Open Thread – Weekend 8 July 2023


The Peasant Dance, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

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Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 8, 2023 12:50 am

Firrrrst?
…and goodnight.
Mutt of the week….
Any Cats nearby want to pick her up and put her on a plane for me?
I’ll ship you a carton of Margaret River Chardonnay and/or Tempranillo for your trouble

Behind Enemy Lines
Behind Enemy Lines
July 8, 2023 12:52 am

?

Alamak!
Alamak!
July 8, 2023 2:19 am

another solid 3rd place. I feel an enormous sense of self-satisfaction.

rosie
rosie
July 8, 2023 2:33 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 4:11 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 4:16 am

What would Root’s nickname be if he was an Aussie?

Wombat.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 4:33 am

The Robodebt royal commission is a good start.
A government acting with no legislative or regulatory authority.
Now keep it going.
First stop should be what was included under the umbrella of the public health orders during the COVID era.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 4:42 am

Lee Fang has a substack on Zuckerberg.
Via his foundation, he spends big on defunding the police.
But as Lee points out:

Zuckerberg received $13.4 million in personal security costs in 2020, then $15.1 million in 2021, followed by $14.8 million last year, for a total of $43.4 million in security costs over the last three years.

johanna
johanna
July 8, 2023 4:49 am

Sound familiar?

Say you want to develop a property in Riverside County in California. You assume that you will need the usual permits for building and electrical codes—and you will. But what may surprise you is that you’ll first often have to hire a professional archaeologist to survey the lot. The archaeologist will then write the equivalent of an academic article on the history of the lot, from its “prehistoric context” to the present day, including a review of any similar reports about surrounding lots. (One project found 60 such reports for nearby properties.) If evidence exists that something old may be present on the lot, the archaeologist will have to write either one or two more reports, which will include “oral histories” from people who may have walked across the lot and descriptions of any agreements with Native American tribes to supervise digging—for research, not development. If some clay pipes or old bricks are found, you may have to pay for archaeological and Native American monitoring during construction itself and then provide yet another report, which will describe, among other things, how you arranged for “mandatory cultural resources sensitivity training” for your construction workers. The official county archaeologist will then decide whether your report was adequate before allowing the normal building permits—provided, of course, that no problems are found with your paleontological, biological, or other reports.

Leftist attacks on economic growth metastise throughout Western countries, slightly tailored for local conditions.

Incidentally, the City Journal edition at the link is well worth a look. It is all about California – how it went from Ronald Reagan’s stronghold to the current Dimmocrat quagmire. The effect of changing demographics, the role of the Defense (sic) industry, and dramatic changes in mobility and communications are fascinating.

I had no idea that California grew so fast relative to the rest of the US. It happened for very good reasons – natural beauty, nice climate and a booming economy – California grew in terms of population and economic heft at multiples of the rest of the US for many years.

Now, for the first time ever, it is declining, and lost a Congressional seat after the last Census.

Well worth a look for those interested in US politics, or just California.

johanna
johanna
July 8, 2023 5:15 am

Oh, and Wolfman – I re-watched The Dirty Dozen last night. Must be at least ten years since I last watched it.

Still very enjoyable, hasn’t dated at all. I’m not a big fan of ‘action’ movies, but this one transcends that genre. It’s just a bloody good fillum. 🙂

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 5:22 am

The Biden administration calling peoples brains “cognitive infrastructure” that could be weaponised is really creepy.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:05 am

Yeah Johanna, but the incredible thing about this place is the ability to renew itself. California is veering down while Florida and Texas are going just great. There’s a SCOTUS case coming up this month called “Chevron”. If SCOTUS votes the way they have recently, it will completely break the back of the administrative state in the US.

There have been some pretty momentous decisions over the past 12 months coming out of the SCOTUS leaving the American left shocked.

Abortion. Agree or disagree with abortion, the Roe decision was crap law.
Affirmative Action has been found to be unconstitutional.

Striking down Hiden’s university fees forgiveness with the SCOTUS saying this belongs to the Congress.

Ruling Colorado cannot enforce an anti-discrimination law against a Christian website designer who wishes to explicitly deny same-sex couples her services.

Chevron is coming up!

The Supreme Court, Chevron and the case that could change Washington

More here:

https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/supreme-court-to-revisit-chevon-case-and-could-shake-up-dc/

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:07 am

Striking down Hiden’s university fees forgiveness with the SCOTUS saying this belongs to the Congress.

Presidents need reminding they are presidents.
Not emperors.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:10 am

The case will be further complicated by news that the newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, will recuse herself after hearing arguments in a similar case while a DC appeals court judge.

From your link JC.
KBJ will have to do this when the multi national damages jurisdiction case gets to SCOTUS.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:11 am

What was your first meal back in the US, JC?
Shake shack?

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:16 am

Bern

This court is amazing. It resembles an earthquake with buildings ( the left) being engulfed and falling in massive fault cracks.

The four major pillars of American leftism were

1. Federal sanctioned abortion. Gonesky
2. Affirmative Action. Gonesky
3. Forcing leftwing demands against religious freedom. Gonesky
4. Using the administrative state against the population. About to be gonesky.

No one watching shitty woke movies with Disney losing US$900 million in shitty woke movie bets.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:20 am

feelthebern
Jul 8, 2023 6:11 AM

What was your first meal back in the US, JC?
Shake shack?

Nightmare flight back. 6 hour freaking delay in Lisbon with (dis) United Airlines. Went to our fave joint and I had lobster with cherry tomatoe sauce and pasta.
Next night Wifey cooked some fresh cod and veggies.

I can’t eat crap for a week or so as I need to get back into a decent diet.

johanna
johanna
July 8, 2023 6:22 am

I suppose what is so compelling about the California story (especially for those of us who have been there) is how a place gifted with everything anyone could desire has been run into the ground by ideologues.

Nothing, nowhere, no matter how beautiful and rich, is immune from the toxic fumes emitted by these idiots.

Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 6:31 am

Muslim Immigrants in France View Migration as ‘Recolonization’ in Response to Historical French Colonialism

“They colonized us for 132 years, and now it’s our turn to colonize your country.

The left are guaranteed to refer to those muslims as right-wing conspiracy theorists as what they are screaming out doesn’t fit the agenda. As usual.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:33 am

had lobster with cherry tomatoe sauce and pasta.

Hopefully followed by a cigarillo for dessert.

MatrixTransform
July 8, 2023 6:35 am

hire a professional archaeologist to survey the lot.

one of my brothers works in civil construction as a heavy equipment driver.
I asked him yesterday how work was.

sounding a lot like Knowlsey he said
yeah nah. just started some more works … just gotta wait for Koories to stop digging in the mud and sifting through the sand

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:36 am

Pretty sure the Frogs have already been doing this.
But now these riots will open the flood gates.

Trigger warning: it’s zerohedge.

French Cops Can Now Secretly Activate Phone Cameras, Microphones And GPS To Spy On Citizens

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-cops-can-now-secretly-activate-phone-cameras-microphones-and-gps-spy-citizens

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:37 am

I listened to a decent podcast with Michael Malice and a fully functioning high-level lawyer. The lawyer reckons that nixing the affirmative action debacle has some very far reaching consequences. The decision is also very consequential with respect to legacy placements at Ivy League universities and could mean the end of legacy spots. This is when kids with lower scores are given places because their parents went there. Parents can also buy places for kids if they pay a high enough vig. All that  and racial quotas are gone, which means really bright kids from poorer families have a shot now.

You go girl!

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:41 am

That was Barnes, JC.
Malice is a good interviewer.
Lets the person speak at length, rarely interrupts.
Bolta could learn a thing or two.

Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 6:42 am

” If some clay pipes or old bricks are found, you may have to pay for archaeological and Native American monitoring …”

And you would be well served to wager that some “artifact” will be “found” in each and every future development site. If you could find anyone stupid enough to take that bet that is.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:43 am

feelthebern
Jul 8, 2023 6:33 AM

had lobster with cherry tomatoe sauce and pasta.

