Open Thread – Tues 25 April 2023
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Harry Belafonte, entertainer and civil rights activist, dies at 96
By Hillel Italie
April 26, 2023 — 5.15amNew York: Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96.
Belafonte died on Tuesday (US time) of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, said publicist Ken Sunshine.
With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer. Many still know him for his signature hit Banana Boat Song (Day-O), and its call of “Day-O! Daaaaay-O.” But he forged a greater legacy once he scaled back his performing career in the 1960s and lived out his hero Paul Robeson’s decree that artists are “gatekeepers of truth”.
Belafonte stands as the model and the epitome of the celebrity activist. Few kept up with his time and commitment and none his stature as a meeting point among Hollywood, Washington and the civil rights movement.
Belafonte not only participated in protest marches and benefit concerts, but helped organise and raise support for them. He worked closely with his friend and generational peer, the Reverend Martin Luther King jr, often intervening on his behalf with both politicians and fellow entertainers and helping him financially. He risked his life and livelihood and set high standards for younger black celebrities, scolding Jay-Z and Beyonce for failing to meet their “social responsibilities”, and mentoring Usher, Common, Danny Glover and many others. In Spike Lee’s 2018 film BlacKkKlansman, he was fittingly cast as an elder statesman schooling young activists about the country’s past.
Belafonte’s friend, civil rights leader Andrew Young, would note that Belafonte was the rare person to grow more radical with age. He was ever engaged and unyielding, willing to take on Southern segregationists, Northern liberals, the billionaire Koch brothers and the country’s first black president, Barack Obama, whom Belafonte would remember asking to cut him “some slack”.
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the printed headline was enuf
These guys should be afraid, very afraid.
Zoo recruits human ‘seagull deterrents’ to dress up as giant bird and scare off foul fowl (23 Apr)
A zoo is recruiting a team of people to help scare away seagulls, by dressing as large birds. Blackpool Zoo is on the hunt for “outgoing” candidates to fill the role of ‘Seagull Deterrents’ to stop the birds from stealing food. Those successful will need to wear a giant bird costume to deter the birds from entering the zoo, which is home to more than 1,000 animals.
Will be a magnet for certain types of qwerty…
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Boambee John:
Ed Casesays:April 25, 2023 at 5:03 pm
… who shot down their own aircraft, “when over-excited gunners fired into their own engines.”
Black gunners, by any chance?Having failed at history, Grandpa Ed Simpson reverts to racism.
Even a racist bastard like myself who hates Blacks, Chinks, Subcontinental darkies, Eskimos and pooftahs, didn’t see the connection between poor muzzle control and skin colour.
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Maybe use black marble next time.
NYU Prof Denounces ‘Venus de Milo’ as White Supremacist (25 Apr)
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Plasmamortar my wife has done quite a bit work with AI in her line of work. From what she says the improvements in a few yearshave been amazing but still not there. I know one of my son’s mates doing work in accounting AI. The problem with law and accounting is Activist Judges interpretation and the ATO making up rules that go against any claim you have. If they say it happened even if it didn’t and vicer- versa. The same as plod and ASIO having access to your computer and the ability to change or plant stuff for future prosecution. Before something going wrong in government was almost always incompetence, these days malevolence.
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Something I tell the other guys I work with.
I’m probably at least 35 years away from retirement at my age.Superannuation will be long gone by the time we reach there …
Your retirement is cancelled.That’s seriously bad advice.
Sure, there’s no guarantee that either you or I will even wake up tomorrow, but it’s a good idea to plan for the future on the basis that you’re going to be there. -
Happy birthday Israel, 75 today!
75th Independence Day: We’re here to thank God for the miracle called the State of Israel (25 Apr)
Modern Israel of course, they’ve been around a lot longer than that. Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen also happened to coincide with ANZAC Day yesterday. Lest we forget our Israeli brothers also.
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Even a … pooftahs, didn’t see the connection between poor muzzle control and skin colour.
Yeah, Winston, whatever …
Race isn’t skin colour, arsehole.Blacks are notoriously poor shots, my link was to the Battle Of Townsville in 1944 [but suppressed until 2012] where the blacks ran amok, firing 7,000 machine gun rounds, only hit 2 people.
