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“the first back to back surpluses in almost two decades” Yeah right wallet wizard. Not that your the only offender…
I was born after the Whitlam government so cannot comment on their record.But this one here is a sorry record…
@SaveUSAKitty FULL SEGMENT Kash Patel joins Maria Bartiromo @MariaBartiromo on #MorningsWithMaria this morning, and it’s a DOOZY!
Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut TRUMP: “We’re going to terminate the Green New Scam.” It’s coming in 57 days, folks.
Called Suncorp.
Insurance hike no longer 50%.
Now only a 41% hike.
Phew (blows on finger nails).
I’ve still got it.
This has nothing to do with “dispossession” and everything to do with no responsibility for own children or own actions or having to work to earn the money which is spent on alcohol etc.
I do not feel any guilt for what is happening there, I worked hard for everything I have and for providing for my children. I blame the aboriginal aristocrats who need this suffering to stay in the aboriginal industry which is delivering very well for them.
If the Burneys and Langtons wanted to fix it they could in a matter of months but then they would also need to get an honest job that doesn’t involve demonising the rest of the hardworking population.
Gary Johns summed up the situation well, in his book.
“What use does an Aboriginal child, with a mobile phone, and access to the internet, have for such a closed culture?”
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Tom at 12:57.
Not quite.
The challenge with this particular voter is to convince me that da Voice won’t be a counter-productive smokescreen, pumping out feel good PR about aspiring rappers and wholesome “living on country” experiences, whilst heath and education outcomes are going to hell in a handbasket.
They certainly wouldn’t appreciate being told who they were going to marry.
Bookmakers peg Hunter Biden as favorite in White House cocaine whodunit
Oddsmakers have identified Hunter Biden as the favorite in the White House cocaine mystery, but Travis Kelce and the Jonas Brothers aren’t out of the running.
SportsBetting.ag released odds showing the president’s son leading the list at +170, meaning that a $100 bet would net you $170 if Hunter Biden is found to be the owner of the cocaine found last weekend in the West Wing by the Secret Service.
Next on the betting line at +800 was NFL tight end Travis Kelce, who visited the White House last month with the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs, followed by “One of the Jonas Brothers” at +1000. The singing Jonas trio visited the White House in December 2021.
It gets sillier from there. Other celebrities with odds include Angelina Jolie, Snoop Dogg, Elton John, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Brady.
Last on the list is President Biden himself at +15,000. The odds on first lady Jill Biden being the stash owner are slightly better at +10,000.
“Naturally, Vegas is taking bets on who brought blow into President Biden‘s home,” said SportsBetting.ag in a press release. “Was it the president looking for a little extra go juice ahead of the busy holiday?
Crossie
Jul 6, 2023 1:22 PM
How many would subscribe to that idea I wonder?
How many would take up the offer of not working, ever, and receiving an income?
Don’t answer that, we have plenty of takers now.
The only benefit to society I can see is that they are consumers of goods and services therefor giving jobs for the workers.
Who is going to pay for it all.
Not a goal I would set for our future.
Actually, that is from the St Ruth book of Advanced Bus-driving Techniques.
Flyingduk, that has always been the case though not as noticeable. The recent catastrophic losses were directly due to our governments believing people like Flannery and allowing building in flood zones.
We’re back.
A wrong turn at Albuquerque as Bugs would say.
Courtesy of John Connor II at Jo Nova’s Blog –
‘No’ supporter Senator Price blows whistle on $100m-a-day Indigenous industry
AUSTRALIA’S outspoken conservative, Aboriginal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa-Price, has blown the whistle on the scandalous amounts of money being spent on Aboriginal welfare while other politicians claim the proposed “Voice” bureaucracy will fix the problems.
Senator Price says Australian taxpayers spend at least $100 million a day on direct support for Indigenous Australians every year or $39.5 billion of direct government expenditure every single year. The figures are based on the 2017 Indigenous Expenditure Report produced by the Productivity Commission.
Despite these millions dished out daily the Senator is having to raise half a million dollars for a media campaign against the yes vote for the Voice.
https://cairnsnews.org/2023/06/24/no-supporter-senator-price-blows-whistle-on-100m-a-day-indigenous-industry/
So this is the fall-back and re-group position.
The Universal Income for All movement has largely failed, so this is the re-launch.
“Oh, it’s only for the critically disabled, non-functioning, non-verbal people.”
Until, like the NDIS, it isn’t.
Interesting that they still use the word “universal” when it would ostensibly only apply to a restricted cohort in society.
“Universal” in this context really means “not means tested and with no objective criteria”.
Aboriginal children want to join the world just like all children but they are held back by the aboriginal industry which is telling them non-stop that the rest of Australia hates them. This is evil of industrial proportions.
“Education workshop” regarding the new Aboriginal heritage Act, in the Wheatbelt last week. A “straw poll” outside the building revealed most left more confused then when they arrived.
“We haven’t got, like you’ve got, a nice office tower full of secretarial staff and clerks to look after you, and and nurse you through things and brief you before you go and do any damn thing you want to do.”
“We can’t go and trawl through the act for hours on end and figure out whether we can, or whether we can’t in situations where we’re reacting with the weather.”
“The impost you’ve put on agriculture, mate, I hope you’re not proud of this, when you go home in your car.”
Well said, that man!
Tim Blair thunders:
Yeah, Tim, all those Asians denied the best education money can buy from Universities funded, founded and built by White people.
What a tragedy, eh?
I believe we’re really making headway in opposition to Bowen’s “rewiring the nation” shit show.
National media are starting to book time with key members of our group to discuss the renewables push.
We’re giving the green investors a big headache. The clear path promised by the government is now blockaded by angry stubborn farmers.
Watch this space.
Buried in this load of tosh (the long history of dispossession that haunts remote communities – FFS, tell that to the Scots or millions of Europeans) is a practical suggestion – building a hostel or whatever where kids can be safe and warm.
Why hasn’t it been implemented?
I searched back and found that:
(i) As usual, there were arguments about who would fund it;
(ii) There were all sorts of legal issues, like who would be responsible if one of the kids assaulted another, or went there to escape after committing a crime; and
(iii) It was just another way to separate Aboriginal kids from their families, prelude to another ‘Stolen Generation’ – yes, really.
