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Sean Davis
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DOJ is a domestic terror organization.

“Wow!” Stunned John Kirby Stammers Out a Denial and Leaves Podium after White House Reporter Details Joe Biden Bribe Allegations and Whistleblower Charges, Asks About Majority of Americans Believing Biden is Corrupt

Amish rejected COVID vaccines, lockdowns, masks. Here’s the result

bespoke says:
June 1, 2023 at 5:55 am
What Is He Thinking? Trump Attacks His Former Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany

I have seen her on Fox spouting the Murdochs party line. She is their girl now.

DeSantis 106 – The Thoughts of Others

BREAKING: Project Veritas files suit against ousted founder James O’Keefe

ABC Tasmania with the really big stories

It’s the battle of the links!

Yeah right, so you’re a slave to an entity you created? Seems like bullshit, doesn’t it?

Yep. NY labor laws with respect to a former employee is supportive of his / her side. I’m shocked they’re going to court.

I see that the Senate hearing had been set up as a prelude to a lashing of the SAS & Ben Robert-Smith in particular. Brace for it.

We are facing the disintegration of many of the values we have held as given. But the undermining of our defence forces will be especially destructive at a time when their requirement to defend this nation may be just over the horizon. I don’t know how we are going to deal with it.

JCsays:

May 31, 2023 at 10:26 pm

Thanks Cassie. Just heard it today.

She’s in the best of care… NYC docs obviously: ?

Not Indian docs I hope?

I just looked back at this comment from Doverlord, which has a link to this tweet.

There are kids with problems. Some real, some transitory, or even illusory. They are being steered toward transgender surgery. Afterward, when the narcotic high of the all the promises wear off and the kid finds they still have the original problem – plus they have mangled the very body they live in – is it surprising they slip deeper into depression and toward suicide?

I suppose the people planting the seeds of wanting the surgery can count on the fact that their severely depressed and the dead are very unlikely to sue – too depressed or too dead.

‘Trans’ surgery seems to have also travelled to new horizons.
Not just I’m a girl trapped in a boy’s body but I’m genderless/non binary therefore I should have my breasts removed.

sometimes prejudices aren’t merely race based but informed by prior experience.

How do people go about sharing housing.
What is he suggesting in practical terms?
Move back in with mum and dad, families house share with unrelated families.
Ten in a bed?

Such sentiment could be expressed only by someone whose roots are to be found within a 20 mile radius of Beenleigh.

Phrasing! ……. LOL!

From the Oz. I’ve posted the whole article. Good luck to West Australian farmers. “Reconciliation?”
What’s that?

A ‘modest’ Indigenous voice to parliament? Take a look out west to consider it’s far reaching consequences
Peta Credlin Peta Credlin

12:00AM June 1, 2023
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Anthony Albanese’s pitch to Australians for months has been that they should vote for his voice because it will be an important “but modest change”. Only the cat is now out of the bag with his comments in a speech to Indigenous leaders this week declaring “let this be no modest change”.

In the clearest sign yet of what will come, all Australians need to look at the enormous Aboriginal heritage changes about to roll out across Western Australia from July 1. What’s more, these changes will create a whole new land-use approvals regime that circumvents elected officials and subjects the rights of private property owners to Aboriginal heritage assessment.

Especially since the May 2020 destruction of the cave at Juukan Gorge that had been a site of human habitation for more than 40,000 years, Western Australia has been grappling with how better to protect Aboriginal heritage without obstructing reasonable development. The result is the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act, which will start to come into effect next month.

Many of the practices and procedures under this act are still being finalised, but it’s already clear that for most significant developments – instead of applying to local, state and possibly federal governments for approval – there will soon be an additional requirement to have approval from relevant Aboriginal bodies.

The act will establish, according to its memorandum, “a majority Aboriginal advisory body”, the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Council, “to provide strategic oversight of the Aboriginal cultural heritage regime”.

This will include providing advice to the minister, designating local Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Services and approving cultural heritage permits and cultural heritage management plans.

