@pvtjokerus When Democrats had a Senate majority OF ONE, they got everything they wanted done. Including the Green New Deal.…
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Far-right populist surprises in Romanian presidential election appearing set to enter runoff
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Who’s the young lady, too poor to afford knickers? Inquiring minds, and all that…
Well over 2m now and rapidly increasing.
Here you go.
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Peter Santenello:
Weekend With Amish Farmer (life before internet) ??
Third best guitarist in that band.
A distant third.
Possibly fourth if Roy Bittan (piano) decided to pick up a gittar and give it a thrash.
The broader electorates’ rush to get dunny paper during ChinaFlu proved an idiocy I long suspected. More recently reinforced by Comrade Andrews re-election.
Grandpa Ed Simpson
The Liberals are pointing out that Albanese is saying
Until we get more Powers, we won’t address any issues in Aboriginal Communities.
Not hard to understand really.
What is really “not hard to understand really” is that AnAl has absolutely no intention to “address any issues in Aboriginal Communities”. He wishes only to consolidate his own power.
But do keep on shilling for the Liars.
areff, cats just love keyboards. It must be hardwired into them somehow. Every cat owner/ownee has had their cat walk over the keyboard when he/she is trying to do something.
Despite the great advances of technology, nobody knows what goes on in the mind of a cat.
Of a dog – no problem. They are pretty primitive and easy to handle. That’s why people like them (I do, too).
But the mind of a cat is a mystery that may never be unravelled.
Dot says: April 18, 2023 at 9:33 am
Source?
Easy. Cats don’t have masters. Cats have servants.
Magnetic mouse.
Brain images just got 64 million times sharper (Phys.org/MedXpress, 17 Apr)
“Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the first MRI, the researchers generated scans of a mouse brain that are dramatically crisper than a typical clinical MRI for humans, the scientific equivalent of going from a pixelated 8-bit graphic to the hyper-realistic detail of a Chuck Close painting.
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Some of the key ingredients include an incredibly powerful magnet (most clinical MRIs rely on a 1.5 to 3 Tesla magnet; Johnson’s team uses a 9.4 Tesla magnet), a special set of gradient coils that are 100 times stronger than those in a clinical MRI and help generate the brain image, and a high-performance computer equivalent to nearly 800 laptops all cranking away to image one brain.”
I suspect going through a 9.4 Telsa MRI machine would be like being run over by 9.4 Teslas. It’s amazing how tolerant we are to insane magnetic fields. Just take any coins out of your pocket beforehand though.
Karen Andrews…. another one bites the dust!
(and good riddance!)
Good luck running a farm. What’s the going rate for written permission, three cartons of VB?
I’m going back a few years, but there was a Government grant available for fencing off and re-vegetating salt affected land. We applied, and were told it would help our case, if we had permission from the “traditional owners” of the land. Some research revealed the “traditional owners” of the land lived two hundred kilometers away, and had never set foot on the land in their lives…
ZKTA – I believe exemptions can be given where you might be replacing “like for like.” For example, if you’re replacing a fence with the same material, size etc.. you don’t need permission but, yes, many landowners in Perth metro don’t yet realise this will impact you if you own a larger urban property and you want to put a pool in (or anything else!!!).
Andrews. Good.
A Party split will hurt but is absolutely necessary.
Dutton must start using his high moral ground to campaign against the Moderates and their owners.
Nobody else in the Party has any chance of defeating them, or even surviving if they try.
Start point is calling out Photios’s preselection corruption. Every non democratically preselected Moderate must be exposed.
They can’t do an Abbott on Dutton.
PS. Congratulations are appropriate for his withstanding the attacks against Price. It is a brilliant tactical move and wedge against the urban thugs. The more they they attack her and the more she responds with her humble determination, the more they expose themselves.
Roger:
From what we’re seeing of the standard of behaviour, it seems ‘pack’ is more applicable.
The broader electorates’ rush to get dunny paper during ChinaFlu proved an idiocy I long suspected.
Uh huh.
The “broader electorate” are idiots if they don’t embrace a campaign against Transgender Rights?
Led by Katherine Deves, a person no one had ever heard of until Head Office parachuted her in as the candidate for Warringah?
High class pub.
A newly uncovered ancient Roman winery features marble tiling, fountains of grape juice and an extreme sense of luxury (Phys.org, 17 Apr)
“Recent excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii uncovered the remains of a unique winery just outside Rome. The mid-third-century CE building located along the Via Appia Antica portrays a sense of opulence and performance almost never found at an ancient production site.
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From names stamped on a lead water pipe, we know the 24 hectare ancient Roman villa complex was owned by the wealthy Quintilii brothers, who served as consuls in 151 CE. The Roman emperor Commodus had the brothers killed in 182/3 CE. He took possession of their properties, including this villa, initiating long-term imperial ownership.”
SATP must now put in a fountain of four X. It’d be a fun drawcard! The Quintilii brothers should’ve got in touch with Russell Crowe and Oliver Reed, as it might’ve gone better for them then.
Yes, there is “no left anymore” as Labor liars, Teals and Greens all claim to be something else, something nicer and less political.
But what comes out once Greens/Teals/Labor pollies get elected are demands for moar Govt power, moar middle-class subsidies and less stuff that, you know, pays the bills for all the unskilled, inexperienced Arts grads running things we depend on.
Ends with upper middle class pollies fueling each others Teslas, when blackouts allow, and calling it a modern economy.
That’s when it will begin to bite….”b -b-b-but I didn’t think it would apply to my quarter acre in the leafy suburbs….”
Moderna reports decent outcomes from it’s mRNA-4157 phase 2 trials.
It’s a personalised cancer treatment.
This is what mRNA is meant for.
Not pumping it into a billion people with the hope of beating a corona virus.
headcase really, really hates it when people with relevant, lived experience campaign(Deves, Price) against the current left-wing tropes such as transgender sickos attempting to access female spaces and destroying democracy with unelected racist upper house. Take note of head’s dis-ease.
Karen Andrews was still wearing a masked after the ALP had unmasked.
The female quota targets ended up hurting the Liberal Party more than the ALP.
Haha, black PhD candidate find that black gamers are transphobic and he can believe it.
The complex relationship between Black gamers and Hogwarts Legacy (Phys.org, 17 Apr)
When the computer game Hogwarts Legacy was released in February 2023, some critics wondered whether the controversy surrounding J.K. Rowling—whose Harry Potter franchise inspired the game—would hurt sales.
Those supporting the trans community had called for a boycott of the game.
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Nevertheless, the game, which gives players the opportunity to be young wizards making their way in the Potterverse, has proved immensely popular, selling north of 12 million copies in the two weeks after its launch.
Oops, trannies won’t like that one bit.
But as a social scientist who studies gaming subcultures, I’ve been particularly interested in Hogwarts Legacy’s large following among Black gamers, who, like millions of others, seem more than willing to overlook the calls to boycott the title.
How churlish of them to not support their tranny bretheren!
While J.K. Rowling included a handful of characters who were people of color in her books, their scant representation could be read as tokenism, at best. And long before the trans controversy, some Harry Potter fans criticized Rowling for what I call “hindsight representation”: long after the books were published, Rowling claimed that certain characters were of different ethnicities or sexual orientations, without directly highlighting their diversity in the texts.
