Open Thread – Tues 8 May 2023
2,131 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 8 May 2023”
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Indolent says:
May 10, 2023 at 10:01 amA new study suggests that the excess carbon dioxide breathed in by mask-wearers can have major health consequences.
Mask-wearers breathe in greater amounts of air that should have been expelled from their bodies and released out into the open. “[A] significant rise in carbon dioxide occurring while wearing a mask is scientifically proven in many studies,” write the German authors. “Fresh air has around 0.04% CO2,” they observe, while chronic exposure at CO2 levels of 0.3 percent is “toxic.” How much CO2 do mask-wearers breathe in? The authors write that “masks bear a possible chronic exposure to low level carbon dioxide of 1.41–3.2% CO2 of the inhaled air in reliable human experiments.”
In other words, while eight times the normal level of carbon dioxide is toxic, research suggests that mask-wearers (specifically those who wear masks for more than 5 minutes at a time) are breathing in 35 to 80 times normal levels.
That is why I hate wearing masks & it was always obvious you were breathing in exhaled stale air
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Indolent says:
May 10, 2023 at 9:57 amIt should read “Indolent pastes a link although he will not answer for its content’s reliability but may be just posting it because – look a squirrel!” For all his flurry of posts he rarely actually says anything.
I suppose the ‘says’ is just ‘the imprecision of the templates’.
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Calli:
A question for techie Cats…do any of you have luggage trackers? If so, which device did you get and does it work? I’ve read a gazillion reviews and still none the wiser.
I had a look at these gadgets a month or so ago, and came to the conclusion they were not really for me.
There were some from Amazon which were priced at just below $100. They waited for you to not put in a password every 24 hours, then if they weren’t contacted they would contact the nearest mobile phone with instructions on how to input a new password. I couldn’t see any sense in that if it was stolen property. If it was car keys in your house, it would get bloody annoying after a week.
But I think you’re after a device to put in your luggage so you can tell literally where in the world it is, yes? I’ve forgotten the prices but they were $200+ with reliability issues. Being still connected to the intarwebs during plane take off and landings, there were safety issues. -
Monty it was a stitch up, that was obvious from day one. Since it was always going to go up the ladder it wasn’t worth giving the MSM lots of fake headlines and photo ops. It’s so like the Get Pell stitch up.
Given that Carroll was caught blatantly lying during the proceedings it would seem the verdict is just a tad shaky.
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Greg Price
@greg_price11
BREAKING: A Manhattan jury just found Donald Trump liable in a civil lawsuit for E. Jean Carroll’s claims of abuse and defamation but REJECTS her claim that he raped her in the 90s.She’s the lady who said “rape is sexy” on CNN.
Her lawsuit was also entirely funded by Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman, who was recently exposed for hanging out on Jeffrey Epstein’s island in 2014.
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Mother Lodesays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:08 am
The correct quote is “Cogito ergo sum”, not “Cogito ergo est”, Grandpa.Maybe he wants to say “I think, therefore it is” as in any figment that slips through a crack in his subconscious (where terrors, older than words or thought, from our ancient past huddled in burrows or clinging to trees at night) and stumbles blindly into what passes for his consciousness is, in fact, true.
Indeed. Read any of Grandpa Ed Simpson’s comments, and there is never, ever, any actual evidence. He is master of “I think, therefore it is”, and his latest brain fart, no matter how incongruent it is with reality, becomes his “truth”. See for example his comment at 0959, or anything by him on the Intriguing Case of Mizzzz Knickerless.
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Rogersays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:16 am
But what if the time comes and the surplus somehow survives? Gets larger, even?“Albo…”
“Yes, Jim?”
“I’d like to put the middle class on the bracket creep rack and see how much we can wring out of them.”
“You know I love fighting Tories, Jim!”
Perhaps they could confine it to only those who married into the upper middle class? Unearned status and all that anti-Tory stuff?
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I think Catholics world wide recognised their rites in last Saturday’s proceedings.
I’ve found myself in Catholic churches during service time and found myself inadvertently giving the responses. The liturgy is almost parallel.
Last time was in Rome. A woman in front of me heard my English, turned around and beamed at me. Afterwards, asking me where I was from. Such is the unity of Christians everywhere.
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Trump Loses a Sexual Abuse Suit
A jury finds for E. Jean Carroll but will GOP voters care?
By The WSJ Editorial Board
Does it matter politically now that a jury has found Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation against a woman who said he assaulted her sometime in the 1990s? In a better world it would matter, but in the debased and polarized American politics of 2023, it may not.
It’s impossible to know what really happened in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store when Donald Trump met E. Jean Carroll.
There were no witnesses, Ms. Carroll can’t recall the exact year it happened, and she waited until 2019 to go public with her story. Mr. Trump denies it happened and said Ms. Carroll isn’t his “type.”
We also know Ms. Carroll was coaxed to file a civil lawsuit by longtime opponents of Mr. Trump, including lawyer George Conway. And her suit was financed by another Trump opponent, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. It’s plausible that the former President abused and defamed Ms. Carroll. It’s also plausible that he was falsely accused.
Yet it’s no small matter that the jury sorted the testimony and found against Mr. Trump on the preponderance of evidence standard that applies in civil litigation. (The criminal statute of limitations that requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt has long expired.) The jury rejected Ms. Carroll’s claim that Mr. Trump raped her. But they found it more likely than not that he sexually assaulted her and lied about it. The jury awarded her a more than token civil penalty of $5 million.
Yet if most Republicans dismiss the verdict as one more political assault, Mr. Trump’s opponents and the press have themselves to blame. They also show no restraint.
This lawsuit, like the two impeachments and the recent Alvin Bragg indictment that stretches the law, seems less an attempt to get at the truth than to find some way, any way, to disqualify him from ever becoming President again.
Voters don’t like being told that a man they elected should be disqualified by members of the opposite party or the press.
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m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:11 am
Trump’s strategy in the Carroll case is weird. He essentially played dead. No wonder he lost, he barely contested it.I guess he figures he has better uses of his time, and he can lie to you lot that it was a WITCH HUNT!!!! and you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
Perhaps he is setting the scene for Tara Reade to sue Creepy Joe Biden? She at least can nominate a time frame. Then Kathy Sherriff could use the same precedent here against Willy Shortone?
