Thanks once again Tom.

BRICS to Replace the Dollar?

“The goldbugs cling to everything they can to promote gold at the destruction of the dollar. They are pushing the idea that China, Russia, and other BRICS countries are developing a dollar alternative. The truth of the matter is that is more fiction. Even India’s foreign minister S. Jaishankar came out and said, “There is no idea of a BRICS currency.” Foreign minister S. Jaishankar made it clear that the five-member BRICS group – consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – isn’t currently planning to develop a greenback substitute for trade and investments. “On what we will discuss at the BRICS meeting, we’ll have to see because there are many other issues – but there is no idea of a BRICS currency,” he said, as shown by footage from the Hindustan Times.

To even attempt to do something is absurd to create a BRICS currency like the euro would doom their economies. The #1 market remains the American consumer, and to price things in some alternative currency would undermine their own economies. People need to understand currency.

That was the entire purpose of creating the Euro. German Chancellor Kohl took Germany into the euro for the purpose of eliminating the foreign exchange risk to other European states so that Germany could then sell more products throughout Europe. The euro was to eliminate that foreign exchange risk to increase sales. The propaganda of the goldbugs who just hate the dollar is utter nonsense. They will not create some BRICS alternative to the dollar, surrendering their sovereignty to some central power as all European states did by creating Brussels. Kohl denied the Germans the right to vote on joining the euro, for he knew he would lose. That is why he refused to consolidate the debts fearing the German people would rise up in revolt against him.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/foreign-exchange/brics-to-replace-the-dollar/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

top ender if you have time in Dublin this is great, I think a Cat suggested it to me

Some bloke Scott Sawyer makes the claim for Teh Voice, Courier Mail:

The Indigenous Voice to Parliament is being painted by opponents as a tool by which to somehow subvert or override the Constitution and divide the nation.

But what the ‘No’ vote campaign fails to capture, or is choosing to ignore, is the fact that this nation is already divided.

The Voice is not the be all and end all, and will not magically solve all the problems. But it is an important step on the path to treaty and bona fide representation. It’s also a massive show of goodwill.

It should not be considered a box-ticking exercise or an attempt at lip service, but a genuine step on a longer path. It’s vital recognition that we can, and will, do better.

The Voice is a lever, one of many, to pull in a bid to try and level the playing field for our Indigenous people, not a wedge to drive between Australians.

The Australian Law Reform Commission’s Inquiry into the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples highlighted back in 2018 the disparity.

Despite only making up about 2 per cent of the population in 2016, Indigenous people accounted for 27 per cent of the national prison population.

Incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples increased 41 per cent from 2006 to 2016.

The rate of imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman was 464.8 per 100,000 people in 2016.

The rate of non-Indigenous women? Only 21.9 per 100,000 people.

Non-Indigenous men were only incarcerated at a rate of 291.1 per 100,000 people in 2016.

The 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody found indicators of disadvantage that contributed to this imbalanced prison representation included the fact that Aboriginal people were dispossessed of their land “without benefit of treaty, agreement or compensation”.

Other indicators identified included economic position, health, housing requirements, access to land, jobs, education and the effects of alcohol and other drugs.

But little has changed.

In 2016 Indigenous people were still 12.5 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous people while Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women were 21.2 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous women.

The 2021 Census data released this year found despite a minor decline in total prisoners and prisoner incarceration rates of Indigenous people from June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2022, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders accounted for 32 per cent of the country’s total adult prisoner population.

Seventy-eight per cent of those had previously experienced prison as an adult.

Corrective services data from the March quarter, 2023, showed rates were back on an upward trajectory, with more than 13,700 Indigenous people in jail, compared to 12,500 in the March quarter, 2022, with the incarceration rates of both male and female Indigenous people also on the rise.

Census data from 2021 states Indigenous people made up 3.2 per cent of the Australian population, with a significant increase in the number of people identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in the 2021 Census, mostly in the 0-19 years age bracket.

This is a system that is not working.

Since the Royal Commission there has been 547 Indigenous deaths in custody.

Opponents will argue more non-Indigenous deaths in custody have occurred, or that no death in custody is acceptable. Both of these statements are true. No death in custody should become acceptable.

But the rate at which Indigenous people are dying in custody in comparison, highlights again, the disadvantage and disparity that exists in this already divided nation.