Nonetheless, gaming boards dedicated to Black gamers were abuzz after the release. The game has gained such a foothold in the Black gaming community that one Facebook commenter triumphantly announced that “Black folks done took over Hogwarts and turned it into an HBCU”—a reference to historically Black colleges and universities.
He’s funny. He’s walking such a fine line between the TERF-haters and the Blak mafia that he squeaks. Trespass too far in any direction, son, and you’ll get yourself cancelled.
Ah, faceplanted again! I meant “black PhD candidate finds that black gamers are transphobic and he can’t believe it”. I need someone to remind me to edit before hitting the post comment button. Sheesh.
No coming back from XXXX. The very definition of cruel and unusual.
… when people with relevant, lived experience campaign(Deves, …) against the current left-wing tropes such as transgender sickos attempting to access female spaces
What I said is that Liberal Voters aren’t buying your bullshit.
The Election result speaks for itself, both last May and in Victoria.
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Elon Musk!
Holy Mackerel! The more you listen the more you realise the deep state is far deeper than we imagined.
The Twitter files were only the low-level part of what he found inside the Twitter beehive.
Grant-seekers pretend to understand the human brain better than Shakespeare:
These brightly coloured ‘pictures of human brain activity’ have been around for a long time. They are bullshit, and have never proved anything.
Apparently they are good in the sharkpool of grant applications, though.
A day that will exist in infamy.
I think the rate of men moving out after widowhood is 100%.
More women than men move out after widowhood, study finds (Phys.org, 17 Apr)
Ok, yes, some might elect to stay in a jar on the mantlepiece, and others might prefer to stay home and vote Democrat.
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Widowhood applies to either spouse.
I like “relict”. 😀
Haha, another one.
Canada public broadcaster CBC quits Twitter over ‘government-funded’ label (17 Apr)
In a statement, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada said Twitter had added a “government-funded media” label to its account, branding it the same way as it does major media outlets in authoritarian countries such as Russia or China.
“In the case of CBC/Radio-Canada this labeling is untrue and deceptive,” the statement said.
While the broadcaster is publicly funded, it said its editorial independence is protected under Canadian broadcasting law.
So they admit that Elon is exactly correct to label them “government-funded media” then they flounce off anyway? Wow, lefties are hilarious!
Surely “involuntarily taxpayer funded collectivist propaganda organ” is even more correct (if not somewhat clunky).
Ed Casesays:
April 18, 2023 at 12:50 pm
… when people with relevant, lived experience campaign(Deves, …) against the current left-wing tropes such as transgender sickos attempting to access female spaces
What I said is that Liberal Voters aren’t buying your bullshit.
The Election result speaks for itself, both last May and in Victoria.
I’m old enough to remember Grandpa Ed Simpson informing us that “Scottie” was playing AlBo “like a Stradivarius”. It now seems that Grandpa Ed didn’t notice that the Strad was out of tune with the listeners.
Keep shilling for the Liars, Grandpa Ed.
Not exactly.
More precise and useful:
Yep. Pack is about right.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/mob-ransacks-gas-station-in-compton-ca-loots-everything-from-snacks-to-condoms-video/
https://twitter.com/i/status/1648031930649047053
https://twitter.com/i/status/1647747367045681152
Any further questions?
Doc Faustus:
Heresy!
We need purview, it is our fiend.
No
Best toilet cleaner EVAH.
The North West of WA is rich in energy ie coal and gas , rich in minerals , has a rich agricultural future and only the Chinese who have brought or leased huge tracts of land there can see it.
I’ll dissent. That title is held in perpetuity by Coca-Cola.
A purveyor of government-funded meeja …
Via Quadrant and its expose on some “problematic” Q&A audience participants.
No coming back from XXXX. The very definition of cruel and unusual punishment
An unkind, but remarkably perceptive acquaintance opines that it’s called XXXX because Queenslanders (or ith that Queenthlanderth) can’t spell beer.
It must be noted that Tasmania could only managed XXX ale.
Wasn’t it Larry Pickering who ran a display of how Stan Grant was getting more singed over the years?
Tried again:
@TwitterSafety
@TwitterAU
Could you look into why my mate
@_ColdHands_
account hasn’t been reinstated??
Thanks
XXXX was the beer for the part of Qld that is within a day’s drive of the NSW border.
(Posted without comment)
Most of the state had their own brands.
Wretched creature took up residence on the keyboard overnight, sat on enough buttons to totally stuff the laptop, and has just obliged me to spend almost 90 minutes reloading windows and everything else.
Rethinking my donation to the Cat Protection Society.
The hint is in the name CAT…PROTECTION….SOCIETY.
Sort of like the ‘Ndrangheta but with claws instead of black hands.
The problem was you didnt keep up your subscription for protection, … feel lucky, next time its an eye carelessly scratched out whole you sleep.
Yes, if we don’t use our resources, someone else who understands the value of economics and cheap energy will simply come and take our resources…
I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords.
They sure as hell won’t tolerate and kind of Abo ‘voice’
Very unkind.
We flinty-jawed Queenthlanderth can usually spell beer perfectly well. We just don’t apply the name to Messers Castlemaine and Perkins’ fine product.
I dont want the Govt. to do something, I want the Govt. to get out of my way.
Quite some years ago I found myself in a restaurant table & able to get the ear of a strident Victorian member of the Liberal party (not a politician & not anybody with a public profile, just a member at high level who could push a case)
He was firmly of the belief that nothing could be done with the north, & that handing huge leases to “the chinese” was as good or a better solution than any.
This bloke viewed the world through a boardroom window, and had a very southern, very urban/metro perspective on life.
It took hours to convince him that Australia would be best served by the Ord, & by extension any similar scheme in the north, being divided into farms of a living area size then balloted to Australian citizens.
He put up every argument against it, including incredibly (I’m not making this up) that there would not be any young Australians with either the skill or the determination to take on land in the north.
Convinced him in the end. Alas he must have been unable to convince anybody else.
Any of you white gudiyas given thought to what name you’ll go with when the voice gets up?
I’m toying with Boodie Pascoe-Ngopitchup.
No doubt at all that Marcia is recognisable, to the discerning eye, as having some Aboriginal features, these seem to become more pronounced as people age.
As for mid to dark brown, like most people that probably depends on how much sun she has had recenly but given she is being photographed with a couple of elders, I doubt it was a trick of light that made her look so fair.
Incidentally her publicity photo for Melbourne Uni clearly has her wearing a darker shade of make up than her natural skin tone.
Nor does this subtract from the observation that whatever difficulties she faced in her childhood (not an experience unique to Aboriginal people) she has been very successful and not in need of a ‘voice’.
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Yes, and they will pay off the Aborigine clans and turn them against each other while they use it.
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P, that was great, thanks. I particularly enjoyed the Ginger “Weeping Angel”. 😀
It is quite likely that the Fair Australia screed is a fake.
It would be nice if the no campaign made a couple of concrete suggestions about how Aboriginal disadvantage could be overcome.
I’d like mining royalties to be paid at the individual level, private ownership of property, don’t even care if public housing in remote communities is handed over in a rent to buy scheme.
