Jo Hackett was the lady selling “Don’t Welcome Me to My Own Country” bumper stickers, before THAT referendum.
Open Thread – Tues 25 April 2023
- Bumtree #6
- Meme of the Day #68
- Open Thread – Mon 6 May 2024
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
Me too, cynicism is us right now.
Can’t escape him, even here in Spain.
In the May edition of Quadrant, there is a simple letter to the editor from Jo Hackett titled “The Wedding…
+1000 Cassie. Forged in the fires of COVID now ready to wield. Welcome to our two tiered policing world…
It’s a shame about RFK’s voice impediment.
It makes things tough in politics, of all things.
Albo has risen from the slimy depths of Labor.
I would have thought the impediment is a feature, not a big
Classics!
“80s Movie Tribute (Don’t You Forget About Me)
Bug phuck me dead
Cheers Delta A. You are a gem.
Albo has been to the same school of elocution that Labor pollies, like Arthur Calwell and “Doc” Evatt used to go to – designed to show they were of the working class, as opposed to the Liberals.
has tucker carlson been fired in the true sense of the word
fox paid out his full contract value
he isnt restricted in joining a competing media organisation
all that has happened is fox exercising the right not to use a service but still paying for it
termination for cause would mean no payout
Sooo…..
There isn’t a niche for tour bus drivers in Quenthland?
Drat.
you wouldnt understand the finer points
i demand you shit yourself
I’m remembering an advertisement for the Liberal Party, way back when, where a lass in a bathing costume, was urging a vote for Mr Menzies – “after all, he speaks so NICELY!”
I think we need a musical break.
Seasons of Change.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
April 26, 2023 at 5:46 pm
These guns were mounted on the battleships Yamato and Musashi in 3-gun turrets. Each one of the turrets weighed 2,774 tons
The joke in the Imperial Japanese Navy was that the three most useless things ever built were the Great Wall of China, and the battleships Yamoto and Musashi.
Don’t forget their sister ship Shinano, converted to an aircraft carrier, codebreaking had a US sub waiting for her outside Tokyo Bay as she moved to another port to be fitted out. She didn’t make it there.
Zoog Sparks Joy ?????@Zoogerdee2024·8h
Menzies was PM from 1949 to 1966. Are you sure you have your dates right?
I just watched Fred Pawle on ADH TV. He had on GP Dr Melissa McCann who has begun a class action against the TGA, Dr John Skerret, Dr Brendan Murphy and the Commonwealth, on behalf of the thousands of Aussies who have either had a major adverse reaction or who have died from the jab.
The last part of the show was an interview with Raelene Gotz? the mother of Caitlin, who died 52 days after her 2nd Pfizer jab.
Caitlin got jabbed because of the mandate so that she could work. She seemed ok after the first one, her mother said, then three weeks later, she had the second one.
Immediately, after that second jab, she was sick in bed for four days and said she felt so bad that she felt like she was dying.
After that second shot and for the next few weeks increasingly she had shortness of breath. She attended the Toowoomba hospital a few days before she died and was treated for asthma, though she had never had the condition.
At that presentation, no diagnostics were done, nor did they do an ESG. All they did was bloods for drug and alcohol screening and a covid test. One of those tests showed that her platelets were clumped, but no other tests, such as a D-dimer, or troponin, were performed though she was extremely tachycardic, her heart rate was through the roof and high blood pressure extremely high . Instead, they gave her 16 doses of ventalin every half hour for the next few hours.
The hospital released her with steroids, a reliever and a preventer for asthma. She took the medications for four? days from release and dropped dead at work on the Wednesday following.
Fred asked Raelene about that 52 day period and whether Caitlin had been to any other doctors prior to attending the hospital. Raelene said, no, that Caitlin was a very strong girl and just got on with life during that period. Caitlin did text her mother a few times over those couple of weeks to see whether her younger brother, who had also been jabbed, was feeling any ill effects given he is a severe asthmatic, but no was the answer.
She was having shortness of breath and feeling really ill. She told her employer how she was feeling. They didn’t believe her because nothing had happened to them. They made her work extra hours to make up for the sick days she had off – they wouldn’t pay her for them because they didn’t believe her. Her mother said it was a very stressful time; she had just moved house, so there was a lot on in her life.
Fred asked Raelene if she was worried/picked up anything from Caitlin. Raelene said she was essentially asleep about it – govt said it was safe and effective etc and she had not had any side effects herself from the AZ. She’d encouraged her kids to get jabbed.
She said that Caitlin’s youngest brother had had the jab because of his asthma, but not the middle one. She said she lives everyday with the knowledge of that. With the regret.
The employer has not contacted the family.
Raelene is one of the plaintiffs in Dr McCann’s class action. Fred asked her what she wanted. Her reply: she wants Justice for Caitlin. Raelene said she cannot live with the fact that Caitlin was murdered. She said she had her, she raised her, she did everything to make her into a productive human being to go out into society, she was at uni and working to put herself through. She should have had another 70 years. She goes to work, she does what is mandated to keep her job and goes to work an drops dead. And no-one is accountable.
what a bunch of entitled sponges.
Guild president ‘weeping’ because they will only be able to clip the ticket half a much.
Puts lay to the idea that pharmacists are adding value with their expertise.
designed to show they were of the working class
Like how the Slapper lost her Adelaide accent in favour of that faux workingclass drawl.
Crossie,
This is a far better choice, imho.
https://youtu.be/-B_3yfId1xM
I should have made myself clearer – it was a T.V. documentary, about Bob Menzies as Prime Minister, and, yes, they showed an advertisement dating from that era.
Back in the very early ’50s my father was a member of a union in the industry in which he worked. Jack McPhillips knocked at our door one evening and said he would like to pick up my father for a speech by Herb Evatt at Hurstville. My father went and after declared he would never do so again. I was a friend of McPhillips’ daughter in my class at school in 1950 and ’51.
Bar Beach Swimmer says: April 26, 2023 at 9:54 pm
Have you tried watching Fred Pawle on Ritalin?
Thank you folks, I’ll be here all week, try the buffet.
You need to add another “D” to make that work.
Shut the door on your way out, if you wouldn’t mind.
Not quite as heart rending as This Week in Culture but not far behind: Zeducation on woke cringe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYNzhDzE67Y
Evatt finished his days as Chief Justice of New South Wales – a move widely seen as allowing him a graceful exit from politics. Incontinent, barking mad and totally unable to comprehend any but the simplest of evidence, he reached rock bottom when counsel for the prosecution suggested that the learned judge would be able to comprehend photographic evidence, if he were holding said photographs the right way up……..
Yes, Boppin The Blues was a big hit for Blackfeather though I was in a more reflective mood and Seasons Of Change fit the bill.
One of our nieces went to Gallipoli for Anzac Day. She sent us a photo of the grave of one of the other half’s uncles. He joined up in August 1914 and landed at Gallipoli in late June 2015, aged 19. He was killed in action 5 days later, and is buried at Beach Cemetery.
RIP
I feel the need for something that can be turned up loud…
And no-one is accountable.
We’ve returned to feudal times, where the Lords & Ladies of Fire can burn at whim what they ‘own.’
I haven’t experienced the loss of a family member, but I remain venomous and quietly seething about the (metaphoric) incineration of my quality of life.
Muddy, what did you think?
There’s a grave at Beach Cemetery of a West Aussie lad, killed, aged 15. Umm, yeah.
