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NKP, the vote to reinstate Moira Deeming comes first — before the leadership vote.
Thanks for your comment at 6.34 Dr. BG. I find myself muchly in agreement with you.
Although perhaps with a little more consternation than you about the origin of the self that knows about things like conscience. Evolutionary anthropology doesn’t answer that question to my satisfaction. So far, anyway. Astronomy is another blind alley.
They did seem so unnatural as to suggest a genetic deformity, as has been speculated. The Nefertiti we admire today, btw, is a reconstruction.
Not sure what you mean here, Lizzie. The famous bust of Nefertiti, which I saw in Berlin many years ago, was the most exquisite composition I think I have ever seen. Stunning & unforgettable.
It has been suggested that it was during the reign of Akhenaten that dissident Egyptian priests went overland to Tibet, and taught their religion to the natives. Which is why when the Catholics got to Tibet, they were amazed at similarities in the religious procedures, like the swinging of the censers. All having descended from Egyptian practices. Also the Tibetan book of the dead and the Egyptian book of the dead.
There are some otherwise amazing coincidences to explain.
Like all total cockups, I see that the Grand Egyptian Museum in Gaza isn’t yet open for the public.
Just as well the Poms are holding onto their acquisitions at the British Museum. At least we get to see them.
Fabulous, thanks Calli.
We went full Nazi on you, now we will again go full Nazi on you, to pay for the first time we went full Nazi on you. Heil Dan!
Victorian businesses hit with a ten year COVID debt levy (Sky News, 23 May)
Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas has revealed the Andrews government COVID debt repayment plan to address the $31.5 billion of pandemic debt over the next ten years.
Mr Pallas described the plan as “temporary, targeted, and, above all, responsible”.
The Treasurer listed the three elements included in the plan.
A “temporary and targeted” COVID debt levy with two components will be implemented and end in ten years, in 2033, according to Mr Pallas.
“We’ll ask large businesses with national payrolls above $10 million a year, around five per cent of Victorian businesses, to pay an additional payroll tax,” Mr Pallas said as he handed down the state’s budget on Tuesday.
Somehow I don’t think “ask” is the correct word in this usage. Don’t you just love the Labor Party? They rape businesses then demand ten years of taxi fares from them afterwards.
And stopped.
Or maybe lots of people coincidently liked nice smelling things especially in societies where it tended to be rather fragrant.
I have great misgivings about the curators at the BM returning their exhibits to the third world countries from which they came.
We either treat them as part of mankind’s rich history or as “prizes” to be fought over. If they are well housed and protected and exhibited foc for any joe blow who happens to stumble through the door, so much the better.
It is Britain’s great gift to the world, and gifted at great expense to themselves. Better there than languishing in some potentate’s Swiss vault.
I’ve explained that before. What you need is a rich set of internal sensors which report on what is happening inside your skin. Together with the machinery for modelling what the sensors tell you. The culture you’re brought up in has a considerable influence here too: I like comparing my conscience to my sense of humour. Both were rather primitive at birth, but thanks to the Bible in one case and monty python in the other, they have grown up. In both cases, there is doubtless room for improvement.
The Hunchback Nazi could empty sicktorian bank accounts and they’d still vote for fucn piece of shit.
Mrs D seems to have the same thing, courtesy of no 2 grandson. She had it about 10 weeks ago, and finally shook it off completely after 5vweeks… 1 week feeling like death, then persistent coughing spasms for 4 weeks.
Damn – I have suspected it is going to be a few weeks in recovery (for both of us) with the classic compulsive coughing. Pretty annoying, given our rude good health during the Covid years.
If we had a decent conservative government in Canberra, they would turn to the Hunchback and tell him that spending is the problem, and if he raised those taxes on the people, the federal government would turn around and return that money to the people the Hunchback stole it from by reducing direct transfers to the state.
Vicki, I have read several accounts that the bust that was actually discovered was in a poor condition and that it was reworked by its finder into the gracious queen we see today. I have seen somewhere a reconstruction of the supposed original piece that shows a rather less beautiful queen but can’t find that link. I must say that I was disappointed too to read this, as I’ve always loved the ‘original’ in the museum. As the issue is undecided and, given the fame of the museum version, probably will remain so, I guess we can stick to the beautiful one and forget some of the Amarna representations (which to be honest do show a beautiful profile).
I am no Egyptologist, but I’m aware that many frauds have been perpetrated in Egypt’s name.
Yea naaa. The bill hadn’t come in yet and now it has. Everything was hunk dory with the Hunchback spending $140 billion since his time in office and no one had to foot the bill.
Mutt of the week-
Oh crikey. Oh crikey, I want a dog like this. Any Cats have Catahoula experience? They’re dead trendy round these parts at the mo, but all i’ve seen are urban jogger dogs.
DrB – You may wish to look at the timelines and the theological similarities between Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and the Jewish exile in Babylon (582 BC). I’ve long thought there may have been contact between Jewish exiles and Mr Zoroaster and Mr Gautama. Keep in mind that even before the Babylonian exile the northern kingdom was dispersed about 150 years previously (732 BC). Many exiles would’ve spread all over the middle east finding livelihoods and bringing Old Testament theology.
Nah, in Caro’s case Gil or the AFL media unit. She’s the official AFL crone.
Bear
That Caroline Wilson is a real piece of work. Toxic femininity, I call it.
Do you suppose any of Victoria’s titans of business are regretting their ties with Dan?
Or do the government contracts still make it worthwhile?
It’s a mystery.
Nope. I just go into an infinite regress about the self that is experiencing the self and if there is a self anterior to that self also experiencing the self etc etc. So how can my self experience myself when I don’t know what my self is? What is ‘behind’ my self? How can my self not exist? What are my ‘thoughts’ really? I give up in a metaphysical panic and look for some reality to grab onto. Hug a kitten. Make a meal. Do something. It would be so easy just to hand it all over to God. But I can’t.
Guess one day I will have to. Which makes me an agnostic.
Jeez, talk about bunging it on. Even the Bentley dealer would baulk at this.
I grew up on great swathes of the Bible and much…much Monty Python too.
* results may vary
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Oh noes, the elites have found that Disinformation™ exists about the holy Voice.
We should panic.
Australian Electoral Commission warns of ‘threatening commentary’ in lead-up to Voice referendum as education campaigns commence (Sky News, 23 May)
Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers addressed the matter at a Senates estimates hearing on Tuesday, highlighting how the upcoming Voice referendum faces a significantly different landscape compared to the 1999 referendum, given the omnipresent role played by social media.
“We are seeing a more unpredictable information environment everyday requiring us to navigate far more challenges than ever before,” Mr Rogers told the Senate.
