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I yapped too soon. The babies have hatched. Just saw one parent standing on the nest edge poking food into…
Lost my backyard privileges thanks to a pair of Plover chicks.
Saved from the nest on Ye Olde Fredde. Curtin’s “beating the big drum to stop the work force going on…
Curtin’s “beating the big drum to stop the work force going on strike” was probably his greatest contribution. Even then…
Talk about council overreach.
The Joys of Multi Cultural Immmigation (Invasion?) in Europe
Bombs, car chases and ‘free money’: Dutch gangs blow up German cash machines
A love of banknotes and a fragmented police force make the country Europe’s chief target for ATM attacks
It took five men less than two minutes — and a lot of brute force — to steal a six-digit sum of euros in cash.
At 2.30am on a Thursday late last month, they planted bombs beside four cashpoints inside a bank lobby in a sleepy Frankfurt suburb. After a series of blasts, they seized the money from the rubble and drove away at high speed in an Audi S6.
The raid was part of a crime wave that has swept through Germany for more than two years, terrorising residents with night-time detonations from big cities to small towns and villages. Some 496 cash machines were blown up last year, 27 per cent more than in 2021, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said. Daniel Muth, deputy head of Hesse’s state criminal police office, said: “The attacks have become ever more professional.”
The country has become Europe’s ground zero for ATM attackers, who have exploited a fragmented banking system and a decentralised police force — and Germans’ marked preference for cash over cards or digital payments. With more than 55,000 machines stocked with high-denomination banknotes to feed that demand, the average sum seized in a bombing raid last year hit €100,000. That pushed up the financial toll by 53 per cent from a year earlier to €30mn, BKA said.
“Bombing attacks on cashpoints in Germany are modern-day bank robberies,” said Muth, who said such heists had become “too easy” for professional criminal groups able to target remote or poorly protected ATMs.
Most of the culprits are Dutch men, according to senior German police officials. The typical plofkraker, a term coined from the Dutch words for explosion and robbery, is between 18 and 35 years old, has roots in the Moroccan-Dutch community and lives in Utrecht, where cash-machine raiding is a growth industry.
Law enforcement officials estimate that up to 1,000 individuals in that area are linked to ATM raids.
The decline of cashpoints in the Netherlands and France, and the equipping of remaining machines with glue protection systems that can convert banknotes into a worthless brick of paper, has shifted the criminals’ attention to Germany, police officials said.
Germans have been far more reluctant to go digital when it comes to payments than their European neighbours — more than 50 per cent of people told a recent survey they prefer to use cash when shopping — leaving bank branches similarly wedded to physical banknotes.
States close to the Netherlands such as North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) are bearing the brunt of attacks this year.
The ATM busters take considerable risks. They handle highly explosive materials that damage bank branches and machines, occasionally causing themselves serious injuries.
Their getaways are similarly reckless, with the culprits speeding away at up to 300km an hour. “Sometimes they switch off their lights, or go on the motorway the wrong way,” said Timo Göttlich, head of a special task force at Hesse’s state criminal police office.
Often, the boot of the vehicle is stocked with plastic canisters holding hundreds of litres of fuel to avoid refuelling stops, said Muth. He said police chases often had to be aborted to avoid the potential for a crash, while firing at getaway vehicles would risk an explosion.
“Those vehicles are effectively rolling bombs,” he added.
Policing alone has proven insufficient. “Since 2015, there have been more than 200 arrests, but the overall effect on the criminal activity has been very limited,” said Achim Schmitz, senior police officer at NRW’s state criminal police office in Düsseldorf. “We do need a joint effort by the police and the banking industry to root out this crime.”
With each of the 16 German states running its own decentralised force, law enforcement authorities are struggling to devise a coherent, nationwide strategy. The country’s banking system is also fragmented, with no fewer than 1,500 independent lenders. That makes it difficult to roll out swift improvements to ATM safety standards at a national level.
“Due to its federal structure, the response in Germany may be a bit more complex than in other European countries,” said Schmitz.
The Dutch attackers are hard to pin down. Many are organised in informal networks and co-operate on an ad hoc basis. They analyse failed attempts and arrests to learn from past mistakes, making them still more elusive, said Schmitz. “The criminals are highly professional and act in a very disciplined way,” he said.
In Hesse and NRW, police forces have upped their game, urging banks to lock their lobbies at night and use high-quality CCTV. They are encouraged to install smokescreens that blanket the scene of an explosion with smoke and make banknotes hard to find in the rubble. Federal and regional government officials are threatening new laws forcing banks to protect ATMs better if the sector does not improve.
In Hesse, police have started to think like ATM attackers. A task force identified high-risk locations and mapped likely escape routes, including junctions and motorways that police should block immediately after a blast.
This has yielded some spectacular results. Within minutes after the ATM bombing in Frankfurt in late June, police blocked a nearby motorway and junctions. A helicopter chased the car, and a dog squad was mobilised. The gangsters promptly ran into a police roadblock where their Audi’s tyres were slashed by a spike belt.
The car then crashed into a police vehicle and the assailants’ attempts to escape on foot were quickly foiled. Four Dutch men aged between 27 and 32 are being held in pre-trial detention in Germany. Hours after the arrests, Dutch police raided their flats in the Utrecht area.
“Our success rate in clearing the cases is not that bad,” said Göttlich. Police have also built a growing database of the attackers’ DNA samples. “We often know who the culprits are and then it is just a matter of time until we get them,” Göttlich added.
Prosecutors and judges have begun to put ATM attackers on trial for attempted murder, punishable by up to 15 years in jail. They point to the extreme danger for residents and passers-by when cash machines are blown up. A 33-year-old German citizen who masterminded four ATM blasts was sentenced this year to nine and a half years in prison.
“We have been extremely lucky so far that nobody has been severely injured or even killed,” said Göttlich.
Frankfurter Sparkasse, the savings bank whose branch was attacked in June, monitors its cashpoints through CCTV from a central control room. But so far this has yielded little success.
Since November, one in 10 of its branches across Frankfurt has been taken out by ATM bombings. The damage caused has been so bad that none of the branches have reopened.
Interesting I complained to the Oz about 4 comments of a very innocuous type being rejected.Suddenly 3 out 4 are now acceptable.
‘Twas a dark and stormy night
When she planned to at last take the jump –
In the dark from her switching the light
She’d be Stormy to big Bruce’s Trump.
The final “Panties” work might lean more towards Eminem than Tennyson.
The last time I checked our account we were running at around 75% rejection.
And some were incredibly tame comments.
