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Claim that RuAF attacked Wagner in their camp near Rostov very likely disinformation. The thing about situations like this is actually knowing what is information.
Gilassays:
June 25, 2023 at 12:45 pm
Thanks Gilas, I agree about the surgery.
I doubt it being enything more then blustering. Well I hope since it would trigger WW3.
I am out of luck then.
mOron gets a mention with Serge;
Big Serge ??????
@witte_sergei
Honestly it’s really funny watching the Ukrainian side instantly pivot from “Wagner was destroyed with mass casualties in Bakhmut” to “Wagner is powerful enough to topple the Russian state.”
We’re heading to Switzerland for a few days to meet up with pals before the dreaded Portugal leg. Newark airport is a zoo.
I waited almost two weeks before offering an opinion. You hadn’t even waited 12 hrs before gasbagging based on sources that were likely to exaggerate events.
I reckon it’s on the money.
I see m0nster has gone straight to the St Ruth playbook this morning.
Firstly, “Well, what was I supposed to think”, followed by, “I will be proven right eventually, cock-smokers.”
Sad to see.
Visiting the safe deposit box?
Same as his remark about ending the war in Ukraine. It’s pitched to his boomer demographic.
It is hilarious how you lot oscillate between “Biden is a braindead zombie” to “Biden is the kingpin of an international criminal conspiracy”. Then of course you say he’s both because of Soros.
CL, I presume you agree that the Cath trad cause is not best served by a serial bankrupt and philanderer who is facing a string of convictions for serious crimes?
Agreed, Crossie.
I’d also add that road construction is not what it used to be either. Who’d of thought the cheapest may not be the best when it comes to infrastructure that has to last generations?
Instead it’s flat out lasting five years.
This is just an educated guess based on observation and knowing some people higher up the food chain wrt roads/bridges etc; we are not far behind the US on all this.
Indeed Munty, but your take is a fraudulent misrepresentation of a historical observation.
Thanks OldOzzie;
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/prigozhins-siege-ends-postmortem
Yes, monty.
Even criminals can become senile, it is a degenerative disease.
Your hyperbole is rather gratuitous. Embrace the healing power of ‘and’, eh Monty? To quote a certain community organiser,
Have a squiz at Hollyweird Boulevard … the road is f-ed.
Cash!
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Cash 2.0 Great Dane on Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, California 2
There is literally nothing else.
The “coup” showed once and for all msm is dead. Twitter and Telegram rule.
I think this Meat Canyon animation short is riffing on the Corridor Crew guys (47 seconds).
bowling alley animations are getting out of hand
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UFH1slEVeBk
His brother James is a good bet.
Who Is James Biden? President’s Brother Comes Under Scrutiny
Tweet-meme of the month:
https://twitter.com/mdlbroc/status/1672724109338333189
I don’t think AHs attitude toward Ernst Roehm can be construed as Wokeness, apart from Germans being generally Woke for a long time.
Pederasty was known as The German Disease until about 1920, when it became The English Disease.
Not in any way saying it was orchestrated but this drama in Russia has deflected just that bit more attention away from the Biden corruption story.
That RFK incline bench press is pretty lame.
He’s got about 30 kg on the bar and has to be helped by a spotter after a coupla reps.
Elon’s naughty tweet:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1672791664564240384
Yup, remember it was post hip surgery complications that took down Barry Humphries.
Just the shock of major surgery on a frail elderly person can be enough to put him/her over the edge.
JCsays:
June 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm
We’re heading to Switzerland for a few days …
Don’t much like their politics at times – but a beautiful place to holiday. Lauterbrunnen perhaps one of the most picturesque villages in the world & magnificent walks of all levels available. Also like Montreux -the Belle Epoque train between Montreux and Interlaken is very memorable – so long as there are no Chines tourists playing Chinese music! Zurich is quite magnificent and very negotiable on foot. Lucerne? Yes – pretty, but far too many tourists. The Rossengart Collection of astounding works of Picasso (& Klee and others) doesnt seem to be well known to tourists – but is breathtaking. Other than that – hope you are getting around in public transport. We have driven all over the world, but some of the” across mountains narrow roads” do me in! I literally slide under the dashboard if I can! Husband loves the driving!
Knoll’s law of media accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.
Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: The phenomenon of people believing newspapers on topics which they are not knowledgeable about, despite recognizing them to be extremely inaccurate on certain topics which they are knowledgeable about.
* Update – In place of ‘newspapers’ insert ‘social media’.
The US msm especially will take whatever they can get as a deflection. The missing sub story was another useful distraction.
Also Cardinal Pell.
But you still got a hard on, right?
New York drag marchers chant, ‘We’re coming for your children’
BREAKING:
Wagner soldier alleges Trump grabbed steering wheel of tank to turn convoy around.
That twitter user JoJofromJerz (I presume Jersey) is a LOL cow.
The consensus seems to be that Proggy was taking Pentagon cash to stage a Coup, and U.S./U.K. Sleepers would stage an uprising in Belarus.
Putler’s Intel got wind of it and told him to keep the dosh and stage the ‘Coup’, meanwhile Lukashenko’s FSB would be on the lookout for the Uprising.
It’s a bit like Hungary ’56, the Atlanticist plot fell flat.
LOL look at this triumphalist rubbish.
I’m sure it sounded better in the original Klingon.
‘But you still got a hard on, right?’
Is this a come on?
Pard, i’m really flattered, but I gotta decline.
But, good luck anyway.
MAGADONIA
Latest edition of Intellectual Froglegs from Joe Don Gorman.
Winning and losing with many war objectives for both sides is a fluid benchmark.
Even if Putin loses in every way tactically conceivable he has given a credible signal that interference in Russian foreign policy carries a high cost. At worst, he fails to save face.
Socialism
https://twitter.com/goodfoodgal/status/1672705818763079681?cxt=HHwWgsDR0Y3F0rYuAAAA
Reece Walsh.
Hungry.
Like the wolf.
Pretty sure Germans in 1910 would far prefer then than now.
Fun fact.
For some rich German families, the 1929 crash was the only blip to their wealth during the 20th century.
Unless you got caught up in the Baader-Meinhof butchery.
Chart is for cardiac episodes presenting to Vic hospitals 2018-22.
There has to be a class action in this somewhere.
https://twitter.com/DrDavidAdler1/status/1671729087805788160
Any Cats seen this story about the CIA paying Wagner 5-6bill?
Is it information, misinformation or straight out horseshit?
m0ntysays:
June 25, 2023 at 12:35 pm
Of course I didn’t know in advance but I knew the best thing to do, at least in the first 48 hrs of something like this, is to recognize that a lot of the info, reports, and like are likely to be disinformation, misinformation, partial reports, wish fulfilment, etc. and just see how things pan out, usually with the maintainance of the status quo.
Says the bloke who declared victory over the Uke offensive within two weeks.