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As long as there is inflation, each year without so called tax cuts is a tax hike.
I am all in favour of tax cuts… to those who have not enjoyed the benefits of productivity increases: the poor and middle classes. The rich have had more than their fair whack over the past few decades. Time to share it around.
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Given how law is data and precedent based, it could create a cheap way for people to be represented in court by an AI.
Excellent plan.
Control over the judicial algorithms and risk settings would also provide a convenient way to adjust legal interpretation to fit required narratives and policies.We’re already at that point.
Exhibit A: The Brain on Legs constitutional lawyers opining that the Voice is ‘legally sound’.
No doubt that the technical structure of the proposed change is tied up neatly and doesn’t conflict with other Sections, Conventions, or High Court procedure and precedent.
So ‘legally sound’.
Big Tick.
Carry on.Fully acceptable to the Great and Good. Whether it delivers a generally acceptable social and political outcome is a matter for lesser people to endure.
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The comments on that Venus de Milo article are amusing.
The professor is a dope. As one commenter points out, the statues were carved and painted. And there’s more…on certain days, they were garlanded and dressed.
He’s so across his subject matter that he doesn’t even know this. Or…he does know but is spouting CRT because he just feels like it. Which is even worse than ignorance.
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That’s seriously bad advice.
Sure, there’s no guarantee that either you or I will even wake up tomorrow, but it’s a good idea to plan for the future on the basis that you’re going to be there.I didn’t say we wouldn’t be there…
I said that our superannuation wouldn’t be there…
Superannuation also keeps wages low given that it is a forced contribution by government order.
You can’t access your super for the most part until you retire.
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I think Belofonte lost the plot around ’92. I recall him calling Colin Powell a “house nigger”
That was correct.
Remember “weapons of mass destruction”?
Colin Powell was also in overall command of the troops at My Lai, iirc?
… and anyone regarding Robeson as a hero must be a fellow commie.
Robeson was used by Communist Front Groups, he was part of the Old Left, now 2 generations gone. -
Too cheap to meter.
Right, OilPrice.com, Wind Power is Unprofitable (25 Apr)
The author of the OilPrice.com article, “Wind Power Has A Profitability Problem,” Felicity Bradstock, points out that despite massive investments and mandated construction by governments leading to growth in the wind power industry, “companies are realizing that it is difficult to translate wind power into profits.” Bradstock says the return on investment has not been what companies expected, writing:
In June last year, there were reports that some of the world’s biggest wind energy companies were battling heavy losses. … Losses were seen across the board in 2022, to the tune of $2 billion for GE’s renewables division, $1.68 billion for the largest turbine manufacturer Vestas, and Siemens Energy lost $943.48 million.
So even with massive subsidies they can’t make a profit? Yet guys like Bowen and Bandt keep on saying that renewables are the cheapest. I think there might be a bit of a gap between fantasy and reality going on here. One thing seems certain: electricity is going to get even more expensive.
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An Alice Springs school principal has revealed the horrifying extent of the crisis engulfing Indigenous children in central Australia, detailing incidents where children are sometimes returned to school in handcuffs or wearing ankle bracelets and one in which a 12-year-old and his mates led teachers on a wild pursuit through the town in a stolen minibus.
In a dramatic video of the minibus chase obtained by The Australian a teacher can be heard screaming: “You little shits … pull over!” as she leans from the window of a pursuing car.
As Labor and Coalition leaders trade blows over allegations of neglect and child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory, Yipirinya School principal Gavin Morris has come forward with a desperate plea to help students like his who are “in absolute crisis”.
He said staff routinely had to contact magistrates to have bail conditions varied for children as young as 12 so they could participate in after-school programs, but added that his students saw the school as “a place of culture” and “a place where they want to be”.
In one incident where a teenage girl had been raped, her young brother who had witnessed the crime came to school with serious signs of self-harm after attempting to take his own life. “For the teenage girls who don’t go home because they’re worried about their uncles coming in, these are the girls who are walking around Alice Springs unsupervised because they don’t feel safe to go home,” Mr Morris said.
A political storm erupted last month after Peter Dutton, backed by Indigenous senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, alleged rampant child sexual abuse in the Territory, only to be attacked by NT Police Minister Kate Worden for “absolutely opportunistic political game-playing”.