Currently at Beachside Village (not to be confused with Sancho’s similarly named place) for a winter sojourn.
A few observations.
Even though school holidays ended a week ago, the place is still busy which is odd for the middle of winter.
There is Local Club, about 5 mins from Beachside Village where the two times I’ve been full of older types having the evening special, then they all go home.
And all the oldies driver land cruisers or prado’s.
You have da rhyme now get da beat.
If you do dat ding, ’twill be a feat.
Not sure that link worked. Here’s highlights:
Opinion
Labor amendments to reverse unions’ High Court defeats
The third wave of IR changes will give unions victory after recent High Court losses on contracts, casuals and the status of officials. Employers face more uncertainty.
Graeme Watson and Giacomo Giorgi
The federal government is finalising its third tranche of workplace relations reforms, having successfully legislated its “Secure Jobs, Better Pay” amendments in late 2022 and its “Protecting Worker Entitlements” amendments earlier this year.
The political reform process follows a pattern. After a very general public consultation period with scant details provided, actual proposals are only disclosed to participants in a further confidential process which, in the case of this third tranche, has been undertaken recently.
Because of confidentiality obligations, public consideration and debate is limited. Final proposals often lack any notion of consensus.
Nevertheless, a bill is being packaged as part of this opaque procedure, no doubt with a new catchy title covering a range of disparate changes which will be subject to an abbreviated and accelerated parliamentary process.
The government’s aim is to secure passage of the entire third tranche before the end of 2023, so as not to spill into 2024, a likely election year.
The third tranche will contain proposed changes that have already been identified as “contentious” by Employment and Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke, and the detail is only now slowly emerging.
Changes will cover casual employment, enforcement provisions, same job, same pay (rebadged), increased regulation of independent contractors, and additional rights for union officials and union delegates.
There is no reason why a contract should not exclusively determine the relationship between the parties – and every reason why it should.
Business has been questioning the need for further reform, particularly in light of weakened global and Australian economic conditions, and the new higher-inflation environment in which employers are required to operate. But for unions, the log of claims is in.
Anticipated changes will not only reverse previous Labor government reforms, but also High Court decisions – cases fought and lost by the union movement.
An expanded definition of employment is intended to reverse the 2022 High Court decision in Jamsek, in which the court held (7-0) that the provision of trucks and carriage services by a partnership did not involve an employment relationship between the partnership and its client.
Jamsek applied the contemporaneous Personnel Contracting case, which found that when a relationship is comprehensively committed to a written contract, the character of the relationship is determined by reference to the rights and duties created by the parties’ written agreement, and not subsequent practice.
According to the High Court, there is no reason why legal rights in a contract should not exclusively determine the relationship between the parties – and every reason why they should. The court said its task was to promote certainty with respect to a relationship of such fundamental importance.
Unions have argued that determining employment status should encompass a wide-ranging review of the entire history of the parties’ dealings. The High Court rejected that argument, but the government is nevertheless considering incorporating these factors into a new statutory test.
The consequences of such a change include an expanded application of awards and enterprise agreements, and uncertainty over the status of contractual relationships and obligations.
Uncertainty is a major concern for employers in view of the increasingly onerous compliance regime.
In the 2021 case of Rossato, the High Court comprehensively (7-0) rejected union arguments on how to determine whether an employee is a casual – stating that union arguments do not accord with elementary notions of freedom of contract and involve “obscurantism … alien to the judicial function”.
The government is planning to reverse this decision by modifying the definition of a casual employee, which the unions intend to use to increase the conversion rate of casuals to ongoing employees by increasing the importance of practices adopted during the period of employment.
Further, in the 2012 case of Barclay, the High Court considered the scope of general protection provisions of the Fair Work Act. Barclay, a team leader and president of the Australian Education Union sub-branch at Bendigo TAFE, was disciplined over an email he sent to union members which his employer considered to be inconsistent with the behaviour expected of a public sector employee.
The issue before the court was whether the disciplinary action was for a lawful reason or the unlawful reason of his role as an AEU officer.
The court comprehensively (5-0) rejected the notion that Barclay’s status as a union officer provided an immunity from adverse action because his union position and activities were inextricably entwined with the adverse action.
The court said that the union arguments would destroy the balance between employers and employees in the act, and would be inconsistent with international instruments dealing with such matters.
It is understood that the government now plans to require awards and enterprise agreements to specify rights for delegates and thereby provide additional immunities for union delegates, creating a two-tier system where delegates enjoy more rights and freedoms than “normal” employees.
Unions are expected to use the new rights to enable delegates to engage in a much wider range of union activities with impunity, leaving employers with limited recourse for poor behaviour or misconduct.
Taken as a whole, the third tranche of reforms appears designed to increase union presence and activity in workplaces. Employers will obviously be concerned at the impact of the changes on fairness and workplace productivity. Let the debate begin.
Yeah, rap is great for throwing random rhyming words in without context or meaning and setting it all to shitty music.
St Ruth would be great at it.
The Devil Drives Prado?
areff:
Her frock stayed not on in the ministry.
There was an aged Flamer named Sancho
Who got confused whether Scanties or Panties
Are De Rigeur on First Dates with Man’tees
Hi ho, said the Fruit
Tying his cock to his boot
It don’t matter
Begin the festivities
The last time I checked our account we were running at around 75% rejection.
And some were incredibly tame comments.
Incredibly lame, surely?
Colour Me Surprised!
‘Mohammed’ is The Most Common Name Amongst Arrested ‘French’ Rioters.
‘Mohammed’ was overwhelmingly the most common name among those arrested during the recent French riots, reports the French newspaper L’Opinion, which analyzed a sample of the most common monikers amongst over 2,000 arrested throughout the uprisings in late June.
Mohammed appeared 81 times in a sample of 335 arrests, 50 times more than second place Yanis –another name with Arab origins – which appeared 31 times. In fact, several Arab names were prevalent among the random sample of 335, with Yacin appearing 11 times, Ali appearing 13, and Ibrahim at 10.
The names were revealed after the French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin argued that many of the names arrested were more typical French names, including Kevin and Matteo. Yet, neither features prominently in the list revealed by L’Opinion.
“No one can ignore reality anymore… in spite of everything, most of the political class wants to believe that it is a social crisis when the root cause is obvious: immigration,” asserts the former French presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour.
The riots have put migration issues in the forefront of French politics and a poll released this week by broadcaster CNews reveals that the French public is in favour of heavy penalties for migrant rioters.
The poll, conducted by CSA, states that 73% of the French would support stripping citizenship from rioters who were dual nationals, a punishment rarely seen except in severe crimes, such as terrorism cases.