Hopefully followed by a cigarillo for dessert.

Our friends, who we were staying with live in Cascais, in a community with mostly well off Brazilians. Their Brazilian neighbors had an afternoon party and we scored an invite. These fuckers were puffing on the biggest freaking Cubans I’ve ever seen. Even some of the Brazilian sheilas were puffing on these monsters. Real smokers can’t smoke cigars because REAL smokers have to draw the puff into their lungs. You can’t do that with cigars as they’re lung rippers.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 8, 2023 6:43 am

Up early, reading some comments on the Oz and here till I’m sleepy again.

I liked one that described Albosleazy as Airbus Albo.
Reminiscent of Kevin707.

Albo’s honeymoon is over.

Going back to bed on that. Things are looking up. US Supreme Court doing well.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:44 am

On the All-In Pod last week, Chamath said the Ivy League schools should publish a rate card for legacies.
25mill per kid.
He said people will pay.

johanna
johanna
July 8, 2023 6:46 am

JC, the universities are already signalling how they will go around the judgement, like ingnoring aand deleting merit based SAT scores and substituting things like essays on how oppressed I am.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:49 am

He said people will pay.

Years ago, we heard an old-time acquaintance forked out $10 million for a Harvard spot for their kid. This was about 15 years ago, so $25 mill these days wouldn’t be out of the ballpark. If they raise the vig, it could mean they won’t get caught over the quota issue. It may also mean more money for less spots.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 8, 2023 6:50 am

Belfast and the Titanic Experience

We picked up our car and travelled north where we visited Newgrange passage tomb for some photos – it was fully booked, so no viewing. So onto nearby Dowth another burial tomb smaller, but not developed. It was great to walk around it and see the two passage entrances that have been explored by archaeologists. Passage tombs date back to well before the Romans – maybe back to 4000BC – and look to be the burial efforts of the local tribes for their most important leaders. One of the signs we photographed tells some of the story: essentially they seem to be stoneworks which were then covered over by earthworks.

Onto Belfast and visiting the Titanic Museum. It’s a very well curated “immersive” theatrical style walk-through, which adds in a host of facts and stories, blending the engineering in with the human tragedies.
The centrepiece is an amusement park style ride into the gantry construction depths of the Titanic hull, with the noises of the riveting and hammering blended in with the workmen telling you what they are doing. The Experience covers not only the building but the fit-out, the fatal first voyage, but also the discovery of the shipwreck in 1985. By the time you go through it’s around about two hours of the complete story of the most famous ship in the world.

Outside is the Nomadic, the only ship of the White Star line left – she was a tender to take people out to the liners if they were anchored offshore. We finished off at the docks by having a look at the outside of the WWI warship HMS Caroline nearby.

Finally, after arriving at our Airbnb, we plundered the local Tesco in memory of the Vikings, who seem to have been a major influence in Ireland. It’s been a big day!

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:51 am

Another part of the affirmative action ruling is how it will impact sports scholarships.
I was reading how it can be protected by similar but different legislation to the legal monopoly laws that protect Major League Baseball.
Too complicated to summarise for a simple fellow like myself.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
July 8, 2023 6:53 am

The US administration has now approved the giving of ‘Cluster Bombs’ to the Ukraine. If the Ukrainians don’t have air superiority then they won’t make much difference. I don’t know if they can be delivered from the ground.
When I think of this war I’m reminded of the titles of Megadeaths first 2 albums ‘Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good!’ and ‘Peace Sells… but Who’s Buying?’

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:53 am

If they raise the vig, it could mean they won’t get caught over the quota issue.

Chamath said if the rate card was public, it would be 100% legal.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:54 am

Johanna, yeah I saw that. Look, it may not eliminate it, but it will make the quota stuff much stickier and harder. If it becomes apparent they’re trying to get around the decision, it will go to court again and then the federal court will begin to micromanage the process. Whatever happens, the affirm thing is mostly over I think. I know Harvard has a ton of money, but they spent $27 million on this case in legal fees!

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:56 am

Ironically, it wasn’t whites who took the Ivy’s to court. It was Asians!

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 6:58 am

There needs to be tax reform in the US to capture these college endowments.
Along the lines of their dispersements.
Totally fine they are tax exempt.
But they have to disperse more.
If they don’t pay out a certain percentage annually, they should lose their tax exempt status.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 6:59 am

One last thing on this affirm thing. By inference, the SCOTUS decision suggests that those folks who took this to court felt they were short changed by the Ivys. I wonder if they have a civil case against the universities now?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 8, 2023 6:59 am

Got it in one Johanna. When I came here in 79 Australia was a land of opportunity. Successive government interference in the minutiae of life has wrecked the joint. Laws are endlessly enacted to control the odd miscreant but which impacts the general populace more and the miscreant does whatever.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 7:00 am

I know Harvard has a ton of money, but they spent $27 million on this case in legal fees!

What’s the Harvard endowment up to?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 7:03 am

In Australia, if you run a PAF, you have to pay out 5% per annum to maintain your tax exempt status.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 7:03 am

$53.2 billion
The Harvard University endowment (valued at $53.2 billion as of June 2021) is the largest academic endowment in the world.

Bern, if there is civil liability here by the Ivys as a result of affirm, the potential civil penalties in class actions could be eye-popping.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 7:04 am

$53.2 billion

Jeebers.

Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 7:06 am

Yes, cluster munitions can be artillery delivered from both the 155mm howitzer and HIMARS.

DPICM

Human Rights Watch reports that at least 10 types of cluster munitions have been used in Ukraine so far, mostly Russia ones or Ukrainians using former USSR cold war stockpiled ones. Biden providing more is incredibly irresponsible IMO.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 7:08 am

I know a working class Aussie bird who paid her own way through a Stanford MBA.
Not one of those fly in fly out, summer school ones.
A genuine one.
That was about 15 years ago.
She now lives in the US and makes a couple of bricks a year.
Best investment she ever made.
Hopeless with blokes though.
Always letting losers into the circle of trust.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 7:09 am

And another one I forgot to mention.
It wasn’t SCOTUS, but a federal court barred any interaction between the state and tech companies over the issue of controlling speech.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 7:13 am

Harvard & Yale need to make amends for letting students bring their slaves to college.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 7:15 am

lol

Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 7:19 am

Good brief on the Missouri vs. Biden censorship case JC mentioned.

The Censors are Exposed: Major Update to Missouri v. Biden

And the 5 July preliminary injunction ruling.

Victory! Federal Judge Rules Biden Administration Cannot Censor Americans on Social Media

It’s not over, but it’s rolling in the right direction.

johanna
johanna
July 8, 2023 7:22 am

BTW, popped in to Canberra Hospital yesterday for the final ckeckup on the broken arm, X ray first which is a long way away from the fracture clinic. People limping along back and forth – honestly, it’s as though hospitgal designers had no experience to work from. You see that again and again – how do they keep getting it wrong?

Anyway, all good, healing up perfectly, young orthopod who clearly didn’t like looking at surgery scars, but as I was reading John Le Carre while waiting and he was a fellow fan, we hit it off. Showed me the original break X ray – yikes! My crappy bones meant it looked like a bundle of hay cut through the middle with a very blunt instrument.

I must say that the Canberra Hospital Outpatients clinic is pretty good, unlike my experience when incarcerated there.

duncanm
duncanm
July 8, 2023 7:26 am

johanna
Jul 8, 2023 4:49 AM
Sound familiar?

wow.. just a snippet from a link in that article, which was the local authorities reviewing why BMR (below market rent) units were sitting idle..
the minutiae!

MOHCD requires that developers meet certain outreach and advertising
requirements for their BMR units. Specifically, developers of BMR units must:

? Advertise in five local publications, one of which must be in Spanish, Chinese,
and Filipino print each, and one of which must target the African-American
community.

Crossie
Crossie
July 8, 2023 7:31 am

JC
Jul 8, 2023 6:49 AM
He said people will pay.