The Australian has previously revealed how, despite the promise of almost $300m in extra funding in the NT and new restrictions on alcohol sales, children are still on the streets late at night, playing cat and mouse with police.
The shocking catalogue of evidence produced by Mr Morris, who has a PhD in Aboriginal trauma and lectures at Charles Darwin University, is set to focus attention on the NT’s beleaguered education system and efforts to keep Indigenous children attending school.
Most important for Mr Morris is that students see Yipirinya now as a place of cultural safety, a place where they can feel safe, and they can feel like they belong. “I’ve got kids coming to see me and saying home life is that bad that they’d rather be in Owen Springs (juvenile detention) and in incarceration where they feel safer.”
“We need support to make sure that we get all these kids the support that they need,” he says.
In the minibus incident last August, a group of students – the driver aged 12, the oldest just 14 – stole the vehicle at 9pm, smashing through the school gates, and sped through the main street of Alice Springs.
Mr Morris recalled his phone suddenly “buzzing off its head” as teachers reported they were frantically pursuing the students in their cars, begging them to stop before someone was seriously injured or killed.
Video of the chase shows the bus careening down the street as the teacher driving the car behind desperately beeps its horn and flashes its headlights. Tyres screech as they turn a corner, chasing the kids, who live in town camps around Alice Springs.
“You f..king wait!” one teacher screams. “Pull over!”
The pursuing teachers are scared for the lives of the students and innocent bystanders.
As they head out of town, the car swerves onto the wrong side of the road, throwing up dirt when it veers off the bitumen. The kids drive down to an Indigenous camp on the outskirts of town, where the bus begins to slow.
Ten kids jump out of the van while it’s still moving and scatter into the night, some vaulting fences. “They came to school the next day,” Mr Morris said.
None was charged. The bus was written off, with significant damage to the structure and axles. It was not an isolated incident, Mr Morris said.
“We’ve got a growing number of students at Yipirinya who come to school with ankle bracelets, who have got bail conditions attached to the upcoming court case, some of these are very, very young,” says Mr Morris.
Earlier this year, he says a caged police truck arrived at the school at 8.30am, with four handcuffed girls who had been “day-breaking” – staying up all night roaming the streets.
“(They) didn’t want to go home, so came to school,” he said. “That’s not something that was seen as an emergency, that’s pretty much day-to-day operations. This is what we’re dealing with at Yipirinya, and it doesn’t define us. We’re a very strong cultural school, and the majority of our kids every day come to school, and it’s happy – and they love learning and they love coming to school – but a lot of our families overcome a great deal to get there.
“We’re not talking about historical events here; we’re not dredging up some of the big, bad dark stories from the past; this is the stuff that we’re dealing with regularly.”
Mr Morris said he took the students breaking into the school “personally”, but added that most of it came down to lack of supervision, trauma and seeking attention.
He said many children who were arrested and sent to juvenile detention, were assessed, and “100 per cent” of them returned with a diagnosis, many with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
“Issues stem from alcohol and from households that feature alcohol and drug abuse and lack of parenting and lack of parenting support and families in crisis and families carrying the trauma of colonisation and then unresolved trauma and the use of alcohol to cope with that trauma,” he said.
Mr Morris said underlying issues as to why young children were on the street needed to be addressed. “What we’ve proposed and had on the table and have bipartisan support is around an accommodation facility built at Yipirinya,” he said.
He believes some of the $300m promised to address issues in central Australia by Anthony Albanese should be allocated to the project.
“For those students or families who choose or need that emergency accommodation, that safe, secure accommodation, we want to be able to offer that at Yipirinya,” he said.
“We need more than just bipartisan support, we need the government to come to the table and fund it. You can’t have unsupervised children walking around the streets.”
Mr Morris said some girls were roaming around unsupervised because they didn’t feel like they belonged or were accepted.
“They feel like they’re being left behind from society,” he said.
“Those homes in crisis that have chronic alcohol and substance abuse, chronic domestic violence, chronic sexual assaults, they need support.
“This isn’t all Aboriginal families, but let’s get behind those that need the support.”
Mr Morris said homes with a lack of food, financial security and supervision often led to children presenting on the streets and at schools and in the community as being anti-social.