…
Mr Rogers emphasised that the revised approach to the referendum process would focus on making the public better equipped to separate legitimate news sources from both misinformation and disinformation.
Okaaay, ‘separate legitimate news sources from both misinformation and disinformation’ eh? Now who, exactly, are your ‘legitimate news sources’ about the Voice referendum. Let me guess, three letters starting A, then B, then C? S and B and S? He probably wouldn’t conceive that half the population think the ABC are a bunch of Marxist wankers. Be educated, proles, for your own enlightenment.
Because with a vax, you get an enormous number of blueprints to build said protein up front …. and you do… and, given the uncertainty in how many spikes each mRNA blueprint then produces for, you build a very large number of spikes up front, and you do it systemically because the mRNA was injected systemically.
In contrast, when you get the real virus, you get very many less virions as your initial dose, and they are initially kept walled off in the respiratory compartment. Thus, you get much less systemic exposure (if any at all) and when you do get it, you get it later, once your immune system is already ramping up to kill it.
Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. High tea at the Raffles, or evening drinks at the Peninsular, in Hong Kong.
Probably in the beach resorts of Phuket mainly though, I would think.
My son with Hairy went there for his honeymoon, so it must have some appeal.
I think the Brits left something of a drinking culture in the Highlands, though maybe I am betting too much on Somerset Maugham.
We intend to throw ourselves in a resort on the beach in cosmopolitan Phuket for the last few days of our stay, before we come back to the last days of winter in Sydney.
Unfortunately States just can’t skip the credit card bill. Looks like Albo isn’t going to take the heat for bailing the Chairman out. The Victoriastan Budget will make interesting reading. You expect even Moodys and S&P will have the red pen out.
I’m not aware of any theological similarities between Buddhism, and the Jewish exile in Babylon. None whatsoever.
That would be Augustine.
Aquinas was Augustinian, and he was not Robinson Crusoe on that regard in the medieval period.
Western theology, both Catholic & Protestant, is basically derived from Augustine, with a few corrections on the Protestant side based on the Humanist revival of Greek, knowledge of which Augustine did not possess.
Unless it’s busy destroying the alveoli in the lining of your lungs and gone systemically into your blood stream. Then you die. It was in the initial burst a bit of a vascular killer, even though that was overplayed and the numbers hardly said pandemic.
On the whole though, Duk, I think you’ve said it right, because of the mRNA replication. I can’t see why anyone thinks this was/is a good idea.
Hmm. Done that.
Eating prawns and fresh bread with a Margaret River white at the local beach.
Don’t need none of your look at me, my own paradise can’t be matched.
Hunchback’s been in power since 2014. Averaged out he’s been hiking debt at ~18 billion a year. Not bad.
Someone told me you could earn 250K working on some of construction projects the Hunchback has been funding. The union pals are very quiet these days.
BBC Verify assuring you that “alternative media” is a disinformation menace is exactly like in-store sales representatives telling you the internet can lead you astray about products.
There are minuses, but there are plusses too.
Victoriastan has been a good earn no doubt. Construction conditions were leaking out from when the desal plant was going up in the 2000s. God knows what they are now.
Jeez, Bear, I wouldn’t be being at all ironic would I?
Gayly so, I thought, a la Maugham as I dance down the steps of the verandah in the steaming heat of moonlight to meet my lover who is going to end up dead.
Is there no romance in your pantless soul?
Mr Rogers emphasised that the revised approach to the referendum process would focus on making the public better equipped to separate legitimate news sources from both misinformation and disinformation.
Perhaps it wasn’t such a wonderful cunning plan to avoid publishing the “official” Yes and No cases, Mr Rogers?
Neither am I. Mind you, there’s Hinayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. And weird stuff in Tibetan Buddhism. You can find almost anything in Mahayana Buddhism.
I’ll stick to the Pali canon. It’s quite rational.
I’ll ask the Parole guy. I suspect not.
Tonight Sharri Markson had Peter King on. Peter was the member for Wentworth before the Turd . King has taken control of the Liberal Wentworth branch, wrestling it from Sally Betts, who’s been the queen bee of the Wentworth Liberal Party for over a decade. She was one of Turdbull’s chief henchmen. Good news.
Cassie
Should that be “henchwench”?
Bear, that jaunty boater just oozes romance.
Wonder how that’s going now ? Shame if it’s gorn.
Ahhhh…Peter of Bellevue Hill.
Good stuff Cassie!
Jacinta Prince slams Sydney Council for pushing Voice ‘propaganda’
Street banners, community events and communication campaigns will be funded as part of the council’s pledge towards a Yes vote in the referendum – prompting a clash between local councillors.
The City of Sydney has come under fire for voting to pump more than $500,000 of ratepayers’ money into supporting the ‘yes’ campaign for a voice to parliament.
Local councillors and businesses slammed the decision, while shadow Indigenous Australians minister Jacinta Price accused the council of wasting ratepayers money on “propaganda” during a cost of living crisis.
A memo issued by the council’s chief executive has revealed the spending package includes $260,000 for a communications and engagement campaign, $160,000 for street banners, and up to $90,000 to support up to three not-for-profit community events in landmark council venues such as Town Hall.
Library resources will also be committed to the campaign, community workshops will be held and $20,000 will be waived by the council for the use of local community centres.
The funding pledge was made after a vote by nine of 10 City of Sydney councillors at this month’s council meeting.
Liberal councillor Shauna Jarrett – who voted against it – raised concerns the council’s pledge would mean parties from “other sides of the campaign” would be “rejected” from using council facilities.
“In its current forum, this memorandum would only enable a campaign for one side of the voice and directly fund only one group from within the community,” she said.
Ms Jarrett tried to move an amendment for council resources to be allocated on a “on a fair and unbiased basis” rather than only supporting activities to support the ‘yes’ campaign.
Labor councillor Linda Scott described Ms Jarrett’s proposed changes as “one of the most small minded amendments” she had seen during her decade-long tenure on the council.
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“We are a local government empowered by a local government act in this state to ensure that we can take views that represent the views of our community and so we should do this more than anything else,” she said.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore also rejected Ms Jarrett’s proposed amendments.
“It’s about time we recognise the first peoples and establish a body that enables them to let successive governments know what their views are about decisions that are about them,” she said.
Opposition Indigenous Australians minister Jacinta Price also spoke out against the council’s funding pledge, saying it was “inexcusable” the council was wasting money on “propaganda” during a cost of living crisis.
“This is just another example of inner city elites wasting time and money to make themselves feel good with no regard or for the real problems facing indigenous people in rural and remote Australia,” she said.
