Watched my honeyeater kick the kiddies out of the nest and they’re gone. I love nature.
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In local bird news, just watched my resident rail pass the window with a tiny black puffball chick in its…
Looks like the phantom downticker found a new victim. How childish can you get? So be it, I can live…
Exactly. How different would it be if we had an enemy choose our system of power generation?
Why are we fixing something that isn’t broken? And then why are we choosing the least effective and the costliest…
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
– George Washington
Someone named Jade Ritchie writes something which is a compare and contrast with Top Ender’s article about construction programmes:
So vote yes and everything will have fairy dust sprinkled liberally upon it and the sun will shine and all Aboriginal problems are magically solved. Except when they aren’t as Top Ender and Knuckle Dragger, among others, routinely point out.
Black Ball
Jul 14, 2023 4:49 AM
Leaving aside the Aboriginal settlements created by government long ago where meaningful employment is practically nil, there are sizable Aboriginal communities in regional cities and in metro as well, who have high unemployment rates and problems with the law.
Surely the opportunities there are the same for them as for everyone else.
Why is it not taken up then and will the voice fix it?
Of course there slacker of the white community also but it’s about the voice.
Rex Patrick column on RoboDebt via Michael West.
https://michaelwest.com.au/whatever-the-robodebt-royal-commission-finds-it-is-perfectly-clear-kathryn-campbell-must-go/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-07-14&utm_campaign=Michael+West+Media+Weekly+Update
Cheers Tom!
Excellence in journalism, from the Mercury:
Possible, yet discarded alternatives to the back half of that sentence:
‘gently shot dead.’
‘sarcastically shot dead.’
‘brilliantly shot dead.’
‘enthusiastically shot dead.’
The jokes write themselves when Kackling Kamala tries to explain Artificial Intelligence.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/07/12/the-jokes-write-themselves-when-kamala-harris-tries-to-explain-artificial-intelligence-n775554
‘gently shot dead.’
‘sarcastically shot dead.’
‘brilliantly shot dead.’
‘enthusiastically shot dead.’
Or ‘all of the above?
The Tele:
This is equivalent to 160,000 telemarketers striking in the belief that the public is desperate for their offerings.
This would be more about the royalties than using ChatGPI et al to write scripts. The writers are upset about being empirically proved useless.
Canberra Times article about Kathryn Campbell just popped up in Google for me. Might be paywalled
Just love these ‘specially created positions’.
Someone I know was head-hunted into a role in a statutory authority to replace an incompetent who was stepped down. Now they are the boss of this useless person who’s salary package is better than their replacements.
Three months in a public service environment and looking to move on.
Between multiple acknowledgements at every meeting, no capacity to get rid of useless staff and seeing how things are run generally, can’t get out quickly enough.
Pogria AI will never be able to unravel the fascinating musings of heels up Harris.
Now those poxy screenwriters are out of the way, my Titan Imploder telemovie project is back on the rails.
Five POC trans amputees travel to the North Atlantic depths in a submersible built on wishes and cavoodle puppy skin, only to become martyrs when the Patriarchy crushes their hopes and aspirations.
Along with their undersea dreamcraft.
A tragedy the whole family can enjoy.
I know that Gemma Tognini is not everyone’s cup of tea here (she is my cup of tea though,) but I thought this was interesting:
From the Paywallian
Enough partisan talking, people want real action
GEMMA TOGNINI
8 July 2023
Australians have just under two years to go, give or take, until the next federal election. Such tidings of comfort and joy, am I right? It’s a thought few wish to entertain, but it’s one that struck me last week as I returned to Australia after a stint overseas for reasons of work and family.
It’s always instructive to get out of your own, familiar space. There’s nothing like a change in environment to shift perspective and reveal things that have been hidden in plain sight.
Arriving home to a sort of full-immersion experience in the quagmire that is Australia’s political discourse, two things happened. First, I was struck by how comparatively trite, almost provincial, our level of political conversation is. Second, I found myself asking a couple of questions.
Eighteen months into this new government, just over the same to go, and what have we, the electorate, learned?
Moreover, what have our political overlords – those who ostensibly work for us – learned?
By way of a handy recap, both major parties were punished with historically low primary votes. Let’s be clear: the Labor Party, in bed with the Greens, formed government but nobody can claim to have won.
And when I ask what have they learned, this is what I’m coming back to.
I spent eight days in Israel and a couple of weeks in Italy – vastly different societies and economies, facing significant challenges on several fronts. Israel seems to be teetering on the brink of a third intifada. In Italy, the EU’s third largest economy, the government of Giorgia Meloni is starting to deliver positive economic news amid what the EU describes as persistent challenges, at the forefront of which is the cost of energy.
Unsurprisingly, nobody in either country was talking about hurt feelings or arguing over pronouns. Nobody was whining about having to go to work to do their jobs rather than stay at home.
There, the focus is on what lives and communities look like; how much better off they actually are. In Australia it often feels like the partisan classes are happy to see it all go up in flames so long as it’s their team lighting the match.
We obsess over the cosmetic and gloss over the substance; all the while Australia has become a country where the new sign of financial largesse is putting your heater on in the cold of winter.
Respectfully, much of the political media and the party leadership in various forms focus on machinations that have little impact on or hold little interest for the average Australian. People like you and me who, this past week, breathed out as interest rates stayed put for a month.
The truth is nobody in the real economy cares about words like moderates, conservatives, left faction, right faction. About backroom wheeling and dealing, the heart of which is about one thing only: power. We don’t care about who has the numbers, who owes who a favour or who’s next in line.
Walk down the main drag of Paramatta, the local shops in Noosa, Dunsborough or Broadmeadows, and give it a go. Ask someone their thoughts on the moderates in the Libs or on the various factional and union alignments of Anthony Albanese and his cabinet. Just see what kind of response you get.
That’s just one level of disconnect. One reason, in my view, that primary votes have bottomed out in successive years. Yes, there have been generational shifts but, as with most things, the rot starts internally.
Another reason is the fundamental disconnect from reality about current cost-of-living pressures. Politicians love to talk about it, but talk is cheap – unlike the travel bill of member for Kooyong Monique Ryan, who spent nearly $30,000 on business-class fares between Melbourne and Canberra during the past year. That is a one-hour flight. Our taxes at work?
Again, what have they learned? It would seem not a great deal, which surprises me because on the back of the electoral equivalent of being given the middle finger by most of Australia, federal Labor continues to primp and preen as if it were sitting on a 50 per cent primary. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister and various members of cabinet have been energetically torpedoing the voice through a lack of leadership and haven’t seemed to notice they are on borrowed time. The opposition at least appears to be engaged in soul searching and reform, which is an appropriate response to an electoral wipe-out.
The next two years, give or take, will go by in a heartbeat. So, who’s going to be the first to work it out? While nobody can dismiss the obvious attempts to erode commonsense centrist values in this country, nobody asked for a culture war. Let’s instead have a war on the economy. On the cost of living. On getting governments out of our homes, churches, mosques, sporting clubs and family lives. Let’s have a war on bloated bureaucracies, overreach and over-regulation. Let’s have a war on anything that seeks to divide us as a community and as a country.
One thing I’ve learned in life, relationships and business: you get what you tolerate. And that’s certainly true of the governments we elect. What have they learned? Perhaps the better question is: when will they ever learn? And when will we?