Continuing…
Sorry BBS, I haven’t checked my emails today. I had a few hours evening work and I’m now slurping a cheap merlot in order to cope with a 3+ month headache. I’ll do my best to get back to you tomorrow. Sorry.
Muddy, no apologies necessary. When you can.
III…
…
I’m dedicating that last one to Britt’ny.
The role of Daddy is played by a revolving cast…
Did you say loud?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_5qWWDV8
Ende.
Okay, one more.
A lullaby.
Preeecisely!
Joel Fischer
@realJoelFischer
Just so we’re clear…
Don Lemon got fired because no one watched him.
Tucker Carlson got fired because everyone watched him.
plop
plop
Interesting Covid Vax news day.
Dr Melissa McCanns Covid injury class action story is mentioned in articles currently up at The Oz and News com au. Against Federal Health (Hunt, Murphy, Skerrit). McCann was the Qld Dr who spoke at the recent events with Drs McCullough and Kory organised by Clive Palmer. I believe Clive supporting the action.
Meanwhile The Age ran a story today about research allegedly debunking heart issues after vaccine. By an organisation funded by big pharma !
News com au also had an article about mask research done by the Burnet Institute which included counting how many people wearing masks in photos taken by the Age. Other experts not impressed and one said it was crape.
I did not see it but A Current Affair was on people taking jab no 5.
BBS mentioned the Fred Pawle interview with Raelene mother of Caitlin who died after Pfizer no 2. Have seen her interviewed a couple of times and no doubt in my mind it was the Vax. However not counted by TGA who have never contacted her. Can be found on Twitter at Justice4Caitlin.
Daily Mail also covering Class action story and comments allowed.
Gateway Pundit has article extensively quoting Bolt on reasons why Tucker sacked by Lachlan. In my view does not make Bolt look good. Appears to suggest Tucker making up stories about bio labs in Ukraine. Seems Lachlan quite a Zelensky fan.
John Spooner.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Eyrie:
And that puts Trump right at the head of the queue as far as I’m concerned.
hzhousewifesays:
April 26, 2023 at 8:53 pm
Thanks for that – I assume our Pauline has a form of that.
I can’t see it leading to cheaper scripts. Supermarkets will still need to deal with the regulations and training costs.
Trump Accuses ‘Biden Crime Family’ Of ‘Influence Peddling And Corruption’ In New Vids
forbes
I think Trump equates De Santis with Pence. On your side right up to the point when you realise he’s a plant.
I think the point at which Americans start to get bloody minded is here.
After finding out just how much power they have with the Coksinfrox movement and Bud Light, the Tucker sacking may well have been the last straw. It appears the Right has decided to punish anyone who pushes the bullshit agenda on them is fair game.
This doesn’t bode well for the Democrats and the next election. The call for oversight will not go unanswered, and no amount of threats from Democrat fixers will be tolerated – especially in states where they have ridden over the voters with dodgy elections.
It’s only one sparrow, and it doesn’t make it Spring, but perhaps it’s time to take a closer second look at the US.
The media is losing its grip on information and that’s a Good Thing.
No Winston it’s all Trumps ego. De Santis has put into legislation fighting back against this madness not just talk.
The American public have finally found a target for all the frustration they’ve felt over the past decade.
I hope they continue to get bloody minded about the socialist backed movements that are battering their society.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/still-going-bud-light-has-suffered-a-staggering-loss-in-sales-according-to-latest-numbers/
Winston Smith says:
April 27, 2023 at 5:49 am
From the link;
I doubt it to be honest.
Good morning blogwreckers!
A special hello to all traitors who appear to be one traitor, but who are actually entire groups of traitors, and who take their orders from the CIA.
You’re not fooling anyone, you know.
All of you. Check your email.
Zulu “reminisces”:
I’m remembering an advertisement for the Liberal Party, way back when, where a lass in a bathing costume, was urging a vote for Mr Menzies – “after all, he speaks so NICELY!”
Fact:
Menzies last stood for Election in 1963.
Date television arrived in SheepShit Hole, W.A.:
Long after 1963.
Verdict:
Lying [again].
Brilliant!
Reelin’ and Rockin – Bee Gees and Chuck Berry | The Midnight Special
He’s right, Winston.
If Trump has the ability to focus on the Dems and the Dem candidate only then he’d be ok but his track record says he won’t.
Don’t get me wrong, I love how he kicked the door in and how he turned things around for the US but he’s not the bloody messiah. None of them are but I see here and elsewhere people thinking he is.
It’s all about swaying the independent voters (which like it or not Trump’s not able to do) and I’m not happy with being led to some ideological Stalingrad because “Trump”.
The best he could do is pull out of the race next year and endorse De Santis, it would be a landslide win which would overwhelm all the media bias and censorship.
It’s the CIA now?
What happened to the WEF?
Check your pay cheque!
TBH I hope it does affect their bottom line, Mulvaney is a freak show, I do not understand why so many millions follow him on social media, maybe for the same reasons people once visited circus side shows.
It remains unclear whether Anheuser-Busch will see blows to its bottom line from the controversy, with experts expecting no sizable damage — but the company could have to answer questions about the matter when it reports first-quarter earnings on May 4.
Shut up!
Check your radar.
Biden 2024 – “Let’s Finish the Job” of Ruining America
“The worst president in American history is running for re-election under the premise of taking away our remaining freedoms. The media is already stating that the Democrats will not allow any serious challengers. Marianne Williamson, who lost to Biden in 2020, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. both announced that they plan to run, but their own party will likely not back them or allow them to debate Biden. The Washington Post already announced Biden is “not expected to face any serious opposition from elected Democrats for the nomination, despite concerns from some in the party about his age and dissatisfaction among some liberals who say he has not pushed their priorities hard enough.”
Biden is not permitted to speak without a handler and carefully written notes. Journalists toss him easy questions and he still fumbles. Most importantly, the people do not want him to lead. Our way of life has drastically changed for the worse since he first stepped foot in the White House. NBC conducted a poll that found 70% of Americans do not want Biden to run for re-election. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only 26% of Americans want Biden to remain in power.
Biden has a degenerative cognitive impairment that will only worsen. Already the oldest president in American history, Biden will be 86-years-old if he lives to the end of a second term. Biden was touted as the most popular president in US election history after receiving 81 million votes – let that number sink in as not many people today will openly say they voted for this man. At the time of this writing, Joe Biden’s YouTube channel has 700K subscribers and only 2.4K liked his re-election campaign announcement (they hid the dislike numbers after the Fauci debacle).
This will be one of the dirtiest elections in US history. Civil unrest will turn into division as the people are pitted against each other from every angle. No one will accept defeat, and the elites are fully backing Biden as their ideal puppet president. Gone are the days of fair elections. I must admit that no sitting president was ever ousted from office during a war, and our models indicate serious events unfolding right before the 2024 US Presidential Election. So buckle up because this next year is going to be a wild ride.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/biden-2024-lets-finish-the-job-of-ruining-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
– Buddha
If you didn’t know 550 companies in the Fortune 500 paid zero taxes,
or a thousand
TrillionBillionaires only paid eight percent,no wait, T-H-R-E-E percent income tax, then let SloJo put you some fcuking knowledge.
Tucker Carlson’s Exit Tanks Fox News
“Fox News fired their most popular reporter a day after the Dominion settlement. Within minutes, Fox lost $1 billion in market capitalization. Carlson claims that he amicably parted ways with Fox, but the timing is no coincidence. He tore into media agencies for forcing COVID vaccinations on employees during his last broadcast. When a popular host leaves a news network, there are promotions for weeks regarding their last show but his exit was sudden and unexpected.