Jacinta and Warren, amongst others must have some ideas.
My only experience with the NDIS is that every disabled person in my neighborhood has shiny new, very expensive, electric wheelchairs or mobility scooters. They were all using basic wheelchairs or cheap mobility scooters a few years ago.
I have noticed in a couple of cases that the people who were using manual wheelchairs have lost a lot of fitness and are getting fat on there new equipment with all the bells and whistles.
It is clear to me that some, maybe all, of these new items are way over the top.
Whenever the topic of Australias undeveloped north is discussed most people point out that is just too far away from anywhere…WTF..?…the whole continent was to far away from anywhere 500 years ago is my counter argument. Whatever happened to our ‘ can do’ attitude?..What made us so fearfull?
Potential is a luxury ,..a luxury that Aussies are wasting.
In Yes, Yes, It’s a Guardian Poll news:
Guardian Essential poll: Indigenous voice retains majority support but opposition hardens
You would expect that a proportion of the ‘Soft Yes’ brigade are actually ‘Soft No’ voters concerned about appearing racist by rejecting racial preference in their Constitution.
There’s a message for Dutton in there regarding concerns over race-based “rights and privileges”.
You can’t afford to squib the issue.
which part?
As I linked to earlier, here are the minutes released under FOI from the National Indigenous Australians Agency
https://www.niaa.gov.au/sites/default/files/foi-log/foi-2223-016.pdf
I have sent off a complaint to Sky News about Markson’s vicious interview with Deves. I watched snippets of it this morning and I had to stop.
In my complaint I said that Markson was a “mean girl”, no different to those women in Canberra.
Mean girl Markson. It has a ring to it.
Cassie – be interesting to see if Shazza is forced by management to issue a mea culpa.
Which would presumably take place this evening.
The North West of WA is rich in energy ie coal and gas , rich in minerals , has a rich agricultural future and only the Chinese who have brought or leased huge tracts of land there can see it.
Plasmamortarsays:
April 18, 2023 at 1:50 pm
Yes, if we don’t use our resources, someone else who understands the value of economics and cheap energy will simply come and take our resources…
I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords.
They sure as hell won’t tolerate and kind of Abo ‘voice’
And here is a map that shows all of those peoples on our doorstep looking at all of that room in Australia. The height bars show the population density per square kilometre…………….Note all of those peoples in SE Asia and China.
For a start, NW Australia looks ripe for some plundering some time soon. When do we get those Nuclear Subs? If ever.
F* I love Musk.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1648135878454177794
guess what the label says now.
Over the last few years I’ve noticed ‘beggars’ outside shopping centre entries, in city centres and train and bus stations. Standing at a set of lights on a busy intersection with a little sign that says ‘ homeless’ or ‘disabled’, hoping for someone to throw them a few coins . There now so brazen to ask me for taxi money or can I spare a smoke. What happened to ‘Pride’?..
Qantas now claiming they can’t assist me as I booked through a travel agent.
I rang the call centre and it became clear that they have now somehow linked my booking to someone else’s.
I booked directly through the frequent flyer programme on their website.
Now on to my third complaint number.
It’s tick tick tick til I go to the Airline Customer Advocate.
rosiesays:
April 18, 2023 at 2:09 pm
It is quite likely that the Fair Australia screed is a fake.
Yes, well you would think that.
“Cassie – be interesting to see if Shazza is forced by management to issue a mea culpa.
Which would presumably take place this evening.”
Let me know, because I’ll never switch her on again. I should make it clear, I don’t mind tough interviews, I don’t mind challenging interviews but last night Mean Girl Markson was vicious towards Deves.
Nup, not tolerating it. I pay good money to watch Sky. I’ll just spend more time watching ADH TV.
Lot of anti NDIS comments on here.I can only say that I hope none of you ever need its services.It has saved my and my wife’s sanity .
Easy to criticize when you dont need it.
Perth Tradersays:
April 18, 2023 at 2:38 pm
Over the last few years I’ve noticed ‘beggars’ outside shopping centre entries, in city centres and train and bus stations. Standing at a set of lights on a busy intersection with a little sign that says ‘ homeless’ or ‘disabled’, hoping for someone to throw them a few coins . There now so brazen to ask me for taxi money or can I spare a smoke. What happened to ‘Pride’?..
In Sydney, when I try to give them some food or a cup of coffee they then look at me as if I am not there. All they want is money for their drugs, cigarettes and booze. Well, F@ck them. No cashola ars@holes.
duncanm
What a modest proposal…
Treaty
Treaty must include:
Land and sea rights
A fixed percentage of Gross Nation Product. Rates/land tax/royalties
Right to self determination
Timeline to achieve
Aboriginal control
Most of the discussion seems to be using the constitutional amendment as a stalking horse for the treaty which is where the courts will go hog wild.
It still could be done WAAAY better even if many people are genuinely helped.
The Title..’The Honorable Member for…..’ needs to be eradicated from all Govt. Letter heads.
There’s a message for Dutton in there regarding concerns over race-based “rights and privileges”.
You can’t afford to squib the issue.
There is indeed.
#1. Disregard Guardian Australia polling
#2. Disregard advice from anonymous bloggers.
Duncanm, I was referring to the document allegedly from Jacinta Price.
Can’t find it at the Fair Australia website?
The corporatisation of the NDIS will ensure the filleting of taxpayers is done via ASX200 type companies.
Not the current smaller operators.
The current media coverage of NDIS failures is all about moving the trough & putting a moat around it via certificate & accreditation standards.
Services to those who need it will not change.
Or, if she had even a scintilla of grace, she would hand in the resignation letter herself.
She can’t, as she can’t write. Or type. Or, put two nice words together. “I quit” are the two nice words and I will write/type them for her. FFS.
The Press is Now Also the Police
As fallout from the Discord leak continues, the undisguised partnerships of media, intelligence, and law enforcement come into more painful relief
MATT TAIBBI
APR 18
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Back from vacation I made the mistake of scanning the news and was shocked by the media’s ongoing orgy of self-congratulation and Two-Minutes-Hating, in response to the capture of “Pentagon Leaker” Jack Teixeira. Glenn Greenwald has already covered a lot of this on System Update, but this represents a major new progression in the ongoing mutation of news media, from public advocate to cop.
The New York Times and Washington Post trumpeted roles in helping identify Air National Guardsman Teixiera for the FBI. “We’re delivering him to you with his head on a platter,” is how Glenn put it.
It’s an awful look for the press. This isn’t tracking down a serial killer or exposing Enron’s fraud. The alleged “crime” here is releasing true information, information that belongs to the American public and is secret only by official designation. At most, a newspaper might decide not to publish such information, but to help jail the leaker? It’s nuts. Reporters are supposed to be interested in everything and listen to information without judgment, like doctors, yet the whole industry is working itself into a moral frenzy because a bunch of overgrown Minecraft enthusiasts were privately passing around a few truths like a joint.
The papers even made a show of using huge newsroom posses to effect capture. One 1400-word Times piece, “A Quick Guide to what the Leaked U.S. Intelligence Documents Say,” was credited to 13 people: lead writer Eric Nagourney, with contributions from Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Michael Schwirtz, David E. Sanger, Ivan Nechepurenko, Anton Troianovski, Aric Toler, Christiaan Triebert, Malachy Browne and Chris Buckley.
