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That’s amazing, Calli. Enjoy.
Following up on Moles good post.
Naturally the privately owned renewable generators will simply flood the market with power to bring down prices.
It’s not like they could turn them on and off in order to push price and skim the market in peak demand.
AEMO are very very clever, just ask them.
I identify as a proud Chumbawamba woman.
Actually my link would make an excellent anthem for every Aboriginal woman in the remote communities who deals with a daily bashing.
My aboriginal ex brother-in-law, now deceased, had further relationships which produced more children, and these kids who could (and perhaps do) claim aboriginality are also part of my wider kin group; we keep in touch via family gatherings, especially weddings and funerals and all news about them (and us) travels on the family grapevine. Aunty, says my adopted beautiful dark-skinned niece as she parks her new Audi next to a beaten up old vehicle belonging to someone from my nephew’s clan, our family is the strangest mixture you could find.
In fact though, it is not. It is like so many extended families in Australia and shows just how much acceptance and familial integration there has been of aboriginal people and also of many other ethnicities in this land of ours now threatened to be divided by race. Vote No.
It’s amusing when proud identifiers list the several “nations” they purport to belong to.
The indigenous lived under a strict system of dual exogamy and they certainly didn’t marry into other clan groups until they were well and truly acculturated to Western ways.
Good on you, Pogria.
Have you really been on holiday unless you’ve had an argument with a German about a pool lounge?
Thanks Lizzie.
Why I’m fighting ‘trans heterodoxy’ on campus
I have been the university’s accused ‘transphobe’ for more than four years now. But unlike previous years, the current campaign has targeted me personally and my students.
By HOLLY LAWFORD-SMITH
Almost a month ago, I wrote to the vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Duncan Maskell, and asked him to do something about the poster and sticker campaign being conducted against me on campus.
It had been going on for close to two months, with the only word from the university’s senior leadership coming from the dean of arts, Russell Goulbourne, whose earlier email to all staff might best be described as pouring petrol on an already blazing fire.
My sin was to attend a women’s rights rally, hosted by charismatic British women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen. This rally was subsequently described by a majority of media outlets in Australia as “anti-trans”. I refused to denounce Keen – and still do – or accept the rally had anything to do with the National Socialist Network members who showed up in the same location, probably to hijack the media attention garnered by the rally and counter protest.
Like previous years – I have been the university’s accused “transphobe” for more than four years now – the poster campaign targeted my second-year philosophy course, titled Feminism.
But unlike previous years, the current campaign has targeted me personally by name, and targeted any student who might consider taking the course, with the imperative: “Do not support fascists and bigots/Boycott this subject.” Students taking my classes were forced to walk past these posters, into the buildings and lecture theatres where I teach.
Despite my request for help, Professor Maskell did nothing, except pass my email along to the provost, who in turn also did nothing. But an act of vandalism against university property last Thursday night finally proved a step too far, prompting a sternly worded email from Professor Maskell to the university community, including the line “this type of behaviour is completely unacceptable and stands in direct opposition to the values we hold as a university”. Activists had smashed several glass walls in the front of the Sidney Myer Building on Swanston Street, accompanied by graffiti The Australian earlier reported as “words to the effect ‘Trans – we are not safe’?”.
But they are safe, actually. In fact, they are trans in one of the most supportive university campuses, in one of the most supportive states in a country that is comparatively advanced when it comes to LGBTQIA+ rights. Indeed, Victoria has statutory self-identification for change of legal sex, laws prohibiting attempts to change or suppress a person’s gender identity, anti-discrimination protections for gender identity, and is now poised to introduce new anti-vilification laws for transgender people in the next year and a half.
And yet there is precisely one “out” gender-critical feminist on campus, and there is precisely one subject dealing with sex/gender issues in a way that focuses squarely on female people. There are many more who take the “gender studies” approach, focusing on everyone affected by what tends to be called, non-confrontationally, “the gender system”.
On Monday, the University of Melbourne branch of the National Tertiary Education Union sent an email out in support of the window-smashers, saying: “To those who take a stand against transphobia, you have the unequivocal support of your union. Protest and activism have been the catalyst for change throughout history.
We would not have the rights we have today without people who were willing to stand up and act”. But the “transphobia” described here is simply believing that gender identity doesn’t supersede sex for all purposes. It doesn’t involve fear, or hatred, or discrimination against trans people. It doesn’t involve denying rights and protections to trans people. It involves pointing out that your gender identity is something distinct from your sex, and that distinction matters. That’s not something anyone needs to “stand up and act” against. On the contrary, the NTEU email borders on incitement, vilifying ordinary people who want to see a reasonable compromise to the conflict of rights between sex and gender identity, and encouraging further aggressive actions in the name of an unreasonable cause.
So far, the activists have not succeeded in having the Feminism course withdrawn, or having me removed from my position. In fact, there have been more new enrolments than withdrawals since the poster and sticker campaign began. My lawyers have helped me fight off spurious and unjustified complaints. But having to supply security to ensure a course can run is surely unappealing to a budget-conscious upper management. This comes as the university recently announced an LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Action Plan that gives students greater pathways to lodging grievances against curriculums they don’t like – so the writing may be on the wall for my course.
It’s hard to guess how many staff and students have watched what’s happened to me this semester, noted the failure of the senior leadership to take any serious action and made the decision to suppress their own views, lest they confront similar treatment. It’s also hard to assess the damage this could do to people’s trust in the university as an institution, whether that is the trust of members of the university community, or members of the wider public following the reporting of these events.
In my view academic freedom exists for a reason. Part of that reason is to offer protection to those who would critique prevailing orthodoxies, even when everyone around them maintains those orthodoxies as the absolute and incontrovertible truth. It has been harder to see this in the case of trans activism, because it styles itself as a progressive heterodoxy, fighting against a “cisnormative” orthodoxy. Trans activism may be heterodox, but it is not progressive.
It is the old misogyny and homophobia in a new dress. I’ll continue to use my academic freedom to expose it. My hope is the university I work at allows me to do so.
Holly Lawford-Smith is an associate professor of political philosophy at the University of Melbourne.
Oz
How quaint.
I used to walk past that pwc building on Southbank after kicking some tyres at BMW Motorad on City Rd on my lunch hour. Generally if the bike/car is stored inside and the place is better than your house, you can’t afford it. Although in retrospect it would have been nicer to have something bigger than 600cc for the trip home.
Get vaccinated, don’t get vaccinated, same choice as for whatever the current flu variant is.
No, Rosie, it is not. As you well know, at the moment, mRNA technology (and using the Covid spike protein) has been pioneered in relation to Covid19. That technology, at least at the moment, is not used in a “preventative” vaccine for either current influenza viruses, nor any other virus.
Says it all really.
Don’t like something, kill it stone dead.
It’s not too much of a leap from this to genuine violence.
Caught Bill “i dont micromanage” Shorten getting a lube and fundament waxing on their ABCcess by Carcassvalis.
Standouts
Union putting up “vote yes to da in-voice” in public serpents noticeboards is fine.
Hes a big picture man, so individual things arent his remit.
He was asked, I kid you not, if the government should stop scalpers from reselling “tay tay” tickets.
And had he brought tickets to see ‘tay tay”…
Its obvious we need to double the funding to the ABCcess, where esle outside breakfast television can you hear pollies asked the hard questions like that?
Sergey Karaganov: Here’s why Russia has to consider launching a nuclear strike on Western Europe
If things continue as they are, Moscow will have no choice but to use the ultimate weapon
By Professor Sergey Karaganov, honorary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and academic supervisor at the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow
This month, there has been an active debate in Russia about the possibility of Moscow preemptively using nuclear weapons. Which would be at variance with the established doctrine. It began after the publication of an article by Professor Sergey Karaganov, which prompted a wide response from the domestic expert community.
While Karaganov has been advocating relaxing the rules, others have different opinions: for example, Fyodor Lukyanov thinks the West cannot be ‘sobered up’ by using the bomb, and Ilya Fabrichnikov believes Russia should not ‘take NATO’s bait’ and unleash the ultimate weapon.
This is Karaganov’s follow up response to his critics.
During over seventy years of mutual deterrence, atomic weapons have saved the world. People just took this for granted. However, now we see that things have changed and the unthinkable is happening: the West is responsible for a major war in the underbelly of a major nuclear power.