This headline yesterday was entertaining:
Desperate electric car owners turn to thermal cloak to help boost battery range (12 Jul)
I didn’t put it up yesterday despite the interesting headline…because there’s nothing actually desperate in it. All it’s about is some Chinese university guys inventing a car blanket, to keep an EV warm at night and cool in the day, since the battery works best in the 20-25 C range. But the headline got me to read the article, so that means the sub ed did his job well…
Rhetorically shot dead.
By my count, Jade’s three outcomes short of a Bill Shorten speech.
This is from Gemma Tognini’s piece. It’s not partisan classes if they all have the same policies so call them what they are, the governing classes. These governing classes can play with fire because they have never been burned and don’t think they ever will be, that is the difference between us and them. They are big on empathy and tolerance as long as they don’t have to tolerate anyone or anything they don’t like.
Alas, twenty-five years of the internet have killed the art of headline-writing, with witty word-plays and clever onomatopoeia now things of the past.
Both areff and I have noticed that most online headlines are now just gormless clickbait-gatherers that try to trick readers into clicking on the BS that follows 90% of the time.
‘Modelling herself on Kamala Harris’: Cory Bernardi ridicules Linda Burney for being ‘completely out of her depth’ (Sky News, 13 Jul)
Now that’s gotta hurt…
It’s cold out there and the front lawn is white with frost so I’m back in bed until the house warms up. So much for the hottest ever that is being pushed on the world by the warmists. This is one more way to undermine people’s trust in experts, promote only the proclamations of the warmists and suppress those who offer a different view even if they show proof, particularly if they offer proof.
The all round bombshell Megyn Kelly summarised KH well:
How dumb could she be?
A pollie being given the finger is a common occurrence, but not usually in the literal sense.
Macron sent severed finger in the post as police then store it in fridge with their snacks (13 Jul)
Quite a few very upset people in France right now.
It is perfectly clear that Pfizer treats all the fines / damages imposed on them as just a cost of doing business. Create a drug, use the population as experimental labs rats and if it goes belly up, pay up and move on to another ‘wonder’ drug. All those harmed in this process mean nothing.
The c-bombs just don’t care.
The Truth about ‘Pfizer’ ‘Pharmaceuticals’ Documentary. The Story of ‘Pfizer’ Inc. Dr. ‘Sam Bailey’
US retail giant Costco to remove Bud Light from its inventory.
Missed Tom’s toons? Don’t want to scroll back? Just click this link. We won’t tell anyone.
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/13/open-thread-thurs-13-july-2023/comment-page-4/#comment-560523
Thanks, Tom.
That Leak needs to be spread far and wide.
Now that is commitment. It’s not a pound of flesh but still impressive.
Actually, that was a key feature of the campaign to abolish capital punishment world-wide.
The argument was that, if you were worried about public safety, you could impose life sentences.
Of course, the ink was barely dry on the abolition bills when they started screaming that life imprisonment was “inhumane” and “crushing” and we simply must set fixed minimum terms … which have progressively been diluted from 20-30 years to 10-15 years in a generation.
Quite so, and here’s an example, I’m pretty sure Paul Denyer’s file was marked “never to be released”. Yet now?
I often think about how we’re now living in a society where there’s a complete lack of punitive justice. Note, I’m not opposed to some judicial reform, but in the process we have completely trashed the notion of punishment, particularly for heinous crimes.
A few weeks ago, there was an excellent piece in American Conservative (always a good read) by a British writer named Dr Sumantra Maitra. Dr Maitra wrote about the senseless murders in Coventry a month ago by an illegal cockroach, a cockroach who should have been deported years ago.
Maitra writes that the problem in the West now is that we have seen our governments and justice systems totally corrupted and undermined by “human rights”. We now have a system which cares more about the human rights of the perpetrator than the dead victims of that perpetrator or their families. Nothing about “human responsibilities”….no, no, no, that doesn’t fit the narrative. The focus now is always on that grey matter called “human rights”. Maitra nailed it when he wrote …”the human rights regime has taken away agency from the people and concentrated power in the hands of an amorphous transnational blob manned by a swarm government, where there is no individual accountability, and, far from being punished for inaction, no one is in fact allowed to take any action.”.
Maitra continues, that there can never be “effective governance without establishing a righteous fear of punitive justice.”.
“hatred of villainy balances villainous hatred (or “hate”), at least in politics. Law and order aren’t restored by Twitter hashtags; they are restored by an unsentimental and neutral police force manned by hard men with connections within various communities, by strong laws, by long prison sentences and harsh, retributive justice. This system worked very well for a couple of centuries. It will again, if given a chance.
An example of this trashing of punitive justice? Here in Oz, back in 2018, we saw the human rights of serial killer Ivan Milat override any justice for his victims and their families. Milat was given the dignity of departing this world in a hospital bed, attended to by doctors and nurses. Is that justice? I don’t think so. The truth is that he should have been left to rot in his cell. Milat died with a smile on his face, his victims didn’t.
As a Costco shopper I applaud their business sense. Well done Costco – unwoken
How good is being at the top of the tree in the Feds with maaates in the right places
Katherine Campbell .. ROBODEBT boss ……..
Despite her losing responsibility for management of Australia’s foreign affairs and 6,000 employees to become a sole advisor, she was to retain her $890K salary; receiving even more that her own new boss, Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead.
Failing up or down is of no importance – unaccountability for incompetence is the kevlar jacket for bureaucrats with the emphasis on ‘rats’
Their Hottest Evah! wouldn’t buy you an extra four seconds survival time
in the Southern Ocean.
This is getting farcical.
U.N. Climate Talks Chief: World Must ‘Attack All Emissions, Everywhere’ (Especially Plebs with Cars) (13 Jul)
Yes you read it right: the UN climate guy also happens to be the UAE state-owned oil company boss.
Meanwhile our old friend John Kerry, who likes to berate us plebs too while flying around everywhere in a private jet, has something to tell the world today.
Kerry: US ‘Under No Circumstances’ Will Pay Climate Reparations (13 Jul)
Haha, funny how everyone wants everyone else to commit national suicide to not stop not happening global warming but no one wants to pay for it.
Donald Trump to Host ‘Sound of Freedom’ Screening with Jim Caviezel, Tim Ballard at Bedminster Club
EXCLUSIVE: How the migrant crisis is sparking an American civil war: TODD BENSMAN’s dispatch from a militarized Texas farm – where Biden’s federal agents are sabotaging the state’s desperate border enforcement
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
– George Washington
Mollie
@MZHemingway
The regime is rubbing your face in its two standards of justice.
Secret Service CLOSES White House cocaine investigation: Biden administration is accused of COVER-UP over failure to catch suspect who left drugs in West Wing locker – despite security cameras recording 24/7
Republicans: ‘Unimaginable’ for Biden to Open Obamacare to Illegal Aliens with 25 Million Uninsured Americans
Koori Courts established over the last 20 years have led to examples of better outcomes in the justice system.
Have Koori Courts led to less criminality? Less violent assaults, less theft, less destruction, less manslaughter and homicide? You know, the kind of “gap” stuff which bites innocent victims?
Speaking of clickbait headlines, classic for me during the week was an online headline about how Australia’s high tech spy plane was being sent to Europe – the accompanying photo was a veteran RAN Lockheed Neptune…
Not Once But Thrice: Drugs Discovered Three Times at Biden’s White House Since 2022, Boebert Reveals After Secret Service Briefing
Youths’ desperate ‘four no’ attitude worries China
In context…
‘This government, the offspring of our own choice…has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.’
Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796
In hospital waiting for a ground breaking procedure to relieve pain. I’m the first in the ACT. The duks are very excited, me, not so much. Grasping at straws. Still pretty sure the surgeon stuffed up years ago.
Tautology alert!
If they are truly trans, they will definitely had bits amputated.
Donald Trump to Host ‘Sound of Freedom’ Screening with Jim Caviezel, Tim Ballard at Bedminster Club
For a fairly average kidnap/rescue movie full marks to the makers for their publicity drive …. working wonders ……. LOL!
new boss, Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead.
Australia pointed itself on a path down the gurgler when we started-
-not smacking kids
-ordering eight different types of milk in five different coffee’s
-and referring to toffs like “Professor” and “General” by their work titles, outside of their workplace.
Tintarella di Luna
Jul 14, 2023 8:32 AM
Great minds think alike .. LOL!
Cite you the case in the A.D.F., way back when, where the body of a murdered serviceman was to be placed in the fridge of the morgue of a military hospital, and the C.O. of the hospital discovered that the hospital staff kept their beer in said fridge…
And Biden can host at the White House the latest Indiana Jones movie that is tanking at the movies. It would be apt as it shows a very old, weakened and decaying Indiana, like Biden himself.
Dr. John Campbell
Bad Australian vaccine data
This is good news.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Employers in Australia have been ordered to “destroy Covid vaccination data that has been collected on their employees” within 30 days.
Destroying evidence and covering their asses?
Daily Mail.
Oracle Films
@OracleFilmsUK
“All tyrannies rule though fraud and force. But once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force. This power grab, if we do not resist will be that force. And that force will be our new normal.”
“I call upon the citizens of the world to unite. You do have a choice.”
“You have a voice. So use it.”
– Activist Fiona Hine from the UK speaking at the launch of the @TrustAndFreedom
initiative at the European Parliament, Brussels.
A couple of options, the know nothing journos just picked a picture they imagine is the right one, truly anything that flies will do for them. The other is that there are no images and Defence are not releasing them so the journos picked something similar since they think every story must have an illustration, even if wrong.
Hoping they get it right this time.
Given the Biden administration track record that means they will be announcing the payments any moment now.
Does this mean we will no longer be required to provide vaxx proof to be able to get on a cruise ship?
Asking for a friend.
They are paying already, the open borders are it.
Miss Netherlands ( a bloke ) looks life a Gelfling from the Dark Crystal. All the women should have just walked of stage in disgust. By remaining, smiling and clapping, they are just providing legitimacy to this ongoing freak show.
Shame on them.
—
SC Reviews:
Woke World Is Nuts – Leftist Hypocrite Exposed
“the lived experience of First Nations people, and take on a profound meaning for all Australians.”
The problem at the moment is the cult of ‘aboriginality’ or ‘noble savage’ sweeping the nation. How many people really think that taking off clothes, painting yourself, and stamping up and down in the desert dust is an expression of high aboriginal culture? When everyone from the ABC to the universities feels obliged to ‘acknowledge country’ at every conceivable opportunity? When virtually anyone (eg Bruce Pascoe) can simply stand up and declare they are aboriginal? When everyone is an aborigine, no-one is an aborigine. Australia is a first world nation, and the sooner ‘First Nations’ accept that, the sooner the so-called gap will be closed.
It’s summer and guys want to take their girls to see a movie.
Unfortunately the movies are mostly woke crap. So Sound of Freedom wins by being actually edible.
Further to what Crossie said:
Disney’s Feminist Indiana Jones Sequel Bombs Hard – Media Pretends They Don’t Know Why (13 Jul)
It takes real effort to fail this badly with a story arc as compelling as Indiana Jones.
The original trial judge gave him a full life term.
It was overturned on appeal.
Well said!
There’s white subs in Wussia too?
Knuckle Dragger
Jul 14, 2023 7:22 AM
Now those poxy screenwriters are out of the way, my Titan Imploder telemovie project is back on the rails.
I continue enjoying Netflix Korean Comedy/Dramas
Light Hearted, Well Written and No Swearing
Currently on Our Beloved Summer after King the Land and rewatching What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
Passing well over 20 shows watched
There are plenty of published pictures of Wedgetail 737s.
Like this one.
The Stupidity of Australian Voters
Exclusive – Voters say cost of living should trump climate
Gus McCubbing – Reporter
The cost of living has surged ahead as Australians’ top worry and, although they still want the federal government to take action on climate change, worries about power prices and energy reliability are on the rise, according to a new report.
Concern about cost of living is at the highest level in the past decade, an Ipsos survey of 1000 Australians between April and June has found, with nearly 70 per cent of respondents selecting it as one of three major issues facing the country, followed by housing (39 per cent) and the economy (33 per cent).
It overtook healthcare as the nation’s No. 1 concern in March 2022, and has steadily risen since then. This comes as federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers earlier this week hinted at a further round of cost-of-living relief if needed, arguing the government’s bumper budget surplus shows there is no need to choose between responsible economic management and compassion.
The environment is sitting just outside the top five issues for Australia, having been the No. 1 concern at the start of 2020, during a terrible summer for bushfires and before the COVID-19 pandemic, and was last in the top five in February 2022.
However, confidence that the energy transition will lead to positive outcomes appears to be slipping. The proportion of Australians who believe that the transition to renewable energy will have a positive impact on cost of living, jobs and reliability of the energy supply has dipped since 2022.
Thirty-six per cent of Australians believe reducing the number of gas and coal-fired power stations while boosting renewables will improve energy reliability, down from 42 per cent last year, while 44 per cent believe the energy transition will lower power bills, marking a 2 per cent drop.
Nearly 65 per cent of Australians believe the country should be doing more to address climate change and 61 per cent say Australia should be a global leader in emissions reduction, Ipsos found.
Labor has improved its environmental credentials after one year in office, according to the Ipsos Climate Change report, released on Friday, with nearly 60 per cent of Australians supportive of the Albanese government’s more ambitious emission reduction target.
More than 60 per cent of Australians believe climate change is already causing more frequent or extreme bushfires, floods, droughts and storms, as well as destruction of the Great Barrier Reef and sea level rise.
Nearly half the population (44 per cent) believe they will be affected by severe heat in the next five years, according to the report.
More than 67 per cent of Australians believe climate change poses a “serious threat” to our way of life over the next 25 years, up from 49 per cent in 2011.
Ipsos director Stuart Clark said the federal Labor government capitalised on setting a more ambitious emission reduction target of 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, up from the previous 26 to 28 per cent target, with 59 per cent supporting it, 24 per cent unsure, and just 17 per cent opposing it.
Forty-two per cent of Australians believe Labor has the best climate change policy out of the two major parties, according to the report, up from 36 per cent in 2022. The Coalition dropped from 25 to 20 per cent in the last year, with the number of people being unsure steady at just below 40 per cent.
“There is a wave of desire for action and this has seen a boom of support for Labor,” Mr Clark told The Australian Financial Review.
“One thing that is very clear now is that there is real growth of recognition that Australia is already being impacted by fire, floods and drought.”
Always was you dimwit.
Roger, please.
Language.
Hollywood shuts down for first time in six decades as actors strike
Disney’s Iger says action comes at ‘worst time in the world’ for industry
Hollywood actors have joined screenwriters on the picket line, shutting down TV and film production in the industry’s first joint strike in more than six decades after talks with the major studios collapsed.