And like a good little German, you will then swap narratives in an instant.
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Monty it was a stitch up, that was obvious from day one. Since it was always going to go up the ladder it wasn’t worth giving the MSM lots of fake headlines and photo ops. It’s so like the Get Pell stitch up.
Do you think Trump is really hurt by those headlines among Republican voters? They join in his misogyny, they revel in it.
His video testimony was basically that he couldn’t remember sexually assaulting this particular broad because he grabs women by the pussy all the time, and they usually let him because he’s a star. The Access Hollywood defence.
Jury didn’t seem to like it, but I guess none of them are Republican primary voters.
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‘Grimmest in 45 years’: Building collapses to get worse
Michael Bleby – Senior reporter
Australia’s construction industry is headed for “a lot more pain” as tearaway inflation in materials, labour and rain delays worsen devastating losses on fixed-price contracts, just as the pipeline of new work dries up and competition intensifies.
Builders behind more than 5200 homes, worth at least a collective $2.2 billion, have collapsed since 2021 and the official insolvency figures released on Tuesday show failures in construction have hit a nine-year high, just short of the decade record of 1802.
“It’s the grimmest I’ve ever seen in 45-odd years in the industry,” said veteran home builder Robert Lynch, executive chairman of ASX-listed builder Tamawood.
“It’s going to be a very tough 18 months to two years. We’re going to see a lot more pain. They’ve been so slow to build they’re finishing off a lot of houses now that are going to lose a lot of money. I see that being a huge problem.”
Across the broader construction industry, cost and pricing pressures, even as they moderate from recent extreme levels, are likely to push insolvencies higher still, according to a roundtable of leaders convened by The Australian Financial Review.
“It has been a very challenging couple of years and that has caused significant stress for most businesses, particularly in the supply chain,” said Neil Harding, chief executive of contractor Adco.
“I expect we will continue to see a high level of insolvency in the industry for another 18 months or so.”
Scott Hutchinson, chairman of Brisbane-based Hutchinson Builders, said he expected insolvency numbers to get worse. Matt Bourne of Sydney-based Roberts Co agreed.
“We are aware that many parts of the industry are operating under duress and are very concerned that there will be further insolvencies in the supply chain,” Mr Bourne said.
Costs growing faster than prices
Home builders were caught unaware by tearaway inflation that ripped through their sector in the wake of both the Morrison government’s HomeBuilder payments and the global surge in demand for goods and services as pandemic restrictions eased.
Costs surged faster than the price rises builders could make in 2021, and the industry spent most of 2022 raising prices faster to restore margins.
They’ve restored profitability – on new sales. But increasingly onerous serviceability ratios mean banks will lend less to new customers than they would before, even as prices of new homes have reset at higher levels to reflect costs that are now baked into the construction process.
Cashflow is crucial to the low-margin home-building industry, which relies on high volumes and a constant flow of work. Even if they can charge more, builders will struggle to make the sales that will bring in new deposits.
The Housing Industry Association expects new work to slow. The number of detached housing starts will drop to 96,300 next year, the lowest number in a decade and a 35 per cent slump from the 2021 peak of 149,000, its February report predicts.
“Any time between September and November it’s going to hit a cliff,” Mr Lynch said. “There will be no work out there, and it’s going to stop.”
The cancellation of contracts by customers no longer able to borrow enough to build houses they had undertaken to buy would make the problem worse, he said.
Across construction, suppliers and trades are being squeezed by rising costs and the inability to raise their own prices to offset those.
The home-building landscape is littered with the wreckage of companies, with a string of names that includes Queensland-based Privium, Condev, Pivotal Homes and Solido Builders.
The list includes Delco Building Group, Hallbury Homes and Langford Jones Homes in Victoria, as well as Hotondo Homes’ Horsham and Hobart franchises and Tasmania’s Inside Out Constructions.
The failure of Hotondo Homes’ Hobart franchise hit customer Nathan Meyers, who said he was forced to sell off his unfinished “dream home” to buy an apartment to avoid risking homelessness.
Many builders failed to raise their selling prices fast enough to maintain margins as unprecedented inflation tore through their sector. After the start of the $25,000 HomeBuilder incentive payments in June 2020, builders were slow to anticipate the surge in demand that would push up costs.
Companies such as ASX-listed Simonds Group – twice so far – and privately owned Dennis Family Homes and home building giant Metricon have also been cutting headcount to reduce costs.
Said one former home-building employee: “The problem with this industry is that there’s a frighteningly high level of incompetency and lack of understanding of how this whole thing works, and sadly, a lot of it is concentrated at the very top of these companies.
“The bottom line is that the government had a knee-jerk reaction to the market slowing down after the start of the virus, assuming that the industry is robust and competent enough, but they were sadly mistaken. The result, overpriced homes, and yet to come, massive default rate on mortgages.”
Metricon, which almost doubled its yearly housing starts from 604 to 1177 in 2021 in Queensland alone – faster than the total 65 per cent increase in total starts in the Sunshine State – was one of a number of companies that then went back to customers asking them to pay more.
Logan-based Oracle expanded its workbook from 76 home contracts in FY20 to 316 in FY21 before going into liquidation last year.
At a conservative average cost of $415,200 per new house since November 2021, the more than 5200 homes affected by builders going under gives a value close to $2.2 billion worth in a year and a half.
Fixed-price contracts lock in losses
The problem is not only market conditions and company management. Regulation and bank policies matter, too.
Victoria and Western Australia don’t allow so-called rise and fall clauses in fixed-price contracts for home-building work worth less than $500,000 and even in NSW, Queensland, ACT, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory where rules do allow them, lenders won’t, the HIA says.
“Some builders didn’t put prices up at all for the best part of 18 months and by that time they were selling houses at below their construction cost,” Mr Lynch said.
“What’s coming home to roost ever since is every time they’ve been finishing a house they’ve been forced to recognise the loss on the house and that’s where a lot of it has gone. That’s the single biggest cause of the bankruptcies.”