The fascinating name was Toler’s. In “Finding the Pentagon Leaker”, the Times identified the figure who apparently did most of the sleuthing only as “a freelance reporter who works with us,” but provided a hyperlink showing his day job: director of “research and training” for the absurd intel community cutout Bellingcat.
For the Times, this symbolized a complete turnaround from just 12 years ago, when it partnered with Julian Assange to print “The War Logs,” a far more damaging set of leaks. Just one of those Wikileaks-based stories, “Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert,” was probably more impactful than all the Teixeira docs combined. It described how officials in Pakistan, an ostensible American ally receiving over $1 billion from the U.S. for aid in fighting “militants,” was holding “secret strategy sessions” with the Taliban, to help organize “networks… that fight against American soldiers.”
In a piece in January 2011, then-editor Bill Keller detailed how the Times made a conscious decision to print material it knew government wanted to keep secret. The government back then was viewed as a potential obstacle to its reporting:
From consultations with our lawyers, we were confident that reporting on the secret documents could be done within the law, but we speculated about what the government — or some other government — might do to impede our work or exact recriminations.
The Times spent a lot of time in its “War Logs” coverage reassuring readers that it was releasing documents “responsibly,” and not upsetting its pals in the Obama administration too too much, but the fact remained that the 2010 Times emphasized the newsworthiness of the leaks, not the crime of leaking.
A decade and a half later, Assange is in jail, and the only permitted form of “leaking” in the modern media landscape comes either from the intelligence services themselves, or facsimile organizations like Bellingcat.
What’s the difference? Wikileaks pumped out unapproved leaks and scoops at an unprecedented rate. Bellingcat, founded by the British journalist Eliot Higgins and backed by groups like the National Endowment for Democracy and the Open Society Foundation, provides “leaks” of facts the state wants to emphasize. It’s also moved aggressively into the anti-disinformation space, cracking down on what it calls “cyber-miserablism” (read: complaining about government policy) and “counter-factual communities.” The latter group turns out to include people like Teixeira, accused of leaking factual information.
“Wikileaks coined the term, ‘Intelligence agency of the people,’” says Stella Assange, Julian’s wife. “Bellingcat went with for the people.”
The contradiction between the past and present behavior of the Times is so glaring, the paper was forced to address the issue. David Sanger’s article, “How the Latest Leaked Documents are Different From Past Breaches,” argues that the difference between then and now is that the current intelligence breaches are more “timely”, whatever that means.
Even if Sanger’s piece made sense — it doesn’t — it wouldn’t excuse a newspaper hunting a leak suspect for feds to catch. Future sources who might have very different motives than this one will obviously hesitate to go to the press if they think they might be served up to authorities. Say you’re the next Daniel Ellsberg, thinking of releasing more documents about America spying on allies, or sending American special forces to fight in Ukraine, or worse. Would you even consider going to the New York Times or the Washington Post after this? Would you risk going to MSNBC, with its fleet of ex-prosecutors on staff, to become part of a Hallie Jackson diatribe about the dangers of “these super-secret documents, just hanging out”? Of course not. In the current environment, that would be suicide-by-reporter.
The press loses its institutional power the moment the public ceases to view it as being separate from government. If politicians aren’t worried about taking a beating in the newspapers, they won’t fear newspapers, and if the public sees that news reports are indistinguishable from party press releases, they’ll eventually skip past media and go straight to the source. That was already happening, but this latest caper is even worse. If the public sees journalists as agents of law enforcement, they’ll literally cross the street to avoid us. The media is in an audience crisis as is. This is a remedy?
The current media sees the old system of serving public curiosity before the needs of law enforcement as dangerous. In a world rife with Russians, anti-vaxxers, and insurrectionists, it’s thought we must dispense with the adversarial idea and present a united front against Threats to Democracy. This started with the mania for attacking “fake news,” blasting even random web posters on Facebook, a Politifact specialty. The next step was hall-monitor media, e.g. Taylor Lorenz trying to catch billionaires saying the “r-word” in Clubhouse, or the Washington Post trying to out donors to Canadian trucker protests. From “misinformation” newspapers moved to malinformation, i.e. news that’s correct but politically wrong. Now we’re at the last step: true but criminal. A profession that once got off on informing the public now seems jazzed by correcting it and punishing its errors of character, like being a “gun enthusiast” or a “gamer,” or trading “offensive” jokes. It’s a short step from playing fact police to appointing oneself the real thing.
People hated reporters when they thought we were just politically biased, power-adoring, elitist scum-liars. How low will our reputations sink when “snitch” is added to the mix? By the time these people are finished, we’ll be looking up even to Congress.
Not anti NDIS, just anti bottomless money pits, outrageous pricing and ticket clipping, no incentives to get value for money or prevent fraud, no thresholds, no co payments.
Lidia Thorpe has all the grace of a farting contest.
Some rando on Twitter squeals:
Let’s break this down:
#1. Bikie dating.
It’s too high off the ground to eat grass
#2. Police Hating.
You’re scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
#3. Mardi Gras- ruining
Good on her.
The Mardi Gras stinks.
So who had “UN going the full Epstein” on their SMOD bingo card for this year??
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/un-says-minors-can-consent-to-sex/
“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,” several U.N.-backed organizations claimed in a March report that advocates decriminalizing these acts as part of a “human rights-based approach” to laws governing sexual relations
After Feb reporting season, Joel Fitzgibbon’s brother was doing the rounds saying within a decade 30% of NIB’s earnings would be coming from the NDIS.
Ed Casesays:
April 18, 2023 at 2:50 pm
#2. Disregard advice from anonymous bloggers.
Disregard anything from anyone with the handle of ‘Ed Case’, a Suitable Case for Treatment more like.
The names Blacksmith,
Jimmy Blacksmith
I’m not sure you use that descriptor for Swan Premium when Bondy had his hands on the levers either. *shudder*
Extraordinary scene. If that were a black woman mobbed by white teenagers it would be all over the news, there would be riots, the FBI and DoJ would be investigating, etc. etc. Derbyshire, and Scott Adams put it best recently, “get the hell out of there”.
feelthebernsays:
April 18, 2023 at 2:58 pm
After Feb reporting season, Joel Fitzgibbon’s brother was doing the rounds saying within a decade 30% of NIB’s earnings would be coming from the NDIS.
And that 30% would be coming from Borrowings in the Australian Taxpayer’s name. That’s the problem with the NDIS. It is not funded. It is not an Insurance Scheme that is funded. It is ‘Robbing Peter to Pay Paul’. A traditional Federal Guv’ment Ploy.
The power-mad leftwing revolutionaries attempting to remake America as a one-party state controlled by the Democratic Party already have control of the White House and the federal government bureaucracy, which votes 95%+ for the Democrats.
The sociopathic coders who run the Silicon Valley social media monopolies now want to use artificial intelligence to put left-programmed machines in charge of the country forever.
Elon Musk has been participating in Silicon Valley’s AI development for years, but is now worried that the valley’s sociopaths want to destroy America and entrench Democratic Party hegemony over it.