The move came after SAG-AFTRA, the union representing more than 160,000 television and film actors in Hollywood, voted unanimously to recommend strike action after the midnight deadline for contract negotiations elapsed.
“A strike is an instrument of last resort,” said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, executive director of SAG-AFTRA.
Some work on film and TV productions has continued since the writers went on strike on May 2, but without actors, activity in Hollywood will grind to a halt. The industrial action comes as cinema owners were beginning to celebrate the first full slate of summer movies since 2019, the year before the coronavirus pandemic struck.
Actors will join the writers on the picket lines on Friday. The strike will prevent stars from doing promotional work for new films, including Barbie and Oppenheimer, which will be released on July 21. The London premiere of Oppenheimer was moved forward by an hour so that the cast could walk the red carpet before the announcement.
The strike is the first by both actors and writers since 1960, when they walked out over how much TV networks paid for films. At the time, Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild, a predecessor to SAG-AFTRA.
It follows a month of tense negotiations between Hollywood’s biggest union and studio and streaming services over issues including actors’ remuneration for artificial intelligence “digital doubles”. The expiry date of the previous three-year contract had been extended to July 12 to allow talks to continue.
Early on Thursday morning, Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA’s president, and Crabtree-Ireland, the union’s chief negotiator, said the movie studios remained “unwilling to offer a fair deal on the key issues”, adding that their responses to proposals “have not been adequate”.
“Despite our team’s dedication to advocating on your behalf, the [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group representing studios and streamers] has refused to acknowledge that enormous shifts in the industry and economy have had a detrimental impact on those who perform labour for the studios,” the pair said. The last big actors’ strike took place in 1980.
Negotiations between movie studios and the actors’ union have centred on the same flashpoints as those that led writers to walk out. Rules around compensation for films sold to streaming services and contractual guarantees about the use of AI in films and TV have proved particularly contentious.
“A strike is certainly not the outcome we hoped for as studios cannot operate without the performers that bring our TV shows and films to life,” the AMPTP said on Thursday. “The union has regrettably chosen a path that will lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people who depend on the industry.”
Asked on Thursday about the possibility of a joint strike, Disney chief executive Bob Iger told CNBC it was the “worst time in the world” for work stoppages as the industry seeks to fully recover from the pandemic.
“There’s a level of expectation that they have that is just not realistic,” Iger said. He predicted that strikes would have “a very, very damaging effect” on the industry.
Last month, more than 300 leading Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep, wrote to SAG-AFTRA leadership supporting possible strike action.
“We feel that our wages, our craft, our creative freedom, and the power of our union have all been undermined in the last decade. We need to reverse those trajectories,” they wrote in an open letter.
About 98 per cent of voting SAG-AFTRA members supported possible strike action when a ballot of more than 60,000 performers was held last month.
From the FT Comments and these are the first 6
– Great news let them all rethink the drivel they produce.
– Golly gosh. That means that I can’t see Fast & Furious 23, a live action remake of Finding Nemo, a race swapped Cleopatra or even an all female cast sequel to See No Evil, Hear No Evil. However will I cope.
– Apparently it won’t affect the next few Marvel releases since they’re all the same.
– I hope they strike forever. No more sequels, prequels or remakes.
– The biggest shock would be for Hollywood, when it notices nobody noticed. I can’t remember the last time I saw a film I thought was worth the hour and a half. Certainly not a full budget production. Low budget films tend to be far more cleverly put together.
– A permanent shut down of Hollyweird would be good.
Presumably the Federation Drought and the massive bushfires in Gippsland were due to CO2-emitting First Nations’ SUVs. We’ll hear about them in Prof. Pascoe’s next book.
John Longstaff painting (1898)
Quite…sorry; I let myself and the blog down there.
I think I have finally tumbled as to why dodgy inspectors and psuedo-tradies don’t like video building inspections from drones.
It provides a permanent record of the exact state of the work as at the date of installation to be pulled up and viewed years later should something go wrong.
No hiding behind “It was all good. Someone else must of done sumfink to it later.”
As the World teeters on the edge of WW3, Climategeddon threatens our future kidney function, and inflation hovers around 6% – spare a thought for poor Dylan Mulvaney.
Brutally misgendered by CNN.
Twice.
In public.
Twice.
Totes emblematic of the state of Western Decay.
The Daily Telegraph is reporting that there’s talk the Minns’ government will keep Erarong open, given the “delicate” state our energy grid here in NSW is in. That delicate state is after 12 yeas of far-left, green Liberal governments, note, NOT Labor governments, Liberal governments under the likes of O’Farrell, Baird, Gladys and Parrothead.
Leaks’s cartoon nails it.
On the Parramatta River, near the suburb of Rhodes, the river is quite shallow and you can see the rusted ruin of a boat that was abandoned decades ago. I know the area where the planned “Offshore Wind Zone” is designated. Family members once had a holiday home at Norah Head. It’s quite beautiful up there, the beaches are gorgeous. However, when I looked at Leak’s cartoon, I thought of that abandoned rusted ruin at Rhodes, because I believe that in fifty years time, men, women and children will stand on the cliffs and beaches of that designated “Offshore Wind Zone” and view the abandoned rusted wind turbines dotting the coast, rusting in the water, too toxic for even mussels and oysters to cling on to, releasing toxic chemicals, chemicals that had been dug up from the ground by child labour in Africa. Children will ask their parents such questions as “where are the whales now?”, children will ask their parents “why were these big ugly structures built in the ocean?” Children will ask their parents “why can’t we swim anymore at the beaches around here?”
And what will the parents say to these children? Well, I’m no oracle but I imagine the answers will be….
“Well children, these ugly rusted wind turbines are releasing toxic chemicals into the ocean and they have poisoned the waters, that’s why you can’t swim here.”
“Well children, yes indeed, once upon a time whales swam along this coast, but the massive turbines killed them off, because the noise made by the turbines interrupted the whales sonar, causing deadly mass strandings of whales along the coast. The whales are gone now.”
“Well children, once upon a time this country and almost all of the West was swept up in a feverish religious cult called climate change, where people were convinced the planet was going to end because we were burning reliable fossil fuels such as gas and coal, and so, in order to supposedly save the planet, we were told we had to stop using those clean and safe fossil fuels, and instead we stupidly build solar and wind structures that weren’t just unreliable, they also caused massive environmental damage. This country had weak governments in thrall to activists. So children, that’s why we have blackouts now, because the coal stations are gone, the gas plants have been shut down, we no longer have reliable energy and this stupid country refused to build safe nuclear power plants that don’t leak toxins into the oceans, that don’t effect whales’ sonar abilities, and that provide clean reliable base load energy.”
“But sadly children, the whales are gone, and will probably never return.”
Well, take this as a final f*cking warning.
Can we take this show on the road?
Betina Arndt in Today’s Tele:
BANKS ATTACK MEN WITHOUT ANY PROOF OF WRONGDOING
BETTINA ARNDT
14 July 2023
Recently, Nigel Farage’s bank announced they were closing his accounts. The controversial UK politician had been with the bank for 40 years and was given no reason for the decision. Since then, Farage has tried unsuccessfully to get accounts at seven other banks.
Farage believes he has been targeted by the corporate world which “had not forgiven him for Brexit”.
Other members of his family have also had their accounts closed and a vicar was also dropped as a customer after criticising his lender’s stance on LGBTQI+
There’s growing evidence that banking systems are now being used to exert social and political control. Remember the Canadian banks complying with Trudeau’s request to freeze the bank accounts of the truckers involved in the Canadian Freedom protests?