CNN fired Don Lemon the same day, which made more sense since he was losing views and alienating his target audience with sexist remarks and alleged misconduct. Tucker Carlson Tonight was the highest-rated program on cable news. This was not a business decision.
This is the statement during his last broadcast that may have led to Carlson’s exit from Fox:
“Now, imagine as they told you that that Fox as a news organization endorsed it, amplified the government’s message. Imagine if Fox News attacked anyone who refused to buy MyPillow as an ally of Russia as an enemy of science and then imagine that Fox kept up those libelous attacks, even as evidence mounted that MyPillow caused heart attacks, fertility problems and death. If Fox News did that, what would you think of Fox News? Would you trust us? Of course, you wouldn’t. You would know that we were liars.”
He then went on to say he was grateful Fox did not implement mandates. Still, it seems as if Carlson was being stifled from speaking. He continued questioning the voting scandal and has made numerous valid arguments against the 2020 US Presidential results. There are now calls to cancel Fox News across every social platform. It is a shame as this was the last large conservative news network but they are caving into the desires of their advertisers. More notable, they are caving to the Neocons who do not want a popular TV host calling them out by name in front of millions.
The same thing happened to Bill O’Reilly, who only became more popular upon his exit. Not only are people unsubscribing from Fox, but they are also unsubscribing from streaming services that they used to watch Tucker’s show. Horrible business decision on Fox’s part, but conservative voices have no place in Biden’s America.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/censorship/tucker-carlsons-exit-tanks-fox-news/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Pfft. I don’t need no steenking radar to –
Oh. Er. Um.
I may be gone for some time.
Wrong again, but what’s new?
There were other media long before TV.
Why, even before the French Revolution or in Shakespeare’s time, pamphleting bloomed.
Wait, wait.
No cause for alarm. It’s just the standard chemtrails.
People mentioned Andrew Klavan yesterday, I haven’t watched, read anything of his for a few years.
I even read one of his novels a while back but wasn’t rapt, it was sort of crime/horror and didn’t work for me.
The one thing he wrote that has stayed with me is advice he gave to people who complain? they haven’t been granted the gift of faith.
Klavan suggested something along the lines that they pray for it, sincerely, every day, for at least a month and see what happens.
What is wild about this clip is that it was made in the last decade.
Wasn’t the claim specifically made that there was a television advertisement asking people to vote for Menzies because he spoke nicely?
There were other media long before TV.
Why, even before the French Revolution or in Shakespeare’s time, pamphleting bloomed.
The French Revolution [and Shakespeare] were pamphletting SheepShit Hole, W.A. for Menzies in 1963?
Get a grip, cletus.
Zulu is just a lying sacka shit.
That clip, ‘I wear dresses and leggings, like mermaids and the colour purple’ ‘you must be a girl’! Start taking these hormones and be ready for surgery to render you a sexless, sterile eunuch, it’s the only way you’ll ever be really happy’
Yeah, that was the claim.
Basically, Zulu is just a tedious ALP troll posing as a right wing conservative keeping the Liberal Party honest.
He’s not the only one.
I remember my old hairdresser expressing some concerns about her ‘toyboy’ daughter. I said do nothing. Then I saw the daughter, who looked and sounded a pretty normal eight or nine year old girl to me.
It’s a damn fashion trend with fatal consequences for the child victims.
Ed Case says:
April 27, 2023 at 7:13 am
Other than you being a complete ignoramus, you do not comprehend either.
Who said it?
There is only one reply to Griggs, if you must, “Pee off”.
I should remember that.
Late last night I mentioned the Dr McCann Covid injury class action case being reported in the Oz and on News com au .
I can’t see the articles on my phone. Can anybody confirm if still up as both went up in evening. Neither were allowing comments.
Warren Mundine has a piece on the Voice in the Tele. The highlights:
Kaltukatjara is otherwise known as Docker River. It’s 700km west of Alice Springs, on the WA border. Warakurna is in WA, and on the other side of said border. The purple-haired noodle-armed National Broadcasters must have felt they were on Mars. And:
No surprises there, either.
Whap. Right in the sack.
Look out! Arcturus is going to get you!
and
How about that. A virus mutating like a virus, not a Hollywood horror Thing. How boring.
I think it is reasonable to say this is turning out to be a not so small catastrophe.
Federal government refines aged care policy (27 Apr)
So after Wesley Mission were forced to announce the closure of their care homes, and the scramble to rehouse the residents in hospitals and suchlike, the Government is quietly back flipping. Great work guys, and thanks for leaving such a mess for others to try to clean up.
Another gripe, having read some reminisces of Victorian aboriginals yesterday.
Clearly none of them, having effectively lived a mostly European lifestyle had any real experience of aboriginal culture, and like the British parliament have apparently fallen for the Noble Savage myth.
Edward Curr’s book, as much as I have read so far might help with the rose coloured glasses view of Aboriginal history and the treatment of women, in particular.
The story of Louise Arbuckle Clarke Pepper Conolly gives a hint, though not in this linked article.
In another account she mentions her and another girl being stolen by young (Aboriginal) men from their home at Port Albert, they were eventually recovered. No mention of their experiences while stolen, though it is mentioned her mother was assaulted by an unnamed white man which resulted in Louise having a colour change (which is why along with the Thorpes she was evicted from the mission in around 1886).
Quite possibly for those Aboriginal children (who were allowed to survive) pre contact life was idyllic, as long as food was in good supply, but that seems to change rather dramatically when puberty hit.
wiki tree story
Arcturus.
Has it chosen it’s preferred pronouns yet?
The ‘they’ variant can’t be far away.
Mr O’Gradie told The Australian that he was worried about the ‘anti-vaccine lobby piggybacking’ on the class action.
He is joined by two other lead claimants: Antonio Derose, 66, who developed encephalomyelitis (inflammation in the brain and spinal cord) following his AstraZeneca jab and Anthony Rose, 47, who claims severe cognitive impairment and chronic fatigue following his Moderna vaccination.
From what I hear their responses were very similar.
On the broader topic, people underestimate Trump’s effect when he is on the ballot and when he isn’t. It’s massive in the states that matter, and its not at all clear that DeSantis can do the same with R and Ind in those states.
As to the machinery, R need to also use boost their early voting and postal too. There is absolutely no point in doing day voting if they can spike that as well. They need to flood all the zones with R votes.
No pronouns as yet, but it has scary alphanumerics, Knuckles. Plus menacing punctuation.
XBB.1.16
Be afraid.
here is the news article, the Australian one is paywalled
///drove.policy.noises
Tiwi Islanders have lodged a human rights complaint against more than a dozen superannuation funds that have invested in Santos’s offshore Barossa gas project.
“It’s a positive step to help other Indigenous nations who are going through their own process with Santos and other mining companies in relation to desecrating their land and sea,” [one elder] said.
Land and sea are apparently now sacred…swap out Christianity for indigenous totemism and this is where you end up.
Just about finished Daisy Bates ‘Passing of the Aborigines’, well worth reading if you can get a copy. She was half mad but genuinely devoted much of her life to the last real wild aborigines who were in the desert areas between SA and WA. Many detailed stories of cannibalism and brutal treatment of women. No wonder she’s been put in the forgettery.