Years ago, we heard an old-time acquaintance forked out $10 million for a Harvard spot for their kid. This was about 15 years ago, so $25 mill these days wouldn’t be out of the ballpark. If they raise the vig, it could mean they won’t get caught over the quota issue. It may also mean more money for less spots.

This will simply bring down the value of a Harvard degree. People will be free to assume that you have the piece of paper because you can afford it, not because you are smart.

The same goes for minorities who got accepted on affirmative action grounds, people will assume, and mostly correctly, that the smartest people did not get an opportunity that you did.

This is how you destroy a society, not simply by destroying the faith in the validity of system but by keeping out your best people. Soviets and their satellites did that, only the party faithful were educated and promoted and look how that went.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 7:40 am

Farmer Gez, Vicki Campion has an article that will touch on your plight, along with a lot of others:

Hanging off the farm gate is the plastic bag where the propaganda starts, almost a metaphor for the green boot on farmers’ throats.

Inside black plastic, with “HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT” screaming across the label, is a notice warning your land will be ripped up to build 500KV towers, 80m high, 400 metres apart.

What’s to come is many more foreign corporate giants building wind and solar factories with imported components, and linking them with thousands of kilometres of transmission lines, to give Sydney’s western suburbs some of the most expensive power bills in the Western world, which the NSW Government’s EnergyCo calls the “modern-day equivalent of power stations”.

A power station might cover a few hundred acres. This plan covers hundreds of thousands — the power equivalent of a morning commute in hot air balloons.

EnergyCo’s “Dear Resident” letter doesn’t mention they will compulsorily acquire our private land to give it to someone else, since EnergyCo will not be building the transmission infrastructure, operating or maintaining it.

It’s a neat trick. A new government organisation authorises whatever they want – and then they will flip the deal. To who? They can’t tell us.

We know they will have to be fabulously wealthy and aren’t doing this for charity.

They are coming into farm homes and agribusinesses and saying, “We’re going to take part of what is yours and give it to someone else to build and run a business on — but don’t worry here is a biodegradable bag”.

They have a six-month window; if no agreement is made, Energy Co’s compulsory acquisition kicks in.

And then, after it’s built, you will have to adhere to “exclusion zones” on your own land where you won’t be able to do fencing, irrigation or use farm equipment for safety reasons.

The inner Sydney Climate 200 or Labor voter has to walk 533km north to Coffs Harbour or nearly 200km west to Bathurst before they even encounter a single of the hundreds of approved wind and solar factories.

There will not be a single transmission line running through their premises. Imagine telling anyone in Warringah or Mosman the government will run an extension cord through their house to power the buildings in Barangaroo.

And if you disagree, EnergyCo will acquire sections of your kitchen at their price and time frame. And from that point forward, you can’t do anything in your house without asking the government’s permission first.

But they would never try anything like this in a Climate-200-funded seat like Mosman or Warringah. When planners wanted to put 12-storey buildings (about half the height of a transmission tower) on Military Rd, North Sydney authorities knocked it back for being too high.

They won’t accept more buildings where buildings are, but they are happy to industrialise farmland.

When planners wanted to put affordable housing over a metro station in Crows Nest, the “village” went nuts, and the 350 apartments were slashed to less than 150.

The same communities that believe themselves progressive enough to vote for so-called Teal candidates blanket the bush in industrial towers so they can feel good about getting power from a wind factory, continuously squash plans for new housing in a housing crisis.

Farmers would love even a portion of the finance, resources and idle time these people use to fight new apartment developments where there are already apartments.

Let’s be honest. It’s not about the shade or protecting a “village-feel”, it’s to protect the value of their asset.

Many of our farms are worth less than their houses, but we don’t have a friend who is a King’s Counsel or the money to hire publicists to tackle the tide of lobbyists regularly flying in and out of our towns.

And what are the fruits of all this? An unaffordable, intermittent power system that the Australian Energy Regulator warns prices will increase 20 per cent from July 1.

And rather than giving the communities who wear the burden of wind factories and transmission towers cheaper power, authorities are instead creating “schemes” for the green companies to give grants to community projects in the areas that host them.

Gone too is any pretence that biodiversity will be protected.

Yet even with a host of endangered animals from Queensland to Victoria to lose habitats for transmission lines, Labor refuses a Senate inquiry into them, voting it down four times.

Even Senator David Pocock, the Climate 200-funded independent who once chained himself to a digger in the Pillaga, has not said he would support an inquiry.

The Climate 200-backed teals took a chartered plane to look at the gas line in Narrabri but are nowhere to be seen for the biodiversity losses for transmission lines.

Like the compostable plastic bag itself, the whole project is wrapped in spin for a so-called green product that can’t do what it promises.

Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 7:42 am

The value of a Harvard degree as an indicator of academic achievement did a dive years ago when affirmative action became de rigueur in both woke academia and industry. When having tokens of the correct gender or race became more important than recruiting competence.

The true value of the Ivy League degree is the opportunity to become part of the club. To network and integrate with the rest of the thieving families who created and thrive on the deep state.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 7:44 am

Crossie

True, but somewhat. I think your assertion applies to affirm action more so than it does to legacy. You would be on thicker ice assuming a black kid got into Harvard as a result of affirm. But a legacy, I’m not sure. The reason is that you wouldn’t know if the kid got his smarts from the parent who attended. Maybe.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 8, 2023 7:46 am

Belfast and the Titanic Experience

Don’t forget to visit Belfast’s equivalent of The Floosie in the Jacuzzi
and The Tart With a Cart: The Lying Bastard.
A stopped clock can be right twice a day,
but one built on dodgy foundations can never be.

Crossie
Crossie
July 8, 2023 8:04 am

JC
Jul 8, 2023 7:44 AM
Crossie

True, but somewhat. I think your assertion applies to affirm action more so than it does to legacy. You would be on thicker ice assuming a black kid got into Harvard as a result of affirm. But a legacy, I’m not sure. The reason is that you wouldn’t know if the kid got his smarts from the parent who attended. Maybe.

What if the parent got in the same way? Are we to assume their smarts from their rich parents ad infinitum? Just look at King Charles for proof of inherited smarts.

Pogria
Pogria
July 8, 2023 8:08 am

Black Ball,
Campion’s column is all well and good, but let’s not forget, her children’s sperm donor signed on the dotted line for Net Zero. Still not a peep out of him as all this crap is being rolled out.

She stopped commenting here after she expected us to feel sorry for Scummo and other assorted Government Grifters because they don’t get to see their offspring as much as they professed to want to.

Most Cats were not impressed.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
July 8, 2023 8:08 am

In today’s Oz. Watch it at the peril of your mental health and your TV screen.

The Dark Emu Story
Premiering on ABC TV and iview on Tuesday, 18 July 2023 at 8.30pm.

Director Allan Clarke (The Bowraville Murders) takes a close reading of the firestorm of criticism that engulfed Bruce Pascoe’s 2014 bestseller, Dark Emu. In his book, Pascoe argues that the true history of pre-colonial Australia was hidden away for over 150 years, and that Aboriginal people were not “mere hunter-gatherers” but sophisticated farmers in “the early stages of an agricultural society”. It was a literary phenomenon, selling more than a quarter of a million copies and winning Book of the Year at the
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. One that sparked a heated national debate, and faced fierce opposition from academics — anthropologist Peter Sutton (who Pascoe confronts in the film) and field archaeologist Keryn Walsh co-authored a rebuff titled Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers?— as well as conservative pundits who questioned Pascoe’s Aboriginal identity.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 8:11 am

Crossie

The parents may have too. This court decision will also make legacy more difficult.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 8:12 am

What if the parent got in the same way?

Errr….google Ivy League legacies.