Here are links to 10 stories arising from Tucker Carlson’s recent extended interview with Elon Musk, which was aired today and will be again tomorrow. Note: the link is generic so it probably won’t be available at that URL 48 hours from now.
cavemansays:
April 18, 2023 at 3:03 pm
Any of you white gudiyas given thought to what name you’ll go with when the voice gets up?
I have. Ned Kelly, as I’m sure that he had at least 0.000000005% Aboriginal blood in him.
Alan Bond – the only man ever to lose money, trying to sell beer to Australians.
Is anti-vaxxer still a perjorative?
As against someone with the handle Wodney Woddenhead, constantly peddling bullshit from a Leavenworth federal prison inmate telling us he has been running an AI computer system since the 1980s, which is able to predict anything.
Self awareness rating -10.
O….k……
Mole
I’m somewhat sympathetic to your view about the UN’s underage comments, but I’m also not 100% sure that they’re into supporting pedo behavior.
Think about this example. Two 17-year-olds are frequently having sex. One of them turns 18 before the other, which would mean the older teen is technically, in many countries, rated as a sex offender. I don’t think that’s right.
My neighbour couldn’t get a cent out of the NDIS to care for his his totally dependent dying wife. For 18 months nothing then the last 3 months they coughed up a pittance.
Seems fitting?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/17/ron-desantis-prison-near-disney-theme-park
Sorry Cats I forgets the link on google AI:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11980033/Google-CEO-says-doesnt-fully-understand-new-AI-program-Bard-works.html
Apparently it learnt Bangla all on its own (which it wasn’t supposed to be able to do)…
Does having sex with yourself before age 16 break any laws?….askin’ for my cousin.
I’m glad that my super fund is among those investing wisely to maximise their members’ returns.
And the Trustees are legally bound to look after the best interests of the Beneficiaries (The Members). Look at Superannuation Law.
So, all this crap about Superannuation Funds following the dictates of the LayBore Guv’ments Green Illusion (and Social Housing) is just that. Crap. It is not the Guv’ment’s or Union’s Money (Industry Super Funds).
The Lawyers will have a field day for any interference by those who think otherwise and they will likely win every case for the Members.
BEYOND THE RESET – Animated Short Film
Does having sex with yourself before age 16 break any laws?..askin’ for a cousin.
Ed Casesays:
April 18, 2023 at 2:50 pm
There’s a message for Dutton in there regarding concerns over race-based “rights and privileges”.
You can’t afford to squib the issue.
There is indeed.
#1. Disregard Guardian Australia polling
#2. Disregard advice from anonymous bloggers.
Consider yourself disregarded, Grandpa Ed Simpson.
Ed Casesays:
April 18, 2023 at 2:50 pm
There’s a message for Dutton in there regarding concerns over race-based “rights and privileges”.
You can’t afford to squib the issue.
There is indeed.
#1. Disregard Guardian Australia polling
#2. Disregard advice from anonymous bloggers.
Consider yourself disregarded, Grandpa Ed Simpson.
oops…I have 2 cousins…
JCsays:
April 18, 2023 at 3:20 pm
Disregard anything from anyone with the handle of ‘Ed Case’, a Suitable Case for Treatment more like.
As against someone with the handle Wodney Woddenhead, constantly peddling bullshit from a Leavenworth federal prison inmate telling us he has been running an AI computer system since the 1980s, which is able to predict anything.
Hey, nice to hear from you again Jerk Off Cretin. Where have you been? Sleeping under that rock again I guess. You always seem to have something nice to say (in your own little mind that is).
There is more Armstrong on the way for you and your followers. Dotty Dot of Dottiness and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. Maybe a couple of others as well.
Happy reading !!!!!!
Self awarness -10.
We can’t wait.
From Leavenworth as well or other federal prisons?
And just for Jerk Off Cretin (JC) and deluded followers………………………….
China v Taiwan – The Draft Begins
“Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that he is preparing for war. The military budget will grow by about 7.2% this year after it has already doubled over the past decade. This is not a sudden decision. China has been quietly positioning itself for quite some time and has taken notes over Russia’s missteps with Ukraine. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is now drafting soldiers, and veterans and college-educated students will be at the top of the list.
Wars are now fought through intelligence and strategies rather than pure brute strength. The PLA is seeking out both women and men and is particularly interested in those with a STEM background. China’s announcement comes after Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul visited Taiwan to “provide deterrence to China.” Worse, McCaul told the international press that America would fight alongside Taiwan if Congress approved.
In typical political fashion, McCaul proposed a world war! “Taiwan is in a very different position from Ukraine,” McCaul said. “Number one, they’re not battle tested or ready. They are not prepared for war.” His solution? “When you look at Ukraine, they had NATO supporting them. You don’t have NATO in the Pacific,” he continued. “That’s why when looking at Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Australia, we need to start having these discussions as a deterrent for peace.”
Peace was never an option with Ukraine, and Zelensky made it known that he would not meet Moscow on any agreement. In fact, NATO and others directly helped Kiev break its promises to Moscow, such as France and Germany helping to broker the Minsk Agreement hoax to buy time for Ukraine to build up its military. China has a strategy and a mission.
Losing Taiwan would be seen as an unfathomable loss, and they are prepared to go to war against any nation that intervenes. The West has already stretched itself thin by hyper-fixating on Ukraine as their own economies crumble. Interestingly, US intelligence services believe China will invade Taiwan in 2027. The computer also indicates that a world war could peak as early as 2027, with 2024-2027 being a period of concern.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/china-v-taiwan-the-draft-begins/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
I don’t think so. Consent laws usually add a condition that its ok if the two are within 2 years of age of the other below whatever is the age of majority.
Not sure how that appeared twice, but reinforcing the point is good.
It may apply here, but in certain US states the older teen would be tagged as a sex offender.
And more good news for Jerk Off Cretin and his followers –
Welcome to the New Totalitarian One World Government
QUESTION: Marty, You are the only worthwhile analyst. You were alerting us a year ago that the IMF was creating its own digital currency. We have all these people claiming this will kill the dollar just as they proclaimed the euro when that was created. It is also well known that you were called in about revising the world monetary system numerous times. I heard that you were called in on this one and refused to assist them. You warned back in May of 2021 that the IMF was creating a new reserve digital currency.
Is this all part of the rise of the United Nations, World Bank, and IMF all becoming this one world government? I that why you declined to get involved?
LW
ANSWER: I am not at liberty to speak to issues where I am solicited. Suffice it to say, I took no part in creating this currency. This is part of what I have been warning about digital currency. They can restrict its use and anyone who thinks that somehow Bitcoin will be some independent white knight rushing in to save the day, they have drank too much of the cool aid.
Look, try depositing $10,000 in cash. Watch what happens. I have a friend who owns a bar in a college town. He takes in a lot of cash because the customers often do not have credit cards. Some banks did not even want to accept an account from him. Others required inspection and monitoring because cash CAN BE a way to launder money. Europe has been restricting cash to transactions capped at €1,000.
There is serious talk of restricting purchases for cash or CRYPTOCURRENCY and the way they enforce it is precisely restrictions on businesses and noncompliance means you are out of business when no bank will accept your account. That eliminates business in credit cards as well. This is why I say, they will create a black market through their sheer authoritarianism. Human rights will no longer be respected. This is point 8 of Schwab’s Agenda.