Absolutely no reason Republicans can’t go out and encourage early and postal voting, they just have to play the same game the Democrats do.
Seems to me in a non compulsory system complaining that the other side are mobilising reluctant voters is pretty weak. (I’m not saying there may not have been outright fraud, that seems to be the American Democrat way)
and the CEC
and four-eyes
///buyers.cult.rocket
“The best he could do is pull out of the race next year and endorse De Santis, it would be a landslide win which would overwhelm all the media bias and censorship.”
Yes, I think you’ve said it best. It’s not that I don’t like Trump but he won’t sway independents.
Also, if Trump runs and wins the nomination, then the Demonrats will send their klansmen, aka BLM and Antifa, onto the streets of America’s cities and the ensuing violence will make the violence of the summer of love in 2020 look like a teddy bear’s picnic.
I don’t think the USA, or the West for that matter, can tolerate another four years of the Sniffer. If the Sniffer is POTUS for another four years, we’ll witness and experience firsthand the end times.
Many of these Aboriginal people have embraced Christianity, the land and sea stuff seems a little opportunistic, especially when so often the right sum of money satisfies.
Legalising weed may explain the lunacy of Democrat cities.
My wife is back from the US – she visited San Fransisco, LA and New York.
She complained of the stink of weed smoke in all the cities. Friends developed headaches from the constant smoke haze.
Looks like Rowe has downloaded the latest updates into his brain.
For the first time as far as I can recall he is depicting Biden as old and infirm – previously Rowe always showed Biden as suave, relaxed, and confident that he was more than equal to anything that might come his way – like stairs.
The lines of code has gone out to say that Joe will not be up to the next term. Later there will be another update telling them who they will suddenly discover will be the perfect candidate.
Another point with Curr and his other contributors is they refused to elaborate the practices they found most abhorrent.
One mentioned that male initiations rendered a percentage of young men unable to become fathers, if they managed to survive the process as some obviously did not.
name names
i furkyun derya
///dimes.pines.drives
“Hollywood stars may be left in the dark at the annual Cannes Film Festival as France’s most prominent energy union has threatened to cut the power to the glamourous event in protest against the globalist government of President Emmanuel Macron.”
I so hope they go ahead with their threat.
As has Ramirez. There’s a certain uniformity across the board which speaks volumes.
Garrison, of course, has stuck to his guns from day 1, ignoring nothing of the old perv’s past and present.
They don’t stand to gain any financial advantage by persuading the banks and super funds to divest from it.
“Running on Fumes: Macron Forced to Travel With Generator Truck as Unions Literally Cut Off His Power”
This is even funnier.
I wish our unions would fight this hard against the pollies. Oops, forgot, you don’t bite the hand that feeds.
Interestingly, Jordan Peterson has pointed out that autism and transgenderism are *strongly* correlated – with a 12fold increase in likelihood of autism amongst transgenders.
Given the explosion in autism in recent decades, and now the explosion in transgenders, perhaps there is a common causal factor. Imagine if it *were* the childhood vaxxines – Bill Gates might have been telling the truth.
ABC news.
Victoria has the highest state taxes in Australia, rising 25% since the last report.
Dan says that’s because of high property sales and prices.
This is an unknown phenomena in other states of course.
Food prices rise by 14%. Dairy and bread mentioned. Increased input costs for farmers cited as a cause.
There’s nothing in the prices that farmers receive that explains the rise. Wheat prices are very flat. The answer is in the increase energy costs of processing, storage and transport.
Now, who did that?
I was hit with a 1.5% fuel surcharge on parcel freight yesterday.
step 1 jeorpardise the investment
step 2 take da payola
mongs
De Santis has put into legislation fighting back against this madness not just talk.
He legislates but doesn’t enforce. Window dressing just for show.
There’s also a complaint lodged against the banks & funds by indigenous folk in regard to the development of the Narrabri gas field in NSW.
sounds like Tiwi Islanders have been captured by green left lawyers. No doubt they are putting in the same level of effort in resolving the issues facing Tiwi Islanders in relation to addiction, domestic violence etc.
With Liddle closing it makes perfect sense to stop Narrabri going ahead.
If only people had a Voice.
“The Narrabri Gas Project, also worth $3.6 billion, is an onshore coal seam gas project that could provide up to half of NSW’s (New South Wales) gas needs once operational. It has received commonwealth environmental and National Native Title Tribunal approvals,” it added.
But there was such a thing as radio.
Randi Weingarten Grilled on Teachers Union’s Influence on COVID-19 School Closures
Okay, not money just power this time.
Also where is our air conditioning?
Horrible to say, but what’s the difference? And toss the FBI in for good measure. And the WHO, of course.
On Radio, okay.
…sounds like Tiwi Islanders have been captured by green left lawyers.
An unholy alliance that will see us all stuck in the Dreamtime.
Comrades.
There was also such a thing as the cinema.
step 1 jeorpardise the investment
step 2 take da payola
Who gets the payola?
Name names, mong.
It’s possible that was in a newspaper, though it doesn’t sound like a description of a print advertisement.
There was also such a thing as the cinema.
Uh huh.
Name the movie, Zulu.
a bit of nostalgia, vintage cinema TV and radio ads.
This is fun, watching Grogarly disappear up his own rectum.
It was a T.V. programme, on the history of Menzies and the Liberal Party, showing a past election advertisement….
zulu?
Correct.
Equity Generation Lawyers.
This mob is funded by nameless someones of Green persuasion and fashionable political enthusiasms to run anti-fossil climate legal/quasi-legal campaigns.
As I understand things, there are seven individual Tiwi plaintiffs – presumably with bona fide objections, but who are most unlikely to be paying the freight. Costs awards vanish like smoke.
“Cheat” being the operative word.
Biden cheat sheet shows he had advance knowledge of journalist’s question
He probably can’t say because he doesn’t remember. A common issue with dementia.
Joe Biden: “I Can’t Even Say How Old I Am…I Can’t Even Say the Number. It Doesn’t Register with Me”
RFK Jr takes strong anti-war, anti-empire stance
It was a T.V. programme, on the history of Menzies and the Liberal Party, showing a past election advertisement….
Heh heh, course it was.
On The ABC, was it?
Grandpa Ec Simpson
Get a grip, cletus.
How many times must I tell you, Dumbo, there is only ONE Cletus the Illustrious here. Get it right, or I will have to Unfriend you.
2 weeks ago I bought 2 items on EBay both in Melbourne to come to Sydney, equal sized packages ..
anyway, one was post free the seller sent it via SENDLE .. ordered Friday, delivered following Monday morning .. 3 days ..
2nd sent Oz Post postmarked same Friday as 1st .. delivered yesterday .. 12 days .. $7 postage …..!
Looks like Andrew Brigden, the Conservative MP who spoke up about vaccine damage in the British Parliament recently, when the chamber was empty of his co- members, has been ousted from the Conservative Party.
Prior Tucker Carlson Unplugged Interview Provides Context for Current Dynamic
Georgy Girl.
Zulu loved that movie.
Maybe
Maybelline sees boycott over partnership with Dylan Mulvaney
Yes, and how about the books?
Steven Spielberg Regrets Editing Guns Out of ‘E.T.,’ Says ‘No Film Should Be Revised’ for Today’s Standards: ‘That Was a Mistake’
He was saying
We’ve gotta stay the course in Ukraine
last week.
What is a Democrat?