Meanwhile, here in Australia, it’s men who are now in the firing line. Last week, the National Australia Bank (NAB) announced they plan to “cut off” customers found to be financial abusers, spelling out this means suspending, cancelling, or denying such people access to their accounts.
NAB calls this “debanking”.
But how will the banks prove they are dealing with actual perpetrators of this abuse? No problem. Believe women.
Here’s the Australian Banking Association (ABA) explaining that their guidelines on financial abuse specify no evidence is required if a woman claims her partner is an abuser: “The guideline recognises that banks don’t need legal evidence of domestic violence, such as an Apprehended Violence Order, to be able to offer assistance to customers.” And what angry divorcing woman could resist destroying her exhubby’s credit rating? This ploy is not yet implemented but rather simply recommended by the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety report, Designed to Disrupt, which maps out the plans to use banks to tackle financial abuse.
The authors see this as a great idea: “Consider the potential to develop a process to make an adverse credit report for a perpetrator of financial abuse which can be made concurrent to correction for victim-survivor, so that there is a material consequence that impacts on the ability to get future credit,” writes the author, UNSW Social Science professor Catherine Fitzpatrick.
Let that sink in. What we are talking about here is banks deliberately trashing a man’s credit rating as punishment when that person has not been convicted, charged, perhaps not even notified, of the accusations.
That one is for the future but right now we have NAB cutting off men’s accounts, with CommBank lining up to do so and Westpac likely to follow suit. These institutions never actually admit that the new apparatus is primarily targeting men.
But even though Fitzpatrick in The Conversation claims about 1.6 million Australian women and 745,000 men have experienced economic or financial abuse, her article makes clear the banks’ true intentions: “Challenging the acceptance of violence against women is essential to respond to specific gendered drivers of violence.”
Anna Bligh, the CEO of the Australian Banking Association, argues financial abuse is “an enabler for partners to keep women trapped in abusive and often dangerous relationships”. Naturally bank promotions on this subject never feature any male victims but tend to include numerous photographs of miserable, down-trodden women.
Normally, restricting a customer’s access to bank accounts would require a very high bar, such as evidence of criminality. But as this legal analysis from the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety points out, the feminists think they have this covered. They proudly announce that coming down the pipeline is their new magic bullet – coercive control, “which criminalises abusive behaviour, including economic abuse.” That might just give the banks the muscle they need to justify their actions, which are certainly pushing the envelope when it comes to appropriate behaviour for a financial institution.
Clearly the banks’ lawyers believe they have found a way through any regulatory or legal hurdles. Yet a former senior banking lawyer raised concerns about what the banks are doing: “How do these banks defend themselves from charges that these are unfair contract terms in relation to financial products which are banned by the ASIC Act?
“Under recent amendments to unfair contract terms legislation to take effect in November 2023, a person such as a bank cannot include an unfair term in a standard form contract or rely on one that is already in place. Significantly increased penalties will apply for breach.
“One would have thought that these unilaterally imposed new terms which impose draconian consequences on affected consumers based solely on the bank’s view of the facts, with no apparent rights to appeal or prevent the action, are the very definition of unfair contract terms.”
Can you imagine the banks cutting off the accounts of women who refuse to work or contribute to household bills? That’s clearly not going to happen. This whole outrageous exercise is simply the latest feminist weapon for targeting men, introduced without government oversight, parliamentary scrutiny nor community consultation.
More context here:
Online Opinion
Weaponising banks against men
Betina Ardnt
Friday 7 July 2023
Daily Mail.
In that case, it is due to ignorance and failure to research, laziness.
He’s been forced forced to flee.
What’s Woke in Spanish?: Dylan Mulvaney Flees to South America amid Bud Light Backlash (13 Jul)
I think the llama is prettier.
It used to be known as the hip pocket nerve, often referenced by reporters and held up as the ultimate arbiter of what will be unacceptable to the electorate. Now that there are no reporters, only journalists who associate with the elite, the media have no idea what the electorate thinks and take their lead from the wealthy elites, also known as Teals.
Well, as long as I get to say “Try the veal!”
Cassie, this is brilliant, worthy of Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.
Wondered why the date seemed vaguely familiar.
Still parodying a twelve-year old girl, I suppose then there is no need to wear falsies.
WIll their careers remain destroyed as well?
And put their trust in polls.
The problem with that is that responding with a “Yes” to a pollster who asks “Are you concerned about climate change” is akin to saying you approve of motherhood and apple pie.
But in the meantime the results fit the jouralistic narrative.
Still parodying a twelve-year old girl, I suppose then there is no need to wear falsies.
A ‘titless groomer.’
How to win a climate argument with a lefty:
Guest at RFK Jr. Dinner Silences Climate Alarmist With a Single Fart (13 Jul)
RFK jr himself is increasingly red-pilled.
RFK Jr : “Climate change is being used to control us through fear” (13 Jul)
Yep.
“Crossie
Jul 14, 2023 10:12 AM”
Thank you.
The actual story being told to kids in 50 years time?
“We had to put the wind turbines offshore to protect them from far-right terrorists.”
I wonder what will happen when targets are Muslim men.
Save Our Grampians!
Woke Vision | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
There’s already a Sharia compliant Islamic bank in the pipeline in Australia.
Or aboriginal men since domestic violence is rife in their communities, particularly remote settlements.
Could it become the bank for abused ex-husbands?
As predicted, Lowe is gone.
Replaced by another insider who’s already spent c. 40 years at the institution.
Llama boy continues to resonate.
Anheuser-Busch: Buy Bud Light, or We’ll Fire Some Idiot Peasants Like You (12 Jul)
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Altogether now: aawww. I like “drag queen of beers”. On the plus side I suspect Bud Light’s competitors are currently hiring more wukkas, since their sales are increasing. Maybe those 65,000 would be better off working for a company that isn’t quite so woke.
Best episode so far — home-grown Australian satire with an angle grinder.
Frightening stuff seeing what nab and Westpac are up to. I notice the UNSW ‘professor’ is prominent on the Westpac website. The banks really don’t like regular people.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
– Thomas Paine
Frightening stuff seeing what nab and Westpac are up to. I notice the UNSW ‘professor’ is prominent on the Westpac website. The banks really don’t like regular people.
I can’t stand the Big Four Bullies so I bank with ING Direct. Hopefully. they keep on doing what they have been doing all long. And that is, NOT to be like the Big Four.
And regular people don’t much like banks.
Seek alternatives.
ING is Dutch and probably very close to the Dutch establishment
My impression of my own bank — it now grandly calls itself Bank Australia after starting life as a credit union — is that 100% of its staff are Greens voters who, for example, fervently believe in climate change as a replacement for the Christianity they have dumped for a form of primitive Aztec-style animism that adores plants and animals while ritually sacrificing (unborn) children.
Agree Roger.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jul 14, 2023 10:12 AM
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/07/joyeux-14-juillet.html
Wondered why the date seemed vaguely familiar.
Along with the Most Stirring National Anthem – 4 Min 15 Secs
Mireille Mathieu singing La Marseillaise (with lyrics)
I see Biden wants to call up 3000 reservists for the Baltics. Hmmm.
“As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.”
– Sir Norman Wisdom (an English actor, comedian, musician, and singer)
I’m not a cruise ship person, although I like sea travelogues from Lizzie and Calli. However I recall when this particular line was having a lot of problems with passengers coming down with gastro I was calling their ships “Regurgitation Of The Seas”.
