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That is a very concise travelogue!
Probably fearful that people with red-green colour blindness would mistake green for red. Which would be understandable of course.
The Houthis still got the Saudis to the negotiating table because .. The Saudi’s haven’the stomache or inclination for a…
Morning all, another day, another buck to make.
picking up pennies in front of the emh bulldozer
I’m dragging Volume 2 of Ian Kershaw’s biography of Hitler around the world with me. Excellent book. Read Vol 1 years back – it goes up to 1936 – so re-read it before leaving Oz and brought V2 (pun there!) along.
One of the crazier schemes for doing away with the Jews was to ship them all to Madagascar, the French not being in a condition to object in 1940, and leave them there. All 15 million of them.
Didn’t happen, as we all know, but a strange snippet of history.
Johannes Leak.
Morten Morland.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
You mean, vacuuming up pennies off the EMH ocean floor in your downside risk optimised carbon fibre submarine…piloted by John Merewether.
Give Mrs Setka credit.
She could have gone with the mushrooms but would that rate as well as a hired hit a when the miniseries screens on 9 ?
And she’s got the lipstick and visited the hairdressers. Future decisions on casting will have to take them both into consideration.
And she’s gone retro with the wardrobe. Hints of Lauren Bacall.
Brittany: watch and learn.
more please Elbow and Dan
I identify, for this thread only, as Transitioning.
Bruce in WA, which Cunard are you on? Is it for a sector of Queen Anne’s maiden voyage?
FDA now approves ivermectin for covid. The media and gov are complicit in denying this treatment, fukn pricks.
It was all a sham to screw over Trump.
That’s not the same as approving a particular drug for a particular use.
that’s not exactly correct. “The fundamental issue in this case is straightforward. After the FDA approves the human drug for sale, does it then have the authority to interfere with how that drug is used within the doctor-patient relationship? The answer is no,” argued Jared Kelson, the attorney representing the doctors, according to the report by Epoch Times.”
The ABC has completed its majority-exit from twitter/X.
No doubt they’ve run off with their toys until the ACMA overlords are empowered to force X to only publish the ‘truth’ which the ABC prints.
In the same way the TGA ‘approved’ off label’ ivermectin prescriptions.
Removal of prescribing restrictions on ivermectin
It’s fantastic that the ABC is pursuing its goal of net zero (audience).
They might beat 2030.
The corrupt media and gov dismissed all treatments except for big pharmas poisonous clot shot. What a disgrace.
This is a major reason why I smelled a rat with the official response to covid. I expected the health authorities to welcome any ideas to treat a disease that they supposedly believed was so deadly. It just doesn’t make sense to rule out anything, particularly drugs that are known to be safe when administered for other conditions.
What horrified me even more is that so many, even a majority, of people didn’t see the illogic of it all.
Peter van Onselen in todays Oz is reporting on comments of John Howard during the week that Dutton should ignore calls of conservative Libs to move to the Right.
I missed this advice of Howard but will look it up. Whilst “the old man” still commands a lot of respect, I think he is wrong to encourage the tendency of todays Libs to abandon the essential beliefs of western liberal philosophy.
Vicki it was a Mavis column promoting his new book. A change from fellating Keating but still no happy ending for readers as usual. Howard oblivious to the damage he has done to the Lieborals.
In spite of the belated dispensation re the prescription of Ivermectin off label, it is extremely doubtful that many GPS would prescribe it for Covid. They were terrified by the AMA that they would lose their right to practice if they prescribed it during the pandemic & that experience has left an abiding fear.
Mind you, the recent statement of the TGA still recommends against prescribing IVM for Covid.
Hydroxychloroquine was also touted as a miracle cure for covid, got provisional approval that was withdrawn as there was no evidence it did anything but there was evidence in clinical trials of severe side effects.
I believe ivermectin was, in part , restricted in Australia as it was in short supply, due to a covid related rush, and needed in certain communities to combat scabies, which is one of a raft of illnesses that plaques babies as young as two months due to communal sleeping in rarely washed bedding.
People should be able to take ‘off label’ whatever they like and are prepared to pay for.
Trudeau’s split from wife reveals some shocking truths
If the opposition and its supporters can’t figure out a way to compete on a level beyond rumors, personal attacks, and wardrobe critiques, then they’re in big trouble.
Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced recently that he and his wife of 18-years, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, were amicably separating, leaving some Canadians jealous that they couldn’t do the same. Immediately, the rumor mill went into overdrive.
Some on social media suggested that the split involved an affair between Trudeau and very much married Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly — to the point that her name trended for days on Twitter — all because the two had been photographed looking close, and some observers apparently fail to grasp the nature of touchy-feely French-Canadian culture.
Others suggested, even more outlandishly, that he was involved with his left-wing coalition partner, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh — again, married and a new father — or even French President Emmanuel Macron.
Still more gossip-mongers seemed convinced that Trudeau deliberately timed the announcement to lay the groundwork for an eventual coming out.
None of these are in any way substantiated, of course, but that’s the kind of gutter-level interest that the announcement sparked.
What flew much more under the radar is the fact that Trudeau asked for privacy in the announcement of his split. While Trudeau himself generally (and admirably) avoids ad hominem attacks on his political opponents, he nonetheless made intrusion into private lives official policy with the Covid jab mandates, which should have remained a private choice made between every citizen and their own doctor. Forcing Canadians to inject themselves with a dodgy substance of even more dodgy effectiveness just to go to the gym or grab a burger isn’t exactly keeping your nose out of people’s private business. Neither is blocking people’s bank accounts just because they chose to support the Freedom Convoy movement when they stood up against these mandates and Trudeau overreach into the personal sphere.
The fact that rampant speculation about affairs overshadowed the actual policy hypocrisy doesn’t bode well for the state of Canadian politics.
Will the split harm Trudeau politically? Hardly. It’s not like back in the 1980s
Trudeau himself has gone a long way in actively promoting this kind of “open mindedness.”
He travels around to Pride Parades like groupies follow rock bands, but that doesn’t mean that he personally knows the LGBTQ alphabet. “I will never apologize for standing up for LGDP…LGT…LBG…LGBTQ+ kids’ rights to not have to undergo conversion therapy,” Trudeau said back in 2021.
So when just days after his separation, Trudeau posted a photo on social media from a movie theater while dressed in a pink hoodie that read, “Love you more,” alongside his teenage son, also dressed in pink, with the Barbie movie poster looming in the background and the caption, “We’re team Barbie” — it wasn’t getting limbered up for his coming out. Come on, now — has he even bothered to tell us what his pronouns are?
He was just trolling — and pandering. In other words, playing the simple-minded like a fiddle.
Pinning hopes of ousting Trudeau in the next Canadian federal election, set for October 2025, on precarious personal attacks is a losing strategy.
Anyone who has to play in that register in order to beat Trudeau is totally incompetent.
Trudeau has messed up enough when it comes to substantial policy issues that you really don’t need to look any further. Those who criticize or attempt to counter Trudeau primarily on shallow matters completely unrelated to his ability to run the country only play into the same brand of dumbing down that keeps Trudeau in power.
Trudeau has successfully played shallow-minded and easily led morons like a fiddle by hitting all the woke or politically correct notes that make them feel good about electing him.
“Lived experience” shows that GPs- our best and brightest brains, student swots and custodians of the sacred doctor-patient relationship- toe the line and act in a bloc.
The Drs McCullochs, Coatesworths were fortunate enough to not really need registration to go about their work- the gutsy Dr Robert Hobart was very lonely out on no-mans-land.
A Strad perhaps?
