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He wants to spend the money more sensibly than on the military.
So you can never overcapitalize?
And if that were true, the South would have won the civil war, Ford wouldn’t have built the River Rouge…
Hard to make sense of the proposal then.
Wood heaters a health hazard.
Bad smoke.
Good smoke.
-Smoking ceremonies
-fire stick farming
-60,000 years around the camp fire
-controlled burns
Inter-generational damage here.
Calvary preparing for legal action against ACT Government
31 May 2023
Calvary is ready to take legal action against the ACT Government over its proposed acquisition of Calvary Public Hospital, stating the “unrealistic timeline” has distressed staff and could put patients at risk.
Source: Catholic Voice.
In a statement released yesterday, Calvary said a legal challenge was the only response left available if the debate on the bill was not adjourned to make room for genuine discourse.
The Health Infrastructure Enabling Bill is expected to pass today, allowing the Government to compulsorily acquire the hospital from July 3.
…
The head of the Save Calvary taskforce, Fr Tony Percy, said the issue was bigger than Calvary.
“What’s at stake here is not the Labor Party, not the Catholic Church, but the rights of ordinary citizens to have proper land and property rights,” he said.
“Over 33,000 people have signed the Save Calvary Petition – however, it seems, we have yet to be heard.”
The ACT government is virtue-signalling if it thinks it can ban wood heaters. They have several suburbs over the border to the east – where we are – which are in NSW and use wood heating quite happily.
This is along their lines of “all the power we generate comes from renewables”. They of course fail. to mention the extension cords to NSW and Victoria.
Thankfully we have an abundance of ironbark in this neck of the woods.
Lying by omission.
South Australia does it too.
Lefties are so awesomely humourless and with such thin skins.
AOC upset over parody press account cracking up conservative social media (30 May, via Instapundit)
She’s not happy, no not at all.
Rule 34
Support for Labor’s proposal to change the constitution to give Indigenous Australians their own Voice to Parliament remains soft, despite a blitz of advertising and corporate support for the referendum.
According to figures released by Roy Morgan Research on Tuesday, just 46 per cent of Australians said they would vote “yes” to establish the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament if the vote were held today.
Warren Mundine, one of the leaders of the Recognise a Better Way campaign, which is urging Australians to vote no at the referendum, said that the numbers “just go to show the Australian people aren’t mugs.”
“The vitriolic attacks by the yes campaign, and the bullying of people, and the not being able to explain what the Voice is about is simply not working for them,” he said.
“The Australian people see through this, and they want practical outcomes for Aboriginal people and to recognise them and have reconciliation, but they don’t want a huge bureaucracy.”
However, sources within the “yes” camp have indicated that they believe support will swing their way as the campaign advances.
The numbers are unchanged from April, though the number of “undecided” voters has grown by three percentage points to 18 per cent, and come as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese works to move legislation to kick off the referendum process through the House of Representatives.
To pass, a referendum requires both a majority of Australians and a majority of voters in a majority of states to vote in favour of changing the constitution.
That means that along with winning the national popular vote, at least four states need to come in with clear majorities.
The poll indicated that nationally, NSW and Victoria are home to the largest number of “yes” voters.
Queenslanders, meanwhile, remained the most likely to vote “no” by a clear plurality of 46 to 39 per cent.
While Coalition voters remain the most staunchly opposed to the Voice, with just 10 per cent saying they will vote in favour of the change, Labor voters have also softened.
Among ALP supporters, the Voice’s popularity has dropped by 8 points to 67 per cent.
The figures come as both sides of the debate ramp up their advertising and persuasion campaigns.
While the “yes” camp has largely concentrated on major metropolitan market advertising in print and on TV and radio, the “no” camp has revealed that it is banking on a more targeted effort to make its case on social media and online.
While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that the government would not take sides one way or the other by funding either the yes or no campaign as has occurred in previous referendums, critics have said that the government’s neutral advertising campaign smacks of encouraging a yes vote.
Marketing guru Toby Ralph said, “The government TV commercial itself presents the cake without the calories.”
“Its tone and manner are positive thus imply that its nice to vote yes, and harmless because no negatives are countenanced.”
Daily Tele
I heard of something that sounds very like this back in the 80’s as an aid to giving up smoking.
The claim was that smoking reduced the production of certain neurotransmitters as the brain got them from cigarette smoke in abundance, and the cravings were just the brain needing a top up of what it no longer produced itself – same way we get hungry and need to top up. The difficulty in giving up smoking was starving the brain until it resumed production of aforementioned neurotransmitters. The TMS thing supposedly accelerated the brains re-adapting to produce its own.
And these were the days when a word like ‘neurotransmitter’ was an exclusively scientific word only bandied about by scientificalisticismic minds. Like ‘DNA’ used to be. Or gamma radiation. Or phlogiston.
The fact I did not hear much about it afterward suggests it was still being developed (and a sort of Chinese whispers turned ‘This looks promising’ to ‘This is already working’).
He’s also a Catholic, don’t you know.
The new Chris Dawson trial is receiving massive coverage in the Oz. Latest headline: Chris Dawson trial: Sex with students evidence – one twin teaching, the other out back
One interesting aspect might be that Dawson’s twin therefore gets arrested…
Vicki
Coal fired energy, timber plantations…… where do these people find alternate means of employment? Compete with the hundreds of thousands of immigrants being bought in? In what industries? If these workers depart from the country towns, how do the latter survive?
What makes you think that those pushing this want country towns to survive (other than to provide servants in the country villas of the elite)? The serfs are easier to control when they are packed into high rise on the urban fringe (away from the haunts of the inner-city overlords).
I’m dubbing this the ‘Marcia Langton Effect.’