Easy to see why anything to do with Aboriginal politics is a effing minefield.
How many would take up the offer of not working, ever, and receiving an income?
Isn’t this why gummint wholeheartedly supports mass migration from the 3rd world?
some weird idea that it’s not how you get the money but the fact you spend it and keep the economic wheels turning …
As I remember it, it was the exact opposite. Our “betters” were going to appoint el Presidente.
Key phrase to weave into every press contact … “food bowl”.
I thought the same too Diogenes but the ALP and ARM would not put forward direct election as an alternative, even though I reckon the mass of nominal, minimalist republicans would hold their noses and vote for direct election, there are examples of it being fine in Ireland and France (Parliamentary government & semi-Presidential government).
Sooooo .. we is getting a bit of a fight back .. at last!
Just got a 2 page colourful blurb in the mail from NSW Senator Holly Hughes supporting the NO vote ….
have to admit I’ve never heard of her but happy to find there are pollies other than Jacinta & Warren sticking their heads above the trench …….. at last!
My recollection was that the new President would be selected by a two thirds majority of a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament.
Neuropolish
there are examples of it being fine in Ireland
Woke scold President Mary Robinson? Surely you jest.
In a democracy…you get the pineapple you desire.
This is a Banger!
38 minutes in … brilliant edit.
Moreno J Mix Vol 03 – Moreno J Remixes (The Re-edited)
Daily Mail. Breaking news.
Australia’s national past time it seems is fu**ing around and finding out.
Reynolds vs Brittany – catfight of the year.
The thing I don’t understand is why Reynolds hired her in the first place, and then kept her on when it became clear that she was a drama waiting to happen.
Yes it would be interesting to find out how ‘advisors’ are appointed. Experience in the school of hard knocks is not valued that’s for sure.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jul 6, 2023 2:32 PM
To be honest I can’t remember now, I voted no because saw no need for change.
For me to consider change of GG, president should start with the power he or she would yield and then take it from there, as to how they would be appointed or elected.
If ceremonial only, who cares?
If real power including dismissal of government, beware who is supporting the option.
Dare I or dare I not publish the Linda Burney column?
I suspect the answer is her looks.
Young, rather attractive women attract enthusiasm of others, and enhance the prestige of a workplace or team. Its not necessary to be male to find attractive people attractive.
Couldn’t be bothered because it isn’t on the Hun website by the look. I might try later to read the dead tree version and record.
Brittany has certainly gone up a couple of divisions. Clearly she has decided her 15 minutes of fame should be up by now.
Turd Case reverts to his usual casual racism.
Fvck off, go moisturise some skin suits that you can then fill with sh1t.
Diogenes
Jul 6, 2023 2:24 PM
. In 1999, many Australians supported having an Australian as head of state, but few supported politicising the new presidency by by making him/her the winner of a popular vote.
As I remember it, it was the exact opposite. Our “betters” were going to appoint el Presidente.
It was pretty clear that any “politicising” was going to be via the appointment process, which was to be controlled by politicians, with no route for civil participation.
Head over to Quadrant and see the latest article on the Invoice:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/07/the-voice-an-overlooked-constitutional-conundrum/
A legal academic from the ACU asks: Would the Voice have the power to “recommend” that Parliament recognise non-Indigens as “aliens” in their own land?
Scarily, the academic doesn’t know the answer!!!
Thanks for the Tim Blair article, Black Ball.
A dispiriting thought: the US has a sound Supreme Court, while we have Mark Dreyfus stacking our High Court.
The other key phrase to use is “Lock the Gate”. The msm was vociferous in its support for farmers who did not want gas exploration and drilling (which would generally have only a minor impact). Remind them of that.
Minneapolis police attacked by the “religion of peace” on July 4:
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1676600289716043788?s=20
Whoops:
A staffer for then-Vice President Joe Biden cc’d Hunter Biden on an email to Joe about a scheduled call with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a document released by National Archives due to a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) shows.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/05/hunter-biden-ccd-on-email-to-vp-joe-biden-about-call-with-ukrainian-president/
The thing I don’t understand is why Reynolds hired her in the first place, and then kept her on when it became clear that she was a drama waiting to happen.
Allow me to bring you up to speed.
A certain Senior Adviser nto Reynolds, a Mr Bruce Lehrmann, approached a female staffer of Reynolds and asked her if she would hire Higgins for him, since “she’s very good looking”.
Higgins woulda been a good hire as Press Officer for Reynolds in any case, since she’s spent 2 years in the department doing that job for the previous Minister, who was retiring from Parliament, but thought enough of Higgins to keep her on, though he dispensed with 80% of his Ministerial Staff.
Terrible idea.
It’s an invasion of privacy, does the No campaign need to cold call people to find out what’s wrong with the Voice?
….as opposed to the two moron twins that knocked on my door on Sunday while still in my pajamas representing the yes side of the Invoice case?
A dispiriting thought: the US has a sound Supreme Court, while we have Mark Dreyfus stacking our High Court.
Rubbish.
#1. The decision doesn’t even end Mandatory AA, the Ivies can still adnit whoever they like.
#2. Dreyfus is appealing the Federal Court decision to grant Compensation for Bauxite Mining at Gove since 1968, to the High Court.
….as opposed to the two moron twins that knocked on my door on Sunday while still in my pajamas representing the yes side of the Invoice case?
Huh?
It’s still an Invasion Of Privacy, since they’re seeking information and a person’s Phone# is easily identifiable.
They’d be better off getting the vote out, and reminding people that it’s a chance to tell the Governments what it thinks of their Covid Policy too.
In a democracy…you get the pineapple you desire.
In Tennis Elbow’s World, you get the rough end of the pineapple unless you are in on the rort.
Reykjavik has been shaking constantly
Funfact….. the runoff shakes that follow an earthquake are only called ‘aftershocks’ if they are smaller than the earlier shake …. they can be larger, in which case the earlier quakes become ‘foreshocks’.
We had dozens of aftershocks in the 7s in Aceh.
Key phrase to weave into every press contact … “food bowl”.
Rubbish.
That’s the Governments own Gaslighting 2 word slogan.
It won’t work back at them.
The other key phrase to use is “Lock the Gate”. The msm was vociferous in its support for farmers who did not want gas exploration and drilling (which would generally have only a minor impact).