Australian Institute of Criminology data from 2021-22 states the death in custody rate for Indigenous males was 5.63 per 100,000 compared to just 0.68 per 100,000 non-Indigenous males.

This is only a year ago.

The health outlook is just as bleak.

The 2020 Closing The Gap Report found in 2015-17 the life expectancy of Indigenous males was 71.6 years, compared to 80.2 years for non-Indigenous men.

Indigenous women had a life expectancy of 75.6 years compared to 83.4 years for non-Indigenous women.

And while there were improvements in Indigenous mortality rates from 2006-2018, non-Indigenous rates also improved. The gap has not closed.

The imbalance is also evident in education.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare explains that 2016 Census data revealed 42 per cent of Indigenous Australians aged 25-34 had achieved a Certificate III or above as their highest level of education, compared to 72 per cent of non-Indigenous Australians the same age.

Are you starting to catch my drift?

I’m not going to argue the Yes vote campaigners have nailed the brief thus far. They haven’t.

More needs to be done to provide clarity if they expect people to vote in support, but equally, it’s on all of us to improve our understanding.

I would love more detail about the proposal, what it will look like in action and what tangible outcomes they expect to achieve and when.

But I also understand the status quo simply can’t remain.

The system is clearly failing Indigenous Australians and we are already living in a divided society.

I’ll never experience the institutionalised barriers facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Like so many of us, I’m fortunate to have been raised in relative privilege. I wasn’t raised on the other side of the divide.

My daughter is the same.

But this is not the reality for many First Nations people.

The Voice is a proposed advisory body. Not a new government.

It will not have veto power.

It is not a mechanism by which our way of life will be disintegrated, our parliament overthrown or Constitution torn up. These were the same sort of fears spewed by same-sex marriage opponents during that horrid debate and at the time of writing the sky still hasn’t fallen in.

The Voice is a lever which, if pulled, albeit along with many more (it won’t be enough in itself), will hopefully help improve the lot for generations of Indigenous people who have been and continue to be let down.

It’s a significant step in the right direction which might just lift up this important minority, help level the playing field and you never know, we might even end up with a more unified country than we have now.

And yes, at some point we are putting a lot of trust in our elected representatives. That’s a scary thought.

We are trusting that The Voice is more than just a lip-service mechanism or box-ticking exercise. It must drive real, tangible and multi-generational change. Failure to ensure that will be a failure of our politicians.

The notion that The Voice represents inequality or unfair representation is laughable.

We already have 151 members in the House of Representatives and 76 Senators who are for the most part overwhelmingly white, middle-class Australians.

That demographic is well and truly represented.

Like the same-sex marriage survey, this referendum offers Australia a unique opportunity.

We can choose to become, as a community, as a country, better than we were yesterday.

Or we can choose to be swayed by fear.

The choice is ours.

FMD

Yes rosie I’m interested into why the Greens blocked the Bill. Might the development have endangered a gay tree frog on the city limits?
They can’t scream housing crises and call for more to be done in that area, along with calling for more immigration, then hold impressive portfolios.

Rita Panahi on the latest in AFL stupidity:

The hyperbolic may call it “victim-blaming” but it’s hard to feel much sympathy for some of the AFL players, current and former, caught up in the nude photo scandal.

One can sympathise with the younger players whose brains have not fully developed sending ill-advised dick shots, and other assorted graphic imagery to social media accounts in the hopes of scoring a hook-up.

That said, every single player on an AFL list has undergone some sort of social media training warning them of the pitfalls of engaging in this sort of conduct.

It’s time the AFL learned that this behaviour can lead to blackmail, sextortion and could threaten the integrity of the game.

More on that later.

They may be young, dumb and horny, but as AFL players they are also held to a different standard.

Mostly it’s upside, but there are some limitations on what they can and cannot do.

For example, they cannot put their bits on the world wide web and expect to be protected by the vultures, groupies and catfishers who target professional sportsmen.

There are claims that some of the images in the Google drive document are “fake” or “staged”, which is curious given they have been described as “a gross breach of privacy”.

There is no question that the players’ privacy has been breached, and those responsible for collecting and distributing these images have behaved reprehensibly and criminally.

That is a given; it does not change the fact that in 2023, AFL players should know better.

