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Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Canoga Park Block Party 2024
His name is Cash. Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Canoga Park Block Party 2024
Gotta start somewhere, even if it is second…
Am I lucky this morning?
They’ll have to start converting some of those CBD office buildings to residential.
The basic tenet of communism is equality and fairness to all. Isn’t it.
Another aspect of working from home is the timing of going into the office, on the compulsory two days many large corporates have, if no-one else from your team attends the same days, why bother?
De Santis is needed to Keep Florida Great and maintain clean elections in a pivotal State with a lot of EC votes. It’s like how Cruz might be a good SC justice but you need him in the Senate. It’s why they cheated Kari Lake so hard out of office.
The polls say Trump and Tucker.
Give the people what they want and win decisively, then go full microscope and blowtorch on the election stealing back to LBJ.
Tucker’s basically a libertarian with conservative branding and some Adderall to calm him down.
Rogan might be a King maker now. The downside is his audience is 99% men and 1% autistic lesbians.
Panahi‘s description of Teh Ponds Institute, Australia’s leading independent think tank by Australia’s most trusted news service, as Leftwing clearly demonstrates the need for Albo’s disinformation Bill. In fact, it cannot come soon enough.
Jesus christ man this is dumb.
This is the whole exchange, copied from Hansard. Apologies for the length, but it neatly illustrates the dreadful state of parliamentary debate, Albanese’s dissembling, and the Opposition’s pitiful attack on arguably the most flawed, damaging and dishonest Government policy frolic in recent times:
The Takeaway:
1) Wrong member asking the question – Boyce is a newbie with no standing, easily batted away by Albanese.
2) Wrong question – the first page is indeed the Statement, the following 25 pages are explanatory notes about the delegates expectations. Those 25 pages, however, contain the substance of what Albanese has promised to deliver “in full”: treaty, self determination, self government, and compensation.
3) Albanese was obviously prepared. Hence the single A4 page to wave around and table – and the carefully scripted zingers about QAnon and Moon Landings.
4) Albanese is running a riskily condescending “whole lot of verbal statements from whoever to whoever” line – presumably as a segue to delivering a cut-down ‘adult version’ of the Voice, if the Referendum gets up.
The better question, asked by a senior Coalition member, would be along the lines of:
I think a parliamentarian could say all that in the allotted 30 seconds.
I’ve flicked this to Dutton and Littleproud via their APH emails – where no doubt it will be lost/ignored by a 20-year old media advisor.
If anyone has a better idea…
But they aren’t after the kids eh monty you grotesque moron
Expect a similar backlash to Bud Light.
So now people in the press need to go hard on the 1 page or 26 page thing.
You know, just a friendly chat between Susan Ley and Linda Burney on Ch 7 with Nat Barr moderating. Like Fat Smokin’ Joe and Busty & Naive Jules (Tee Hee) from the old days.
Here is another example that Liberals are not conservative. They gave Jim Molan’s senate seat to an unknown Maria Kovacic who promptly made herself known by voting with Labor and Greens against the motion to set an inquiry into transgender treatment of minors.
I’m sure QUT’s Communist urban planner from Albania is working on that presently.
“Your desire for a back yard is pathological. You vill live on the 20th floor.”
This is where I miss the ticks the most. I totally agree that Trump is their only chance and I think much of the U.S. population has come to the same conclusion, vis his polls. It’s perfectly obvious now that DeSantis is owned by his donors.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: FBI agent Charles McGonigal who investigated Donald Trump for colluding with Russia, is set to plead guilty for colluding with Russia.
Read that again.
McGonigal, who was a key figure in the Trump-Russia hoax investigation, will be pleading guilty after being accused of illegally working for a Russian oligarch.
The ex-FBI agent was indicted in January for money laundering and violating US sanctions by working on behalf of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.
McGonigal also tried getting Deripaska off of the United States sanctions list.
You can’t make this up.
“Disease X” Was Rehearsed at “Clade X” Are We About to See A New Plandemic?
As an experiment, a few months ago I tried Beyond Meat burger patties – it’s a US product, available in any good Colesworth near you.
Rather nasty, made out of peas and chemicals, melting like sawdust in your mouth.
Are people really expected to read the mission statement and ignore the substance?
Spot on dot. In fact most of the Floridians I know (and I live there at the moment) don’t want DeSantis running for anything outside of the state. He’s the best thing that has happened here in decades.
Shut down the US surveillance state too.
No more TIA (evil), CIA (evil and corrupt), FBI (nefarious), DEA (corrupt), ATF (militantly anti-citizen), DHS (bloated from the start and absurd), IRS agents (no LOL, that perverse idea should have never of happened)., etc., – leave only the DIA, ICE (or whatever it is called now), bring back the old Secret Service and keep the US Marshals & NPS Police & Special Agents.
Joe Biden has been expanding the US Capitol police to become a second/third/fourth secret and Federalised US police & domestic spying agency. What an absurd corruptocrat.
I may have to withdraw my “benefit of the doubt”* re Mushroom Woman. Looks pretty ominous.
Do we have our very own Lucretia Borgia?
* learned, sadly, after several nasty high profile b/s accusations and cases
Vicki, there would have been a war as there hadn’t throughout Trump’s term. He made it clear to Putin not to try it. The war only started because Biden gave Putin a go-ahead for a “minor incursion”.
Oh only luxury apartments for the well heeled Roger.
Box Hill is full of high rise apartments, a certain ethnic group love them.
Dare I ask…is it Muellerween yet folks? Or should you laugh and clap at the dancing women and gays in syringe costumes?
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
BREAKING: Proof of rigged Michigan election – Democrat operatives caught in October 2020 turning in up to 10,000 fraudulent voter registrations *per day*, many with same handwriting & fake addresses
Police investigated (report attached) and found guns w/silencers, burner phones, rental cars, and warehouses where ballots & registrations stored all funded by Democrat strategy firm
Ballots would be mailed to fake addresses, intercepted, and put in dropboxes by mules
Video from Detroit vote count center shows 3AM drop of estimated 100,000+ ballots w/out GOP supervisors by *rental car* from out of state
Biden got unexplained vote spike a few hours later and stole MI from Trump
Michigan AG & FBI brought in to investigate & they shut it down –
@gatewaypundit
Twitter account banned for posting video of ballot drops
Instead AG Nessel charged Michigan electors for sending alternate ballots to DC
Huge props to @gatewaypundit for putting together all these pieces
Michigan was RIGGED
Matt Hancock turned Care Homes into Midazolam & Morphine Euthanasia Camps to create the illusion of a Deadly COVID-19 Pandemic
No one is passing judgement, will be interesting to see if the police decide there is evidence of wrong doing.
Hope a donor liver can be found for Ian Wilkinson.
Biden’s carbon proposal is unworkable, US power sector warns
If you think Meriton dogboxes are bad, wait till you see converted commercial buildings.
There would have NOT been a war… sigh.
Trump is more than willing to share a stage with Senator Lindsey Graham one of the biggest swamp rats you will see. If he is their only chance then it is a very small one.
mushroom story made it to the BBC
Wait until we’re all living in windowless eskies because the energy efficiency rules demand it, because we can no longer use evil natural gas, except for peak, shoulder and baseload electric power when the wind isn’t blowing.