The poll found that men were more likely than women to support stripping rioters of their French citizenship but only slightly as both sexes strongly supported the proposal. The idea also has broad support across all age groups, with the strongest opposition coming from those under 35, although just 34% of that age bracket were against the policy.
While the pollsters expected supporters of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête to overwhelmingly support stripping citizenship from rioters, they were also surprised to see broad support even from the left, with 70% of the Socialists approving.
The riots and their aftermath have largely benefited Ms. Le Pen and the RN as more mainstream figures echo Le Pen’s past comments on immigration and crime.
Bruno Retailleau, head of the conservative group in the French senate, stated, “As soon as we want to be firm they say, ‘Oh la la. Scandal! The fascists are arriving! You’re like the National Rally,’” and added, “We’re sick of being politically correct.”
The riots, which took place in more than 200 cities across France, caused an estimated €650 million in damages according to French insurers, while others have claimed the true cost could be over a billion euros.
Insurers say around 11,300 claims had been made so far, though more claims could be made. The destruction is significant: about 5,600 vehicles were destroyed, most set on fire, 1,300 buildings were vandalised and damaged and 700 police were injured as a result of the violence.
When do the French Generals join the fray?
There once a girl who, sans panties
Thought it was time to up antes
She decided to cross
Her long suffering boss
And found herself suddenly franties
“No one can ignore reality anymore… in spite of everything, most of the political class wants to believe that it is a social crisis when the root cause is obvious: immigration,” asserts the former French presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour.
Yeah, course it’s Immigration, you lying shitbag.
Because you’d have exactly the same result if you’d filled the cities with 5 million Swedish and Ukrainian Hotties, right?
Ed Case
Jul 23, 2023 1:33 PM
In NSW gas kitchen appliances are already banned in new apartment developments.
Gas is banned full stop in Unit builds because many of them are now Tilt Panel wall construction.
An explosion will blow the walls out and pancake the supported structure.
Says Head Case, the resident ‘Bob the Builder’…………………
There was an ol’ bitch of Melbour’n
Who had a predilection for Whor’n
From France to Bombay
On any ol’ day
Black cock she’d be suckin’ and gnawin’
You really shouldn’t talk about your mother like that ed.
Reference SIte for the Voice
https://quadrant.org.au/?s=aboriginal
Great Selection
Here’s a story about Chris Lane, Aussie who was shot dead by an Hispanic who had his Life Sentence verturned.
The life sentence has been reinstated.
So don’t worry crotchless, although I see, based on your last comment, that you’re on the turps, so all good.
Ed
This is about Britnah’s book, not your dress up adventures.
Aborigines possibly the tenth race to have inhabited Australia
Date: September 7, 2022
Author: Editor, cairnsnews
Letter to the Editor
The Torres Strait Islanders are a different race of unrelated people of Melanesian descent, their history goes back about 3,000 years diverging to a mix of Papuan and Lapita people 30,000 years ago. They are a well structured society with agriculture and productive communal industry, and warriors using bows and arrows. The aborigines never had enough smarts to copy their usage or society, they never rose above stone age weapons (National Geographic) had gardens or agriculture.
Aborigines are of Indian descent, sharing the same mtDNA, and two basal synonymous mtDNA polymorphisms G8251A and A9156T with the M42 haplogroup, shared exclusively between(pre-Dravidian) Indian and Australian aborigines — “These particular mutations do not exist anywhere else in the world; they are shared exclusively between a few isolated ancient tribes in India and Australian aboriginals” (Quote: Prof Dr Satish Kumar).
Ancient endo cast skulls have been found, strange Flat-Head skulls, others of very different ancestry from Kow Swamp, Nacurrie, Coobool Creek, Cohuna, Lake Mungo, Tasmanian Aborigines were Papuan Ulotrichi referred to by Professor Alfred Cort Haddon in his book, ‘The Races of Man’. We have photographs of the “little people (150 cm) of the Kuranda rainforest.
The many different races to have occupied Australia are scientifically proven by Dr Irina Pugach Dr Frederick Delfin, Dr Ellen Gunnarsdóttir, Dr Manfred Kayser, and Prof Dr Satish Kumar: Supported by research from Drs Norman Tindale, Joseph Birdsell, Peter Brown — and Professors Mark Stoneking, Allan Wilson, Alan Thorne, Colin Mackenzie, Manning Clark, Joseph Greenberg, Alan Cooper, Chris Stringer, and Dr Merritt Ruhlen. You cannot disprove their science.
With reference in the “Atlas of Foreign Countries”, written between 265 – 316 A.D., Chinese Sea Captains describes the mysterious great south land being inhabited by a race of one-metre-tall pygmies: Frank and Alexander Jardine settled Cape York recorded they witnessed the little Negritos being hunted down like kangaroos by the taller aborigines. In the 1400’s and 1500’s, Dutch and Portuguese sailors sighting the Western Australian coastline noted “tall natives in warfare chasing and killing hordes of “little” native peoples”.
There is no need for a referendum to include Aborigines in the Constitution — The are not and never were the nation’s first people, probably the tenth race to have lived here.
Sincerely
Gil May
Forestdale 4118
Funny you should say that.
bons @ 9:55
bons, she’s in the senate – she’s not a state liberal. Maybe it’s someone else, you mean?
But on Sarah Henderson. This morning on Outsiders, Rowan Dean showed file footage of the day Scummo entered the chamber bearing a lump of coal. While at the despatch box and giving it to HM Loyal Opposition on how important coal is, unlike the rest of his colleagues who were vastly enjoying the performance, two up in the bleachers, Sarah Henderson and David Coleman, at the time the members for Corangamite and Banks*, were not so impressed.
*Coleman’s still the member.
The Australian Government’s vision for you:
Grinding poverty whilst living as a second class citizen wedged between indigenous peoples and new arrivals.
But paying for the others with your tax, as you have a job or a business.
The Australian Government’s vision for your future:
Grinding poverty whilst living as a second class citizen wedged between indigenous peoples and new arrivals.
Oops, double post, crappy connection!
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
– Sir John Templeton
When do the French Generals join the fray?
That would be genuinely exciting and inspiring.
Sophisticate Drones That Can be Used in War or Civil Unrest
https://youtu.be/lnRLNpaVuYo
Gas appliances don’t make much sense in multi unit developments anyway. Heating and cooling has been done by individual split systems for some time. Induction cooking probably as good as gas for everything except woks. God knows how much you would save on individually piped and metered gas.