Not Ivy League, but the amount of Stanford Alumni that have children together looks to be a form eugenics.
Christian McCaffrey is a good example.
That Aussie bird I know who went there is fantastic looking.
She was pretty open about how few ugly people you’d see on campus.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 8:14 am

In other good news to start off the weekend. The Dutch PM resigned.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 8:15 am

If you compare Wharton alum to Stanford alum, you know whose admission policy is purely on smarts.

chrisl
chrisl
July 8, 2023 8:16 am

The local bowling club has seen it’s electricity go from 22c/kWh to 32c.
Their feed in tariff ( from a nearby premises) has gone from 12c to 4.9 c
They are SCREAMING

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 8, 2023 8:17 am

Our Father is oppressively patriarchal.
He must be one of Sir Humphrey Appleby’s Modernists.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 8:17 am
JC
JC
July 8, 2023 8:19 am

Guess it means he’s going to be out then.

The gunman who killed 23 people in an attack targeting Latinos at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences in federal prison.

Life is what, 20 Years? It means he’s going to be out in 3823.

Cassie of Sydney
July 8, 2023 8:19 am

“This court is amazing. It resembles an earthquake with buildings ( the left) being engulfed and falling in massive fault cracks.”

Correct. This court is President Donald Trump’s greatest achievement and his greatest legacy. Forget about another four years, forget about a stolen election, Trump’s appointments to the SC, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney-Barrett, means his presidential legacy will prevail for generations, and may well save the republic, whereas the current decomposing corpse in the White House, with his whistling senile voice, his empty frozen eyes, who’s no doubt daily propped up by a steady supply of white powder from his equally perverted son, will be forgotten within months of his departure. People will breathe a sigh of relief. And in the future, when this creepy old man is no longer POTUS, for those who indulge in remembering his ghastly tenure as POTUS, I reckon he will be remembered the way people remember a horrible and traumatic experience in their lives, the memory comes back for a fleeting moment or two, you shake your head in disgust, and you shiver with horror when reminded of the sniffing, rotting, degraded evil old deviant. Joe BIden is Frankenstein.

Cassie of Sydney
July 8, 2023 8:25 am

“Campion’s column is all well and good, but let’s not forget, her children’s sperm donor signed on the dotted line for Net Zero. Still not a peep out of him as all this crap is being rolled out.”

Indeed Pogria. I haven’t forgotten and I’ll never forget. I’d have more time for him if he came out and said that his capitulation to Net Zero was a BIG mistake. He knows it was a mistake, but instead he prefers to play the weasel. He sold his soul for a few crumbs of pork crackling, only months before an election, when the people he sold his soul to lost government, and those wets in that government, spruiking Net Zero and climate crap..ALL lost their seats.

As Sancho says, Beetroot’s focus is school fees, Riverview fees, and they don’t come cheaply.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 8, 2023 8:34 am

In todays Oz:

Beastly times as shortage of vets hits country practices:
Rural Australia is crying out for more vets, but with the previously male dominated profession now skewed to women, the bush now faces a perfect supply storm.

So, a profession requiring physical strength and long hours, previously dominated by men, is not doing so well now that ‘gender balance’ has been restored?

Baffling….

Savannan
Savannan
July 8, 2023 8:39 am

For the record, I live in outback cattle country and our local vets number 4 girls and 3 blokes. The girls are cracking good cattle vets. So are the blokes.

Pogria
Pogria
July 8, 2023 8:42 am

Cassie,
Never forgive, never forget.
Miranda Devine is also on the list. Her tongueing of Turdball and branding good people Neocons, was her Goat F**king moment.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 8, 2023 8:48 am

Clear skies this morning. 23 degrees at present.

Coffee is hot, and pleasant. Birds are chirping. Out the back, over the fence and in the middle distance small children at a playground are breaking into song.

Also, I learn that the left-handed snivelling cheat became Stuart Broad’s bunny on the 17th occasion in Tests overnight – nicking to the cordon for 1, thus contributing a total of 5 runs for his country and thus vastly increasing my chances of never seeing that ranga ferret on the telly ever again.

God I love this country sometimes.

Pogria
Pogria
July 8, 2023 8:51 am

Nailed it!

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 8, 2023 8:51 am

Duk, i don’t think any affirmative action is evident, other than girls being relentlessly pushed into university “STEM” because you go grrrl! and veterinary studies, like psych and two-leg medicine, is naturally a lot more becoming to the femmes than the dry fields of engineering and chem.

Pogria
Pogria
July 8, 2023 8:51 am

Bugger. Try again.

“Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said Friday on FNC’s “The Story” that Vice President Kamala Harris’ comments on “culture” makes it seem like “English is not her first, second, third or even fourth language.”

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 8:52 am

The Robodebt royal commission is a good start.
A government acting with no legislative or regulatory authority.
Now keep it going.
First stop should be what was included under the umbrella of the public health orders during the COVID era.

The key would be health ministers and chief law officers deeming the measures to be within human rights legislation because medically necessary in a pandemic.

The goal would be to see the enabling legislation amended or repealed. As it stands it’s all still on the relevant statute books federally and at state level and neither major party has voiced any concerns, obviously.

sfw
sfw
July 8, 2023 8:53 am

KD, wish we had some sunshine, it’s been heavily overcast and cloudy for a month now, we had a couple of clear days last week but that’s all. Dark and gloomy with constant rain and drizzle. Normally at this time of year we get days at a time of cold clear nights, heavy frosts and beautiful days. Not this year. The only thing that has stopped the river flooding is that the rain has been steady at around 10 to 20 mm a day, if we get a big rainstorm then the saturated ground will just let it flow straight into the river and it will rise rapidly.
The outlook for the next couple of weeks is more of the same.

JC
JC
July 8, 2023 8:53 am

Pogria
Jul 8, 2023 8:42 AM
Cassie,
Never forgive, never forget.
Miranda Devine is also on the list. Her tongueing of Turdball and branding good people Neocons, was her Goat F**king moment.

Devine could singlehandedly be bringing down the Hiden crime family.

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 8:54 am

Why do so many msm cricket reports these days not include the scorecard?

Incompetents.

bons
bons
July 8, 2023 8:54 am

You have to love Douglas Murray.
I saw him describe Wookie Obama as “floating through life dispensing Hallmark greeting card philosophies”.
Yummy.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 8:54 am
Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 8:55 am

For those who don’t have the time to read all the material regarding the Missouri vs. Biden censorship case, the below is a particularly impactful portion of the filing against Biden setting the stage for the case:

Introduction

Change the accent a bit and much of that sounds very familiar.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 8:56 am
Damon
Damon
July 8, 2023 8:57 am

“Presidents need reminding they are presidents.”
Biden’s constant smirks at ‘difficult’ questions from the press suggest that he believes that he and his family ARE invulnerable, and immune from any consequences for their actions

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 8:58 am
shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 8:59 am

So, a profession requiring physical strength and long hours, previously dominated by men, is not doing so well now that ‘gender balance’ has been restored?

I’ve a friend who’s a vet she’s given the physical side away due to a bad back from too much lifting, turning & shoving over the years and now teaches vet science at TAFE/university …

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 9:00 am

Trend developing

In QLD the government is on to this and rolling out a super network of EV charging stations.

People who can’t afford a Tesla are subsidising those who can.

Cassie of Sydney
July 8, 2023 9:01 am

“Miranda Devine is also on the list. Her tongueing of Turdball and branding good people Neocons, was her Goat F**king moment.”