Reading comprehension fail, from the bloke who declared victory to Prick-goes-in within 8 hours.
acres of pale female flesh littered with tattoos
Brits : slag tags
Americans: tramp stamps.
……..
Australian : bogan slogan.
Hahahaha! Now that was funny!
Nevertheless, there is a winner of the great Russian Civil War and that is the Ukranian army. Wagner will likely be broken up and absorbed into the Russian army. Russian units will gain fierce, experienced fighters but will lose the esprit-de-corps of Wagner under Prigozhin. Bakhmut was the biggest battle this century and Wagner defeated everything that Ukraine could throw at it.
Of course, this will have no immediate effect on the great Ukranian counter-offensive, as Wagner were withdrawn after Bakhmut, however, the Ukranian soldiers who did survive battle with Wagner will be greatly relieved.
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m0ntysays:
June 25, 2023 at 2:13 pm
LOL look at this triumphalist rubbish.
Big Serge @witte_sergei
The Wagner saga was so confusing to westerners because life of greatness is no longer imaginable to most. We presume that men must be objects of political forces and historical script; never subjects acting freely in time and space, open to consequences. Such vitality is alien.
They assume that Russia will lose in Ukraine and Putin’s regime will fall because this is the outcome dictated by the rugged mental models that they have erected to absolve themselves of their passivity and smallness.
Only someone who craves the lethargic stupor of being an object could wish for the end of history.
People mistake this as a defense of Prigozhin – it’s not about his character, but about a life that is fully accepting of the risks attendant with free action. Caesar saying “the die is cast”.
I’m sure it sounded better in the original Klingon.
You need to take more Copium and Seethium, right now.
Major damage control at PwC:
Anyone know who/what Allegro Funds is?
Anyway, a massive hit to PwC, formerly a behemoth in government consultancy.
WaPo:
Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch · 9h
Suspect the whole exile thing has put a dampener on any Russian political ambitions for Prigozhin.
Vlad still keeps most of his toys, but does wounded pride make him now more dangerous?
Razey, I noticed that someone in response to the socialist economics students tweet brought up group work as an alternative. Group assignments are now common in Australian universities as a way for fee-paying foreign students with minimal English skills to get through the course on the efforts of local students, who do all the work. Friends with kids at uni say that their kids hate group assignments as the lecturer always puts one or two foreign students into every group and they know that everyone shares the mark. Next time one of them comments I’ll respond that the kids are getting a taste of socialism in action.
Dmitri Alperovitch
@DAlperovitch
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I expect federal government officers to come under metaphorical fire for the misuse of private sector information about the same day that pigs fly.
The RUTHLESS Blood Feud Between Mexico and the Apache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4b1uabql7U
The Spanish seem to have gotten off rather lightly regarding what they did in North America.
The Spanish get a pass from me because they defeated the Aztecs, whom the other Native Mesoamericans hated.
Group assignments are horrible, and they don’t even need foreign students to make them so. When I was doing my Masters in the early 90s, there was always at least one complete drone who did bugger all and coasted on everyone else’s work. The South African/Indian woman in my group was a star, the (white Aussie) drunken rugger bugger was the drone.
Group assignments would be OK if you could choose your group members, but that would be ‘unfair’ and against socialist principles.
And with more content: you get to see not only the Titanic, but also the previous tour sub.
Weather note – glorious blue sky, lots of sun, and bloody freezing winds straight off the ample snow that wasn’t going to happen this year.
The BoM told us it was going to be a dry, warm winter. It ain’t warm, it hasn’t been dry, and we are told that a huge rain band is going to hit most of the country next week.
But when it comes to predictions decades or more out – totally reliable, right?
Thanks to Morrison and the SFLs, public servants will get to decide what is disinformation — and it looks like that will be whatever the Labor government doesn’t like. Paywallian:
Under historic new legislation proposed by the government, digital platforms could face penalties of up to $6.88m for failing to address systemic disinformation and misinformation.
The government has released a draft framework to empower the Australian Communications and Media Authority to hold digital platforms responsible for misleading or deliberately deceptive information online.
Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland said the proposed legislation was aimed at protecting Australians from the growing threat.
“Mis and disinformation sows division within the community, undermines trust, and can threaten public health and safety,” she said.
“The Albanese Government is committed to keeping Australians safe online, and that includes ensuring the ACMA has the powers it needs to hold digital platforms to account for mis and disinformation on their services.”
The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill would give the media regulator greater powers to act on systemic issues.
For the first time, the ACMA would be empowered to access documents from digital providers related to misinformation and disinformation on their platforms.
The proposed authority would not extend to the content of private messages sent online.
The bill targets endemic misinformation and disinformation issues which pose a serious harm to Australians, and it would allow the ACMA to fight continued noncompliance from digital providers.
If platforms allow the spread of harmful lies and propaganda to continue, the regulator would be able to register enforceable industry codes with a maximum penalty of $2.75m or 2 per cent of a company’s global turnover (whichever is greater).
Should the code of practice prove insufficient, the ACMA would be able to implement an industry standard which would carry maximum penalties of $6.88m or 5 per cent of global turnover.
The proposed powers would apply to digital platforms accessible in Australia, including search engines, social media sites, dating sites, and web forums.
The ACMA would be focused on encouraging services to implement strong systems to tackle misinformation and disinformation rather than regulating specific content.
Unlike the eSafety Commissioner, the regulator would not have the authority to request the removal of posts or content.
The proposed legislation enacts key measures recommended in the 2021 ACMA report on the adequacy of digital platform measures to combat disinformation.
Public consultation on the draft bill will begin on Sunday and conclude on August 6, with the legislation to be introduced later this year.
“This consultation process gives industry and the public the opportunity to have their say on the proposed framework, which aims to strike the right balance between protection from harmful mis and disinformation online and freedom of speech,” Ms Rowland said.
“I encourage all stakeholders to make a submission and look forward to introducing the Bill into parliament later this year, following the consultation process”.
Totally sensible as they are both sunk costs.
Collingwood has just bashed Adelaide by 2 points at the G.
Life is good , there is peace on earth and there is no global warming.
Carna Pies!
The Russian thing, in hindsight admittedly, looks like a PsyOp dreamt up by Putin and Prigozhin – Putin looks good staring down an armed rebellion quickly and decisively. And, if I’m right, I reckon Prigozhin must be an idiot.
The troops are all returning to the Ukraine – there has been almost no actual cost, beyond a few gallons of fuel.
If I were Prigozhin, though, I’d expect a fairly prompt defenestration because there’s nothing makes a “strong man” look stronger than fooling his opponent, then rolling him up.
A further benefit is that Putin can now blame “high command” and replace the idiots mismanaging the war in the Ukraine … and do it for the crime of allowing Prigozhin‘s rebellion.
Anyone know who/what Allegro Funds is?