Why does this song play in my head as Australia slowly (?) becomes more dystopian?
Almost heaven, hm hmm mm mm
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze
CBD properties are tanking. Sub regional shopping centres next. Colesworths core tenancies become the new Australia Post.
This might be relevant to the discussion above.
World Bank: Russia vaults to 5th place in the world’s top economies per GDP PPP, ahead of Germany, France and UK (closing in on Japan).
To order countries by size of GDP, click on the arrow in the column marked Most Recent Value
Residential buildings need a different infrastructure, particularly sewage capacity which is not available in the CBD. Just think of the stink should sewers start to overflow.
Why would he say this knowing he’s being recorded…
Perf blogging post jet stream turbulence pukin’
There were an awful lot of shut-down retail shops and dead malls.
Retail Archeology and Bright Sun Films on You Tube should actually go to Perf for a couple of weeks!
Was this normal before COVID?
Food dehydrator found at the tip?
If that is the offending article, why would you turf it out just now?
I was reading yesterday that a fatal dose of death caps is 30 grams, which is a reasonable bulk of mushie. But not if dehydrated and crushed.
Another question.
When exactly did she disclose the meal had mushrooms in it?
Cassie, with your comment about the coming violence if Trump receives the GOP nomination, I believe that the average American is preparing for such a circumstance.
Not in a Militia, guns blazing kind of way. More, Rooftop Koreans and recently, 7-11 Sikhs. A large presence of polite, but promise of retribution if “you cross this line”, average citizens. Over the last six years, most of America has realised they have been bullied and threatened. They know that now is the time to put up or shut up for the rest of what will be their miserable lives.
I may be wrong, but I am placing my faith in “average Joe”.
Mike Pence’s former national security adviser says he’s ‘unworthy’ of being president and throws his support behind TRUMP
When I was looking to rent in Melbournibad (around 20 years ago now!) I looked at one relatively upmarket tower along Southbank where you couldn’t even open the windows. It was a short inspection.
DeSantis
Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
Florida politico tells me this meme is being passed around Tallahassee, sent me a copy
Get in the windowless and polycarbonate _egg, Bear! Do it now, you brainwashed kulak!
That windowless, polycarbonate _egg has won many architectural design awards, so it must be good!
You’ll note that it’s the only one still turning.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
If only that would happen to all those worthless bird killers.
I don’t know anything about the practicalities of converting commercial spaces.
One of my local shopping centres is getting a do over, will have all three supermarket chains, a gym and I think a childcare centre and a medical practice.
Things that get people through the doors on a regular basis.
The world’s first hydrogen-powered train has made its final stop
The tragedy is that each of these reality checks could be done with poster paint and butchers’ paper before spending $millions for a practical learning experience.
Perf does have some nice old charming homes in the city surroundings, which reminded me of Neutral Bay a little bit. Probably priced like a pack of smokes and a loaf of bread at Rabbit Flat though.
BREAKING: FBI agent Elvis Chan made ‘false statements’ when pressed to disclose involvement in suppression of Hunter laptop: Jim Jordan
BBC reported that the children had been taken into care as a precaution.
“Where’s the evidence Z man is corrupt (or more than usual)? “
Oh dear.
Big Fish
@BigFish3000
Poll watcher from 2020 election.
These ballots were in sequential order which is impossible for mail in ballots.
As if they were manufactured.
Hahaha re bread prices
From Dec 2022
https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/food/shop-owner-reacts-to-uproar-as-loaf-of-sliced-bread-hits-1399-c-9211000
Perf CBD retail would generally struggle more against the big regional shopping centres than their Sydney or Melbournibad equivalents IMO. A lot of the malls were developed in the 80s and would be requiring major redevelopment. I think Twiggy’s property outfit has its foot on the Carillion arcade. Karrinyup had a major capital spend on it in the last couple of years. The CBD is a tough gig.
Money is the problem.
Mega-Donor Threatens To Cut Off Funding If DeSantis Doesn’t Go Moderate (8 Aug)
The trouble is if he does shift to moderate the base will go away in disgust and not turn up at the election. DeSantis is between a rock and a hard place, especially since almost all his money comes from guys like Mr Bigelow. By contrast almost all Trump’s money comes from small donors:
One Candidate Is Crushing The Field In Small-Dollar Donations (3 Aug)
Accordingly Trump can fight both enemies, the nearer enemy is the Turnbullesque GOP elites who white-anted Trump all through his Presidency and aided the Dems’ steal by lockstep refusing to address the fraud. The Republican base voters are very unhappy with all this, with a level of fury not seen since the Tea Party revolt.
That place looked like a horror movie set in 1991. The foot needs to be placed on the throat.
Unlike the Eldar, I’m not going to manifest Slaanesh into existence.
The Eldar/Slaanesh comunity frowns upon you lack of faith.
Wow.
$14 for a loaf of bread possibly with some artificial nasties.
$199 – $299 for a breadmaker and full control over the ingredients etc.
Downsizing from Sydney I would think Perf property prices look pretty good. Western Suburbs naturally.
Now Julie Bishop is no longer the local member should make it easier.
Even within the buildings, the existing plumbing and drainage infrastructure is next to the central core. So you need a raised false floor (maybe 250-300 mm) if you want plumbing towards the perimeter.
This then lowers already low ceiling heights.
Just one of many problems.
No doubt God Oracle will turn up with a “youse wooden no” sometime today.
I can’t understand why millennials by and large don’t plant citrus, avocado trees, etc when they buy homes (actual free-standing homes). I know one bloke who did, and he had a lawn mowing gig and then turned into a vegetable himself and became a council “outdoor wukka”.
Renovator’s delight.
Myer has just vacated its eponymous centre in Brisbane’s CBD after 35 years.
Rumours of a college catering to foreign students leasing some of the space.
I’m just trying to help kids save for a deposit. You can make smashed avo on toast inexpensively. People were already paying $9 – $18 for the delight in 2018.
Our childhood lawnmower man put his 3 daughters through private school. Clearly paid its way back in the day. Jim not taking a cut either.
Major ECU development going into the Northbridge side of the Perth CBD. Notre Dame already own most of the Fremantle West End. Population Ponzi at work.
Doesn’t look good for the wind proponents.
Wind Energy: A Doomed Industry | Power Line (8 Aug)
WSJ seems to be able to defy Newscorp’s official net zero lurve, my impression from sceptical blogs they’ve had a number of very climate sceptical articles lately. Not completely sure about that as they’re paywalled.
I pay $8 for crusty sourdough.
Ingredients:- flour, water, salt, natural yeast.
It goes stale in two days.
This is a good thing.
Penman is in everything.
I’m half expecting to see a Jim’s Gynaecology pop up.
“I pay $8 for crusty sourdough.
Ingredients:- flour, water, salt, natural yeast.
It goes stale in two days.
This is a good thing.”
Correct.
Chinese-run biolab in California that was experimenting on deadly viruses was awarded over $500,000 in US TAXPAYER cash
Johannes
@Johanne31785773
Here are the list of 1300 side effects of the Covid vaccines (from Pfizers own documents).
These are the documents Pfizer wanted to be kept secret for 75 years…before a US judge ordered their release.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
So many wonderful & creative propaganda campaigns since 2020…..