Dunno – I’m dubbing it the “Lidia Thorpe” effect.
Yeah…but Lidia is against the Voice.
I believe that’s why tourism will be phased out for the general public. All the best places were becoming overcrowded by the hoi polloi, no way to recognise the important people. It also kills their enjoyment of the scenery.
Snorting lines of powdered gypsum too, I bet.
I haven’t had time to check upthread, has Croc Dundee posted those 52 licenses and permits or are we still waiting?
Recently, the governing body of the European Union officially endorsed measures to compel farmers to vacate their lands as part of the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme, which categorizes farms as significant emitters of nitrogen.
Under the plan, farmers would be offered 120 percent of their farm’s value through a “buyout” program. However, those who decline this offer would face the risk of being forcibly removed from their land without any financial compensation.
If this plan proves to be successful, it is likely to be replicated in other countries due to its alignment with the WEF’s global environmental agenda.
https://www.technocracy.news/john-kerry-farm-confiscations-not-off-the-table/
I spent some time in the early 90s at the hometown of a mate from Uni in the Monaro. Native timber and sheep were the towns bread and butter. Town was infested with greenies that use to stop in town and buy supplies before heading out to chain themselves to gum trees.They were shocked they didn’t attract much in the way of love from the locals. From memory, Bobby Carr made most of their forests national park and all but shut down the industry. The resources were always beautifully and intelligently managed from the forestry commission. The foregone economic loss over the years since would be staggering. The ultimate renewable resource abandoned.
This is why I made sure to get into the system as indigenous – by answering yes when being processed into the prison in Canberra – now I can light fires and make smoke whenever I want, as is traditional for my people*
*I am a proud Bass Strait Islander, my traditional lands run from the northern coast of Tasmania to the south coast of Victoria, as the numerous ancient trees and campsites attest.
The U.S. ‘won’t tolerate’ China’s ban on Micron and the Japanese have gone even further
China Insights
If the CCP strictly enforces this requirement and insists that “critical” infrastructure can only be served by Chinese suppliers, the result will be to force local Chinese network and server companies to deploy sub-par components, thus weakening their own capabilities.
On May 23rd, the second day after the CCP cracked down on Micron, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry introduced new chip export control measures, adding 23 categories, including advanced chip manufacturing equipment, to the list of control targets. The broad export restrictions, which will take effect on July 23rd, 2023, have China’s semiconductor industry concerned that its production of lower-grade chips will also be affected.
I’ll have a good looking one, Wally!
xx Foregone economic benefit I meant above xx
One interesting aspect might be that Dawson’s twin therefore gets arrested…
That would be interesting, since Paul Dawson died a few years ago.
81 years today since the midget submarine raid on Sydney Harbour, and still the commanders of the small ships that sunk two out of three of the attackers are unrewarded. Meanwhile the two senior commanders of the night got away with their incompetence.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history/2022/08/unsung-heroes-of-the-night-war-came-to-sydney/
Isn’t that the weirdest thing to see? The Coalition supporting the views of their supporters?
Pesutto remains staunchly devoted to the political principles of Trumble.
It’s your stoush JC.
You put in the effort to keep up.
Their love for the Maximum Leader is enough to keep them warm.
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On your bike Schoolie.
Would that be the same Paul Dawson who gave evidence at Chris’ murder trial in June 2022?
The Paul Dawson who was at the trial on its concluding day in May of this year?
Well for WA Cats, I think we’ve dodged a bullet. Cook as Premier is far better than Amber Jade (who makes Marx look like a fascist).
And everyone remembers what Cook has done to the hospital system. Ramping up from 1,000 hours to 6,000 hours (in 2016 he called on Barnett to resign given ramping had reached 1,000 hours lol!!!)
Also Target.
Groom And Doom: Target Shares Mark Longest Losing Streak In Almost 5 Years (31 May)
Those yummy CEO bonuses are looking a little sick, mate.
Would that be the same Paul Dawson who gave evidence at Chris’ murder trial in June 2022?
The Paul Dawson who was at the trial on its concluding day in May of this year?
Could be, Pin occhio.
But he’s brown bread now.
He would also have signed off on every one of McGowan’s covid measures.
If only WA had a credible Opposition.
Um…
Bizarro world.
There is a surviving Dawson brother attending the present Trial, he is a retired Solicitor, not a former Chalkie.
Yesterday’s Ozzie has a picture of him, but Paul Dawson is still brown bread.
The WA Libs need to get a leader who is currently outside of Parliament and do a Campbell Newman. Basil Zempilas is the name being thrown around but I’m not entirely convinced…
Chris Dawson also has an Appeal against the Murder Conviction working it’s way thru the system, so all is not lost.
It’s really bizarre to make a snarky comment about food prices referring to 3D printing. As in, seriously mentally retarded.
3D printing has been used by aerospace manufacturing since 1989.
The (metal [nickel-based alloy]) fuel injection for the liquid fuel/oxygen of the Arianne rockets is made by 3D printing. That one part replaces 248 other parts.
An Australian-based, Victorian company has proprietary 3D printing hardware and software and has ongoing sales & service contracts with Volkswagen, Porsche & Mercedes Benz. The same company reckons 3D printing can do manufacturing in 1/5th of the time of CAD/CNC manufacturing.
I can’t fathom the depth of impotent rage and silliness it takes to bring up years-old conjecture over the lack of utility of such technology and apply it to a current discussion about food prices.
The communist party is coming for the kulaks.
Zempilas is a media whore who, above all else, loves being popular. That’s a lefty thing as lefties fear not being fashionable more than death itself.
The idea that a populist would want to lead the smoking ruin of the Stupid Frigging WA Liberals is laughable.