It’s a way to launder a massive asset writedown, that’s what it is.
Rugbyskier.
Usually it is presented as the ultimate in student autonomy.
The group get to decide the individual allocation of marks based on the input of group members.
Sounds great.
Until three Anglo kids decide that the overseas student didn’t contribute and cut him/her/ze out of the marks.
Standby for lots of passive aggressive counselling about subliminal waaaacism.
Uh-huh.
Wag the dog – War is show business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aWFpwMZLK4&t=1s
Off to Aquae Sulis today, so it’s farewell to Wales. Looking forward to crossing the Prince of Wales Bridge over the Bristol Channel. We’ll take the scenic route via the Brecon Beacons.
Only in Bath for a night, so I’ll have to get my skates on – the Jane Austen Museum and the Circus are on the list. Might even pay a visit to the Pump Room again if I have time.
The gull is back at the window. We clearly make better company than its pals on the shoreline. A fine morning here, everyone is whingeing about the “hot” nights. The beach is a curved stretch golden sand like so many in southern Wales, which gives a hint as to the antipodean state name.
The BBC is on the tele – it’s wall to wall climate catastrophism and Wussia! Nothing else.
It’s some time since we visited Bath, but the hotel we were staying at was run by an expat Australian, who had previously managed a pub in rural New South Wales..
But when it comes to predictions decades or more out – totally reliable, right?
The BOM’s predictions/forecasts/horoscopes at any time span are bullshit. Examples abound: here’s a couple:
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/perhaps-we-should-call-it-our-new-climate-of-stupidity/
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=931
True.
Forced at gunpoint to chow down on a polonium sammich by Anna. But which version – blonde or brunette?
Soonish.
Interesting story here about the history of discrimination against Italian immigrants in the US.
I didn’t know that Columbus Day was instituted after a mass lynching of eleven Italians who had been acquitted in a trial.
Of course, the M word is never mentioned in this article, but clearly the anti-Italian sentiment both predates and transcends the criminal aspects. The Irish experienced similar problems a bit earlier. I’m guessing there was a lot of anti-Catholic sentiment in a country where German Protestants had immigrated in huge numbers, and Protestant traditions went back to the Mayflower.
It is a reminder that mass immigration is never an easy transition for any country. All those people who bleat about the US in the C20th as a paragon – I wonder how many of them know that large scale immigration was stopped around 1925 to allow things to settle down and not resumed until after WWII.
Anyway, the Italians have done pretty well. The Italian and German names at the highest levels of politics, business, academia and the law are plentiful. Not to mention the Jews.
I think that the ‘pause’ was a great (if perhaps inadvertant) piece of public policy. Those migrants who had recently arrived got a chance to get established without constant new arrivals who would work for almost nothing and strengthen ties to the old country. As someone from a migrant family, I can tell you that finding your feet, learning a language, and just getting a sense of security and a path forward in a strange country doesn’t happen overnight. It takes years. My parents moved forward with a cohort from the ship they came out on (The Southern Cross) and they all evolved together as their kids became Australians.
The idea of turning off the tap and just letting things settle is anathema today. Pity, because in IMHO that would be by far the best policy decision made so far this century.
Cassie,
Prayers and strength to you, it is not easy, seeing a parent on the way to their next appointment. You do everything you can to keep them but there will come a time when, in spite of your best efforts in fighting for them against bureaucracy, red tape and it sometimes seems, life itself, in spite of all and against their own wishes, life simply leaves anyway. It is not easy becoming an orphan, at any age.
As CL says we are not super people, we can only do what we can do, with logic and love and return of the love and care they gave us as children and throughout our lives. And try not to beat ourselves up if, in the end we and they cannot prevail.
There is a pretty good book “We need to talk about Mum and Dad” by Jean Kittson, that can help, with ideas and practical things you might not think of yet. This part going forward is not simple and you are better if you are somewhat armed before it truly begins.
I will say from experience, confusion is normal with major events and it will return for simple reasons, such as constipation, infection, stress. It will pass – sometimes it takes months before it seems they are back on track. Mum and I used to laugh afterward at her dreams and scatty thoughts. But I would reassure her it was ok, she was off with the fairies because she’d been crook but she would get better and I was there for her. And she did get better, every time, until the last time.
Remember to laugh and have fun with them, even if your heart is breaking. There will be many hard questions and no easy answers. Love and blessings to you on this journey of love.
johanna
It is a reminder that mass immigration is never an easy transition for any country. All those people who bleat about the US in the C20th as a paragon – I wonder how many of them know that large scale immigration was stopped around 1925 to allow things to settle down and not resumed until after WWII.
…
The idea of turning off the tap and just letting things settle is anathema today. Pity, because in IMHO that would be by far the best policy decision made so far this century.
Unfortunately, our politicians and their advisers (political and public service) are too stupid or too corrupt to take that entirely sensible decision, so we will have an ongoing housing crisis, with an ongoing employment crisis, bolstered by an ongoing infrastructure crisis.
And that’s the good news.
Knuckles
Effin arsie with the help of those 6 Cambridge philistinist against the crows.
You guys are ,not up to it
Do people here still think AMD is a good stock to buy?
Anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. Ka-ching!
Sex chromosomes are immutable and determine gender. Ka-ching!
“Anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. Ka-ching!
Sex chromosomes are immutable and determine gender. Ka-ching!
Vote NO to the Voice.
A woman is an adult human female.
Vote Liberal, UAP, LDP, or PHON.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
Covid lockdowns were a dress rehearsal for climate lockdowns.
Pedophiles are evil.
All of the above will be ka-chinged!
I love how they discriminate between misinformation (the doofus posting it is too ignorant to know that it is wrong) and disinformation (debbil debbil ultra right wingers at work.)
Heads you win, tails I lose.
Climate change protester who calls herself ‘Kitty Kitty Meow Meow’ faces court with her face painted as a possum – after bizarre protest which put lives at risk
She/it will be set free because possums cannot go to jail.
From Tom’s post above:
Might one of the definitions of harm be ‘the undermining* of public confidence in the lawful activities of government’?
*Where the accused will have to prove they did NOT possess the intent to do so.
Thanks Helen, and thanks to everyone else. Much appreciated. It hasn’t been a great week.
“Thanks to Morrison and the SFLs”
Is there anyone in the Liberal Party that will speak up for free speech, or were they all purged by Scumbag?
“This consultation process gives industry and the public the opportunity to have their say on the proposed framework, which aims to strike the right balance between protection from harmful mis and disinformation online and freedom of speech,” Ms Rowland said.
Here we effin go again. Stakeholder voice consultation balance government-industrial freedom harm balance framework, good and hard.
On the deceased Tom Wills thread, Zulu and Chris posted several interesting links regarding alleged indigenous massacres. I’m only part of the way through the first article – by Keith Windschuttle, and already my eyebrows are carving deep wrinkles in the centre of my forehead.