Mr Lynch said Tamawood started raising prices in mid-2020, at the time it was criticising calls by industry groups such as Master Builders Australia and the Property Council of Australia for a cash incentive to encourage purchases of new homes, which was realised with the HomeBuilder scheme.
“We were doing very small raisings,” he said.
Mr Lynch declined to say how much his company had raised prices, but said they were frequent.
“For part of the time we were doing them every couple of weeks; a lot of raising, but very small amounts at a time,” he said.
Official producer prices data comparing cost input growth for home building with sales price growth of builders show costs leaped briefly over the rate of price gain in mid-2020, before builders raised prices.
But by June 2021, cost growth had surged ahead, and it then took a year for builders to be raising prices sufficiently well over cost growth.
It was necessary to be raising prices constantly to keep up with the big cost hikes, Mr Lynch said.
“One time the steel price went up 67 per cent in one hit with no notice,” he said. “If you’re not going up a little bit at a time, stuff like that kills you.”
But even though costs are still rising, albeit more slowly than at their peak, lower levels of work are prompting builders to put a brake on price rises. In the December quarter, cost growth overtook price growth again for the first time in a year and a half.
That points to even more pain as sales volumes fall.
“Builders increased prices after costs went up and kept increasing at the point prices caught up,” HIA chief economist Tim Reardon said.
“Now they’re reducing prices faster than prices are coming off, because competition is forcing them to.”
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m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:11 am
Trump’s strategy in the Carroll case is weird. He essentially played dead. No wonder he lost, he barely contested it.I guess he figures he has better uses of his time, and he can lie to you lot that it was a WITCH HUNT!!!! and you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
you will gobble it up like good little Germans.Let me see…
Science is settled.
Transwomen are women.
Stolen generations.
Invasion.
I came, I saw, he died.
Investment in welfare.
The three years of budget surpluses I announce tonight
Insurrection
Trump is a Russian stooge
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I’ve found myself in Catholic churches during service time and found myself inadvertently giving the responses. The liturgy is almost parallel.
The structure of the liturgy, based around word and sacrament, goes back to the very earliest days of the church. In fact, the liturgy of the word has its origins in the synagogue, while the sacrament obviously has it sorigins in the upper room and the passover liturgy. When it came to the Reformation, Cranmer et. al. excised the parts they regarded as representing doctrinally unacceptable accretions and kept the rest.
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“Australian officers are the highest paid military leaders in the Western World. The nominal salary for the Chief of the Defence Force is A$800,000. The position also carries additional benefits, such as a car, driver,caterers for social events plus travel and away from home allowances that potentially elevate this salary to over $1 million. The size of the Australian Defence force (Army, Navy and Air Force) is approximately 58,200 uniformed personnel.
As a comparison, in 2018, General Joseph Durnford, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was paid just over US $245,000 (about A$320,000) topped up with a personal allowance of $5172 (About A$6760.) The size of the US Armed Forces is over 20 times that of the ADF. (“Failures of Command,” Hugh Poate, Page 305.)”
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The ABC will get a massive $6billion investment over five years while SBS walks away with an additional $1.8billion.
That includes $52million in funding to support local ABC news operations.
The arts sector
Some $286million has been set aside to ‘renew and revive Australia’s arts, entertainment and cultural sector’.
The government has also vowed to boost incentives for the film industry in an attempt to lure more international productions to Australia and create more jobs.
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I grant the Episcopalians can often be worse. But you have to wonder what the appeal of this stuff is, since woke lefties are usually atheists as far as I can tell. Not a demographic you’d expect to fill churches.
U.S. Bishops’ Immigration Czar Slams Secure the Border Act as ‘Beyond Justification’ (9 May)
In 2019, Seitz denounced President Trump’s border wall as a “monument to hate” and a symbol of exclusion, xenophobia, and racism.
You Knew This Was Coming: NYC Catholic Church Hosts ‘God Is Trans’ Exhibit (8 May)
Well, this was inevitable. It was only a matter of time before Leftist Christians, marinating in the relentless insanity of their pet causes, would fashion gods in their own image: trans, queer, woke, and whatever else the Left is idolizing. The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, a Roman Catholic parish on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has shown itself to be only too happy to forsake the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the Left’s idols of the moment, so it was the perfect place for a recent exhibit celebrating everything the Left cherishes most: narcissism, perversion, delusion, and madness. The church has put up an exhibit entitled “God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey.”
Doubt these guys would be on the FBI’s radar, that only ever seems to apply to Latin Mass attendees. And rather ironic the latter one is in a church named for St Paul. He was a tad critical about such things in the letter to the Romans. I wonder what Rod Bower of Gosford Anglican church thinks of the latter story?
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shatterzzzsays:
May 10, 2023 at 8:50 am
Excellent to see that Woolworths are in step with Dr. Jim’s budget and inflation killer methods .. !
“home brand” peanut butter, 375g jar .. last week $2.40 this week $2.90 …..Aldi’s Bramwell brand peanut butter, $2.91 for 500g. Made in Argentina and tastes great.
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There you go , Zat & Cronkite.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages — by a federal jury in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago.
Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read in Manhattan federal court — and nodded when she heard the jury finding in favor of her defamation claim for Trump, 76, branding her a liar when she came forward with her allegations.
Trust me , I’m not happy I was right. Quite the opposite in fact.
I did say NY is bizarro land head prefect. In her testimony the skank would not say the date, the year or the time of the interaction which she maintained was a rape. With no time and date Trump could not prove he was elsewhere and could not possibly be at the place. The matter should have been directed by the Judge (?) not to proceed on that basis and will be the main grounds for the appeal. The jury seems to be a special bunch where they could not accept he skank’s claim of rape but still managed to convict on a sexual assault basis which the skank did not allege. Again another ground for appeal.
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m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:29 am
“I’d like to put the middle class on the bracket creep rack and see how much we can wring out of them.”Oh Roger, you do so pine for Howard’s middle class welfare.
Can we assume that, as a matter of principle, you refused to accept the Howard middle class welfare, instead writing a cheque to the Treasury?