The official history of the creation of these weapons is known, but in my opinion there is also a higher power at play. It is as if the Lord God saw that a large part of humanity had gone mad, having started two world wars in a generation, and gave us these nuclear weapons, which are weapons of the apocalypse. He wanted them to be, to be in the front of our minds, at all times, and to scare us.
But now people have lost their fear.
Over the last few decades in the United States, Western Europe and even partly in Russia, what I call “strategic parasitism” has spread: the belief that there can never be a major war and that there will never be a major war. People are accustomed to peace, and it is on this basis that modern Western ideology has grown. In addition, there is now an unprecedented amount of propaganda around, to an extent unprecedented even during the Cold War.
People are simply being fed lies, and they are afraid to say what they really think. As a result of more than 70 years of peace, the public’s sense of self-preservation has become dysfunctional, and it is further stifled by the extraordinarily virulent agitprop, part of which claims that Russia would never be able to attack Western Europe.
Official Western propaganda pumps the idea that the West can do anything it likes and Moscow will just put up with it. This has now become very clear and vivid.
But the question is who could and should be the target of such an attack. The Americans, as we all know, have been shamelessly lying when they say that we are preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Ukraine. This is monstrous nonsense, absolutely malicious, because of course the Ukrainians are a miserable, deluded people who are being driven to slaughter. But they are still our people, and we are not going to hit them.
If there are to be nuclear strikes, they should be aimed at countries in Western Europe that have been most supportive of the mercenary regime in Kiev.
When discussing a hypothetical atomic attack on Western Europe, the question arises: how would the US answer? Virtually all experts agree that under no circumstances would the Americans respond to a nuclear attack on their allies with a nuclear attack on our territory. Incidentally, even Biden has said so openly.
Russian military experts, however, believe that a massive conventional retaliatory strike could follow. It could be pointed out that this would be followed by even more massive nuclear strikes. And they would finish off Western Europe as a geopolitical entity. Which, of course, would be undesirable because, after all, we are to some extent Europeans and, to use Dostoyevsky’s words, the old European stones are not alien to us.
When discussing such scenarios, the subject of China and its position inevitably comes up. Our strategic goals are the same, but our operational goals differ, of course. And if I were Chinese, I wouldn’t be in a hurry to end the conflict in Ukraine, because it diverts US and Western attention and military power away from them and gives Beijing an opportunity to accumulate strength.
It’s a perfectly normal, I would say respectful, position. And of course I do not want nuclear weapons to be used. First of all, for moral and ethical reasons: I think the Chinese and I agree on that.
And secondly, because the Chinese still have a small nuclear capability, it is undesirable for them to start a military and political competition in this area right now. In ten years’ time they will have a first-class nuclear capability (and even in five to seven years’ time their situation will change), and then the best option to prevent a major thermonuclear war will be to have a more powerful China in the front line, with Russia supporting and covering it, as the Chinese are supporting us now.
I fully understand the moral anguish of people who say: under no circumstances is the use of nuclear weapons unthinkable and unacceptable.
To which I reply: my friends, I respect pacifists, but they exist and live in this world only because soldiers fight and die for them, just as our soldiers and officers are fighting now in Ukraine.
Meanwhile
Congress urges Biden to send cluster bombs to Kiev – media
A group of lawmakers has called on Washington to put America’s “vast arsenal” to “intended use,” Foreign Policy has reported
Cluster bombs carry smaller explosive submunitions that are released in flight and scattered across a target area, typically used against personnel and lightly armored vehicles. According to Foreign Policy, the US-designed bombs, also known as dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICMs), can penetrate four to eight inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of armor.
The munitions also have a tendency to leave behind undetonated ‘duds’ that can remain in former conflict zones for decades. This fact prompted more than 110 nations, including many NATO members, to ban cluster bombs under a UN convention back in 2008.
The US did not join the convention but banned exports of cluster bombs with a ‘dud’ rate of more than 1% in 2009. The ban covered most of its existing stockpile. Now, the lawmakers, who are all members of the Congress Helsinki Commission, which monitors human rights in 57 OSCE nations, push for their transfer to Ukraine to be used in a conflict zone.
Moscow previously warned Washington against sending cluster bombs to Ukraine. Such actions would have consequences both for NATO’s own security and the normalization of bilateral relations between Russia and the US, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in March.
So far, US officials have said they are not “actively considering” sending cluster bombs to Kiev. Yet, Biden can potentially waive the export restriction at any time.
From the Comments
– In that case how about Russia send a Nuke to DC? The US is Clearly the most Immoral Worst of the Worst anything there is!
– Sure, let’s crank the escalation up one more notch. Seriously when this thing kicks off they are not going to be able to say they never saw it coming or that it was “unprovoked”.
What I don’t like Vicki is the probability that future vaccines that may be useful will come packaged in an mRNA form; and I wouldn’t have one of those.
I did have the AZ DNA one as a measure of protection against Covid given my age, and then the Novavax one as a booster, which made my heart thump for a couple of days two weeks later, not mRNA or DNA, so the spike protein itself must have been the cause there. Having had Covid since, I rely now on natural immunity for Covid. Had a normal flu shot a month ago, as usual.
Cornwall is beautiful, but gee they need to do something about the roads.
Try Outback NSW then,
Speaking for myself, no. It’s been clear to people since the 90s that NATO moving eastward would at some point lead to a response from Russia. So the best outcome before 2014 or 2022 would have been Austrian-style neutrality for Ukraine and reproachment between NATO and Russia following 2007/8 split. I’m not sure any of these outcomes aids in reversing the domestic situation in the West beyond preventing contagion abroad. Moreover, it’s interesting that you think that no one can have any independent criticisms of US or Western foreign policy that isn’t in some way rooted in domestic frustration or that isn’t Leftist. For instance, US foreign policy in the 19th century and up to WW1 was completely unlike it’s position post-WW2, which owed more to Wilson’s doctrine than anything else, and its been a riff on this ever since.
Karvelas’s national radio audience has dropped to below 50 000.
She’s tipped to replace Stan Grant on Q&A, which shoudl see the death of that program too.
Yes Vicki, it is.
Exactly the same personal choice for people to make as with any other vaccine.
Incidentally Novavax isn’t an ooohaaah mRna vaccine.
You’re meant to catch the train!
more promising mrna vaccines in the pipeline.
Comrade Premier Dmitri assures me, we had no choice, President Muffley, other than to deploy the cobalt thorium-G doomsday devices on Novaya Zemlya and the I.C.B.M. complex at Laputa!
Peace was our mission!
The AFR View
Make Australia a great place for mining investment
BHP’s capital strike on investing in Queensland should be a wake-up call.
BHP chief executive Mike Henry says the Big Australian will not invest any growth dollars in Queensland because there are “better returns and lower risk elsewhere in the world”.
When the world’s biggest miner says there is too much sovereign risk hovering over the nation’s second-biggest resource state, due to the Queensland government’s “unreasonable” tripling of coal royalties without bothering to consult the industry, it can’t just be brushed aside, as Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk tried to do yesterday by suggesting that the state has “a lot more other investors”.
At a peak in Australia’s mining- and energy-driven wealth, it underlines the wider denial, complacency and outright ideological hostility towards the mining sources of the nation’s modern prosperity among the political class, even as it dreams up new ways to spend and redistribute the taxes and royalties generated by this country’s great extractive industries.
Despite overflowing mining and energy receipts driving an unexpected budget surplus, Jim Chalmers’ talking points reduce this to the higher prices for Australia’s “commodity exports”. That the treasurer doesn’t routinely refer to the iron ore, coal, and gas that dominate these commodity exports reflects the political awkwardness of an economy propped up by the dirty fossil-fuel industries that will need to be wound back to drive carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.
The lack of support for the energy transition fuel of gas means that Australia risks walking into a disaster of not enough renewable energy, connected insufficiently but expensively to the grid, as coal-fired power is progressively closed down.
In his address to the World Mining Congress in Brisbane on Monday, part of which is reproduced on these pages today, the Australian-born former chief executive of British multinational mining giant Anglo American, Mark Cutifani, challenged the sector to push back against anti-mining regulatory and policy settings by educating the public about mining’s role in producing the raw materials that are the “source of everything” in modern industrial and technological society.