I agree, she used the description “Delcons”….delusional conservaa4tives. I think she knows that she’s spent here, after her embarrassing fellating of Turnbull, hence her decision to move to NYC. She’s doing good work at the Post where she’s chronicling the current perverts and deviants in the WH, but I can’t forget her incessant Turnbull championing and fellating, and her shocking attacks on Abbott. I sometimes wonder why she did this. I put it down to the fact that like almost all of us, she was bitterly disappointed in Abbott, and she saw him as a quisling figure (and I don’t disagree), and it’s why she saw Turnbull’s ascendancy in September 2015 as a good thing. She then became Turnbull’s chief conservative spruiker and mouthpiece. But Miranda knows she sold her soul, and that Turnbull’s ascendancy was the death knell of the Liberal Party. I’d be interested in her viewpoint now, because I suspect that deep down she knows her championing of the Miserable Turd of Point Piper was a catastrophic mistake.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 8, 2023 9:01 am

The local bowling club has seen it’s electricity go from 22c/kWh to 32c. Their feed in tariff ( from a nearby premises) has gone from 12c to 4.9 c. They are SCREAMING

Good, their collaboration with the klimate scam has made my power more expensive and less reliable, now they know how I feel.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 8, 2023 9:02 am

Roger, cricinfo is your friend. Modern j’ism doesn’t do facts. It’s a post Bacon world.

Cassie of Sydney
July 8, 2023 9:03 am

“Devine could singlehandedly be bringing down the Hiden crime family.”

True JC, and as I wrote above, she’s doing great work at the Post. However her fawning over the Miserable Turd from Point Piper is something I can’t quite forget.

Cassie of Sydney
July 8, 2023 9:03 am

Gosh, top of da page!

Cassie of Sydney
July 8, 2023 9:03 am

Gosh, top of da page!

shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 9:04 am

First stop should be what was included under the umbrella of the public health orders during the COVID era.

That sort of info will be released around the time that Bruce produces physical evidence that 251s lived in towns .. LOL!

Vicki
July 8, 2023 9:04 am

the left-handed snivelling cheat became Stuart Broad’s bunny on the 17th occasion in Tests overnight – nicking to the cordon for 1, thus contributing a total of 5 runs for his country and thus vastly increasing my chances of never seeing that ranga ferret on the telly ever again.

In total agreement with that in our house!

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 8, 2023 9:04 am

But Miranda knows she sold her soul, and that Turnbull’s ascendancy was the death knell of the Liberal Party.

Only yesterday, my neighbour was cussing Trumble for his mandating (theres that word again) stoopid fluro lights, the price of which is 10x that of incandescent, the performance is 10x worse, particularly when you only want a few seconds of light – they are too slow to start up.

The LEDs at least perform better, but a decent output one (160w equivalent) was $25 last time I bought one.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 8, 2023 9:07 am

Daily Mail. Gary Foley – remember him? – has surfaced again…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Indigenous activist revisits his famous 1970s poster to attack the Voice in NAIDOC Week – and why its message is just as relevant today

Legendary Indigneous activist revives famous NAIDOC poster
‘Buy a b**ng a beer’ mocks paternalistic attitudes
Gary Foley says the Voice is to ‘make white people feel good’

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 9:07 am

Roger, cricinfo is your friend. Modern j’ism doesn’t do facts. It’s a post Bacon world.

Yes, I eventually end up there. It just frustrates me. I don’t want some would be sporting journo hack’s ball by ball commentary, the scorecard tells me most of what I want to know.

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 9:09 am

Gary Foley says the Voice is to ‘make white people feel good’

Most don’t appear to be getting the vibe, Gary.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 8, 2023 9:11 am

100 comments per page.

This may be the key to this august journal of record’s current smoooooothness.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 9:16 am

Wowee. Morning Today program, Robodebt the issue being rightly discussed. Talking head invited to speak? None other than Tits Shorten.

Crossie
Crossie
July 8, 2023 9:17 am

As Sancho says, Beetroot’s focus is school fees, Riverview fees, and they don’t come cheaply.

Then he should have stuck to accountancy, I believe they make a decent living.

bespoke
bespoke
July 8, 2023 9:19 am
Crossie
Crossie
July 8, 2023 9:19 am

Roger
Jul 8, 2023 9:00 AM
Trend developing

In QLD the government is on to this and rolling out a super network of EV charging stations.

People who can’t afford a Tesla are subsidising those who can.

Just as people who can’t afford solar panels are subsidising those who can afford them.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 8, 2023 9:20 am

Mine lovely wife preg tested forty cows the other day.
She’s no spring heifer herself.
Shoved her arm up their bums like a trouper, she did. Didn’t even have to change arms.
Some vets are built of the right stuff. I’m seriously concerned that our kids are not properly hardened to work in their childhood anymore- no chopping wood, picking up rocks, riding bikes by pushing the pedals round. If girls skip sport- and a fair few of them are, boys too- then they grow up pretty doughy.
Then there’s the mental fragility to think about.

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 9:23 am

Morning Today program, Robodebt the issue being rightly discussed. Talking head invited to speak? None other than Tits Shorten.

Even a piece of gum on the sole of public life like Shorten has his moments.

He’s currently the relevant minister & called it out originally from opposition.

Frankly, the Liberals deserve all they’re about to get on this front.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 8, 2023 9:29 am

Taibbi & Kirn 3mins.

WaPo’s Unbelievable Dishonesty about Missouri v. Biden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asb_Tfb2pKE

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
July 8, 2023 9:29 am

Wowee. Morning Today program, Robodebt the issue being rightly discussed. Talking head invited to speak? None other than Tits Shorten.

This is what happens when you become a faux conservative. Instead of trying to stop eligibility to welfare payments so the rorting doesn’t start in the first place, it tried to regulate payments and lost their way.

Indolent
Indolent
July 8, 2023 9:30 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 8, 2023 9:34 am

46 hrs for EV travel? Unicorn farts meets reality. Have these people got their heads so far up someone else’s posterior they couldn’t see this happening?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 8, 2023 9:36 am

A retiring vet told me the country shortage stems from the fact that many graduates are now Asian women who won’t leave the cities and have no interest in agricultural animal
work.

Indolent
Indolent
July 8, 2023 9:38 am

Jim Ferguson
@JimFergusonUK

Lets reflect back on Mark Rutte being challenged in the Dutch Parliament on his sinister connections to World Economic Forum Chairman, German Klaus Schwab. People are waking up to the dangers.

but according to these two articles, his coalition fell apart over a migration row over the number of family members of refugees accepted, which he wanted to REDUCE.

One

Two

Salvatore, Iron Publican
July 8, 2023 9:39 am

feelthebern Jul 8, 2023 8:15 AM
If you compare Wharton alum to Stanford alum, you know whose admission policy is purely on smarts.

Correct me where I’m wrong, isn’t the bimbo who sank Bud Lite a Wharton graduate?

Indolent
Indolent
July 8, 2023 9:41 am
Salvatore, Iron Publican
July 8, 2023 9:43 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Jul 8, 2023 9:07 AM
Daily Mail. Gary Foley – remember him? – has surfaced again…

Heh. Time to find some old Superboong episodes on Youtube & watch it all again. He did brilliant work with that show.

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 9:44 am

A retiring vet told me the country shortage stems from the fact that many graduates are now Asian women who won’t leave the cities and have no interest in agricultural animal work.

Cat ladies.

Indolent
Indolent
July 8, 2023 9:47 am
Johnny Rotten
July 8, 2023 9:48 am

To advise is not to compel.

– Anton Chekhov

Johnny Rotten
July 8, 2023 9:49 am

Cat ladies.

Cute Ladies.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 8, 2023 9:53 am

JC
Jul 8, 2023 6:05 AM

…There’s a SCOTUS case coming up this month called “Chevron”. If SCOTUS votes the way they have recently, it will completely break the back of the administrative state in the US.

According to the article, Ketanji-Brown is recusing herself. I suppose because Gorsuch referred to the Founding Fathers, and Ketanji-Brown is not a biologist. Or a genealogist.

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 9:55 am

The Age:

‘Victoria is facing a crisis of leaky buildings, with construction experts blaming a lack of regulation of waterproofing, a critical skill not required to be carried out by a specialist.

Water damage tops the list of defects encountered in inspections and complaints to the Victorian Building Authority.’

That answers my question from yesterday; this is peculiar to Victoria.

And apparently Victorian building inspectors can sign off on work with only a virtual inspection!

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 8, 2023 9:58 am

Then he should have stuck to accountancy, I believe they make a decent living.