Johnny Rotten
Jul 23, 2023 2:55 PM
Sophisticated Drones That Can be Used in War or Civil Unrest
https://youtu.be/lnRLNpaVuYo
Apparently, Chairman Dan of Sictoria has ordered thousands of then ready for the next wave of Lockdowns.
cohenite – Thanks for posting about Chris Lane, the 10th anniversary of his murder is next month. I knew him well, our families were great friends, we all were hurt when he was killed but his family suffers the most.
I suspect the ones the military buys will perform like those that dropped into the Yarra River a few weeks ago.
The no panty shanty.
What will we do with a drunken failure
What will we do with a drunken failure
What will we do with a drunken failure
Early in the morning.
Give her a mike and a TV camera
Say what she likes to seedy yammerer
Give her a mike and a TV camera
Early in the morning.
Get her a book deal to spin her story
So that it looks like she is less whore-y
Get her a book deal to spin her story
Early in the morning.
Set up a board for to give her money
As a reward for political calumny
Set up a board for to give her money
Early in the morning.
What will we do with a drunken failure
What will we do with a drunken failure
What will we do with a drunken failure
Early in the morning.
James Campbell on the mong:
A three million payoff
For a well deserved lay off,
A book deal, a plum job
For a mendacious cry-slob
Who eschewed wearing panties…
No more living in shanties.
Went to see Oppy. What a fantastic film, right up there with Nolan’s greatest. If I had one criticism, it would be that the film concentrated a little too much on the politics of the time and Oppy’s entanglements in politics, and not enough on the great scientific endeavor. Sex was fine, and the girlfriend’s rack was around 8.
Movie rating 4.8 out of 5.
From the Hun.
Is that like a reverse kanga?
All of the ditties suggested are way to highbrow. If you want to see how far into the gutter you have to go and how far our civilisation has sunk, Instapundit has a link to a video by someone called Sexxy Red and a “song ” Poundtown.
Eye and ear bleach will be required .it is revolting.
All of the ditties suggested are way to highbrow. If you want to see how far into the gutter you have to go and how far our civilisation has sunk, Instapundit has a link to a video by someone called Sexxy Red and a “song ” Poundtown.
Eye and ear bleach will be required .it is revolting.
sfw
3:23 PM
cohenite – Thanks for posting about Chris Lane, the 10th anniversary of his murder is next month. I knew him well, our families were great friends, we all were hurt when he was killed but his family suffers the most.
Huh?
Are you responding to this?
The life sentence has been reinstated.
So don’t worry crotchless, although I see, based on your last comment, that you’re on the turps, so all good.
The turd has taken a cheap shot at me, and mocked the death of your friend on the way through.
Many Cats probably saw Warren Mundine on Outsiders this morning. It was quite distressing to hear of the persecution he has suffered from other Aborigines as a result of opposing the Voice. He specifically mentioned “old friends” such as Marcia Langton and Noel Pearson.
Pearson may have a formidable intellect, but he lacks the compassion and humanity of someone like Mundine. I was told not so long ago by an ex pollie (a significant one) that, in his experience, Noel is “a bully”. In respect to his treatment of Mundine – that is an understatement.
Mother Lode,
rollicking prose, still can’t get it out of my head. 😀
BoN, the Maltese Falcon is on this arvo on 7flix. Starts at 4:30pm
Turd Case
At this point it seems reasonable to assume that pretty much everything you post about aboriginal deaths is the product of your fevered imagination. Certainly you seem unable to provide any evidence to support your assertions.
With reference in the “Atlas of Foreign Countries”, written between 265 – 316 A.D., Chinese Sea Captains describes the mysterious great south land being inhabited by a race of one-metre-tall pygmies: Frank and Alexander Jardine settled Cape York recorded they witnessed the little Negritos being hunted down like kangaroos by the taller aborigines. In the 1400’s and 1500’s, Dutch and Portuguese sailors sighting the Western Australian coastline noted “tall natives in warfare chasing and killing hordes of “little” native peoples”.
The existence of these pygmies was certainly accepted by Arnhem Land clans as late as the 1950s as an Alawa man told to his biographer Douglas Lockwood.
Zulu here is the Bolt article:
Pearson may have a formidable intellect,
His speeches are written by others [& delivered in the speaking style of MLK] , his newspaper articles are written by others, and he’s never been the subject of a serious TV interview.
So, how could anyone make any estimates about the intellect of this fraud based on his fake persona?
Aren’t there photographs of said pygmies, taken in the area around Cairns?
Thank you, B.B.
*The other day, my dad went to a Services NSW office to renew his firearms licence. They had no facilities to accept cash. He had to mail the remittance.
Last time I renewed my come-back-in residency visa (Dept. Immigration, Parramatta) They only took cash, after waiting 2 hours in the queue .. had to go find an ATM to draw the money out then go back & pay .. no notices anywhere in the office advising their cash-only policy …..
No wonder the they’re almost hysterical about pushing the 60,000 years of continuous culture. Must hide what they did to the original populations.
Yep.
You won’t see any developers slipping a brown paper bag under the table to overturn that one.
These guys look at scraping every last dollar out of building costs. Having a regulatory excuse to not hook up and reticulate one utility would be a God-send to the estimators.
Interesting factoid.
We had a gas cooktop in the city penthouse.
But get this.
It wasn’t individually metered.
Single meter into the building and costs shared.
Almost too cheap to meter, huh?
This was built early 2000’s.
Mrs P wanted to go induction so we blanked it off.
Doh!
Being on the top floor I did entertain the idea of putting gas heating and hot water in. Who’s going to see a little flue on the balcony?
Probably would have fallen foul of the BC.
Turd Case
There is no such thing as a “cheap shot” at you, and the mockery was only in the recesses of what passes for your brain.
Now, stop slacking and get to work on that Aboriginal deaths evidence.
The 1988 draft treaty called for a figure of 2.5% of G.D.P. paid as “compensation” and “reparations” in “Perpetuity,” in addition to what’s already spent. Someone, better at math then I, calculated that as just over 60 billion dollars a year – in perpetuity.
Blot writes infinitely better than what he appears on his TV show.
Mother Lode at 3:30.
Noice.
But no panties.
…
Oh.
Maybe that’s the point.
No wonder the they’re almost hysterical about pushing the 60,000 years of continuous culture. Must hide what they did to the original populations.
Uh, it’s not Aborigines who invented or are pushing the 60,000 years Myth.
Even if Dangerous Dan wasn’t expecting quite the magnitude of the blowback of the Commonwealth Games cancellation, the vibe of the last few weeks is that of clearing the decks for his anointed successor to take over while he rides into a [grrrr] glorious sunset.