Zelensky launches sweeping military purge
All of the regional conscription officials have been fired and will be replaced by combat veterans, the Ukrainian president has said
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has sacked all of the regional military officials responsible for the country’s conscription campaign following a string of corruption scandals. Those who were not involved in any quid pro quo schemes can keep their military rank only if they head to the frontline.
The Ukrainian leader announced the purge on Friday, after holding a ‘special’ meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, which focused on the results of an inspection of the country’s military recruitment offices.
“Our decisions are the following: We are dismissing all regional ‘military commissars’. This system should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery in times of war constitute treason,” Zelensky said.
Offering a peak at the scale of the problem, Zelensky revealed that Ukrainian authorities had opened 112 criminal cases against officials working in territorial recruitment centers, with a total of 33 suspects. He noted that the suspects included commissars, medical commissions employees, and other officials across six regions.
The announcement comes after Kiev’s authorities exposed a massive conspiracy scheme, which allegedly allowed Ukrainian recruits to purchase fraudulent medical certificates to avoid conscription. Another scandal involved Evgeny Borisov, a former senior conscription officer in Odessa Region, who was arrested by Ukrainian law enforcement after being accused of illicit enrichment.
Ukrainian media outlets have also reported that after Kiev announced a general mobilization in February 2022, members of Borisov’s family bought a villa in Spain and other luxury items to the tune of several million dollars.
Or maybe, just maybe, it doesn’t work, either as a preventative or a cure.
And don’t bombard me with anecdotes of how x took it and recovered from covid in three days, without a clone of x getting exactly the same dose of covid we can never know if they would have recovered as quickly doing nothing.
One relative of mine, still valiantly fighting stage 4 cancer, and belatedly vaxxed, took two Panadol for covid and was right as rain the next day.
But I fully respect your right to take whatever you want.
I’ve never had Covid, that I know of anyhow.
Vikki Campion:
No and no.
Severe side effects can happen from sensitivity, contraindication or dosage. So why is it considered an “essential medicine” (like Abamectins) otherwise?
It was banned for three years because of this?
Then the “reasons” are irrelevant.
It was a massive scam to enable compliance (agree with MSM or else) and mail in fraud. That’s all it was.
I will bombard you with literature.
Watching two lots of subsidy gladiators (foreign renewable companies and ‘traditional owners’) duking it out would be amusing if it wasn’t our money and rights to cheap reliable energy they were battling over.
Sounds like a struggle. Your struggle.
Perhaps you should write a book!
I doubt it dot, the clinical trials were a wash.
here, have another one.
Literally the first result in Bing for “hydroxychloroquine success COVID nbci”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534595/
New Microbes New Infect. 2020 Nov; 38: 100776. Published online 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100776
PMCID: PMC7534595PMID: 33042552
Hydroxychloroquine is effective, and consistently so when provided early, for COVID-19: a systematic review
C. Prodromos1,? and T. Rumschlag2
Abstract
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has shown efficacy against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in some but not all studies. We hypothesized that a systematic review would show HCQ to be effective against COVID-19, more effective when provided earlier, not associated with worsening disease and safe. We searched PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, Google Scholar and Google for all reports on HCQ as a treatment for COVID-19 patients. This included preprints and preliminary reports on larger COVID-19 studies. We examined the studies for efficacy, time of administration and safety. HCQ was found to be consistently effective against COVID-19 when provided early in the outpatient setting. It was also found to be overall effective in inpatient studies. No unbiased study found worse outcomes with HCQ use. No mortality or serious safety adverse events were found. HCQ is consistently effective against COVID-19 when provided early in the outpatient setting, it is overall effective against COVID-19, it has not produced worsening of disease and it is safe.
wow – I’m exiting my second bout at the moment.
For me – same symptoms as before – starts with a scratchy throat, dry cough, then migrates into the respiratory tract with lots of phlegm and coughing. At some point it makes it up into the sinuses.
Almost the exact opposite of flu, which tends to go top down for me.
It’s hard for me to separate Vikki’s well written and truthful column from a simple fact…Barnaby supported the idiotic “Net Zero”.
Wind meet whirlwind.
Hydroxychloroquine was provisionally approved in March 2020, the FDA revoked that approval in June 2020 because clinical trials produced no ‘mortality benefit’ and potentially severe adverse affects including cardiac arrhythmia.
You can’t blame the vaccines for the withdrawal. Not in June 2020.
House GOP blasts appointment of Hunter Biden special counsel
Top House Republicans are accusing the Biden administration of attempting to stymie their investigation into Hunter Biden following the Department of Justice’s appointment of a special counsel.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) raised doubts about whether special counsel David Weiss could be trusted and pledged in a statement that House Republicans would continue their investigations into the president’s family.
“This action by Biden’s DOJ cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption,” McCarthy said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “If Weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn’t get approved, how can he be trusted as a Special Counsel? House Republicans will continue to pursue the facts for the American people.”
Russell Dye, a spokesperson for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), also questioned whether they could trust Weiss and said the appointment of the special counsel “is just a new way to whitewash the Biden family’s corruption.”
“Weiss has already signed off on a sweetheart plea deal that was so awful and unfair that a federal judge rejected it. We will continue to pursue facts brought to light by brave whistleblowers as well as Weiss’s inconsistent statements to Congress,” Dye continued.
Meanwhile, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) called the move “part of the Justice Department’s efforts to attempt a Biden family coverup.”
“Let’s be clear what today’s move is really about,” Comer said in a statement. “The Biden Justice Department is trying to stonewall congressional oversight as we have presented evidence to the American people about the Biden family’s corruption.”
If you wait a week for obese people to be treated and exclude healthy AND asymptomatic patients then give them double the recommended dose of Ivermectin, yes, you could expect deaths and side effects higher than a control group of placeboed fatties (along with the excluded asymptomatic and no comorbidity sub groups).
These research papers are so dishonest and pointless alongside intentionally damaging to their patients they are almost too unethical to be conducted – as well as intentionally muddying the waters.
Here We Go – Garland and Weiss Throw Bag Over Hunter Biden Investigation with Declaration of Special Counsel Status
August 11, 2023 – Sundance
Oh, there will be voices who will proclaim this is the beginning of the end for Joe and Hunter, but that’s nonsense. We don’t do pretending on these pages.
What happened today was an agreement between USAO David Weiss and US Attorney General Merrick Garland to fortify a silo of protection around the Biden family.
The shift in David Weiss from an investigative US Attorney to an officially appointed Special Counsel [SEE pdf HERE], is nothing more than loading the new color spray paint into the cannister. Pesky House Oversight Committee inquiry now hits the block of an “ongoing investigation,” a purposeful deployment of a DC replay we have seen repeatedly in the last several years.
The cancer of corruption is institutionally metastatic.
You are an ignorant Sheep, aren’t you. Stupid as well.
Something Thomas Sowell said about understanding politicians comes to mind.
This was clearly wrong, as later systematic review shows.
No, but in May of 2020 there was a disinformation campaign against Donald Trump for spruiking HCQ.
I blame “the establishment” entirely for making science politicised.
Sam Bankman-Fried Heading to Prison After Intimidating Key Witness Using Leaks to New York Times
August 11, 2023 – Sundance
Let’s see… We will trade you one SBF incarceration in exchange for one DJT incarceration and call it fair.
After a US judge in New York tells Sam Bankman-Fried he does not have unlimited first amendment rights, Judge Lewis Kaplan revoked bail and sent SBF to jail for using leaks to the media to intimidate a key federal witness against him – his former girlfriend.