The new Icon Of The Seas has a whole water park on its top deck! She sails in Jan 2024.
This was an occasion for the two-minute hate session on Twitter the other day (12 Jul)
I couldn’t exactly work out why social media warriors were unhappy with the vessel, except that people might have fun sailing on her. Maybe they’re lefties. As a species lefties don’t seem to agree with the idea of fun. Global warming and CO2 weren’t mentioned anywhere in the article, so that the ship emits lots of Gaia’s hated gas doesn’t seem to be the reason. The whole essay is nearly as good for tourist Cats as being on a cruise ship, so RTWT.
Johnny Rotten
Jul 14, 2023 11:18 AM
ING cancelled Maria Zeee with no reason given. Of course, it was due to her political beliefs.
This freezing of accounts for wrong think sounds like stealing to me.
Apparently, according to media according to the Beanie, Ray Epps is going to be charged.
It has come out because Epps’ lawyer has indicated that they will sue Fox (and Tucker Carlson?) for defamation. What most news agencies are not including in reporting the lawsuit is that Epp’s is being charged.
While most people have pointed at Epps and his obvious protection as proof of him being a Federal agent provocateur – very openly inciting people to enter the Capitol but never appearing on any wanted lists – the Beanie thinks it more likely that he was a rioter who immediately rolled over on other people in return for not being prosecuted.
It would be no surprise to learn that he was being spared but, given the ongoing interest, Federal authorities simply reneged on their deal with him. It is not like he was a Democrat politician.
I’m signing up today then.
Zee is a wompus outlier on the very fringe of an already Radio Rental collection of fantasia-laden world-is-ending nutbags who would be kicked off park benches if they hadn’t found the internet.
La Marseillaise, sung by Mireille Mathieu. American English subtitles. – Still 4 Mins 15 Secs of Glory
Oops Link – La Marseillaise, sung by Mireille Mathieu. American English subtitles.
Knuckle Dragger
Jul 14, 2023 11:53 AM
She’s achieving a lot more than you dickhead. You’re just a dreg on a blog.
Isn’t the usual complaint that indigenous incarceration rates are rising? So much for “Koori Courts”.
Who is Maria Zeee? Any relation to the horrible “Libby Zeee” that used to appear on Sinc’s blog?
This one hasn’t had the attention on the Cat that it deserves.
And Just Like That, It’s No Longer an Insurrection (13 Jul)
The backstory is that the Republicans in Congress hammered FBI head Wray yesterday on just how many glowies were in the J6 crowd (dunno, said Mr Wray) and why Ray Epps is free as a bird.
Suddenly, amazingly, we hear now that Mr Epps has sued Fox News for defamation AND Mr Epps is now being investigated/indicted by the FBI for his participation in the
insurrectionoops protest.I think this is quite entertaining. Mr Epps I suspect correctly evaluates that Fox will play to lose, since to beat his lawsuit they’d have to demonstrate that Trump was correct. Which is why they folded on the Dominion lawsuit. Free money!
The investigation/indictment of Mr Epps is also entertaining since the FBI had him on their most wanted list for 6 months, then quietly took him off with no explanation. Hmmm. So now this sudden indictment is curious. I think it is the heat the FBI has been getting – all those vids of Mr Epps inciting stuff is undermining their whole strategy, so now they have to convict him of insurrection then give him a token sentence, or they’ll be obliterated over all the J6 protesters they’ve sent to Riker’s.
This is the tragic side of the boycott – mind you the market for beer has not shrunk, the market shares have just realigned. I am also wary of that number 65,000. Certainly people working on the production lines and delivery drivers etc are at risk (mind you, the other breweries might be needing more people to ramp up operations) but does this number include external businesses and consultancies for whom AB was a client and not their sole income.
I believe the advertising company that came up with the idea of getting Mulvaney to market the beer is in a parlous state.
And the simple fact is the Tranny brigade is very open about wanting to get to your kids. They are disfiguring the very idea of womanhood, trying to make it into travesty. Ordinary people take family very seriously, and the trannies declared war. And now, after so much deference, support, and encouragement from corporations and government people are finally making progress. Other businesses are retreating from their support for trannies and their agenda.
The stupid thing is that if AB (and Target etc) had not done the QWERTY thing no one would have missed it, no one would have been angered, and their market shares would be safe.
Cassie of Sydney
Jul 14, 2023 12:07 PM
Who is Maria Zeee? Any relation to the horrible “Libby Zeee” that used to appear on Sinc’s blog?
Here she is.
James Roguski joins Maria Zeee to discuss some of the positive developments around the world in the fight against the WHO including a group of International Lawyers rising up in opposition to the Treaty/IHR Amendments, and what people on the ground need to continue to do to push back against future medical tyranny.
Uncensored: James Roguski – International Lawyers Rise Up Against the WHO!!!
Mother Lode snaps me! Kudos where it’s deserved.
Do Koori courts impose Koori punishments, like spearing legs.
Do they give lighter sentences for laying a women out with a piece of wood because in their culture it is not as much a wrong as it is for Whitey?
Great minds, BoN.
The actual ad he did is absolutely terrible. So fayke!…. https://youtu.be/CVGDPlG42bU
My Mrs or I could both do a more convincing job pretending we like sport in general and da foody in particular ( we absolutely hate it) and think there is no better drink than beer (again we really hate beer) to watch it.
Regular recruiting, both numbers and standards, must be terrible.
What’s the bet the call-up will be in Red states?
“Pogria AI will never be able to unravel…”
Indeed Ranga – never forget: Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Imagine they had to reinstitute a draft. It would be politically explosive.
I’m surprised she isn’t an aboriginal tranny whose homeless family was forced to live in their car in the seventies.
Philip Lowe will not be reappointed as RBA Governor past September (Sky News, 14 Jul)
Michele Bullock to replace Philip Lowe as RBA Governor making history as first woman to take on the coveted position (Sky News, 14 Jul)
I wonder when she’ll first cite climate change as the greatest peril of our time? Probably won’t take long.
Maybe I’m being unfair. We’ll see.
Maybeee the ING computer just couldn’t accept threee vowels in a rooow.
Yes, Nigel Farage and others have had their accounts frozen, but beware of cheeep imitations.
Every grifter on the innernets will now be claiming “I’m cancelled. Pleeese send BTC or i-tunes gift cards directly to meee.”
Maybeee send Maria Zeee a cup of coffeee?
Billy man boob Gates is up to his usual tricks. A company he’s heavily invested in has just released millions of mosquitoes in Florida and Texas and ta-dah, malaria shows up.
Gates” We will have a vaccine for that”.
That prick can do what he wants with impunity.
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Stew Peters Show:
Is Bill Gates bringing deadly malaria to the United States?
Karen Kingston is back to talk about her recent bout with malaria while she was visiting Mexico.
Out of the blue, malaria cases were found in both Florida and Texas, a thousand miles apart, at practically the same time.
They are the first cases of malaria found inside America in two decades.
A recent article in Vox reported that mRNA technology, which is the same stuff used in the Covid bioweapon, might also be used to create a new, “better vaccine” against malaria.
Bill Gates has been involved in breeding new mosquitos that are supposed to block the spread of mosquito-borne diseases.
Immediately after he released these new bugs in Florida and Texas there were sudden outbreaks of malaria.
Karen Kingston recently survived malaria while she was in Mexico researching the imminent weaponization of this ancient disease.