As I wrote a week or two ago, isolationist sentiment will return to the US.
That’s not great news for us, however, since our defence policies are predicated on America’s ongoing presence in our region.
Matt Hancock admits he should be in Prison after demanding Jail Time for Vaccine Misinfo & “Anti-Vaxxers” in Orwellian Online Safety Bill
Free postage on eBay is ‘included in the item price postage’.
Sendle isn’t free.
Nuland admitted as such. They exist.
Calling them ‘bio weapons’ labs is a stretch.
WHO is forging ahead with plans to implement a Global Digital Health Certificate
TVW made its first test transmissions from 31 August 1959 and was officially opened on Friday 16 October 1959. The station, employing 92 people at the time, was operating from studios in the suburb of Tuart Hill and from a transmitter located in Bickley.
Grandpa Ed Simpson has been plucking assertions from his rectum again. TV broadcasting started in Perf in 1959. Under the Gregorian calendar, this precedes 1963 by some time.
Grandpa Ed Simpson-Case (now, there’s an Adelaide name) is an habitual liar. Everything he writes is a lie, including “and” and “the”.
THE BIDEN LEGACY: HHS Whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas Tells Congress Biden Administration Is “Middleman” in Multi-Billion Dollar Migrant Child Trafficking Operation
Bourne1879 says:
April 27, 2023 at 7:21 am
Late last night I mentioned the Dr McCann Covid injury class action case being reported in the Oz and on News com au .
I can’t see the articles on my phone. Can anybody confirm if still up as both went up in evening. Neither were allowing comment
As well as rosie’s link above
https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/health/federal-government-refines-aged-care-policy/video/11addabae57b664e4b92205104a51aea
Daily Mail with Comments
Class action lawsuit over Covid vaccine injuries targets the Australian government: ‘There has been a cover-up’
. Class action filed at Federal Court on Wednesday
. Government and medicines regulator named parties
Oops rosie’s wrong thread – eyes faster than brain
Ed Casesays:
April 27, 2023 at 8:37 am
step 1 jeorpardise the investment
step 2 take da payola
Who gets the payola?
Name names, mong.
Why? You never do.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr
Twitter files reveal that Pentagon partnered with Vanguard in billion dollar project to censor free speech in America. Are any of my fellow Democrats troubled?
Catturd ™
@catturd2
That look you get when you’re going to make double what Fox News paid you, have a bigger audience, and get to say what you want.
Yes it is, our last 3 major military engagements (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq) were all predicated on obligations to the US alliance, not the defence of Australia or the interests of its people. We would do well to adopt the ‘Swiss Model’ (armed neutrality) ourselves.
John D
@RedWingGrips
89 days ago, James O’Keefe broke the biggest pharmaceutical scandal news story in human history and nothing happened.
No Pfizer subpoenas. No Pfizer hearings. No Pfizer investigations. No Pfizer criminal referrals.
Nothing.
Shorter Groogs – I’m not a creepy weirdo *checks notes*. See you at Family Court.
The Bleeding Obvious in Australia
Removal of coal power will put pressure on grid this winter
Mark Ludlow – Queensland bureau chief
Ongoing uncertainty about the future of Queensland’s Callide C coal-fired power station and the closure of AGL Energy’s Liddell plant in NSW this week has raised concerns about a shortfall in capacity in the National Electricity Market this winter.
Grattan Institute’s energy program director Tony Wood said there was unlikely to be a return of the “perfect storm” of last winter – when the low renewable energy output combined with coal plants being offline and gas prices hitting record highs forced the market operator to intervene in the market to keep the lights on.
But the exit of each coal-fired power station would threaten grid stability, especially given delays to replacement capacity like Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro as well as Kurri Kurri and Tallawarra B gas plants, he said.
“You have to expect unplanned outages of coal-fired power stations will continue. That’s just a fact of life,” Mr Wood told The Australian Financial Review.
“When you look at individual plants it’s OK, but when you look at the totality of it, it is becoming more difficult. Each time you shut one down, the proportional impact you have on the remaining coal-fired plant fleet is bigger.”
Mr Wood said he expected the closure of Liddell this week would result in an increase in wholesale prices in NSW,
saying the Australian Energy Market Operator as well as the NSW and federal governments had to keep a close eye on supply from 2026 to 2030.
The expected release of the federal government’s gas code of conduct on Wednesday as well as possible payments to Origin Energy to keep its Eraring coal-fired power station open beyond 2025-26 would also have an impact on grid stability.
The mandatory gas code of conduct will set rules for the pricing of wholesale gas on the east coast after the $12 a gigajoule price cap expires at the end of this year.
The closure of Liddell – first flagged in 2015 – will remove 1200 megawatts from the grid, while Callide C’s 932 megawatt of capacity will not be returning to full operation until January next year.
“What we have got is more uncertainty, not just for the coal-fired power stations in terms for potential for outages, but the consequences for gas-fired generators which might need to be run more,” Mr Wood said.
“I think they will get something workable [on gas code of conduct] but it will be ugly.”
State-owned CS Energy said it remained committed to reopening the Callide C coal-fired power station near Biloela in Central Queensland, despite ongoing maintenance issues and its co-owners Genuity going into voluntary administration last month.
Queensland Energy Minister Mick de Brenni, a shareholding minister in CS Energy, has also backed Callide C’s return, even though the state is phasing out its fleet of coal-fired power stations by 2035.
With the Australian Energy Regulator attributing a rise in wholesale electricity prices in the March quarter to the Callide C return being delayed until later this year, energy experts have warned more unplanned outages in the colder months would put the grid under pressure.
The return of Callide C units has been being delayed until later this year, more than two years after a mysterious explosion at the power plant tripped Queensland’s power grid and cut it off from the National Electricity Market.
“CS Energy remains committed to the safe and timely reinstatement of the Callide C power station units 3 and 4, and we continue to work through our options with the administrators of Genuity to achieve this,” a CS Energy spokesman said.
State-owned CS Energy owns 100 per cent of the Callide B power station, while Callide C is a joint venture with Genuity (formerly Intergen).
The Financial Review last month revealed CS Energy was looking at buying out Genuity’s 50 per cent stake as part of the administration process.
On Friday, the voluntary administrators, Deloitte, will apply to court to ask for an extension of time to resolve the financial collapse of Genuity and its stake in Callide C.
Energy market watcher Paul McArdle of specialist firm Global-Roam found the aggregate unavailability of the remaining 44 coal-fired power station units in the NEM hit 24 per cent last year.
“This is going to increasingly have implications for reliability planning into the future,” Mr McArdle wrote on his Watt Clarity website last month.
In that regard, I think Keating had a point recently, although probably for the wrong reasons.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
More verbal gymnastics to defend himself.
Fauci now says masks worked at 10% margins, but blames people for not wearing them enough and says masks work 85-90% if everyone wears them “religiously”
So basically, ”your mask works if I wear one”….you know, because sCiEnCe.
Government starts a messy retreat on gas prices
The Albanese government has belatedly discovered how complicated the gas market is. It’s suddenly keen not to be blamed for stopping investment in Australia.
Jennifer Hewett – Columnist
Energy Minister Chris Bowen appreciates the need for simple, powerful imagery in politics. It’s why he chose the defunct Liddell power station in the Hunter Valley as the visual backdrop to explain the government’s latest attempt to prove it is acting on power price increases.
An old coal-fired power station finally closing this week symbolises a fast changing energy market amid a transformation to renewables and the closure of coal.