Mark Knight had better load up his pen with polka dots as this is definitely going to be Joan Kirner II.
A based European conservative party in government would meet NATO’s 2% of GDP spending on defense, and then withdraw from NATO. No other act in government would establish your credentials as this would. Of course, doing this would make Sheridan seethe.
Aren’t there photographs of said pygmies, taken in the area around Cairns?
Their descendants, by now part aboriginal, still live around Nambour and Ravenshoe.
Truganina was of the same people, there’s photos of her alone, since others in the picture would have made the horror of the slaughter more obvious.
Latest Harvard-Harris poll has Trump +40 v DeSantis and +5 v Biden.
Turd Case
You’re probably a bit too stupid to understand, but the myth is pushed largely by people claiming to be, and recognised as, aborigines.
Just as the myth of hundreds of thousands of aboriginal deaths in the so-called “Frontier Wars” is pushed largely by the same people, with some additional political parasites in support in both cases.
More parallel universe stuff from poor ol’ Eddles. Unrelenting, he is.
*Allegedly alleged …
Thanks BBS. Got your comment a little late, also I’d have to go into J&B HiFi and buy a television… 😀
Not missing a TV. Peter Lorre was wonderful!
Ever Mother Russia would be rolling in her grave at the state of current Victoriastan.
you wouldn’t know, sancho
… you wouldn’t know a train was up you unless the people got out
Sarah Henderson not only backed the Turnbull coup, she staged a photo op at Geelong station when he arrived from Melbourne by train — a stunt to humiliate Abbot, who at that point was resisting pressure to haul Bronny out of the Speaker’s chair for making the same trip in a helicopter.
Henderson is like maggoty sausages — mostly OK, but better to pass on by.
I spent this afternoon at the hospital with my mother, visiting my stepfather, as I did yesterday. The prognosis is not good, he won’t be going home. It’s sad, and it’s very distressing to see a man who only a few months ago still had his wits about him but is now incoherent and bedridden.
I must say the nurses do a superb job, I can’t praise them enough. Very few of them are “Australians”, they’re all from the subcontinent or the Philippines or other parts of Asia, they are kind and patient. Visiting my stepfather regularly, he’s in a room of four, all elderly, all bedridden. There’s a man in the bed opposite him, an old Italian man named Antonio who is quite a character and who spends his days shouting loudly in Italian, which I rather like but a nurse said to me that it’s all day long! Anyway, my stepfather had to have a nurse help him with something and so they closed the curtain around his bed, my mother stayed with him whilst I stood in the hallway near the entrance to the room. I watched as Antonio, who thought no one was looking, take off the sheet, he was stark naked, the catheter hanging from his penis and he then proceeded to try and climb down from his bed. A nurse came by and rushed to stop him, meanwhile Antonio is yelling God knows what in Italian, desperately trying to get off the bed, another nurse rushes over, and the whole time the catheter remains is hanging from his penis!
There is a sign to watch out for absconding patients. Antonio did manage to put a smile on my face!
Cats, reporting back as truthfully as I can from last night’s 60th celebration. The Birthday personage is one of my best mates, whom I’ve known since we were five. I’ve written about him and his family before.
100% Sicilian. However, I’m writing about Johnny and Jess, being the son and daughter of Mark, the guest of honour last night – at a boutique venue in Sydney’s inner West. Where we all grew up.
Johnny – now 16, steadfastly refuses to shave off his pubescent ‘tache, despite my non exhortations. Looking more and more like one of Tommy’s mafia hitmen.
Jess – now 13 and suddenly a womanage. Turned up last night looking very saucy, in her fishnets, micro mini, 10 hole platform docs and cleavage in abundance.
I wouldn’t dare criticise her parents, but magnifique goils decked out in the latest “Prostitutes ‘r’ Us” gear might just lead to some possibly regrettable incidents.
See the scene where Tony Soprano deals with a wally mouthing off about Willow.
Vivek is going to move to second place. He’s very careful with the way he treats the trumpster.
Latest Harvard-Harris poll has Trump +40 v DeSantis and +5 v Biden.
Awaiting the Dogs of War to be released. I may not be now but we know the Demonrats will do it. Just a matter of time.
Really, you’d like to see NATO dismembered. Poland would be a place whose politics you’d be partial to. How do you feel about trying to talk Poland into getting out of NATO? What do you think the chances are.
You would support NATO being broken up with China marauding around and acting all tough.
Bought a new TV for my mother at Christmas in Aust.
52″ at good guys In Bundy only $340, brilliant.
So Eddles, are you going to answer my questions about your claim of the “Frontier Wars”
Carpe
Turd Case doesn’t answer questions, he only makes unsupported assertions.
Will the dying days of the Victorian ALP government meet such dizzying heights as this?
The turd has taken a cheap shot at me, and mocked the death of your friend on the way through.
Yours is the cheap shot crotchless. I correct your drunken post about a great potential injustice and excuse you from making it because, as usual, you’d fallen into a vat of sherry; and I cop this spittle. Well that’s it, no more Mr Nice guy from me: it’s tough love all the way.
NKP – what you’ve just done is unforgivable – unforgivable, I tells ya! 😕
Monday Morning Gunk
@MorningGunk
Australia next
Therapeutic Products Bill in New Zealand. I’ve heard of a similar thing in Canada.
There’s been mention lately of a greater power pulling the strings. I don’t have the slightest doubt that this is true. The fact that every single horror appearing overseas somehow appears here five minutes later is proof enough.
I think he has yet to come to terms with the idea that, if you want to accuse the pioneers of this country of being mass murderers – including my ancestors – you need a little more evidence then “Stories my Nanna told me.’
Dumped turbine blades reveal Green energy grift
Truganina was of the same people, there’s photos of her alone, since others in the picture would have made the horror of the slaughter more obvious.
Except Truganina was Tasmanian and not from Cairns.
America’s first elected trans lawmaker is charged with stomach-churning child porn offenses ‘after daycare worker girlfriend sent naked photos of toddlers in her care’
The Washington Post Is Facing a Financial Buzzsaw
NATO’s predominant purpose is to further US interests in Europe and its periphery. If the So far as Poland is concerned, they’d be better off in a defence pact with Visigrad countries if they actual fear Russia, but over and above this they should actually try and find a modus vivendi with Russia. All that NATO does is encourage belligerent forces within Poland, Latvia, and the like, to naw and pick at past grievances with USA as their collateral rather than move beyond them.
Still, all of this was apropos of a based conservative government actually appearing, and the clearest example of that in a Europe right now is Hungary.