Sadly, there are plenty of terrible people in the world and these young men must be vigilant in protecting themselves from those with malicious intent.

But while one can understand how rookies can make such daft mistakes, it’s another thing to have seasoned AFL players – including captains, vice-captains, multiple Brownlow medallists and at least one board member – indulging in such reckless behaviour.

That some have wives and long-term girlfriends is another issue entirely.

To send nude images, and worse, to some unknown social media account with a thirst-trap profile picture is the sort of dimwitted idiocy that you’d expect from a teenager.

Is it really too much to limit one’s dick-pic sharing activity to people you actually know and trust?

That said, it’s naive to think that unworldly, testosterone-fuelled young men are not going to indulge in sexting – after all it’s behaviour that is commonplace in the digital age.

A 2021 meta-analysis of 39 studies published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, involving more than 110,000 participants from 2009 to 2015, revealed that 16 per cent of teens admit to sending a nude photo while 33 per cent said they had received one.

You can expect those numbers have increased significantly.

That’s why the AFL and its clubs has to do more to educate players, scare them silly if necessary, to reduce the likelihood of them engaging in behaviour that leaves them exposed (excuse the pun).

Cyber safety expert Susan McLean believes the players have done nothing wrong and is encouraging them to report the illegal photo sharing to police.

“The players are not at fault, as consenting adults they have a right to take images and to send to other consenting adults, but they need to consider the risks,” she said.

“The players have to personally make a complaint to police if they are serious about cracking down on this sort of behaviour.

“The issue of sextortion is huge and the primary targets are adolescent males and young men.”

The lack of official complaints by the affected players means that Victoria Police, while aware of the nude images being circulated, are not actively investigating the origins of the Google drive document.

In recent years we’ve seen images of players using illicit drugs circulate online.

There is a real risk of players being blackmailed with damaging images, whether it be nudes or drug use.

Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire believes the integrity of the competition may be under threat if players are threatened with the release of damaging pictures.

“The opportunity to blackmail players and disrupt the finals for nefarious reasons, such as match- fixing, is obvious,” he said.

“The AFL needs to address its rules and positioning to alleviate the issue of blackmailing of players.”

You can be sure of one thing, this won’t be the last time that the AFL is caught up in a nude photo scandal.

Not a few people today appear to be so open minded their brains have fallen out.

Wow, just wow. Organic food at regular prices.

https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele

Apparently public knowledge but didn’t stop some of the dumbest billionaires on the planet from signing up.
“This was problematic because this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull,” Mr Lochridge’s counterclaim said.

Meanwhile in Victoria
If Labor is serious about tackling the housing crisis and ensuring our support for these planning reforms, they need to guarantee that 50 per cent of new homes are public or affordable, and introduce a two-year rent freeze.”

Bronze Age rock painting discovered in Norway

If Australia expects 200k-250k migrants per year for the next couple of years (at least) and there is only 150k dwellings being built per year, you can do the math.

Australia is not being governed in the interests of Australians.

BIRM.

It would seem the movie Sound of Freedom (a true story about a guy who takes on child traffickers) is trouncing Indiana Jones 5.

I also hear that the film was ready in 2018 but the filmmakers had trouble finding a distributer – including Netflix who did not want their brand associated with the film content.

This would be the same Netflix that gladly released the movie Cuties.

Prosecutto must have deep pockets.

The Age reports: ‘Hundreds of defective balconies found in Melbourne apartment buildings during inspections of flammable cladding’

Is this peculiar to Victoria?

Gotta luv diversity! seems Ho Chi Minns is coughing up “our” money to teach Transport NSW “wukkas” to read & write ..
How the hell do you get a NSW PS job when you can’t read or write English?
Also noted one that slipped thru the media last week about Ho Chi Minns taking a holiday .. bloke’s only been in the job a coupla months but, apparently, needed a break .. Politics great lurk if you can get into it .. FFS!

https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/nsw-premier-spends-200000-on-writing-lessons-for-nsw-transport-employees/video/31e1d4e6990a113802160d7979936b61

Robodebt reckoning today.

At the very least it should put to rest any hopes Stuart Robert has of becoming a Canberra lobbyist and inflict some reputational damage on Morrison & Porter.