“Sydney City Council needs a wake up call, they need to get back to the local matters they were elected to deal with.”
Deputy Liberal Leader Sussan Ley said that this was a totally inappropriate misuse of ratepayers’ money and that councils should focus on rates, rubbish and roads.
“The upcoming referendum is an opportunity for the Australian people to have their say. Private organisations and companies will take positions and that is up to them, but the second we start to see rates collected by councils being misdirected from hardworking Australians to these campaigns, we are on a very slippery slope.
“It can’t be right that ratepayer money is being misused in this way and I just urge state and local governments to have a bit of respect in not imposing their views on the constituents they serve – this is for Australians to decide, not governments.”
The funding commitment comes after a challenging start to 2023 for the council which has included residents threatening to “boycott” paying rates due to bins not being collected by garbage truck drivers taking industrial action.
Alan Lo, who runs Joe Black Cafe near Hyde Park, believes the council’s funding commitment towards the referendum would be better spent supporting local businesses.
“The money could be better spent because it’s life and death for a lot of businesses,” he said.
“We don’t know how long we’re going to be able to stay in the city because of the cost of running a business when there’s less people around.
“It’s government money that’s being given to them by ratepayers. I think everyone knows about The Voice already.
“More money should be spent driving people to the city.”
The council’s funding package is one of the largest commitments made by a local government body towards a Yes vote in the upcoming referendum.
Several other councils including Lane Cove are also considering running campaigns and events to raise awareness about the referendum.
Inner West Council is meanwhile training up to 1000 local residents in a “civic education program”.
In regional NSW, Dubbo Council will this week consider a motion by Labor councillor Pam Wells to “develop a program centred on information, education and participation to support the community to make an informed decision” on the referendum.
In a statement, a City of Sydney spokeswoman said the council has “supported the long campaign for the Australian constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.”
“Regardless of their position on the referendum, groups can apply to use our community venues following our usual process, which includes fee waivers for eligible groups,” she said.
“Events must meet existing inclusion and equity principles outlined in relevant City of Sydney plans.
“The City of Sydney will also sponsor venue hire for up to three not-for-profit community events in support of the ‘yes’ campaign at our landmark venues.”
A spokesman for the Yes campaign said, “Yes23 supports all Australian individuals and organisations engaging with the campaign, and of course we welcome all forms of support for constitutional recognition through a Voice to Parliament.”
“All organisations have an important role to play and are welcome to the conversation, which is about supporting better outcomes on the ground in communities. We respect the right of everyone and every organisation to decide on if and how they contribute.”
Comments and a vote now open — Daily Tele
“Should that be “henchwench”?”
Yes! Good one.
I’m just going to eye roll at the mRna prognostications.
I was looking at an Australian actuarial chart for Australian deaths since the mid 2010s this morning, it really does look like 2022 overs are 2020s unders.
2021 when the dreaded vaccines were rolled out was about average, tipped over a very little with actual covid deaths, of course.
2022 when all the ‘non pharmaceutical ‘ measures were removed in Australia covid played havoc with older people.
Those nasty spike proteins surely took their sweet time.
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“callisays:
May 23, 2023 at 7:52 pm
Ahhhh…Peter of Bellevue Hill.
Good stuff Cassie!”
Yes calli, and a friend has just rung me, she wants to join the party. Should I join too? They need people like me.
I know where Clover lives. If the Voice gets up, I hope an indigenous activist demands rent from Clover. Also, Clover has been in that position for 18 years, she should be told that her time is up and she should vacate her position for an indigenous person.
Wally – I had some fun today. As mentioned I took bird food and went for a walk. The birdies know me well. Anyway I got about a km from the Cafe and encountered a dog walker – it was in an off leash area. Lady dog sees me, stops dead. He says she’s shy, I say I’ve already made friends with her (which I have but he’s forgotten). Sure enough over she comes and says hello.
Then other dog, a handsome bluey, comes over to see what she’s doing. I hadn’t befriended him previously. Hello I say, and he sniffs my hand.
Kaboom goes his brain!
The problem with this sort of thing is my left hand is carrying a large chuck of Coles mince and my right hand smells strongly of it, since I’d been feeding some magpies a short time earlier.
He was very interested. No! says I, and off I go. Unfortunately then some magpies decided to land in front of me. I fed one, but the rest skedaddled because sir dog saw things to chase! Fun! Now I was best friend in all the world and Mr Bluey followed me for a couple hundred metres, wistfully, since I smelled of yum nosh and had fine entertainment attached as well. Eventually, since I refused completely to provide any of the wonderful stuff in my left hand, he went back to his master, mournfully. Blueys are passion pits.
Malaysia is quite a popular spot for Saudi couples on their honeymoons. There was a couple at the next table complaining that they wanted to be moved, because we had a bottle of wine on the table……
From what I have been told by Malaysians they cause many dramas too. The men are rude, demanding and poor guests. I did see some of the behaviour at a hotel in Batu Ferringhi on Penang once, felt sorry for the hotel staff. Never seen too many problems in Thailand but they generally kept to themselves there, Thais though have the same stories.
Boys I know who have worked in the Emirates reckon Saudi bad behaviour is legendary in that part of the world as soon as they step outside the Kingdom.
Kenny badmouths the abc then rushes, drooling, to defend little boy lost stan grant, who went from albino to blackface in a matter of months and has been subject to hideous racial abuse since he had a go at Madge at her funeral. I’m calling bullshit on that abuse although I must say black boy’s equally lying daughter is a bit of a looker, albeit, 2o shades lighter.
Cassie – I have never made a more than a shallow study of Buddhism, but some of the tenets and experiences of the Buddha sounded a lot like he’d had a conversation once with a rabbi. Given timelines that seemed possible.
I’m totally happy not to be correct, it was just my impression. Nor is it important at all.
Zoroastrianism though has significant theological similarities. Not in anyway really related, but perhaps derived, like some of the gnostic stuff in the second century AD.
“but some of the tenets and experiences of the Buddha sounded a lot like he’d had a conversation once with a rabbi. “
Codswallop.
Are you sure it was the bottle of claret which pushed their buttons?
🙂
Now watching London Kills, very diverse but acceptable however the middle aged female cop running down a fit young male suspect, priceless.
Mmmyes.
I can remember her telling us she had a rock-solid source that all the hundreds of samples from 40 Esserdon players had been sent to a top drug testing lab in Chermany. As testing technology advanced we would know within months what dastardly substances they had allegedly taken.
That was ten years ago.
Amazing that she has survived around the AFL for decades without once producing support for her “sources”.
The hypocrisy of these fckwits is breathtaking.