‘More mining, not less’
Australia’s great competitive advantage lies in the far-from-fully-discovered riches of its substantial part of the earth’s crust. And as Resources Minister Madeleine King rightly told the congress, mining is the friend, not the enemy, of the net zero transition, as “more mining, not less” will be needed to extract the critical minerals that are required to build the clean energy technologies of the future.
Yet, as Mr Henry has pointed out, Australia’s next wave of mining will have to extract minerals from more inaccessible locations and to deal with a culture increasingly hostile to the industry itself.
The new wave of critical minerals doesn’t need to be propped up by subsidies such as are on offer by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, as Mr Henry argues. Yet Australia’s transformation from a fossil-fuel-based economy into a potential clean energy superpower instead is now being jeopardised by capricious governments treating mining as a cash cow.
Blowouts in mine approval times and new supply-side obstacles – such as Western Australia’s controversial new Aboriginal heritage laws – also threaten Australia’s comparative advantage as a source of the green metals and minerals required to electrify a cleaner world.
Much of the debate about mining in this country is about throwing up more environmental, social and regulatory blocks.
That includes court decisions such as that handed down by recently appointed president of the Australian Law Reform Commission Mordecai Bromberg, and confirmed by the full Federal Court, which ruled that Santos had not adequately consulted with Tiwi Islands people, whose native title fishing rights were affected by its Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea, 140 kilometres to the north.
The rest of the time it’s about taxing mining harder with arbitrary state-based royalty increases such as in Queensland or a cherry-picked “super profits” resource rent tax designed to finance government spending monuments, rather than being part of a genuine tax reform package to sharpen incentives.
BHP’s capital strike on investing in Queensland should be a wake-up call. The focus needs to switch to how to make Australia a great place for mining investment, so it becomes faster and cheaper to dig the stuff out of the ground that the world requires for a greener and more prosperous tomorrow.
I doubt the Left really understands how detested the unions are. Having them publicly advocate for da Voice is probably going to increase the No vote.
BTW I thought you said at the time you had a Moderna booster Lizzie
Yes – it is a personal choice, obviously. But the vaccines used currently for this year’s influenza virus (at our local hospital they are still using the ineffective Tamiflu vaccine), are not manufactured using mRNA technology. I agree that Novavax uses a recombinant vaccine as with conventional vaccines.
He was asked, I kid you not, if the government should stop scalpers from reselling “tay tay” tickets.
And had he brought tickets to see ‘tay tay”…
Amateur hour! .. asking a trougher if they’ve BOUGHT tix .. surprised Billy didn’t ask for a clarification of the word “bought” …!
Lordy…Sergey Strangelove is back!
Those Bradleys blundering into a mixed minefield wound the outrage up to eleventy.
The Ukies previously scattering butterflies amongst the civilian population of Donetsk, not so much.
The Northern Territory police officer who fatally shot Kumanjayi Walker at Yuendumu has lost his Supreme Court appeal to avoid giving evidence at the Indigenous man’s coronial inquest.
The NT Court of Criminal Appeal this morning delivered its decision that Mr Rolfe and Alice Springs police officer, Sergeant Lee Bauwens, are compelled to answer questions at the wide-ranging inquest when it resumes in October after dismissing their appeal against a December Supreme Court ruling.
“Just as it was inappropriate to subject the obligation to obey lawful orders ‘to any unexpressed qualification’, the requirement to answer questions in coronial proceedings is directed in large part to the conduct of public authorities and should be similarly unfettered,” the Court of Criminal Appeal judgment said.
“The continued operation of a penalty privilege after the abrogation of the privilege against self-incrimination would contradict or diminish the operation of the coronial legislation and the achievement of its purposes.
“The appeal is dismissed.”
Must have missed something here. What wrong with the standard defence of government ministers – “I can’t recall”?
Having had Covid since, I rely now on natural immunity for Covid.
Lizzie, some of my friends who have been vaccinated have had up to three recurring doses of Covid up since their initial vaccinations. On the other hand, none of the unvaccinated people that I know (& I know many as I joined a group in my area who are opposed to the Covid vaccines) have contracted Covid again after an initial infection.
The only example, that I can recall, of an unvaccinated person suffering more than one infection with Covid was actually on this blog. I can’t recall who it was, but I do recall the blogger said that he (or she) had contracted it (as I recall) 4 or 5 times thereafter. I thought that quite strange, and is not what immunologist Geert Van Den Bossche predicted, or according to my own experience amongst the unvaccinated.
Whilst you would expect natural immunity to follow a recovery from Covid, it may be that repeated boosters diminish the immune response in some people.
All injected mRNA vaccines are going to have exactly the same problems as the Covid ones have. For the same reason: you are lining your blood vessels with inflammation-causing active molecular groups. The immune system cells will then try to destroy those lining cells because they think they’re infected.
The idea of a nasal spray* mRNA is not so bad, or patches. And skin-applied mRNA for things like cancer. But as soon as you inject mRNA designed to produce an immune response you are going to cause clotting and inflammation of circulatory system components, like the heart.
Vaccines are fine, but they have to present the active molecular group free-floating in the bloodstream, to avoid the lining cell inflammation issue. That is what killed-virus vaccines do, and they’ve been pretty good. I don’t know the stats for Novavax, which is that sort of model, but there’s a problem with the choice of the Covid spike protein for a vaccine platform since it itself looks to be quite toxic on its own. That’s virus-specific, not a generic problem for vaccines on the Novavax model (so long as the other construction components of the vaccine are OK, which is a notable controversy with Novavax).
(* So far the nasal spray Covid vaccine candidates haven’t been working. But then the injected version doesn’t work very well either, so it may just be that particular virus that is unvaccinatable.)
Anyone got full text:
I haven’t got access to the whole article so I can’t see exactly what’s happened but it **seems** DPLH have changed date on website to 1 July 2024… but again, I don’t have access to The West…
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/backlash-against-new-wa-aboriginal-cultural-heritage-laws-results-in-one-year-reprieve-c-11103022
Boambee
I have no worries roughly quadrupling out Navy: four “task forces”. It is imperative that we get long-range cruise missiles on top of intermediate-range anti-shipping and land attack missiles, regardless of fleet size.
One small carrier for V/STOL aircraft, cruise missile and AEGIS equipped
Two large landing craft
One AWD/GCN
Three AEGIS/cruise missile-capable frigates
Six submarines
Four offshore patrol vessels
Plus ancillary craft
The idea would be you could always have the equivalent of the current fleet in training, on power projection operations, in repair and on defensive watch. In a war you could have one fully defensive task force (maybe more) and up to three task forces for blue water operations.
As bern has pointed out we can pay up to double what other customers pay for platform unit costs & there is an incredible amount of waste to cut in government spending. You are correct that the true cost is manpower; the national public debt is about 33 years of defence spending.
Not sure how to work that with the Air Force (apply the same principles I suppose) but the Army idea was to have three small corps of four to five divisions each plus a reserve corps. They could be deployed offshore by each Naval task force.
Even if we have to scale that back to six FT divisions and two in reserve for the Army…
Cruise missiles, nuclear weapons and heavy investment in drone technologies will improve the air and sea defence capability.
This is a six minute clip. Father Frank Brennan.
At last week’s 18th Annual St Thomas More Lecture in Canberra, Fr Frank Brennan highlights St Thomas More’s insistence on process, precision and conscience and the ACT government’s lack of proper policy and procedure regarding the
compulsory acquisitiontheft of Calvary Hospital.https://youtu.be/ZQSLLMasaLI
That was an excellent analysis of the inflammatory problems with the mRNA vaccine, Bruce. I don’t think many people understand why the adverse reactions develop.
Incidentally, during the initial stages of the pandemic I used, as many did, the iodine based Betadine gargle as a preventative. Then, when I found that my TSH thyroid levels were awry, I discontinued that and instead used a nasal spray recently developed to prevent the virus proceeding via mucus into the respiratory system.
Dr Strangecrack, or how I leaned to stop worrying and keep 10% for the big guy.
Remember Biden helped push through the crack laws that saw extra penalties for its possession or use..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-an-early-biden-crime-bill-created-the-sentencing-disparity-for-crack-and-cocaine-trafficking/2019/07/28/5cbb4c98-9dcf-11e9-85d6-5211733f92c7_story.html
The bipartisan legislation crafted by Joe Biden, which authorized new funding for drug treatment programs and stricter penalties for drug offenses, passed overwhelmingly, with the support of most black lawmakers, and was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan.