A virus so deadly a Mr Sandman tribute to Fauci and the vax was needed to convince you.
An instant classic.
The Voice is taxation without representation. Always worked out well in the past.
I know a lot of people here are very fond of Pauline.
Here is a Jimmy Dore clip where she figures in a clip he plays about the vaccine and coercion.
It is possible – as distinct from likely – that Mushie Erin is just thick as pigshit.
Cooks up what she reckons was a decent feed for ex-hubbie, who promptly goes into a coma.
Quite some time later, thinks ‘surely my recipe isn’t that bad. The last time must have been a one-off’, scrabbles together more mushies – because of all the times I cooked them, bad stuff happened only once before – for ex-hubby’s parents and friends, and they all start dropping off the twig.
She may even have blamed the dehydrator. ‘Maybe that machine gives off special rays, like Pete Evans’ covid curing lamp.’ Throws it into the tip, and now genuinely wonders why speculation is rife.
Never underestimate the potential for already stupid people to act irrationally under pressure.
Like I said. Possible. As distinct from likely. There’s a lot of hamster-wheeling yet to come with this one, I think.
She really doesn’t know when to shut up, does she?
You sound like you’re familiar with Blackstone’s ABC of police investigation, KD:
Assume nothing.
Believe nobody.
Challenge everything,
Roger, you have lost your stylish silhouette.
H B Bear
Aug 9, 2023 9:23 AM
If you think Meriton dogboxes are bad, wait till you see converted commercial buildings.
H. B. Bear, I have to disagree – having rented a big 1 1/2 Bedroom Apartment in Highgate (using as an office) and with an old French Mate who bought 2 x 2 Bed room apartments high up overlooking Hrabour – Having coffee on 26thh Floor in Residents Library Coffee rrom – mice to swim in pool after working out in Gym then Spa & Sauna – Brad Fittler had Car Space next to mine
The Highgate
127 Kent Street, Millers Point. Formerly an office block, this building has been converted into a prestigious and elegant residential tower. It was previously the 19 storey Esso House built in 1971 as the Australian head office for Esso Australia Ltd. As part of the conversion another 8 storeys was added to increase the height to 27 storeys.
The building is is a luxury five-star 210 apartment complex of 32 levels, considered to be one of the best in Sydney due to its location and prestige.
All residents and their guests have the privilege to access an observation deck with uninterrupted views of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Other nearby highrise buildings which have been converted from offices into apartments include Stamford On Kent (183 Kent Street, Millers Point) and 168 Kent Street, formerly the head office of IBM Australia.
https://www.domain.com.au/2502-127-153-kent-street-millers-point-nsw-2000-2016573204
Err, no, darling.
They are stress testing your evidence before someone like Whybrow pulls out the 12 gauge in court and starts blasting holes in your story. It is good police work.
If Britnah wants to keep the $3 meg, she might want to cease and desist from making outrageous assertions.
Expressing sentiments like “made me feel awful” … tick.
But the phrase “intentionally discrediting me” … not so much of a legal tick there.
A mistake they readily admitted, which had no bearing on the conduct of the case.
The defence returned the document unread once they recognised the error.
The only person who read it was … ta-dah! … Dumgeld.
The only document he read in full it seems.
She doesn’t realize that she has served her purpose to the cause?
Too cheap to meter.
How faulty wind turbines threaten to bring down a German industrial powerhouse (8 Aug)
Siemens warned on Monday that it was facing a €4.5bn (£3.9bn) loss this year as a result of issues within its wind turbine division.
Wrinkles in rotor blades and faulty gears are among the problems uncovered, which have led to operating issues and warranty claims from buyers. Inflation has only added to headaches.
The admissions of failures wiped as much as €6bn off the value of Siemens on Monday.
One interesting thing that is emerging is there’s a certain size for a windmill beyond which you get into a world of hurt. The materials of construction just can’t cope – gears fail, towers collapse as per that interesting Catturd vid that Indolent put up earlier. And it’s even worse with offshore windmills since the pounding from the waves adds to the stress. I wonder if Bowen ever reads such stories? This one being in the rightish UK Telegraph…probably not.
Yes…and I can’t remember how to get it back.
Which reminds me – when I was a youngster and went to the annual “show” I used to watch with fascination as a chap cut people’s profiles out of black card with a pair of scissors. He was remarkably good at it. I suppose he went to all the shows.
Oops, forgot to blockquote. Last para is me, the previous three from the UK Tele.
It really depends upon what you mean by collapse. Set aside the number, its an estimate anyway, we now have what actually happened following the shutting down of Nordstream and then its destruction later in Sept ’22 which pretty much leaves off any resumption in the short-medium term. What has been the cost of that for Europe since late Feb ’22? I know for one thing that US LPG is not as cheap as Russian natural gas.
Slice and freeze it. Toast from frozen. Indistinguishable from fresh for a month. Sourdough makes ordinary sandwiches at the best of times.
Honey Badger, Python and Two Jackals. Who wins?
https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1688639224340230145
ABC: “Greens analysis shows national rental freeze could have saved renters $3 billion.” Scrap rents altogether and they’d save even more eh.
The cause was Brittany and Sharaz.
Always was, always will be.
For someone who is too traumatised to ever work again, she’s showing a lot of that publuc grace and dignity we’ve heard so much about.
Refusing to hand over your phone, making it clear media appeances have priority then scrubbing your phone probably did cause investigators to have doubts about your bona fides.
Fancy that.
Oh God, this is so funny!
“In its lawsuit, Oberlin says it had ‘at least $75 million in total insurance coverage’ at the time of the bakery incident.
That was ‘more than enough to pay the underlying judgment and substantial unpaid defense costs’ from its six-year legal battle with Gibson’s.
This included $25 million in commercial umbrella liability coverage from Lexington; $10 million from Mount Hawley; $5 million from StarStone; and $25 million in overlapping educators legal liability coverage from United Educators, court papers show.
The college received $1 million from one of the insurers, but ‘also incurred millions of dollars in defense costs pursuing its appeals,’ says the lawsuit.
‘The defendant insurers have failed to pay a penny toward the $36,590,572.48 sum that Oberlin paid the Gibson’s plaintiffs,’ the lawsuit says.
‘They also have failed to pay for the full cost of Oberlin’s appeals, which were pursued at the behest of the insurers in order to reduce their collective exposure.’”
Oberlin College is suing its Insurers for refusing to pay the Gibson Bakery payout.
Daily Mail has the full story.
Karma’s a Bitch. 😀
Have you changed your email? The Gravatars are attached to the address. Not sure about ISP, I think it’s email only.
The Imperfect Myth of the Female Poisoner
OldOzzie at 10:35 – I would be interested in knowing when that building was built? The big issue is services and floor plates. I’m speculating but I would think that Miller Point was premium, even back in the day. I’m not sure whether that would impact floor plate spacing for premium office buildings at the time. I suspect that is not what developers have planned for the CBD with vacancy rates where they are.
Am glad to see Ms Kernickerless defending the late Great George Pell.
“Err, no, darling.
They are stress testing your evidence before someone like Whybrow pulls out the 12 gauge in court and starts blasting holes in your story. It is good police work.
If Britnah wants to keep the $3 meg, she might want to cease and desist from making outrageous assertions.
Expressing sentiments like “made me feel awful” … tick.