Her male equivalent (Mark Robinson) went MIA a year or so ago amid pleas to “respect his privacy”.
Fortunately many on social media ignored that, given he had spent years trading in rumour and guesswork about others.
You got a time machine Cassie? 😀
Speculation is fine, I ask questions like this and sometimes I stumble onto interesting things. That is life and the enjoyment of it.
Yes calli, and a friend has just rung me, she wants to join the party. Should I join too? They need people like me.
Good question. Are UAP/PHON/LDP blind allies? The challenge is the wrest control from the careerists in head office.
Actually Cassie I wouldn’t rejoin till Trumble is expelled.
Talking to myself again here apparently.
I’d prefer to go and talk to Hairy. He at least treats me like a decent human being with something interesting to say. I think I may be done here.
Sancho
That Caroline Wilson is a real piece of work. Toxic femininity, I call it.
Amazing that she has survived around the AFL for decades without once producing support for her “sources”.
Eureka. Ed October is Caroline Wilson!
Highlights from Jihad Watch and the wacky world of islam:
Sweden: Muslim migrant who murdered 78-year-old woman and beat her husband can now get citizenship
Pakistan: Two Christians charged with blasphemy over puppy’s name
Another ‘Islamophobia’ fizzle: Minnesota mosque fire turns out to have been set by drug-addled mentally ill Muslim
Maybe I should join the Wentworth Liberal Party. Long term resident and all that.
Though Hairy wouldn’t be happy about that. Not sure that I could stand them either.
However, attacking from within has appeal.
Dinner’s ready here.
The Victorian Liberal Party: beyond farce
No Jewish exile in Babylon would have recognised the title “rabbi”. It wasn’t used. The title “Rabbi” only came into use and common parlance after the destruction of the second temple, with saw the end of the priesthood and the age of the Neviim (prophets). It was this that gave rise to Rabbinic Judaism, which helped save Jewish communities across the Mediterranean.
Liberal heads in the sand
“Maybe I should join the Wentworth Liberal Party. “
Let’s talk about it!
Yes, like every Singapore tourist evah, we, too, did the high tea,with the Singapore sling demo to follow.
Breakfast at the Peninsula next morning. Also terribly touristy. And my eggs were runny. Ergh!
All the minor prophets towards the end of the Old Testament fascinate me- Obadiah, Hosea, Nahum, Habakkuk etc. I wonder who these men were and what their lives where like.
“Sliante” to all you mob.
While I have the best and sharpest wits on the Cat handy, I would value an appropriate response to the following situation. (It is the second time it has happened.)
I’m in my local bottleshop, restocking on the Islay. heavily peated. I collect the bottles, and hand over the cash.
A swampy starts behind me “Huh, you can afford to pay that much for alcohol. You obviously have too much money – you should pay more, in tax, so I don’t have to battle so hard to raise my kids!”
My response was “Well, don’t you know how babies are made?”
Can anyone suggest a better answer? Obliged.
I love the Minor Prophets.
Zephaniah, meaning “The Lord Hides”.
How cool is that? How unimaginable and precious? Something to take hold of and treasure.
They’re the SFL’s, but they’re not complete fools;
The rules here are/were one has to be a member for three years, before one actually gets a vote or a say at meetings.
Wentworth & the NSW branch may differ.
Yes it is Calli-KJV I presume.
cf.The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing
Anyway on that uplifting note, I’ll say goodnight.
I prefer the Straits Sling. Similar recipe* but none of that work of Satan, godawful pineapple* juice.
* 2 Nips of gin, nip Benedictine, nip cherry brandy, dash of angostura bitters, dash of orange bitters, nip lemon juice and topped up with soda water – some recipes add Grenadine, I prefer with Grenadine
**The only conceivable use for pineapple, is shove it, crown first, up the fundament of someone who richly deserves it
The targets then, have already been identified (or have identified themselves) as non-threatening. There is therefore minimal risk in targeting these people. Bullies do not pick on someone who is perceived or known to be stronger than them (more capable/better resourced, etc).
In everything we do, we consciously or otherwise, weigh the potential risks against the potential benefits, before choosing our course of action. (Some people don’t possess that capacity, however).
The kicker is that having been bitten by those they have fed, the feeding hand forgets rationalism and goes straight to the amygdala, where it freezes. And stays frozen, despite the continuing bites.
I’ve had a South African breakfast in Capetown. Eggs, bacon, steak, boerwoers and tomatoes. Fills you up until lunchtime. FWIW, your true Afrikaner regards anyone, who doesn’t drink before lunch, as a most inferior being..
Cassie, please. ‘Rabbi’ is widely regarded to mean ‘teacher’. Both Zoroaster and Gautama were searching for meaning, and because of the diaspora your people were likely present in the places they were living. Would those guys not seek wisdom if they could find it? After all the wisdom of the people of the Pentateuch goes back for at least 1500 years from their time, to the time of Abram, and earlier. It would be astounding to the locals. They even had scrolls! If I was there I certainly would be seeking such wisdom, and accosting teachers if I found one. That’s been my blessing, or curse, to seek the meaning of things my whole life. But I’m just a scientist who likes learning stuff. It’s not much considered how unique such consistent religious and philosophical teaching that the canon of Moses in the those times represents, and how specific and detailed. Not until Herodotus do scholars regard that history was recorded in any consistent and replicable way, yet your people were doing that a thousand years before he got going. Even then it took Josephus for that idea to get transferred over to the European thought processes. I admire Josephus since he got the attention to the Romans to the deep history of the Israelites. Make of this what you will, but I admire your people and wish them well.
Zulu:
‘Oh, I don’t drink this. It’s for shooting.’
“please. ‘Rabbi’ is widely regarded to mean ‘teacher’”
Please……enough. I know exactly what “rabbi” means, and I’m pretty sure I’ve met and talked to a lot more rabbis than you ever have or ever will, in fact, I’ve even kissed one. The word “rabbi” wasn’t used in Babylon, it wasn’t used until after the destruction of the second temple. I know you think you’re an expert on everything, but you’re not.
Can anyone suggest a better answer? Obliged.
Hold up receipt, look dweeb in the eye, and say “Half of this is taxes, knobhead. Don’t forget. And don’t forget to teach your kids about that either”.
*may not be strictly accurate, but you have to dominate your audience sometimes.
Tomorrow we have the proceedings continue before the very smart Sofronoff.
This Yates bloke testimony will be interesting explaining why he/they/them had to escort the knickerless slapper to court each day.
Plod Moller has given a good lead to this. There may be some nervous nut scratching in the witness box by Yates.
It doesn’t matter how this case turns out, Brittany will ALWAYS be remembered for her lack of knickers..