Back in 1980, the press was all over my firm. NPR came in with cameras rolling and could not believe we had just paid a woman $6,000 for a heavy silver serving plate. We had lines all day long at all my locations in addition to the fact I was making markets for all the stores nationwide. Whatever they bought that day they sold immediately;y to us and shipments were coming in from everywhere. I had a team just handling that and we would bundle it all up and send it out in Armored trucks to be refined at Engelhard which was 30 minutes away.
Because of all the publicity, the IRS came in and declared me to be a bank under the theory that Nixon only closed the gold window and gold was never demonetized. Sure, it was a novel theory that just because I was one of the 3 largest gold dealers in the country, that made me a bank without applying for a banking license. They claimed I had to report every transaction of $10,000 or more buying for selling. They sent in their stormtroopers and began going through every transaction. They then went out and audited over 3,000 clients. I decided to retire. That was it. I was not about to become a rat on everyone that walked in the door.
The point is this. They can declare everyone mining cryptocurrency to be a bank. Already, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) requires any transaction of $10,000 or more to be independently reported to the IRS. The government can declare you to be anything. You can fight them in court and you will lose and it will take years. In the meantime, you will have to comply. They can do ANYTHING they want. It is then your burden to argue that what they are doing is illegal. Good luck. We are no more living in a free country than Russia or China. The government can do anything it desires. It will always be your burden to say they are acting unconstitutionally.
You will NOT be able to travel internationally with even gold coins. You may not even be able to hop on a plane domestically with gold or cash. Over the past several years, a common question for U.S. taxpayers across the globe is whether or not a foreign-based virtual currency such as Bitcoin that is held overseas is reportable for FBAR (Foreign Bank and Financial Account Reporting) or FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) purposes. The Treasury was already pushing since 2021 for any transaction of $10,000 or more in cryptocurrency must be reported to the IRS.
Whether you are a visitor to the United States or a U.S. citizen arriving in the United States, you must complete one or more entry forms.
At the end of the day, they want their pound of flesh and they want absolutely everything to be restricted and monitored. Welcome to the new law of totalitarianism.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/regulation/welcome-to-the-new-totalitarian-one-world-government/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Wod, I don’t read that worthless swill. Posting his crap, however says a lot about you and your personal ethics, you disgusting swine.
Liddell closure delayed. Some sanity at last?
Hope it’s kept running until a nuclear power plant is built.
And Dover, even the 2 years apart example could be really problematic in certain instances aligned to the example I offered. Take a 13 and 15 year old, time moves on and they’re still together when one is 17 while the other is 19. Is the 19 year the sex offender you’d like to see in jail? It just doesn’t sound right to me.
You’d have to look at the legislation.
What’s the lead time on nuclear? Six, eight years? Twelfth of Never?
We’re stuffed.
You’re asking me to look at it or the 18 year old teen?
And more for Jerk Off Cretin to read and take note of…………..
Why Does the ECM Work On So Many Things?
COMMENT #1: Hi Martin, corn also turned nicely on the ECM:
JB
COMMENT #2: Hello Marty, I just want to point out that the Japanese yen broke really hard on the 10th. Not sure if this will prove to be a precursor of what is to come.
Thanks from Tokyo, your old home ground.
AS
COMMENT #3: Well the ECM also marked the reversal in trend in the 30-year bond. It peaked at 134 and fell to 130 by the end of the week. That was just remarkable.
Colin
COMMENT #4: Martin; is this chart real that people are sending around claiming it was Benner’s work?
Mat
ANSWER: As far as this chart of Brenner’s Cycle being real, the answer is no Someone has made it up and signed his name. They have at least extended his cycle correctly. The last time someone tried that they skewed the cycle to make it look like it forecast the Depression 1932 low.
When the WSJ published it, it showed 1932 instead of 1931. Brenner did not extend this out in this manner. What is important to understand is that Brenner was a farmer and farmers understand the cycles in nature. Economists and governments pretend they can smooth out the cycle and eliminate the booms and busts.
The business cycle always wins as both former chairmen of the Federal Reserve conceded – Arthur Burns and Paul Volcker.
Back during the 19th century when Brenner was observing the business cycle, it was still based on commodities. Kondratieff took the same data. I believe the reason WHY the Economic Confidence Model has been so accurate is that it was based on a list of Panics – not one sector of the economy. Therefore, the ECM incorporates weather as Brenner and Kondratieff did by using the commodity sector. Yet just that the ECM was derived from financial panics, it was not based on any one specific type so it strangely seems to have incorporated the whole gambit.
Furthermore, all previous cyclical analysis was based on just a single market like stocks. They have failed because they could not account for the external influence of a contagion. The fact that this list began with the Turks’ siege of Vienna, means that the list was also influenced by war and from an international perspective.
This is a fascinating subject that I will explore in far more detail in my coming book.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/why-does-the-ecm-work-on-so-many-thing/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Obviously the former and it was in reference to those ‘certain US states’. More broadly, you have to have laws in this area so you just have to craft sensible ones and have decent interpreters of the law as well.
Wod, you realize Marty won’t be able to do a world book tour because almost every country doesn’t allow entry to convicted felons.
Michael Smith News.
Isn’t that what the UN is saying?
JCsays:
April 18, 2023 at 3:54 pm
Wod, I don’t read that worthless swill. Posting his crap, however says a lot about you and your personal ethics, you disgusting swine.
What a Pompous Windbag you are with the Arrogance gene. Please keep taking the medicine and I do so hope that it works a bit. T.W.A.T.
It seems as though there are many others around the World who follow Mr. Armstrong and subscribe to Socrates. All of those poor people wasting their money when they could just sign up to – JC Jerk Off Cretin, Self Appointed Investment Adviser (Amateur) for free on this Blog. FFS.
Oh no.
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/davids-bridal-files-bankruptcy-lays-off-9-000-workers-marriage-decline
Maybe not punish and berate men for existing? No cash and prizes (incentivising) single motherhood and divorce?
It does not work on anything.
Fin.
Perth Trader:
Not ‘fearful’ PT -reluctant.
The suffocating bureaucracy and their interference via regulation have made the private sector unviable in terms of the changing legal environment that we have to work in.
Government can change your business from profitable to a losing proposition in a second. Just ask the people who went broke during the lockdowns, or the people who went broke during the ?Sydney light rail project who had their custom blocked off at Sydney Councils whim.
LOL
What a bullshit artist.
I hope he gets locked up again and his eyes deviate further apart.
Johnny Rotten:
We need nuclear weapons first.
We believe in the maker of crackpot theories, of all that is unseen and unseen in forecasts.
Begat from fraud, true bullshit from true bullshit, begotten, not made, one being with the Armstrong mega-mind forehead.
What did garden maintenance guys do before power hedge clippers?
“Why are all my plants cubes?”
Not from what I just read.
Interestingly, US intelligence services believe China will invade Taiwan in 2027. The computer also indicates that a world war could peak as early as 2027, with 2024-2027 being a period of concern.”