But the phrase “intentionally discrediting me” … not so much of a legal tick there.”
Indeed, some thoughts…
1. She really can’t keep her mouth shout, she’s so addicted to the limelight and manipulating the narrative. She’s desperate.
2. She’s unravelling, and I don’t think it will be too long before her relationship with Svengali Shazza unravels too.
Unless it is branded by a leading independent think tank.
“The cause was Brittany and Sharaz.”
Yep. from day one.
Both Grace and Brittany seem to lack grace. Time for new media advisors.
He’s broke, she’s holding the purse strings, they’re both being sued for defamation.
I dunno.
This claim is just too easy to make. What were his choices and outcomes? Had he done nothing, Ukraine would have continued on its track of being a forward base for the US. The argument was never that Ukraine would attack Russia on NATO’s behalf, but that NATO, and by NATO read the US, could leverage their position in Ukraine to mitigate Russian influence abroad. Of course, just what would have happened to Crimea is an open question. The Us could have very well continued arming and training the Ukrainian armed forces, treating it like a de facto member of NATO, and then green lighting an action against the Russians in Crimea and then pretend that Ukraine was acting independently, and that because its not a de jure member, nothing implicates NATO members.
As for all this stuff about taking out the air force, crap tanks, Horde infantry, etc. it’s all bluster. Ukraine had the largest army in Europe excluding Russia, and a force smaller than the Ukraine army got them to the negotiating table. They were only stymied at the end by promises from NATO to Ukraine of unending loans, arms, and armaments to continue with their doomed enterprise. BTW, how great are those Leo 2s doing? Tanks don’t just engage their counterpart in a duel, they have to fend off Hornets, Lancets, Alligators, 155mm shells AND their counterpart, T-72/T-80/ T90M, and to be clear, given the price/performance ratio, the T-90M is a probably better all-round.
Mother Lode
Aug 9, 2023 10:17 AM
I know a lot of people here are very fond of Pauline.
Here is a Jimmy Dore clip where she figures in a clip he plays about the vaccine and coercion.
So glad that I was retired at the time (and still am) so could not be coerced into having the Jab(s). Of course it was mandated, otherwise people would have lost their Jobs (and did).
These Fizzer pr*cks are criminals. Put them in the Slammer and throw away the keys.
H B Bear
Aug 9, 2023 11:00 AM
OldOzzie at 10:35 – I would be interested in knowing when that building was built?
H B Bear
A bit confusing – DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION – 127 – 153 Kent St Millers Point Esso Building – Add 7 Levels 216 Apartments 207 Car Spaces – $35000000 – 01 03 93 2 Part Unique ID A-00664560 Series
see
Looks like 1971 – Page 23
Yep. You’d might want to run that one through Legal. Just to be on the safe side.
No but my computer carked it yesterday.
Unless I entered the address incorrectly when I posted here on the new machine.
I’ll check that.
Test.
Hey, presto!
Ta calli.
It’s not like the insurers didn’t warn Oberlin (as early as May of 2019) that their insurance didn’t cover intentional torts.
Oberlin could have backed off and settled then but they wanted to screw Gibson’s Bakery so badly they ran themselves off the cliff.
A hard rain might be about to fall on the Super funds and others invested in non-liquid assets. See the sale of Canva shares announced this week.
Old Ozzie – thanks. A developer quoted in Teh Paywallian the other day reckons around 20% of the commercial to residential stuff might work. I stayed at a hotel in the Sydney CBD for a week for work and just about went crazy with concrete and noise. I guess you get used to it.
Does DeSantis Know What Time It Is? Didn’t Sound Like It In That NBC Interview
If the Florida governor wants to be the GOP nominee, he needs to stop attacking Trump and go after the deep state.
Of course the USA was acting in its own interests. Kissinger: the USA doesn’t have allies, it has interests. All countries engage in Machiavellian games. Putin fell for it. He walked right into the trap and now is far worse off. He didn’t have to take the bait. He chose to respond in the way he did. All people and nations are confronted with those choices. Making the smart choice, thinking ahead, is something Putin didn’t do. Now he has to contend with so many more problems than before. NATO never needed Ukraine to attack Russia. NATO could take out the Russian air force in a fortnight, the navy is virtually non-existent, the tanks are crap, the only thing in its favour is huge numbers of cannon fodder, outstanding air defense capability, and nukes. He had nothing to gain by invading and has seriously damaged Russia. They played him like a fool.
LOL. What utter bilge water.
Putin is in the box seat as the UKR has just about run out of Men to form an Army.
The so called UKR offensive is fast running out of steam and the UKR is now a ruined rump of a Nation. Its Economy is only being propped up by the West.
Russia doesn’t look damaged to me. But NATO with the US does.
Come on, JC. Is that the lesson learned from the last three decades? We don’t have to venture to the opposite extreme but we really shouldn’t just believe the above. There’s a disconnect with some on the centre-right that wouldn’t for a second believe that the US political elite just want to “maintain a peaceful co-existent [nation] in order to pursue prosperity” irrespective of their policies and what’s actually happening in cities like NYC, SF, and the like, but believe that this same elite are different with respect to their foreign policy.
NATO is the US, JC. The countries of Europe that are members of NATO are just its forward bases. There’s your mistake.
The irony is perfect.
Zoom demands workers return to the office (8 Aug)
Of course there’s a catch.
L.A. Times: Making Employees Show Up in Person Exposes Them to Racism (8 Aug)
So Zoom is racist if they make their wukkas show up in the office, but they aren’t racist if they let them Zoom into the Zoom office. This seems a bit like one of Zeno’s paradoxes…
Blaming what happened on the EU or the Americans is more than a little disingenuous.
What is it that drives this presumption that Ukraine isn’t a sovereign nation? One who doesn’t need anyone else’s permission to exercise that sovereignty?
Ukraine was never a US base, forward or otherwise. Putin’s issue was that Ukraine was considering joining NATO for their own protection and he wouldn’t tolerate having a NATO state on his border. Well Putin and Russia don’t get a vote. So he invaded.
Perhaps they should have tried diplomacy a little harder instead of seizing the Crimea and invading Ukraine.
And it couldn’t happen to a greater collection of woke offendapottimi.
H B Bear
Aug 9, 2023 11:16 AM
Old Ozzie – thanks. A developer quoted in Teh Paywallian the other day reckons around 20% of the commercial to residential stuff might work. I stayed at a hotel in the Sydney CBD for a week for work and just about went crazy with concrete and noise. I guess you get used to it.
H B Bear,
the quality of the commerical building conversions in Kent Street were excellent
When working for IBM in 1965-68 – at end was in IBM Pagoda in Kent Street – having been inside apartments in the 2 other Kent Street Conversions – compared to today’s modern apartments
Observatory Tower – Old IBM – Stamford on Kent – Old Caltex – Page 26/27
They are superb – the same reason why you would buy one of the 60s blonde tall brick flat buildings on Spit Road Stdney
A lot of the polls have him in front of Biden. And Trump is doing much better with important demos compared to DeSantis. DeSantis would get killed by Biden. Trump makes it a far closer race. Stop listening to Shapiro.
BTW, the latest Emerson polls has Trump tied with Biden in Michigan and +2 in AZ, and he wins both if West runs as third candidate.