But the gas market presents a far more complex picture – as the government belatedly discovered after announcing its grand plans last December to impose a “responsible pricing regime” on the gas market indefinitely.
The immediate freeze on companies’ gas investment plans and contract negotiations with customers put the government on urgent notice it better come up with a backdoor way of encouraging investment even if still wanted to claim it was curbing power prices.
After months of secret negotiations, the result is Labor’s effective retreat – at least in part.
Its new version will allow a big range of “exemptions” to what will now be a $12 a gigajoule price cap for wholesale gas under a mandatory code of conduct that extends beyond the original one-year timetable to 2025.
This is now up for further consultation with the industry until May 12. Large gas producers have until May 8 – the day before the budget – “to make submissions on the supply and price commitments they would be prepared to make in the context of the proposed exemption framework”.
That’s because the real impact will be on the three big East Coast LNG producers in Queensland. The aim is to ensure they will supply enough gas to the domestic market – at around that price – no matter the value of their LNG exports.
That additional regulation won’t please these LNG producers and international investors even if the immediate practical impact is more to further firm up the heads of agreement policy originally put in place by the previous Coalition government.
The key to Labor’s change of heart on its reasonable pricing regime is that other producers supplying the domestic market will either be automatically exempt or able to cut their own quiet deals for exemptions.
This government is suddenly keen not to be blamed for stopping further investment in Australia.
“The gas code will ensure sufficient supply of Australian gas for Australian users at reasonable prices, give producers the certainty they need to invest in supply, and ensure Australia remains a reliable trading partner by allowing LNG producers to meet their export commitments,” Labor ministers insisted in a joint statement.
Even the Australian Workers Union, which was extremely vocal about the need for the government to take strong action to cap gas prices last year, has also been sounding far more conciliatory about the need for prices to be high and flexible enough to attract new investment in gas.
This is hardly a transparent or uniform policy process, dependent on ministerial discretion on a case by case basis.
The Australian Industry Group also describes the revised mandatory code proposal as “much simpler than previously foreshadowed” with the outlines of a sensible exit strategy for price intervention.
But the scheme is actually so complicated that few beyond those directly involved in the gas market will understand the details.
Its political advantage is that will allow the government to declare it has a continuing price cap and a mandatory code of conduct in place as a “price anchor”.
That any exemptions will no doubt include considerable flexibility on pricing and terms – including the additional cost of transport – will be obscured by the extent of backroom negotiations with individual companies.
This is hardly a transparent or uniform policy process, dependent on ministerial discretion on a case-by-case basis.
The outspoken Credit Suisse energy analyst Saul Kavonic is saying out loud what many others are saying privately.
This represents a “make it up as it goes policy” that fails to provide a clear, workable policy giving certainty to gas producers.
The government still clearly hopes that exempting or cutting separate deals behind closed doors with companies like Santos and Woodside and Senex will be enough to prevent any united opposition forming within the industry as a whole.
And with retail gas price increases still running at over 14 per cent a year and contributing to inflation, according to the March quarter CPI figures, it’s obvious why Anthony Albanese wants to claim his government is helping rather than hurting consumers.
So, the Prime Minister continues to insist power price rises would have been much more extreme if the government had not intervened in the market in December.
On Wednesday, he again blamed the impact of the Ukrainian invasion in February last year for forcing all advanced economies to take “extraordinary measures” due to the enormous spike in the price of gas.
Screams from manufacturers and other users about unsustainable contract prices led to the Australian government’s version of extraordinary.
Unsurprisingly, Albanese didn’t refer to the fact that international gas prices have fallen considerably since then as European markets adjusted to being cut off from Russian gas more successfully than expected.
That global gas reality makes it easier for the government to claim credit for its own actions putting “downwards pressure” on domestic gas prices. It will also use the federal budget to outline its previous commitment to address retail power prices that are still soaring. Under joint deals negotiated with the states, the federal government will help subsidise the bills of low-income households.
At the same time, it will increase the tax rate on the offshore LNG industry on the west coast by changes to the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. Think of it as political imagery in motion – with complicated consequences that are less visible.
Banks invited this blak/greenmail with their treatment of coal projects. The mafia have used it for centuries.
Observing how energy policy plays out in Australia is like being in a slow motion car crash.
Religiously is the key word. The religion is a nasty one also.
Explosive New Study Finds Face Masks May Increase Stillbirths, Testicular Dysfunction, Cognitive Decline — In Kids (26 Aug)
And they don’t work on viruses, even the manufactures warned this on the packet.
I have long thought the end of excess (government owned coal) electricity out of Queensland will be the end of the NEM. We’re not quite there yet.
It doesn’t help when the dummies are driving.
The mafia were at least motivated by greed, which, however base, can be assuaged.
What we see here are small groups of people driven by ideological commitments intent on wrecking nation building projects.
😀
Why President Trump Trumps De Santis
Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure from the cable network is being greeted as good news by Republicans who support U.S. intervention in the war in Ukraine.
Why some Republicans see Carlson’s departure as a good thing
Carlson was one of the most prominent critics of U.S. involvement to defend Kyiv against Moscow’s invasion.
“It’s a bad day for Vladimir Putin,” a Senate Republican aide said. “This takes one of the biggest critics of Ukraine war in Republican and conservative circles off the table.”
The aide noted that some GOP senators were also uncomfortable with what they viewed as Carlson’s over-the-top rhetoric opposing vaccine mandates, which divided conservatives during the pandemic.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) declared that the war in Ukraine was a “territorial dispute” and not a vital national interest — a statement that many Republicans later criticized — he did so in response to a query from Carlson.
Carlson was one of the most prominent critics of U.S. involvement to defend Kyiv against Moscow’s invasion.
“It’s a bad day for Vladimir Putin,” a Senate Republican aide said. “This takes one of the biggest critics of Ukraine war in Republican and conservative circles off the table.”
The aide noted that some GOP senators were also uncomfortable with what they viewed as Carlson’s over-the-top rhetoric opposing vaccine mandates, which divided conservatives during the pandemic.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) declared that the war in Ukraine was a “territorial dispute” and not a vital national interest — a statement that many Republicans later criticized — he did so in response to a query from Carlson.
DeSantis quickly walked back his comment after getting strong pushback on Capitol Hill from prominent lawmakers including Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
One Republican senator, who requested anonymity to comment on a media figure who had a loyal following among many right-leaning voters, said Carlson’s departure from prime time would be a positive development for maintaining public support for the war.
“He wasn’t troubled by whether something was true or not. He was mean, irresponsible and dangerous,” the lawmaker said.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who has called the Ukraine crisis “one of the greatest demonstrations of good versus evil we’ve seen in our lifetimes,” said Carlson had a big influence on many Republicans.
“There have been some that have argued that he was setting foreign policy for the Republican Party, which I find to be bizarre. Certainly not for me,” he said. “To the primary [Republican] voter, the active participant, the grassroot voter, he’s a person they listen to and has a big influence.”
Asked how he evaluated Carlson’s influence on the GOP electorate, Romney said “it depends on the issue but I think with regards to Russia and Ukraine he was misguided.”
Romney also expressed disbelief over Carlson’s defense of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
Carlson aired television specials that attempted to reframe the attack on the Capitol as a largely peaceful protest activity after his show gained exclusive access to 41,000 hours of security footage.
“It’s really disheartening and disappointing that an intelligent person would take a stance defending people who break into the symbol of democracy here and around the world,” Romney said.