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“A NYC jury can. They have a time machine that goes back that far allowing them to look right into the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. FMD”
The facts of the case are irrelevant in NYC, Chicago, LA, SF, Portland etc – every jurist knows that if they do not give the far-left raging mob that appears outside the courthouse every day the verdict they want, said jurists will be doxxed and their life become a living hell unless and until they move interstate. If the mob says “Guilty!”, then you will return “Guilty” or have your life ruined. Mob justice, driven and decided by the militant arm of the Democrat party. Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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And the Voice will improve this How?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au › nation › the-latest-riot-at-banksia-hill-juvenile-detention-centre-has-rendered-the-facility-unusable › news-story › 7d066cda9ef0fcc737c7f8ace0b9509b
Juvenile detainees riot at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre in …
Today – The juvenile detainees broke out of their cells on Tuesday night and began damaging buildings and lighting fires about 8.30pm. The Australian has been told the riot began when a juvenile detainee “got keys and they basically went around and unlocked every cell in the centre”.
Juvenile detention centre set alight after inmate stole keys
Children and adolescents have destroyed most of WA’s juvenile detention centre overnight after an inmate ‘unlocked every cell’.
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Get out your tiny violins!
Tucker Laughs While the Bloodbath Continues at Fox News (9 May)
Tucker Carlson seems to be enjoying his time away from his now-defunct Fox News show, while the network’s primetime lineup continues its descent into ratings nothingness. … another week has gone by, and now we can compare a more typical Friday night, May 5, without Carlson, to what came before.
I won’t lie to you: It’s a bloodbath.
Ooh, hurty. Mr Green seems to think that Fox will eventually recover since righties have nowhere else to go. I’m not so sure about that.
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With what is coming out about Drumgold, and now that Twitter is not just a stinking pond of thick left-wing sludge, all those reporters and politicians who ginned up the Lehrmann case, condemned him (and the Liberal Party – the real target) for his obvious guilt (and the Liberal party’s) can now be challenged as to what they say now.
It would not be a bad thing to remind reporters and others of their ilk that they can no longer just let fly with baseless accusations and calumnies presented as fact, and never have to worry about answering for it. They will doubtless block people from their threads but that becomes a story in itself. That becomes what they are known for.
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reposted without the profanity…
Oh Roger, you do so pine for Howard’s middle class welfare.
Munted proves he’s a moron yet again as the Cat is no JWH Fan Club. I’ll also just point out that the Commonwealth public service never grew quicker under any other PM than JWH.
And yes Roger, it’s not “middle class welfare” if the f-cking money came from the middle class in the first place.
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It would not be a bad thing to remind reporters and others of their ilk that they can no longer just let fly with baseless accusations and calumnies presented as fact, and never have to worry about answering for it. They will doubtless block people from their threads but that becomes a story in itself. That becomes what they are known for.
I’ll wait patiently for some Liberal Party MP to remind various media outlets and their ilk of their complicity in this lynching. The problem is, I’ll be waiting an eternity.
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Just for JR, oldie but funny!
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “Ugh, that’s the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen!” The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go up there and tell him off. Go on, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”
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The report, which aired on 14 November, opens with disturbing images of children held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day being held down by prison officers, who “fold” the children into positions which carry a risk of suffocation and death. Reporter Grace Tobin outlines that “state governments are ignoring the evidence from the experts and their own departments. Politicians know that detaining children as young as 10 [and] traumatising them makes them more likely to reoffend”.
Between 2020 and 2021, around 4,695 children aged between 10 and 17 years were incarcerated in youth detention facilities nationally per day, according to a March 2022 Australian Institute for Health and Welfare report.
Over the course of the year, a total of 9,352 children spent time in detention. Of the children incarcerated, nearly half (49 percent) were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, despite Indigenous kids making up just 5.8 percent of the total child population in Australia. Nearly three-quarters of children in detention were “unsentenced”, according to the report.
The number of Indigenous children in prison has increased dramatically over the last decade.
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Looks like Fox has decided to play total hardball. That will crater their ratings even more.
Report: Tucker Carlson Accuses Fox News of Fraud, Contract Breach (9 May)
Tucker Carlson’s lawyers have sent Fox News a letter accusing the network of fraud and breach of contract and requested the network take immediate steps to “preserve all existing documents and data” relevant to its relationship with Carlson, according to a report. Axios reported Tuesday that Carlson is considering litigation against Fox News, which reportedly is trying to prevent him from ending his contract – that runs through January 2025 – and starting a new show.
Righties will take careful note of them doing this. On the other hand maybe it’s just a tactic to get to a settlement. But I would not be surprised if Fox goes to the mat given how powerful a supporter of Trump he has been, even if in private he might not like him.
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May 9, 2023 – Sundance
The Bush clan is always in the background, like the stench of a rotting whale carcass just over the horizon.
With Georgia on their mind for 2024, Governor Brian Kemp hosts a stop Trump confab at their infamous and preferred Sea Island retreat.
Meanwhile, thanks to the intrepid boots-on-ground reporting of Laura Loomer, we discover that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is meeting with Zuckerberg’s far-left Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), in Washington DC.
Why would state election officials be meeting with far-left election manipulation groups.
Well, put those two datapoints together, and once again the strings on the election official marionettes start glowing. As we have said from the outset of the DeSantis construct in early 2022, watch the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) closely.
We are about to see exactly how the billionaire corporate funders control the Red State operations and manufacture the ‘illusion of choice‘.
The difference between now and the Romney era of 2012, through the Bush era of 2016, is that the American electorate are eyes-wide-open.
We are watching the assembly in real time, and once again at CTH we have no financial affiliation to influence our sunlight. The gang might be getting back together, but The Truth Has No Agenda.
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New York Jury Finds Trump Not Guilty of Rape, But Guilty of Defaming His Accuser by Denying It
May 9, 2023 – Sundance
The nature of our politically corrupt justice system takes on new clarity today as a jury in New York City decided President Trump did not rape E. Jean Carroll, the crazy moonbat funded by political operatives, but President Trump did defame her in his denial of the accusation.
Thus, the jury awards damages to the false accuser, while finding the accused not guilty.
Presumably the position of the jury was that something ‘may have happened‘ because this was not a criminal trial outcome which would be based on “beyond a reasonable doubt” as the standard.