Karen Kingston On Pfizer’s Malaria Vaccine Plot: Pfizer Must Be PROSECUTED For Clot Shot Crimes
It seems Anheuser Busch has about 170,000 employees worldwide and it looks like 19,000 in the USA.
So I think the 65,000 number may have traces of “Drink the goddam beer or the n*gger gets it!”
I think Zeee was the first person in Australia to get cancelled from a bank because of politics? Not sure.
Either way, it should be illegal.
Diogenes:-
The first sign of fakey fakiness was the tinkling sound of empty cans as they hit the table.
The whole tone of making a vague but unconvincing attempt to be interested in sports was meant to be a wink-nudge to hipsters that they could drink Bud Lite in an “ironic” piss-taking way. However, the rednecks wouldn’t get the joke, so they would keep right on drinking it … dumbarse mongs that they are.
Sure.
Probably the only reason they used him was because they were told to by their DEI certifiers. His audience certainly is not not the target market for beer.
Put the cork back in the bottle, I’ve survived. 15 people in theatre to observe. The pain is already less. Pity they aren’t doing it for all the other pains I have.
Energy prices.Just got latest gas bill.According to the bill we have used 25% less gas than last year as we installed electric hot water.However the bill is almost teh same as last year meaning that to my non mathematical brain, gas has gone up 25%.
WFT! How do pensioners etc heat their homes.
Morsie
With cardigans, slippers and blankets.
Regarding malaria comments above, about 25 years ago I did some work ( non scientific ) for a research institute. They had developed what they considered a workable product to get rid of malaria.
It needed a huge amount of developmental funding but this did not eventuate as there was no money in the final product. The countries that needed it couldn’t afford to pay the going rate so it was just put back in the cupboard.
Surely DDT will be allowed again at some stage.
Daily Mail.
GreyRanga, that’s good news ! All the best.
Good luck maintaining order and discipline in any unit that has the misfortune to be commanded by Captain Noble..
Morsie
Jul 14, 2023 1:28 PM
Energy prices.Just got latest gas bill.According to the bill we have used 25% less gas than last year as we installed electric hot water.However the bill is almost teh same as last year meaning that to my non mathematical brain, gas has gone up 25%.
WFT! How do pensioners etc heat their homes.
Live in a double brick home or a sandstone block home and burn wood collected from your property. Whoops. Not everyone can do that now as they don’t build double brick/sandstone block homes anymore and don’t like yer’ burning wood.
And wear warmer clothes of course.
From the Hun.
In unofficial news, a State daddy who made inseminations mandatory before resigning may have just done that to a colleague….
Details, apparently to be released over the weekend. She, allegedly, pregnant.
FMD.
Too save his job Philip Lowe should have gone for a quickie sex change!
Brittany Higgins has announced she will commence a new internship at the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
The former Liberal staffer made the announcement via Twitter and Instagram.
“Honoured to intern this year at the @UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),” Ms Higgins tweeted.
Good stuff !!!!!!!
Now give back the 3 million of Taxpayer dollars and live on the UN internship money. If you can that is. Maybe not enough ‘dosh’ for you though.
Lysander.
Sneakers?
So she’s unemployed.
For someone awarded a lifetimes “damages” because her career in politics was over brite knees appears to be doing fairly well for herself
Make-up up and nail polish.
With no doubt heels and pantie hose.
How stereotypical.
It’s been a rumour for quite a while FM about a mistress. I haven’t bought into it until I’ve started to realise we haven’t seen Sarah McGowan for quite some time. He was out campaigning last week with his kids and parents, but no wife…
Could all be tosh but Perth is a small place and being seen “out” with another lady ain’t a good look either way.
Were brought in by human carriers crossing the Rio Grande.
Blame Biden, not Bill.
WFT! How do pensioners etc heat their homes.
Early bedtime with hot water bottle ..!
Morsie the gas price has gone up 33%. When we put gas on at our beach house the electricity bill went down 50%. LPG lasts for ages, costs about $135 for 45 kg bottle.
Any CCTV from Nigel Satterley’s hot tub?
According to Instapundit, RocketLab is going to launch 7 satellites from NZ.
What the hell are we doing?
Koori Court.
Restorative justice.
A group hug with your victims (with an elder present, no doubt handsomely compensated for their time)
No recompense, not even fifty cents for the victim, of the beating, or the home invasion or whatever.
I remember seeing the social media account of a young Melbourne man boasting (with photos) of beating another young man unconscious but that he’d be cool because he was Koori (really?) and would get a slap on the wrist from Koori court in Shepparton.
I was 25 when I’d told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn’t have been less enthusiastic if I’d proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.
– David Jason
I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.
– Sir Norman Wisdom
I don’t think that Florida adjoins the Rio Grande.
And hot water bottles.
Didn’t she get a multi-million dollar payout courtesy of taxpayers because she isn’t likely to get any other employment? Even though not paid aren’t internships a step-up to employment?
Wasn’t that big $ payout in compensation for not being able to work again……..
Maybe it’s time to reclaim some of that taxpayer money (up to the amount she claimed for loss of future job prospects) now that she’s got a job, albeit a make-work one that does nothing productive.
More on Billy man boobs Gates and mosquitoes.
Bill Gates Admits His GM Mosquitoes Are Causing Deadly Malaria Outbreak in U.S.
He won the VIZ Competition to nominate the biggest C..T in British Show Business.
Michael Crawford ran a close second.
Snap, Shatterzzz.
Attitudes and actions like this will not only tank the Voice but sour people on living anywhere near the indigenous or caring what happens to them.
Just quoted $175 for 45kg bottle today in regional Qld.
Hmmm
According to the CDC five new cases of malaria have popped up in Florida and Texas. A rash of cases of local malaria not seen in the U.S. since 2003. The U.S sees on average 2,000 cases of imported malaria per year from travelers entering the United States. And yes, Bill Gates is playing God via the Gates Foundation subsidized company known as Oxitec with genetically engineered mosquitos in the Florida Keys, California and Southeast Texas. Trials Releasing genetically modified male, Aedes aegypti mosquitos into the female population to cause a mass die off. While expanding that program globally to heavily affected areas of malaria.
Lo and Behold the “The EPA did not require peer review or basic preliminary caged trials in Florida and Texas and excluded adequate public comment by not posting relevant documents when they approved the trial,” according to Jaydee Hanson, Policy Director for the International Center for Technology Assessment and Center for Food Safety.
While others felt the EPA didn’t consider unintended consequences.
“In March, a panel of independent experts testified to the Florida Keys mosquito board that GE mosquitoes could also pose significant threats to sensitive ecosystems and human populations in the Florida Keys,” reported the Daily Mail.
And yes, in 2021, with the financial support of the Gates Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline developed a Malaria Vaccine. A clear case of Problem Reaction Solution where once again Bill Gates adds to his massive fortune through nefarious means. So, yes, people are concerned.
Bill Gates has become an American pariah following his hand in the rollout of the Covid Vaccines that continue to injure and kill millions of Americans. A scourge upon humanity due to his buyout of American farmland in favor of GMO crops and livestock. A dastardly degenerate due to his close association with Jeffrey Epstein that was the downfall to his marriage and recent revelations of rampant sexual harassment of his underlings. The poster boy for the Elite’s climate change hypocrisy movement.
So when the bought and paid for Associated Press and Forbes write hit pieces against those questioning Bill Gates motives, it merely adds propagandist to the rap sheet of Bill Gates villiany. Bill Gates is an awful person and shouldn’t be in charge of anything supposedly benefiting humanity.