“But there’s certainly a growing number of families in crisis that need support, and the support they need is in respect to alcohol and substance abuse, domestic and sexual violence,” he said. “Mothers, in particular, are the ones who seem to be standing up in community, and it’s the mothers who are at crisis point.”
Mr Morris said schools needed to begin dealing with underlying trauma before traditional schooling such as literacy and numeracy. “It’s not punitive, it’s not reactionary … it’s about addressing the underlying trauma that these kids are bringing into the school,” he said.
“Once you’ve addressed that trauma, then you can start talking about literacy and numeracy and employment opportunities and the rest of it.”
The Australian – complete article, no comments allowed
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In the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people expressed the “torment of our powerlessness”.
I feel the torment of my powelessness, too. All the time.
I long to be able to force everyone else in the world to do what I want, but the buggers just go and do what they want. It’s not fair. I intend to whinge about the injustice of it until you remedy my powerlessness to shut me up.
Then, when I’ve got some power, you’ll have to do what I want you to do. That will be good.
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Gray Connolly
@GrayConnolly
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Incredible story of the Dorizzi brothers who grew up north-east of Perth, in a decommissioned prison, and who would all enlist for WW2 and the die as prisoners of the Japanese.The Toodyay boys who grew up in jail and died prisoners, but fought for our freedom
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I can’t see Brian Kilmeade lasting too long at Fox. He’s trolling his own management.
“First, they came for your energy. Then they came for your gas-powered cars, your freedom of movement, your cheap flights. Now they’re coming for your food,” Morano, author of “The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown,” said on “Fox News Tonight.” “They will be monitoring what you eat. What’s coming next are the restrictions,” Morano said. “We are already seeing it globally with a net-zero commitment.
The News/Fox commitment to net-zero will’ve certainly been on Mr Kilmeade’s mind, and Morano is for climate activists the most hated man in the universe. Interesting therefore that he was given this interview so shortly after Tucker was fired.
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Rejected- how unsurprising.
Once upon a time, journalists were our truth-tellers.
Now they see their job as helping the government not only to censor the truth, but also actively suppress freedom of speech.
I think every newspaper should run the following guidelines on its online commenting policy:
1. 99% of journalists vote for the Greens and the ALP.
2. 99% of journalists do not consider they are bound by a code of ethics, even though the journalists union has such a code governing fairness and ethics in reporting.
3. Anyone submitting an online comment should understand that there is a 99% chance the journalist reviewing the online comment submitted will censor anything that criticises the policies or political party s/he votes for.
4. 99% of journalists think you’re too stupid to vote, let alone comment online.
Note: Quadrant now has an address to which subscribers can send comments rejected by The Australian (or any other newspaper): https://quadrant.org.au/the-australians-big-blue-pencils/
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“But there’s certainly a growing number of families in crisis that need support, and the support they need is in respect to alcohol and substance abuse, domestic and sexual violence,” he said. “Mothers, in particular, are the ones who seem to be standing up in community, and it’s the mothers who are at crisis point.”
You keep getting more of the same because you keep supporting the violaters and their unfortunate offspring. There is nothing to preserve in that culture, jail the perpetrators and place the kids in boarding schools. Enforce the rules and make sure there are consequences for breaking them. But in our present situation that is impossible, too many people with vested interests who have built careers upon the chaos and suffering.
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Computers in 1943?
Certainly. Primitive computers were around in the 1930s as part of the fire control systems of the larger warships that used rangefinders to transfer optical information into bearing and elevation directions for their turrets of guns.
Graham Wright described his action station as a midshipman on the cruiser Canberra:
My action station was in the 8 Inch Transmitting Station where I presided over a magnificent contraption of rods, wheels and what looked remarkably like bicycle chains on which the range of an enemy ship, as deduced by a number of optical rangefinders located in different positions, would appear as perforations on a rolling paper. My task was to select the range most likely to represent the true range and follow the range changes to produce the rate of change from range from which it was possible for me to deduce whether the enemy ship was in fact altering course towards or away.
This was a fairly primitive set-up by WWII terms and by the end of the war had been thoroughly replaced by much better computing systems.