China isn’t ‘marauding around’. China is acting as every great power has in the past.
My old mum out of curiosity recently asked my step brother to recommission her television, which she hadn’t watched for years. He did so.
Within a day she found there was nothing on it she could stand. OFF goes the television. She’s back to reading books.
Heart-rending video from ‘de-transitioning’ castrated boy who tried to become a female and now regrets the permanent damage he’s done
REVEALED: Biden Campaign had Plan to Send Alternate Electors if Needed in 2020 – Now They Are Suing Republicans for Doing the Same
Neil Oliver: Weather maps are among the most blatant forms of fearmongering deployed so far.
Is the world coming to an end? | Neil Oliver challenges climate activist Donnachadh McCarthy
I thought it was going to be the Joan Kirner, Julia Gillard Dance troupe
Can’t find the video.
How so? Can you explain this so in a little more detail.
Poland has no choice but to navigate a “modis vivendi” with Russia. That’s why it’s a strong member of NATO!
But you’re ignoring “Grievance Central”, the other name give to Russia.
Hungary is a NATO member.
But forgive me for asking, don’t potential members have to apply for membership? It’s not as though NATO demanded, since the end of the Cold War, that the following countries to join. They did cartwheels after they were accepted having experienced Russian “benevolence”.
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland Bulgaria
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Albania
Croatia
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Finland
Were all these countries forced to join NATO or because they hate Russia? Remind me
So you’re perfectly okay with China attempting to close down the South China Sea as an open sea lane because it’s a great power? What sea lanes has NATO attempted to close down? Making threats regarding the South China Sea and leaving aside the open threats it makes every other day against Taiwan isn’t marauding around? It’s high level, sophisticated diplomacy, right?
Someone referred to Russia as a gas station with nuclear weapons
Free to air telly is a struggle. Psychologically I just cannot pay for it.
err, has it ever not been? 😕
Even the Langer and Haydos commentary didn’t have me reaching for the credit card.
You pay for so-called ‘Free TV’, albeit indirectly through the advertising costs passed on in product prices.
Inevitable this would come.
Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators (23 Jul)
No escaping the dead hand of green government. You will sit in the dark and consume their bullshit like a good little mushroom.
The ‘rule of law’ has been completely perverted by marxist white anting.
Good map of Africa showing since decolonisation not one viable nation.
Learn to code, Cronkite.
You’re linking to this :
Out of the corner of my eye I am seeing a show on Netflix called Sugar Rush — am wondering if it’s possible to develop diabetes by watching show like that? I reckon I’ve put on a bout 5 Kilos since binge-watching cooking shows during COVID — my Kovid Kilos. That’s my excuse anyway.
Ah, Bruce:
The headline refers to petrol generators.
In America, Petrol is called Gas.
San Francisco should now be called San Fentanyl. The end result of far-left progressivism. Watch and weep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93D5bWD3iI
One other thing, Dover.
Don’t call China a great power because it isn’t.
China imports 60% of its energy and 40% of its protein. In a war with the US they would go back to eating grass and even that would be rationed.
China would starve.
Biden Administration
That is the correct term. There is absolutely no way that senile demented kiddy sniffer is coming up with such ludicrous policy. I wonder how he wipes his arse in the morning … he probably uses a bidet.
There seems to be a problem with India’s rice crop. That is scary.
It’s not happening…
New investment in renewable power generation in Australia to date in 2023 is presently c. 90% short of what is required for 2030 targets to be reached according to the Clean Energy Council.
Bowen blames the Liberals.
Courtesy The Grauniad.
[I read it so you don’t have to.]
The cybernetics of evil
JC at 3:35.
Enough waffle about the movie.
You’re not David Stratton.
Just give us the rack rating and that’s it.
There seems to be a problem with India’s rice crop. That is scary.
GMO, by any chance?
Xi appears to be alert to this.
He’s ordered newly planted forests (i.e. in the 2000s) to be ripped up and the land converted to cropping.
Local party officials are reportedly following orders, although they are somewhat perplexed, as said land was marginal for cropping in the first instance, which is why it was designated for reforestation.
Central planning…you have to love it; provided you don’t live under it.
Seeing all those cars in the field that were pulled from the flooded tunnel is horrific. A lot of people died and the CCP covered it up.
A lot have mentioned that foreigners can not buy property in China. Why would you? Firstly it’s a lease and secondly it’s built like molded sh*t.
When they cop the next mega-quake, a lot of buildings will be hammered and the death numbers will be profound.
The place is a f*cking joke and the trolls in the comments are easy to spot.
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China Fact Chasers:
Cutting corners leads to chaos. It’s fun to have a laugh at China’s shoddy engineering but when it costs lives then it’s no laughing matter.
The Dark Side of China’s Tofu Dreg Mega Projects
Learn to code, Cronkite.
You’re linking to this :
America’s first elected trans lawmaker is charged with stomach-churning child porn offenses ‘after daycare worker girlfriend sent naked photos of toddlers in her care’
Apparently the grub was from Africa. Here’s the map. Now don’t blame me; there’s so much shit happening who wouldn’t get confused.
Ed – Yes, I am aware of such things. Also that small generators are how we proles can bypass the dead hand of Gaia. I have said this in the past on this and the previous Cat. Government won’t allow us to generate our own electricity from dastardly fuels, be they natural gas, petrol or diesel. No we have to sit in the dark like mushrooms, feeding upon every word they deign say to us.
Corrupt Ukraine Defense Minister’s Daughter Buys $7 Million French House! Huh?
This Is Why The Federal Government Targeted Tucker Carlson For Censorship: D. John Sauer
Biden now targeting home water heaters for more government rules as crackdown on home appliances continues
BTW re the so-called “pygmies” in NE Australia:
In the early 2000s anthropologists have discovered the skeletal remains of an small adult in a cave in Sth Africa which was identified as a previously unknown human branch – which they called homo naledi. It is possible that such a branch came across, like other humans, in a land bridge to the north west of Australia.
He’s ordered newly planted forests (i.e. in the 2000s) to be ripped up and the land converted to cropping.
According to a recent talk at the Hudson Institute, China has also begun building stores of wheat. They either anticipate a long drought, or they are preparing for war.
Rabz
Jul 23, 2023 6:15 PM
At least in NSW you didn’t have to stand in it…
BTW re the so-called “pygmies” in NE Australia:
It’s not a secret.
These people were known as Negritos [little Negroes]
They still exist in remote parts of the Philipines and the Andaman Islands, among other places.
Also lived in Tasmania until exterminated by English and Irishmen.