Instead, this verdict was based on the possibility that something ‘may have happened,’ albeit not proven, and President Donald Trump was defamatory toward the accuser in his strong denials of the accusation.
The jury awarded $2million in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages for the battery allegation. The jury awarded $1 million in compensatory damages for the defamation and $1.7million for the repair of her reputation. They awarded another $280,000 in punitive damages for the defamation. (read more)
Keep in mind that New York wrote a new law specifically to provide E Jean Carroll a pathway to file a lawsuit over the allegation that something might have happened sometime in the past, though the accuser could not identify what year President Trump assaulted her.
The accuser, a woman of notoriously odd behavior and remarkably unstable mindset, was funded by billionaire LinkedIn founder and very vocal Trump critic, Reid Hoffman.
New York created the new law for Ms. Carroll, Reid Hoffman paid for the legal costs, and Ms. Carroll made her sketchy accusations of something, from sometime, that wasn’t certain to have happened.
There were no witnesses to the claimed events, there was no evidence the event took place, there was nothing to indicate Ms. Carroll or Mr. Trump were even in the same place at the same time.
However, the judge in the case permitted the presentation of possibility, then blocked President Trump from speaking about the case, and then instructed the jury to consider that Ms Carroll’s claims may have indeed taken place, at some point – although no evidence exists and no one knows when, not even Ms Carroll.
In any other situation this case would have been thrown out of court for being ridiculous.
However, in the modern era where justice is metered by regional public opinion that is based on Lawfare and political motivation, we get this situation.
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Tucker Carlson
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Keep in mind that New York wrote a new law specifically to provide E Jean Carroll a pathway to file a lawsuit over the allegation that something might have happened sometime in the past, though the accuser could not identify what year President Trump assaulted her.
Awesome and brave new system of justice there.
Youd think narrowing down the year might have been a bridge too far.Lysandersays:
May 10, 2023 at 11:34 am
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Scoop: Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud, contract breach
The intrigue: The Twitter move would seem to technically violate Carlson’s contract with Fox, but his lawyers’ letter effectively holds that Fox breached the contract first.
Sources told Axios that Carlson’s lawyers sent their letter before he took to Twitter to announce his new show.
The details: The letter
— from Carlson lawyer Bryan Freedman to Fox officials Viet Dinh and Irena Briganti — said Fox employees, including “Rupert Murdoch himself,” broke promises to Carlson “intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth.”
The lawyers accuse Fox executives — which two sources say are Dinh and Murdoch — of making “material representations,” or promises, to Carlson that were intentionally broken, constituting fraud.
Notably, the letter alleges Fox broke an agreement with Carlson not to leak his private communications to the media and not to use Carlson’s private messages “to take any adverse employment action against him.”
Multiple outlets have reported on Carlson’s redacted communications from pre-trial discovery documents and have suggested that they led to his ousting.
The letter also alleges Fox broke promises not to settle with Dominion Voting Systems “in a way which would indicate wrongdoing” on the part of Carlson and not to take any actions in a settlement that would harm Carlson’s reputation.
Carlson was told by a member of the Fox board that he was taken off the air as part of the Dominion settlement, two sources briefed on a conversation told Axios.
According to a source familiar with Carlson’s position, his lawyers believe that the misrepresentations alleged by Carlson amount to a breach of contract because they created additional terms of Carlson’s employment that were then broken by the company.
“These actions not only breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the Agreement, but give rise to claims for breach of contract, and intentional and negligent misrepresentation,” the letter says.
What’s next:
Carlson is also claiming that Briganti, Fox’s longtime communications and PR chief, attempted to “undermine, embarrass, and interfere” with Carlson’s future business prospects, which he maintains would constitute another breach of his employment contract.
“Make no mistake, we intend to subpoena Ms. Briganti’s cell phone records and related documents, which evidence communications with her and all media, including, but not limited to The New York Times,” the letter said.
What to watch:
Carlson’s lawyers added that because Carlson is considering litigation against the network to resolve these disputes, Fox News must take immediate steps “to preserve all existing documents and data” relevant to Fox’s relationship with Carlson, including correspondence between top executives and several media outlets.
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Not that you would know there was anything historic taking place, as our political leaders – who wrapped every surface of Sydney in rainbows and glitter for the minority interest event of Pride – failed to put up a single decoration. Shame on their pettiness and lack of grace. Just as these lowest-tier politicians cancelled Australia Day without permission, they have attempted to sweep the Coronation out of sight.
Alexandra socks it to them. Her piece was so well written and observed.
I was deeply ashamed of Sydney, my city, during the Coronation. My apologies, Your Majesty.
Other States did better. It wasn’t hard for them because Sydney did nothing to celebrate.
Chris Minns is a small man, a very small man. Mean-spirited and undeserving of his role. -
King Charles III reigns, but Christ rules
Editorial – The Catholic Weekly – May 10, 2023“Give the king your judgements, O God, and your righteousness to the son of a king. Then shall he judge your people righteously and your poor with justice.”
As these lines from Psalm 72 rang out in Greek chant throughout Westminster Abbey, and the freshly-anointed King Charles III was garbed in robes resembling nothing less than the Byzantine imperial sakkos, any Australian could be forgiven for thinking this pomp and ceremony was a medieval fantasy.
Indeed, the ABC journalist Stan Grant said just that in his coronation coverage, which criticised the monarchy for its role in the dispossession of indigenous people, and has attracted bitter rebukes from the nation’s monarchists.
“This is the real Australia, before we get to the fantasy Australia, the Disneyland Australia, let’s deal with the real Australia,” Mr Grant said.
“Let’s not imagine that we can just look at this ceremony tonight and see this as something that is distant, that is just ceremonial and doesn’t hold weight. It is scars, it is broken bones and it is too many damaged souls and we need to heal.”
Behind Mr Grant’s remarks is the view that tradition, ritual and ceremony serve as a spectacle that conceals the true reality of power: brutal, callous, parasitic and exploitative of the people. Undoubtedly this has been true at many times in history, even (and perhaps especially, given the church’s high calling) in Christian history. But it is also an overly negative view of the relationship between ritual and power.