Setting the stage for…
A US judge in DC telling President Donald John Trump he does not have unlimited first amendment rights;
establishing the groundwork for sending DJT to jail for using his political platform to intimate Mike Pence, a key federal witness against him – his former Vice President.
Albo parrots Chris Bowen’s claims that nuclear is too expensive, maybe refusing to acknowledge or disbelieving entirely the NetZero Australia report, which forecasts his plan to cost $7 to $9 trillion by 2060 if he wants to keep the lights on.
Missing in this discussion.
A large part of the $7-$9 trillion will need to be spent again, and again, every 8 to 20 years in perpetuity, as the windmills, batteries, and solar arrays have to be replaced.
This is the ever-filled trough for the renewables rentiers.
Mass formation psychoses.
Some here still possessed it seems. There were still Nazis even after they lost. Can’t expect everyone to wise up can we I suppose….
The ABC’s Laura Tingle is excited that “wall to wall Labor” is meeting in National Cabinet next week (the Tasmanian premier is an “on-side” reliable type apparently) to address the housing crisis.
An “important shift” could be coming, she opines, without any further specificity (sic!).
Seems she’s in the loop but we’re not.
Whoever comes up with this nonsense is intentionally dishonest.
All that matters at the end of the day is scale.
AG Merrick Garland violates Dept. of Justice regulations by appointing David Weiss as Special Counsel. Weiss works for Biden’s DOJ and isn’t eligible.
Note:
Here’s the relevant reg. Section 600.3.
“Barnaby supported the idiotic “Net Zero”.”
Yes, and he did so for some dodgy pork barrelling that was terminated by the new Labor government last year.
Oh and in today’s Oz, Mavis Bramston has a piece where he talks with Scumbag. Scumbag says that the Liberals “must connect with mainstream to regain teal seats to return to power“.
Barnaby, Scumbag, the whole effing lot of them, should STFU.
Here in Toytown it was illegal to access Ivermectin for oneself but not illegal to take your illegal drugs to a government supported testing lab for them to check it so you could get shiitefaced without killing yourself.
Let me save you the trouble:
“Broad church! Broad Church!”
Beetroot loves a bit of pork barrelling, and he comes cheap, very cheap.
Yep. It’s time Bananaby’s new missus wrote a “We were wrong about renewables” column.
We’ve got wall-to-wall Labor governments. They need to fix housing
Behind-the-scenes policy work on housing has to start paying off at Wednesday’s national cabinet meeting.
Laura Tingle – Columnist
A staple of debates about housing affordability in Australia over (at least) the last four decades has been lack of housing supply.
What that meant in the political debate for a really large slab of that time was an ongoing focus on the supply of new land for subdivision on the outskirts of our major cities, and who was to blame for there never being enough of it.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was talking about land supply again in federal parliament this week. But the issue is no longer about facilitating that urban sprawl. In fact, it is about the exact opposite.
National cabinet will meet on Wednesday to discuss what many people consider a housing crisis. It will examine both the rental market and housing supply in the broad, amid continuing pressure from the Greens, who have been trying to leverage their refusal to support the government’s housing fund to gain federal interventions in the housing rental market.
The Greens will not enjoy any particular victory on the issue of rental controls, which the PM is leaving firmly to the states – which, in turn, might talk about renters’ rights, but will not be offering up a rental freeze.
The more interesting – and challenging – issue really is housing supply. And that’s because of how it encapsulates so many of the issues confronting us and our governments right now.
These range from climate change to skills shortages, to the lasting impacts of COVID-19, and migration.
The demand for housing, including rental properties, is surging, yet the rate of building approvals and commencements is slumping.
Housing Minister Julie Collins released an issues paper on the development of a new national housing and homelessness plan earlier this week (National Homelessness Week) which documented some of these challenges.
In general, there is some really weird stuff going on in the housing market.
The demand for housing, including rental properties, is surging, yet the rate of building approvals and commencements is slumping.
The Urban Development Institute of Australia noted earlier in the year that the greenfield development sector experienced an unprecedented 49 per cent reduction in sales activity in 2022.
All capital city greenfield markets saw a cliff-fall in annual land sales, ranging from 70 per cent in the ACT to 54 per cent in Melbourne and 30 per cent in Perth.
The national median lot price rose 20 per cent to $391,546.
Those lots largely represent the urban sprawl that used to be the major frustration of housing supply debates.
But the UDIA also says the national new build of apartments experienced the lowest volume of sales in more than 12 years, levels not seen since the global financial crisis.
It’s not just about migration
Last week, Bureau of Statistics data on building approvals showed the largest quarterly drop in over a decade, down 18 per cent for all dwellings and 21.4 per cent for apartments. What’s more, the average price of constructing a new dwelling has risen 50 per cent since before the pandemic.
Inflation, the surge in interest rates and a slowing economy have all played a part in these numbers. But they highlight that the housing supply issue isn’t in any way just about surging migration, as some would have it at the moment.
There has been an almost relentless string of construction company collapses, many caught out by being squeezed by rising prices when they had written fixed-price contracts.
There’s a shortage of tradies which is slowing down construction. But there are also less-immediately-obvious skills shortages that are affecting the development process: town planners, surveyors and building certifiers, to name a few.
The surge in natural disasters is also slowing things down. Local government in particular has to now deal with a range of emergency services to get a tick on whether houses, or even developments, are resilient to fire and flood.
And that’s before you even get to the thorny issue of what happens to all those houses that have been approved and built on floodplains. Many households around Australia experienced the bitter cost of those decisions during the recent catastrophic flooding.
But it feels like a silence has fallen over earlier commitments by all levels of government to address what to do about moving people, after some earnest discussion in the immediate aftermath of all those floods.
The development delays are not necessarily the fault of local councils. Many councils in Sydney have actually been stripped of their planning powers, but it is not clear that handing them to independent authorities has speeded up the approvals process.
Climate change is also making housing more expensive: higher insurance premiums and energy costs.
Then there are the positive and negative impacts of COVID-19 on housing supply. COVID-19 made a lot of us rethink the way we live and work.
It’s left many office buildings in our central business districts empty, and thus offered the potential for a vast new supply of housing accommodation in refitted buildings.
Greater density in cities
That could help the whole push towards greater population density – which, if managed properly with good infrastructure and neighbourhood planning, is now seen as the preferred goal for our cities.
The pandemic also stopped migration for a while – which in housing supply terms might look like a plus. But with international students returning to start three-year courses, without a pipeline of students who have finished their courses leaving, there is additional pressure on the housing market.
So, federal and state leaders meet on Wednesday at a time when lots of short-term and long-term pressures for changing the way we house ourselves are coming to a head.
The clear picture is for much more densely-populated inner cities, requiring a lot more urban and social infrastructure. And different planning rules. (And fascinating changes in our political geography down the track.)
The story in the regions is a very different one, and very much influenced by things like the pressures being raised by climate change and natural disasters.
There is an optimism that the fact that all the leaders meeting on Wednesday will be Labor (except for Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff, who is seen as on-side for much-needed change).
And there is also an underlying view that all of those state leaders have an interest in making “wall-to-wall Labor” deliver some positive outcomes – given the last time it happened, it was not perceived to have ended well.
Much of the debate on housing in the lead-up to this meeting has been about the stand-off with the Greens on the federal government’s housing fund and the Greens’ politically successful prosecution of the rental crisis – even if there really isn’t much the federal government can do directly about addressing rents.
But there has been a lot of policy work going on behind the scenes in both federal and state governments, and the meeting could potentially mark a significant shift in the way governments think about housing.