Bruce- nice jaunt! I was being haunted by dogs on the high street one day, and eventually figured out it was the rabbitskin-derived glue that i’d used on a guitar earlier.
I don’t see many heelers around, which is odd considering the cattle in the landscape, though it is more dairy and fattening- blokes go for the borders. Anyone who’s got a heeler loves them, but says they’re faithful and one-eyed to a fault.
Catahoulas are apparently coming from Queensland, for pig hunting.
And, of course, pizza.
Not in my case. My reaction is to realise that I have made a horrible mistake and resolve to never make it again.
Next time I hear a request for social justice, I shall reach for the (metaphorical) meat axe.
Please, gentlepeople.
Let’s have no more talk of inserting tropical fruit in other people’s bottoms.
It’s not that sort of blog.
That sounds like a challenge.
If only I had a decent attention sp..
But enough about caravanners.
Classic!
Excellent retort, especially if delivered in a bored tone of voice.
Chillin’ to Melanesian Choirs – The Thin Red Line (Tok Pisin gospel mostly).
Brightly soothing (if that isn’t a contradiction?).
Aaaanywoot.
Pineapple is delicious. My favourite carrot cake has pineapple in it. It’s a Greta Anna recipe. I also make a very nice pineapple and hazelnut upside down cake, which is a Jane Grigson recipe. Both Grigson and Anna were wonderful cooks and their cookbooks are treasures.
Casie, ‘rabbi’ in greek is rho alpha beta beta iota. Spelled ‘bet’ ‘resh’ in Hebrew. I am restricted by the limitations of the blog software in rendering the correct symbols. I am aware and understand such things. Bet resh in Hebrew means ‘much’, which is a fitting term to describe a scholar or teacher. There are some people on this planet who might wish to gain wisdom and knowledge. I am one of those people. Perhaps you are too. Perhaps other people in history were as well.
Oh now he’s an expert on Hebrew, except he isn’t.
Daily Mail. The boy from Bassendean..
Rolf Harris brown bread.
He was not a rabbi.
Reports and footage coming in on Twitter about arrest of Dr William Bay earlier today.
He was on first day of 4 days of protest outside AHPRA offices in Brisbane.
Some suggestion they might be trying to impose certain kinds of bail conditions. Wonder what they might be ? No more protesting outside AHPRA I am guessing.
Rolf Harris. Brown bread at 93.
Altogether now!
For Obama, the Cover-Up Was Worse than the Crime
‘Murdered Like Animals’: The Genocide of Christians in Nigeria Reaches New Heights
8 Year Old Short Video Predicted Insanity Of Woke Equity Based Education System: Modern Educayshun
SECOND Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower comes forward: Agent claimed he was passed over for promotion and removed from tax investigation team for claiming president’s son was getting preferential treatment
WOKE STUDENTS MELTDOWN Over A Biologist Stating Facts That Men And Women Are Different
Can anyone suggest a better answer? Obliged.
“Oh, this isn’t for me. It’s for The Master.”
I’d settle for “Phuck off, swampie”.
Why waste time giving an argument to someone incapable of reason.
Chat GPT opines on the use of the term “rabbi” in ancient history
The term “rabbi” is believed to have come into more common use in the period after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The word “rabbi” comes from the Hebrew root word “???” (rav), which in biblical Hebrew means “great” or “distinguished (in knowledge).” However, it later came to mean a teacher or master, specifically one who is an authority on Jewish law.
Before the destruction of the Second Temple, Jewish religious authorities were usually referred to with different terms such as “priest,” “prophet,” “elder,” or “scribe.”
As for the term not being used in Babylon, it’s important to note that many of the foundational texts of Rabbinic Judaism, including parts of the Talmud, were composed in Babylon during the early centuries of the Common Era. The Rabbinic academies in Babylon were major centers of Jewish learning, and the leaders of these academies were referred to as “rabbis.”
So while it’s correct to say that the use of the term “rabbi” became more common after the destruction of the Second Temple, it would not be accurate to say that the term wasn’t used in Babylon, as Babylon was a significant center of rabbinic scholarship in the centuries following the destruction of the Second Temple.
Turns out everyone is right on this one. 😉
Rita Panahi: It is hard to imagine moral posturing that is more contradictory and meaningless
Collingwood, Sydney and other teams’ divisive political posturing becomes vacuous when their actions do not match their words.
Sporting teams that want to engage in incoherent, empty virtue signalling on a range of social and political issues must stop treating their fans with utter disdain.
It’s one thing to take a stand on a value that is universally celebrated but quite another to involve your club in contentious, divisive political posturing.
And that posturing becomes vacuous when your actions do not match your words as the Swans and Pies, among others, demonstrated last week during International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).
On yet another day devoted to the LGBTIQA+ community – we’ve already had LGBTQ pride month, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Intersex Awareness Day, International Pronoun Day, International Transgender Day of Visibility, Non-Binary Awareness Week, Asexual Awareness Week and more – we saw sporting clubs fall over themselves to show they valued “inclusivity”.
Collingwood was eager to trumpet its acknowledgment of the day and “efforts to alleviate LGBTIQA+ discrimination”. The club posted images of players wearing rainbow armbands at training to recognise IDAHOBIT Day but there was just one small problem: prominently displayed on the Pies’ jumper was the Emirates logo.
It appears Collingwood feels so strongly about LGBTIQA+ rights that it proudly wears the logo of a state-owned airline of a country where homosexuality is a crime.
Hard to imagine moral posturing that is more contradictory and meaningless.
And the Swans, who have taken part in an annual Pride Game against St Kilda since 2016, were no better. They trumpeted their activism: “LGBTIQA+ Pride is one of the key pillars on the club’s Diversity Action Plan.”
But while Sydney preaches LGBTIQA+ inclusivity, it opts to have Qatar Airways as its official airline partner. Qatar being the state-owned airline of a country where homosexuality is a crime punishable by jail, or in some cases death.
But have we seen a campaign from Swans players to ditch their premium sponsor? Have we seen the players take a knee for the plight of those facing systematic discrimination and brutality in Qatar where openly gay men and women face terrible abuse including canings and jail?
Of course not, the thing about cheap activism is that those taking part never have to pay a price.
Herald-Sun
Rita nails it.
Long time member of the Collingwood football club but totally pissed off with the virtue signalling about poofs, trans and whatever little gay thing that takes their fancy.
The posturing about booing Franklin was bad enough. I still haven’t stopped booing Goodes for his disgraceful treatment of a 13 year old girl and his disgraceful statements about us when he got the AOTY dodgy award.