When does this move from ‘flogging a dead horse’ to ‘stuffing the carcass with sawdust and renting it to a kids’ petting zoo for birthday parties’?
At a certain point this will have to be redefined as political-necrophilia-by-proxy.
AMD, depends on your investing strategies. How much are your putting in. 6 month downward trend shows its got about another month to go before its likely to rise unless some good news comes out. There’s no volume, don’t waste your money yet. I take it you have an online trading account. Probably better odds than lotto. I never brought a parcel into anything unless there was at least 10 times the daily average volume. Even then I was looking for volatility within a trend because that suited my strategy.
Accurate Muddy.
Thanks Ranga- I have a fairly big (for me) AT&T holding which doesn’t seem to be going anywhere but it does pay a good dividend. Just thinking maybe I should go for some growth. Or just leave it alone.
The Ian McPhee-Falinski-Black Hand liborals aren’t just left, they are hard left.
Could put in $US90,000
Muddysays:
June 25, 2023 at 5:14 pm
On the deceased Tom Wills thread, Zulu and Chris posted several interesting links regarding alleged indigenous massacres. I’m only part of the way through the first article – by Keith Windschuttle, and already my eyebrows are carving deep wrinkles in the centre of my forehead.
I am looking forward to the detailed rebuttal of Windschuttle by Turd Case.
I am not holding my breath.
Cassie, Dutton is any anti-encryption fanatic who detests online privacy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he sits this one out too.
Didn’t know that CL. Thanks.
anyanRugbyskier, you are correct. Universities have adopted this technique exactly for this purpose. I have heard local students say that they are told not to complain about it as the international students are subsidising them as they are charged twice as much as locals. This strategy will only degrade a university education for all, results on you testamur no longer tell a prospective employer whether you earned them or whether it was some other student in group.
Watching Singin’ In the Rain on Flix.
Sound off except for the dance sequences. Astonishing talent that leaps off the screen, including choreographers, musicians/composers/arrangers and performers. And to think they had to do it multiple times before the final take.
CGI and AI are never going to get the same emotional connection, or respect and admiration, as Gene when he is singin’ in the rain.
Classics. He was asked to not enter competitions again.
All will be destroyed.
He goes Bang! @5:45.
Mix Master Mike’s DJ Performance | House Of Strombo
From experience and observation, I believe those GRAD CERT-GRAD DIP-MASTERS qualifications are for sale.
Why would you have the sound off ?
If it wasn’t such a great musical it would also be a great comedy.
One of my top 5 favourite films of all-time !
“Mis and disinformation sows division within the community, undermines trust, and can threaten public health and safety,”
Chinese friend visited Australia. Being a hater of the CCP, they had thought Australia was a beacon of Freedom and Liberty. Upon arrival and touring around, they found Australia was simply CCP Lite and promptly cancelled their immigration aspirations.
So where did they go? Or did they stay with CCP full strength?
I never traded for dividends. That’s not a growth trade coz theyve got nothing. Keep an eye on them and get in when they find something substantial. Mate of mine was a good trader, had a stock that wasn’t doing anything so took a small profit. 5 years later that holding would have been worth 16 million. His attitude was he got out with a profit and put the money to work in other stocks. He still made a heap out of very little. He only worked 3 hours a day.
“Cassie, Dutton is any anti-encryption fanatic who detests online privacy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he sits this one out too.”
Agree C.L.
Helen, there is always guilt. Did I do enough? Could I have done more even during the worst of COVID lockdown? One thing I do not regret even though I disagreed vehemently with it and that is being COVID vaccinated in order to be able to visit mum in the nursing home and the hospital. I could not let her deal with her health issues alone, I needed to be there for her.
Why boomers must give Glastonbury back to the young
It’s time for my friends and colleagues to hang up their wellies
This is a big weekend for me. I’m marking my 40 years of not going to Glastonbury anniversary.
For commemorative purposes I date my first official absence from the age when it first seemed realistic to go. So this year is a significant milestone, though obviously I’ll be celebrating quietly at home.
Like everyone else of my generation, I see a cohort of friends and colleagues shaking the spiders out of their sleeping bags, digging out their wellies and buying out Mountain Warehouse as they head off to recapture their youth which, it turns out, was living in Somerset. They may not exactly have been born to be wild, but they’re definitely up for a bit of impudence.
Each summer, then, leads to several weeks of Glasto-shaming by cooler and less sanitarily obsessed colleagues. The atmosphere is amazing and the toilets aren’t that bad, they insist. With a small stove you can make yourself a coffee in the morning, often the mud is only calf-deep and sometimes it’s baking hot instead. And who worries about sleep when there are 45-year-olds in the tents all around you partying like it’s 1999? Above all, they argue, you forget about the inconveniences once you are in the experience.
I’m sure they think this, either because it is true for them or they have convinced themselves it is.
Because let’s face it, choosing to swim through a river of mud for something that wasn’t worth it would be fairly foolish.
This is a rock concert, not The Shawshank Redemption.
The trouble is that I can’t rise above these inconveniences by immersing myself in the greater experience. For me, these are the experiences. I’m not proud of this trait, but I’m not as ashamed of it as I could be either.
Naturally a key part of the middle-aged Glasto schtick is the desire to be — or at least to appear to be — still young at heart. This, I sense, is the root of my problem. I’m definitely there for a bit of impish juvenilia but middle age always seemed to have much to recommend it.
One reason why I dislike camping in my 50s is that I disliked it in my teens. The friends who still go to Glasto are essentially life’s enthusiasts and optimists. I also try to be one of life’s enthusiasts. It’s just that the things which enthuse me are comfort and sanitation.
Show me a spa hotel, a Michelin-starred restaurant and a king-size bed and I’m totally mad for it. Don’t misunderstand me.
I like a gig as much as the next man, as long as the next man also wants to get home at the end of the night and prefers not to go three days without showering.
I’m also not sure how young at heart or counter-cultural Glastonbury is anymore when the event is packed with people fretting over whether they set their out-of-office email, and headlined by pensioner acts such as Elton John, Cat Stevens and Rick Astley. I mean, seriously, why not just dig up the Andrews Sisters for a Pyramid Stage performance of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”? (Actually I would probably watch that).
I don’t blame the young. They are meant to not know any better. But I’ve had bosses who had reached positions in life where they could afford a room in the on-site pop-up hotel “some of them with en-suite bathrooms!”, or at least one of the glamping teepees near the shower block where you can bump into other countercultural icons like Kate Moss or that bloke from Love Island.
But that would be failing to live the Glasto dream, as well as being pricey.
No one wants to hear your dinner-party story of ambling back to your hotel for a nice spa treatment. They want stories of muddy mosh pits and bands so hot that you saw them before they were good.
No, I blame the middle-aged and the middle class, colonising young people’s events.