So do dentists. Makes VAD look quite reasonable.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 8, 2023 10:00 am

And apparently Victorian building inspectors can sign off on work with only a virtual inspection!

Maaaaate!

Foxbody
Foxbody
July 8, 2023 10:00 am

So Jane Caro paid $13 to drive her disposable Chinese battery buggy from Sydney to Canberra.
It costs me under $30 to do the same in a 15 year old car that cost me on third of what Jane paid for hers – and from this point on, I estimate the remaining lifespans of the two vehicles would be about the same.
I saved hours of wasted time and frustration on the refuelling issue, too.
By the time the needed infrastructure is in place, the cost of the power to recharge an EV will be much the same as filling a petrol car, too – although (more) punitive taxes on petrol cars can be predicted with confidence.
Oh, and Black Ball, please – your contributions here are always excellent but I humbly request – no more mentions of Jane Caro’s quoit.

Pogria
Pogria
July 8, 2023 10:00 am

I was going to respond to JC’s comment on the previous page about Miranda Devine.
Cassie expressed mine and I believe many others feelings about Ms Devine far more knowledgeably and eloquently than I could. So, job done.

A simple ” I made a mistake”, would have wiped the slate almost clean re Ms Devine.

Indolent
Indolent
July 8, 2023 10:00 am

This is the full interview with Tucker which is almost 2 hours long.

LIVE: Tucker Carlson WORLD FIRST Interview Since Leaving Fox! – #163 – Stay Free With Russell Brand

Foxbody
Foxbody
July 8, 2023 10:01 am

So Jane Caro paid $13 to drive her disposable Chinese battery buggy from Sydney to Canberra.
It costs me under $30 to do the same in a 15 year old car that cost me a third of what Jane paid for hers – and from this point on, I estimate the remaining lifespans of the two vehicles would be about the same.
I saved hours of wasted time and frustration on the refuelling issue, too.
By the time the needed infrastructure is in place, the cost of the power to recharge an EV will be much the same as filling a petrol car, too – although (more) punitive taxes on petrol cars can be predicted with confidence.
Oh, and Black Ball, please – your contributions here are always excellent but I humbly request – no more mentions of Jane Caro’s quoit.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 10:06 am

but I humbly request – no more mentions of Jane Caro’s quoit.

As disturbing as the imagery conjures Foxbody, I think it apt lol

cohenite
July 8, 2023 10:15 am

Jane caro is a quoit.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 8, 2023 10:15 am

State Politics
WA News
WA Liberals look to turn Rockingham by-election into referendum on Aboriginal heritage law ‘fiasco’
Josh Zimmerman
The West Australian
Thu, 6 July 2023 9:30AM
Comments

The WA Liberals will seek to capitalise on anger and confusion over new Aboriginal heritage laws by framing the Rockingham by-election as an opportunity to punish the Cook Government over the shambolic implementation of the updated Act.

Liberal candidate for Rockingham Peter Hudson is hosting a “community forum” next week billed as an opportunity for locals to share their views about the new regime that came into effect on Saturday.

He will be joined at the event by Liberal Leader Libby Mettam as well as Shadow Heritage Minister Neil Thomson.

Mr Hudson has little prospect of winning what is one of the safest Labor electorates in the entire country – and for nearly three decades was held by historically popular former Premier Mark McGowan – but is aiming to erode the 37 per cent margin in the seat.

To accomplish that, the Liberals appear determined to turn the by-election into a referendum on the government’s handling of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act, which Mr Hudson described as “a fiasco”.

“Of course, everyone supports the need to protect significant Aboriginal cultural heritage sites,” he said.

“But the Cook Government’s ham-fisted implementation of the regulations and failure to listen to community concerns won’t help achieve that objective.”

“There’s a lot of confusion about whether people are impacted and what they need to do to ensure compliance – and the government’s last-minute advertising campaign isn’t really helping clarify those issues for people.”

Labor candidate Magenta Marshall attempted to hose down the issue, saying the new heritage laws had “barely come up” during her own doorknocking.

“I’ll continue to focus on the issues that really matter to Rockingham,” she said.

“People in Rockingham talk to me about cost-of-living pressures,” she said.

“It’s why I’m very glad to see today that the Reserve Bank has held the official interest rate, and it’s why I support important measures the Cook Government has rolled out to help households – like the $400 electricity credit, and the two-zone fare cap.

“It’s important we have laws in place to prevent incidents like the disaster at Juukan Gorge – and that’s what these laws achieve.”

Mr Hudson said the forum was an opportunity for Rockingham residents to “share their perspectives” on the new Act and how it was rolled out.

“We are determined to listen to the concerns of Rockingham locals, even if the Cook Government won’t,” he said.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 10:16 am

Anyone here have a subscription to the Weekly Times?
I noted on the most recent publication that an Aboriginal land council is to have a say on waterways, roads and biosecurity. This is in Victoriastan, from memory northwest from I think Stawell onwards.
I thought NewsCorp owned the Weekly Times so tried to get the article in question, only to find it’s a seperate subscription. Heading is ‘Angst Over Agreement’ and judging by what’s happening across the Nullarbor, every right to feel angst.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 8, 2023 10:25 am

I don’t know why, but I can’t stop laughing at this.

Crossie
Crossie
July 8, 2023 10:25 am

And apparently Victorian building inspectors can sign off on work with only a virtual inspection!

That’s how you end up with virtual waterproofing.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 10:39 am

Our pollimuppetts really do hate us (with a few honorable exceptions). Pathetic that the so called opposition leader in Vicco is more interested in fighting anyone half decent in his own party than the economy wrecking/society wrecking marxist government brought to us by monash and melbourne unis.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 10:41 am

Dodgy apartments aren’t just a Melb thing- they’re horror stories in Sydney too- faulty tower at Olympic Park and one at Erko built on toxic waste iirc. Just terrible for people who borrowed money to buy this rubbish.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 10:49 am

there are horror stories- sorry about that

Chris
July 8, 2023 10:54 am

Its been posted before but this article shows how government makes things worse.

Chris
July 8, 2023 10:55 am

I don’t know why, but I can’t stop laughing at this.

Vicious but fair.

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 10:58 am

Dodgy apartments aren’t just a Melb thing- they’re horror stories in Sydney too

It appears to be particularly bad in VIC though.

Unlike NSW & QLD, waterproofing is not a trade there.

Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 10:58 am

The Tucker Carlson-Russell Brand interview is now live on Rumble.

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 10:59 am

Overseazy off to the NATO Summit in Latvia next week.

I’m sure his contributions will be decisive to global security.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:03 am

I never knew water proofing was a trade tbh. I’d say faulty tower in Sydney takes the prize. It partially collapsed and had to be evacuated.

Roger
Roger
July 8, 2023 11:05 am

I’d say faulty tower in Sydney takes the prize. It partially collapsed and had to be evacuated.

Yes, I remember that.

I never knew water proofing was a trade tbh.

You don’t miss your waterproofing ’til it rains.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 8, 2023 11:05 am

Jane Caro’s quoit.

Its a big thing, when you look into it.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:06 am

I would have though water proofing would come under plumbing and roofing.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:07 am

You don’t miss your waterproofing ’til it rains.

too damn right

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:13 am

Body corporate fees are off the planet too- 11k /year.

WolfmanOz
WolfmanOz
July 8, 2023 11:19 am

johanna
Jul 8, 2023 5:15 AM
Oh, and Wolfman – I re-watched The Dirty Dozen last night. Must be at least ten years since I last watched it.

Still very enjoyable, hasn’t dated at all. I’m not a big fan of ‘action’ movies, but this one transcends that genre. It’s just a bloody good fillum.

It’s on the list . . . I think calli requested it !

Probably in the next month.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:20 am

Someone was talking about those 1960s 3 storey walk ups- they weren’t bad except for the pink bathrooms in some of them!

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:26 am

Overseazy off to the NATO Summit in Latvia next week.

I’m sure his contributions will be decisive to global security.