When 45% of Labor voters can’t confirm the country is headed in the right direction, you’re in a bit o’ trouble:
https://essentialreport.com.au/reports/08-august-2023
Have they awoken to the fact that the ALP doesn’t govern in their interests?
Could be seismic if they have.
Problem is that the “academics” at the forefront of the demos and libel have walked away scot free, including the execrable Anti-semite Meredith Raimondo. Now gone on to bigger and better things at other universities.
They blamed Trump for all the trouble. Of course.
I’ll “put it out there” and say (since chinaflu) the days of every worker fighting against every other working to commute (an hour to work and an hour from work) every day to work in soulless, cold, grey cities only populated by meth heads and locals (in Perth’s case), and where you can buy a simple sandwich and coke for **only** $19… is over.
I don’t dispute the fact that teams should spend time together in the same office (at a central location) but I doubt it’ll ever return to the ‘good ol days’
They converted the old IBM tower in Sydney to apartments. Certain former pollimuppet lives there or used to.
Preach it.
I was there in December. Perth was comprised of Poms, derros and derro Poms, all going flat tit-o-rama on the glass barbie.
Can’t we chew gum and walk at the same time?
It is good we won the Cold War but Senator Patrick Daniel Moynihan was right, the Cold War institutions were obsolete. NATO? GTFO!
China is much more of a threat than Russia. The NMD wasn’t really targeting Russia.
Russia also has interests to align with the West. China will take the Far East if given a chance. The Chinese are no longer isolationists “only interested in traditionally Chinese domains” and what their generals and political commissars have said openly (albeit in Chinese) about China dominating the world after they win a major conflict is alarming.
A article on the disintegration of American society. It is very applicable to other western nations, including our own:
https://unherd.com/2023/08/america-is-now-a-zombie-state/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Wasn’t Cuba a sovereign nation? What drives this presumption that the USSR couldn’t park its nukes in Cuba when invited too?
Of course it was a intended and made a forward base of NATO. That’s why Nuland, who in 2011 was Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, then State Department spokesperson, and finally, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, was in Ukraine during the Maidan protests in late 2013 and influenced the selection of was going to be the face and the muscle of the post-coup government per her infamous phone conversation with the US Ambassador to Ukraine.
They did try diplomacy a little harder. At least from 2004 onwards. But by 2007 Putin saw the writing on the wall as his 2007 Bucharest speech outlined.
Here’s KD and the lawn mower man turned mailman buttressing their slumping REIT super portfolio.
PROF – Squad Goals
(Yeah…NSFW…)
I keep on forgetting Biden partially green-lighted the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Good lord. Is that Russian collusion?
You’re ignoring the fact that by your own argument Putin was sucked into a war that has left Russia in a very difficult position. If he was that concerned about Ukraine why that stupid tank move into Kiev that turned into a rout? Why such a haphazard approach? Why so many mercenary groups? The problem for Ukraine is it has an air force many times smaller and less capable than Russia. The fact that it is still flying is an indictment on Russia’s air force. Ukraine’s air defense capability is also very weak. The big problem for Russia is the inability to take those s300s etc. It has no dedicated SEAD aircraft while NATO has the Hornet growlers, is converting Eurofighters for higher SEAD capability, and F35s acting as forward controllers to allow F16s conduct SEAD attacks. Russia has nothing comparable. Failing to develop SEAD capability has been a huge strategic mistake. The s400s are a formidable threat but will not survive against that onslaught.
What does Russia have that is the equivalent of the meteor, the AIM120-D, the peregrine, the AIM-260, the new long range anti-radiation missiles, the long range stealth missiles with a range in excess of 500 kms? What aircraft does Russia have that can counter the Rafale, the Eurofighter, the F35, and the Gripen? Hint: it has 2 excellent aircraft but not enough of them and one missile of comparable to the 120D but nothing comes close to the other missiles. Air power is everything in a modern war yet Russia’s air force has been largely MIA. The biggest threat to NATO is not the Russian air force it is the s400\500 but those defenses can be worn down through attrition. The ground war isn’t relevant because NATO has no intention of invading Russia. Nor can Russia conduct a ground war against NATO countries because without air cover it will be a slaughter and with the exception of the Baltic countries the logistics of a land invasion are far too difficult.
NATO will not attack Russia, it is too vast and there is nothing to gain by it. There is no need for a ground or naval war. Russia has nukes, that is enough to prevent anyone contemplating invading Russia. What NATO can do though is keep bleeding Russia. Putin was sucked into a conflict that he hoped would be a quick win and now stuck in a situation where no-one wins.
Undoubted, and the governing American premise from WW2 to the present has been that it is in the US interest to maintain a peaceful co-existent world in order to pursue prosperity. It’s been the harbinger of US international policy for decades
Wot’ Jerk Off Cretin wrote this BS propaganda?
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 9, 2023 11:43 AM
soulless, cold, grey cities only populated by meth heads and locals (in Perth’s case)
Preach it.
I was there in December. Perth was comprised of Poms, derros and derro Poms, all going flat tit-o-rama on the glass barbie.
A lot of good people from South Africa are here.
Lysander
Aug 9, 2023 11:36 AM
I’ll “put it out there” and say (since chinaflu) the days of every worker fighting against every other working to commute (an hour to work and an hour from work) every day to work in soulless, cold, grey cities only populated by meth heads and locals (in Perth’s case), and where you can buy a simple sandwich and coke for **only** $19… is over.
I don’t dispute the fact that teams should spend time together in the same office (at a central location) but I doubt it’ll ever return to the ‘good ol days’
Suzie Cheikho: Work from home employee at IAG sacked for ‘not typing enough’ has unfair dismissal claim thrown out by Fair Work Commission after damning keystroke technology revealed the truth about what she was really doing on the job
. IAG worker has her unfair dismissal claim dismissed
. Her boss tracked how much she was typing on her laptop
Ms Cheikho’s boss asked IAG’s ‘cyber team’ to conduct a review of her laptop activity from October to December by checking how much she was typing on her laptop while she was working.
It was discovered through the review that Ms Cheikho did not work her rostered hours – 7:30am to 4:00pm – for 44 days in that period of time.
She started work late on seven days and left early on 29 days. She also recorded zero work hours on four days.
When Ms Cheikho did work, the findings showed she had ‘very low keystroke activity on her laptop’ averaging 54 strokes per hour throughout the three months.
Poll
Is it fair for bosses to monitor staff with keystroke technology?
Yes – if they are working from home
85%
1,168 votes
No – it’s an invasion of privacy
15%
199 votes
Now share your opinion
She did not type a single letter for 117 hours in October, 143 hours in November and 60 hours in December.
When the cyber review was brought to her attention, Ms Cheikho vehemently rejected the accuracy of the data.
She told her managers during a formal meeting before her dismissal that she ‘doubted the data’ and did ‘not believe for a minute’ the findings were correct.
‘I cannot believe this data,’ she said.
‘Sometimes the workload is a bit slow, but I have never not worked.
I mean, I may go to the shops from time to time, but that is not for the entire day.’
And what do you think Federal/State/Territoy/Local Govt WFH do?
Try ringing a Govt Department!