Why would they wait till 2027? So many pointers to an earlier venture. The USA is sending valuable resources and support currently to Ukraine, the current Biden administration is palpably weak , there have been serious discussions between Xi and Putin, the world is currently realigning towards China, Australia & other SE Asian allies are relatively unprepared, there are divisions within the US Congress re the involvement of the USA in saving Taiwan………..
Anyone remember the movie Dogs In Space?
Remember the woman Lucio had hooked up with?
Morsie:
I’m not criticising it. I’m criticising the appalling abuse of it.
QUESTION: H B Bear, you are the funniest anthropomorphic children’s character why did they can your show?
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is now drafting soldiers, and veterans and college-educated students will be at the top of the list.
Will be watching movements of grandson’s Chinese national friend (put through expensive private school by family) who recently interrupted university degree for a 6 month stint back home.
Still can’t believe this is happening.
Who’d be in Homicide?
Around 3,000 tonnes of rubbish will be sifted through by hand in the search for missing Brisbane woman Lesley Trotter, who is believed to have been disposed of in a household rubbish bin.
The search of a Waste Management Facility at Swanbank, southwest of Brisbane, began in earnest on Tuesday after several days of site preparation in the hopes of locating the 78-year-old’s remains.
Footage released by Queensland Police shows the scale of the “hand and eye search”, which will see officers and Australian Defence Force personnel scour through 200 tonnes of rubbish each day with rakes and by hand.
Any further questions?
Are we in belt-fed territory yet?
Just saw Hewson’s tweet.
I see Dutton is sustaining his No Voice campaign with appts of Price and Liddle to Shadow ministry. This is cheap politics.
Two things:
1) He really should avoid talking about things being cheap, or having any price in fact. Any update on the price of a cake.
2) This is the man who lost ‘the unlosable election’. He might couch his criticism of someone else’s leadership in less dismissive terms.
Hmmm…The man who would be PM? The PM that never was? A PM shaped hole in the Liberal Party?
Remember this well:
Martin Armstrong has asked himself a Dorothy Dixer, declaring himself the sole authoritative voice in economics, finance, trading, geopolitics, military affairs and political commentary, out of a global population of over 8 BILLION people.
He hasn’t won accolades or anything, he is completely unqualified, he has “built” a make believe AI software programme in the 1980s with no training, his experience is fraud, gaol and losing other people’s money, his investment fund lost hundreds of millions of dollars, he is an unrepentant conniving fraud and an inveterate serial lair.
JC I see your point, my ex had her brother sent to prison for the exact scenario you describe, the day he turned 18 his 16 year old gilfriends parents shopped him to the coppers who saw to it he went to the clink for 2 years.
However – keep in mind this is the UN we are talking about, nothing straight can come out of that crooked ant nest of iniquity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacekeepers#:~:text=In%202015%2C%20the%20UN%20started,sexually%20abused%20by%20international%20peacekeepers.
Hewson doesn’t think Price is worthy of a shadow ministry in indigenous affairs. I wonder why?
Good to know anyway.
He’s such an ornament to humanity.
The disappearance of Lesley Trotter is gruesome, they don’t know what happened to her or whether she was the victim of foul play but they are certain she was placed in a garbage bin?
The media literally ganged up on him. His policy package was excellent and still is. I don’t wanna hear “oh he lost the plot during the election campaign”, Paul Keating was already there at self absorbed megalomania in 1977.
If Australians were too dumb to understand the GST and voted emotionally for a man who called them scumbags for disagreeing with his uneducated mind and work shy body and unskinned knuckles, that is their loss.
Dear Paul
Being lectured to by your political and APS staff with PhDs in macroeconometrics, does not give you an honorary PhD in the same by association.
Signed,
Your conscience.
Johnny Rotten:
It is one law away – in a self declared State of Emergency – to being the Governments money.
It helps if we start looking at what the Government is capable of legally doing rather than what we think the government is probably legally able to do.
It’s like Defence planning – What can the enemy do, rather than what do we think the enemy can do.
You have to sell your policies, Dot. He was a poor salesman.
Seems like they already have a suspect and some circumstantial evidence, perhaps a witness or at least corroborating evidence.
If not?
???
May as well get a psychic in to “solve” the case and drink some coffee and drift off to a David Lynch style dream sequence off of warm and past it milk.
Listen at about the 6min mark.
AMEO manager attempts to explain their approach to consultation with landholders for the VNI West transmission line.
Click on podcast of the local lad with the hat.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/vic-country-hour/victorian-country-hour/102216276
Ed Case –
So, the first thing Price has done in her first day in the job is to get a few hundred thousand people offside.
Great work.
And then She got over 10,000,000 people onside of her and what she was saying. GREAT WORK !!!!!
QUESTION: H B Bear, you are the funniest anthropomorphic children’s character why did they can your show?
May I remind you of your last public function.
Doing the “helicopter” with a sparkler lodged in your japs eye before vomiting over the stunned 5 year old party girl means you can no longer approach within 100m of childcare facilities/schools and, details withheld – old peoples homes.
Whatever happened to our ‘ can do’ attitude?..What made us so fearfull?
If you “can do”, then eventually government will catch up with you and f’ck you up the arse for your efforts.
This is why I love working on undeveloped countries, you can just get on with shit. I just oversaw load testing of a 10 ton gantry crane, the client doesn’t want a worksafe certificate or some other BS. They just want to know that it has been tested and that it works properly.
So that you’d have time to post on this blog.
I love your witty one liners.
May as well get a psychic in to “solve” the case and drink some coffee and drift off to a David Lynch style dream sequence off of warm and past it milk.
this post requires more jazz dwarf.
Yup.
I used to mark university essays as a second job and would get about 100 twice a semester. That was until I realised I was only getting paid to mark 45 of them (the other 55 were taxed or resulted in reductions family “benefit”). It was better to do nothing, not get taxed extra and cash in on the family “benefit.”
What would actually benefit families is to not to tax me my own money that you’re then going to wash through a bureaucracy before giving (less) back to me.
Hewson never held Keating accountable, for Keating’s earlier support of a Goods and Services tax as part of Option C of tax reform.
Winston Smithsays:
April 18, 2023 at 4:32 pm
Johnny Rotten:
For a start, NW Australia looks ripe for some plundering some time soon. When do we get those Nuclear Subs? If ever.
We need nuclear weapons first.
I do so agree.
If Australians were too dumb to understand the GST
Shoving tax collection onto business is a good idea?
Every prosperous nation seems to have risen to prosperity with an import duties only tax regime.
I say to people in undeveloped countries, don’t replicate what Australia has now, replicate what it had when it became prosperous.
How is this allowed in public? The mind boggles.
Critical Drinker’s review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
WHY AREN’T YOUNG MEN GETTING MARRIED!? MAN UP! YOU’LL LIVE LONGER!
Calli:
I read that the issue is with the turbines, apparently there’s a six year wait to get on the lists for them.
The wording is the clue:
The only thing they’re absolutely certain of is she was in a wheelie bin & went into the general garbage.
This means: The garbage truck’s bin camera shows her falling out of a rubbish bin & into the general waste in the truck.
How she got in there is likely yet to be determined.
*Most garbage trucks have a camera or cameras, recording what falls out of every rubbish bin.