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Tucker Carlson hawks “testicle tanning” to boost testosterone. Experts say it may do the opposite
Here.
Campbell Newman shut the Tanning Salons in Qld, another of the shitty things he did in his 3 miserable years in office. -
DrBeauGan says:
April 26, 2023 at 9:26 am
In the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people expressed the “torment of our powerlessness”.
I feel the torment of my powelessness, too. All the time.The prescription for alleviating the indigenous powerlessness is the same as for all of us. Get a job, look after yourself and your own family, don’t expect others to give you everything. Go on, be a master of your own fate.
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The B-29 had remotely operated turrets driven by a computerised fire control system.
Computers in 1943?
He’s takin’ the mickey, i’d say.And shockingly, you’d be wrong.
Defending the Superbomber: The B-29’s Central Fire Control System
“Two important safeguards were built into the system. The computers were programmed to prohibit a gunner from accidentally firing at parts of his own aircraft and each sight contained a “dead man’s switch.””
Perhaps you were thinking of Martini-Henrys.
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‘Impact of colonisation’ hurting kids: Alice Springs principal
Tricia RiveraAlice Springs school principal Gavin Morris has attributed “the impact of colonisation” on the traumas children are bringing to schools following an incident where one of his students led teachers on a wild pursuit through town in a stolen minibus.
The Yipirinya School principal said the ordeal was not a “common event” in his school.
“Certainly youth crime and stealing of vehicles is more common in Alice Springs than we’d like to see,” Mr Morris told Sky News on Wednesday morning.
“It’s certainly not a common event at Yipirinya School that we see events like this, so I’m really disappointed that this occurred some months ago … It was a terrifying ordeal and at Yipirinya what we try to do is certainly wrap support around our families so we get to the bottom of what’s underneath this type of behaviour.”
Mr Morris said Aboriginal families were “at a crisis point” and defended his school.
“Let’s be clear, Yipirinya is an amazing school. It’s the only school of this type in the country that teaches four Aboriginal languages, we have amazing Aboriginal staff,” he said.
“We need to understand the trauma these kids bring to the school and make sure we address those barriers.”
He said the traumas school kids bring to the classroom were owed to “the impact of colonisation”.
“There’s no question about that and I’m on the record a number of times in saying that,” Mr Morris said.
“It’s not blame, it’s not pointing fingers … But our Aboriginal families need support.”
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Via Top Ender
Mr Morris said underlying issues as to why young children were on the street needed to be addressed. “What we’ve proposed and had on the table and have bipartisan support is around an accommodation facility built at Yipirinya,” he said.
In other words, a boarding school.
A new “stolen generation”.
Racist, how dare he! They must be returned to their families, to live their continuing culture on country.
With a few modern conveniences like booze and drugs and petrol fumes.
PS, that’s sarcasm, Grandpa Ed Simpson.
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POSITIONS VACANT:
An Alice Springs politician has questioned why the government has failed to fill the deputy administrator role in more than 18 months.
Dr Patricia Miller AO retired from the position in September 2021 after a tenure of almost two decades.
The role, which would act as deputy to Administrator Dr Hugh Heggie PSM, is traditionally based in Alice Springs.
Independent MLA Robyn Lambley has taken aim at the Labor government for not replacing Dr Miller and providing “strength, unity and stability” to the beleaguered town.
“The Deputy Administrator is the second most senior government position in the NT, sitting behind the Administrator,” she said.
“Having this representation at the highest level based in Central Australia has been vital.”
Dr Miller, a native title holder in Alice Springs, attended more than 500 engagements during her tenure.
Ms Lambley said her “extraordinary background” in Aboriginal justice, health and welfare was of great value to the role.
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PS, that’s sarcasm, Grandpa Ed Simpson.
Go on, is it?
Boarding Schools are a meat magnet for Minor Attracted Flamers, who create another lost generation.
If kids want to walk round Alice Springs at night, so what?