Later, a little-noticed provision in the law came to be viewed as one of the most racially slanted sentencing policies on record: a rule that treated crack cocaine as significantly worse than powder cocaine and ended up disproportionately punishing African Americans.
BLM issued this statement: ….
FBI/CIA opened this investigation:……
Morrison government HomeBuilder scheme ‘overheated’ construction, blindsided states and lacked controls.
Mongison government. Attempting to fix the consequences of their COVID f’ck up led to yet more unintended f’ck ups!
That was your car?
Sorry about that.
Great balls of fire!
Hot testicles may hold the secret to elephants’ anti-cancer genes, suggests new study (Phys.org, 27 Jun)
An accident of birth generations ago is nothing in which to take pride; your ancestors were the random result of some long-ago groin-bumping and that’s that. Rosie’s point higher up, about many Aborigines having more recent injections of foreign bloodlines than that of long-term “invader” stock brings this to mind.
Here’s mum’s side of the family, as recorded by the gravestones and plot markings at Steiglitz cemetery. A very reluctant “invader”, Benjamin Barrett would no doubt have preferred to be back in Lancashire relieving others of their goods and property, the headstones may explain why, when I hear yet more about the ‘oldest living culture’, my eyes roll back further than even Gerry Gee could manage.
Ben’s seven kids, worked their arses off cutting wood, dying young, drowning, getting shot. He lived to 79 and buried them one by one. It was they who built the country that now gives $35 billion to those who refuse to amend their own culture to be sympatico with the one that, amid endless poor-me-you-bastard whining, showers them with largesse and indulges their excuses for two-year-olds being diagnosed with syphilis, truancy and recidivism.
Meanwhile, 25 years after Ben Barrett stepped ashore in Tasmania, dad’s people arrived to hunt nuggets in Ballarat.
So tell me that I’m a second-class Australian, that I owe some sort of solid-gold deference to fellow Australians with, in many cases, the slightest touch of the dusky gene. Go on, I dare you.
Gruinaid posts a “stop, my penis can only get so erect sharticle”.
one of the biggest cheerleaders for the unrelenting lawfare against trump wakes in a cold flop sweat, the copium withdrawals hitting like an under 16s boys soccer team hitting the back of the net playing against the top adult womes side in Australia.
If Trump wins, he’ll turn the justice department into a vendetta machine
Robert “turd” Reich
Last week Donald Trump said that, if re-elected, he’d appoint a “real special prosecutor” to “go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family”.
In other words, if Trump is re-elected, you can kiss nonpartisan criminal justice goodbye.
hahahahah, oh wait, your serious….
As Levi said at his swearing-in: “Nothing can more weaken the quality of life or more imperil the realization of the goals we all hold dear than our failure to make clear by words and deed that our law is not an instrument of partisan purpose.”
Levi set out to insulate the justice department from politics, instituting rules limiting White House involvement in law enforcement decisions.
….
Public trust in our governing institutions has already sunk to a new low – due in large part to Trump’s first term, his subsequent big lie that the 2020 election was “stolen”, and now his second big lie that Biden is orchestrating a “witch-hunt” against him.
Even if Biden is re-elected, it will be necessary to deal with the damage Trump and his Republican enablers have wrought.
So basically 2 things which are objectively true and one where the people doing the stealing had a piece written in Time magazine boasting of how they did it?
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Dot
As bern has pointed out we can pay up to double what other customers pay for platform unit costs & there is an incredible amount of waste to cut in government spending. You are correct that the true cost is manpower; the national public debt is about 33 years of defence spending.
And, as I have responded to bern, I suspect that the “double” cost comes from use of full life cycle cost, not being ripped off more grossly than usual.
And manpower has two costs, first the cost to recruit, train and operate, then the opportunity cost of removing large numbers from the workforce. Note also that Navy has, for decades, had a major issue with recruitment and retention.
Not sure how to work that with the Air Force (apply the same principles I suppose) but the Army idea was to have three small corps of four to five divisions each plus a reserve corps. They could be deployed offshore by each Naval task force.
Not sure what you think constitutes a division, but up to 15,000 personnel used to be around the size (some armies used bigger, some smaller). Then there are corps troops, additional artillery, armour, air defence, engineers, logistics forces to allow the corps commander to reinforce an attack or defence as necessary.
Even a corps of three divisions, with corps troops, would be unlikely to be fewer than 60,000 strong. However, in the latter days of the Soviet Union, they were working on a “Unified Corps” of five brigades (plus corps troops). Even that would come out at up to 40,000 strong.
And your naval task force is not going to be able to lift even that. Back in Cold War days, the US had three regular Marine divisions, but could lift less than two of them, with a navy that dwarfed your proposal.
Dotsays:
June 28, 2023 at 9:30 am
+1000.
In some jurisdictions (NSW for example versus NY) this is the greatest data set.
Make it anonymous.
Open source it.
Many doctorates await.
It’s actually an interesting article if you read it. I don’t buy it for the reasons given last night re China using nukes against Australia to message the US, and I don’t think the Russians want that anyway, which is why he’s responding to Russian critics of his earlier proposal.
I don’t follow this chap.
A few people I follow have re-tweeted this.
Tank Man
@wittycommittee
On January 6, a US Capitol Police Officer detailed characteristics and identifiers of undercover officers infiltrating the crowd, “There’s a guy [inaudible] up here. Short guy, dark hair, black vest, Thin Blue Line uh thing on, dark hair and he’s got a little 27 or something on his hip. No police identification on him at at all. I couldn’t get to him because there was so many people.”
Officer 2: “White male?”
O1: “White male, dark hair. Looked like a grayish-black maybe digital fatigue.”
O3: “[Inaudible] Any identifiers?”
O1: “They will have a wristband. Their guns will have a candy stripe on the barrel. I don’t know the wristband color – they will have a wristband somewhere. OK?”
https://twitter.com/wittycommittee/status/1673706725625540614
I love scientists who amazingly discover what people have known for about three thousand years.
Just add water: Garden ponds and bird baths help wildlife thrive, study finds (Phys.org, 27 Jun)
I’m flabbergasted! At the Cafe I have a couple of 10 L plastic water containers, on the shed and the carport roof. Ten litres is just the right size to fit one currawong. That is a win-win since the currawongs can then bathe, which they do with great enthusiasm and splashing, and as a result they don’t pong. Some of them can be eye-wateringly smelly, I think from fungal spores and mite poo.
Interesting link at Rafe’s “Let’s Build Communities” thread.
So tell me that I’m a second-class Australian, that I owe some sort of solid-gold deference to fellow Australians with, in many cases, the slightest touch of the dusky gene. Go on, I dare you.
My father’s family were descended from at least one convict who was incarcerated in Port Arthur. Descendants seem to have generally married well and prospered, although my father’s mother had the misfortune to lose both parents to Scarlet Fever and she was married off at 14 to a 38 year old coal miner. She produced eight children, who all survived. She had a particularly hard life as she was an extremely intelligent woman who would have enjoyed an education had it been possible in her circumstances.
Like areff, most of us post war Aussies all had forbears who struggled to make a good life here for their families. Very few were high born squatters from “the Olde Country” who made new fortunes on vast land grants.
Hmmm a total f-up if true but it **appears** WA Liebor have delayed Aboriginal Cultural Act for miners, not farmers, pastoralists or peri urbanists…
I can’t work out what the truth is but what a total mess (when Act comes into force in 3 days)
I always start with, “It’s a pool lounge. Not Poland. Give it up.”
That’s a double dud, I’m afraid.
A) Small – why waste money?
B) V/STOL – the additional waste of money when you’ve wasted money on small.
One of the reasons why places like Odessa and Kharkov were a little different by 2022 compared with 2014.
“We need a bigger Navy”
*Four times as big isn’t enough*
*Anything short of a full-size carrier of runway launched jets is inadequate*
I think I found the ex-naval officers!
but it **appears** WA Liebor have delayed Aboriginal Cultural Act for miners
That would be the mining industry that employs the chap who wrote the legislation?
The ex-ALP pollie with no visible skills beyond lubing up the taxpayer for fresh pineapple up the clacker.
That one?
https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/art/former-wa-treasurer-joins-rio-tinto-board-c-3014947
As Aboriginal Affairs Minister in the McGowan Labor government, he was responsible for managing disturbance to Aboriginal heritage sites when Rio destroyed the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelters last year.