Remind me, when did the US invade and overrun Cuba? Cuba could invite whomever they wanted (as they have now with the ChiComs) and the USSR could have parked its nukes there. However, the price to do so was more than the USSR was willing to pay. Don’t think it was a one-way deal either, Russia walked away with a deal for the US to pull their missiles out of Turkey in exchange.
How did they manage that with exactly zero US or NATO forces in Ukraine? Show us the chart that shows those bases.
Funny, that didn’t keep them from seizing Crimea in 2014. But speaking of negotiations, how about the ones where Ukraine gave up its nukes in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in exchange for a guarantee of their security from the UK, US and Russia? Think we would be having this convo now if Russia had honored that commitment?
Again, Putin doesn’t get a vote in how Ukraine chooses to exercised its sovereignty.
“These Fizzer pr*cks are criminals. Put them in the Slammer and throw away the keys.”
No Johnny, the fizzerati, scummo and co, and every other polli and employer who forced aussies into lockdown and the stab, have to be herded into the showground.
Then, every aussie who was forced into the stab, and the ones who weren’t, can bring trailer and truckloads of building materials and have at them.
Revenge, Justice and fun for all the Family.
Even if Trump gets elected does anyone think it will be any different.When he left office there were still zinc think hundreds of his nominated appointments languishing in the Senate and they had a majority.
The public service and the RINOS will once again rise up against him.
There is too much money involved for these people.
I read the other day that there is an ETF which you can invest in which follows share trading by Congress members.
One man of an advanced age who has a history of picking crooks or duds to key positions ,think Barr Pence and Wray will just not be able to do it.
I think this was an Exxon-Mobil thing.
They often built their own buildings and kept one eye on building usage when the oil/gas ran out.
To my eternal shame I was a regular visitor to Esso Big Oil at Southbank in Melbourne for a few years. I wondered about the unusual layout, higher ceilings and massive glazed reception atrium.
Thought it was just Big Oil showing off.
Turns out they designed the building so that it could easily be converted to apartments or a hotel when Bass Strait ran dry.
Probably not a big deal in Melbourne or Sydney (probably more applicable if your HQ was in a more remote area) but it was just a thing they did.
Turning country shoppers into genetic supermen!
This is the wildest story you’ll read this week (7 Aug, via Instapundit)
The whole FTX fraud is getting weirder and weirder. The Dems are tying themselves into knots trying to let Mr Bankman-Fried off, after he funneled hundreds of millions into Dem coffers. Now his bro is doing Dr Strangelove impersonations.
John H.
Aug 9, 2023 11:59 AM
What NATO can do though is keep bleeding Russia.
Putin was sucked into a conflict that he hoped would be a quick win and now stuck in a situation where no-one wins.
GDP, PPP (constant 2017 international $)
All Countries and Economies
Country Most Recent Year Most Recent Value (Millions)
China 2022 30,327,320.30
United States 2022 25,462,700.00
India 2022 11,874,582.57
Japan 2022 5,702,286.57
Russian Federation 2022 5,326,854.62
Germany 2022 5,309,606.32
Indonesia 2022 4,036,901.36
Brazil 2022 3,837,260.59
France 2022 3,769,924.07
United Kingdom 2022 3,656,809.44
Turkiye 2022 3,180,983.79
Italy 2022 3,052,609.06
Mexico 2022 2,742,903.11
Korea, Rep. 2022 2,585,010.70
Canada 2022 2,273,488.58
Spain 2022 2,181,968.25
Saudi Arabia 2022 2,150,487.12
Egypt, Arab Rep. 2022 1,674,950.63
Australia 2022 1,626,940.10
Poland 2022 1,625,235.69
Iran, Islamic Rep. 2022 1,600,556.42
Pakistan 2022 1,518,043.00
Perth has its idyllic minutes. South bound over the Mount Henry Bridge on a sunny winter morning is one.
John Nolte has written a very thoughtful and interesting article on William Friedkin’s legacy of film work.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/08/08/nolte-the-late-william-friedkins-four-masterpieces/
Hehe…
Cuban immigrants join Moscow’s fighting forces in Ukraine after Putin signs bill granting citizenship (27 May)
When the Russians invaded a number of their armoured vehicles were flying Soviet flags as they entered Ukraine. It was an interesting sight, that Vlad should’ve prevented. Medvedev later talked about re-establishing the Soviet Empire.
You can paper over history but it just keeps on rising to the surface when you least expect it.
Russia has an industrial output 1/30th of NATO.
I have never understood.
Why did Reynolds pay off Higgins over her “lying cow” comment?
Was Morrisson involved?
BoN
There is actual historical imperative for Putin’s invasion. There are, IIRC, 3 or 4 main invasion routes into the Russian heartland. There are corresponding defensible locations to block said invasion routes. The western invasion route runs through the Ukraine, and the defensible blocking position is also in the Ukraine. Russia controls the other blocking positions.
That also does not account for the Ukrainians becoming more chauvinistic, and doing the cultural(& in some cases real) version of ethic cleansing, mostly to Russians, but also ethnic Hungarians and Poles.
Had the UK and US not interfered in the UKR-RUS talks, then a compromise may have been worked out which did not involve troops on the ground.
Lefties gotta lefty.
Warren Mundine threatened for ‘No’ stance on the Voice (Sky, 9 Aug)
Aren’t they just such nice generous people? Meanwhile Tony Abbott is tired of it all:
Tony Abbott declares he is ‘sick’ of the Welcome to Country ceremonies as it ‘belongs to all of us, not just to some of us’ (Sky, 9 Aug)
Seconded.
I’m not ignoring that at all. You can be faced with choices that involve obvious costs for both. The initial moves to Kiev and the other cities in the north and east were pretty clearly intended as moves to force Zelensky to the table as well as giving it an opportunity to capture areas in the east and south that could be traded later. When negotiations fell through they reorganized for what we have now.
The same applies to what I said about tank warfare. It won’t be just that the airplanes and AA missiles that they will have to contend with but Russia’s AD as well as their EW. And in any hot war between NATO and Russia, the airbases and the AWACS will be targeted from both the air and the ground by Russia’s long range missiles.
The thing is, the bleeding works both ways. Russia appears to be healing its wounds and from its own sources quite well, while Ukraine is looking rather pale and sickly and entirely dependent on NATO support. Meanwhile, NATO on the right side of the Atlantic has almost bared its warehouses of arms and armaments, and its economies are in the doldrums, and the US is going to need about a decade to replenish its own. Russia is clearly in the driver’s seat.
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Worth getting out of bed this afternoon for that.
Note to Gallagher: Our Brinny needs an urgent top up because triggered by Sofronoff being nice about awful police. Otherwise the rebuttal re his favourable comments on Reynolds may be delayed.
So it could outfit a military 30 times as large as Russia?
Putin was sucked into a conflict that he hoped would be a quick win and now stuck in a situation where no-one wins.
He has already won.
Yes, Diogenes. Yes there was.
Putin compares himself to Peter the Great in quest to take back Russian lands (Jun 2022)
I actually said on the old Cat a few times that he should’ve declared himself Tsar, since I think there’s quite a lot of fondness in Russia for the old days pre-Lenin. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to have a son that could inherit, therefore the dynastic considerations were not especially helpful.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Trump for how well he had things running and fighting the rabid media in particular.
However, for me at least, he doesn’t have an aura of impenetrable infallibility shining like some supernova from his fundament.