Gentlemen,
Rev up your valuations!
(Selling up on the east coast might be a good idea right now. Remember, 847,000 AUD for a one-bedroom apartment in Newtown. She “won” that auction, apparently.)
It’s almost parody now, SFL style. Hun:
Man, I just booked (hey, I had no choice) a welcome to country for a conference I’m planning… $1,000!!!!
….for 15 minutes…
Mike Cannon-Brookes’ investment partner in Sun Cable says its investment focus is not on the subsea cable to Singapore, long the key component in the project, and that the development could eventually expand from solar energy to wind power.
So can we drop the stupid premise of the pipe going to Singapore?
If MC-B has dropped, when will the media?
If you don’t vote Yes, you’re a Chicken Little and… and… and… an ungrateful fart poo bum.
No net negatives for Uncle Luigi. A constitutionally-enshrined supporting Voice for ALP reelection.
What could be nicer than that?
Lysander – “oh they were all booked out!”???
If you wait long enough, it’s true!
Just make sure you don’t pay cash and get a proper invoice Lysander.
With the likes of the Pesuttos, Turnbulls, Keans of this world, I can’t help but recall the Soviet Union’s strategy of having commies join Catholic seminaries and work their way up through the hierarchy.
It’s not a new “play” but you’d think people would’ve woken up to it by now…
Ed’s favourite reference
Just make sure they have an ABN, current registered business and name, confirmed director IDs, proof of indigenous heritage, an ESG statement and are LGBQTI2A+ friendly…
Man, I just booked (hey, I had no choice) a welcome to country for a conference I’m planning… $1,000!!!!
….for 15 minutes…
That’s where you proceed without that shit, and be 1K better off. Hourly rate of 4 large. FMD the graft be strong.
My favourite reference, Eddie Vedder.
The OH&S guys have spoken to him about that. There are file notes if there is a problem.
Scrolling the news.com.au
That Billy Brownless is a little cringe these days isn’t he?
Always was, bern.
One does not merely throw the name Basil around for cheap laughs in Perf. Despite how effective it may be.
Mass Immigration is Mass Betrayal
The New Culture Forum
Medicine is stuffed.
Johns Hopkins Medicine staff given roadmap to navigate dozens of pronouns: ‘faerself, ve, xe” (30 May)
If a premier hospital doesn’t understand biology what hope do we have? Covid and woke have destroyed the entire industry in less than 5 years, it’s amazing how fast such things can take place.
Anyway what is a ‘faerself’?
HB – everyone is saying Basil but he’s got a Mayoral election coming up and we’re still two years out from a State election. At least we know Liebor will lose more seats now in 2025 (although, its lower house majority of 55-5 is hardly going to swing so far as to lose govt)
Agreed BB, this really is laugh a minute stuff.
Don’t forget the 6PR connection. Just sayin’. Join the dots people.
Genderless narcissistic woodland sprite?
AKA that idiot over there.
Good news.
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/anthony-albanese-backs-calvary-hospital-takeover-two-days-before-laws-set-to-pass/
(29/5/23, updated 30/5/23 – sorry if this is a repost)
Become ungovernable!
Another aspect is the Federal government’s invitation to “Calvary Health” or its predecessor organisation. The fact that the Commonwealth had an input to the equitable interest in the real property means that the Federal prohibition on compensation not made on just terms can probably be invoked without the Commonwealth intervening for the ACT. I am sure their own counsel have made a reasonable assessment of this. I think they should launch into the human rights law aspect of this too.
You expect Cook won’t get the soft soap treatment from the WA press. Some mutterings about his time in charge of Health. The WA Lieborals (both of them) have plenty to work with. Hopefully they do a better job than their Victoriastani colleagues. A long way back in purely numerical terms. Liars in Nedlands is a pure aberration though.
Chris Dawson is “dead”.
The partisans who executed Mussolini “weren’t even Italian”.
Intentionally brain dead wrongology. This idiot’s only intent is to clog up the threads and stop libertarians and conservatives from talking.
Time to pull the plug, Dover.
6PR have been pushing hard for Baz, but they’re 9 news owned… Baz was a poster boy for 7.
Perhaps John Kerry can begin his pogrom with Bill Gates’ farmland holdings……
Anyway what is a ‘faerself’?
It’s a rare mushroom that only grows during July on the southern slopes of the Dandenong ranges.
Great with truffles & butter.
Yep can’t see Basil signing up for two terms as Leader of the Opposition like Sneakers did under Emperor Barney’s reich.
That’s like trying to live NOR and SOR. Just can’t be done.
Not slow on the uptake of gubba business. It’s Grift World out there.
A few days ago I needed document copies certified by a solicitor or barrister (UK credentialism writ large). Mrs F is a related party, so for convenience off round the corner to a local Family Law/Wills/Magistrates Court firm for a stamp and signature.
Receptionist: Are you a client?
Faustus: No, thank goodness.
R: Well, we’ll have to charge a small fee, then.
F: Ok?
R: One billing unit.
F: Ok, so six minutes?
R: No, that’s an hour, $430.
F: Escuse?
R: Well, there’s Know Your Client and insurance and all sorts…
Job done elsewhere.
Perhaps Gen ‘Scary eyes’ Campbell could sling them a DSC or 2… if he’s not too busy ‘walking past’ that standard?
Who’ll look after Mother?
Whilst the ACT existed, but before self-government.
Many new Mercedes Benz/AMGs may hit the roads in the Southern Highlands because of this SNAFU.
A rich, rich vein.
“The New Culture Forum”
I am a paid up member, they do stellar stuff.
“The New Culture Forum”
What do they do ?