The mining giant was granted its Section 18 application to disturb the site under the previous Liberal government.
During the four-year term of the last parliament, Mr Wyatt approved 143 Section 18 applications and rejected just one.
Mr Wyatt was also appointed as a non-executive director of oil and gas giant Woodside earlier this week, in addition to board roles with AFL team West Coast and the Telethon Kids Institute.
He will earn about $270,000 a year in his board and committee roles with Woodside and STG105,000 ($A193,000) in base director fees from Rio.
The 47-year-old said he had “long been impressed with the professionalism and commitment demonstrated by Rio Tinto”.
Morrison government HomeBuilder scheme ‘overheated’ construction, blindsided states and lacked controls.
And Luigi wonders why he can’t get his several billion dollars housing scheme passed ..
We is gummint, we is here to help .. LOL!
Is anyone else having issues with GMail today?
I am having issues with Google Analytics here, since MicroScum has had pop-up ads in Win 11 for their “sekurridee pardna” things have been jumpy…
Congress urges Biden to send cluster bombs to Kiev – media
Does it ever occur to these furglewits that any introduction of more , unused as yet, weaponry can be rinse-&-repeated by the opposition? ..
they waffle on as if they are opposing some 3rd world outhouse operation with limited resources ……!
An interesting proposal considering it took the AFR staff about a year to overwhelm the good intentions of the AFR editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury after he took control of the paper around a decade ago.
Stutchbury authorised the above editorial, but doesn’t act on a word of it as that would require confrontation with the wall-to-wall big government anti-business communists infesting the paper and the rest of Australian journalism.
I doubt you would find more than two people on the AFR editorial staff who believe in free enterprise. The AFR now exists mainly as a fashion accessory for corporates to signal to other corporates on the plane that they’re hip to the current anti-business thinking that considers customers and shareholders useful idots.
475 million per plane?
I don’t think we’re dealing with honest salesmen.
Is anyone else having issues with GMail today?
Not Gmail but the Cat has time dme out several times .. running very, very slow …..
had that google thingy yesterday but ir seems to have cleared up today …….
…idiots …
My last two posts took nearly a minute each to load.
In a move that has sparked widespread conversation, Fox News has reportedly terminated all remaining staff members associated with the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” show.
I saw them at Melbourne Uni in 1976, playing a lunchtime gig outside the Union building. Presumably “fresh off the boat”, as I’d never heard of them… and nor had most anyone else.
They were a force of nature.
Former teacher and professional rugby league footballer Chris Dawson has been found guilty of the unlawful carnal knowledge? of a schoolgirl he went on to marry.
District Court of NSW judge Sarah Huggett on Wednesday convicted Dawson of the charge, officially making him both a killer and a sexual predator.
GMail too is terrible at blocking spam lately.
Maybe there’s a limit to how well you can run virtual memory.
Dotsays:
June 28, 2023 at 12:49 pm
And, as I have responded to bern, I suspect that the “double” cost comes from use of full life cycle cost, not being ripped off more grossly than usual.
475 million per plane?
I don’t think we’re dealing with honest salesmen.
How long is the plane expected to remain in service?
What is the expected number of flight hours annually?
What is the fuel usage per flight hour?
How many maintenance hours per flight hour?
What is the annual cost for maintenance personnel (by specialisation)? Note that the personnel are full time, even if they are not needed every day.)
What is the spares usage per flight hour?
What is the cost of fixed facilities required?
There are many more questions in the equation. Note also that, unlike commercial aviation, part of the usage rate is to keep the aircraft usable for an extended period, not maximise the usage in the short to=erm for revenue purposes.
Note also that the potential users have major inputs to the life cycle costs. It is not something that the sales persons decree (though they will try where possible to boost the sales of things like spares.
shatterzzzsays:
June 28, 2023 at 12:50 pm
Is anyone else having issues with GMail today?
Same here. Brave but not Chrome.
Dotsays:
June 28, 2023 at 12:49 pm
And, as I have responded to bern, I suspect that the “double” cost comes from use of full life cycle cost, not being ripped off more grossly than usual.
475 million per plane?
I don’t think we’re dealing with honest salesmen.
How long is the plane expected to remain in service?
What is the expected number of flight hours annually?
What is the fuel usage per flight hour?
How many maintenance hours per flight hour?
What is the annual cost for maintenance personnel (by specialisation)? Note that the personnel are full time, even if they are not needed every day.)
What is the spares usage per flight hour?
What is the cost of fixed facilities required?
There are many more questions in the equation. Note also that, unlike commercial aviation, part of the usage rate is to keep the aircraft usable for an extended period, not maximise the usage in the short term for revenue purposes.
Note also that the potential users have major inputs to the life cycle costs. It is not something that the sales persons decree (though they will try where possible to boost the sales of things like spares.
I’ve seen ludicrous estimates of a 10-year, 40-year and 60 – 66 year lifespan for the F35.
Great thread.
Also, estimates of an actual unit cost of 78 USD and a lifetime cost of 1.6 bn USD.
Tucker Carlson on Twitter Episode 7 — Irony Alert: the war for democracy enables dictatorship.
The Darkness Ahead: Where The Ukraine War Is Headed
JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
24 JUN 2023
Conclusion
It should be apparent by now that the Ukraine war is an enormous disaster that is unlikely to end anytime soon and when it does, the result will not be a lasting peace. A few words are in order about how the West ended up in this dreadful situation.
The conventional wisdom about the war’s origins is that Putin launched an unprovoked attack on 24 February 2022, which was motivated by his grand plan to create a greater Russia. Ukraine, it is said, was the first country he intended to conquer and annex, but not the last. As I have said on numerous occasions, there is no evidence to support this line of argument, and indeed there is considerable evidence that directly contradicts it.66 While there is no question Russia invaded Ukraine, the ultimate cause of the war was the West’s decision – and here we are talking mainly about the United States – to make Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. The key element in that strategy was bringing Ukraine into NATO, a move that not only Putin, but the entire Russian foreign policy establishment, saw as an existential threat that had to be eliminated.
It is often forgotten that numerous American and European policymakers and strategists opposed NATO expansion from the start because they understood that the Russians would see it as a threat, and that the policy would eventually lead to disaster.
The list of opponents includes George Kennan, both President Clinton’s Secretary of Defense, William Perry, and his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili, Paul Nitze, Robert Gates, Robert McNamara, Richard Pipes, and Jack Matlock, just to name a few.67 At the NATO summit in Bucharest In April 2008, both French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel opposed President George W. Bush’s plan to bring Ukraine into the alliance. Merkel later said that her opposition was based on her belief that Putin would interpret it as a “declaration of war.”68
Of course, the opponents of NATO expansion were correct, but they lost the fight and NATO marched eastward, which eventually provoked the Russians to launch a preventive war.
Had the United States and its allies not moved to bring Ukraine into NATO in April 2008, or had they been willing to accommodate Moscow’s security concerns after the Ukraine crisis broke out in February 2014, there probably would be no war in Ukraine today and its borders would look like they did when it gained its independence in 1991.
The West made a colossal blunder, which it and many others are not done paying for.
Missing from the strategic fleet recommendations is the body cam data collection, analysis and prosecution launch vessel.
Do keep up with contemporary priorities.
Winter is coming for religious freedom in NSW
By Monica Doumit – June 28, 2023
The independent member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, this week announced that he would table not one, but three bills dealing with LGBTIQ+ issues, which will likely come before parliament after the winter break.
Excerpts:
The first bill, the Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023, proposes two significant changes to the law. First, it would introduce what are known as gender self-identification laws, which would have the effect of allowing a person to change the sex on identification documents, such as a birth certificate and drivers’ license, simply on application. There will be no need for any type of hormonal or surgical treatment to support the change; it will just need the filling out of a form.
The second aim of this bill is the removal of religious protections in current anti-discrimination laws. Similar to the current Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry that proposes to require Catholic schools to hire those who do not abide by the beliefs of the school, this bill would take away those protections in law that allow religious institutions to maintain their religious ethos.
The next bill proposed by Mr Greenwich is the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2023. As its name suggests, the bill aims to outlaw so-called “conversion practices” when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity. It will undoubtedly be marketed as trying to ban harmful, non-consensual practices, such as electroshock therapy, which try to change a person’s sexual orientation. All of us can agree that such things are wrong.