He has an ego larger than Turnbulls and if he set that aside and backed DeSantis the Republicans would steamroll the Dems. No matter what crap they pull.
OR
Trumps runs against Biden and maybe wins, maybe just scrapes in, or even loses.
That’s against BIDEN.
Biden will not contest the next election, he’ll either be dead or more of a vegetable than he is already.
Have you thought for a sec about the Dems pulling a last minute switcheroo and Trump finds himself running against, oh I don’t know, Mr Obama 2.0?
Again, I want Trump as much as anyone and I’m not “running scared”.
I prefer to call it “running prepared “.
On Mrs Mushroom.
Taking the kids into care didn’t happen as a routine cop precaution.
Someone, somewhere is thinking about her potential for going down in a vengeful blaze of fungi.
It’s been done. The other bloke called it lebensraum though and little known fact, it involved the ex-pat German population in Ukraine as an excuse as well.
Had the UK and US not been involved in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum the Ukrainians would still have their nukes. End of story.
Russia has an industrial output 1/30th of NATO.
So it could outfit a military 30 times as large as Russia?
But it hasn’t because it cannot.
On my bookshelf is one of his silhouettes of the youthful me.
Grey cardboard cover, an oval of white in the centre contains me in black silhouette, he even cut in the hatband & the line of the shirtcollar.
Printed in the bottom corner is his name: S. John Ross
IIRC he spoke with the remnants of a soft North American accent & while difficult to describe his physique & face, I can clearly picture him in my mind.
Allow me to introduce you to the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth. Note that it encompasses Ukraine, Belarus, and a large chunk of mother Russia itself.
So whose lands are they again?
That’d need a lot of sequins and feather boas.
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Lockheed Martin:
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/eo/documents/annual-reports/lockheed-martin-annual-report-2022.pdf
Varies.
Top para is quote from DB.
2nd is about Russia’s largest arms manufacturer and the third is a link to it’s American counterpart, Lockheed Martin’s annual report on sales, including the number of Javelins being supplied straight from USA production lines to Ukes.
The US confronted it in international waters, Zatara. And if Cuba and the SU were free to do whatever they wanted why was there ‘a price to pay’? Let’s stop pretending the situations aren’t analogous. I know about the quid pro quo, it’s not a good look for the US. The SU literally got the US to remove its medium range missiles from Turkey by telling them they’ll land their own in Cuba if they didn’t. What’s forgotten here is that the SU promised to keep the removal of those missiles in Turkey a secret so the US would save face.
LOL. The Ukrainian armed forces were being trained by phantoms.
Why would it? The negotiations, like Minsk 1 and 2, would have went no where. As for the Memorandum, it suffered the same fate as the commitments to no eastward expansion of NATO; into the dustbin of history, although the latter first, and then, as a consequence, the former.
Had the UK and US not been involved in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum the Ukrainians would still have their nukes. End of story.
The UKR agreed to give up their Nuclear weapons so that they could become a Nation State. At the same time, NATO agreed not to move further east. And what did NATO do? Move further east. FFS.
“One man of an advanced age who has a history of picking crooks or duds to key positions ,think Barr Pence and Wray will just not be able to do it.”
Trump assumed that the people in his own party would support him on issues he campaigned on, and that he could rely on them to suggest appropriate people to fill his staff. That was a mistake – one he won’t repeat.
Also, the US system has “primaries” for congressional and senate seats too – if you piss off the base enough, they will put in who they want, so it’s a bit of a tight-rope walk to please the primary electors, the establishment and the deep state. The further the base swings towards DJT, the more likely congressional and senate candidates will also support DJT – or at least say they do. That’s the real races to watch – primaries. If they swing heavily Trump, and then Trump wins, he will arguably have done it “himself”.
I see Triggly-puff is having a go at the Australian Federal Police. That portly potato-nosed creature cannont keep her gob shut. Go for it Knickerless start naming names and be on the end of a defamation suit. The Trollop of Tinder speaks such utter garbage.
Regarding Sancho mentioning the Esso Building in Sydney being converted to apartments.
That building actually featured in the final scenes of the 1975 movie, The Man from Hong Kong. Lots of explosions where the bad guy, George Lazenby had his lair.
This was the war we needed to shake us out of our complacency.
Without it, the arrogant path we were on would have lead to a deindustrialised, impotent wasteland and utter defeat at the point of decision within the decade.
History has a way of turning out OK after all.
You get what you need, not what you want.
Zatara
Aug 9, 2023 1:03 PM
Putin compares himself to Peter the Great in quest to take back Russian lands (Jun 2022)
Allow me to introduce you to the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth. Note that it encompasses Ukraine, Belarus, and a large chunk of mother Russia itself.
So whose lands are they again?
Genghis Khan and the Mongols. LOL.
Possession is 9/10ths of the Law.
John H.
“Russians do things differently”. Exactly. And the West doesn’t get it. By concentrating on technology fixes, they make the very same errors Germany made last time. Intellectual arrogance and a refusal to even think doing things differently cost Germany the last big war, and will cost us in the next.
Possession is 9/10ths of the Law.
Good luck with the YES vote.
I didn’t say the Soviets were free to do what they wanted, I said the Cubans were free to invite them (and if you think that’s what actually happened I have a bridge to sell you).
The situations aren’t even remotely analogous. To point out a glaringly obvious difference, compare the number of Cubans who died in that event with the number of Ukrainians who have died in this one.
Yeah, except that never happened.
Or: NATO enlargement and Russia: myths and realities
“132andBush
Aug 9, 2023 12:58 PM”
Thanks, agree wholeheartedly.
No, it didn’t. See my above post.
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Bullshit.
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The memorandum:
How on earth does this happen?
Police did not raise red flags about alleged childcare pedophile with working with children regulator
A former childcare worker in the Gold Coast has been charged with 1,623 child abuse offences.
The alleged pedophile was able to keep his Blue Card to work with children in Queensland despite two reports to police about him
Regulators overseeing Queensland’s working with children scheme were not told an alleged pedophile childcare worker was under investigation until charges were laid against him in August 2022, despite police having the power to tell them.
The 45-year-old childcare worker, one of the nation’s worst alleged pedophiles, is accused of sexually abusing 91 young girls at 10 childcare centres in Brisbane, one in NSW and one overseas.
He was able to keep his Blue Card to work with children in Queensland despite two reports to police about him in 2021 and 2022.
Queensland Police investigated the man but have said there was “insufficient evidence” to take action against him. His Blue Card was suspended only after the AFP charged him in August 2022.
Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath told a budget estimates hearing on Wednesday that “no concerning information” was uncovered during Blue Card Services’ screening processes and it was up to police to decide when to raise red flags with regulators.
“I can also advise that previous criminal history checks undertaken by Blue Card Services did not return any criminal history,” she said.
“Additionally, there was no other relevant concerning information, disciplinary or investigative information or other allegations or adverse information returned to Blue Card Services in its screening processes in relation to that individual.”
Ms D’Ath said Blue Card Services had the power to take into account “police investigative information relating to allegations of serious child related sexual offences even if no charges are laid”.
“It is police to determine at what point we are provided with that information so that we can notify that person of that suspension,” she said.