More Skidmark rubbish.
#1. The Power companies are taking an Easement, not requesting access.
#2. Fracking places the Aquifers in danger, a Crime of immense magnitude.
As was evident on the first night…
Just remember all you lefty gloaters ….. If Biden wasnt voted in, he cant be voted out….
I do not feel any guilt for what is happening there, I worked hard for everything I have and for providing for my children. I blame the aboriginal aristocrats who need this suffering to stay in the aboriginal industry which is delivering very well for them.
Strawman.
The Issue isn’t the fault of Aboriginal ‘aristocrats’.
If the Burneys and Langtons wanted to fix it they could in a matter of months … /em>
No they couldn’t.
Aborigines never had Family Structures anything similar to Europeans.
A child got brought up amongst the Tribe, and nothing can ever change that.
The Chieftain disagrees
https://youtu.be/gY8lqAzR23Q
Reynolds v Knickerless.
I hope Reynolds dons the hobnailed boots and goes for the world kicking in the carnt record (h/t Derek & Clive).
She was stymied by the SFLs before and also Dreyfus.
I’ve never had anyone knocking on my door to present the “Yes” case.
It’s probably the Confederate States battle flag, flying in front of my house, that deters them.
Yes it would be interesting to find out how ‘advisors’ are appointed. Experience in the school of hard knocks is not valued that’s for sure.
Because it’s an entry level position.
Usually, a Degree is required, Higgins had that, but sometimes it’s Secret Squirrel, which is how Bruce Lehrmann got appointed straight outta High School.
I hope Reynolds dons the hobnailed boots and goes for the world kicking in the carnt record (h/t Derek & Clive).
The Commonwealth won’t be funding it, so any Solicitor taking it on will be asking fir the Deed to Reynolds house before they start work.
Basically, Reynolds was looking at the Christopher Pyne outcome [Defence Minister, get a sweet job with a major Defence Contracor the day after retiring]
but her inept handling of the Higgins Affair put an end to that ouitcome.
She’s still blaming Higgins, but the real blame is much closer to home.
Interesting post – thank you.
Brittany will be flat out trying not to become Australia’s Monica Lewinsky if it’s not already too late.
Turd Case (A sausage skin full of sh1t)
More idiocy from sh1tfer.
!. Bloody hard to construct the pylons and erect the overhead lines without “requesting [and obtaining] access”.
2. Not all gas extraction involves fracking. Try to broaden your knowledge. It will be difficult for you, but do try.
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
– Anton Chekhov
That reminds me, Turd Case.
You have never explained what you meant when you previously described Lehrmann as a “legacy kid”. Pliss essplain. Somehow I doubt that you meant that he was the child of a deceased or crippled Australian service person, being looked after by the organisation called Legacy.
Right wing nut jobs.
You know Ed, there was a growing number of Aussies sick of religious peoples knocking on their doors in WA in 90’s so they started looking at the “invasion of privacy” line you’re proffering.
In an interesting turn of events, the WA govt (and the Feds later) threw it out and cold calling you or knocking on your door is NOT an invasion of privacy.
You see, it seems the pollies do more door knocking and cold calling than the religious!
Today I lunched with a couple of Middle Eastern heritage who are voting YES to the inVoice while I said that I was voting NO to having racism put back in the Constitution after it’d been taken out in 1967. I was told that I was the first person they’d spoken to who was voting NO — this is the heartland of the electorate of Watson. Go figure.
The 1967 referendum gave the Commonwealth power to legislate for “the Aboriginal race” and to include them in the federal census. Previously such laws and head counting had been the preserve of the states. In some ways, the special powers granted the Commonwealth in ’67 set us on the path to where we are now, not least because they saw the establishmen of Aboriginal affairs as a Commonwealth department. As a general rule, expoanding the powers of a central government beyond what is absolutely necessary is never a good idea.
???
Um, okay.
Good old Rowan Dean…
I never realised South Australian Indigenous women got the right to vote in 1894. Well before most Western countries gave any women the right…
Good old Rowan Dean…
I never realised South Australian Indigenous women got the right to vote in 1894. Well before most Western countries gave any women the right…
This was highlighted by Geoffrey Blainey in his article in last weekend’s Weekend Australian newspaper along with a good many other things that most people would not have previously realised.
I’ve been gravely assured by one “activist” here in the Wild West, that Aborigines in the 1960’s, weren’t allowed to send their children to school.
I have a serious question but will be denounced as a racist…
Many Indigenous peoples had kinship marriages agreements all the way up to the 1960’s. If we’re going back to their traditions, and they are so hell bent on these, why are most of the famous Indigens I know married to white folk?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship
Headlines from America:
Baton-wielding gangs of teenagers in ski masks are attacking moms and nannies outside schools and robbing them of their cell phones in one of San Francisco’s wealthiest neighborhoods
Woke Michigan college creates new taxpayer-funded course teaching students how to address transphobia and other Diversity Equity and Inclusion issues in the workplace
Because they have, by and large, assimilated, esp. in urban areas.
Hey! I am finally able to access the site.
ZKTA: There was an ABC show last year that looked at early colonial landscapes, their painters and what they meant in the context of society then and now. One pic was of a Western District mountain, at which point the toffee-tongued ABC Arts gal turned to an indigene for enlightenment.
This joker proceeded to recount how his people had all been wiped by the nuns and priests at the local mission, who invited them a special breakfast and killed the lot with poison porridge.
Absolute BS, but not to the ABC Arts gal, who nodded and tut-tuttered at all the right places.
When this Voice BS has run it’s course, anyone think amity between black and white will have been improved? Nope, if No gets up, the payback activism will be intense. If yes gets up, we’ll put up with it, albeit with clenched teeth, as we always do.
If we’re going back to their traditions, and they are so hell bent on these, why are most of the famous Indigens I know married to white folk?
Because the essential motivating factor in the indigenous leadership is power.
Indeed Areff, but the InVoice is only the start.
Next up:
-Truth telling commission (a sham like the RC commission on #GetPell)
-Treatie$.
Dover
site’s been working fairly well today in comparison to past days where I’m sure you’ve been going through hell!
Well done.