It is just another piece of generational warfare. We’ve stolen their clothes and we are inflating the price of the homes they can’t buy. Now we’ve helped push up ticket prices and filled their festivals with museum pieces of rock.
So, come on boomer. Take a bow. Book a nice hotel. Set up a Spotify playlist and luxuriate in the atmosphere of not being at Glasto.
Leave squalor to the young. You’ll thank me. And so will they.
Boambee John.
Reading through another Windschuttle article, it seems that the most prominent black armband historians stake a claim on 20,000 as the number of aboriginals murdered by Europeans in the so-called ‘Frontier Wars.’ (A number which Mr. W. casts much doubt upon).
Hmmm.
What was the number vomited up on the floor of the Tom Wills thread?
The dividend money comes in handy for sure
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Helen, the last time mum was in hospital was the hardest. I was allowed to be with her only an hour per day so I asked the nurses to call me if they felt she was fading. I got the call and said I was already on my way and only five minutes away. I parked, went through the entrance COVID routine and when I got to the ward the nurse looked at me and just shook her head. They still let me sit with her, hold her hand and cry for as long as I wanted.
Working on that ward must be the hardest job for nursing staff and I will always be grateful for their care, not just of mum but me as well.
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IRS Whistleblower Calls Merrick Garland’s Bluff, Starts Naming Names
Wolfman, the dance sequences are so sublime that the ‘plot’ is just a gossamer to hold them together.
Agree that it is a top movie. 🙂
Dominican basketball player who previously blamed COVID vaccine for rare heart condition dies of heart attack
Special Report: Biden Weaponizing IRS Into a Well-Armed Paramilitary Force
At least he’s honest.
‘We’re here, we’re queer and we’re coming for your children’: Topless drag queens spark outrage with inflammatory chant at NYC Pride march
The Tearful Executive Who Tapped the Brakes on Electric Cars at Toyota
Chairman Akio Toyoda faced skepticism in his early years. His latest challengers want him to speed up the company’s EV transition.
At Toyota Motor’s annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, the automaker’s longtime leader broke into tears as he recalled how he felt scorned by other executives in his early years at the helm—and how the experience helped him bond with the rank and file.
“As the son of the president, I was a presence that people felt they should avoid as much as possible—an untouchable presence,” Toyoda said of his early years at the company’s top. “The people who supported me through that were those working at the grassroots,” he said, pausing to stifle tears.
Toyoda, 67, has made it a tradition to cry at shareholder meetings, which he has said he sees as once-a-year occasions to look in the mirror and re-evaluate. These moments from the self-proclaimed “prone-to-tears president” reveal a self-image quite different from what the world might assume about the scion of an auto dynasty.
Akio Toyoda’s grandfather, Kiichiro, founded what is now the world’s biggest automaker by vehicle sales. Akio Toyoda’s father, Shoichiro, who died recently at age 97, ran the company for a decade.
But in Akio Toyoda’s telling, his assumption of the top job in 2009 after a series of nonfamily leaders wasn’t welcomed as the coronation of the rightful heir. He recalled at this year’s meeting how he felt “unwanted by everyone.” Tears followed. “My heart broke many times and more than once or twice I thought about quitting,” he said.
Toyoda’s perception of himself as facing off with disparaging elites mirrors how he talks today about the auto world’s transition to electric vehicles. In December, Toyoda said he was standing up for a “silent majority” in the auto industry that questions whether it is right to make EVs the sole option for car buyers.
Many people, he added, hesitate to voice their reservations about EVs because of pressure they feel from pro-EV groups.
According to Toyoda, it was his experience of feeling discriminated against that taught him to tap in to such channels of opinion.
Toyoda took the chairman’s role at Toyota in April, passing the president job to 53-year-old Koji Sato, the former head of Toyota’s motor-sports division and luxury Lexus brand.
When Toyoda started as president in 2009, the global financial crisis was pummeling Toyota’s sales and profits. Toyota at the time was also in turmoil over unintended acceleration and other problems with its cars.
Toyoda hunkered down in his early years and began cleaning up problems he said were caused by his predecessors’ efforts to expand too quickly. He cut costs and began reversing what he saw as an overly bureaucratic culture in which deskbound executives in Japan planned out one-size-fits-all global car models.
Toyoda introduced a number of cars tailored to regional needs, such as an affordable line of trucks for emerging markets, and expanded Toyota’s global footprint.
The company returned to the black in his first year and grew from there.
Along the way, he paraded his love of the racetrack and the tactile joys of driving, appearing more relaxed when chatting with race-car drivers and mechanics and doing some stunt driving in high-performance cars.
Toyoda has often commented throughout his time as president about his love for the smell of gasoline and sound of an engine. The collision of these passions with pressures to reduce carbon emissions has led the carmaker to enter races with hydrogen-burning engines, a technology Toyoda loves to tout.
Outside of shareholder meetings, Toyoda has cried publicly on a number of occasions, including a 2010 meeting with American dealers in the midst of a big recall. The meeting was credited with showing his sincerity and commitment to fixing problems.
Toyoda cried again in 2020 when the company was able to forecast a profit for the fiscal year despite Covid-19 related disruptions. “Being president is a lonely task,” he told shareholders that year. “Yet in defiance of the mainstream, I was somehow able to make progress.”
Outside the company, Toyoda once again sees himself as challenged by elite figures who look down upon the common sense he embodies. This time, the encroachment is coming from regulators, environmental groups and a few shareholders from places like Scandinavia, New York and California.
At Toyota’s annual meeting on June 14, several U.S. and European funds sought to oust Toyoda from his board seat. They cited governance issues and the role they say he played in keeping the automaker from going all-in on EVs.
Toyoda easily beat back the challenge, earning re-election to the board he chairs with an 85% majority. Still, that was down from 96% a year earlier.
Toyoda has advocated what he calls a more practical approach that entails offering many types of environmentally friendly vehicles.
While the company is hastening its push into EVs, it plans to continue offering consumers hybrid-electric and hydrogen-powered cars as well.
That is in contrast with other automakers including Honda and General Motors that have set dates for when their lineups will be all-EV.
Speaking on the sidelines of an auto show in January, Toyoda said he was keeping in mind customers in regions of the world where charging infrastructure is inadequate and electricity is generated with carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
“There are certain groups that seek to use the name of the environment as an opportunity,” Toyoda said. As head of a global company, he said, “what I’m preaching is based on the reality of users in a number of markets.”
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said he voted against Toyoda’s re-election to send a message to Toyota management. Under Toyoda’s leadership, Toyota is “sending a signal of resistance to the climate transition,” Lander said.
Looking ahead, many Toyota watchers foresee a bigger role for Toyoda’s son, Daisuke, who holds a prominent position at a Toyota division but is still in his mid-30s.
In the meantime, Akio Toyoda has pledged to guide newly appointed President Sato in his role.