Whether that delivers any immediate political dividend is unclear. But the housing crisis is real. And Wednesday’s meeting needs to do some substantive work to address it – and not just in the short term.
The AFR View
Labor must end the nation’s house of pain
The national cabinet meeting on Wednesday can start tearing down Australia’s regulatory barriers to better housing supply. That would make a lot of difference to a lot of people.
The national cabinet meeting on Wednesday – now a forum of Labor leaders bar Tasmania’s Premier Jeremy Rockliff – has to deliver a sea change in housing policy.
Population growth has rebounded after the pandemic, but land sales and new home approvals are tanking. Housing supply growth began tightening as far back as 2016-2017, and for those trapped in rental stress or locked out of a mortgage it’s taking the shine off Australia’s post-virus employment miracle.
That makes it a house of pain for governments too. But it’s one with an obvious fix: breaking the planning bottlenecks in the hands of local councils more concerned with keeping voters happy than accommodating the national population.
At the very least, federal and state governments need to push through more medium-density housing at the transport hubs of big cities.
This is a frontier society with space and opportunity
It helps that there is base political advantage for Labor in this, allowing it to stack suburban Liberal seats with Labor voters. Mr Albanese and the premiers will also feel obliged to boost the rights of those who rent, if only to rebuff the Greens who have been getting under Labor’s skin as the party of alienated young urban renters.
But that must not include the populist shortcut of slapping rent controls on landlords as the Greens demand and Victoria’s Andrews government has been toying with. That’s as ineffective in creating housing supply as trying to subsidise first-time buyers into new homes, which simply gets built into the price.
The only solution, said Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe in his final appearance before the House of Representatives economics committee yesterday, is to increase housing supply. But Dr Lowe lamented that this vast continent has, through urban design, planning and zoning regulations, chosen to make its building land some of the most expensive in the world.
It’s the embedded cost of land, not construction costs, that is driving up the price of housing “and that is debilitating from many economic, social and personal perspectives”, he said.
Land supply bottlenecks
Removing that regulatory stranglehold on land supply would be a lot more effective than schemes to throw more money directly at houses, which Labor is prone to do.
As well as $2 billion on social housing which the national cabinet will divvy up next week, there is the Housing Australia Future Fund which will spend $500 million of its earnings a year on housing. But so far, it’s just been a vehicle for the Senate Greens to wedge Labor from the left as they push for rent controls as the price of passing it.
The worst political consequence of failed housing policy is if migration, the secret ingredient in Australia’s decades of prosperity, takes the blame for it. With 400,000 expected arrivals, this year will bring the biggest single total ever. That has added to the perceived pressure on housing costs, both on rentals and those cashed up and ready to buy.
But this is only catching up on the pandemic years of no growth or net outflow. Even a bigger Australia will not be as big as it was, with the population 375,000 smaller than forecast – and still 225,000 smaller than pre-pandemic forecasts at the end of the decade.
Other quirks of the pandemic have helped tighten housing supply, and helped prices to absorb four percentage points of cash rate increase.
The size of households shrank during the pandemic, spreading the population across more dwellings and quietly offsetting the drop in immigration. Tight supply chains have slowed construction, sending builders on fixed price contracts bust even as demand and prices have been soaring.
Wednesday’s national cabinet is a chance to declare open slather on land supply bottlenecks, which need not involve destroying Australia’s suburban landscapes. But that must only be the start.
This is a frontier society with both space and opportunity. That kind of economic gravity will keep drawing aspirational people here.
Rising population needs rising capital investment to keep up with it and avoid blockages like the housing supply.
But too much government spending is still aimed at well-meaning income redistribution and consumption, not national development.
A better avenue might be investing in high-speed commuter rail to satellite cities that might transform the housing markets of Sydney and Melbourne too.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
LMAO – AP covering for the jab
Just read the reader context fact check.
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
BREAKING: Michigan AG confirms the 8,000-10,000 ballot registrations turned into the Muskegon city clerk by a Democrat operative were *all* fraudulent
They kept this a secret for 3 years but
@gatewaypundit
exposed it
Why has nobody gone to jail for this?
Do people really think this was the only place this happened?
If they would dump 10,000 ballot registrations in Muskegon, a town of 38,000 people, just imagine how many they dumped in Detroit, Lansing, and other Michigan cities
Could be hundreds of thousands! And that’s just Michigan!
GBI Strategies, the Leftist group who paid the mules to file fraudulent ballot registrations, operated in *20 states* during the 2020 election and took over $11M from pro-Biden PACs and paid its mules $15/hr
$11M can buy you a lot of mules
I’m telling you, @gatewaypundit may have uncovered the foundational Democrat “ballot mule” organization to perpetrate systemic election fraud in 2020
It’d also be a miracle; will Elbow deliver to get himself out of the hole that is the Voice?
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
JUST IN: Youth basketball star Caleb White is DEAD after collapsing during a workout at school
The 17 year old was a top 25 high school basketball star in the country. The Alabama’s number two high school player was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Thursday.
His cause of death is currently under investigation via an autopsy.
Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers
Black Ball
Aug 12, 2023 8:32 AM
Vikki Campion:
Good article not withstanding BJ was not opposed to the stupid bullshit. Here’s the beginning of Vicki and BJ; no wind or solar here; it’s all fossils:
There is no such thing as Net Zero. It is either zero, zero or zero. Or even a zero.
And there is no such thing as negative growth. That is a decline or a reduction or a devaluation. Growth is growth.
The Ivermectin shortage excuse was BS. Whilst usage did go up there was a huge supply of cheap IVM that could be obtained from India.
When AHPRA put out a letter to all Dr’s about not prescribing IVM one of their other reasons revealed the true game. The reason was that if people knew they could access IVM they might not take the vaccine. The letter was covered on a good video by Dr John Campbell.
It should be noted that whilst HCQ and IVM were banned Remdesivir was approved mid 2020 in US and Australia. That was a failed Ebola drug with no prior usage history. It has far worse side effects and as of two months ago I heard was still being administered in a Qld hospital.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
A Covid 1984esque Recap:
First they scared you with an invisible health threat.
Then they convinced you you could kill people if you have it.
Then they told you you HAD to take the “cure”.
Then they divided you into 2 groups.
Then they convinced you to hate & fear each other.
Then they told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
Then they smiled & moved onto the next phase of “the plan”…
Bret Weinstein
@BretWeinstein
The Ivermectin story completes a picture of the racket our system has become. The media, government, academy, Pharma and Tech teamed up against the people—exacerbating a man made disaster and demonizing resisters in order to mass-administer a deadly, ineffective, unnecessary shot
Bret Weinstein
@BretWeinstein
I don’t know why people assume there is only one problem with the COVID “vaccines.” I can come up with seven independent problems right off the top of my head. Yes, the spike protein was a disastrous choice, but that’s the tip of the iceberg.
1. mRNA induced autoimmune response (e.g. myocarditis)
2. Spike circulation/cytotoxicity
3. Vaccine circulates to all organs
4. Narrow immunity
5. IV injection
6. Batch variation/contamination
7. Persistent mRNA transcript
8. LNP toxicity and accumulation
Howard is the pet shop parrot of the modern Lieboral.
Skittles faces backlash after it partners with GLAAD and puts ‘Black Trans Lives Matter’ on its packaging
We shouldn’t be surprised.
Why listen to SloMo? Losing is not that hard.
Look at the victory Abbott won – it was not done by being soft left.
On the other hand look at the dreadful reversal of fortune under Trimble – the coalition retaining power only thanks to the Nats picking up a seat – I doubt that was on renewables and other climate crap that Trimble peddled.