I’m reminded of the Monty Python sketch about the election night when Mrs Scum says she doesn’t like darkies. Who does?
Anyone see Claire MacAskill call Donald Trump a lover of communism?
She’s nuts.
The US Democrats lost their minds in about 2014.
Trump isn’t perfect (who is?) but to call him a literal
communist is probably a good marker for severe and serious mental illness.
Who needs a reason to hate Collingwood?
Insomnia is an awful date. You have high expectations but end up wide-eyed & drooling all by yourself.
She’s such a tease: All dreamy & promising. But then you find out it’s selfie country, all the way to dawn.
I washed my Liberal Party PJ’s for this? Not even an enigmatic stain to stare quizzically at in the morning.
Liberal Party pjs are diverse: they have flies at the front, back, & both sides. Self-opening of course.
PJ’s? Ferkin autocarrot.
Top Ender wins:
I was interested in the Sarah-Jane Parkinson aftermath and what happened to the police officer who was having an affair with her and helped concoct the rape allegations — here is an article about that — . Hmmmm I wonder who the DPP was at this time?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
German Covid Mandate Critic Bhakdi Freed of Charges of “Holocaust Denial” for Criticizing Israeli Vaccine Mandates!
Dr. Bhakdi was onto the covid and mrna story very early, but was ignored by the media and our “health authorities”. His warnings about the vaccines were disregarded but proved to be correct.
He came under attack in Germany but at last seems to have been cleared. But the process was the punishment, and Germany has its deep state as well.
The lesbian bitch is back
The other sort of electoral fraud:
“It turns out that millions in donations were sent to candidates like Raphael Warnock from “money mules” around the country. Warnock was the top beneficiary of all 2022 Democrat candidates of this money distribution scheme. In April 2022, engineer Chris Gleason began working on his first data project involving elections. The project was tied to the 2022 midterm election. This was unique for Chris because he had been involved in tech and data for the majority of his adult career although he never used his expertise on a political project. What he and a small group of others determined was that Washington State had a massive network of campaign finance mules. They identified massive numbers of registered voters in Washington State who were making thousands of donations to Democrat party candidates nationwide and progressive PACs. The individual donation amounts were not large. These donations were small and had been intentionally set up to avoid throwing up reg flags.
These “Money Mules” were not wealthy individuals. They were average Americans, living in an average house in an average neighborhood. Or at least that is how it would appear. The investigative group observed massive patterns and red flags in the data. One of the biggest flags was that all of these campaign finance mules in Washington State had been making donations to Raphael Warnock in Georgia.
Another massive pattern discovered was that these very active donors were all unemployed. “
BBC takes Disney’s side in the fracas with De Santis.
Victoria really is the sick man of Oz, financially.
Unlike the rampant spending in QLD & NSW that has coal royalties to take the edge off, poor old Victoria keeps on running up the credit card with increased taxes to keep the credit ratings agencies at bay.
They can keep running up the debt at the current rate for another 5 or so years before it will need federal help or a massive asset sale program.
The good news is that the state owns oodles of property that it can sell but that’s like selling the family silver.
Fun times ahead.
The BBC is like the ABC with plummy I-got-a-first-in-PPE accents.
Some of advice for the Ukrainian security state.
If you are going to have a party in DC, probably a good idea you don’t tell anyone about it.
Also a good idea not to post photos on social media.
Taxpayer money is being given to stop the Russians.
Not to fund charter flights to another continent for a party during a war.
Well, yes, but it’s always good to have a fresh new stick to hit them with.
More on Germany via Jo Nova:
“ A vast foreign-funded climate cabal with a death grip on policy is currently fighting hard to crash the Federal Republic of Germany with no survivors
The international press has maintained near-total silence on the escalating insanity of what is happening in Germany. Media outlets that routinely celebrate German progress towards energy transition don’t want you to know that Europe’s dominant industrial power has entered a deeply destructive political and administrative spiral from which it may never recover. The fault lies with the self-defeating and unworkable energy policies that have a death grip not merely on the Scholz government, but on the entire administrative state.”
Britain is doing the same…
Britain passed a law for absolute 0 by 2050. James Lindsay on a report by Wildfire (Cambridge, Oxford,Imp College et al) on how to achieve it. https://youtu.be/uF9LcEGk4aw
Sicktoria is circling the drain.
What Obama and Co. did during his last months as President. Certainly a lot worse than Watergate.
Jack Cashill at American Thinker
Flyinduk:
The main reason I won’t be getting any fluvax/injections etc? No blood products?
It’s got nothing to do with spike proteins or anything else, nor is it the volume of whatever it is in the dose. Or anything with the latest and greatest technology from the Pharmaceutical Industry.
No, the reason is that I just don’t. trust. the. bastards. any. more.
It’s as simple and as complex as that.
I don’t turn down vaccines, but…
I will never get a mRNA vaccine.
I will never get Novavax as a “booster” out of spite – apart from being completely unnecessary.
(How do you vaccinate 30 months [that’s correct, COVID has been in the west since at least March 2019] into a global pandemic – which until COVID were understood to last roughly two years?)
The idea that COVID-19 will be persistent as influenza A and B is a bit weird; there are six/seven Coronaviruses that infect humans, plus roughly another 60 – 110 other rhinoviruses they compete with. Wasn’t it estimated that 30% of us had natural immunity anyway?
I tend more towards this attitude these days
I used to be far more patient.
“Turns out everyone is right on this one. ?”
No Kamala, I was right.
ZK2A:
How about ” Piss off, bitch.”
Hey Bush
Big field bin.
https://www.farmtender.com.au/listing/machinery-equipment/grain-field-bins/terricks-engineering-62t-field-bin–2
Getting it down the road might be a problem.
ZK2A:
I get what the Knickerless says about women not wearing knickers because ‘pantyline’ but to be honest, you have to have a very fit and toned arse before you can get away with it. Only about about 20% of women can do that and look good.
The unfortunate aspect is that 40% of women go commando.
Bruce and Cassie:
Your argument about who is more devout is unseemly.
Stop it.*
*From your friendly atheist/agnostic/don’t give a damn fellow blogger.
Second property owners can take some comfort from the fact that their tax hike will end in 2033.
Pigs are also expected to fly that year.
“Your argument about who is more devout is unseemly.”
Robert, there’s been no argument about who is more devout. I have no idea about BoN’s level of or lack of religiosity, and I don’t care either way. BoN posted something that was wrong, and I refuted it, something he doesn’t like.
“Second property owners can take some comfort from the fact that their tax hike will end in 2033.”
And here’s my prediction, Labor will still be in charge in Victoria in 2033.
And out of OPM.