However, the real aim and effect of these types of laws—like the one currently in place in Victoria and the one proposed in Tasmania—is not only to ban these practices (that haven’t occurred for decades anyway), but to prohibit and punish any form of religious teaching that would say that homosexual activity is sinful and, if continued in full knowledge and without repentance, could result in eternal separation from God. It would also seek to ban ministries like Courage, which provide prayerful support and accompaniment to those experiencing same-sex attraction but who want to live in accordance with their religious beliefs.
On top of this, it would prevent anything except affirmation for children who experience gender dysphoria and who want to access puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to change their outward appearance.
Finally, the Variation in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Bill 2023 will mirror recent ACT legislation that bans surgery on minors who are born with intersex characteristics such as ambiguous genitalia.
The details of the bills are yet to be released
After the Speccie cited BigW’s support for Da Voice propaganda booklet a day or so back, its getting an absolute pasting in reviews. Go woke …
https://www.bigw.com.au/product/the-voice-to-parliament-handbook-by-thomas-mayo-kerry-o-brien/p/289432
If that was a vox populi, it’d be 10% Yes, 90% No f. way.
It is just that the man in this vid should hang.
Nice comparison.. da Voice is a cargo cult. “Build it and they will come”
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/the-voice-is-it-a-cult/
My fathers ancestors were Scottish crofters. They were evicted from their smallholdings, marched to the nearest seaport, told “The Laird has been pleased to pay for your passages to Australia.” and “put on the ship”, then and there. Where’s my inter-generational trauma?
DoverCat shares the same server as the Taylor Swift tickets are sold.
Why does the William Tyrell disappearance keep cropping up in the media time after time even tho they never seem to have any new info/evidence? ..
Other missing kids don’t get this sort of, ongoing, publicity ..!
I can still recall the 3 years old lebanese girl, youngest of six, none of the other kids were disturbed, who disappeared out of her, shared, bedroom window in Leumeah lotza years ago .. she was never found or ever seen again and yet despite the fact that it should have been, almost, impossible for it too happen without someone in the house being aware it barely lasted a week in the media before entry into the forgettery files ….
Yet here we are 9 years on and the Tyrell case once again in the “news” ………
Finally, the Variation in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Bill 2023 will mirror recent ACT legislation that bans surgery on minors who are born with intersex characteristics such as ambiguous genitalia.
That’s a pretty good idea.
I thought that had been banned years ago.
Mark Latham has been quiet.
Great work DUncan. Review with one star done. And circulated for others to do the same!
A Ministry of Truth Is Coming
Senator Alex Antic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CUAHTtMsM4
Cites prior examples in USA, Netherlands, UK, and UnZud.
Covid misinformation that turned out to be correct is the obvious local example given.
I dare say the Tyrell case is in the news because the police believe they are closing in on the person responsible.
Just a thought.
How long can a chap with the BMI that Trump has continue to live with the pressure he’s under?
Another thought.
If RFK Jr keeps up the testosterone shots at the rate he is, how long before he keels over?
Former teacher and professional rugby league footballer Chris Dawson has been found guilty of the unlawful carnal knowledge? of a schoolgirl he went on to marry.
Never in doubt! .. plod needed full-on revenge after all the adverse publicity they copped ..
last big article in 2015 on the abduction of Rahma El-Dennaoui, family may have been involved
According to the Daily Caller, Group VP for Marketing Daniel Blake, and Bud Light Marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid are “gone, gone” after initially being placed on leave, per an anonymous source.
dover0beachsays:
June 28, 2023 at 2:01 pm
Erasing that from the memory banks will take some time.
He will have to do it to get rid of the real insurrectionists in Washington, to make it unprofitable for any of them to do it again. Only a Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), as in nuclear weapons jargon, will deter the left from retaliation the next time. This is not just about Trump but any right leaning president.
Dotsays:
June 28, 2023 at 1:25 pm
I’ve seen ludicrous estimates of a 10-year, 40-year and 60 – 66 year lifespan for the F35.
What has been the lifespan (so far) of the B-52? And the C-130?
In the words of Lukashenko: “Ohh you’re upset.”
Ever see that movie, Windtalkers? About the Navajo assigned to the army for communications because to anyone else it is an impenetrable code.
Well, in these days of supercomputers that may no longer be the case.
But if there was a second Joe Biden out there I think the computers would end up popping their fuses in despair.
Sadly, it looks the simple quicktags are kaput. I was a little worried this would happen because the plugin hasn’t been updated for ages.
I’m not an admirer of Putin, after all, he’s a politician. But he appears to be sane. This is more than can be said of whoever is running the US.
The sound of nitromethane. Snap crackle and pop! Even after a couple days you can still taste it in your mouth … that after regular brushing of the teeth.
Truth is, it does taste nice. ( :
2023 NHRA Summit Nationals | Funny Car Eliminations | Norwalk, OH
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-28/pizza-distant-ancestor-painting-roman-house-pompeii/102533868
A fresco depicting what might be a “distant ancestor” of the Italian pizza has been found on the wall of a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy’s Culture Ministry says.
such as pomegranates or dates, or dressed with spices and a type of pesto sauce, the ministry said.
While the food in the image — likely painted in the first century AD — cannot technically be considered a pizza since it lacks classic ingredients such as tomato and mozzarella, what was found in Pompeii “may be a distant relative of the modern dish”, according to a statement.
Tomatoes were only introduced to Europe from the Americas a few centuries ago, and some histories have it that the discovery of mozzarella led directly to the invention of pizza in nearby Naples in the 1700s.
Cant be a proper pizza – no pineapple on it.
Pity greenwich is not a taxi driver, then Latham could really settle matters. Greenwich shows what a trojan horse SSM was.
The ABCcess does a film review.
Its boilerplate “you go girl/agitprop/capitalism is bad ‘mmmmkaaay/ colonialism mish mash of “current year” crap.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-28/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-movie-review/102524824
The lanky, mischievous Waller-Bridge is the animating spark for much of the adventure; as the mercenary, ethically dubious Helena, she’s a ghost of Indy’s own past, and the actor brings out a lovely, cross-generational rapport with Ford that occasionally evokes his double act with Sean Connery in The Last Crusade.
Her presence also suggests a scrambled moral complexity: In an era when Indy’s old mantra, “It belongs in a museum,” carries a whiff of institutional colonialism, who’s to say Helena’s black market capitalism is any less noble a pursuit?
….
With Indy joining them, it’s an old-fashioned, international jaunt that takes our heroes across North Africa and into Europe by land and sea, with Voller and his goons – a moustachioed American stooge (Boyd Holbrook), presumably standing in for a contemporary Proud Boy – in hot pursuit.
…..
institutional colonialism – as opposed to the wonderful swarthy and culturally enriching ISIS types?
There is not a single sentence in the review that actually makes me want to watch it.
Pod of orcas thrills whale watchers on NSW Far South Coast
I wonder how today’s wokester mob who are going after Holly Lawford-Smith would react if the Rev. Dr Eric D’Arcy, former chaplain of the National Civic Council, later Archbishop of Hobart and, by the way, an eminently qualified academic philosopher, were still teaching in the Melbourne philosophy department. Such an appointment would now, if course, be unthinkable. Melbourne philosophy (unlike Anderson Ian Sydney) used to display a genuine diversity of views.
Before my time, but Lizzie may remember the Rev. Professor Jack McManners (formerly fellow, tutor and chaplain of St Edmund Hall, Oxford) holding with distinction a history chair at Sydney before returning to Oxford. Imagine how the wokesters would howl at his appointment now.
Speaking of Hobart, the ABC is spearheading a campaign by the queer lobby and boomer progressive fifth columnists in the ‘Catholic’ ‘education’ bureaucracies against the present archbishop’s proposed new syllabus which will teach – shock/horror – orthodox Christian doctrine about sex. Catholic schools being Catholic! How dare they.
“allowing a person to change the sex on identification documents, such as a birth certificate and drivers’ license, simply on application
Fee of $10,000 applied, each time.
Ben Wyatt certainly leveraged the Rio f*ckup to his advantage. Was at UWA law school when I was knocking around. I have no recollection of him and I’m sure it is mutual. In terms of closing the gap, he needs to spend more time on the Weagles. 200 point thrashings are worse than post colonial trauma.