If this isn’t the last nail in the coffin of popular trust in governments and their experts, I don’t know what else will do it.
Re. “broad church”. John Howard is right, the party has always been, to some extent, a “broad church” philosophically however firstly, the party is at its best, ideologically and electorally, when the conservative dries are in the ascendency, not the other around, which has been the problem with the Liberal Party since September 2015 when the wets grabbed control, and it’s been a disaster ever since. Secondly, traditionally both dries and wets adhered, in one way or another, to Menzies basic principles as outlined in his Forgotten People speech. The party doesn’t perform well when it spits on middle aspirational Australia, which is basically what the party has done since 2015, despite the unexpected win in 2019 which, funnily enough, Scumbag won by appealing to middle Australia, however once he’d won that election, he then went on to spit on middle Australia. The “broad church” is like a stack of cards, it can work, it does work, but the foundations have be solidly respected by all broad church adherents, something the likes of Rent Zimmerboy, Karma Sharma, Foolinsky, Katie “I love Obama” Allan and others had absolute contempt for, and they were happy to parrot their contempt.
Regarding Ivermectin:
1) We knew it was effective against viruses in vitro well before COVID – all newly approved drugs are immediately screened for extra uses (to increase sales). This is how VIAGRA and Minoxidil came to be used for their now better known applications.
2) Ivermectin was proven effective early in against COVID as well – they had to then ban it because it would have negated the emergency use approvals for the COVID injections – emergency use is ONLY legal where no existing remedy exists.
3) Ivermectin was already known to be safe – it was approved by the WHO for prolonged use, unsupervised, in the 3rd world for decades – it was given to me by the ADF when in East Timor – it is virtually impossible to OD on – even massive overdoses cause only mild transient symptoms, like double vision. Panadol and Aspirin are far less safe than Ivermectin.
4) (Now that the COVID shots are no longer on emergency permits) The TGA has re-allowed GPs to prescribe Ivermectin – why did they do this if its not safe?
5) Ivermectin is not a (dirty, unsafe) horse drug just because it has veterinary uses – if cross species use was a reason to not use a drug in humans, you can kiss goodbye your antibiotics, painkillers, anti inflammatories, fungus creams, diabetic pills, blood pressure pills, IV fluids ,anaesthetics etc etc etc
6) Ivermectin was not banned to save it for other uses (eg worm treatment) – and if it was, it was unethical – we had an ’emergency need’ for it to treat COVID. Ivermectin was, btw, available by the ton because of its widespread use as a veterinary product. Similarly, they didnt ban HCQ to ‘keep it for arthritis patients’ – there was no shortage – Clive Palmer sourced and donated more than a ton of it to the government so as to make it available for all Australians – our wise rulers destroyed it to stop it negating the ’emergency use’ waiver for the COVID shots.
BASTARDS BASTARDS BASTARDS BASTARDS BASTARDS!
The chief problem with broad churches – both political and eccesial – is that core beliefs will, over time, inevitably be watered down to the least common denominator, resulting in the most committed members being sidelined or exiting the organisation. The organisation then drifts with the mainstream, which in Western countries since the 1970s has been leftwards.
To paraphrase Robert Conquest, any organisation that is not explicity conservative will over time become left-wing.
In the very early stage wasn’t a suitable nasal spray suggested followed by ivermectin. The spray alone seemed to be effective in my case. No need for the follow up.
A church has a core of beliefs that are non-negotiable. Differences at the periphery, but the centre remains the same.
The LNP simply rejected the church and became broads.
Please do not cause confusion between Bad BJ (aka Bananaby) and Good BJ (aka Boambee John).
Heh…Roger.
I was “composing” while you were posting.
These labore governments have obviously not been listening to a particular union, whose ads on Sky of an evening have been squawking that corporate super profits tax is the solution to the housing crisis.
Whereas Albansleazey’s solution to the housing crisis is very simple. Import millions more third world immigrants, as quickly as possible.
Great minds! 😀
And the decline and disintegration of the worldwide Anglican Communion was very much at the forefront of mine as I typed.
How many ticks would you like duk? I’ve been saving mine. Going to a worthy cause. And no, I’m not being flippant. I can only hope I get the opportunity to hurt the bestards with the full knowledge they know it is payback.
After the last election, SloMo’s thoughts on winning elections aren’t worth committing to paper before binning them. Installed by Team Waffleworth as a placeholder and that’s what it felt like.
The other thing that happens to some of these people is that they compromise their beliefs to retain their position in the organisation.
Take Frydenberg as an example; his maiden speech was all about the virtues of small government (among other things).
He ended up Australia’s biggest spending Treasurer!
The biggest scandal of the renewable roll out is the existence of faux government bodies like AEMO, who do the dirty work away from the checks and balances of departments and ministers.
The states and Feds have gifted extraordinary planning and coercive powers to unelected ex-energy company executives, who wield that power with arrogance and disdain for proper process.
We have heard through channels that one of the queens of AEMO dislikes our language and it’s best for us to stop criticism as it’s “getting their backs up” against farmers.
This energy lobby front needs shutting down.
Cats could help by emailing AEMO and letting them know they do not have your support as a power consumer. AEMO claims they are working on your behalf.
Australia’s biggest Squandermonkey.
What an achievement – outsquandermonkeying Goose Swansteen.
The Lieborals have always talked a good game, particularly in London for some reason. Actions? Not so much.
The reports of clinical Ivermectin use suggest that it might offer some benefit in the treatment of Covid – although it doesn’t appear to be a silver bullet.
What is certain is that, in Australia, the prescription of Ivermectin for Covid treatment was prohibited by the TGA to support the roll out of vaccines.
Whether Ivermectin is an effective and appropriate treatment for Covid is well outside my pay grade.
But it is quite clear that:
• There was no particular shortage;
• There was no particular risk in prescription;
• The TGA had no definitive evidence of its effectiveness (or otherwise); and
• The off-label use by professionals was banned to bolster the Public Health campaign to achieve high levels of vaccine immunity as a government policy.
I’m sure Top Men would have considered the difference between prophylaxis and treatment – and would also have had complete faith in the prescribing medical profession.
For agricultural Cats.
Surely as good a reason for a walk down memory lane,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8hZ0wxSUV0
I’m amused that The Paywallian has now removed their “Most Popular” story list at the bottom of the main page.
How dare vast numbers neanderthal righty readers choose unwoke stories to read? We must hide them to protect people from wrongthink!
Jolly good.
In another world that would have been an uptick.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Aug 12, 2023 10:23 AM
For agricultural Cats.
Live export ban blamed for WA sheep price plunge…
A BLIND man could see this comming. Also , check out how Bowen has signed us up to the Biden ‘METHANE REDUCTION ACT” and how that will effect aussie farmers.
Done.
In short, it was one of many instances of governmental authoritarianism.
Brought to us by a party that professes to believe in “the inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples; and…a lean government that minimises interference in our daily lives; and maximises individual and private sector initiative.”
Unbelievable
‘Stay Protected’: CDC Doubles Down on Plans to Recommend Annual COVID-19 Shots
Graham: AG Garland Poured ‘Gasoline’ on Fire with Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment
The NFF , national farmers federation , are gung ho on how they will help farmers and graziers to implement the ‘methane act’ but will very quickly learn that they are part of the problem. The methane act mandates all farms to decrease there methane by 30percent from 2020 levels, by 2030.
Hunter’s new special counsel also needs investigating
As US attorney, David Weiss slow-walked the Biden case for years
August 11, 2023 | 2:26 pm
Important as this new appointment is, it also raises some very troubling issues.