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True story: I knew Belofonte’s tour manager from a jazz bar, Pat’s in Chelsea, where I’d often repair after work in the wee hours. Harry wasn’t touring as much in those days, age catching up with him, so his manager, who had a journalism degree, asked if there was any work going at the NY Post. I brought him for a try-out on the subs desk and he was … hopeless. Writing good, snappy heds is an art, and on a 10-person desk you’ll maybe find two or three who are first class. As the copy flows from the “rim” to the “slot” (chief sub in Australian parlance), the better hands will tickle the lower-order subs’ efforts. At a headline-driven comic such as the Post this kept standards high. Well Norman just couldn’t do it at all — wooden, dull, lame heds even when there were glaring opportunities for wit and puns (the two aren’t often the same).
After five days I had to tell Norm there were no vacancies and thanks very much for giving it a shot.
About three months later I’m listening to Black radio WLIB — always entertaining for the parade of ratbags claiming Jesus was black and how Korean grocers were exploiting/poisoning Harlem residents with their pork products, and I hear Norman being interviewed about racism in journalism and how Murdoch’s klansmen stopped his career before it started.
So that’s how it works. You give someone a shot and get branded as the new Bull Connor. Last time I ever did it. Opened my eyes about the treachery in the human heart.
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N8 gorne.
Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division (25 Apr, via Instapundit)
The second round of Disney layoffs hit ABC News on Tuesday, with Nate Silver’s data-driven politics and journalism brand FiveThirtyEight among those being impacted.
Silver told FiveThirtyEight employees in a Slack message that he expects to leave Disney when his contract is up, which he added would be “soon,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
ABC News is expected to keep the FiveThirtyEight brand name, with plans to streamline the site and make it more efficient.
Like Project Veritas, the prophecy is fulfilled…
David Burge@iowahawkblog
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
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I recognised, long before Tucker, that politics has lapsed and turned into religion. Of course, I had m0nty as a horrible example of this, so maybe it was easier for me to see it, but the impulse to shut up those with whom you disagree and a disdain for logic and reason is a universal give-away.
We are now seeing what happens when Christianity fails: the older gods come back. The names are changed; it’s no longer Moloch or Cybele, it’s Abortion and Transgender Rights. But they are religions of the old, horrible kind. Look at what they expect of their adherents. Look at what they force on children.
This is what we are up against. Those who call for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity are demanding that we accept mental illness as the norm. It’s offered as being kind to certain minorities, but it’s not doing a kindness to the deluded to support their delusions. We’ve been tolerating homosexuals and transvestites for yonks, but now we’re required to celebrate their sickness. Only an extremely nasty and insane religion would demand this.
I’m an atheist and have no need for religion or ideology. But it’s clear to me that I’m in an extremely small minority; most people do need a religion, and can’t believe that anyone like me can exist.
Given that nearly everyone has a need to belong to the gang of cool kids who subscribe to the strongest religion, and given that currently that’s neo-Marxism, I’m stuck on a solitary limb. I can’t join the m0ntys, they’re utterly disgusting, but the alternative is old buffers who were brung up with Christianity and haven’t been able to overcome their conditioning. You lot, as m0nty would say.
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Once upon a time, journalists were our truth-tellers.
I’m not so sure about that rosy picture, Tom. Some of them, for sure, but I don’t think they were all squeaky clean.
It’s, dare I say it, the lack of diversity in our fourth estate – diversity of ethical standards and politics mainly, nobbled by extreme PC and deliberate lack of interest about anything that challenges the Establishment. We get a few who tinker around the edges, but they are gagged in the usual way – either physically or financially threatened or bumped like Carlson.
The MSM is a dinosaur waiting for a long overdue asteroid. There are already many…many little furry creatures thriving in internet burrows ready to supplant them.
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rosiesays:
April 26, 2023 at 8:11 am
I’m not going to anything where I might have to sit though an ‘acknowledgement’ or a welcome to my own country or any other pap and platitude.Me neither but I disagree that it’s a sideshow. The spirit with it’s solemn recognition and aspirations can live on but only if one chooses not to join the many who uses it for politics.
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Here you go DrB:
The main thesis, quite simply, was that the US was in decline. And whenever I spoke at events, I used to talk about logarithmic decay, saying:
“As a civilization in decline, you never really know quite where you are on the curve. You could be way over here on the horizontal line, at the very beginning of the decline… or you could be standing on the precipice about to hit the vertical slide down.”
Well, now we have a much better idea of where we are on that logarithmic decay curve. Because these ideas about the national debt, inflation, social security, social conflict, etc. are no longer theories. Nor are they even remotely controversial.