“As such, where there is covert surveillance and investigations happening, it is up to the police to advise us at what point that person can be aware that that investigation is occurring.”
Queensland Police have been contacted for comment about why they did not notify regulators about previous reports.
A childcare worker has claimed she reported the man to police in October 2021.
Yolanda Borucki, who managed a chain of Queensland daycare centres, told A Current Affair a staff member saw the man kissing a girl inside a fort.
Queensland Police is understood to have cleared the man without checking his home or devices because there was insufficient evidence for a search warrant.
Putin isn’t doing well. He has a batting average worse that Joe Burns.
1. He tried a coup de main and faceplanted.
2. He’s now stuck in a very bloody WW1 style slugfest.
3. As a result of that all the countries neighbouring Russia are clamoring to get into NATO.
4. Finland, and notably the previously scrupulously neutral Sweden, have done so.
5. Moldovia and Romania are pissed off too, as are all the Baltic States.
6. Vlad gave nukes to Belarus, which means he can’t ever now annex that country, even though that was scheduled by 2030.
Georgia is also pissed off with Russia since she took bits of their country. Armenia is pissed off with Russia since Russia betrayed their defensive alliance in the recent war with the Azeris. Kazakhstan is pissed off with Russia since Russia let slip she wants Kazakhstan back. China is pissed off with Russia because Russian police have been heavying Chinese border crossers. Way to go Mr No Friends.
“The Trollop of Tinder speaks such utter garbage.”
Just superb Tinta!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/now-we-have-proof-tgp-exclusive-massive-2020/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking
Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan – Including Estimated “800,000 Ballot Applications Sent to Non-Qualified Voters” – Bags of Pre-Paid Gift Cards, Guns with Silencers, Burner Phones, and a Democrat-Funded Organization with Multiple Temporary Facilities in Several States
Biden loses ground with working-class Black, Latino voters
Blacks and Latinos are not big on illegal aliens, street crime, trans BS, the Biden economy, etc.. I see a big pendulum swing there, particularly among black males.
Mitchell is a media whore. I have a good memory. That c-bomb was a Big Pharma jab pusher!
I’d … [ self censored ]
Avi:
The interview Neil was warned against | Neil Mitchell Asks Why with Avi Yemini
I presume those who say that NATO is within its rights to move east and border Russia have zero problem with Chinese influence moving further south, to PNG, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and so on.
Indolent
Many many upticks.
Calli:
My “Wait a week before commenting on dodgy cases” is bearing fruit, with 4 days to go!
One doubts that anyone would be happy with invading PNG, Vanuatu, and the Solomons to keep the ChiComs out.
But that’s a far cry from having zero problems having the ChiComs increase their presence there.
Hello Blackout Bowen. When there is too much wind, this is what happens. Imagine this at sea with a Big Storm. If you can imagine that is – Pea Brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s_AD3sgRkc
Cassie, isn’t the more correct analogy if China on Taiwan?
Italy Turns Its Back on China’s Belt and Road
This isn’t even dimly possible now. There are people that will only vote for Trump, and DeSantis has burnt so many bridges with Trump supporters that this would not change even if Trump step aside and backed DeSantis. But I fear that even if Trump did the latter and DeSantis lost massively, Trump would be blamed anyway.
You are ignoring the fact that the initial move was a disaster. It was a dumb strategy and a serious miscalculation because rather than forcing Zelensky to the table it revealed to him and the world how badly Russian forces were equipped. A far better strategy would have been missile strikes.
I’ve explained to you why ground warfare without air superiority is a lost cause. That has been recognised since WW2. Russia has very few EW capable aircraft. NATO has dozens of those aircraft and they are probably already active picking up radar signatures of Russian aircraft which is vital for IFF and targeting purposes. Russia can’t target NATO AWACs, too far away and their aircraft won’t get within striking distance. Russia hasn’t even been able to stop Ukrainian fighters on the ground and you’re arguing it can take out NATO airbases? The only way Russia could take out NATO airbases is with nukes. Your comments reflect an ignorance of missile capability and modern air warfare tactics. I don’t expect you to understand these matters because it takes a lot of reading.
Your argument is that Russia with the GDP of Canada, and even after price parity adjustment(h\t Hollings), has huge economic gaps compared to NATO yet it can replenish stocks more quickly than the most powerful military alliance in the world. It is wishful thinking and ignores the fact that Russia has been rolling out 50 year old tanks, repurposing old mid-range nukes for what they call hypersonic missiles, and is using Mig 31s which were designed to take out incoming bombers; those were never intended to be an air superiority fighter but are brilliant bomber interceptors. Russia is experiencing production shortfalls as evidenced by only one tank at the last military parade.
The Abrams will be stripped of the cutting edge tech before being provided to Ukraine, the F16s so old the USA is droning those models and European nations are giving those to Ukraine because those are being replaced with F35s, and the European tanks being provided are being pulled out of storage.
Stop pretending that Russia has miraculous military, economic, and production capacity.
Cassie of Sydney
Aug 9, 2023 1:35 PM
How on earth does this happen?
Because the so called Authorities are blind and incompetent.
And with Covid, the same.
Safe and effective. Trust me, I am from the Guv’ment. FFS.
Apropos of your comment, Bob, I have found a nice little needlework project.
Corruption is a likely candidate. It is Queensland we are talking about.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Aug 9, 2023 1:00 PM
Roger Aug 9, 2023 10:42 AM
Which reminds me – when I was a youngster and went to the annual “show” I used to watch with fascination as a chap cut people’s profiles out of black card with a pair of scissors. He was remarkably good at it. I suppose he went to all the shows.
On my bookshelf is one of his silhouettes of the youthful me.
Grey cardboard cover, an oval of white in the centre contains me in black silhouette, he even cut in the hatband & the line of the shirtcollar.
Printed in the bottom corner is his name: S. John Ross
He used to be at Sydney Royal Easter Show & Sydney Luna Park
Stop pretending that Russia has miraculous military, economic, and production capacity.
I don’t think that anyone here is pretending that. But Russia has the upper hand and the UKR is just about gone as a Nation State.
“Corruption is a likely candidate.”
Yep….friends in high places.
Meanwhile, NATO on the right side of the Atlantic has almost bared its warehouses of arms and armaments, and its economies are in the doldrums, and the US is going to need about a decade to replenish its own. Russia is clearly in the driver’s seat.
Yeah, nah.
The US has sold/given away almost the entire portion of its inventory designated for international sales/distribution (roughly 6% of its total). By US law, they got lotsa more (to quote BJ Barracus of the A Team).
re, the Funghi Fatty, her ex was also supposed to be there, but changed his mind at the last minute. Last year’s belly bomb still hurt.
Seriously though, the guy was in hospital for a long time last year with gut problems.
“Cassie, isn’t the more correct analogy if China on Taiwan?”
Yes JC, Taiwan is a correct analogy, along with Chinese influence further afield. Here in Oz, over the last few years, we’ve had conniptions about China’s influence in the Solomon Islands, in PNG and in other places across Asia/Pacific. I just find it odd that those who think that Russia’s hostility towards NATO is unfounded, particularly with NATO edging ever closer to Russia’s borders, and somehow Russia is supposed to accept that, yet countries such as Australia are disconcerted, perturbed and outraged by China’s creeping influence in places like PNG and the Solomons.