One
that it gives the Department of Justice an additional tool to block investigations by House Republicans, who are conducting several serious inquiries into Biden family corruption.
Whenever the House committees ask for information, the DoJ can simply reply, “We’ve handed our investigation over to the special counsel and cannot turn over documents during an ongoing investigation by his office.”
That will put additional pressure on the House to begin a formal impeachment inquiry, since the courts have ruled that such inquiries have special rights to documents from the Executive Branch.
The second issue is even more troubling:
Weiss’s own office needs investigating.
It has slow-walked the criminal investigation for years, allowed the statute of limitations to expire on key charges, let Hunter Biden escape from taxes he owed on foreign income, proposed to give him an unprecedented sweetheart deal and told IRS investigators they would not pursue any leads, however credible, that might lead to “the Big Guy” Joe Biden.
True to their word, they have not pursued those leads.
Weiss’s own office inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to expire on millions of dollars in foreign income allegedly received by Hunter, on which taxes were never paid. The US attorney has never explained why. Nor did his office pursue the obvious charges that Hunter should have registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The public still doesn’t have any explanation of what business activities, if any, Hunter and his associates performed to warrant the payment of millions and millions of dollars from foreign nationals.
(Here’s a hint: they opened doors and effectively communicated to everyone that a connection to Hunter Biden meant you had powerful connections to the Obama administration. If that connection needed proof, Joe Biden provided it by phoning Hunter’s business associates to say “hi,” whenever his son asked.)
Again: none of this has led to charges after five years of investigation by Weiss and his team.
Just one sweetheart deal, which tried to hide any traces of Hunter’s protection from future charges. It was destroyed by a simple question from the judge, who asked what was actually covered by the deal.
That’s our new special prosecutor. Physician, heal thyself.
Completely nuts, like the EU/Dutch nitrogen mandate.
POLITICS
How the West plays up to Putin’s caricature
We are putting on a collective spectacle of self-destruction, degeneracy and spiritual vapidity
In an outstanding article in the New York Times, Roger Cohen recounted his experience of traveling across Russia for a full month, and hats off to the veteran journalist for risking a shared cell with the Wall Street Journal “spy” Evan Gershkovich.
Cohen explains that Vladimir Putin is successfully flogging his war in Ukraine to the Russian people as a battle against the whole spiritually depraved West, no longer the home of ruthless capitalism but of “sex changes, the rampages of drag queens, barbaric gender debates and an LGBTQ takeover.”
In a tirade last November, Putin lambasted the US and “other unfriendly foreign states” for “selfishness, permissiveness, immorality, the denial of the ideals of patriotism” and “destruction of the traditional family through the promotion of nontraditional sexual relations.”
You must admit, he’s got a point.
Of course, most folks on our side of the re-erected Iron Curtain roundly deplore Russia’s criminal prosecution of homosexuals, but we went way beyond merely legalizing same-sex relations long ago — so much farther that garden-variety gays and lesbians are passé.
There’s a big difference, too, between simply allowing a practice and celebrating it or even, yes, promoting it, and in the past decade the West’s cultural obsession with the sexual Crayola 64 has gone manically overboard.
We’ve kept adding so many letters to that “LGB” formulation that in Scrabble you’d earn fifty bonus points with a fraction of the erstwhile shorthand.
One out of five Gen Zers say they’re not straight. A full 38 percent of students at America’s Brown University claim they’re not straight, a proportion that’s doubled in ten years. Aberration is the new conformity.
“Pride” has expanded from one day to a whole month, during which garish rainbows adorn everything from corporate logos to crosswalks, in a showy embrace of every sexual proclivity under the sun other than the sort that reproduces the species.
This dementedly neutral anything-goes morality is extending well beyond sex.
There’s nothing wrong with obesity; we endorse “body positivity.” There’s nothing wrong with being a drug addict or an alcoholic, who only have “substance use disorder,” as if a less judgmental label helps the 100,000 Americans dying annually from fentanyl overdoses. There’s nothing wrong with being mentally ill; we extol “neuro-diversity.”
There’s nothing wrong with shoplifting, because if there were we’d press charges for thieving and looting, which has got so out of control in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco that franchises are closing their California retail outlets.
Who are our real villains? The police.
Don’t you imagine that Putin eats this stuff up?
We are myopically obsessed with race. We are myopically obsessed with the words for things, so that, rather than worry about Fitch Ratings’ downgrading of US debt last week, financiers are scrupulously boycotting the expression “black market.”
We choose politicians, judges, police commissioners, military leaders, board members and CEOs not in accordance with their qualifications for the job but because they are black or Latino or Asian or trans or female, thanks to which the person next in line for becoming president of the United States, should anything untoward happen to the incumbent, is a rank incompetent.
Americans are so consumed with “equity” that our answer to plummeting educational attainment in public schools is to make sure no children can read, write or do math, and we address these incidental shortcomings of perfectly equal students by no longer administering standardized tests: problem solved.
Everything Putin needs to warn the Russian people about the horrors of Western decadence is obligingly spelled out in every issue of our national newspapers.
Dot
Aug 12, 2023 10:55 Completely nuts, like the EU/Dutch nitrogen mandate.
Yes Dot…the Act is in NZ too where it cost a extra $15/25 k per farm to implement. It affects Rural Aust, the LNG industry and the Waste industry. It will affect the cost of household rubbish collection.
Out Drownded Chinaman Crick way, where the Powerlink GTFO signs keep mysteriously disappearing, the latest biggest and bestest solar farm enterprise’s
[Our] ecology team has provided biodiversity assessments to support the development of [Our] Solar Farm isn’t meant for the local yokels,
who don’t matter, but the teal-curious Ladies Who Lunch
in the leafy suburbs, who do.
How political activism in medicine is failing patients
The special doctor-patient relationship is under threat
Trust in the public healthcare system declined among Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It’s no wonder: public health bureaucrats pushed for various insane policies that ran counter to common sense, admitted to deceiving the American people and worked to shutter debate surrounding the national and global coronavirus response.
But instead of doing everything they can to restore trust in the system (and prove that they’re still deserving of it), government officials and medical associations have continued to politicize the healthcare field, sowing discord between patients and their doctors.
A consistent theme throughout the pandemic was that while Americans were less likely to trust the medical establishment, they mostly liked their personal doctors.
But some new policies proposed and enacted by left-wing activists and politicians threaten the doctor-patient relationship.
Lawmakers in California passed legislation in 2019 that requires all continuing medical education courses to include implicit bias training.
Doctors in California need to complete fifty hours of continuing medical education every two years.
AB 241, signed in October 2019 by Governor Gavin Newsom, says that these courses must include “examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of physicians and surgeons, leading to disparities in health outcomes,” or “strategies to address how unintended biases in decision making may contribute to healthcare disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status or other characteristics,” or a combination of both.
Patients who are repeatedly told they have to watch out for implicit bias are already entering the doctor-patient relationship with suspicion that their doctors might be intentionally or unintentionally harming them.
To that end, a group of doctors represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against AB 241. Dr. Marilyn Singleton, a visiting fellow of the Do No Harm organization and anesthesiologist, and Dr. Azedah Khatibi, an ophthalmologist, who both teach continuing medical education courses in California, are challenging the legislation alongside Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals based in Virginia.
“The implicit bias requirement promotes the inaccurate belief that white individuals are naturally racist,” said Dr. Singleton.
“This message can be detrimental to medical professionals and their patients as it creates an atmosphere of suspicion and animosity, which goes against the fundamental principle of doing no harm.”
