to the Lowy Institute on Tuesday, Australian Defence Force Chief Angus Campbell also acknowledged a recent leak of a trove of US intelligence reports containing information on the Ukrainian war was “potentially damaging” and underscored the importance for classified documents to remain secret in order to maintain relationships with key allies.
In a wide-ranging speech, General Campbell argued that Australia’s strategic environment had deteriorated amid large-scale military modernisation, technological disruption and climate risks which he said had left the prospect of state-on-state conflict “less remote than it was”.
Read NextHis comments on potential charges against soldiers come after police launched the nation’s first war crimes prosecution for an alleged battlefield murder, charging former SAS soldier Oliver Schulz over the death of a man in Afghanistan more than a decade ago. The charge was part of a probe by the Office of the Special Investigator which was set up to examine alleged war crimes identified by NSW Supreme Court judge Paul Brereton in his bombshell 2020 report for the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force.
General Campbell told the foreign policy think tank there may be more charges laid against soldiers, but that further cases would be determined by the OSI and the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions.
He said he would not “gloss over things” and acknowledged it would be tough but that the organisation would be better as a result.
“The Office of the Special Investigator, which is working independent of Defence, has seen a first arrest and a charging of the former soldier; there may be others,” he said.
“I think and believe that in these circumstances it‘s really important to support the people who are involved, but to recognise that if we have failed as an organisation, then we need to face that, and this is part of that story and we are individually and collectively better for it if we do so. You won’t see me trying to gloss over these things but I think there could be some very, very uncomfortable days coming forward.”
Following the recent leak of a suite of classified US documents containing top secret details about the war in Ukraine, General Campbell said secrecy of information was crucial to the maintenance of strong allies and underlined the importance of the protection of documents which pertained to the national interest.
“The issue of maintaining the security of information is critical to the development of national capability and to the trust and confidence across allies and partners. I appreciate this, by reports, is a serious leak,” General Campbell said.
“I am not, obviously as a military officer, someone who believes all information should be free and I do believe that there is a national interest in the protection of some information. This is potentially a damaging release of material …”
General Campbell welcomed the imminent release of the federal government’s much-anticipated Defence Strategic Review, and said the defence forces should be held up as an “accountable instrument of government” which was not immune from scrutiny.
He said Australia’s acquisition of up to eight nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS was “absolutely” the right capability choice. He also acknowledged that dialogue between Australian and Chinese counterparts had broken down in recent years but welcomed the re-establishment of ministerial-level engagement by both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles as a return to “a new norm”.
Comments suddenly all gone down the “Memory hole…”
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Plans unveiled for Syriac Catholic church in Sydney’s south west
Sydney’s Syriac Catholics are set to build a home for its fast-growing community after receiving development approval for a church and pastoral centre in Sydney’s south-west.
With parish priest Fr Lenard Ina they are also celebrating paying off the loan for the 3.5 acre property destined to be the centre of their sacramental and parish life at Kemps Creek.
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The Syriac Catholic Church is a sui juris Eastern church in communion with the Holy See.Fr Ina was one of many Syriac Catholics from northern Iraq who fled a brutal takeover of their villages by ISIS in 2014.
When he arrived in Australia he got to work helping to secure everything people needed: places to live, jobs, schools for their children and even transport to get to Sunday Mass.
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Michael Digges, executive director, administration and finance for the Archdiocese of Sydney, said that the archdiocese strongly supports the initiative at Kemps Creek.“We are as excited as the Syriacs with this development,” Mr Digges said.
“Indeed, it represents growth both in the Catholic community and support for people who have escaped persecution in their home country.”
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He sounds like Trump. If only he wasn’t a crazed loon about all vaccines.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr
The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power. China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon’s short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence. -
bespoke says:
April 12, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Science, the Transgender Phenomenon, and the Young | Abigail ShrierAuthor, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
I hope m0nty watches this. It just might suggest to him that the depraved and stupid games he plays can have consequences to his own family.
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The trouble with tourism at Alice Springs.
You must stay to see the school of the air, the telegraph office and then anything of interest is out of town west along their rainiest, or 450kms down the road.
It is also a two peoples town. The glitterati (probably government workers) rock up to black tie events at the casino, while across the road in the river bed poorest people sniff Petrol, when they aren’t in the streets asking for five bucks to help them out.The other thing, and I don’t understand why it matters, but any mention of going on a holiday to central Australia gets the inevitable “ you can’t climb the rock anymore though”. Which shouldn’t matter, but it does.
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Top Endersays:
April 12, 2023 at 5:43 pm
Another go at sorting out the teaching crisis:https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2023/04/how-to-help-teachers-make-the-grade/
The ‘Pollies’ have known for years how to fix the Education system, however, the Teacher Unions are dead against it. Just go to Finland and copy their teaching system. It works there and it can work here with the right Teachers. Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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bespokesays:
April 12, 2023 at 5:52 pm
John HShe was very good in addressing all aspects in a rashionl way.
Do you see parallels in the use drugs like Ritalin?
I do.I’ve read enough studies to get the picture. The video is a waste of my time.