More evidence of the rubbish that go in for politics.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 8, 2023 11:27 am

Avoiding lifts and pools should help with strata fees. Netting off strata fees helps when you are renting – certainly helped in my case back in the day.

Goanna
Goanna
July 8, 2023 11:27 am

There are two fundamental things to get right with a building – footings and flashings.

There’s an old English saying about a building. It should stand in gumboots with an umbrella over it’s head.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:27 am

I believe there is a push to put Ursula Von der Eurotrash into the top job at NATO.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:30 am

Avoiding lifts and pools should help with strata fees. True. They don’t maintain themselves. Very worrying too that they are making electricity unreliable and expensive if you live on the 10th floor.

Chris
July 8, 2023 11:30 am

Thinking about a lift, a wheelchair track or something to get frail aged parents up our rather daunting front steps. Anyone got any recommendations?

cohenite
July 8, 2023 11:31 am

Apparently Trump’s team is going to apply for a dismissal of the Mar-a-Lago BS on the basis of misconduct by the Smith’s team when they threatened the lawyer for Trump’s assistant Walt Nauta. This lawyer’s name is Stan Woodward, who was in line for a fed judge’s position. Smith’s offsider, jay bratt, threatened Woodward with the loss of his Judgeship if he didn’t alter Walt’s testimony and do other illegal things to assist the prosecution.

In a fair world this should see the indictment thrown out and smith and bratt prosecuted. Lol, fair world.

Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 11:36 am

Ben & Jerry’s, a very big name in the international ice cream industry, pulls a Bud Light.

“The ice cream company with a social warrior yen, decided to mark the Fourth of July, the day when the rest of us celebrate our country’s independence, with this tweet:

“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”

Since that tweet the stock of its parent company Unilever has dropped ~ $2.5B. One suspects the shareholders would like a word.

Even better, the Abenaki Indian tribe have read Alinsky’s rules for radicals and decided to apply a few of them to the situation.

Don Stevens, Chief of the Nulhagen Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation wants to discuss the return of the traditional Abenaki land that the Ben & Jerry corporate headquarters sits on.

🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 8, 2023 11:42 am

From the Hun.

Three Aussie submarine officers graduate from elite US nuclear school

Australian Navy bosses have revealed plans to develop a national high-performance submarine academy, as three Aussie officers graduate from an elite US school. See the video.

rickw
rickw
July 8, 2023 11:43 am

Thinking about a lift, a wheelchair track or something to get frail aged parents up our rather daunting front steps. Anyone got any recommendations?

This is outdoors? An elderly friend had a chair lift installed on a staircase in his house. They turned up and 3D scanned the staircase. Two weeks later they came back and bolted it in. Impressive, was a complex staircase.

miltonf
miltonf
July 8, 2023 11:44 am

“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”

Are they stupid or just nasty?

Barry
Barry
July 8, 2023 11:44 am

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miltonf
Jul 8, 2023 11:27 AM

I believe there is a push to put Ursula Von der Eurotrash into the top job at NATO.

Women like her are very prone to send other women’s children into the meat grinder, to the advantage of her own.

shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 11:45 am

Someone was talking about those 1960s 3 storey walk ups- they weren’t bad except for the pink bathrooms in some of them!

The reason why there are so many of the 3 storey around is cos over 3 stories had to have a lift …

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 8, 2023 11:45 am

Are they stupid or just nasty?

Both?

shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 11:47 am

Three Aussie submarine officers graduate from elite US nuclear school

Lotza spare money in AUKUS .. by the time we see any Oz nuclear subs these blokes will be retired or dead .. LOL!

shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 11:56 am

I re-watched The Dirty Dozen last night. Must be at least ten years since I last watched it.

KELLY’S HEROES never loses it’s appeal either ……
Thinking on movies had a binge-athon on JOHN WICK, never watched any before, 1st was a laff, 2nd started to get a bit familiar and the 3rd managed to halfway .. I’m getting too old for the magic of shoot-em-up ludicrous it seems! Still got the 4th to go but maybe next week sometime ..
Gonna watch SOUND OF FREEDOM tonight seeing I’ve read some worthwhile reviews …….

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 8, 2023 11:57 am

Talking of apologies an interesting Twitter account, MilkbarTV, is suggesting a well known journalist might like to make one.

MilkbarTV lost his job over the mandates and now does some great video compilations of political and medical leaders during Covid. He recently did one on a very well known journalist who has own TV show. Showed them being very keen on Vax mandates and then more recently talking about vaccine injuries.

He posted a clip yesterday about him being approached by the journalist about removing the clip from Twitter as journalist says has had death threat. In the clip he explains his thinking about why not taking down the clip and that perhaps the journalist should consider apologising for being so strongly pro mandates.

He does not name the journalist but many familiar with his clips know who it is.

In unrelated news I do recommend the book What really happened in Wuhan.

Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 11:58 am

by the time we see any Oz nuclear subs these blokes will be retired or dead

Or running civilian nuclear reactors…

Crossie
Crossie
July 8, 2023 11:58 am

Chris
Jul 8, 2023 11:30 AM
Thinking about a lift, a wheelchair track or something to get frail aged parents up our rather daunting front steps. Anyone got any recommendations?

Friends put in a $40k lift in their house when the wife broke her ankle. It helps when you have the space and the money.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 11:58 am

Have a look at the reporting at the News.com article on Rutte:

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s coalition government collapsed Friday over “insurmountable” differences on how to tackle migration, with elections expected in November.

Rutte, 56, the Netherlands’ longest-serving leader and one of Europe’s most experienced politicians, said days of crisis talks between the four parties failed to produce a deal.

They fell out over Rutte’s plans to tighten curbs on reuniting families of asylum seekers, a bid to curb numbers following a scandal last year over overcrowded migration centres.

“It is no secret that the coalition partners have very different views on migration policy,” Rutte, the leader of the centre-right VVD party, told a press conference after talks broke down.

“This evening, we have unfortunately reached the conclusion that the differences are insurmountable. For this reason, I will shortly present my written resignation to the king in the name of the whole government.”

The government later confirmed he had presented his resignation and would visit King Willem-Alexander on Saturday.

The coalition was Rutte’s fourth since he took office in 2010. But it had only taken office in January 2022 after a record 271 days of negotiations and was deeply divided on many issues.

Rutte — dubbed “Teflon Mark” after the non-stick pan coating for his ability to avoid political catastrophe — added that he had the “energy” to stand for a fifth term but that he had to “reflect” first.

The earliest that elections can be held is in mid-November, the Dutch election commission said.

Rutte said he would lead a caretaker government until then that would focus on tasks including support for Ukraine.

The sudden collapse sparked bitter recriminations between the four parties in the year-and-a-half-old coalition, which had been dubbed “Rutte IV”.

ChristenUnie — a Christian Democratic party that draws its main support from the staunchly Protestant “Bible Belt” in the central Netherlands — and centre-left D66 had opposed Rutte’s plan.

He reportedly demanded that the number of relatives of war refugees allowed into the Netherlands be capped at 200 per month.

Rutte had promised to tackle migration after last summer’s migration centres scandal, during which a baby died and hundreds of people were forced to sleep in the open

“The family, that children grow up with their parents, is a core value for us,” said deputy prime minister Carola Schouten of ChristenUnie, adding it was “a very difficult moment”.

Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag of D66 said there was “unnecessary tension in the process” and that the collapse was “regrettable”.

Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra of the centre-right Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) said the fall of the government was “very disappointing, unnecessary and inexplicable to the people of the country”.

The Netherlands now faces one of its most stormy and divisive election campaigns in years.

The upstart BBB party, led by farmers who oppose the government’s European Union-backed environmental rules, will be seeking to repeat the success of senate elections that it won earlier this year.

Its leader Caroline van der Plas has refused to serve in a coalition with Rutte, and she didn’t rule out standing for the prime minister’s job if it wins the most seats in the general election.