‘Sham’ Hunter special counsel pick will ‘block info from Congress’: Scalise
‘Dumber-than-dirt political move’: Senator rips Hunter special counsel appointment
Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower lawyers question David Weiss’s credibility: ‘Odd choice’
by Ashley Oliver, Justice Department Reporter
Daily Mail
Steve Price:
‘professor’ is a dirty word now
Hunga-Tonga…
***burrrrrp***
We had drunk tanks in the past, it worked better than making people go to court and get a fine over taking a legal intoxicant.
That’s not what drunk tanks are meant to be like…you get put in there until you are not longer a danger to yourself or others.
Fleccas Talks:
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #160
For the past fotnight I’ve watched a lot of the Womens World Cup matches but starting to get fed up with the atrocious refereeing and the wonder of VAR technology ..
soooo many wrong calls over penalties for & against, blatant off-sides being ignored and “yellow” card fouls being waved on .. starting to think it is being tailored for a specific outcome final ……
And being “toon” born & bred I duz understand this stuff cos we Geordies is born wiv a copy of the fitba rule book in the hand .. and instead of crying when 1st slapped we yells out .. “Howay the lads” ……. LOL!
Dickhead Dan and the tenth rate Melbourne city council have def succeeded in making the CBD a place to avoid which is a shame because it used to be a lot of fun Yum Cha in Little Bourke St, shopping and movie at Melb Central, Max Brenner at QV etc etc
Notice too how it’s copying the American left. Is that where they get their orders from?
shatterzzz
The idea of “free-flowing play” in ball sports being favoured over penalising bad tackles, fouls etc is a bad idea. It just makes it a low-skill (even at the international level), an error-riddled game that actually doesn’t flow freely.
Likewise, the idea of “clamping down” with “early penalties” ruins natural play, attacking possession and dedicated defence. No one wants to see a heap of penalty goals early on and weak scoring in the rest of the match.
21st century leftism is a locust swarm that devours everything in its way.
Since half of the Stupid Frigging Liberals either believe in nothing or in whatever makes them popular at dinner parties, the SFLs were a pushover for the leftist locust swarm.
The SFLs have only two possible futures: a) as an unelectable leftist cheerleader for fashionable pop culture in the space already successfully occupied by the Greenfilth and the Liars b) as a popular defender of civilisation, the family, human freedom and its institutions, such as the free market.
WA”s Zak Kirkup and Victoria’s John Prosciutteo have blazed the SFL trail towards extinction with spectacular election-losing self-annihilations.
It’s up to the SFL’s true believers to rescue the party from self-annihilation.
PS: Moira Deeming would make a wonderful Victorian premier to pick up the pieces after the Andrews fiasco.
Isn’t this not being able to see the illogic of what we were being told? Hydroxychloroquine was used as an anti-malarial for over fifty years without any problems and suddenly there are severe side effects reported. Why?
The ‘rats in California are making life impossible for normal people- even basic hygiene isn’t observed now. Shoplifting is considered ok. Their aim is obviously social and economic collapse. What else could it be?
August 11, 2023
Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War
By Edward Lozansky
These days, saying Russia’s war in Ukraine is “unprovoked” is a must. There are some notable exceptions from a few American “dissidents,” who say Russia was provoked, but their opinions are dismissed at best or submerged in name-calling at worst. I’d leave it up to those who will read this article to the end to decide who is right.
This subject is important for someone who was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in America; who has relatives and friends in all three countries; and who for almost three dozen years has been doing his best to make them all friends and even allies.
Instead, all three are now at war, even if some call the U.S. war only a war “by proxy.”
This looks like a total failure of my efforts, but I hope this short summary clears a bit the fog of war, which might help in the search to avoid a worst-case scenario.
At the same time, the U.S. did not leave Russia and Ukraine alone. Yankees didn’t go home. Billions of American tax dollars were poured in Ukraine — not to boost its economy, but to reformat public opinion that was predominantly in favor of neutral status and against joining NATO. This led to the Washington-inspired and supported first 2004 “Orange” color revolution, and then in 2013, a second one called “Maidan” that led to the installation of pro-NATO government.
All the media attention in Victoria Nuland’s leaked phone call with the U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, discussing the details of the coup two weeks before it actually happened on February 22, 2014, was concentrated on her expletive language towards the E.U.
However, almost totally ignored is that a few seconds later, she also mentioned her constant briefings with Sullivan and added, “Biden willing.”
One should note the disgraceful position of the U.S. mainstream media. Ashley Rindsberg in The Spectator called the anti-Russian hysteria there the “media’s Vietnam.”
Actually, I think that what is happening now in Ukraine is worse than the American wars in Vietnam and the Middle East, starting with Iraq. At that time, one at least could use a fight with communism or terror as a pretext.
Here, we see a policy of provoking, funding, and prolonging a war between two Christian nations that lived together for over three centuries and are bound together by close historical, religious, economic, cultural, and family ties.
One phone call from Biden to Putin prior to February 24, 2022, with a pledge to guarantee Ukraine’s neutral status, would have ensured that there would be no war.
Russia’s other security concerns could then be negotiated in a calm working atmosphere.
It is obvious, and no one is hiding the fact, that the collective West under current U.S. leadership wants to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia without going to war directly, but rather by using Ukrainians as cannon fodder.
All of the above might be viewed as “voice in the bewilderment,” but I hope it will at least help to clear a bit the smog of this war and make policy-makers think about how to avoid a looming disaster.
You can be as pissed as you like in public, as long as you don’t draw adverse attention to yourself by wandering on roads, starting fights in the streets, pissing on parked cars, spewing on passing nuns and so on.
The only people that ever got locked up by the jacks for being shitfaced were those that were aggro, and/or posing a danger to themselves or others. Unfortunately, shit tins of them get a few hours in the tank every day, wherever you are.
In the NT there are things called sober-up shelters. They are run by Mission Australia and used as an alternative to punters (usually indig countrymen) going straight to the tank.
Their caveat is that as soon as there’s a hint of noncompliance by the pisswrecks brought in there, let alone being aggro in any way they’re refused, handed back to the jacks and end up in the tank anyway. Which is fine, but a massive waste of time because almost every drunk is aggro – because, and perhaps fair enough too, they do not want to go to either place.
In what may be the greatest Captain Obvious moment of the year so far – this will be a failure of monumental proportions, after which the Andrews regime will blame everyone else for their feelgood handpattery which wasn’t required in the first place.
WA”s Zak Kirkup and Victoria’s John Prosciutteo have blazed the SFL trail towards extinction with spectacular election-losing self-annihilations.
add to that the miserable excuse of a government in NSW. More left than Carr-Egan.
The demand for housing, including rental properties, is surging, yet the rate of building approvals and commencements is slumping.
Regardless of how the gummint(s) tackle the problem the time between approval, building & actual occupancy is still months (at least) so there is no short term solutions available just a lot of empty promises soon to be forgotten when the news cycle moves on ..
I have noticed out where I am, across the main road from the “houso” enclave there are 2 houses currently under construction .. one is into its 2nd year and the other around 18 months .. very little work seems to be dun, basically, both come down to between 2 & 5 dayz per month where their appears to be activity .. the rest of the time they are just fenced up .. both have building company signage on the fencing so aren’t owner builder weekend jobs …
Obviously, whoever is expecting to live in either isn’t too concerned with “when” ..
No idea if this is sign-of-the-times for construction these dayz or unique to these properties ………
Because the people taking it were sick with covid, had other comorbities?