From Instapundit today. We’re usually a decade or so behind the US in most things.
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Well, I’ve unsubscribed from the whole Fox gamut. Be it YouTube, Twitter, Rumble. NewsMax has been a disappointment as well so am not sure where to from here but hope the OANN works out for Tucker.
I agree with most posts above but, typically, Ed and Munted are **experts** in the field and, like Tucker, obviously rack up their own 4.5M+ upticks daily.
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Headcase is an apologist for whatever labor might be responsible for. Knowing anything would make that task almost impossible.
For example, it’s fine for kids to wander streets at night and get involved in crime because “police harassment”. So what does that approach generate?
Here on last Sunday a woman with stroller was kicked out of supermarket for stealing. Her parting comments … “ I know you f***kers can’t arrest me”.
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Doc Beaugan:
I have to say that Tucker Carlson is right, this isn’t politics in the usual sense. And calling it a battle between good and evil makes more sense. Not much, but more. But I don’t think ten minutes of prayer a day is going to cut it.
People just. do. not. get. it.
This is the big battle in the war against Socialism and Conservatives. Notice how ten and twenty years ago we were under attack from single points? The family, religion, the economy, the environment?
Well they’ve all coalesced in one giant wave of assaults from the Left and we are losing.
The Trump years just throws the crisis into stark relief. We’d not have woken up if we didn’t get the warning from those times.
How many of us trust our electoral process?
How many trust our leaders?
How many of us believe we live in a democratic nation where the peoples wants and needs are reflected in the laws that rule us.
We have, through sheer neglect, wasted the sacrifices our soldiers made fighting tyranny and instead make a bed for it in our own homes so we can feel ‘safe’.
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calli says:
April 26, 2023 at 10:44 am
Once upon a time, journalists were our truth-tellers.
I’m not so sure about that rosy picture, Tom. Some of them, for sure, but I don’t think they were all squeaky clean.I’m with you Calli. One example is Randolph Hurst who started a war between the US and Mexico so he would have content for his newspapers.
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Haha, Ford has come out with an electric recreational vehicle, and it sounds like it is everything you might expect…
EV Camping in Winnebago’s eRV2: Cozy Cabin but Constrained Range (25 Apr)
“Ford quotes a 108-mile range for the high-roof E-Transit, and Winnebago says its testing revealed an average range of 120 miles. But the eRV2 traveled just 70 miles at 70 mph—we couldn’t do our standard highway test at 75 mph as the Winnebago tops out at 74 mph—and the dashboard readout never displayed more than 90 miles during our time with the vehicle, possibly due in part to the cold weather.”
I can’t see grey nomads buying a RV which only goes 100 or so km before you have to recharge it. Driving around Australia would be insanely frustrating.
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The MSM is a dinosaur waiting for a long overdue asteroid. There are already many…many little furry creatures thriving in internet burrows ready to supplant them.
I think there is some role for a media organisation or else you find yourself reading The Epoch Times or RT. The leaning and overt bias of Wendy Bacon J School j’ismists is a problem, as the ALPBC is finding out. As everywhere, competition and diversity is always a good thing.
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DrBeau, the bias is always towards idolatry.
Christianity hasn’t failed, but its trappings are being passed through the fire. The rubbish will be burned off as we observe right now. Even Carlson acknowledged it in his sly and rather amusing asides about Episcopalianism.
Perhaps we Christians have had the upper hand politically and culturally speaking for so long we have grown fat and lazy, particularly in the West. Different story elsewhere, as in Africa. My faith informs me of how it all ends, just not the time – although every day we stand tip toe on the precipice of the beginning of the end. Delightful hindsight might even date 2020 as the end of the beginning. Who knows?
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Read that blackrock (JCs mates Mr Larry Fink) own 15%+ of fox,
They also own 15% + of dominion.In the US owning over 15% makes you a significant stakeholder and eligible to be on the board.
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Remember that reader poll you ran about when Biden would be pushed aside?
And everyone agreed he wouldn’t see out his term, never mind contest the next.
Like those “gweat big winter battles of encirclement”.