Carlson questioned what the United States hoped to accomplish by intervening in the conflict and grilled Republican presidential hopefuls about what they thought the exit strategy should be.
He defended Putin by asking his viewers to ask themselves: “Why do I hate Putin? … Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?”
Carlson clashed with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other defense hawks last year when he urged Republicans to oppose an omnibus spending package that included a 9.7 percent increase for defense programs.
“Here’s the amazing thing, some Republicans in the Senate are working with Democrats to get this bill passed before Christmas. They don’t have to do that,” he said in December, arguing that GOP senators could have insisted on a spending freeze until after Republicans took control of the House in January.
“What is going on here? It seems like a great betrayal,” he said.
Cornyn said most Republican senators disagreed with Carlson’s skeptical view of U.S. support for Ukraine, which has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.
“I disagree with what he was advocating for and I think the majority opinion, the substantial majority opinion, in the Congress is it’s in America’s best interest to continue to support Ukraine,” he said.
Asked about DeSantis’s statement minimizing the war in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute,” Cornyn noted the Florida governor “walked that back some.”
“I think people are just trying to find the center of mass of public opinion on that but my view is that it’s in our national interest to help Ukraine,” he said.
He added that it was his “impression” that DeSantis had Carlson’s criticism of U.S. support for the war in mind when he issued his controversial statement.
Thanks, Tom, really needed those toons this morning.
Spooner’s summary is accurate.
Dave Brown’s depiction is perhaps not far off the truth from the American perspective.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FulBMT1XsAAAHHl?format=jpg&name=small
The yet-to-be convicted¹ versus the yet-to-be indicted². For a vote herd that steers away from a whiff of illegality, the smears on Orange Man may put the two geriatrics in a dead heat.
Ramirez is being unfair. Unfair to Forrest Gump!
Margolis&Cox have let the cackle-cat out of the bag. OK, Joe already said the quiet part out loud in 2020 right on national television, not exactly a well-kept secret.
Garrison dropping the truth bombs as usual. No Prez debate => Basement Biden is back, lol.
________
¹ = for spending campaign money on…erm… improving his chances in the campaign, lol!
² = for corrupt conduct in foreign business and domestic election interference.
And now she’s home to the sweet smell of Treflan and Avadex!
The projected Queensland Super Grid will be for Queenslanders only.
War Threatens Ukraine Auto Empire of Biden Megadonor Urging Greater U.S. Role
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
April 26, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t the only one demanding more military assistance from President Biden to protect Kiev from Russian forces. So too is a close Delaware friend and financial backer of Biden, who owns several luxury car dealerships around the Ukrainian capital.
By sending billions of dollars in weapons and other military aid to help defend Ukraine, Biden also is securing the investments of millionaire car magnate John Hynansky, a Ukrainian American and longtime supporter of the president.
Over the course of Biden’s political career, Hynansky and his family have contributed more than $100,000 to his campaigns, including $8,000 in 2020, Federal Election Commission records show.
Hynansky family members have been guests at the White House, and Hynansky has floated hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans to Biden family members, property records show. Hynansky’s son, Michael, who helps run his car empire, lent the use of his Lear jet to Biden when he was a senator.
Since Russia started shelling the area around Kiev in February 2022, the U.S. government has spent $77 billion to help Ukraine rebuild and repel future attacks.
Government ethics watchdogs say the president’s friendship poses a potential conflict of interest that demands a full accounting of how the massive foreign aid, which includes open-ended humanitarian and economic assistance, has been used and who has benefited from it. On the military side, moreover, billions of dollars have gone to unspecified areas, such as “security,” “intelligence,” and “training.” In the past, Hynansky has supplied the police cars and ambulances in several regions of Ukraine.
The Biden administration helped Hynansky’s team in Ukraine prepare for the invasion, including placing calls to his top executive in Kiev 13 days in advance of Russian tanks crossing the border. It has sent billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn cities where Hynansky operates the largest share of the country’s car showrooms and service centers specializing in Porsches, Jaguars, Land Rovers, and Bentleys, among other non-American brands he imports.
Although supporting Ukraine is a policy with widespread – though not universal – bipartisan support in Washington, the president’s close relationship with Hynansky illustrates larger ethical questions that have long surrounded Biden and his family members, who often have financial interests directly affected by policies he endorses. While serving as President Obama’s point man in Ukraine in 2015, Biden famously demanded the firing of a prosecutor who was investigating a natural gas company, Burisma, that was paying his son Hunter $80,000 per month to serve on its board. Recent revelations of lucrative dealings with concerns tied to China’s Communist government while Joe Biden was both in and out of office have also raised questions about his current policy toward Beijing.
At a time Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s relationship with a generous billionaire is fueling complaints among Democrats about money and politics, Biden’s friendship with Hynansky also raises red flags.
Helping ‘My Very Good Friend’
U.S. Aid ‘as Long as It Takes’
Some administration critics say that Biden has done a poor job of explaining why supporting Ukraine is in America’s interests.
Irrespective of that complaint, the Biden’s financial entanglements with Hynansky muddy the waters – and have gone unreported in the news coverage about his intense focus on the embattled country.
Long before Hunter Biden landed a lucrative oil and gas deal in Ukraine, despite having no prior experience inUkraine or the energy industry, Biden benefactor Hynansky began investing heavily in Ukraine — with Joe Biden’s help.
Thanks Rosie and Old Ozzie.
Need to get word out about the Class Action.
That’s the issue in a nutshell. Think Murray Darling basin, just for electricity.
Herald Sun has Bolt article about Tucker firing.
Not impressed as many negative points raised by Bolt are actually good points raised by Tucker.
There are rules to even investing in pharmacies. The guild stops minority ownership of even spouses of pharmacists. (Forgive me for not knowing the rules entirely).
Amy and Brad are married B Pharm. Candice and Darren are married, only Candy has a B Pharm. Darren is a MB BS.
If Darren invests in a venture, it is likely the guild would block it. They have rules on trying to subvert this rule too.
This rule ends up reducing the supply of pharmacies. There are (or were until recently) rules on non compete within certain distances of other pharmacies.
I have not seen any sensible reporting of economic harms of the lockdowns, social distancing, masking or banning travel.
GST receipts by sector.
Commercial property rent receipts.
Commercial property vacancies.
Leases abandoned.
Bankruptcies.
Homes sold or repossessed against business loans unable to be met.
Activists usually are all in claiming $YUGE but I think these numbers are going to be er, significant.
If only Walgett could get one or two decent energy or minerals projects. That town needs saving or nuking. I feel sorry for normal people there who haven’t left already, especially long term residents such as farmers or people who have otherwise been there for generations.
I blame a lack of handwashing. Work as a secco even for a little bit and you see how few people wash their damned hands when on the sauce. It’s probably also a good suspect for the spread at schools and in particular, pre schools.
Dot – I think pharmacies get a carve out of the TPA(?). A few governments have threatened to have a look at it but none have gone ahead. Colesworths is the elephant in the room.
Media are all saying how “beyond reasonable doubt” is the Gold Standard in the Folbigg case.
They weren’t so keen on it in Pell’s case.
But neither were assorted Victorian judges, who were (all but one) proven badly wrong by the High Court.
NSW mulls extending life of biggest coal plant to avoid power shortfalls
The NSW government expects to make a call by the end of the year on whether it will intervene to help keep Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station open beyond 2025.