On any property larger than 1100sq m (about the size of a large suburban block), at least in areas of designated cultural significance, for any significant construction activity there will need to be permits or management plans, depending on the nature of the activity and the nature of the cultural significance. Landholders will need to acquire these from (yet to be established) local Indigenous heritage services. There are timelines set down for approvals, fees set for heritage assessors and processes for appeal if agreement can’t be reached. While the minister retains ultimate authority over land-use decisions (as was the case with the Juukan Gorge approval), there is a great deal of potential process (and cost) before anything would ever get to the minister’s desk.

The aim, says the memorandum, is to “recognise Aboriginal people’s special connection to country”; to recognise “the fundamental role of Aboriginal cultural heritage in the lives and wellbeing of Aboriginal people”; and to provide “for Aboriginal people themselves to determine what qualifies as Aboriginal cultural heritage and therefore is afforded protection under the legislation”.

The act, it says, provides “a broad definition of Aboriginal cultural heritage” to capture not only its “tangible” but also its “intangible” and its “living” elements.

Again, it’s reasonable enough to accept that there may be some elements of heritage that are merely spiritual and even that there can be new and evolving concepts of what heritage is. The issue, though, is going to be reconciling this with further economic development, especially as the act takes for granted a process of fee for service (from $150 to $450 an hour) in determining just what these might be, and negotiated financial settlements before development might take place with the administration of all this via myriad local Aboriginal elders.

A document produced last year by the big law firm Ashurst states: “Navigating the heritage landscape in project development in WA is going to get more complex over the next 12-24 months.”

The act, Ashurst says, “introduces a level of complexity and uncertainty that, in our opinion, renders key aspects … unworkable”. In particular, Ashurst worries that the local Aboriginal cultural heritage services (that in many cases have yet to be set up or exist only in rudimentary form) will lack “the capacity to function efficiently”, hence creating “massive hurdles” (despite government funding of $77 million set aside for the new regime’s implementation).

As well, the law firm says, the obligation to use “best endeavours … in the context of commercial negotiations and bargaining … will likely be challenging”.

You can bet that will turn out to be a massive understatement.

West Australian farm groups are now mounting a last-minute fight against what the Pastoralists and Graziers Association says is “the biggest attack on private property rights since native title”.

According to the PGA, anything involving ground disturbance of more than 50mm (5cm) will require an individual permit from the local cultural heritage service. This would include “weed control with mechanical equipment”, “construction of new stock yards” and the “installation of new fences”.

A more extensive management plan will need to be approved, the PGA says, for “establishing a new farm … clearing land … contour cultivation … and new forestry plantations”. The PGA is worried that this could be a costly, open-ended process potentially taking months or even years. It says real heritage sites should be protected but not the ones suddenly discovered “just where someone wants to build a new farm road or set of stockyards”.

WA Farmers chief executive Trevor Whittington is particularly concerned at the potential for invented heritage claims to be settled at an unsustainable price. Also, the lack of transparency inherent in a system that turns on cultural heritage but where landowners may not be allowed to know what makes it culturally significant due to “cultural sensitivities”.

Indeed what amounts to cultural heritage can change across time, as the new act makes clear. Yet despite the extensive consultation and protection involved in the new act, because the minister retains ultimate authority, it still has been criticised in some quarters as a “failure to prevent cultural genocide” – suggesting those wanting to restore Aboriginal sovereignty, as if the past two centuries of settlement shouldn’t count, can never be satisfied.

How has it come to this? For one thing, there’s no effective opposition in the WA parliament. With only six Liberal and National MPs in a lower house of 59, not much is going to get effective scrutiny, even if there were a will to do so. For another, with only one metropolitan newspaper, what gets attention is very much the product of just one editor’s interests. At heart, though, this is what happens when unelected and unaccountable officials try to correct a whole system on account of one scandalous mistake (at Juukan Gorge) in ways conforming to current notions of identity politics and political correctness.

What is about to roll out in Western Australia is a micro example of the far-reaching Aboriginal controls that will come with the voice. If it’s established, given its reach into executive government, there’s little doubt that a new class of Indigenous officialdom would be created.