I never realised South Australian Indigenous women got the right to vote in 1894. Well before most Western countries gave any women the right…
I thought I knew a reasonable amount regarding the background to Aboriginal heritage, but I didn’t know that. We are indebted to Blainey for his scholarship and integrity.
I’m off Cats… have a great evening and Go Swannes.
I went to Mimi’s at Coogee Pavilion for lunch today. I ate some of the best food I’ve eaten in a long time. Had three courses. The restaurant is break the bank stuff, but I wasn’t paying! Drank cocktails, French champagne and a French pinot noir which was utterly delicious. I think I drank too much, I got home at 5.00 p.m. and had to lie down.
Am up now, and I just read that Reynolds is suing the despicable Knickerless. Good, Knickerless has had an easy ride for two years. As I wrote the other day, I want Reynolds to turn the legal screws slowly on Knickerless, and I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.
If we’re going back to their traditions, and they are so hell bent on these, why are most of the famous Indigens I know married to white folk?
Gin Jockeys and MudSharks.
Next question?
The site is working!
I think I see your problem Lysander.
The delaying of Trump Jnr’s visa was deliberate.
“Stories my Nanna told me.”
Their retained indigenous “identity” is largely a skin suit (Hi, Googlery!), worn for political and financial purposes. Their principal motivations are gaining and holding political power, and looting the funding provided for improvements in the lives of poorer indigenes.
Have we switched to 100 comments a page?
ALL THOSE EXTRA PAGE-PODIA!!!
Jo
Yirrara is a boarding school, in Alice where kids are supposed to be safe and warm. There may be day scrags who also attend, not sure, but it was dysfunctional right from the start, with teenage pregnancies the norm.
I put this idea to the NT government too, that kids have accommodation and care from Sunday night to Sat morning when they can go home if they wish. The rest of the time they have food, shelter, education, and be kids. That the kids be educated with the Khan academy and the teachers just help with the homework.
Against that is that communities are generally no place for any kind of future, with gambling drinking and sex the norm. So it follows, why do it in the communities, just renforcing the cycle of despair.’
And doing it in town aka Yirrara, has not been a smashing success.
I don’t believe community is any good, or has any future as anywhere but a place to visit occasionally, I used to say move them all to town where there are schools, healthcare, and a possibility of a future, but I no longer wish that upon the towns with the violence and unrest there now. The son of a friend was stabbed coming out of Maccas in Darwin, at midday, missed the big one in his neck by 2 mm. Gave a good account of himself even so, broke a leg on one assailant (there were three or four and robbery was the motive) and laid a couple more out, not reported by the police to the general public of course.
So what, where how? I am lost for answers other than what we are doing is not working, and doing more of it wont work either.
A start would be and in no particular order
1. grog ban – complete.
2. consequences for actions – real punishment as a deterrent
3. more police on the beat, not catching mums on the school run, like in Katherine the other day, but actually catching criminals
4. once incarcerated, quickly identify those who have some hope and divert them to other programs – Sentenced to a Job was a great initiative of John Elfrinks against recidivism, and it was working.
5. Hostels for kids on the street.
Another work lunch ?
If I were a betting man I’d wager some have fairly hardcore political motivations. The Communist Party has long been active in indigenous affairs, going back to Wave Hill and prior.
Coke in the WH just about sums up the biden crime family; especially with video of hunter having a snort at a public function in the WH.
“Another work lunch ?”
Yes.
That’s correct, the stumbling block for most people was Malcolm Turnbull advocating for people like him to choose the president so the majority of us said no can do. It was the last time Pat O’Shane was on the right side of anything.
Top of the page again?
Yes vote @ 38%
“Bring out the Orange Man.”
I can remember when any claims that the Communist Party of Australia were behind the land Rights movement was treated with howls of mirth, and hoots of glee….
Because it represents yet another provocation by the elites. Yet another front in their culture war on truth and reason. Yet another of their assaults on us and what we know to be true. These ideologues are goading us.
WSJ – The West Again Learns That War Needs Industry
Biden and NATO leaders, fearing a war of attrition with Russia or China, will focus on rebuilding militaries and their supplies at coming summit
Behind the deadly front lines where Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are locked in combat, a less-noticed life-or-death battle is raging to keep troops supplied with arms and ammunition. The side that loses that fight is the one that will lose the war. It is a lesson Washington is relearning.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed huge shortfalls in Western defense-industry capacity and organization. The U.S. and its allies aren’t prepared to fight a protracted war in the Pacific, and would struggle with a long European conflict.
As Adm. Rob Bauer, a top military officer at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, puts it: “Every war, after about five or six days, becomes about logistics.”
If the U.S. clashed head-on with Russia or China, stocks of precision weaponry could be used up in hours or days. Other vital supplies would run out soon after.
Many governments are starting to respond. The U.S. is increasing arms production after decades of focus on terrorism and homeland security. French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged a “war economy” to boost military supplies. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has shed Berlin’s longstanding disdain for military spending.
It is a pivot with echoes of the last century, when the U.S. repeatedly swung its economy to fight wars and face down enemies. Woodrow Wilson nationalized America’s railroads in 1917, and in 1942 Detroit lurched from making cars to churning out tanks and bombers. The Cold War spawned the military-industrial complex.
Nobody’s ready to test those extremes today. To handle newly aggressive adversaries without commandeering industries or exploding national budgets, Washington and its allies will need to try fresh approaches to developing, buying and maintaining military supplies.
“The defense-industrial base that served us after World War II and helped us prevail in the Cold War isn’t the one that is going to help us prevail against China,” says Joseph Votel, a retired four-star Army general who led Special Operations Command and now heads Business Executives for National Security, a nonprofit started in 1982 to bring private-sector know-how to the Pentagon.
The first step will be spending more on defense across the West. In 2014, after Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine and fomented rebellion in the country’s east, NATO members pledged to spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defense by 2024.
Only the U.S. and a handful of other members do that so far, though war in Ukraine may finally have broken the logjam. Around half of NATO’s 31 members could hit 2% next year, alliance diplomats say.
Ambitions are increasing, too. When NATO leaders meet in Lithuania next week for their annual summit, they expect to cement 2% of GDP as the spending minimum, not an aspiration. Over the past year, NATO and the European Union have also assumed new roles coordinating and consolidating arms procurement to boost efficiency and accelerate rearmament.