The ACT is like a 2yo who’s found their parent’s dress up box.
Heres the hot gooss, on the QT and the downlow on a story which might get spun out on their ABCcess today.
Set of units in Feraldton, in Spalding has been getting refurbished and the builder just handed them over to the relevent authority yesterday.
Last night a horde of voiceless youths went in and wrecked the lot.
Builder has expresed a desire to not ever work in the area again after numerous thefts, rock throwing, and break ins while doing the work.
Their ABCcess has already worked out an angle. They are interviewing an old Aboriginal lady who was slated to move into one of those units about how awful it is…
The area has been designated as a “super suburb” or some other wankery, to be resserected from its squalid state and made into a shiny land of future opportunity! Lots and lots of government munni, and a new planning scheme to punish those businessess already existing in the area for not being located in the new planned “looting hub” area.
And in one of the most fantastic imaginings ever, the area is to become tree lined streets and more of a garden environment.
Spalding is absolute proof of “sties dont make pigs“, a area of lower middle class aspirations enriched by the importation of welfare class turds because god knew, once the welfare class turds were in a nice area they would change their ways!
Doesn’t sound like mUnty would be too impressed with it. Geraldton is an acquired taste … so I’m told. I did have dinner there once with a former colleague at some marina type thing.
Who’ll look after Mother?
He needs to get out. Spread his wings, a la Bad Boy Bubby
I’m not sure that is the case, bons. Is it really true to say that attitudes to abortion, divorce, pornography, sex and promiscuity, and the like that appeared in the 60s and 70s were a ‘bottom-up groundswell’ without any support at the time or previously in academic circles, popular culture, and the like? Marcuse and Kinsey were already at it by the 40s and 50s.
Further, is it really fair to say that the attitudes of the last couples of decades isn’t also to some extent popular? It’s hard for me to conclude that attitudes to pornography, for instance, “stems from regulation, punishment, information control, coersion , corrupted judicial systems, and perverted contempt for societal norms” when they are in fact the societal norm. Same is true of the others to a greater or lesser extent.
Moreover, I don’t think that whether or not the social changes are ‘bottom-up’ or ‘top-down’ makes a difference in the end given that the changes currently experienced are substantively related to those of the 60s and 70s and naturally flow from them. What occurred was that the passage of time simply eroded whatever remaining scruples society had about further changes down the line.
What occurred was that the passage of time simply eroded whatever remaining scruples society had about further changes down the line.
This is a genuine case of being able to blame boomers.
Spread his wings, a la Bad Boy Bubby
Was that the jail cell scene?
Most likely Mantra. For a job I had between 2014-17 I was in Gerro at least once a fortnight…the place has got a bad wrap but I actually thought it’d improved somewhat…
Ed Casesays:
May 31, 2023 at 10:34 am
Would that be the same Paul Dawson who gave evidence at Chris’ murder trial in June 2022?
The Paul Dawson who was at the trial on its concluding day in May of this year?
Could be, Pin occhio.
But he’s brown bread now.
LOL.”A few years” compresses to less than a month in Grandpa Cletus world.
I am listening to an audio-book ‘Living the French revolution and the Age of Napolean’ by Suzanne M. Desan.. Am only half way through the 48 lecturs (30min each).
The stand out item for me is the view of Revolutionaries once having taken power were so confident and emboldened to change every element of French society including calendars, festivals, plays, culture.. and not be content with that, but then feel necessary to apply this to all neighbouring countries…and beyond. The alignment with current day Net Zero policies and woke agenda are truly incredible.
History repeating…again.
As one of the scroll-back-ers of this august blog, I saw this:
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
May 30, 2023 at 9:18 pm
There’s bad genes in most tribes. If there’s any who can’t take it, possibly they’re of the same blood as those who gave rise to the reputation of Italians as inclined to surrender, designed tanks with multiple reverse gears, etc.
In high school, as a proud Italian-European (…), I used to be derided with this, all the time.
Then I’d point out that Italy lost fewer people than all other major players, in both World Wars, for example…
What I didn’t know then, was that several minor players eg: Greece, Philippines et al, also lost more lives than Italy.
Having survived almost two millennia of ritual abuse by several European and ME powers does tend to hone one’s own instinct for survival. It also enhances olfactory detection of a demagogue’s BS, something that many other ethnic groups are still struggling with.
I once heard, but could never verify, that Napoleon attempted to change the names of the days or months in an effort to have people forget when important religious/historical festivities were meant to occur.
What I didn’t know then, was that several minor players eg: Greece, Philippines et al, also lost more lives than Italy.
It’s like the French at Gallipoli.
Up until about 10 years ago, I didn’t even know they were there, let alone about their sacrifice.
Lysander.
That was the Robspierre/revolutionaries, literally wanted the recvolution to be the new year zero.
https://snippetsofparis.com/french-revolutionary-calendar/#:~:text=In%201793%2C%20the%20French%20revolutionaries,make%20the%20whole%20thing%20even.
Ah thanks FM!!!!
A bit like Pol Pot!!!
Some more scroll-backing later..
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
May 30, 2023 at 9:20 pm
Simply identify as Italian for a few days. As a sort of a ‘warm up’
See how you feel about it. – take it from there.
Forget the food, the design, the engineering, the art. Just look at the city-scapes, the older buildings, the general ambience of thousands of smaller villages and the way they blend into the mountainous landscapes…
Of course, in keeping with The West today, it’s now all going to sh!t.
A man accused of making threats to former ABC presenter Stan Grant and his family has described himself as a “right-wing Christian conservative”, posting his alleged threats via video on social media.
Oh, he must work for the ABC.
According to James Lindsay it’s all bottom up, top down, inside out outside in.