My wife always adds pineapple to her carrot cake.,
Makes all the difference, if you ask me.
In 2022, the overcrowded little nation of the UK had net immigration of over 500,000, projected net immigration for the next year in the UK is between 700,000 and a million people. Brought to you by a “Conservative” government.
I suspect Dan is hoping to fill his coffers via $1000 fines for mobile phone use/incorrect seat belts.
The new cameras are popping up everywhere, not just at intersections but anywhere traffic might slow to a stop, eg on the eastern freeway, at the corner of Dynon road and Lloyd St there is a permanent one and a temporary one on a trailer, I spotted two more trailer ones further along Dynon Rd on both sides of the Maribynong River where traffic banks up in evening peak hour.
Big brother is watching.
We use the Margaret Fulton carrot cake recipe including pineapple.
The best.
Funny how “conservative” political parties in the anglosphere latch on to community concerns about immigration numbers when in opposition, but when in power they claim they are unable to do anything about it.
Come to think of it, the ALP also played that over the last election cycle.
played that trick
I went and had a look at that Dan Parkinson travesty in the ACT.
The police husband was convicted of perjury (no prison time) and his appeal failed.
No sign that Dan was ever compensated, he clearly lacked the friends in high places needed to get a no questions asked big bag of money.
My carrot cake has no pineapple. It does have currants and pecans. Disappears like smoke. There, but instantly not there.
Schrodinger’s carrot cake.
It wasn’t wrong Cassie. I am sorry if you don’t like it, but that is as it is.
She said he said is the oldest insolvable controversy in the world. It isn’t worth arguing about so I’ll take Winston’s advice and let you have the last word.
Just wondering when and where she got married.
Mother with crippling pain battles health system for right to have surgery
And thanks, Indolent for your link to a story about Nigeria.
There are no words to describe what has happened there, largely ignored by the West, even some western churches.
Next time you hear the cry-bullies bellowing, remind yourselves of this.
Anyone able to post the Terry McCrann in the HS this morning?
And so he appears and proves my point, a complete unwillingness to admit he’s wrong about anything. Strange man. I’ll just remind everyone what he wrote that initiated the disagreement…
“You may wish to look at the timelines and the theological similarities between Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and the Jewish exile in Babylon (582 BC). I’ve long thought there may have been contact between Jewish exiles and Mr Zoroaster and Mr Gautama.
There were no theological similarities between Buddhism, and the Jewish exiles in Babylon, and there was no contact between Jewish exiles and Mr Gautama.
In fact, there are more theological similarities between Shia Islam and Judaism than there is between Buddhism and Judaism.
Paywalled at the oz.
Victorian budget: Daniel Andrews’ ‘decade of tax’ sentence
Dan Andrews
@DanielAndrewsMP
Women and girls make up more than half of our population, yet their health is somehow seen as a ‘niche issue’.
This is then followed by specific funding for specialist clinics and surgeries for women ????
I’ll see your niche and raise you more niche.
the Guardian on the Victorian budget
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
This is Sai Varshith Kandula, the Missouri man who drove a U-Haul into the White House gates
The media is referring to him as a “white supremacist” after authorities found a Nazi flag in the vehicle
Just wanted to share his driver’s license photo
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
1/x Sure.
– First, the Dem party founded the KKK.
– Then the Dem party wrote Jim Crow laws.
– Then the Dem party filibustered the Civil Rights Act.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
The same people who gave 200 billion dollars to Ukraine over the past year are suddenly really worried about the debt ceiling.
“Disgraced” entertainer dies at 93, but the media don’t think Brandon is disgraced at all.
I’m sure they’re hard at work developing it.
The next pandemic ‘even deadlier’ than COVID is coming, warns WHO
It’s an odd story, it appears that we have lots of medical information but not much else. Whatever the background, if she needs to lose her uterus, then so be it. It isn’t up to the medical fraternity to opine on future children, simply to treat her. She already has two.
Hell, if she wanted blockers and scalpels for a sex change, they’d be all over her like a rash.
I wonder when Bowen will try to do the same thing here?
France Bans Short-Haul Flights: Decrees Travelers Must Catch a Train Instead (23 May)
Sounds like there’s some wriggle-room. Betcha people, especially the elites, will find all sorts of ways around the ban. Private jets are going to be even more popular.
From The Oz…
We stand with Stan? Give us a break. ABC must stand for quality journalism
High-profile figures get away with being presenters and activists because their views accord with the in-house ABC groupthink on everything from net zero to the voice.
By JANET ALBRECHTSEN and TOM SWITZER
Through the years Stan Grant has distinguished himself as a prominent presenter at leading media outlets, including the ABC. However, in recent times, and especially since Queen Elizabeth’s death, and as the debate over the Indigenous voice to parliament has intensified, Grant has morphed into a celebrity activist.
As the ABC’s coronation coverage demonstrated to thousands of angry viewers, Grant has become an activist campaigning against our nation’s British heritage. At the same time, he is also a high-profile ABC staff presenter of prime-time programs such as Q+A. Why has ABC management allowed him to be both presenter and activist?
The problem lies in understanding that the line between news and opinion has been increasingly hard to discern at the ABC. At the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster – unlike commercial media outlets – full-time staff ABC journalists have a duty under the ABC charter to be fair-minded and balanced journalists who strive for impartiality.
Who better to explain the rot than two former ABC insiders? Stuart Littlemore was the founding host of Media Watch and David Salter his executive editor. On Monday they wrote in Nine newspapers: “The ABC has catastrophically undermined its authority and independence by permitting journalists to post personal commentary on the corporation’s digital outlets, and to parade their egos on social media. Thus, we get defamatory stupidities on Twitter that cause huge reputational (and financial) damage to the ABC. Thus, we get the Stan Grant debacle.”
Not so long ago, it was mandatory for senior ABC journalists to keep their opinions to themselves. Andrew Olle, Mark Colvin, Maxine McKew, Tony Jones, even Kerry O’Brien – none would undermine their journalistic authority by campaigning for political causes. These ABC doyens may have had left-of-centre views but at least they tried to be objective when they presented leading ABC programs. Virginia Trioli even proved her “objectivity” by boasting she no longer voted at elections. Never mind that personal opinions don’t start and stop at the ballot box.
The principle of impartiality still applies abroad. Other prominent public broadcasters, such as the BBC in Britain and PBS and NPR in the US, would never allow one of their high-profile, prime-time presenters to vent their anger on their outlets. For instance, Fiona Bruce and David Dimbleby – present and past presenters of the BBC’s Question Time (on which the ABC’s Q+A is modelled) – have never aired their opinions on any political issues at the Beeb. It’s just unseemly.