But more is needed, say Votel and his colleagues, starting with a new postindustrial mind-set.
Many see a model in how Ukraine is drawing expertise from across society to develop defensive systems that bridge advanced digital savvy and grease-covered Soviet hardware.
First, say advocates of a new approach, the Pentagon should acknowledge it no longer owns the cutting edge of technology—even though it once launched transformative innovations, such as the internet and GPS.
“Our nation leads in many emerging technologies relevant to defense and security—from artificial intelligence and directed energy to quantum information technology and beyond,” a panel of former top Defense Department officials said in a recent report for the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank. “But the DoD struggles to identify, adopt, integrate and field these technologies into military applications.”
The commission, led by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, offered 10 recommendations that ranged from encouraging tech companies to do business with the Pentagon to modernizing its budgeting documents.
Others say that rather than conceiving multidecade moonshots, as in the Cold War, the Pentagon should learn to quickly draw on existing innovations, as smaller allies have done, and Ukraine is doing.
“The Defense Department set itself up to export technology,” says James “Hondo” Geurts, a former assistant secretary of the Navy and Air Force officer with extensive acquisitions experience. “Now it needs to become a smart importer of technology.”
On the Florida panhandle, a gaggle of military brainstorming centers are working to test what is possible outside a war zone. Defensewerx, a nonprofit organization closely tied to the Pentagon, links the defense establishment with small businesses and academia, working to bring innovation and a disrupter mentality to arms development and contracting.
A challenge, say skeptics, is that projects launched in a military “Monster Garage” often founder at industrial scale.
Defense planners must also get more entrepreneurial, say advocates of change—and some are already. NATO’s Bauer recently flew to the Pacific coast in Los Angeles, not for naval maneuvers but to address a finance-oriented conference.
“We need private investors to support the defense industry,” the Dutch officer told the Milken Institute’s global gathering in May.
Defense is massively expensive, and not just Top Gun equipment such as F-35 jet fighters costing around $100 million apiece.
The Navy has estimated that a 20-year modernization of four major shipyards, which maintain aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines and average a century old, will cost $21 billion—and a senior Government Accountability Office official last year called those estimates “wildly off point.”
The protracted refurbishment limits repair capacity, leaving warships at pier awaiting work and reducing America’s active fleet available for threat response. Multibillion-dollar assets idly aging in saltwater cost taxpayers, warn critics.
Rather than drag out shipyard renovations over two decades, says Sam Cole, a finance-sector professional who serves on the BENS board under Votel, it would make more sense to get the work done quickly so the yards are fully functional sooner.
The Pentagon could struggle to fund all that, given government budgeting rules, Cole acknowledged. Instead, it could take a more private-sector approach to financing by turning to debt markets, raising around $50 billion and completing the work in about four years.
“Being able to tap capital markets would enable you to put the project on steroids,” says Cole.
Funding defense outside the Pentagon’s budget would break tradition, but advocates note that other parts of the government already do it. The Commerce and Agriculture departments are leveraging capital markets to finance investments in necessities from microchips to fertilizer.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last December took a step in that direction, launching the Office of Strategic Capital, an in-house tech incubator empowered to partner with private financiers. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, has gained legendary status for its role helping fund Silicon Valley’s rise, but its financial firepower is limited.
The OSC is unusual for the Pentagon because it can employ loans, guarantees and other financial tools not typically used by the U.S. military, which relies mainly on contracts and grants. It aims to help startups grow and work with the Pentagon, and to nurture new technologies that may support defense. At its launch, officials noted that while the Defense Department has rich programs to foster innovation, Pentagon contracting and legal rules pose daunting hurdles for startups.
In rebuilding military industries, small business also needs attention. Defense giants once tapped supply chains that extended to thousands of workshops supplying basic components. Industry consolidation, globalization and shrinking demand after the Cold War eroded that base. Today, subcontractors are as likely to be independent software developers as metal-bashers, but they face similar headaches with business fundamentals such as financing research and development.
Defense giants handling massive arms projects generally work on a cost basis, meaning they can usually hand the Pentagon a bill for their R&D spending, says Frank Finelli, another finance professional on the BENS board.
But almost all midsize companies in the defense industry are subcontractors, so are unable to pass along development costs.
“You’re asking me to invest my own money in R&D” for the Pentagon, Finelli says he hears from smaller companies. The U.S., the world’s financial-markets leader, should be able to find a solution, he says. “This is about having access to financial agility at scale.”
Agility is increasingly vital in manufacturing, too. The F-35, America’s newest jet fighter, is a marvel of networked computers that can hover and fly supersonic.
But much of it is still built by hand in a Texas factory where each plane steps along an assembly line from one production station to the next, notes Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security.
The Pentagon’s next generation of equipment will need to rely on commercial industries’ advances in production technologies, from 3-D printing to factory automation, says Pettyjohn. “New manufacturing systems for new defense systems will be critical.”
Equally ripe for an overhaul is how the Pentagon turns ideas into equipment.
The military needs eye-popping quantities of some items, such as artillery shells and rifles, but a lot of equipment is needed in versions customized for specific tasks, which can vary widely across services and in elite units such as special forces.
How to combine mass production and variety has long plagued defense planners. The F-35 was envisioned 30 years ago as a single low-cost plane with different options for the Air Force, Navy and Marines. But in traditional fashion, costs and complexity ballooned as delays mounted.
“The Defense Department has a poor track record in rapid development and production,” says Pettyjohn. “They’ve shot for the moon on everything.”
The most damaging paper of the pandemic has just been published in The Lancet
Take it a bit further and insist the choice is between food and renewables, that we cannot have both. If hyperbole is good enough for them it should be good enough for us.
Thanks for that, Zulu.
Reference?
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Still insane to me that they shut down Biden’s installation to the public, surrounded him with thousands of troops and barbed wire, booted President Trump of all social media, launched a “domestic terror” crackdown against MAGA, and said with a straight face this wasn’t a coup
Brenden Dilley
@WarlordDilley
Just to be clear, there are trillions of dollars at stake in the 2024 election. The “machine” or “deep state” recognizes that you’re waking up and are becoming ungovernable.
Your support of Trump after two indictments (and gaining momentum) is proof that America has had enough, and rightfully so.