Ritalin is just one example. What I didn’t mention was the issue of social contagion. Interesting history there for those so interested. -
Why Conservatives ALWAYS LOSE
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Rococo Liberal says:
April 12, 2023 at 6:02 pmIt is time to state that the whole “LGBT” lobby is rotten to the core and should be corned by all civilised people including homosexuals.
The notion that there is any such thing as a “trans” person is total idiocy.
Discuss
RC, Dude, it’s all that has been spoken about here for the last 6 months. Every open thread is 79.87% LGBTQRVSP.
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Why the media don’t want to know the truth about Nord Stream blast
Jonathan Cook
Mint Press News
Tue, 11 Apr 2023It might have stayed that way forever, except that in February, a journalist – one of the most acclaimed investigative reporters of the past half-century – produced an account that finally demystified the explosions. Drawing on at least one anonymous, highly placed informant, Seymour Hersh pointed the finger for the explosions directly at the US administration and President Joe Biden himself.
Hersh’s detailed retelling of the planning and execution of the Nord Stream blasts had the advantage – at least for those interested in getting to the truth of what took place – that his account fitted the known circumstantial evidence.
At a Senate hearing, top US diplomat Victoria Nuland celebrated the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing:
“Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
Key Washington figures, from President Biden to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his senior neoconservative official Victoria Nuland – a stalwart of the murky U.S., anti-Russia meddling in Ukraine over the past decade – had either called for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines or celebrated the blasts shortly after they took place.
If anyone had a motive for blowing up the Russian pipelines – and a self-declared one at that – it was the Biden administration. They opposed the Nord Stream 1 and 2 projects from the outset – and for exactly the same reason that Moscow so richly prized them.
Washington wanted Moscow isolated and friendless in Europe. The goal was to turn Russia into Enemy No. 2 – after China – not leave Europeans looking to Moscow for energy salvation.
The Nord Stream explosions achieved precisely that outcome. They severed the main reason European states had for cozying up to Moscow. Instead, the U.S. started shipping its expensive liquified natural gas across the Atlantic to Europe, both forcing Europeans to become more energy dependent on Washington and, at the same time, fleecing them for the privilege.
But even if Hersh’s story fitted the circumstantial evidence, could his account stand up to further scrutiny?
PECULIARLY INCURIOUS
This is where the real story begins. Because one might have assumed that Western states would be queuing up to investigate the facts Hersh laid bare, if only to see if they stacked up or to find a more plausible alternative account of what happened.
Dennis Kucinich, a former chair of a U.S. Congressional investigative subcommittee on government oversight, has noted that it is simply astonishing no one in Congress has been pushing to use its powers to subpoena senior American officials, such as the secretary of the Navy, to test Hersh’s version of events. As Kucinich observes, such subpoenas could be issued under Congress’s Article One, Section 8, Clause 18, providing “constitutional powers to gather information, including to inquire on the administrative conduct of office.”
Similarly, and even more extraordinarily, when a vote was called by Russia at the United Nations Security Council late last month to set up an independent international commission to investigate the blasts, the proposal was roundly rejected.
If adopted, the UN Secretary-General himself would have appointed expert investigators and aided their work with a large secretariat.
Three Security Council members, Russia, China and Brazil, voted in favor of the commission. The other 12 – the U.S. and its allies or small states it could easily pressure – abstained, the safest way to quietly foil the creation of such an investigative commission.
The truth is that the Western press has zero interest in determining who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines because, just like Western diplomats and politicians, media corporations don’t want to know the truth if it cannot be weaponized against an official enemy state.
The Western media are not there to help the public monitor the centers of power, keep our governments honest and transparent, or bring to book those who commit state crimes. They are there to keep us ignorant and willing accomplices when such crimes are seen as advancing on the global stage the interests of Western elites – including the very transnational corporations that run our media.
Which is precisely why the Nord Stream blasts took place. The Biden administration knew not only that its allies would be too fearful to expose its unprecedented act of industrial and environmental terrorism but that the media would dutifully line up behind their national governments in turning a blind eye.
The very ease with which Washington has been able to carry out an atrocity – one that has caused a surge in the cost of living for Europeans, leaving them cold and out of pocket during the winter, and added considerably to existing pressures that have been gradually deindustrializing Europe’s economies – will embolden the U.S. to act in equally rogue ways in the future.
In the context of a Ukraine war in which there is the constant threat of a resort to nuclear weapons, where that could ultimately lead should be only too obvious.
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So JFK j r has found a new whipping board in the neocons.
Correct me if I am wrong, but weren’t the neocons late eighties/early nineties apostate democrats who decided to adopt the Bushes (establishment uniparty in action) so they could prolelytise to the benighted unwashed in other countries with their warm and loving embrace after first bombing the shit out of them?
Oh, and make money out of defence contracts.
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It is time to state that the whole “LGBT” lobby is rotten to the core and should be corned by all civilised people including homosexuals.
Rococo Liberal, the problem with your theorem is that the trans movement is a creation of male homosexual radicals looking for a new application of their successful campaign half a decade ago to have homosexual “marriage” accepted by governments throughout the West.
The success of the trans movement consolidates the male homosexual campaign for access to children – the wettest of their perverted wet dreams.
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