**If Trump wins, he’ll turn the justice department into a vendetta machine**
It’s already a vendetta machine. He’ll just try to switch the focus from “Get Trump” to “Get Biden/Obama/Clinton team al”.
I’d vote for that.
“Why does the William Tyrell disappearance keep cropping up in the media time after time”
Because j’ismists are lazy c words and if there is an association or foundation they can go to for pre-written copy they will.
Mole: Critical Drinker on Indiana Jones’ latest. He doesn’t to watch it either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KG-SfghRJE
Re. Greenfilth, let’s see if the Minns government blocks his proposed legislation. The problem is they’re a minority government. However they don’t need to rely on him, there are other independents they can work with. Greenfilth was enabled by Gladslag and the Liberals, he was behind the abortion laws.
Greenfilth is an utterly sinister, despicable and vile individual who, in a decent society, would never be near the reins of power. Perhaps, just perhaps, he’s overstepping the mark with this appalling legislation.
Mark Latham is right about Greenfilth.
Hmm….interesting – the Bold/Italics/Link taskbar has disappeared from my Cat screen.
It’s the same in both Safari and Chrome.
From the Dawson case – using quotation marks as italics have carked it:
“AB said she would sometimes accompany Chris to exercise classes at Linfield school, which he taught with his twin brother Paul.
She said on one occasion she engaged in sexual activity with Dawson in the school’s pool, while at the other end Paul engaged in sexual activity with another young girl.
Paul Dawson has not been charged with any offence.”
So will Paul D be charged?
No TE
its “transitioning”
Need to find a victim first?
Humans with this technology isn’t going to work out well.
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1662090386175676424
rosie says:
June 28, 2023 at 2:21 pm
I dare say the Tyrell case is in the news because the police believe they are closing in on the person responsible.
———–
They’ve been there before. The evidence if any exists seems to be scant.
The fact of the matter is many missing people are never found.
I don’t know what evidence the police have.
Maybe they don’t reveal the lot prior to charging someone.
Dotsays:
June 28, 2023 at 3:35 pm
That was gross. Can’t believe it came from a nice boy like you, Dot.
Please try to play nicely.
Re: Tyrell case:
Le us not forget abject bungling by the police from the get-go.
I’m surprised the solved murder rate is so low in the US
While the rate at which murders are solved or “cleared” has been declining for decades, it has now dropped to slightly below 50% in 2020 – a new historic low. And several big cities, including Chicago, have seen the number of murder cases resulting in at least one arrest dip into the low to mid-30% range.
Australia, the clearance rate is around 85%.
“the Bold/Italics/Link taskbar has disappeared from my Cat screen.”
#Meetoo.
Quotes
There’s nothing worse than a missing child, it’s a nightmare and a tragedy.
When you look at the pictures of those missing children, be it little William Tyrrell, or the little Beaumont children, or those two little girls who disappeared from Adelaide Oval back in 1973, or the many others, and it’s haunting. Families never know what happened, and if the children are dead (and one can assume they are), the families have no bodies to bury. The families never ever have peace.
Yes it does.
Let’s see.
Ok, quotes fails. does italics?
‘She said on one occasion she engaged in sexual activity with Dawson in the school’s pool, while at the other end Paul engaged in sexual activity with another young girl.’
She was older than the age of consent, except it’s higher for pupils an d teachers, so …
how old before the young girl didn’t apply?
Yep. Nothing works .
“Antarctic land-clinging ice shrinks to record low
The ice that clings to Antarctica‘s coast has crashed to a record low extent, with scientists warning of devastating results if this becomes a long-term trend.”
Devastating results.
Oh no! We’re all gonna die. Again. (From The Oz.)
Except bold.
Quotes doesn’t work.
JC, I suppose Dover dumbing down the Cat to keep it functioning is better than not having it at all.
If only IT coders weren’t anti-social a***holes. IT remains one of the few industries where you can’t get good help for ideological reasons.
Good read:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/06/the-voice-roadshow-comes-to-town/
Apparently Langton was arguing “there’s no such thing as race” at this event which is odd given we’re going through a race-based argument for a race based constitution. Alas, it was a typical ABC “love in.”
LOL. Coding fail.
Don’t know about you Dover but iv been disillusioned about Western foreign policy for a very long time, longer then C.L. You will not find eny comment defending it at all from me. The listing of Western transgressions speaks to motive deal with it.
Hypothetical.
China invades Taiwan. The west makes angree noises but does nothing.
What if the same happens to Israel?
I don’t blame the yanks if they go isolationist yet it is not in Australia’s interest until we get some deterrents of owe own.
Australia should not be involved in this war nether should its citizens get personally invested it. They already have outsiders stirring the pot creating more misery and we have owe problem’s to deal with.
Test.
OK, that’s weird.
Site is loading much faster but all the trinkets have gone.
I’m wondering if we have to actually change the theme here on WordPress.
o upticks.
That cheeky scamp Ed is back, I see.
What a funny little fellow.
The ice that clings to Antarctica‘s coast has crashed to a record low extent, with scientists warning of devastating results if this becomes a long-term trend.”
I bet that, once the skeptics have looked at the new “data”, it will be apparent that’s it’s complete bulls**t and just another propaganda invention.
I bet that, once the skeptics have looked at the new “data”, it will be apparent that’s it’s complete bulls**t and just another propaganda invention.”
Of course it will, Tom. The propagandanistas cannot handle the truth!
What a funny little fellow.
Like a kick in the Jatz crackers.
Journalists used to be skeptics. Nowadays they’re just parrots for the government of the day.
Journalists do not think or vote like normal people. Journalism has become a radical political party that, in Australia, will do whatever it takes to get the Greens and the ALP elected.
The ice that clings to Antarctica‘s coast has crashed to a record low extent, with scientists warning of devastating results if this becomes a long-term trend.”
….
I wonder if it has anything to do with the volcanos that lie underneath the ice.
Tom, it’s laughable (almost) that every day there’s a new life-threatening disaster heading our way to keep us frightened and compliant: climate catastrophe, aliens, monster meteorites, pandemics etc.
Talk about crying wolf.
PS: Thanks for all the work you put in to our daily dose of toons. It is much appreciated.
“Apparently Langton was arguing “there’s no such thing as race” at this event…”
Ergo [in italics] the Voice cannot be racist.
At least, I suspect that’s what she was arguing.
Delta Asays:
June 28, 2023 at 5:36 pm
Tom, it’s laughable (almost) that every day there’s a new life-threatening disaster heading our way to keep us frightened and compliant: climate catastrophe, aliens, monster meteorites, pandemics etc.
Talk about crying wolf.
PS: Thanks for all the work you put in to our daily dose of toons. It is much appreciated.
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Spot on, Delta and I second your comment re Tom’s ‘toons’. Never miss them.
“Sadly, it looks the simple quicktags are kaput. I was a little worried this would happen because the plugin hasn’t been updated for ages.”
I concur.
PS
What’s a plugin?
‘Apparently Langton was arguing “there’s no such thing as race” ‘
But she’s quite happy about claiming that faux-aboriginal and fraud of an “academic” as one of her own.
Where is Winston?
He’s a little creepy. Especially when the crusty tubesock is getting a workout.
Yet here we are 9 years on and the Tyrell case once again in the “news” ………
NSWPlod have announced they want to charge the step mum with Interfering with a corpse and a few other charges. They believe he died following some sort of accident at home.
Speaking of missing kids I heard a few stories that never made the media from long time locals, including the bus driver’s, who “left him behind” supervisor, about Daniel Morecombes disappearance.
Does anyone know why almost every site now asks to approve cookies etc? Was there something on the legal side that’s caused this? It’s been happening for the last week or so.
Let’s all agree then.
Let’s all agree then.
Yes, JC. Just like the ABC.
Lol
I have noticed this “cookie approval” demand too. I thought it was a UK/Euro thing.
Off to Heligen today to inspect the restored gardens. Will report back to gardener Cats, the brown thumbed can avert their eyes. A round trip has us lunching at Jamaica Inn (and plotting some gin smuggling onto our cruise) and sunset at Tintagel. It’s a mizzling day visibility poor, so any photos will be very sub standard.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Except when I don’t.
Don’t ask cohenite, you will regret it.
It’s a mizzling day visibility poor, so any photos will be very sub standard.