I wouldn’t just blame unions, builders and government authorities that sign off on these projects should bear primary responsibility.
A family member had a town house (now sold) balcony had had to be redone due to zero water proofing.
You see these places everywhere, with water stained ex cheapo cladding that is the giveaway..
I wouldn’t buy one.
copy article here?

Speaking of corruption in Victoria, what’s happened with Mrs. Andrews v. young cyclist?

When certain inner city Brisbane suburbs were rezoned for medium density housing in the 1970s a lot of “six pack” unit blocks were put up by Italian and Yugoslav builders.

They weren’t pretty but they were built like pillboxes.

Still being looked into by an ‘Independent Tribunal’ set up by Chairman Dan.

Never set up an independent tribunal if you haven’t predetermined the outcome.

Unilever stock loses $2B amid calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s over tweet

Social Credit: Bank Blocks Account for Parents’ Organisation Opposed to Child Transgenderism

Jan Jekielek
@JanJekielek

“There is a study that came out very recently, which showed that the messenger RNA was hanging out in the cells of the local lymph nodes from where the injection was up to four or five months later.” –

James Thorp MD
@jathorpmfm

What has changed? NOBODY in the ENTIRE WORLD would have condoned pushing a highly novel experimental gene therapy in pregnancy 10 years ago and it would have been considered malpractice and may have resulted in criminal charges likely including jail time. It would’ve been considered patently absurd. Yet the band plays on. Not egregious enough? The Pfizer 3.5.6 internal document 2.28.2021 reported 1223 deaths just after less than 10 weeks of the rollout – the most lethal medical intervention EVER. This was buried and Pfizer attempted to hide this for 75 years.

Gez I’m in Mildura to watch my son play interleague footy. Any cafes or pubs of note to have lunch?

Indolent – thank you for the posts of medico James Thorpe. Like Steve Kirsch he fruitlessly searched for anyone promoting the mRNA vaccines to debate him on their efficacy. But when Kirsch couldn’t get takers, in spite of offering literally a million dollars to do so (recall that he is a tech billionaire), it tells you what the vaccine promoters believe about the product …….

James Rickards on the scourge of Globalism:

GLOBALIST ELITES FEAR YOU
HARRY RICHARDSON
JUL 6

When the U.K. voted for Brexit in June 2016, the globalists were stunned. They couldn’t believe it. They then did everything they could to delay and fight Brexit.

And many of them are working hard to silence dissent. We’re in a Brave New World.

Of these, 35.7 per cent reported that their abuse occurred in a Catholic-run institution, while 32.5 per cent reported that their abuse occurred in a government-run institution.

In either case the RC was a sham. Anybody could’ve turned up and made up any story and there was no evidence required, no cross examination and no questions asked.

Its what the Voice will call “truth telling.”

Orwellian.

You seriously telling me this bitch hires herself out as a professional speaker!!!?? I’m thinking about sending them a fake email to ask her to come and present and see how much she charges:

https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/louise-milligan Blurb as follows:

Her work investigating the history of Catholic Cardinal George Pell – the third most senior figure in the Vatican – for the ABC TV 7.30 program and in Cardinal broke massive international news and led to Louise being a witness in the committal proceeding of Cardinal George Pell. That experience is documented in excoriating detail in Witness, along with the accounts of complainants of sexual crimes who also became witnesses in other trials.

Archbishop slams Synod on Synodality for contradicting Church Tradition, pushing ‘globalist Agenda 2030’

Thankfully, in most cases ,the Church has played the long game. When activists tell me that we’re “losing numbers,” I always retort: “We started with 12.”

And you can also bet that those organisations who do the hiring are paying with the taxpayers’ money or anyone who hires the ‘professional’ speaker would be using OPM.

I wonder if Saxton speakers don’t realise any reputational damage they’re doing to themselves by hiring out Milligan? For a job, YEARS ago I was directed to Saxon’s to get Dr Karl to an event; airfare, a night in a hotel, dinner all toward a 1 hour talk cost over $15K.

Parliament House scandal as they continue to try to cover-up the alleged assault of Brittany Higgins

38 minutes ago from Kangaroo Court of Australia

Paid and authorised by Ed Case and Katy Gallagher

All good Gez. I trust you went to the meeting at Charlton Wednesday night regarding the transmission lines?