Global trade, big pharma, military industrial complex, mainstream media, the WEF, and not to mention foreign adversaries are ALL panicking over Trump’s rising poll numbers.
This is YOUR 1776. This is YOUR revolution. This is YOUR chance to serve your country and save our great nation.
Ukrainian Forces Are Using Outlawed Mines – HRW
Human Rights Watch found that Ukrainian troops have been using scatter mines. The anti-personnel weapons are internationally banned, including by Kiev, because of their devastating impact on civilians.
HRW uncovered several instances where Ukraine used anti-personnel scatter mines. The human rights monitoring group first made the allegation in a January report, but a press release issued on Friday says more evidence was found recently.
The evidence suggests Ukrainian forces fired rockets carrying thousands of PFM-1 anti-personnel mines, also called “petal” or “butterfly” mines, according to the press release. The submunitions are pressure-activated, meaning they linger on the ground until someone steps on or drives over them.
HRW “verified 11 civilian casualties from the mines, including one death and multiple amputations of lower legs, based on interviews with victims and their family members,” the organization said.
Russia has also used anti-personnel weapons. However, unlike Moscow, Kiev has ratified an international treaty outlawing their use. The Ukrainian government responded to the HRW report by saying it will “study” the claims, but maintained that it has a right to self-defense.
US May Greenlight Cluster Munitions to Ukraine This Week Despite Russian Objections
3 hours ago (Updated: 2 hours ago)
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States may greenlight cluster munitions for Ukraine as early as this week despite objections by Russia, an American broadcaster reported, citing US officials familiar with the matter.
The Biden administration could soon make the decision following recent calls by Ukraine to provide the controversial munitions, which drop bomblets that can endanger civilians for years, the report said on Wednesday.
US President Joe Biden must sign a presidential waiver to authorize the export of certain cluster munitions under federal law.
Meanwhile
Zelensky Says Counteroffensive Has Slowed Down as Ukraine Sees Artillery Shortage
WASHINGTON, July 6 (Sputnik) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview said Ukraine’s counteroffensive has slowed down due to difficulties on the battlefield and they are experiencing a shortage in artillery units.
“Our slowed down counteroffensive is happening due to certain difficulties in the battlefield,” Zelensky said in a interview with US media that aired on Wednesday.
Moreover, Zelensky said Ukraine has a shortage in artillery units that makes it difficult for its armed forces to be capable of hitting all its intended targets.
The Ukrainian official further emphasized that Ukraine wants the United States to provide the ATACMS long-range missile weapon system, and urged NATO to make some kind of announcement about Ukraine becoming a member of the alliance.
Earlier in the day, US media reported that the United States may announce this week whether to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions to aid in its counteroffensive.
Ukraine launched its much-touted counteroffensive in early June after multiple postponements. The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly said that Ukrainian troops are trying to advance in the South Donetsk, Artemovsk, and Zaporozhye directions, but without success.
The pinnacle of selfish self-gratification.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC accused of ‘blurring politics and science’ over advice that suggests trans women CAN safely breastfeed — but fails to mention health risks to baby
Biden’s Endless Gifts to China
Wow: Former Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage Deplatformed by Entire UK Banking System
Has Barnaby Joyce gone satanic? He is sitting in front of a pair of horns while being on The Bolt Show.
Geoff MacDonald’s book “Red Over Black”, published in 1982, goes into more detail.
A parents’ organisation was reportedly prevented from opening an account with Metro Bank over opposition to allowing children to undergo life-altering transgender medical procedures, in the latest revelation of British banks banning customers for their political views.The banksters have really got it in for regular people. So much for economic theory that says private enterprise seeks to attract and retain customers. How sick is the west?
Trump’s comment on cocaine in the White House
Testing.
Thanks Zulu; bookmarked.
Bye Bye Birdie
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/watch/2193800259752
‘Sound of Freedom’ becomes No.1 movie in America on July 4, beating Disney’s ‘Indiana Jones’
Boris Johnson’s brother-in-law ‘blocked from changing cash abroad’ amid bank blacklist row
Video: COVID-19 Lockdowns, Mandates, Injection Passports Sparked Global Protests Against Tyranny by Millions
This one’s just for fun.
Petty Woman: Meghan Markle Waves Goodbye To Her Rom-Com Dreams
I don’t believe community is any good, or has any future as anywhere but a place to visit occasionally, I used to say move them all to town where there are schools, healthcare, and a possibility of a future, but I no longer wish that upon the towns with the violence and unrest there now.
Helen, this was a really good post from someone who has direct knowledge of the problem. One observation that few government organisers make is that Aborigines, or those of Aboriginal descent, often achieve good life experience and work in the big cities. I know that this is not always the case, but it is far more common than in remote areas of Australia.
Sadly, assimilation is now considered a racist concept by the Aboriginal lobby. But it was ALWAYS the only way to rescue these people from terrible health, sexual predators, and community violence.
Meme
Dr.John Campbell
Viral Vaccine paper
Yet they all practice it.
Andrew Bridgen on Net Zero, House of Commons 05 07 23
A bank that cancels the account of a law abiding citizen becasue of her political views has surely lost its social license.
What say ye, Sir Keir Starmer?
Not all, only the urban indigenous aristocracy. Hypocrisy is their culture.
Stuart Robert could face corruption commission as Gladys ICAC fallout continues | BPPACH | 6 News
Communist takeover ‘happening very slowly’, warns Matt Le Tissier | ‘It’s incredibly concerning!’
Britnah misunderstands the law.
In no way can litigation between Reynolds and Shiraz be construed as an attack on Britnah. To suggest otherwise is to say Shiraz “has no agency” and is a mere extension of Britnah.
And surely Britnah, of all people, isn’t suggesting that a woman shouldn’t be able to seek legal redress if she believes she has been wronged.
As for why Reynolds employed Britnah in the first place, I doubt she even bothered with the selection of a junior woodchuck like Britnah.
Warner, gonnne!
“A bank that cancels the account of a law abiding citizen becasue of her political views has surely lost its social license.”