Eric H, I must confess to looking for the aforementioned video to pull a ‘CL’ on unsuspecting Çats once and also failed in my endeavours. I suspect the Doomlord had it taken down.
It’s all over, now!
There’s the photographic evidence….
I’ve been travelling north along coastal NSW . Some observations
It’s a long way there
The coastal towns are amazing
The rivers /estuaries are enormous
Everyone gets a sea view
There are a lot of ordinary houses (estates)
The main roads are fantastic esp The Pacific Hwy
If I was the retiring type there are dozens of suitable towns
Get out of the cities people
the Indian Hindu chick
😕
OK Cats – I’m soon to be hosting a 90 minute virtual trivia quiz on Movies.
Here’s an hypothetical (multiple choice) question:
What is the colour of the Levi’s Jacket worn by Cliff Booth in the penultimate scene of “Once upon a time in Hollyweird”?
Bleu
Black
Soviet Grey
White
What is the colour of the Levi’s Jacket worn by Cliff Booth in the penultimate scene of “Once upon a time in Hollyweird”?
Who cares?
I lurv trivia, Rabz. Great idea!
I remember the character wearing a white Levi jacket at one point, but not sure if he had more than one.
Also lived in Tasmania until exterminated by English and Irishmen.
STFU crotchless. The Negritos were eaten by the Murryians who in turn were eaten and rooted by the Carpentarians, the current bunch who include Thorpie and the rest of the commie grifters. Now get off the sherry and decant the Port.
Link to the presence of Negritos in Tasmania, or you made it up.
Ben Shapiro is not dealing with this very well at all. Complete denial about his mate the Gov.
It’s a lovely coast.
I have finally done it and self published my book…
Oi! I’ve got a gun, you know …
I ain’t got nothing to be scared of …
I thought I had attached a url but I guess not… don’t know how to do it…
Quite a lot of people in modern day Indonesia are quite diminutive. Not sure of pigmy height limits but they must be close, especially the women.
I see Ed October’s been rising up all day, in the manner of a French General.
He’s created a musical genre all by himself. People are now starting to copy him.
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Andre Antunes:
Motorcycle Revving goes METAL | REVVING METAL
This is why I think that DeSantis is not ready for the big time, he has no sense of judgement or timing though I must say he has very good state business advisors. I kept thinking DeSantis should have stayed out of the primaries and be picked as the VP but no, he must challenge. To me that seems to indicate a bigger ego than Trump’s.
Blowen can blame his sub 50 IQ.
This never gets old. Faarkin classic!
Careful if you are drinking. You might spit it out over the keyboard and monitor.
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Andre Antunes:
No Pomegranates ft. Ceo of Hangry, Pig Squeal Girl & Triglypuff
Karen Metal 4! [No Pomegranates]
The definitive version …
“You’re out of touch, my baybee …”
No fear, Bezos has billions to cushion any shortfall. It’s not as if any of the MSM outlets still exist because they make money, they are billionaires’ vanity projects.
Not sure how your car hunting is going, Rabz, but I may have a lead for you…
https://twitter.com/buist_rob/status/1683044518332084226
They still need to be shut down as of yesterday.
It is almost beyond comprehension that there are imbeciles existing on this planet who still take the braindead lamestream meeja seriously.
this is Tim Schmuckley … 😕
This will only work as long as the mobile phones have enough power to log into all the social media that the greenies and school kids prefer.
The only reason the US is part of a continental European military association is to project US power in Europe and surrounds, particularly against its main rival in that theatre, Russia.
Come on, the idea that Russia is eying off Poland is nonsense.
They are hardly that since they’re currently sorting out their problem rather than just moaning about it.
That has largely avoided providing military support to Ukraine and ignored sanctions against Russia.
They do ‘cartwheels’ because it’s effectively allows them to do ‘defence’ on the cheap. For heaven’s sake, Finland and Sweden remained neutral at the height of the Cold War but only know are afraid enough of Russia to join NATO? Really?
Do you really believe the US doesn’t make threats now or hasn’t in the past?
Long afloat on shipless oceans
And you sang:
“Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you” …
Hear me sing:
“Swim to me
Swim to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you” …
Of course he is and if they didn’t defeat ScoMo in the last election he would have delivered for them.
Silly considering they continue to explore space, produce their own arms and ammunition, etc., as well as operate a huge agricultural sector. It’s striking how quickly and effortlessly the West turned against Russia in the naughties as soon as Putin sorted out the oligarchs, and how this effort of demonization re-doubled when Putin announced in 2007 that Russians had enough of Western disregard for Russian interests.
Langer would be bearable if he dropped an octave, said about 80% less and tried not to sound like he’s giving a pep-talk to a group of under-10s.
It is, just get over it. In a war with the US, it would source these resources from Russia. And the US would be stuck with getting its rare earth elements from elsewhere, and struggle at that.
Rabz> Hard to say what is the best version of that song by Tim Buckley – both are great.
This is from Tim’s best album, Hong Kong Bar.
Good news at last:
Apparently it is possible for two homosexual males to have ‘offspring’ made from their cells: sperm from one and a gamete ova crafted from a stem cell of the other, which when fused with the sperm cell will create a new human.
And “gay men will want taxpayers to fund the creation of motherless children”
Tony Abbott has compared The Voice to the British House Of Lords.
Link
Eli from Russia:
I returned from Australia, and in this video we will take a walk in my hometown Perm and visit the second biggest city in Perm region – Berezniki. Berezniki is notoriously known for literally going underground because of the technological disaster. Let’s see what is going on there and ask the locals why they are not scared to live there.
Time codes:
00:00 I came to my hometown Perm
00:36 Presents from Australia… & Vegemite
02:06 Perm – what is it known for?
04:15 The city in Perm krai… that is falling underground
07:46 What is happening in Berezniki city?
10:00 The White sea of Perm krai?
11:42 Isn’t it scary to live in Berezniki?
13:29 Exploring an abandoned church
14:50 My future plans. Some unique trips in Russia ahead! 🙂
Life in Russia’s city that is falling underground… Perm krai, Berezniki
Like, literally going underground, Cats … 🙂
Daily Mail.
ZK2A at 9:49.
Your point being … ?
Total bullshit.
Till went behind the counter of the local store, grabbed a tiny mother of 2 toddlers from behind and started dry humping her.
His old man had been hanged for raping and murdering 2 Italian women 10 year earlier.
His killers were 2 Blacks employed by the victims Brother in law.
Makes it sound like they cut his dick off.
In fact, the images were of his face, which had been badly beaten because he refused to say sorry to the victim’s husband.