The state government is racing to get more renewable energy, network and storage projects online to curb any possible energy shortfalls before the scheduled retirement of four out of five NSW coal-fired power stations over the coming decade.
Of particular concern will be Origin’s Eraring coal-fired power station, which is set to close as early as 2025.
Data from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), presented to NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe on Wednesday, shows gaps in the market begin to emerge from 2025 to ’26 if Eraring closes: a shortage of 262 megawatts, and a shortfall of 62 megawatts the following financial year.
However, the report notes the forecasts do not anticipate additional storage and generation projects which will help close the gap.
Senior department officials said up-to-date information on whether the government would have cause to intervene would be available by the end of the year.
In theory any university lab that teaches biochem/ag science, pharmacy and genetics or similar disciplines well enough with pracs and has related post grad research could be (mis?)used as a bio warfare lab, for both chemical and biological weaponry.
If you can make triclopyr or glyphosate in the lab, you can probably make VX, the synthesis doesn’t seem that difficult, barring safety issues.
“It was a T.V. programme, on the history of Menzies and the Liberal Party, showing a past election advertisement….”
Zulu, I have seen that documentary also. It was on SBS. It has been screened before and I am sure it will be screened again. It was 3-4 parts as I recall. And yes, cinemas from almost the very beginning screened political advertisements.
Don’t feed the troll.
At an ASX level Soul Pattinson have an unusual (though not illegal) cross shareholding arrangement. Fair to say they are no friends of the perfect competition model.
Industry being powered above The Brisbane Line and being de-powered below The Brisbane Line.
Hmmm… leaving goodies on the table to appease future overlords perhaps?
Or possibly separating people even further from the power-stations that keep their light/heat on.
This riles my inner Distributist.
I am willing to bet a small fortune that Putin does not really care either way the way Joe and Mary Schlubb in Arcadia, Iowa think of him or his regime. Were they ever going to change the minds of Congress given the massive incumbency advantage its members have in elections?
Riots being so annoying and inconvenient.
Leading German Politician Warns Proposed Climate Policies Could Lead To “Uprisings” And “Riots” (26 Apr)
The CDU are analogous to the Liberal Party. Be nice if we had a Lib saying this truth to power stuff.
i agree with him that the subs are too expensive
mainly due local jerbs
as for chinerr not being a threat
thats where we part ways
NSW Liberals were Idiots
Multibillion-dollar secret bus deals take us for a ride
Geoffrey Watson – Barrister SC is a director at the Centre for Public Integrity.
The revelation that, in its dying days, the outgoing NSW government had entered secret contracts for $5 billion on privatised bus services is disturbing at a number of levels.
The effect of the deals is profound: the contracts are for unusually large sums; the bus services affect most of metropolitan Sydney; the effect is long-term – the contracts will run for at least eight years.
And because these are commercial arrangements, there can be no escape from the contracts without significant cost.
But it is not just the money, and it is not just the fact that the contracts will entrench a questionable and contentious privatisation policy –
the real problem here is what it says about those who govern us.
This kind of conduct reflects the woeful way in which we are governed and the high-handed disdain that our politicians have for us – the electorate. This was a decision made in contempt of the fundamental right we have as voters to choose our government by reference to competing policies.
Look at the known facts. The issue of the privatisation of bus services was controversial. The Coalition and Labor had conflicting policies; the Greens position was consistent with Labor. The contending positions were well canvassed in the hearings conducted in the Legislative Council, culminating in a report delivered in September 2022, recommending that the privatisation be curtailed and reviewed. At that time, the transport policy was recognised as a key issue in the upcoming election. In fact, it was a primary policy issue.
This makes it hard to understand why these contracts, confirming and even extending privatisation, should be entered into in February and March 2023 – all within six months of the Legislative Council report.
It is even harder to unpick the mentality of a stale government entering these agreements so close to an election where the very policy was going to be ventilated and, in an apparent rush, to enter the contracts just before the commencement of the caretaker period.
The contracts were kept secret so that the voters were denied the opportunity to consider them and take them into account when voting (and although there is a sound commercial reason to keep contractual negotiations secret while in progress, there was no basis for any secrecy once the contracts were executed).
This should not have happened, and if we were properly governed would not have happened. Think about it: the Coalition was surely aware it was likely to lose power (if they didn’t, its members can’t be very good at their job) and surely decent-minded politicians would believe that, in those circumstances, they should stop what they are doing, listen to the electorate, and obey its wishes. Apparently not.
So why have we been inflicted with these contracts? It is hard to say. While Transport for NSW said the deals recently signed were simply re-tendered when the previous terms ended, many questions remain.
It might be easier to understand if some politician or bureaucrat would come forward to tell us, but I suspect they won’t. We are, thus, entitled to a little speculation.
Cassie, we saw no evidence of Israel suppressing Christian viewpoints, at least in the Old City, perhaps they have more concerns in the country’s residential areas. In the Old City there were presumed Christian ravers everywhere, flashing bibles and soapboxing on key corners. They seemed to be doing it for their own gratification rather than for attracting others to their side. They were being universally ignored. Totally lunatic and Pythonesque.
The Orthodox and the Catholic presence dominates in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, divided as it is into denominational areas. Protestant fundamentalists were more in evidence at the River Jordan, where the immersive set ups were doing good business. Some of my many American cousins from Louisiana who had left their Catholic faith were proud to tell us they had been fully dipped there. Obviously many visitors to the Holy Land come from a range of Christian religions and sects. It is not wrong to say it literally comes with the territory.
Re the enormous economic harm caused by the lockdowns, mandates & long term damage of the vax program :
Anyone that takes the least bit of interest in current social and historical change knows that the countries which took the most extreme position in relation to Covid have suffered the most. Yet the media and its enforcers steadfastly refuse to critically analyse the data.
Today NDIS lady is taking her calls on the footpath, thanks to noisy mob of cyclists.
Accountant guy who yesterday was explaining his clients child support obligations is today outlining part 4A.
Get an office, both of you.
Absolute Zero plan means no new normal cars, most airports gone, and half the beef by 2030!
By Jo Nova
People are waking up to the dark side of the Absolute Zero plan
The totalitarian wet dreams of a UK government consortium of academics are lighting up the internet.
As Benny Peiser and Andrew Montford from NetZeroWatch say — people are starting to pay attention in a big way:
The realities of Net Zero are also hitting home for the general public. The threat that the project represents to livelihoods and liberties is becoming more evident by the day.
Recently, the mathematician Norman Fenton tweeted an excerpt from a Government-funded report that set out what Net Zero U.K. might look like:
no airports, no shipping, no beef and lamb to eat, and most food imports eliminated. Sounds grim, doesn’t it? Lots of people thought so, and the tweet went viral, garnering over three million views.
The Prof Norman Fenton thread that got 3.4 million views on Twitter is, would you believe, about a 2019 UK Government funded research report. Who knew the masses could get that excited about a 31 page prehistoric report on energy policy, but holy-cajoley: it’s a wake up call of just how savage the Absolute Zero plan aims to be. And this matters more than you might think. Without magical new technologies the current Net Zero targets can only be achieved with Absolute Zero emissions.
Regarding the imminent shortfall of power across Oz, We, the People, really need to get the message across to the reigning class. If Turtlehead Bowen received tens of thousands of links to the youtube clip I will link to, it may, just may help to stem the blackout tide.
“Then light your torches and go!”
I enjoy a good hunt.