Lots of astroturfing to make it look bottom up ATM
Stan was racially abused by a bloke with a pony tail.
Oh the inhumanity!
Hmm it only occurred to me after posting but I’m not sure what being a right wing christian has to do with anything. Oh wait, I see…
I once heard, but could never verify, that Napoleon attempted to change the names of the days or months in an effort to have people forget when important religious/historical festivities were meant to occur.
Close but not quite. Twas the Revolutionaries before Napolean. Change the weeks to ‘Decades’ …10 days each x 3 = month or some other word. Changed all the days names, changed all the months names. People were pissed off for having to work on the 7th day. …when should we hold our local market day…big confusion and anxiety …There was a big push to de-Christianise France. Churches and Statues were removed or converted, Priests were coerced to pledge allegiance to the Revolution instead of God. >>>replaced many of the church holiday/festivals to reflect the Revolution or Liberte!
One win and they felt they had a mandate to change everything. …effectively splitting the nation. Sounds familiar.
… stop libertarians and conservatives from talking.
Uh, yeah.
[Sample conversation]:
Libertarian: Trannies have Rights too!
Conservative: [Thinks] WTF?
Thanks Fair Shake, much appreciated and will be info that is used!!!
Bern.
It’s like the French at Gallipoli.
Up until about 10 years ago, I didn’t even know they were there, let alone about their sacrifice.
Worst thing was the naval campaign should have worked.
Would have shortened the war by 2 years.
Try this little factoid..
The minesweepers the whole plan depended on were all civilian crewed trawlers, some of which bolted on bits of steel plate for protection.
NONE were lost during the first purely naval attempts to force the straight and casualties were almost none among the crews.
The Grand Vizier had his car packed, the treasury was being moved and Constantinople was in a panic.
The Greeks offered to have a run through to unseat the Turks (but that was vetoed by the Russians, who wanted the glory of reclaiming Byzantium).
Bouvet has some footage of it going down, under 30 seconds from hitting a mine to hitting the bottom.
Labor 54/5.
LNP were 78/7 in 2012 courtesy of a uniform Swing, 3 years later it was Labor 46/43.
McGowan had a uniform Swing in 2021, helped along by outrage over the Brittany Higgins issue.
The Liberals could easily pick up 25 seats in 2025.
They probably had a beer afterwards so are no longer eligible for awards anyway.
FlyingDuk.
Was this you?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/great-letter-to-defence-chief-general-angus-campbell-from-an-afghanistan-veteran-lest-we-forget.html
Cassie of Sydney says:
May 31, 2023 at 11:39 am
“The New Culture Forum”
I am a paid up member, they do stellar stuff.
They have a terrific channel on YouTube and are involved in the battle against the forces of leftism and wokeness with all their attendant insanity. The speakers are highly articulate and very well informed. It’s a pleasure to watch and makes you realise how much we badly need an equivalent organisation in this country.
One of the best things to see in some NCF videos is the participation of younger people who have managed to escape the indoctrination of the left.
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and Remember most the Revolutionaries were the start of the Left. (as they sat on the left side of the hall). The Right initially supported much of the change, reflected the Aristocracy and the Monarchy supporters.
Am only half way thru the book , am up to early 1793, but I understand soonish.. if you were not a Revolutionary…wholeheartedly, the Terror awaits which includes the guillotine.
Poor old Louis has just lost he head. His behaviour reminded me of Turnbull. Said one thing, meant something else, tried to run away, doing back room deals with enemies, left enough of a mess and paper trail to convict him. Whilst most the right wanted to support a Monarchy, they found it hard to support Louis.
..oh and the left changed the constitution, after 3 years so they could try and execute Louis. Previously he was exempted and protected by the Revolutionary constitution. So the Left do have history in changing constitutions to suit. As Mark Steyn pointed out, in the public library, the French Constitution is filed under ‘Periodicals’. LOL.
I’m just old enough to remember when consumers of pornography were regarded by normal people as perverts. It’s quite a revolutionary change within one lifetime.
roger
What would society back then think of OnlyFans or porn stars getting married?
I’m afraid the mentally ill defence won’t be run by the media in this instance.
Tell him/her/it they’ve got five seconds to do it and they get paid pro rata
What would society back then think of OnlyFans or porn stars getting married?
What’s OnlyFans?
Erm…first you’d have to explain what OnlyFans is.
And I’m just here while I wolf down my sandwich and a glass of raw milk for lunch.
It’s like how, you know, Tinder is to meet new people in a city you move to, or meet a nice tour guide whilst on vacation.
Looks and sounds every inch like one. Not. Pretty clearly a feral though. I wonder if he rides a Harley?
Menacing videos emerge of an accused stalker taunting ABC TV host Stan Grant before he stood down from Q&A: ‘I’m going to beat the living s*** out of you’ (Daily Mail, 31 May)
Shatterzzz’s stamping ground!
Oh. Half the QandA audience then.
Because I believe them, don’t you?
Fairfield Heights, the hub of Christianity and conservatism in Sydney.
Oh my sides!
Well spotted. Saaaaaay, has Shatterzzzz been seen anytime in the past week?
Tell him/her/it they’ve got five seconds to do it and they get paid pro rata
I’m looking at starting up a company selling video versions of welcome to the country with genuine originals performing $100 each. Or if you wish a livestream performance $200.00 A range of Smoking kits available to purchase.
Children’s Health Defense
@ChildrensHD
Dr. Malone: Psychological Warfare on the Civilian Population ‘Must Never Happen Again’
“Crimes were committed,” attested mRNA pioneer Dr.
@RWMaloneMD
. “Psychological technology was weaponized against the public, and this must never happen again.”