Power is not obfuscated by ritual but is constituted by it. …
RTWT
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“Australian officers are the highest paid military leaders in the Western World. The nominal salary for the Chief of the Defence Force is A$800,000.
Who knew?? Many years ago we rented our (then) beach house to an air force chief who shall remain nameless. Should have charged more????
Just joking. He and his family were very nice people. Unfortunately for them, there was a bushfire emergency requiring an evacuation to the beach. He took his family down as directed ….and they were the only people there! ………………………………
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Juvenile detention centre set alight after inmate stole keys
Police with riot gear prepare to enter the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre in Perth’s southeast as it burned on Tuesday night. Picture: Supplied
Children and adolescents have destroyed most of Western Australia’s juvenile detention centre overnight after setting buildings on fire then blocking firefighting crews.
The juvenile detainees broke out of their cells on Tuesday night and began damaging buildings and lighting fires about 8.30pm.
The Australian has been told the riot began when a juvenile detainee “got keys and they basically went around and unlocked every cell in the centre”.
Female staff supervising all-male units were heard to radio for help. Male detainees broke into the girls’ unit, called Yeeda, and unlocked three girls who joined the riot. The breach of the girls’ unit is considered a disaster because some of the male youths at Banksia Hill are sex offenders.
The detainees were seen driving around the detention centre in buggies setting fires.
The riot is the most significant since unrest became an almost daily feature at Banksia Hill more than a year ago. The Australian has been told the detention centre is now unfit to hold the juvenile detainees.
Department of Justice media statements issued on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning described the riot as a major disturbance and confirmed most detainees were not under control though some had “begun surrendering to staff”. They had scaled buildings and refused to come down, throwing projectiles at frontline staff. A large contingent of prison and police riot squads, some with police dogs, were sent into the centre. Residents near Banksia Hill in Perth’s southeast saw police helicopters flying with no lights on above the facility.
Rioting at the juvenile detention facility was initially a response to a regime of lockdowns that have since been deemed illegal. The centre was chronically understaffed and it became common to deny children recreation time out of their cells because there was not enough staff to supervise them while they were walking around common areas or playing sport.
One boy at the intensive supervision unit was routinely locked in his cell for 24 hours per day because guards did not have time to supervise him for even short exercise sessions in a small caged yard.
The McGowan Labor government attempted to deal with the near constant rioting by removing the most challenging detainees to a special unit inside a maximum security men’s prison. However, chaos has continued at Banksia Hill. The WA government promised extra staff and regular recreation time but peace has not been restored at the centre. Some advocates for the juvenile detainees claim a punitive regime is set and that managers are counting visits from family in a secure visits room as recreation so they can deduct it from the time they need to spend supervising the juvenile playing basketball or walking in fresh air.
“The detainees breached their cells last night and have been causing extensive damage to the facility over several hours,” according to a Department of Justice media statement.
“The Department of Justice Special Operations Group was supported by a large police contingent and the Department of Fire and Emergency Services.”
The Department of Justice said on Wednesday morning that some of the detainees on the centre’s roof structures had begun surrendering to staff but the incident was ongoing.
Detainees not involved in the violent behaviour were moved to a secure area, remaining under staff supervision.
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Shane Drumgold SC says police tried to derail Bruce Lehrmann rape case
By Remy Varga
NSW Reporter
and Kristin Shorten
Investigative Journalist
Updated 12:00PM May 10, 2023, First published at 11:28AM May 10, 2023ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold SC has accused police who investigated rape allegations made by Brittany Higgins of “feeding inaccurate information” in a bid to derail the case against Bruce Lehrmann.
Mr Drumgold told the Sofronoff inquiry on Wednesday said he became concerned because there had been “significant problems” and investigators had “displayed a passionate interest in not proceeding”.
Mr Drumgold is being questioned about an email he sent on October 12 in 2022 about “inappropriate” approaches to potential witnesses in the case.
Read Next“I hold a view that such approaches are at the very least inappropriate from the perspective of effecting the prosecution of the matter and an attempt to influence the giving of any future evidence by my members, and even the sheer fact of the perception generated by the fact that Defence counsel and police are communicating, is not acceptable,” Mr Drumgold said in the email.
Mr Drumgold said he expressed concern to investigators that a second AFP interview would traumatise Ms Higgins.
The Sofronoff inquiry heard the AFP wanted to conduct a second evidence-in-chief interview, which they subsequently did, to ask her about inconsistencies in her interviews with police.
Mr Drumgold on Wednesday said he was concerned about the second interview because it could be traumatic to Ms Higgins.
“If there’s an inconsistency it should be left for defence,” he said.
Treatment of then-Senator Linda Reynolds queried
Mr Drumgold was grilled about how he treated Senator Reynolds during Mr Lehrmann’s rape trial last year.
The Board’s chair Walter Sofronoff KC and his counsel assisting Erin Longbottom KC have honed in on a proposition Mr Drumgold put to Ms Reynolds when she took the stand during the high-profile court proceedings in October.
Mr Drumgold, who successfully applied to have Ms Reynolds declared a hostile witness at the trial, had essentially put to her – in front of the jury – that she had improperly arranged for her partner to attend court and tell her about Ms Higgins testimony.
During Ms Higgins’ evidence Mr Drumgold noticed Ms Reynolds partner sitting in the back of the courtroom.
Mr Drumgold recognised him because he had previously accompanied her to a proofing conference with the DPP.
“You arranged for your husband to sit in the back of the court, didn’t you?” Mr Drumgold had put to her.
Ms Reynolds had replied: “No, he’s not my husband, but my partner has been here in court, yes.”
Ms Longbottom asked Mr Drumgold what evidence he had based that proposition on.
“What evidence did you have to support, or what information did you have to support, that allegation of the fact?” she asked.
Mr Drumgold said the allegation was based on the fact that he had seen Ms Reynold’s partner in the courtroom.
“He lived in Perth and was in the court during the trial so if you‘re asking strong circumstantial inference that he hasn’t just got lost and wandered into a courtroom,” he said.
“I think it was accepted that it occurred that she had.”
Ms Longbottom asked if Mr Drumgold saw any problem with putting that to Ms Reynolds as an allegation.