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https://www.9news.com.au/world/joe-biden-2024-election-bid-announced-us-president-bets-record-will-top-age-worries/f9338add-6508-48e9-aa98-e3c0fcdc927c -
For those interested, look up “analog computers”…
Uh huh.
So, an ancient Burroughs Adding Machine is now a “Computer”?In EyrieWorld, anyway?
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Vanity Fair reported that famed former Fox News host Tucker Carlson believes he knows why Fox News Media terminated his contract. Cryptically, the veteran newscaster noted it will be a huge news story if he is correct.
According to Vanity Fair, Carlson believes “the Murdoch family is planning on selling the network.”
Vanity reported: “Carlson has told people he doesn’t know why he was terminated. According to the source, [Fox News CEO Suzanne] Scott refused to tell him how the decision was made; she only said that it was made ‘from above.’”
Carlson said he believes Fox News executives “took his show off the air because the Murdoch children intend to sell Fox News at some point.”
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Virtual reality guides lessons on Aboriginal culture in innovative school program
Bethany Hiatt
The West Australian
Wed, 26 April 2023 2:00AM
CommentsPrimary school children are learning about Aboriginal culture through the eyes of totem avatars in an innovative scheme aimed at improving Indigenous kids’ self-esteem.
The Moombaki Cultural Learnings Program being piloted in three public primary schools this year combines a virtual reality game with lessons based on Noongar languages, culture and history.
Aboriginal kids from Years 3 to 6 came up with the ideas for the games — in which totem animals go on quests involving traditional Aboriginal ways of living — which were then created by Curtin University’s animation and game design students and staff.
Project leader Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, from Curtin’s School of Education, said the lessons aimed to strengthen Aboriginal kids’ wellbeing by connecting them to their culture, identity and country.
A different topic would be covered each week, starting with land, or “boodja”, and the importance of country as a cultural and spiritual place for Aboriginal people’s belonging.
“We’re using virtual reality to teach and bring home the content from the class-based learning,” she said.
Testing before and after the lessons are rolled out would measure differences in school attendance, student attitudes and teachers’ rating of their effort and behaviour.
“I’m interested in knowing about whether or not learning your culture and language built by your people in your area makes a difference to kids’ identity, self-esteem and racial coping strategies,” she said.
Funded by the Australian Research Council and Curtin University, the program is being rolled out in the City of Swan. Each child will be assigned one of 12 totems, or spiritual emblem, such as a kangaroo, dolphin, swan or butterfly.
Kids wearing a VR set will be able to see their hand on the screen, but the totem will guide their digital interactions.
“You can’t get to the next stage unless you’ve done A, B and C,” Professor Kickett-Tucker said. “For example, you have o build a mia-mia (home), you have to learn how to make a fire, you have to learn how to catch a fish and feed it to your totem before you can move to the next stages. It will be up to the Aboriginal kids in the class to bestow a totem on the non-Aboriginal kids,” she added.
“It’s a good way of making friends, of reconciliation, a good way of non-Aboriginal kids seeing our children in a different light — as warriors and leaders in their own right.”
Professor Kickett-Tucker said the program was “place based”, using local stories and traditions. While the pilot program was based on Noongar language and culture because it was being rolled out on Noongar land, she said the methodology could be picked up and used in other locations, with different Indigenous peoples and languages.
She has already been contacted by schools in other areas keen to be involved.
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And everyone agreed he wouldn’t see out his term, never mind contest the next.
I think I was on record as stating they would ride the decrepit old carcass into the ground and then erect a saintly hagiography of him as “he worked himself to death, for your right to an abortion”
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I don’t read them, but when I do it’s with a smile and the b/s filter dialled up to eleventy.
Same as Seven News.That’s fine. But many (most?) don’t and won’t. One of the big issues around the death of FTA TV is the loss of a mass audience and more media silos and polarisation. Arguably the loss of agreed cultural values (by neglect or design) sits in the background of many issues today.
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Tucker Carlson hawks “testicle tanning” to boost testosterone. Experts say it may do the opposite
Here.
Campbell Newman shut the Tanning Salons in Qld, another of the shitty things he did in his 3 miserable years in office.Groogs.
When you used to spend time in those tanning salons how long did you expose your scrotum to damaging UV rays? What longg term effect has it had on you virility or cognitive abilities?
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