But things are done differently at our Aunty. Staff use Twitter to emote, campaign and criticise (mainly conservative) politicians, without consequence.
Recall Laura Tingle referring to the “ideological bastardry” of the Morrison government, or Louise Milligan’s defamatory tweets about former Liberal MP Andrew Laming. In what universe, outside the taxpayer-funded ABC, would an employer stump up $200,000 to cover defamation settlement and legal fees for an employee’s personal tweet?
At least during his soliloquy on Monday’s Q+A Grant acknowledged he was “part of the problem”. The issue, to be clear, is not that his opinions are outside the bounds of acceptable commentary. He reflects a growing mood among academics and schoolteachers that Australia’s British heritage is to be regarded with shame. It’s just that it has become virtually impossible on the ABC to suggest that colonialism had any beneficial effects at all (that, for example, it was central to the creation of a great nation such as Australia).
Moreover, the ABC sees nothing wrong with a prominent presenter becoming a partisan player in highly contentious public debates. Regrettably, so far the ABC is using the Grant affair to blame News Corp for highlighting the public broadcaster’s editorial fiascos and increasing on-air activism, instead of recognising ABC management’s failure to enforce the division between news and opinion. It is deliberately conflating foul online trolls that we all endure with legitimate criticism of a taxpayer-funded body.
Worse, some staff are doubling down: on Tuesday morning, RN Breakfast’s Patricia Karvelas aired something of a therapy session with head of Indigenous news Suzanne Dredge at the ABC, an evidence-free, emotion-laden 11 minutes showcasing the ABC’s self-indulgence. Professional boundaries appear to be fewer and further between.
ABC management blames social media for the insults as if this is a new phenomenon. Why not get off Twitter and focus instead on producing high-quality journalism rather than tweets, selfies and memes? Littlemore and Salter say: “We attribute this decline in journalistic standards to two main factors: lack of training, and low-level editorial oversight.”
That’s true. But there are also three levels of management above ABC journalists and editors: managing director David Anderson, chairwoman Ita Buttrose and five other board members. One of us (Albrechtsen) was on the ABC board (2005-10) and encouraged management then to separate opinion from news. Since then, the ABC has become worse.
Upper echelons at the ABC have given up entirely on reining in opinionated presenters. If you want to work at the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, the rule should be so simple: you’re a presenter/reporter or commentator; you can’t be both.
But the double standards are striking. One of us (Switzer) is not even a high-profile (ABC staff) presenter of a prime-time program. But if his Radio National program or the ABC website, for instance, were used to prosecute the No side in the voice debate, RN management would (rightly) subject him to intense scrutiny.
Yet more high-profile presenters get away with being both presenters and activists because their views accord with the in-house ABC groupthink on everything from net-zero emissions to a constitutionally entrenched Indigenous voice.
If racist insults have been hurled at Grant, that is despicable. But where is the ABC’s outrage when other prominent (conservative) Aboriginal figures such as Jacinta Price, Warren Mundine and Anthony Dillon are subjected to racist insults? What about the sorts of vile comments that Piers Morgan, Jordan Peterson and prominent Australian conservatives attract from left-wing ranters on social media?
Our prediction is that Grant will be back on ABC platforms very soon, and ABC management is likely to reject, ignore and feign offence in response to measured criticism, even from ABC insiders who knew Aunty when she was in her prime.
No one can talk about the ABC being in its prime any more. In fact, the ABC activists will likely double down, become more militant as they continue to champion themselves as crusaders of identity politics. In short, these taxpayer-funded activists will make a bad situation worse.”
Two Taibbi columns on Australia during COVID.
He’s redacted parts of the email addresses but no doubt savvy Australian journo’s will be all over it to out the public servants involved.
Australia’s Creepy Covid Cops
https://www.racket.news/p/australias-creepy-covid-cops?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Twitter Files Extra: The Covid Censorship Requests of Australia’s Department of Home Affairs
https://www.racket.news/p/twitter-files-extra-the-covid-censorship?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
In 2021 Victorian budget an increase in payroll tax was supposedly for more mental health services and now another increase is to pay for covid spending.
Employing people has a lot to answer for.
Cassie
Just ignore or tell the turtle head to piss off. The idea this moron, this objectionable imbecile is trying to officiate is laughable.
It’s been commented on before, but it continues to surprise me just how white all the ABC staff appear to be who are out on strike.
I have a horrible feeling that we will beat them to a catastrophic breakdown since we have no nuclear or other backups.
My carrot cake has no pineapple. It does have currants and pecans. Disappears like smoke. There, but instantly not there.”
I like any kind of carrot cake. Nigella has a good one, with stem ginger.
AP news is not news, it’s paid for marketing
The horror!
How authorities are manipulating excess deaths in the UK, Canada and Australia
From Bern’s second link:
As Faustus would say, Top Men. Best of Hands.
Covid vaccines as the cause of myocarditis in newborns must be investigated urgently
Can you provide any links or evidence of any kind? Typing some words and stating ‘I was right’ is not considered as proven by most people, Ed Case excepted.
That’s it in a nutshell, the trust is gone. Yesterday on the news there was excited reporting of a one time flu vaccine that will work for years. I don’t believe them and I expect many more don’t either. My first thought was that it’s a promise to make people take it and then next year they will report that somehow it didn’t work but they have a new one that will definitely do the trick.
Dan Andrews is lowering the threshold for land tax in Vic, there’s lots of rural commercial properties that do not pay land tax due to relatively low land value, now many will be taxed, so many small country businesses will pay. Of course these taxes like all taxes will eventually be passed onto consumers , so everything in Victoria will get more expensive. Some more info here – https://www.yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au/news/victoria-ends-stamp-duty-for-commercial-and-industrial
“Land tax thresholds to change
Despite the move to abolish the stamp duty for commercial and industrial properties, the state government also plans to cut the tax-free threshold for land tax from $300,000 to $50,000.
This was part of the COVID Debt Repayment Plan, which will be a temporary policy in place that will raise an equivalent amount of funds, including covering interest, to pay down the COVID debt over the next 10 years.
The temporary increase will see additional annual payments of $500 for properties up to $100,000 in value and around $975 for those up to $300,000.
Properties exceeding $300,000 will see annual land tax rise by $975 plus 0.1% of the value of the land over the threshold.
Mr Pallas said these will apply primarily to those who own a second property or multiple properties.
“The family home will remain exempt from land tax,” he said.”
And here the AFR, not paywalled.
https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/victoria-to-abolish-stamp-duty-for-non-residential-properties-20230523-p5dags
Dan Andrews is nickel & diming the punters.
Got a link for that?
Point missed.