But as for the daily endeavours on which all our livelihoods depend, regardless of ancestry or cultural heritage, these will only get harder with a new and extra layer of Indigenous governance.

This is what happens when a government forgets Bob Hawke’s bicentenary declaration that in this country there must be no “hierarchy of descent” and “no privilege of origin”.

“That’s the price mechanism at work. We need more people on average to live in each dwelling, and prices do that,” he said.

No doubt, Phil already has plans to let his spare bedrooms to several, deserving, families from Luigi’s next migrant intake …… leading by example …..!

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says there is no immediate fix for people struggling in Australia’s rental markets.

He says rental vacancies are near record lows in large parts of the country, and extremely strong population growth is making the problem worse.

What about all those residential units bought by Chinese nationals as an investment property while they remain in China? I believe most are empty and not counted in the vacancies tally. Pauline Hanson suggested last night on Sky that we buy them all back and then sell on to Australian consumers.

“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year timeframe. 10 years at most.”
Elon Musk

I see a lot of empty houses on my travels, presumably awaiting redevelopment.
One in my little street has been vacant for at least four years.
At least they keep the garden tidy.

flyingduk says:
June 1, 2023 at 8:55 am
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/05/31/ukraine-war-for-another-20-years
This has historically been the business model of the big armaments industry – drag things out as long as possible, achieve nothing, but sell a truck load of weapons all the while.

In the process kill and main millions of people but as long as the elite make money it’s all good.

Hence the folkore: “Roger the lodger, the dirty old dodger”.

” There was a young girl of Cape Cod
Who thought all babies came from God,
But ’twas not The Almighty
Who lifted her nightie,
But Roger the lodger, the sod!”

Gillon McPolo-Pony answers the question, what if you hold an inquiry and nobody shows up? Awks.

Thanks Gilas. Appreciate your comments.

Wifey went with her for a second opinion and saw a vascular dude at Lennox Hill. He hasn’t seen the MRI yet, but looked at the ultra sound. He basically said the same as you , that it’s rare for a kid her age to be stented and suggested going to see a rheumatologist. He saw no evidence requiring a stent on the ultra. He going to check out the MRI later tomorrow our time and give a final verdict.

Really, thanks for this as I was quite taken aback when I heard about it yesterday.

Fewer of the Few.

“If it’s going to affect us, why aren’t people explaining it to us and how it might affect us on the ground?”

Don’t be a chicken little and just vote yes, Ma’am.

In picture from Ukraine and Russia of rural villages you can see very similar sorts of arrangements.

I hope you’re not suggesting there is squalor in Russia.

I don’t believe you.

You will after you’ve been to a couple of draught horse auctions, clearing sales, or field days.
The men are all fit & brawny from lots of physical movement & doing manly chores, eg harnessing the neddys, pushing carriages around, chopping firewood, all the manual tasks we “English” don’t’ do any more.
Significant proportion of the women are so obscenely obese they can barely move.

I said about a month ago some of the shenanigans we saw in the US were a front to attack homeschooling.

I’ve been expecting the same here…only a matter of time.

Clubs and coaches keep getting seduced by Tevita Pangai Jnr. He is big, aggressive and does have ball skills but he has no ‘football’ intelligence. He attempts to offload in while entangled with 3 or 4 defenders instead of running into gaps so he only has to deal with 1 or 2 and then pass. Fifita from the GC has simplified his game to only pass when he has an advantage. Pangai could learn from Fifita.

It’s kind of like the shift on China from 90s. We thought by bringing them into WTO, having close ties they would become more like us, but opposite happened.

I remember being gobsmacked by what seemed to me to be the supreme triumph of naivete over smarts when Clinton gave China ‘Most Favoured Nation’ trade status, saying it would make them like the US.

Thinks I “Why would they change? They are getting what they want without it.”

Same thought occurred when they were awarded the Olympics.

Of course, the real role of naivete in all this was not that of our political leaders, but cynical them thinking they could count on the naivete of their voters.

And even now that corrupt class is falling over itself selling out their nations to China and letting China run rampant and unchecked while pretending they are being courageous statesmen standing up to the tyrannical regime.