Australia had a cumbersome wholesale ‘sales tax’ from 1930.
nothing like a couple of decent wars for government to significantly up its share of GDP and never give it back.
Thanks Sal. That was my interpretation too.
Thanks SATP.
That means they know which truck and when.
Apparently there was also blood discovered in the bin area of her apartment.
I told a visiting Chinese academic that China shouldn’t copy Western universities as they are now, but as they were in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when they produced great work.
Of course, there was vastly more freedom then, which wouldn’t have been thought desirable by the Chinese government. Nor by ours.
probably reviewed the video footage on the back of the garbage truck. Pretty sure they record everyone’s bin being emptied.
rosiesays:
April 18, 2023 at 5:25 pm
There a Whitlam to add there as well.
Nothing as long lived as an emergency tax.
Doc, I’d agree with that point to some degree, but what issues dealing with freedoms would there be in areas like physics or engineering, for instance? Politics and censorious behaviour would apply in the humanities, but I don’t see much of a problem in the really hard sciences or in focused areas like finance and accounting.
nothing like a couple of decent wars for government to significantly up its share of GDP and never give it back.
Exactly, pre WWI Australian’s standard of living was only second to New Zealand. What are we at now? 16th and plummeting?
Australia is being devoured by government.
which shows she stands for something.
Eg: Just today..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-18/wa-farm-death-inquiry-recommends-safety-levy/102233414
An inquiry into workplace safety in Western Australia’s agricultural sector has recommended establishing a levy on industry to allow WorkSafe to increase oversight and hire six new inspectors.
Sounds like a stitch-up.
Dotsays:
April 18, 2023 at 5:15 pm
WHY AREN’T YOUNG MEN GETTING MARRIED!? MAN UP! YOU’LL LIVE LONGER!
LOL. And Married Women live longer than Married Men. So why should a Young Man get married then?
Your so called logic always amazes me. Just like your Keynesian ‘Cronkynomics’. Just like JC – T.W.A.T
It will soon be 17yrs since my husband of 42yrs left this earth.
Every time I see or think of “The Twelfth Of Never” I remember.
snap Salvatore
What do you understand the UN is saying?
Sounds like a stitch-up.
It was, the parents hated him and they had been boyfriend/girlfriend for a couple of years.
The father was mates with the police/magistrate and they straight out railroaded the bloke to jail.
One of the most (justifiably) bitter, twisted and angry at the world people Ive ever met.
Just for general knowledge, the US Emergency Fuel Stocks had a graph on a site that has mysteriously disappeared/been relegated to a position that is now impossible to find.
But just in case you’re wondering, the reserve is at it’s lowest since 1983, and the Chinese have been beneficiaries of this lowering.
Thank you Mr Biden and Son.
Just one example: Faraday and friends went around Europe to talk to scientists about electromagnetism during the Napoleonic wars. No passport necessary, they hadn’t been invented, no government permission, just pack your trunk and pay to have it carted. While prudently avoiding battlefields.
No massive grant and government funding machinery to placate was perhaps the most important element. Today, if Faraday had applied for a grant to study electromagnetism, he’d have been advised by a committee of incompetents to give it away and focus on steam engines.
Wodney, you really are just stupid. There’s nothing in what Dot says ( married men live longer than unmarried on the whole) that is accounted for by your imbecilic assertion.
Yes, married women live longer than married and unmarried men. This doesn’t mean that married men don’t live longer than unmarried ones. You’re so freaking thick that granite is looking to partner up with you. Go see what the lady boy is up to.
NZ has fared even worse.
What’s the common denominator?
It can’t be plainer:
Whereas I said:
I would have thought given what I said earlier that you have to have age of consent laws, you have a sensible margin (like 2 years) for existing relationships, but you still outlaw 18-19 years old from predating on 15-16 year olds.
rickw:
Thank you.
I was beginning to think I was shouting at clouds again.
Politics and censorious behaviour would apply in the humanities, but I don’t see much of a problem in the really hard sciences or in focused areas like finance and accounting.
JC, I think it does. Whilst certain areas of academia are indeed hard, you can apply the hard knowledge with or without imagination.
This is one reason why I think China can copy (pure application of hard science) whilst struggling to innovate at the same time. The censorious environment has placed constraints on thinking.
I honestly see that here every day, they are generally poor lateral thinkers and will follow a rule or process readily into a dead end. They are smart people but they just generally lack a certain something.
I mentioned earlier today that I got involved in a crane test. Not my area of expertise but the client had already walked out of the acceptance test twice, so I got called in to straighten things out.
All I did was look at what we had available and bring it together in a way that met the test requirements. We had a limited number of known test weights and they hadn’t even figured out how to adjust the principal weight to a figure that allowed us to hit all the required test loads with different combinations of the known test weights added. They hadn’t even thought of using the test weights to perform a calibration check on the slewing crane LMI which would in turn allow us the make the principal weight a value that fitted in with the test regime.
I suspect our standard of living is a tad better than it was pre world war one though.
There is much to this. And I can’t subscribe to the view that it is simply a matter of one side (the Libs) happily burdening themselves with extra hoops to jump through to speak to the voters – like telling someone running a race with a 50kg backpack to ‘just run faster’. That has been the Liberals’ lot for a while, and they have stupidly sought (unsuccessfully I might add) to minimise the effect by mimicking Labor as much as they dare. The MSM doesn’t hate the Libs because of their policies, but because they are not Labor or Greens, and are forever at risk of doing something not progressive.
My point with Hewson that it is absurd of him – absurd to even stick is his head up to make the point – to mock the way Dutton tries to deal with the media headwinds in his own Dutton way, when Hewson himself came to grief against them the Hewson way.
And none of this has anything to do with how worthy his policy was, because the vile MSM never reads that deep and can’t understand it anyway.
Poor bastard.
In his shoes I’d advise those responsible for that to pray I do not receive a terminal diagnosis during their lifetime.
Reminder to always remain silent, get a real lawyer, & follow advice, & when in doubt remain silent.
I couldn’t count the number of people I’ve seen put in jail purely because they talked their way into it when had they STFU’d they’d have been in the clear.
Doc
In the first paragraph, I think you’re asserting that Faraday was self-funded in the old days. Honest question: is there anything to stop a present-day Faraday from self-funding his studies elsewhere? Yeah, in the old days, you didn’t require passports, etc., but even though that causes stickiness in terms of movement, I don’t believe it presents a huge problem.
That has been the Liberals’ lot for a while, and they have lately, stupidly sought (unsuccessfully I might add) to minimise the effect by mimicking Labor as much as they dare.
P:
I envy you.
Another modest proposal from the in-voice working group..
An Indigenous head of state: This was said to be a way to acknowledge
Indigenous peoples as the original owners.
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Very strong statements that First Peoples and
Sovereign First Nations people had never ceded sovereignty and never ceded their
lands, waters, fires, sub-surface, airspace and Allodial Title.
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Yes as plain as night and day and yet you appear to have a problem with what I suggested. Okay.
Dover Beach:
I wasn’t going to enter this conversation in case it triggered a religious/social tirade from others. But what do the Islamic members of the UN say about it? Especially when you look at age disparities in Asian/Middle Eastern/Subcontinental societies
this isn’t the real
you are pixels in a MineCraft world