Local media said Rutte had taken a tough stance on migration to deflect a challenge from the right wing of the VVD, whose voters the farmer party has begun to woo.

And Rutte has long been under pressure on the issue of migration due to the strength of far-right parties in the Netherlands, including that of anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders.

After the collapse of the government, a crowd of onlookers gathered outside the government buildings where the talks had taken place in the historic centre of The Hague.

“I’m quite concerned. I’m worried what the next cabinet is going to look like,” 19-year-old IT worker Marijn Philippo told AFP.

“I hope that the next cabinet will do better than this one, especially in terms of asylum,” added Pieter Balkenende, 32.

shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 11:59 am

What’s with all these 0 tix? … I must have missed the memo during all the time out upheavals …!

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 8, 2023 12:00 pm

So all down to migration and nothing to do with kicking 3k of farmers off their land? Smells like bullshit.

Cassie of Sydney
July 8, 2023 12:03 pm

Dear Cats, it begins….

It’s a beautiful day here in the electorate of Wentworth in Sydney, I went to my morning Pilates class, and after the class I felt quite exhilarated, as I always do after a class. I’m always amused by my Pilates teacher’s hyperbolic description of Pilates, she loves to say…Pilates lubricates the joints, Pilates cleanses the body and she parrots all the rest of the feel good stuff, but here’s the thing is, it actually does help, mentally and physically. After the class, feeling very good, and because the weather is so sublime, I started walking towards Paddington markets, thinking I might go for a browse, get a coffee and a pastry, my Saturday morning treat.

I wasn’t in the mood for a stoush so you can imagine my consternation when I see four people, one young man and three middle aged to elderly women, all of whom looked like Greens voters, or the kind of women I remember before the last federal election, women who’d all joined up to the Teal cult of Allegra da big Spender, well they were all wearing “Vote YES” t-shirts, mulling around, blocking the footpath. I approached and I tried to walk past and one of the women stopped and said, can you take a brochure and can we talk about “voting yes”, here’s the exchange…

I said politely “I’m voting NO”

She winced, and then said to me “that isn’t nice”

Quite taken aback, I said “how dare you tell me what’s nice and not nice, why don’t you piss off”.

A couple were standing nearby and a woman with a very crisp Pommy accent said to me “that’s very rude”

To which I replied “I’m indigenous, and clearly you’re not.”

The Pommy woman was silenced,

I walked another fifty metres only to be approached by another middle aged woman, wearing a “Vote YES” t-shirt….she asked if we could talk and tried to give me a brochure and here’s this exchange…

I said to her “here’s a question for you…how do you spell NO?”

This woman also winced, smirked and refused to answer my question.

I asked again, “how do you spell NO?”

She responded, “you know how to spell it”.

To which I replied “I do, and clearly you don’t”

I wiped the smirk off her face.

After my stoushes, I got the Oz newspaper and the pastry and I’ve wondered home, contemplating the exchanges and whether these various activists and Allegra groupies are bothering to venture out to say….Liverpool, or Macquarie Fields, or Penrith, or Blacktown or whether they are just sticking to the nice, safe areas, where the nice cafes are, such as as the putrid hypocritical electorate of Wentworth. Don’t worry Cats, I know the answer to that question.

I’m now contemplating how Wentworth has changed over the last twenty years, from being a rock solid, blue ribbon conservative electorate to what is is now, a progressive enclave full of utter hypocrites.

The other day someone here wrote a disparaging comment implying that the “bogans” of this country, those who watch reality TV etc, will be the ones who’ll vote en masse “yes” because they don’t think. Nup, I disagree. They think. The people who don’t think are the well-heeled ones living in the more well off electorates of this country, be it Kooyong, Warringah, Wentworth, North Sydney, Curtin and others. If Australia is saved from this grotesque apartheid Voice (and apartheid it is), it’ll be the bogans in such suburbs as Liverpool, Macquarie Fields, Penrith, Blacktown, and all the other sprawling suburbs of our cities, along with our rural areas, who might just save us from this looming catastrophe. One thing for sure, it won’t be the electors of Wentworth.

Crossie
Crossie
July 8, 2023 12:03 pm

When our first daughter was born we were still renting and the flat was on the third floor. It was very interesting getting the shopping, the baby and the pram up and down the flights of stairs. It was also fun carrying the baby and the laundry basket to the clotheslines and back. When we were looking for a house to buy my husband’s main requirement was that it had no stairs. We found one that was perfect, not a single step.

shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 12:11 pm

After my stoushes, I got the Oz newspaper and the pastry and I’ve wondered home, contemplating the exchanges and whether these various activists and Allegra groupies are bothering to venture out to say….Liverpool, or Macquarie Fields, or Penrith, or Blacktown

AS far as I’m aware, as in definitely certain, YES tee shirts and pamphlets are not to be seen around Fairfield .. In fact, you’ve got more chance of directly questioning “the turtle” in his electorate about your power bills than sighting anything YES ………

Zatara
Zatara
July 8, 2023 12:15 pm

Are they stupid or just nasty?

They are remarkably stupid. They tried to ban sales of their product to Israel, where it was hugely popular, in support of BDS. Unilever, their big daddy, told them to pound sand and keep sending the ice cream. B&J’s sued Unilever over it, and lost.

Result? Ben & Jerry’s is now sold under its Hebrew and Arabic names throughout Israel and the West Bank. At great profit to the shareholders.

Nasty? They are Bernie Sanders acolytes with the mental development of teenagers, who happen to make decent ice cream. So yeah, nasty works.

Crossie
Crossie
July 8, 2023 12:19 pm

The other day someone here wrote a disparaging comment implying that the “bogans” of this country, those who watch reality TV etc, will be the ones who’ll vote en masse “yes” because they don’t think. Nup, I disagree. They think. The people who don’t think are the well-heeled ones living in the more well off electorates of this country, be it Kooyong, Warringah, Wentworth, North Sydney, Curtin and others.

Cassie, very true. The well-heeled voters don’t have to contend with rising mortgage payments along with rising energy prices and cost of living. They can indulge their saviour of the world fantasies while the bogans look at the Voice and think another stupidity that will end up costing them and making their lives more difficult. The bogans also see the indigenous getting their sit-down money and think “enough, get a job like everyone else”.

shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 12:21 pm

It was very interesting getting the shopping, the baby and the pram up and down the flights of stairs.

My son & DiL struggled with the 1st two whilst living just off the beach in Avoca with 38 steps to the front door for 4 years (they luvved the place) but when the twins arrived enuf was enuf! .. 4 under 6 and those 38 steps wasn’t funny! .. sold the beachside manse and bought a bigger one level job a coupla suburbs in land towards Gosford but still on the water (Davistown) …..

shatterzzz
July 8, 2023 12:23 pm

The bogans also see the indigenous getting their sit-down money and think “enough, get a job like everyone else”.

HousoLand 101 .. except the bit about, ” get a job like everyone else” .. LOL!

Tom
Tom
July 8, 2023 12:36 pm

The other day someone here wrote a disparaging comment implying that the “bogans” of this country, those who watch reality TV etc, will be the ones who’ll vote en masse “yes” because they don’t think. Nup, I disagree. They think. The people who don’t think are the well-heeled ones living in the more well off electorates of this country, be it Kooyong, Warringah, Wentworth, North Sydney, Curtin and others. If Australia is saved from this grotesque apartheid Voice (and apartheid it is), it’ll be the bogans in such suburbs as Liverpool, Macquarie Fields, Penrith, Blacktown, and all the other sprawling suburbs of our cities, along with our rural areas, who might just save us from this looming catastrophe. One thing for sure, it won’t be the electors of Wentworth.

Yes, Cassie. There is nothing uglier than closed-minded bigots who delude themselves they must be right about everything because they think they’re well-educated.

The apartheid referendum actually confirms their racism because it’s all about soothing their white guilt: let’s give the little brown people of central Australia a new supercharged version of The Apology — as long as they never move in near us and destroy our million-dollar property values.

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