“This is one of the things that I feel most strongly about,” he continued, “is [that] somehow we need legislation that makes it clear that deploying fifth-generation-warfare technology, PSYOPs … on civilian populations is absolutely not acceptable.
“The idea of personal autonomy, of the ability of an individual to have personal sovereignty, is completely negated in a world in which governments feel that it’s acceptable to deploy modern PSYOPs technology on their own populations.”
You never have to use it, always refer to them as “The Good Folk” or not at all; being coerced to use their real name is not only cultural appropriation, it is disrespectful (and is said to bring “bad luck”).
Seriously, ask an Irish folklorist!
Nah, dot. It’s a mushroom.
Sounds like some Hi-Alanism gone horribly wrong. He’s probably a huge fan of Vogon poetry as well.
The data is clear: the more vaccines you give your child, the more likely it is that they will develop chronic diseases including autism
MASSIVE increase in young people having STROKES
Dr. Suneel Dhand
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/great-letter-to-defence-chief-general-angus-campbell-from-an-afghanistan-veteran-lest-we-forget.html
Thanks Mac Siccar for posting this link. Great letter to Campbell – whoever wrote it – TOPS!!!
I have posted a comment on the matter at www. michaelsmithnews.com & suggest that others do.
Will try to get letter to the Oz as this matter festers and explodes in the media – but I doubt if they would publish what I would have to say. They have done so in the past, on this matter, but I feel in my bones that Editorial policy is changing.
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“I’ll be Jessica Rabbit thank you very much.”
Not bad, just drawn that way, eh?
🙂
Shatterzzz’s stamping ground!
sTan should have dropped the charges .. Fairfield Heights is Assyrian central .. not only do these folk hunt in packs they, never, ever forget ……!
Fairfield Heights, the hub of Christianity and conservatism in Sydney.
be pretty close pass any of the ethnic christian churches out here on a Saturday/Sunday when they are finishing up and they are out on the footpath and there are several dozens of folk congregating and there’s no shortage of these churches around here ……
Gilas
Why are you responding to a lowrent fraud like Driller?He runs a rundown motel in the middle of shitcreek.
And you ought to read the reviews.
Also, regarding your school days. I damn hope you fought back. I was suspended a couple of times for getting into scrapes like those you mentioned. One doofus was pretending he was concussed to get me into trouble. My parents were exasperated.
Ha ha. Coming off a low base. You can’t judge a place till you’ve lived in it – but I’ve never let that stop me.
The police brief of evidence shows a beer coaster from the Halls Gap pub was found in the passenger footwell of his car.
It’s the IPA bomb threats all over again. Poor sTan.
Probably a comment of very niche interest but…
I just watched an examination of the annihilation of historical fact that is the Netflix series Cleopatra. Its infamy goes far further than I had ever dared to suspect.
good letter but what “news that will reverberate around the world” is coming tomorrow????
Why Japan is Upgrading Counter-Strike Measures for First Time in 60 Years
America’s next-generation main battle tank
Remarkable technology.
purely for self defence you understand…
Disney PANICS Over Indiana Jones 5 BACKLASH | Remove CRINGE Lines, DESPERATE After Fans HATE It
“the Cortina with the 250 engine done in 2-tone copper-bronze. Gawd that used to go hard.”
Not bad MT, but better with a 351 Windsor in ’em – that makes ’em “stained passenger seats” fast 😉
“news that will reverberate around the world” is coming tomorrow?
Would that be the planned release of the verdict in the BR Smith defamation suit?
Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes defamation verdict to be delivered on Thursday 1 June
Thanks FM – didn’t realise that was coming out tomorrow.
ABC staff on standby for outrage.
JC says:
May 31, 2023 at 2:47 pm
Why are you responding to a lowrent fraud like Driller?He runs a rundown motel in the middle of shitcreek.
And you ought to read the reviews.
I don’t take sides in Cat stoushes. All posts duly credited to their poster.
In my Universe, there’s some good in all of us (Montz and Eddles excepted).
Also, regarding your school days. I damn hope you fought back. I was suspended a couple of times for getting into scrapes like those you mentioned. One doofus was pretending he was concussed to get me into trouble. My parents were exasperated.
This was Sydney’s West and I was badly outnumbered. Talking back rather than fighting was more productive, and avoided the ever-present cane.
Coming from Northern Italy, I was faced with a novel type of adolescent: a less civilised, more primitive human. Quite the revelation.
These racists were essentially unreconstructed, ignorant cretins who left after Yr 10. The ones left were all sons of immigrants and did well in the HSC.. here was our ultimate victory.
Lysandersays:
May 31, 2023 at 3:43 pm
Thanks FM – didn’t realise that was coming out tomorrow.
ABC staff on standby for outrage.
Items already written and recorded.
Yes, I have seen the fountain that calli mentioned. It has bubbling water forming words and numbers, alternating between ‘Kanazawa’ in romaji, ‘??’ which is Kanazawa in kanji, and the current time.
For the gardening fans, the three parks that are ‘the most beautiful gardens in Japan’ are Kenrokuen in Kanazawa, Korakuen in Okayama and Kairakuen in Mito.
I see the software doesn’t like kanji characters. The two characters that make up Kanazawa’s name are ‘gold/golden’ and ‘marsh’. Makes sense as goldsmithing is still a major activity in Kanazawa and you can get ice creams with gold leaf around the city.
@ Robert Sewell:
“If it’s not XXXX Bitter, it’s not beer.”
XXXX before Bond/Swan and Lion Nathan; or after?
Coopers Draught, from the keg is a MUCH more satisfactory drop.