Yet if China but snaps it fingers…

Monty believes in a surplus.

And he believes cocks in frocks.

Ex and I send our kids to Catholic schools. Fees to go north baby! Hun:

Catholic schools have gone to battle with the Andrews government over its controversial payroll tax, warning that making middle-income parents prop up the state budget was unfair and would “damage our relationship”.

The Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV) yesterday wrote to all state Labor MPs on behalf of its 21,000 students and 40,000 parents, pleading with them not to proceed with the plan.

The removal of the payroll exemption for 115 private schools – including 20 Catholic schools – is expected to add around $1000 to the annual fees and cost high-end schools up to $7m a year.

It’s understood schools will hear whether they will be hit with the tax on July 1 this year.

The letter signed by CECV executive director Jim Miles says the new $421m tax “will damage our relationship and reverse decades of settled policy”.

“The new tax will rip up to $1 million a year from the operating budgets of schools,” it says.

An internal working list of 20 Catholic schools expected to be hit by the new tax obtained by the Herald Sun includes high-flyers Xavier College, which has fees of more than $30,000 a year, followed by Loreto Toorak and Genazzano ($27,000).

The list also includes nine schools with fees of less than $10,000, including Sacred Heart Girls’ College in Oakleigh, St Joseph’s Ferntree Gully and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College in Bentleigh

The letter to Labor MPs says most of the schools affected are not wealthy.

“They are local secondary schools, with hard working middle-class families, who now face fee increases and/or cuts in teaching and learning programs and investment in school facilities,” the letter says.

“Based on the Victorian government’s forecasts, this decision equates to a 10 per cent cut in funding to non-government schools from the Victorian Government. Some Catholic schools could actually become a funding source for the Victorian Government – they could pay more in payroll tax than they receive in state recurrent grants.

“We are asking for you to advocate to your colleagues that the proposal not proceed. At the minimum, the fee threshold at which schools become eligible for payroll tax should be

significantly increased,” it says.

The threshold for schools affected will be average fees of $8000 or more next year.

Marco Di Cesare, principal of Marcellin College in Bulleen, which charges annual average fees of around $12,000, said his school “aimed to break even”.

“We do not sit on a comfortable surplus. We are disappointed to be lumped into high-fees schools which charge $40,000 or more.”

Mr Di Cesare said his school would have to find “significant savings” given that it wanted to minimise the impact on parents.

Rita Grima, principal of St Columba’s College in Essendon, which charges fees of around $10,000, said the school could be up for a bill of around $800,000 next year.

“We have families from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. Why should our families be asked to help balance the State budget?” she said.

The bill tabled in parliament states that the tax will be levied by the Minister for Education and the Treasurer according to the fees charged, other financial contributions received by the school and “any other matters the Minister considers appropriate”.

The Opposition on Wednesday seized on comments made by Education Minister Natalie Hutchins during Question Time.

When asked about whether independent schools would be slugged three times by also being forced to pay Covid and mental health debt levies, Ms Hutchins said she was unaware of Victorian schools with a payroll above the $10m threshold.

But Opposition education spokesman Matt Bach later said this response was “obviously untrue”.

“According to the most recent data, 69 Victorian independent schools have a payroll above $10m,” he said.

“This will simply mean that they won’t just have to pay the initial schools tax, they will have to pay a triple-whammy of taxation.”

He said the Opposition will repeal the tax if it wins office in 2026. (yes, he really did say that)

A state government spokesman said the government has an established process for separating low fee from high fee independent schools.

“The threshold will be indexed, and we’ll have more to say about which schools will no longer receive the exemption before the new financial year,” he said

The government’s aim is to ensure the exemption only remains for schools that genuinely need support.

The CECV national director Jacinta Collins also signalled the tax could have implications for the federal funding of schools.

As the good Dr Faustus is wont to say, Top Men. FMD

I don’t know if anyone else has commented on it, but AOC is going batscat nuts about a parody account called

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody)
@AOCpress

which boasts the motto “Saying the quiet part out loud. (parody)”

Some of the story surrounding the brouhaha.