Well yes, but the thing, whilst this cancelling, silencing and deplatforming is now happening to more mainstream figures, like Farage and others, it’s been happening to more fringe figures on the right, like Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins, for years now and nobody, including Farage, ever spoke up to defend them. Hopkins and Robinson are both unable to open bank accounts in the UK, her children have different names to her, she has never visited their school, and there are others basic things that, because of her “notoriety”, she can’t do or have. Robinson basically can’t leave the country. The other night on ADH-TV, Mark Steyn spoke to Hopkins. Whilst she isn’t gloating about what is happening, as she said to Steyn, Nigel Farage and others steadfastly refused to speak up to defend her rights or Tommy’s rights, and now they’ve come for Farage.
As I wrote the other night here…
First they came for Katie, and I did not speak out
Then they came for Tommy, and I did not speak out
Then they came for Milo, and I did not speak out
Then they came for Gavin, and I did not speak out
Because I thought they’d never come for me
But then they did come for me, and they will come for you
And there will be nobody left to speak out
It will happen here. Not if, but when.
Warner gone for 4. Yeehaa.
Cheating midget houso ranga gone for 4.
Unfortunately caught at second slip, not mankaded, but I’ll take it.
“Something MAJOR is Happening in Europe and No One is Talking About It” | Jordan Peterson 2023
Succinctly summarised.
Her tweet this afternoon, whining that Reynolds has sent her a ‘concerns notice’ seems to suggest she is incapable of grasping the difference between the law & a publicity campaign.
I was driving home. I missed the live version.
I will try, but doubt if I will forgive myself.
Not good news for Brittany and Dave. No adverse to a bit of media himself.
Mitch Marsh in for Green.
Oh my lordy wordy.
Sancho> both of them, brutnee and Bruce the goose, seem like quite useless as advisors for politicians with zero achievements outside of parliament. I’m fairly sure they would not even be able to fix the printer or run some photocopies…
And yet I bet the number of “elite” aborigines married to a whitey is quite high.
Mark Wood is the only English paceman with the wheels to really bother the Strayans. Rolling at 152kph in his warm-up over.
If anyone was to mouth off at batsmen with any credibility, it would be him.
He won’t, though.
Interesting.
I think the tide is starting to turn against the cancel culture fervour.
Caught a bit of fill in host Tony Moclair(?) on 3AW with his guest (some guy from Triple J).
They started to discuss Donald Trump Jnr not coming for the speaking tour.
“Here we go”, I think to myself. “An Orange Man Bad pile-on.”
To my surprise they didn’t.
Firstly they called out Immigration, basically dismissing any thought that delays in issuing a visa were some sort of administrative glitch, simply declaring it bloody-minded obstruction.
They then started to take the piss out of the obstructionists, saying we don’t need an IBAC, we need an “Excessive Pettiness Commission”.
They basically took the position that freedom of speech was a not negotiable.
Music to the ears.
A white trophy wife is considered a status symbol by certain sectors of the Aboriginal population.
The selectors have blinked.
Green hasn’t made runs – 80 from 4 hits – not bad, but not great.
But Stokes repeatedly putting Green’s pie chucking into the cheap seats at Lords has put the wind up them.
Don’t have a reference, but it seems that, at the time of the last census, over half of all Aborigines were married to non – Aboriginal people.
Nothing is turning, tomorrow they will be pilloried on Twitter and will apologise profusely. I sincerely hope I am wrong.
re: The No ad https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/2023/07/06/racist-no-ad-voice-referendum/
the paper backed down https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/voice-to-parliament/australian-financial-review-concedes-fullpage-antivoice-to-parliament-ad-should-not-have-run-after-claims-of-racism/news-story/439d8651dbf049339716738f783810ed
Really should have seen this coming. By making sure as many as possible of the vocal proponents are Aboriginal, the Left can claim any criticism of the proposals’ methods or the proponents’ motives can be smeared as racist and dismissed without substantive argument.
Most of the lobby are thoroughly assimilated. However, they cannot allow the unfortunates who dominate news coverage to follow that path to success, because then their careers would disappear, and with them their political power and access to lots of munni.
However, they cannot allow the unfortunates who dominate news coverage to follow that path to success, because then their careers would disappear, and with them their political power and access to lots of munni.
Just like the grifting in the US
Wood castles the Paki!
Just. Too. Quick.
Monique Ryan tweet:
https://twitter.com/Mon4Kooyong/status/1676770476839026689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1676770476839026689%7Ctwgr%5Ee57422cbbe4a2c4b6200ae00cf07394f447aeb76%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skynews.com.au%2Faustralia-news%2Fvoice-to-parliament%2Faustralian-financial-review-concedes-fullpage-antivoice-to-parliament-ad-should-not-have-run-after-claims-of-racism%2Fnews-story%2F439d8651dbf049339716738f783810ed
How are the constant invectives and accusations of “racist”, etc. hurled at the No campaigners and supporters “respectful” “Dr.” Ryan?
Oh yes.
The Strayans might have become used to fast-medium trundlers in recent times. Wood may well smack them up badly, and good luck to him if he does.
Reportedly, he’s quite a decent bloke.
For an Englishman.
I also suspect the US establishment like to keep a certain proportion of the pollution in poverty to provide fodder for the washington war machine.
Maybe.
But they handled it beautifully.
No moral outrage and attempt at serious analysis of the pros and cons of banning people.
They simply took freedom of speech as a not negotiable baseline.
They actually made the visa-blockers look like the small-minded petty junior clerks that they are, with their pathetic claims to be “keeping us safe”.
They took the piss.
Excellent stuff.
Let’s see where it goes now.
There are some seriously creepy doctors out there- especially abortionists and ‘sex change’ doctors. Up with Mengele.
Matters indigenous –
One of the horrible mob lived next door to a rental property in a certain mining town. A set of tenants had been evicted for anti – social behavior, and, leaning over the fence one day, he observed that the new tenants, moving in were clearly indigenous.
He was summoned by the aging patriarch, who was leaning on his walking stick and supervising operations.
“Now listen whitefella, the young bloke is my son. He’s a welder on the mine sites, he’s done his trade and got his papers. He’s married to that lady, proper like, in church, none of this living together rubbish. Those young fellas are my grandies, they ever give you any grief, you just let me know. You got a problem, we talk about it. ”
Ten years later, he said you couldn’t have hoped for better neighbors…
Not the whole of the US establishment, only the Democrats who have the blacks trained just the way they want them. The same is happening here with the Labor party and the indigenous.
I am going to see Peter Dutton speak in the Sydney CBD tomorrow morning.