“I received one piece of advice from Chairman Toyoda: Being president of Toyota is lonely and very hard,” Sato said at the shareholders meeting.
Then it was Sato’s turn to fight back tears.
“I absolutely don’t want you to have the succession experience I had,” Sato said, describing Toyoda’s words to him. “You have many allies. You aren’t alone.”
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Muddy
The claim was 41,000 killed by the Native Police, plus “thousands” by Fraser Junior. Somewhere else, Turd Case also referred to another Queenslander who had a private army killing many aborigines.
Re the claim of 20,000 as the total killed, I think that came from Reynolds, but I have recently seen claims, probably from him, that it “could have been up to 100,000” across Australia. That number is close to the number of Australians recorded in the Roll of Honour in the AWM, and I am suspicious that that is deliberately so.
Way back in 1988, the number of years of indigenous occupation was suddenly raised to 40,000 years at the time of the Bicentennial celebrations. That always struck me as a neat 200 times the time since white settlement. Again, a convenient number, since substantially increased.
As with many things indigenous, many of the claims seem to be political rather than scientific or historical.
“Misinformation being anything they don’t like. This is right here.
Government to crack down on social media companies for misinformation
UN’s digital ID linked to bank accounts idea ‘similar’ to World Economic Forum ideas
More detransitioner horror stories emerge
The charging infrastructure is inadequate everywhere, even in UK and Europe.
Any forensic evidence of such slaughter seems curiously lacking.
James O’Keefe on Blackrock
Let’s not forget that when Trump threatens to ‘drop the hammer’ (like on the CCP in Cuba in this instance) he usually means economically, not militarily.
Battery cars are going to be the Beta of VHS.
Australia is in a unique situation transport wise, we have large urban centres with enormous distances between them. My Swedish visitors last year were horrified when we drove from Sydney to Melbourne. They asked where are the small cities and towns along the highway and I had to explain that there are none. They were used to driving long distances from Sweden to southern Europe and almost entirely through urban landscapes. Our geography was an eye opener.
Dover – check your email.
Intrigue in Copenhagen: A Tale of High-Stakes Corporate Espionage
In the meantime they will impoverish the world. Just look at the prices, they cost more than three or four times as the ICE cars usually purchased by working families. This whole thing is winding back Henry Ford’s efforts of making everyone able to afford cars.
On the deceased Tom Wills thread, Zulu and Chris posted several interesting links regarding alleged indigenous massacres. I’m only part of the way through the first article – by Keith Windschuttle, and already my eyebrows are carving deep wrinkles in the centre of my forehead.
That link doesn’t work. Is it this:
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/197.pdf
Or this:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2017/10/vandals-take-handles/
You’re missing a lot. Quite apart from the musical numbers Singin’ in the Rain is one of the funniest films ever made. And gorgeous to look at, too.
This whole thing is winding back Henry Ford’s efforts of making everyone able to afford cars.
Agree the big leftist push comes from on high- as I often remark, so many of our leftists here went to snotty nosed high fee skools. Bogans shouldn’t have nice things. Garbage like suspender belt have no idea how the high standard of living they enjoy was brought about and how it is maintained. Nor do they care as they are like HG Wells’s Eloi.
Sorry, Cohenite. Try this for Part I (I referenced Part I).
it “could have been up to 100,000” across Australia
People love a good conspiracy story.
I’m doing a research for a book – Cyclone Tracy and the Armed Forces – which will be out at the end of next year for the 50th anniversary. There are several claims that “hundreds more” people than the 71 who died in Tracy were “buried secretly by the government” and so on.
The same thing can be found about the Japanese bombing raids on northern Australia in the war.
Can you also write a book about the contamination of Brisbane during the UK’s atomic testing in the 50’s?
Bugger. I linked to Part II.
Here’s Part I and related topics.
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Biden wouldn’t know his flaccid, desiccated dick from an AR15. This is the Kenyan’s doing.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
June 25, 2023 at 6:32 pm
but I have recently seen claims, probably from him, that it “could have been up to 100,000” across Australia.
Any forensic evidence of such slaughter seems curiously lacking.
Evidence, schmedivence, we are talking about a noble cause. All lies for the cause are justified, unless their opponents are telling them.
I can see Munty dobbing this blog into the authorities once the new legislation is implemented.
If I were Prigozhin I wouldn’t be taking up the offer of a nice penthouse in Minsk.
Thanks for the Windscuttle links. The screech is really heating up. On 2SM talkback today liar operatives were ringing up and abusing the announcers for letting NO voters spread their lies. The new disinformation rules being put up by the liars will focus on this and I expect a dearth of no comment on the airwaves to happen..
“If I were Prigozhin I wouldn’t be taking up the offer of a nice penthouse in Minsk.”
No, he might be safer in a penthouse in Milan.
I see what you did there.
Hysteria about the junk science of climate change is a top-down communist counter-revolution by the rich against the Western middle class made possible by the growth of big government and its parasitic bureaucratic deep state.
Even in the Australian socialist democracy, the ruling class is now overrereaching with massive punishing increases in electricity prices to pay for the non-existent climate problem. Mr 32% Elbow is a one-term PM pressing every electoral button to get himself ejected in record time.
Wannabe-Labor PM Malcolm Turnbull and his puppet Scott Morrison have a lot to answer for.
Drove by Climate Change, The Con Continues, Wake Up Australia (actual wording ‘coz I got a better look from that side) in big red letters on a long banner about 15 minutes out of town on the way back from Bateman’s Bay this arvo. It seems to actually be on someone’s fence behind the safety barrier. I think it’s on private property, and that’s why it is surviving. We need more property owners like this, ready to brave the pushback that will come. Especially needed are some banners on the NO for the Voice. And some Just Vote No stickers for volunteers to put on various sites around town. I wouldn’t advise it on your car as the left seem property damage as a virtue. That farmer with the banner probably keeps a very big dog. I know I would.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
June 25, 2023 at 6:32 pm
Given the number of Aboriginals at the time and how they were living in small, widely distributed tribes, it would have had to be a full time occupation for a small army to accomplish.
Field Marshall mUntgomery will be taking some R & R. He left a nasty stain on the velour seat cushion last night. Does anyone know a good steam cleaner?
Crossie at 5:39.
They won’t say that piece about dependency on fees aloud, at least in specific cases of marking allocation.
And they won’t outright accuse students of racism either.
It will be more subtle gaslighting, “broadening the student’s cultural outlook”, explaining that the mere presence of an overseas student enriches the other members of the group. Those proposing a non-standard allocation of marks will be made to feel privileged and ignorant.
It would be interesting to get some stats on how many group assessments are altered from standard by students.
I would guess it would be a fraction of 1%.
Absolutely spot on Tom.