Too stupid to survive past 14 years of age.
And how long have you had these fantasies about human mutilation, Googlery?
Was it before Mummy’s … “accident”?
Look out!
Sancho’s back to his 2nd favourite subject.
Cash!
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woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 89
This version sounds as if it’s worth waiting for:
Within Melbourne’s IMAX theatre in Carlton one of the largest projectors in the world whirrs to life, spooling through what workers here call “liquid gold” — a precious ribbon of film more than 18 kilometres long.
Richard Morrison, the general manager of IMAX Melbourne, said the film weighs 260 kilograms. (ABC News: Stephanie Ferrier)
“He wanted to really push the boundaries of what he could do and [Oppenheimer] is the biggest film we’ve ever run, and the biggest film print that’s ever been created,” Mr Morrison said.
“It costs around $80,000 and weighs 260 kilograms; without the upgrade, the print would have fallen off the edges of the film platter.
“Previously, Nolan’s Interstellar was the longest you could run at 170 minutes … Nolan didn’t want to compromise his vision of Oppenheimer and edit it down, so he said to IMAX ‘you need to extend the equipment’.
“He’s got a lot of pull … when Christopher Nolan says ‘jump’, we say ‘how high?’.”
The precious cargo was delivered in 53 film canisters and had to be meticulously spliced together.
“It’s not the kind of thing you want to drop on the floor,” Mr Morrison quipped.
“1570 film refers to the size of the frame; it’s 70mm in height and 15 perforations (the sprocket holes along the film edge) long and that means you get the largest film frame in the world,” he said.
“Christopher Nolan is a huge IMAX fan, there’s 40 per cent more image in terms of the height so it allows him to push out to fill the height of our seven-storey screen to really give a fully immersive experience.”
Technical Manager of IMAX looking at the IMAX 1570 film system.
Technical Manager Dave Booty is one of the only two people projectionists in Australia trained to run an IMAX 1570 film system. (ABC News: Stephanie Ferrier)
The director refers to the film format as the “gold standard” of motion picture photography, used on several of his previous films including Interstellar, Dunkirk and the Batman Dark Knight trilogy.
His latest offering, Oppenheimer, recounts the work of the late physicist and US official J Robert Oppenheimer, who was a pivotal figure in developing and building the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project.
An ‘extraordinary’ cinematic moment
“Oppenheimer’s story is one of the biggest stories imaginable … an extraordinary moment in human history,” the director said.
“Our film tries to take you into his experience and IMAX for me is a portal into a level of immersion that you can’t get from other formats.”
YOUTUBE Youtube Trailer Oppenheimer
Actor Matt Damon added: “I don’t think Chris would be capable of doing something the way everyone else does it. He kind of invented this idea of shooting on IMAX for feature film so you’re on the cutting edge of this kind of stuff every time you work with him.”
It appears pushing the boundaries has paid off.
Ticket pre-sales for Oppenheimer have already surpassed 20,000 and look certain to smash IMAX Melbourne’s previous pre-sales record, set in 2015 by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
“We’ve got people from all over Australia saying they’re flying across from WA to see it, from Queensland, and New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Korea,” Mr Morrison said.
“Someone is coming from Japan who’s booked six sessions to watch it — that’s pretty hardcore. Clearly this person is a complete film aficionado.
“We’ve been shocked by the response — we knew it would be busy and have a great point of difference — but certainly, it’s been far greater than we ever anticipated, and we’ll put on more sessions through to the end of August, which is just unheard of.
“Unfortunately, there’s only two of us running the film, so it’ll be a bit of a challenge
Anyway, expect Till Mania to take off with Australia’s Opinion Makers in the run up to The Voice Referendum.
Yeah, I know, he was a nigger, and we’re sposed ta be sacralising Abos, but most of the Abos murdered in recent years were killed by unaccountable Cops, rather than racist rednecks, so … whaddya, whaddya?
Say what?
Japan?
Really?
$2 shop Irving huffing the formaldehyde again?
Alternating with belts of mummy’s sherry it looks like.
OK people! We are safe. This posted on the TGA website about how deluded we are about Covid vaccines. Our betters have spoken!
https://www.tga.gov.au/news/media-releases/icmra-statement-safety-covid-19-vaccines
Mintox! H/T to Calli for bringing that word back to life.
Laura Branigan – “Gloria” 1982
‘Thorny Questions’: How the Democrats and Media Enablers Censor News
Ed.
The ‘cinnamon’ in that vape you’re smashing at present is not actually cinnamon.
Two types of dogs
Meme
LMAO.
Rewatching Enter the Dragon. 50 years old. What a loss Bruce Lee was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBsP8ch_-Tg
Classic! Exquisite editing job.
‘Dancing On The Ceiling’ – An Old School Mash Up
Massaro is a nutcase. Completely unserious clown.
Mintox!
Christopher Cross & Michael McDonald – Ride Like The Wind (Live 1998)
lol. Doubling down on their clot shot poison.
That’s all folks.
BUGS BUNNY & LOONEY TUNES // Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
Looks like a bunch of Ukraine’s weapons were coming in through the ‘grain’ deal.
Fancy that, who would’ve thought?
One of the nation‘s most senior arts academics claims she was removed from a government probe into alleged unethical practices at the APY Arts Centre Collective for not being “the right type of Aborigine” and that there is a political attempt to squash the inquiry.
The tri-government probe into the white hands on Indigenous art scandal – launched by Arts Minister Tony Burke – was thrown into turmoil by the accusations of Brenda Croft – head of Indigenous art history at the Australian National University – on the same day three panellists with significantly less experience in art were appointed to the panel.
South Australian Arts Minister Andrea Michaels told The Australian she “suspected it would be more difficult” for the investigation to be conducted fairly while controversial arts boss Skye O’Meara remained at the helm of the APYACC and she would like to see her step aside.
The revelations threaten to derail the hopes of Aboriginal artists who wanted to see a thorough investigation into the claims of bullying, coercive control and white staff painting substantial sections of Indigenous pictures at the APYACC‘s studios. The APYACC and Ms O’Meara have denied any wrongdoing.
Professor Croft said she had been approached by Ms Michaels to be the key arts adviser on the panel more than a month ago.
But on Friday, Ms Michaels phoned Professor Croft to tell her she was “not the right fit” to be on the panel to investigate the accusations against the APYACC leadership, revealed by The Australian.
This Brenda Croft.
No doubt discriminated against everywhere for being blak.
He was OK, I guess.
But not a patch on David Carradine.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Michael Ramirez.