I have put forward two questions I would like him to answer: one is about what he is doing about the ACMA fiasco of rule by bureaucratic fiat destroying free speech on the internet, and the second one is what investigation is he going to make about the visa fiasco surrounding the visit of Donald Trump jnr.
I will report back.
For pollution I meant population sorry.
Not the whole of the US establishment
Well I think the Bush-Graham wing of the GOP would want bodies for their various foreign adventures.
Monique Ryan tweet:
Ya gotta feel her pain.
Basically, she’s gotta portray the Big End of Town, every MultiNational paying No Tax, the Entire Rich List and every Luvvie in Australia as being victims of the cash strapped No Campaign.
Good luck, LardAr$e!
Look forward to your report, Lizzie B
Labbashagnee gorn. Nicked off to first slip.
Three wickets in the first session (so far) to the kipperers, which in a Test is success by any benchmark.
Smith goooorn
Aaaaaahahahahaaaa.
Cheaty McSook, inside edge to the ranga keeper.
Oh my. A great day so far for the soap-dodgers, and a lovely evening in D-Town so far with two actual cheats in the shed.
4/85. Shithouse.
Very good morning for the Poms
Through the constant succession of defective policies that seem to make the lives of the most afflicted Aborigines worse than before there was one brief, radical one that seemed to help: The intervention from 2007.
Does anyone think that The Voice would ever consider, recommend, or endorse a policy like that? One that addressed the dysfunctional behaviours of the people in the communities rather than spending shedloads of money for everyone not part of the communities to perform pointless mummery around them.
The voice will entrench the old failed mindset and make any rethinking structurally impossible.
Last Holdout news (the Courier-Mail):
With a first sentence like – A vegan grandmother mailed raw sausages across state lines – you just know it’s going to be good:
And:
Obviously, the best way to retaliate is to send raw snags in the mail.
Defence lawyer Antoinette Morton, of Fisher Dore Lawyers, said the dispute originated from alleged comments made in 2021 by the co-worker.
The vegan had covid. Surprise.
Go hard, Queensland nannas. Represent!
More Last Holdout news (again, the CM):
Again with the Mackay people.
Obviously, Mr Tetley was released on bail. Lock up your cavoodles, Quenthlanders.
I’ve posted this before, but I’ve got relatives who served on the intervention. The Aboriginal soldiers made good role models for the youth – they were playing football with them, and helping them sort their lives out. “If you want to join our mob, you have to go to school – we won’t take you if you can’t read or write.” The tribal elders sat in the dirt and whinged about how their authority was being undermined.
Smashes it off the inside edge, given out, and then says, “Fck it. Why not throw a review at it?”
Which is, of course, burnt.
Jeez, I heard the edge on my telly back here in Oz.
What was he thinking?
Hoping for some hitherto unheard of technology fail which would hide the edge?
Initially I thought maybe he was hoping for the edge to be hidden between bat and pad, but the on ground call was out, so inconclusive video/audio wasn’t going to save him.
One of the commentators summed Smiff up perfectly.
“Just very badly wanting something to be so doesn’t make it so.”
Life in retirement.
Mme Zulu asks “What are you doing tomorrow?”
“Going down to Dan Murphy’s to restock the bar. We are running low on single malt.”
“O.K. If you are going past the big pet barn, can you get a packet of the biscuits, to stop the dog farting?”
“Yes dear.”
‘America’s Darkest Secret’: Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration
I don’t see the secret part: biden has been obviously a sex pervert of the lowest kind all his shit stained life.
FMD.
Can we stop with the Americanisms which have zero relevance in Straya.
“Across state lines” adds nothing to this offence.
It has as much legal import as “Queensssland hostibals are for Queenssslanders.”
Did he say it was his Constitutional right?
The voice will entrench the old failed mindset and make any rethinking structurally impossible.
The Voice doesn’t have anything to do with Aborigines, except as a ‘Think of the children’ attempt at Emotional Blackmail.
Which makes it even more disgusting that some mixed Race Aborigines are lending their names to the scam.
Yet more Mackay news:
Uh huh.
And:
And:
Finney is 25. Undoubtedly the tart in question had seduced Finney’s current dude, who in all likelihood is not the father of her three kids. Of course, Finney is a serial waste of space. Her mouthpiece:
The beak:
Bail refused. Centrelink ongoing. Her kids have no hope.
m0nster wants to know if the dog was male or female.
He is OK with straight bestiality, but draws the line at gay bestiality.
Ruff sex
Wow! Lucky bastard! (H/T Monty Python) Your life is all “go” compared to mine! My big outing tomorrow is picking up the olives the wind and rain have knocked down onto the front lawn. And if the rain’s not too bad, poison some of the weeds in the brick paving.
chihuahua porn
… apparently, it’s a thing
Sancho, Over State Lines is now A Thing.
Along with National Cabinet and Vaccine Passports, and numerous other North American Lizard People Order imports like First Nationses and Gender Fluidity.
Those funny chums in the WEF have been at it again.
By 2040:
– no private cars
– everyone’s a vegan
– 3 items of clothing per year
– 1 short haul flight per year
.. and you *will* be happy!
He’s about 90% correct in a relative sense.
https://twitter.com/FinalArbiterr/status/1676385814597578755
The immortal David Bowie. Starts half way into the link. “Heroes.” Turn it up, full bore.
The Realities of ‘Hate Speech’
Target to Drop Mark Levin Book for Fear of Offending Democrats
Transgenders: The Real Numbers
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
#1 Mark Zuckerberg privately told Facebook execs to be cautious about mRNA vaccines because “we just don’t know the long-term side effects of basically modifying people’s DNA and RNA.”
He then censored scientists, doctors, and mRNA vaccine-injured individuals.
This is a Twitter thread. Well worth reading if you can. It clearly shows that. Zuckerberg was well aware of the risks but still did all he could to promote the jabs, to eliminate any posts on Facebook questioning their efficacy and safety and preventing the vaccine injured from sharing their stories.
Miranda Devine
‘Missing’ Biden corruption case witness Dr. Gal Luft details allegations against president’s family in extraordinary video
Omg, the inhumanity. The horror.
In other words, strict abortion laws actually do prevent abortion contrary to what proaborts claim. Who knew?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.