My dad was put on notice to clean up after Cyclone Tracy, we were at Holsworthy at the time and he was 5/7 RAR who sent 650 men. He was left off the deployment due to family reasons, which annoyed him till his death but despite wanting to go apparently his CO said no. That said if there was any funny government business with bodies I’m sure I would have heard something as a kid. I never did so…
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Any forensic evidence of such slaughter seems curiously lacking.
Of course, because it didn’t and couldn’t have happened.
Starting to get really pissed off with these darkie bullshit stories.
Maybe I’ll vote NO!
Abe books will sell you an account of the most notorious case – Forrest River – Rod Moran’s book “Massacre Myth” – for $25.00
Rockdoctor, there’s an interesting aspect to the Army’s involvement…General Stretton gives them a good serve in his book The Furious Days. Says:
Sometime later in the afternoon, I received a surprise visit from a Major in uniform who called at the Darwin Police Station. He was in charge of the Supplies and Transport section at Larrakeyah Barracks. He had come to headquarters at the police station to get authority for his platoon of vehicles to draw petrol. I could not believe that the Army had a full platoon of some sixteen 2-ton vehicles which for the past two days had been engaged on camp duties when they were so urgently needed in the town to help with the distribution of food and relief supplies to the population of Darwin. The vehicles had only come to light because of the necessity for them to get authority to draw petrol.
There are other criticisms too. However I have found an article written by a platoon commander at the time that says Stretton was wrong in almost every criticism. Will run both sides of the argument.
The Army however took over from the Navy at the end of January 1975, and did six months of tremendous work.
H B Bearsays:
June 25, 2023 at 7:07 pm
Field Marshall mUntgomery will be taking some R & R. He left a nasty stain on the velour seat cushion last night. Does anyone know a good steam cleaner?
Turd Case seems to know of one at Parliament House in Canberra.
Be interested in reading that one.
So, is Barnabus Beetroot Juice going to make another run for the National leadership?
Goodness gracious me. Please say it ain’t so.
People, seriously!
Why would anyone suffer through reading endless amounts of putrid propaganda and blatant lies by the MSM and most of the online channels discussing the Russian, Biden, Taiwan etc.. imbroglios?
My humble heuristics is that, if it even remotely smells of propaganda and selective, biased reporting, with NO supporting, properly dated video or documentation which is next to impossible to fake, then it’s BS.
End of story. Period.
In other word, if it’s too “on-the-nose” convenient, then it’s BS.
Nothing is ever neat and clear-cut!
Grey hues are the default in real life. They are everywhere, while we are naturally programmed to see blacks and whites.
Only when something that goes against known narratives really does happen, we’ll eventually know.. weeks later, when irrefutable video/documentation will emerge, old evidence that becomes impossible to ignore.
Until that happens, we are being had.
The social media algorithms have been refined over 15+ years.
They work, but in promoting anger, anxiety, fear, not in proffering truth.. or knowledge.
This is the greatest Twitter account of all time.
https://twitter.com/TheEliasRework
The new censorship law by the liars looks to be doozie:
https://twitter.com/thomasjreid/status/1672765671497932801/photo/1
But the liars and the filth have tried this before: remember Finkelstein:
https://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13348
My God this man is appalling….
John Pesutto set to pursue ‘truth’ defence against Moira Deeming
By RACHEL BAXENDALE
VICTORIAN POLITICAL REPORTER
Lawyers for embattled Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto will argue his claims Moira Deeming associated with Nazi sympathisers at a women’s right rally are “substantially true”, as he prepares to defend himself against a defamation suit from the expelled MP.
A “see you in court” legal letter, exclusively obtained by The Australian, sets the pair up for a costly, public and likely very messy showdown in the Federal Court later this year, as questions persist over how Mr Pesutto will pay his legal bills.
Ms Deeming has issued Mr Pesutto with three defamation concerns notices since first indicating last month she would pursue legal action, alleging the Liberal leader accused her of being a “Nazi sympathiser and Nazi associate”, and used that as a basis to “threaten and bully” her out of the state party room.
The dispute between the pair dates back to Ms Deeming’s appearance at a March “Let Women Speak” rally that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.
The protest was organised by British feminist activist Kellie-Jay Keen’s group, Standing for Women UK, which campaigns against what supporters see as the infringement of transgender rights upon those of women and children.
Transgender rights activists held a counter-protest, and a third group, of masked men dressed in black, taunted the transgender protesters and performed the Nazi salute on the steps of state parliament.
Mr Pesutto initially attempted to expel Ms Deeming in March, but was forced to resort to suspending her for nine months amid a lack of support from colleagues.
In seeking to make the case against Ms Deeming, Mr Pesutto circulated a 15-page dossier of social media screenshots and media reports – mostly relating to Ms Keen – accusing the MP of “organising, promoting and participating in a rally with speakers and other organisers who themselves have been publicly associated with far right-wing extremist groups including neo-Nazi activists”.
Mr Pesutto’s legal letter indicates the Liberal leader stands by this dossier and his original expulsion motion, which will be key to his “truth” defence.
“For the reasons outlined in this letter, we consider that your client’s foreshadowed claim is bound to fail,” wrote Mr Pesutto’s legal team, which includes Minter Ellison partner and veteran media lawyer Peter Bartlett, who has been engaged alongside Matt Collins KC.
“In the event that your client commences proceedings, Mr Pesutto intends to vigorously defend the claim, including on the basis that the meanings in fact conveyed by the motion are substantially true.
“We are instructed to make clear that our client makes no apologies for taking a strong stance against your client’s failure to dissociate herself unequivocally from and to condemn individuals with known links to neo-Nazis.
“He considers that there is no place in the Victorian parliament or the parliamentary Liberal Party for such persons, and that Ms Deeming, by the conduct alleged in the motion, brought discredit upon the parliament and the parliamentary party.”
Ms Deeming said Mr Pesutto had rejected her “months of pursuing private and internal avenues of mediation in order to get justice”.
“It appears from his letter that Mr Pesutto prefers for us to settle this dispute in court. It saddens me that a court case will inevitably cause the issue to drag on in the media – but as I have said from the very beginning, my number one priority is clearing my family name for the sake of my children,” she said.
The Australian understands Ms Deeming intends to file the case after the Warrandyte by-election – due to be held in August or September – so as not to be accused of damaging the Liberal Party’s prospects in the seat it holds with a 4.2 per cent margin.
She has engaged leading defamation lawyer Patrick George and high-profile barrister Sue Chrysanthou to act on her behalf.
Mr Pesutto’s office declined to comment on the letter, or answer questions about how he plans to fund his legal defence.
Earlier this month, the Liberal leader said he was “still working on” funding sources, amid significant internal opposition to party members being asked to foot a bill which could surpass $1 million.
“There’ll be options, but I will announce how that’s to be done in the coming weeks. It will be soon. I will be transparent about that,” he said.”