Your shout Speedbox? 😛

Lysander

Jul 7, 2023 12:11 PM

Book awards
2017 Walkley Book Award, winner for Cardinal[17]

Should’ve added…. “Fictional Category”

More than once I have relocated her book (and other similar tomes) to the fiction section in book shops.
Although maybe they do genuinely belong in the true crime section.

Two things trending on twitter (and actually being reported by Lamestream):

– Cocaine found in a secure location of the White House, and
– Joe is going to make an announcement to send cluster munitions to Ukraine…

They will fight tooth and nail Roger…This will go on for years.

It is to be hoped they have many sleepless nights ahead them, beginning tonight.

As to their legal fees being paid by the tax payer, that is not a given but will be at the Attorney-General’s discretion.

While fronting up to a commission of inquiry is par for the course for a government minister, defending criminal charges is quite another thing altogether, unless they’re going to argue that acting illegally is part of the job!

Trump says biden only became POTUS because he kissed obuma’s arse.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHv9-8YTfPc

You’d also have to consider what the Dept of Human Services recommended as part of that Cabinet submission…

I presume the cluster bombs are net zero JC? 😛

Lysander, we can’t assume that. Everything , even cluster bombs, needs to be carefully assessed for climate impact now. LOL

Have you seen the recent Bunter Hiden vids at the 4th July celebrations on the White House balcony as he’s messaging his hair and snorting up? Dr. Jill can’t stand him.

Speedbox
Jul 7, 2023 12:23 PM
For those Cats with a lazy $60m and a undiminished yen to explore underwater (but only to the modest depth of 150m

KD touched on the possible failings of Captain Hubris and the Titan Imploder 2.0 earlier today.
Just after it happened an amateur garage engineer here pointed at three suspects:-
.1 the under-specified porthole;
.2 the junctions between the titanium ends and the carbon fibre tube;
.3 the layup techniques used in the manufacture of the carbon fibre tube.
It appears the first two of that trifecta are now firmly in the frame, and it looks like we can add “carbon fibre material quality control” to point 3, as it appears some raw materials were out-of-life when used.

Lysander
Jul 7, 2023 1:27 PM

Yeah JC… and yet he continues to get away with it.

There are finger prints on the bag of coke. As if the Secret Service doesn’t have the finger prints.

Ed Case
Jul 7, 2023 1:02 PM
What’s Affordable Housing?

A tent, or, in your Case a shop front.

Article from the Oz – seems of the thirty billion or so quid that is spent, annually, on Aboriginal affairs, TWENTY SEVEN PERCENT gets through to the coal face….

Good article on how indigenous lifespan, and other related factors, have improved over the last ten years (without a Voice):

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/the-handy-malleability-of-malinformation/

– Joe is going to make an announcement to send cluster munitions to Ukraine…

Usually when there is bad news they release another story to divert attention (such as the ongoing attempts to retrieve the already imploded Titanic submarine).

If they are talking about supplying the Ukes with clusterbombs without an unrelated diversionary story, you might conclude that the clusterbomb story is the diversion*.

Or, as I think increasingly to be the case, they are building the public case to dump Biden. The guy is an idiot chosen precisely because he knew his only hope of attaining high office lay in letting others pimp him out. The pimps don’t want him in their stable any more and he can’t do anything about it.

* I would point out that the diversion story does not need to be true. Just spectacular. Diverting.

Maddy
24 minutes ago
(Edited)
So if it is already known that only 27% of the $30 billion is going to
the Indigenous community, why has the relevant Minister (Burney) not done
anything about it?
Why has she not slashed the number of bureaucrats involved?
Surely that is her job.
And how do we know the Voice is not simply replacing one layer of bureaucracy
with another?
Legislating first is the only way.

I agree Cassie, I don’t think Sparkle thought she was going to knock Betty 2.0 off the throne, but I do think she thought she could queue-jump the line of succession in two ways.
Firstly, de-legitimising Phil and Betty by casting non-specific (but join the dots) accusations of racism around. I believe this started with the hot-gospel tub-thumper at their wedding.
Secondly was her ‘star power’ which would have the public clamouring for Ginge and Whinge to be installed as successors to the throne because, “like, if you don’t, we will, like, walk, and your Regal show will be, like, sooo screwed.”
I don’t know who was advising her, but whoever it was, they were poorly versed on the Monarchy and, in fact, the British public. Being a popular B-Grade Royal does not mean you have the support to sit in the big chair.