“She was a witness in a trial,” he said.
“He knew that she was a witness in a trial and he ended up sitting in the courtroom.
“I felt that there was sufficient circumstantial evidence that she had facilitated that.”
Ms Longbottom asked if he was suggesting that Ms Reynolds asked him to attend court to monitor Ms Higgins’ evidence for an “improper purpose”.
“Your rationalisation for putting that proposition is that it was an inference that you drew from the fact that he was in the back of the courtroom?” she asked.
“Did you consider there might be a myriad of other explanations for why he was in the back of the courtroom?”
Mr Drumgold said that his proposition to Ms Reynolds was really just a question put in a particular style of courtroom interrogation.
“What you‘re deconstructing is a stylistic approach to puttage,” he said.
“What I‘m saying to her there, ‘I’m suggesting to you, that your husband, that you arrange for your husband to sit in the back of the court’, which is really effectively saying ‘did you arrange for your husband to sit in the back of the court?’
“And she‘s clearly taken it as a question, because she’s answered it in the negative.”
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Kneelsays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:52 am
“A NYC jury can. They have a time machine that goes back that far allowing them to look right into the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. FMD”The facts of the case are irrelevant in NYC, Chicago, LA, SF, Portland etc – every jurist knows that if they do not give the far-left raging mob that appears outside the courthouse every day the verdict they want, said jurists will be doxxed and their life become a living hell unless and until they move interstate. If the mob says “Guilty!”, then you will return “Guilty” or have your life ruined. Mob justice, driven and decided by the militant arm of the Democrat party. Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The DemonRats return to their KKK roots, with institutionalised lynching of “undesirables”, that is, non-leftards, or leftards who do not sign up immediately to the latest insanity.
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Flounce!
CBC leaves Twitter after Elon Musk adds ‘government-funded media’ tag (18 Apr)
Unflounce!
Radio-Canada, CBC returning to Twitter (9 May)
Canada’s public broadcaster CBC and its French-language arm Radio-Canada said Tuesday that they were returning to Twitter after the social media site removed a “government-funded media” label.
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Julien also said Radio-Canada will not pay to receive a blue verification tick from Twitter, saying the checkmarks are no longer a guarantee of credibility.This was quite amusing since CBC like the ABC is a government funded media organization. They just hated being accurately called that. On the other hand checkmarks were a pretty good guarantee of lack of credibility, at least amongst lefties like CBC, so perhaps they intend to turn over a new leaf. Saving $8 per month of taxpayers’ money is no bad thing after all. /s
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A question for techie Cats…do any of you have luggage trackers?
Some years ago Qantas sent us some sort of electronic luggage tags. We’ve never used them.
Haven’t seen anyone else using them either. Useless if you are not flying Qantas for part of a trip and probably likely to get into some sort of muddle with the tags they attach at the airport on boarding. -
Old Ozzie:
The lack of a growth plan in turn will make it harder for falling inflation and strong employment to lift real wage levels as this budget hopes. That makes this budget’s failure to grasp the deficit repair issue something of a betrayal of Labor’s own.
Bob’s Reply:
“We have not yet hit terminal velocity. This budget is just more streamlining.” -
Today I give thanks for the existence of Trump, Carlson, Yemini, Panahi, Divine, and Rowan Dean. Christ only knows how far up the deep and dark spout we’d be without them.
But most of all, Elon Musk. Never thought I’d say it, the whole enterprise would be sunk without him.
Lets hope these characters have an informal understanding that no two or three of them should ever spend too much time together in the same location, lest they be rubbed out. -
Some years ago Qantas sent us some sort of electronic luggage tags. We’ve never used them.
Haven’t seen anyone else using them either. Useless if you are not flying Qantas for part of a trip and probably likely to get into some sort of muddle with the tags they attach at the airport on boarding.If those are the round ‘Gold’ or ‘Silver’ tags, they are RFID enabled and actually worked fine every time I used them. I preferred the adhesive ones though, and used them anyway. People can read those themselves.
The RFID tag merely replaced the barcode scan. No independent way to tell where they were. -
This was quite amusing since CBC like the ABC is a government funded media organization.
I think the Government Funded Media label is a bit inaccurate. It might give people the impression that it is a mouthpiece for the government, whereas we know in Australia that they shill only for the extreme left. When a party which was right wing (and for all we know might be again) they take them money but defecate on the government.
All Labor knows is that they had better keep upping the ABC’s budget to keep them onside.
In Canada, as in Australia, as in Soviet Russia, state funded media is left wing media.
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Call me old-fashioned, but when I hand over my carefully compliance-checked luggage at the airline desk, I don’t expect to carry any responsibility, or extra expense, for finding it in good time at the other end of the flight.
OK, you are old-fashioned.
And late to dinner.
Call me old-fashioned, but after three international flights in a row where my luggage had to be found and then took several days to reach me; independent tracking seems a helpful idea. -
OldOzzie says: May 10, 2023 at 9:17 am
An interesting read. Cheers.
Robert Sewell says: May 10, 2023 at 9:38 am Muddy: Watched. Truth.
Yep. I’m still hearing some of the lyrics rattling around in my head.
Musically reasonable, but lyrically powerful.
As much as we roll our eyes at the younger generations, I wouldn’t want to be a young bloke now. They’re being intentionally traumatised to engineer a new type of human. We are so fire-trucked. -
“The intrigue: The Twitter move would seem to technically violate Carlson’s contract with Fox”
Hmm – I think not. I’m pretty sure the “non-compete” clause can’t apply where he is not paid and is simply posting his opinion on social media – Twitter is not a competitor to Fox News, and are not paying Carlson for his content. So he’s not employed (or contacted, or paid) by Twitter, who in any case is not a competitor. Of course, I am not privy to the exact contract, but I’m sure Tucker would have gotten legal advice before doing anything.
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Simplicius sounds a bit defensive today.
And more than a bit truthy, with plenty of straw persons on display:
TV:
Russian inventor Vladimir Zworykin can be claimed as the inventor of the Television.