Prosciutto is a disgrace.
Oh no. How could this happen to the wonderful Victorian Liberals? This is horrible. Quick someone do something.
School Fees 2.0.
Thank me later.
The Voice referendum polling.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2023/jun/15/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-tracker-how-many-people-support-or-oppose
It has state by State breakdowns.
If Roy Morgan is reliable it gets up in 0/6 States.
They are the ones though who actually kept it going. Friends of Hairy’s from Cambridge who ended up in the rock music scene ran it for years as part of the organising group, getting the funding, doing the publicity, making it happen, and some of them still do, living locally in Somerset. The retired barrister friend from those days whom we meet up with when in the UK is one of that set. He told us he had only given it away in the past few years, he felt he was too old for it. About time, I nodded.
Stupid to try to be a rock hero reliving long-gone glory days when your stringy hair’s grey, your back hurts, you drive a top of the range Beamer, you’re a successful businessman and you live in a London mansion, even if you have tried to keep up by filling it with Ukrainian refugees.
Best to leave it to the kids, like our son when aged 20 and doing a pre-career stint in the UK. He lost a very good sleeping bag in the Glastonbury mud. I was annoyed when he told me that it was too wrecked to bring home, but I guess that’s what you do when you are young.
Thank God you’re here!
I don’t know how I could make enough popcorn without help.
He said she is a Nazi.
He based this claim on a scurrilous & juvenile overnight re-edit of her wikipedia page by some undergraduate type.
He’s going to need a helluva lot more than that to establish ‘truth’.
GG Chris, GG.
That’s fantastically good news. Now we have to keep up the pressure.
No backsliding, and more still to join in and say No.
Albo can’t go on making them vote No all by himself. 🙂
He’s very stupid.
How on earth does that Guardian chart work?
No State gets over 50% in the Roy Morgan poll, but only one polling company result (NOT Roy Morgan) is nationally below 50%)???
???
Maybe mathematics works differently under communism.
10 years ago the Grad Cert cost me about $12k, the Masters was gonna hit the best part of $50k
decided it wasn’t worth the pain
so now I’m just a glorified pipe solderer
yr right about the group-work too
pain in the arse
Dan will pay.
No he wont. He could murder people on the street and he’d still get in.
Maybe mathematics works differently under communism.
You bet. And the new censorship laws will make a NO comment punishable by prison.
An emptied ATM found dumped in the Adelaide Hills after a ram raid:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/emptied-atm-found-dumped-at-kersbrook-sa-police-say/102521692
If the perpetrators were from the Adelaide Hills, at least it will have been jolly decently ram-raided and emptied.
She has engaged leading defamation lawyer Patrick George and high-profile barrister Sue Chrysanthou to act on her behalf.
Where’s the money to pay these people coming from?
Is Deeming a secret Millionairess?
Looks like a typical woke lefty brain dead zombie to me.
There’re a lot of them. Marching morons.
Lizzie says:
Had to drive down to and back from WA’s south-west yesterday. Coming up the main (Forrest) highway and freeway, was surprised but pleased to see almost every road sign, bus stop, advertising banner etc. had “NO TO THE VOICE” spray painted over it.
Prosciutto seems more interested in fighting people in his own party than the ALP. Uniparty indeed.
Interesting that the Grauniard seem to be saying that they have got a “pure” Yes/No split by discarding Undecideds.
This assumes the “Undecideds” will fall evenly to Yes and No.
But I saw a poll last week (can’t recall which pollster) where they asked the open question with an undecided option, but then asked the “Undecideds” to indicate which way they would vote if forced to choose. These respondents fell heavily to “No”.
I strongly believe there is a “shy No” vote which will knock a significant piece off the polling companies numbers come referendum day.
The thinly disguised attempts to gag social media debate don’t concern me much. I think it will just piss people off even more.
My straw polling.
I have now had a second Rustadon lefty in our circle volunteer that they are a “No”.
I think it is screwed.
And so does Elbow.
Interesting that the Grauniard seem to be saying that they have got a “pure” Yes/No split by discarding Undecideds.
This assumes the “Undecideds” will fall evenly to Yes and No.
But I saw a poll last week (can’t recall which pollster) where they asked the open question with an undecided option, but then asked the “Undecideds” to indicate which way they would vote if forced to choose. These respondents fell heavily to “No”.
I strongly believe there is a “shy No” vote which will knock a significant piece off the polling companies numbers come referendum day.
The thinly disguised attempts to gag social media debate don’t concern me much. I think it will just piss people off even more.
My straw polling.
I have now had a second Rustadon lefty in our circle volunteer that they are a “No”.
I think it is screwed.
And so does Elbow.
So where did they go? Or did they stay with CCP full strength?
Refugee from the CCP here with me in the Maldives.
Hairy just came in here to say he was sad to hear of the death of Simon Crean, with whom he had an hour-long business meeting once face-to-face with only one other senior manager present, about corporate things, nothing to do with Party matters. He was a genuinely nice person, old school left-wing Labor, and you could respect him, unlike some of the others in Labor around at that times, says Hairy. Vale.
Only 74 too.
He also came in to say dinner is served! Gotta love that air fryer.
Attapuss over the moon to see us back as we left him all alone last night.
Crean gone…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12231505/Labor-Party-leader-Simon-Crean-dies-aged-74-visiting-Europe-trade-business-meetings.html
Question over on Bolt – If Linda Burney was aware of a community that didn’t have drinking water, it wouldn’t be beyond the bounds of her office to organize a tanker of drinking water as a temporary solution?
I am thinking a few LABOR MUST GO would be good too, Bruce.
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I wonder what a Freeway Footbridge size banner would cost? If we parade it across the footbridges, held by half a dozen blokes taking little tiny steps, its just free speech not Threatening Society by Tying Adverting to Safety-Critical Structures
Was it somewhere without running water?
Somewhere in the Outback where cordial is cheaper than water?
Anyway, in response to Dutton’s speech on Wednesday, Linda Burney said she visited Whitton and one of the old timers told her the day she was born was the darkest day Whitton ever had.
She’d previously said that her mother was White.
Not sure where she was going with this story, because she switched to the cordial story.
She appears to be on serious Antidepressants.
Anyway, I looked up her Wiki entry, she was brought up by a great aunt and great Uncle, sounds like they weren’t aboriginal, her mother disappears from the story and she meets her dad for the first time when she’s 27.
Another slightly jarring story is that her long term partner died when his wheelchair tipped over outside Balmain Hospital.
Footnotes say the Cops said his death was accidental after being contacted by a man who assisted him shortly before his death.
Which tends to indicate that Linda was pushing the wheelchair at the time.
Could just be that some Aboriginal ‘mothers’ find child ‘raising’ easier if they get the kid addicted to sugar early in life.
Was watching the ABC program on Bourke, there were quite a few women with children who had terminal kidney disease.