Thanks for the Pommy weather report, Calli. Cricket punters take note.
scientists warning of……
Must be after sum moah rezearch fundz.
Horror: Watch a Mother describe how California stole her daughter, transitioned her, and caused her death
108Anna
@108SAR
Are you allowed to walk stark naked in any major Canadian city? Among kids? New ‘decency rules’ I am not aware of?
Are these Trudeau kids?
The Tonga volcano plus la Nina more like. The volcano put a lot of water vapour into the stratosphere above the Antarctic continent and la Nina seems to shift heat from the equator to the poles.
Antarctica is only losing 150 Gt/y of ice according to the GRACE data. Since wiki tells me the ice cap weighs 24,380,000 Gt that means it’ll all melt with a small whimper some time during October of 164,556 AD.
A plugin is what mutley refers to as a pineapple.
Tucker at least remembers Gonzalo Lira who is an American citizen but has been completely abandoned.
BREAKING – BlackRock Recruiter Who “Decides People’s Fate” Spills Info on Company’s World Impact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB95337GH4g
The Covert Agenda: How the US is Using the War to Bankrupt Ukraine’s Economy – Jim Rickards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsGR4d4MQ4
“The ice that clings to Antarctica‘s coast has crashed to a record low extent, with scientists warning of devastating results if this becomes a long-term trend.”
….
I wonder if it has anything to do with the volcanos that lie underneath the ice.”
Of course they do:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/12/new-paper-finds-west-antarctic-glacier-likely-melting-from-geothermal-heat-below/
And Chris Turney who got trapped in the Antarctic ice in 2013 because there was so much of it should have waited a few years.
‘They HATED it!’ | Nigel Farage scoffs at MSM vitriol towards his Best News Presenter award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCT_FXt_5E
I have totally ignored the Harry and Meghan circus but this was irresistible. She’s wonderful.
Candace Owens: ‘Prince Harry is a victim of his own stupidity’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMF1zkDJlQw
Where has the link button gone?
Maybe Tucker could inquire about WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich while he’s at it.
In the dinner time lull:
It was about two years ago that I sought advice from Cats regarding the suggestion/offer that best Man and I should move into the large house being built by SiL for his big family, his elderly, dementia suffering mother, her aged brother and my frail brother (now deceased). Several Cats responded, including Roger, who cautioned that Sil’s siblings might cause trouble for a variety of reasons.
This proved to be so from the very start. Many nasty (libelous) letters from his sisters claiming that Daughter was only after Mum’s money and Mum would be better off in a nursing home. Daughter and SiL handed all over to a lawyer and continued offering exemplary care to his mum, always inviting his sisters to family events and parties, but never surprised when there was no response, even though these women both have a guaranted $360,000 coming their way. (Same share as forwarded to SiL to complete the house.)
Now, sadly, our dear Mother, MiL, Nanna and friend is at the end of her life. Currently, she is in the local hospital as the palliative team arrange appropriate services. To their surprise, Daughter, SiL and in fact, all of us, want Mum to come home to die. They’re happy to provide whatever assistace we need to keep her happy and pain free.
Family will be contacted, of course. I just hope her daughters find time to visit. But they haven’t in seven years now, so the chances are not good.
Very sade Delta . Don’t no what to say.
“Family will be contacted, of course. I just hope her daughters find time to visit. But they haven’t in seven years now, so the chances are not good.”
So sorry to hear the latter, Delta. I empathise. Family can inflict more grief than other life tribulations.
Danger Dan Reviews:
The Magnificent Lightness of Being. Dan Andrews, Chris Bowen, Anthony Albanese, Katy Gallagher
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
“If we do a really good job with non-compliance and woke ideology push-back, we can lower the 1% to 0%”
Cordially,
The 99%
https://twitter.com/hugh_mankind/status/1673824745324789760?cxt=HHwWgIC-lZqvz7ouAAAA
Wouldn’t it be wonderful.
Delta, my thoughts and prayers are with you and family at this time.
No, don’t remember McManners, but I do remember Professor Ward, who lectured so well on Imperialism. Can you imagine that getting a look in today without it being a woke-fest on colonialism? It wasn’t under Ward’s lecturing. I recall lectures on the Industrial Revolution by some junior PhD as being rather a tedious recitation of trade figures though. There were also some excellent lecturers in Indian history, where I came to grief in one essay contrasting Munro and Bentinck, for while I understood it well in the tutorials I found getting my contrasts right on paper was another thing altogether. They were kind enough to give me a pass in that essay though as it was a toughie for a young girl with no political nous in from the western suburbs. I guess that was what I was there to learn, how to assess performances against evidence. I doubt if today there would be such a concentration on a detailed examination of the styles and achievements or otherwise of two different colonial administrators. I also did some early modern History.
“What’s a plugin?
Don’t ask cohenite, you will regret it.”
By popular demand a cute owl:
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/590956782375712118/
“Several Cats responded, including Roger, who cautioned that Sil’s siblings might cause trouble for a variety of reasons.
This proved to be so from the very start. ”
Sorry to hear that, Delta.
“Family will be contacted, of course. I just hope her daughters find time to visit. But they haven’t in seven years now, so the chances are not good.” So sorry to hear that Delta A, some members of some families can be so very very cruel – very sad for all but, in the end, irredeemable for the cruel.
I’d appreciate it if Old Lefty contributed more often.
Blimmin flip, Cohenite. That’s awful.
I may have missed it but has there been any news as to why Tim Blair has not been posting for quite a while? I hope he’s not had any more nasty health problems.
I also recall Ian Jack and his wife, Sybil, whom he divorced. They both taught medieval history, which I did and liked very much. They were both complete scholars, in from Edinburgh I think. His lectures were in his soft Scots accent and with such a dry wit tossed off in throwaway lines.
England won the toss, sent Australia in.
Starc in for Boland.
England playing 4 seamers.
Tim Blair has a three page article in the latest Quadrant. Very amusing too.
While visiting the Grandkids, I undertook a nostalgia drive to Kurrajong where my sister and I were dispatched a couple of times to holiday with our aunt. I have no idea how we got there from our SQLD property. We were tots.
She ran a residential music teacher and composer – um -thingo.
The obvious beauty of the area and the endless music was of no interest to me whatsoever.
I loved the timber jinkers that roared and rattled through the village constantly. They were surplus Studebakers with the cabs removed. The drivers sat on chaff bags on wooden benches. The trucks had little metal hands that slid out on a rail to signal stop and turning.
The local constable apparently saw nothing remiss in these deathtraps but he would nail you in an instant if you dared to use one of those new fangled flashing turn indicators on your car.
In a form of proto stupid that would eventually morph into the RTA, authorities had concluded that, unlike sticking your hand out the window on a dark wet night, flashing indicators would “confuse motorists”.
My aunt, who was part Rotweiler, ignored all of this nonsense and progressed majestically through the village in her battleship sized Rover indicating to her hearts content.
When pulled over by the constable, she would quickly reduce him to a blubbering blancmange.
Of course I was too young to realise that they were playing a game. This little bushie tot was reduced to saucer eyed wonder.
Hmmm.
We got the same messaging five years ago when Jubelin sooled the press pack onto the washing machine repair guy.
Where did that go after months of public harassment.
More like the heat on the granny tasering has cranked up and we need a diversion.
Rambo goes ballistic!
Final Bloody Battle’ Scene | Rambo (2008)
Why would Newsom be doing such large ad buys in Florida?
Florida is so GOP now.
Money would be better spent in Arizona & Wisconsin.
I see (or more correctly dont see) that John Campbell has been silent for a week now – has the Youtubes struck him again for telling the truth>
Sorry to hear Delta
“Why would Newsom be doing such large ad buys in Florida?”
Newsome v DeSantis for POTUS is pretty likely.
Bolt:
Well, the good news is that my oldest son, now 50, has achieved a bit of a breakthrough in his life. He has always resisted seeking help for his obvious deficits in coping with life and has led me a merry dance since childhood, where autism as a spectrum was far less understood. Today, after the recent usual chaos of losing his money and missing his plane in Thailand, and then getting lost on his big bush walk to ‘find himself’ and thankfully being rescued by a passing Hells Angel, and then once more turning up drunk on his ex-partner’s doorstep creating a scene, he has finally decided it might be helpful if he understood himself more by getting some testing done. We’ve said we’ll pay for whatever it takes. Hallelujah.