An American named Farnsworth was also in the race, and they are both credited almost equally as the top pioneering, competing inventors. But in this case Zworykin also got the patent first and beat Farnsworth officially.John Logie Baird demonstrated practical TV in 1926, a year before Farnsworth, and was demonstrating long distance and colour TV transmission when Zworykin received his patents in 1928. Zworykin’s system didn’t work in practice.
Incandecent Light Bulb:
If you’re in the West, you’ve probably heard that Thomas Edison invented the Lightbulb. In fact, the lightbulb had many earlier iterations throughout the 1800s. Many different inventors pioneered incremental steps that led to the modern lightbulb. However, Russian scientist Alexander Lodygin is said to have invented the most modern type of incandescent lightbulb.
I’m in the West and I heard that Sir Humphry Davy demonstrated electrically powered incandescent light seventy years before Lodygin’s Russian patent and kick-started the search for electric light. Sealed glass bulbs similar to Lodygin’s design were on sale in the US well before either Lodygin, or Edison got into the act.
Nuclear Electricity Generation:
Russia built the world’s first working nuclear power plant, which generated and transmitted energy in 1954. By the way, it shut down in 2002, never having suffered a single significant incident in its 48 year life span:
The US EBR-I was generating electricity (albeit a modest 200kW) three years before Obninsk (a modest 4MW) and five years before the world’s first commercial nuclear power station at Calder Hall (a substantially less modest 240MW). By the way, Calder Hall shut down in 2003, never having suffered a single significant incident in its 47 year life span.
Technical Note: This is more revealing about Trusted Bloggers than a reflection on the significant contribution of Russian scientists to the development of technology.
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132andBushsays:
May 10, 2023 at 12:29 pm
Do you think Trump is really hurt by those headlines among Republican voters? They join in his misogyny, they revel in it.Nothing says “misogynist” more than someone who doesn’t call out overt violence directed at a woman.
And rejects the idea that women are entitled to privacy in toilets and change rooms.
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I’m pretty sure the “non-compete” clause can’t apply where he is not paid and is simply posting his opinion on social media
My take as well. It is just a platform. Carlson will exist there on the same terms and conditions as anyone and Twitter will benefit in the same way they do with any content creators – drawing viewers who might see the ads. He will not be employed by Twitter and and will receive no special consideration.
The non-compete clause cannot expect to be valid for what he might say on a soapbox, or even what might say in a letter to the editor in a newspaper.
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The Sofronoff inquiry heard the AFP wanted to conduct a second evidence-in-chief interview, which they subsequently did, to ask her about inconsistencies in her interviews with police.
Mr Drumgold on Wednesday said he was concerned about the second interview because it could be traumatic to Ms Higgins.
“If there’s an inconsistency it should be left for defence,” he said.
So, by DPP Drumgold, if the investigating authority needs to clarify information given by the complainant that appears untruthful or incomplete – and that factual deficiency led by the Crown prejudices the interests of the defendant – stiff shit. The defence can sort it out on the hoof.
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Banksia Hill: Dramatic end to prison riot as special operations group officers storm rooftop
Josh Zimmerman, Caleb Runciman and Phil HickeyThe West Australian
Wed, 10 May 2023 10:30AMA tense standoff at Banskia Hill Detention Centre has come to a dramatic end as special operations group officers stormed the roof of WA’s only juvenile prison.
Nearly 50 juveniles— some armed with weapons— caused a major riot overnight, setting fire to accommodation and climbing up onto the roof.
Dramatic pictures show multiple officers armed with weapons making their way onto the roof before taking control of the 14-hour-long saga.
The remaining children were lined up face down on the roof of the facility once officers stopped the chaos — keeping their weapons drawn on the juveniles.
One officer dragged detainees by their pants on the roof before they were pulled into a standing position.
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“Children and adolescents have destroyed most of Western Australia’s juvenile detention centre overnight after setting buildings on fire then blocking firefighting crews.”
What should – but won’t – happen, is that they should now be housed in tents and required to supply the labour for the reconstruction of what they have destroyed. They will, of course, have any future earning they may make (inc GovCo allowance) garnished to the value of the materials needed to reconstruct the centre.
Every last one of them, whether they participated or not – the peer pressure to not destroy things should be high enough that they will self-police such destructive behavior out of existence.In short: you broke it, you fix it, at your own expense.
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“The nature of our politically corrupt justice system takes on new clarity today as a jury in New York City decided President Trump did not rape E. Jean Carroll, the crazy moonbat funded by political operatives, but President Trump did defame her in his denial of the accusation. Thus, the jury awards damages to the false accuser, while finding the accused not guilty.”
I wonder if the Democrats realise this is so obviously a bullshit result, that even the people who were sitting on the fence would be revolted by it?
The only way this makes sense at all is if it is just another step toward removing Trump from the Presidential race, which either will not take place, or that Trump will be gaoled and hence ineligible to run? -
…tradition, ritual and ceremony serve as a spectacle that conceals the true reality of power: brutal, callous, parasitic and exploitative of the people.
Like the initiation ceremony where a boy’s you-know-what is split?
Has Grant been initiated?
If not, can he claim to be a leader?
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ZK2A:
The number of Indigenous children in prison has increased dramatically over the last decade.
For my money, I’ll bet the hope is that the introduction of the “voice” will result in “Culturally appropriate alternatives to detention for Indigenous children.”
Perhaps the way out would be to keep the youths in their communities until the community dealt with the problem using their own culture.
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What is coming out in the Sofronoff Inquiry is simply gob-smacking.
By all appearances the ACT DPP was in league with the media and other behind-the-scenes players to totally destroy a man by not permitting his being given a fair trial.
The fact that Ms Frogmouth Amphibian and Ms Potato-nose Moonface were not charged with contempt of court/perverting the course of justice again speaks to a spineless DPP who didn’t take seriously his job as a minister of the court to prevent a miscarriage of justice and to ensure the accused to be given a fair trial.
Tie or no tie he is an utter disgrace, I wonder too the part played by the presiding Judge in this fiasco. Can a Judge in these circumstances issue a bench warrant for the arrest of anyone in contempt of court/perverting the course of justice?
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time to double down on the trans shit
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Macbeth, thank you for your really nice good wishes to Hairy and me for his birthday.
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