Project Malaria Courtesy Of Bill Gates
Ed Case
Jul 14, 2023 3:00 PM
– David Jason
He won the VIZ Competition to nominate the biggest C..T in British Show Business.
Michael Crawford ran a close second.
The Research Department at Head Case Inc. on the case once again with more tripe (and onions). Turd Case would always come first in the turd stakes. T.W.A.T.
Stevie T, just before midday and apropos of grifters:
Making a lot more money than me, undoubtedly.
As are we all, big fella. As are we all.
Buy me a coffee, Steverino. I’ll tell you alllll about the chemtrails.
Knuckle Dragger
Jul 14, 2023 3:26 PM
She’s achieving a lot more than you dickhead.
As are we all, big fella. As are we all.
Agreed.
Buy me a coffee, Steverino. I’ll tell you alllll about the chemtrails.
What you know about them you could write on the back of a postage stamp. And what’s with buying you a coffee? Are you gay?
I’d buy you a beer but not a coffee.
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Speaking of beer, it’s time to hit the bottle shop.
Get a load of this and where she is.
https://twitter.com/BrittHiggins_/status/1679677636573007872
Interesting video and thread. RTWT.
Quick sticks then, before they run out of Pimms No.1 Cup and rose-ay.
Let’s hope our Brit doesn’t roll up to the UN Geneva office at 1 am with a fella.
reminder for the “fitba” fans ..
Matildas v France .. Paramount/10 .. 7.30 tonight …….
Knickerless got paid compo for helping to terminate the Morrison Liberal government.
It was a job well done. She and Shazza are grifters.
It is time the legal screws were turned on her and her creepy Svengali partner.
The NATO Crisis Pushing Us into War
“I have been very busy with the whole NATO meeting and questions coming in from important sources. Fortunately, there are some who are looking at our model’s forecast. Nato has stated that while Ukraine can join the military alliance, that will only happen “when allies agree and conditions are met.” Zelensky, who I have ZERO respect for and who I see as nothing more than a war criminal and a profiteer allowing his country to be destroyed all so he can enter his dream deal with Blackrock to create the “biggest” investment opportunity in European history. Zelensky has continually criticized the “absurd” delay in joining NATO when the rules are unambiguous – NATO cannot accept any member who is at war.
Zelensky who only wears army colors to psychologically present that Ukraine is at war and will never dress as a head of state should, admitted that there seemed to be “no readiness” to invite Ukraine to Nato or make it a member. He has refused to accept the rules of NATO that Ukraine cannot join while it is at war with Russia. My Ukrainian sources are seeing him for what he is – a despicable profiteer. He has destroyed Ukraine all for a land grab of territory that has historically been Russian for centuries. The hatred of Russians would only lead to genocide if Ukraine got its hands on the Donbas. Proof of that statement was the massacre of Russians in Odessa in 2014 which began the entire separatist movement. Quebec wanted to separate from Canada. They did not launch a civil war and begin bombing citizens in Quebec. The Donbas had a basic human right to decide their own fate while the Ukrainians did the same to separate from Russia.
Meanwhile, NATO clearly wants the war to continue while pretending they are not waging war directly against Russia. This is why they are also sticking to the rules to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. Nevertheless, they are providing Ukraine with everything a NATO member would get except “official” NATO troops on the ground. We know that NATO troops are there, just without insignia to pretend they are mercenary troops – not sanctioned by NATO. They have agreed to begin an F-16 training program in Europe in August to train Ukrainian pilots on the warplanes that the Ukrainians will use to invade both Russia as well as Crimea. Clearly, NATO is under the control of the Neocons and they are hoping for an excuse to justify World War III to conquer Russia while asking China to please wait patiently in line for their turn.
As a result, Putin has responded by sending an ultimatum to NATO that handing any F-16s to Ukraine would now be considered a “nuclear threat” since they are capable of delivering B61 nuclear bombs and Ukrainians are simply irresponsible itching to engulf the entire world in war. Russia has for the first time upgraded the threat meaning that if F-16s are delivered to Ukraine, this will automatically activate their nuclear deterrence doctrine. The hardliners in Russia are screaming for they fully know the objectives of the American Neocons and handing F-16s to Ukraine will subject Russia to the risk of a surprise nuclear attack.
Upon returning from the NATO meeting, Biden immediately call in all in selected reserves and other individuals for active duty. The unspoken outcome of the NATO meeting is that they simply want war and the Donbas is merely the excuse to justify the conquest of Russia – the Neocon dream for decades. We are preparing for war and as I said, the Neocons are deeply afraid of Trump or anyone else coming into the White House. They will need to start a war using some false flag trying to provoke Russia for they know Biden is toast. The scuttlebutt is that no president has ever lost an election in a time of war.
Zelensky has called for the suspension of elections while the war continues. So he has no incentive to seek peace and NATO needs to claim that a nuclear attack of any sort on Ukraine will be a threat to the EU so that will bypass the whole NATO membership issue.
You can see that our international war model which was published back in 2019 has been targeting 2023 for years. This is what many in strategic positions have been inquiring about. The outcome is not going to be favorable to Western Civilization. But the Neocons have full control of the White House and NATO itself. The only European leader cautioning following the United States has been Macron in France.
Zelensky will go down in the history books along with Hitler and a few others. We are to lose our future, that of our children all for Neocons’ and Ukraine’s rabid hated of Russians?”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-nato-crisis-pushing-us-into-war/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Just quoted $175 for 45kg bottle today in regional Qld.”
I realise you are paying for delivery as well as a “bottle swap”, but assuming density of 0.8, 45kg is about 56 litres.
You can buy “Auto LPG” (exact same stuff) for about $0.95 – $1.10 a litre in Shitney.
You do the math…
A 45kg bottle here costs $195 from the local servo, I don’t have an account, dunno if that makes a difference, we just take the empty down and changeover ourselves.
Kneel, agree, it’s a ripoff. The rules say that you can’t use car lpg as it’s a mix of butane and propane and the relatively high liquification temp of butane makes it unsuitable for domestic use, or that’s what those in charge say. I know for a fact that up our way the car lpg at the servos is 100% propane, none the less they won’t allow you to fill your cylinders at the pump.
Shatterzz you’ll see better wogball at the local park.
45kg bottle of gas is $339 (according to the most recent invoice) This is delivered via forklift to my gas bay.
A year ago the price rose to this from $277 per bottle.
This is for a standard 9-pak, a single cylinder would be about 50% more.
Steve trickler
Jul 14, 2023 11:49 AM
Johnny Rotten
Jul 14, 2023 11:18 AM
ING cancelled Maria Zeee with no reason given. Of course, it was due to her political beliefs.
I’m OK so far which means that they don’t mind my political beliefs. Or don’t care what they are. Or, don’t know who I am. LOL.
Done a lot of work with gas. If the LPG in the bottle gets too cold the butane separates and will decrease the temperature due to poor vaporisation.
That is one creepy looking eyeball on the Sphere in Vegas. Impressive tech.
“We’re Off To See The Wizard”
What’s this bullshit really all about?
The ABC hasn’t alleged Gayboy Heston murdered anybody, just that a murder happened in the vicinity.
Heston has already said he’s suffrin’ from Gender Confusion, so the bearded weirdo can’t be too worried about his reputation.
Of course, if it’s all a Psyop with the intention of normalising Trannys, then, yeah, it makes sense.
Sal that doesn’t sound like 45 kg price. More like 210 kg price.