But, in my dotage, I mainly drink a reasonable Merlot or Cab Sav to wash down a decent pasta or a lamb chop and veg..
The traditional Queensland “Bundy and Coke” is out of my price range these days.
The traditional Queensland “Bundy and Coke” is out of my price range these days.
Yeah, tell me about it, Bruce, gotten to the stage where I can’t even afford water. Oh well, it is what it is. Will be taken care of soon.
“… but they burnt pretty well.”
A reference to the wood, or does Mrs P use “they/them” pronouns?
🙂
It’s not all bad, wivenhoe. You still have your wit and your charm. Not many wealthy men can say that.
US issued war crime warning over SAS troops
Defence chief drops senate bombshell, revealing the US government warned allegations of war crimes against Australian soldiers could prevent the country’s armed forces working toge…
JESS MALCOLM
Just appeared. Campbell is preparing for the pushback by invoking the alleged US outrage over our alleged transgressions. I bet he doesn’t mention that other countries involved in the Afghan debacle – including the US – have been dealing with retrospective allegations of war crimes by the usual suspects.
BTW – the above news item appearing in the Oz.
There have been suggestions that Dawson may have had an accomplice, at least after the murder.
Google says he lives on …
Are the cops paying Groog’s invoices anymore?
Al Pacino, at 82, about to become a father again with girlfriend, 29.
My godfather.
Robert de Niro blamed his recently born kid’s autism on vaccines.
But there’s a fairly strong link between older dads and autism.
Leave it, boys. Take the cannoli.
I see the euro parliament have threatened to ban twitter in Europe as it’s “not targeting a reduction in misinformation.”
They never give up do they!?
Time to rack the cue.
You need to put down the feminist Kool-Aid.
It’s older mothers. (Which to some extent is colinear/cointegrated with older fathers).
How often was autism in kids with older dads reported before the 1970s?
Did Henry Parke’s children from his second marriage have autism at all? No?
His oldest child was the NSW Chief Architect during WWII.
BBC getting in early:
Ben Roberts Smith: How war hero’s defamation case has rocked Australia
Feminism, dot ?
XXXX vs Bundy and Coke.
The beverage equivalent of choosing between being mauled by a White Pointer, or a Saltie.
Indeed Cassie indeed!
Absolutely Flannerying in Perth!!!
Now let’s look at the data on mothers and fathers with similarly aged wives.
You have no control variables and no methodology to deal with blocking variables or non-linear dynamics.
Andrew Rule and Mark Butler:
Surely if Sigley knew like others apparently, they could have stepped forward and prevented others from being molested by reporting Harris?
John Ruddick NSW MLC (LDP) is already doing great work.
Excess deaths in recent years – John Ruddick MLC calls on the govt to investigate
https://youtu.be/-d9v-gyL8Gs
Here’s the other thing.
What’s the relative risk of autism with the age of the father and mother by decade, independently and co-determined?
Noting a huge relative increase in risk alone without control variables or context is meaningless.
And that’s a bad thing?
You must be so old, Roger. Playboy was mainstream in the seventies.
My oldest brother (may he be restless in hell) was a fan of ribald and hustler.
Legislation passes allowing ACT government to move ahead with plans to take over Calvary Public Hospital
BB
Surely if Sigley knew like others apparently, they could have stepped forward and prevented others from being molested by reporting Harris?
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Sigley (and others like him) receiving the kind of opprobrium handed out to Cardinal Pell for simply sharing accommodation with Ridsdale, but, like his colleague Paul Bungjourno, being ignorant of Ridsdale’s activities.
Many knew and kept quiet, but they were/are the “right” people, so they are forgiven even without asking. See also Richard Neville.
Possibly. Lot of after the event revision of events. Pretty much par for the course in media, marketing, advertising … . Don’t like it join the church. Or maybe not. As several have said, learn to deal with it. Does not apply to children of course.
Gilas
LOL. There appear to be quite a few residing here who refer to themselves as engineers now. One’s claims the title of aeronautical engineer and former astronaut. :-)I had a theory, but I’m not sure if it was embedded in Anglo/Australian culture. A lot of those misfits you refer to operated in gangs, in the sense that they were stronger when they had backup. We kind of see it here with the “piler-onners,” and it’s a form of gang mentality with safety in numbers. As a kid, when I singled them out one-on-one for a beating, they were never that tough.
One other thing: you responded to the toxic fraud by giving reasons why folks of Italian heritage weren’t big heroes fighting wars. I take issue with that, and I’ll explain the reason why I reached the opposite conclusion, or at least that they’re as heroic, etc., as anyone else of European descent. It’s not the first time that a toxic worm from the Strait has made reference to Italians being cowardly. I take the approach that anything that the worm says here has to be assumed to be ignorance or simply lying. There were several reasons I think Italy failed miserably in WWII, and thank God it did because it was a horrible regime. But were they cowardly or just reluctant to fight in a war the populace didn’t believe in? I thought the latter . What do you do when you’re looking for an answer to something like that? I took the approach of looking at differential analysis, and so I looked at ways to see how Italians performed in wars outside of Italy. That would be the US. The US is prolific with stats, and I looked up the numbers. From memory, there were around 1.6 million men of Italian descent in the US military during WW2. The way to judge heroism or cowardliness was to look at the medal count for combat troops which over a decent population count would be reasonably reflective in reaching a conclusion. Those of Italian heritage who gained medals for outperformance were right on average compared to the rest of the crowd.
Basilone would be a good example.
Don’t buy into any bullshit from these low-functioning “historicans,” as they’re mostly all freaking useless but also not very bright.
To offer another example, that idiot (Driller) once suggested that the economies of Catholic countries didn’t function well due to the peculiarities of Catholicism. The moron hadn’t thought about Spain, France, Austria, and others. History is a difficult subject to grasp, and a lot of people just aren’t mentally equipped, as you see here.
Jane Fonda Blames White Men For Climate Crisis, Calls For Them to be Arrested and Jailed
Like I say, all left wing bitches be ugly.
FMD head prefect that post was so long I got eye strain reading it. If brevity is the soul of wit that post is a vampire post. Just saying.
I have just been watching a German movie and, I swear, they just used The Wilhelm Scream.
What is The Wilhelm Scream?
Well you probably already know. You just don’t know that you know.
It’s the difference between knocking off the latest talent on Home and Away and Hey Dad.
Frequently, Dot.
From my own observations (which were supported later by various international studies) advanced age of the father was a significant factor in the assessment* of intellectually disabled – and particularly autistic – children in institutions in the 60’s.
This observation continued through to the end of the 90’s, when I worked exclusively with students on the autism spectrum. Of course, there were youngish dads – 30’s to mid 40’s – but in the severely disabled, strictly autistic end of the spectrum, around 45% of the fathers would have been 65 plus.
*Assessment in the 80’s and 90’s was, as I’ve said before, a rigid, lenghty process, with observations, video and reports from all 3 to 5 members on the team. Nowadays, it’s ‘take a number and the nice NDIS lady will be with you soon’.
Jihad Watch and Geller.
As a treat last Friday night, I bought myself two cans of overproof Bundy and Coke. Haven’t had any for years.
I plan to buy a bottle of Bundy with the proceeds of my accumulated IGA frequent-shopper points in the next few weeks.
Bundy is one of only two spirits I love — the other being Chivas Regal. Bundy is one of Australia’s defining liquors. It’s banned in some pubs during live music nights because it turns bogans into animals.
Thankfully, it hasn’t yet been banned for home consumption. A secret pleasure.
Haven’t seen such as teary ward wall since St Ruth.
Grab a valium and rest, manchild.
Calvary Hospital takeover laws pass ACT Legislative Assembly
Palliative care hospice Clare Holland House also at risk, with ACT Government claiming staff want to “take palliative care into the future.”
by Marilyn Rodrigues, Updated 5:21 pm 31/05/2023
Notwithstanding the promised legal challenge from Calvary Health, the transition of the hospital to the control of Canberra Health Services is slated to begin almost immediately, and to be completed by the first week of July.
The legislation was passed 14-7, with standing orders again being suspended at the request of ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith so that eight pages of “technical” amendments could be passed.
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Children’s Health Defense
@ChildrensHD
Global Takeover: The United Nations Pushes for a Disturbing Power Grab
“Not only do we have to be concerned about the WHO, but now we have to be concerned about the UN itself,” lamented Dr.
@NassMeryl
.
“The United Nations has come out with its own suggestion [emergency platform] to give enormous power to the UN Secretary-General in the event of an emergency,” or global shock, reported Dr. Nass.
This includes pandemics, biological warfare, climate change, supply chain disruptions, cyberspace disruption, an outer space event, and an “unforeseen black swan event,” which means they want the right to declare an emergency for any unspecified event.
I keep on saying it is feminist Kool Aid.
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/link-parental-age-autism-explained/
(Note the deadshit Vox like article headline).
Complete garbage.
Shut up Cronkite. It’s as long as the two comments Gilas posted and I replied.
You’re trouble is that you have never been able to stay focused, hence the whining.
Incidentally, I would put the Dawson and Epstein cases in the same boat. The girls were teenagers and knew exactly why they were there. We (society) may still criminalise the conduct because of the relative power imbalances between the participants may mean there can never be genuine consent but let’s not pretend this is some newfound morale superiority.
Good work, Sundance. Keep it short and you won’t show that affliction. Two words is all you need. Look’em then copy and paste them for obvious reasons.
Everyone stay away from Tom’s place.
There’ll be punch-ons galore, lubricated by the Bundy Boxing Juice. Walking up the path to Tom’s front door you’ll be greeted with ‘The f*uck YOU looking at?’, and then it’ll be on like Donkey Kong.
Psays:
May 31, 2023 at 6:10 pm
Calvary Hospital takeover laws pass ACT Legislative Assembly
Palliative care hospice Clare Holland House also at risk, with ACT Government claiming staff want to “take palliative care into the future.”
The Brave New World of Medically Assisted Dying future?
Reading an account of the desert war, in North Africa.
On 21st June, 1942, the South African garrison of Tobruk surrendered to the Axis forces.
Soon after, a party of Australians were on leave in Cairo, sitting around a table in a Cairo bar. A group of South African soldiers, obviously “Just off the desert” walked in. As they neared the head of the table, one of the Aussies stood up.
“Sit down, cobber and take a drink. You look tired. Have you run all the way from Tobruk?”
No – one knows how a monumental bar brawl got started……
We previously saw a tiny clip of this interview with a UN whistleblower.
Video: Worldwide Unmasking of the United Nations by a High-Ranking UN Insider – Revealing the Nefarious Plans of the World Economic Forum – Insider Reveals Billionaire Oligarchs Orchestrating Chaos for Power, Money and Control Over Humanity
0.050% autism in children in 1970s and 1980s in America.
1% ‘now’ in 2022 in Australia and America; higher if you use ASD metrics.
A twenty-fold increase since women have been indoctrinated to focus on their careers!
Surely if Sigley knew like others apparently, they could have stepped forward and prevented others from being molested
Yes. Yes, he could have.
The ‘lovable larrikin’ Sigley was, however, part of the showbiz class – much adored by Joe and Jane Punter, but in reality governed by self-interest and image over substance.
Much like our political overlords.