It’s not a risk for people in the linked categories
Risk of Arrhythmia Among New Users of Hydroxychloroquine in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
These nasty morons used COVID as an opportunity to cut out 30% from street parking in the CBD by adding useless bike lanes turning most of the streets single lane. The one good thing about the Melbourne CBD was that the streets were reasonably wide and there was a decent chance you could find a park on street, but no more. They’ve turned, St Kilda Road, one of the most beautiful, expansive boulevards in the world (I reckon) into a single lane jungle. Disgusting human beings.
Crossie
Aug 12, 2023 11:37 AM
Rosie
Aug 12, 2023 8:23 AM
Hydroxychloroquine was also touted as a miracle cure for covid, got provisional approval that was withdrawn as there was no evidence it did anything but there was evidence in clinical trials of severe side effects.
Isn’t this not being able to see the illogic of what we were being told? Hydroxychloroquine was used as an anti-malarial for over fifty years without any problems and suddenly there are severe side effects reported. Why?
Crossie,
The Bleeding Obvious igored by some
As still Covid Unvaxxed, and only Unvaxxed one in Family of 17 – still only one who did not catch/suffer Covid, as well as over 90 Times at RNSH over 2 years of Covid –
I was taking ANti-Virals well before Covid, and as I read about Covid decided against mRNA vaccines – had considered Novavax, but when US CDC changed the definition of Vaccine, stuck with Anti-Virals
I had HCQ in 70s for New Guinera with no side effects, and as was unable to get Ivermectin as back up – was able to get and still have HCQ if ever needed
Gave the Seniors Flu Vaccine a miss this year and in live-in Family of 7 – with rest of Family this year having had colds, stomach bugs and school bugs with me standing fine, will stick with Anti-Virals
Again, I did not have the sword of being unable to work hanging over my head, only restriction on travel and was banned for 3 days from one Chemotherapy Session, when they relented and put me in isolation room for that round only
Incredible video shows Lahaina church miraculously untouched by devastating Maui wildfires
The Maria Lanakila Catholic Church in downtown Lahaina is seen still standing amidst the rubble
The church, which has stood since 1846, maintained its stain glass and tower structure even as the ground around it smolders
Lahaina’s 150-year-old banyan tree also appears to have survived the fires albeit severely scorched from the flames
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Nihilism. Cali was the go to place to want to begin a new life and it’s been mostly destroyed now. Admittedly the crime and the filth is basically localized in LA, but that’s because neighborhoods like Beverly Hills are employing private policing.
(Eyes sideways emoji…)
From Quora
Why is Justin Trudeau seemingly falling out of favor with Canadians?
Trudeau…
• Publicly admonished a woman in Edmonton for saying the word “mankind” instead of “peoplekind.”
• Veterans asking for too much.
• The budget will balance itself. The 2016-17 budget deficit was $17.8
• Ummm ummmm ummmm ummm.
• Canada has no core identity.
• Obsession with Indian wedding clothes. Bollywood dancing.
• Invites Jaspal Atwal, a Sikh extremist who served five years in a Canadian jail for his role in the attempted murder of a visiting Indian cabinet minister, Malkiat Singh Sidhu
• Can’t get a trade deal done…with anyone.
• Can’t get a pipeline done…in any direction.
• Says that a proposed pipeline must consider “the intersection of sex and gender with other identity factors” (what does that even mean???)
• Creepy sock fetish.
• More selfies than a class of teenage girls.
• Replaces Canada’s old F-18s with Australia’s old F-18s.
• Waves to an empty tarmac when boarding the government plane.
• Thinks we should thank Muslim refugees for moving to Canada.
• His love of all things Castro and all things Red China.
• Says he speaks for all Canadians about the remembrance of a Cuban Dictator
• Imposes tough regulations and taxes on oil from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland but not oil from Saudi Arabia.
• Every new project has to undergo strict environmental assessments…except cement plants in Quebec.
• Millions in aid to bombardier in Quebec
• Thinks old stock Canadians should be replaced.
• Chases foreign companies (and their investment capital) out of the country like they have the plague.
• Chases our WW1 soldiers out of our national anthem… lest we forget.
• Brings in 10s of thousands of unemployable “refugees”.
• Tweets out a welcome to 10s of thousands more fake refugees from the US (even gets the RCMP to be their bellhops).
• All his fake refugees get better healthcare than Canadians do, while they put a strain on all our public services and contribute little.
• Continuously uses identity politics…then complains about identity politics.
• Pays $10.5 million to a convicted terrorist who murdered an unarmed army medic.
• Pays another 31 million to 3 more Muslims from Syria.
• Forgot Alberta was a province.
• Called small business owners “tax cheats” while he sucks at the teat of a family trust fund.
• Taxes cow farts.
• Only intolerant racists would ask questions about money spent on illegal immigrants.
• We have an equalization program but he gives half of it to one province.
• Says “diversity is our greatest strength” but his divisiveness tears us apart.
• Screws up our trade relations with our most important trade partner because he failed to stop Chinese steel from flowing through to the states and he won’t give up supply management which hurts Canadian consumers.
• $8 million for a skating rink.
• $4.5 billion for a 65-year-old pipeline (and KM uses that money to build a pipeline in Texas)
• Billions added to the nþational debt.
• The Kokanee groper.
• Illegal migrants are just “irregular border crossers”.
• Gets India to invest $250 million in Canada but we have to invest $750 million in India first.
• Compared returning ISIS terrorists to Italian immigrants and says they will be an extraordinarily powerful voice for Canada.
• Terrorists deserve to keep their Canadian citizenship.
• Thinks Canada is 100 years old instead of 150.
• Generally making life less affordable for the average Canadian.
• Gave Canadian taxpayer’s money to the Clinton Foundation.
• Gave Canadian taxpayer’s money to Hamas.
• Still gives foreign aid to China?
• Confuses China for Japan and forgets about Canada fighting a war against them.
• Increasing the number of personal pronouns to 50.
• The only PM convicted of ethics violations.
• Outrage over fake racist attacks, says nothing about real terrorist attacks.
• Hijab hoax
• Takes a personal day for every pair of socks he owns.
• Sits like he has no balls…which is true…..
• ‘broken promise’ on electoral reform
• Screwed up a new Holocaust memorial in Ottawa — it turns out they forgot to mention the Jews. On a plaque about the Holocaust.
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The better version .. The Night They Rode Old Dixie Down ”
Joan Baez ……
https://youtu.be/28cg3iCEtWM
Voice referendum a ‘simple and clear proposition’ to recognise First Nations people: PM
First Australians have made abundantly clear that
1) Recognition is a secondary issue of little importance; and
2) The Voice is not conceived as an advisory body but rather a means to deliver a Treaty which gives self-determination/government and compensation.
Instructive that Albanese is publicly watering down ‘implementing the Ulu?u statement in full’ – and nobody from the First Nations is calling him out on it.
Somebody is humbuggering someone here.
What does that mean?
The Great Mushroom Debate…
How’s that, eh? If you think eating any old shroom plucked from the dirt is risky you must be some kind of dirty MYCOPHOBE. It’s (current year), there’s no excuse for mycophobia. Myco rights are human rights.
To close this knowledge gap, clearly what we need is Mycologist Story Time sessions in our schools and public libraries…
I was just reading about the Palaeolithic in Wiki – as you do. I am content to read Wikipedia on this topic because it is not a controversial one.
It states that humans first reached Australia around 50,000 to 40,000 years ago.
This is at odds with the 60,000 years fondly cited and recited of late by those who style themselves as our betters.
When I started at Sydney Uni in the early 80’s there was a mural across from the entrance to Redfern station proclaiming “40,000 years is a long long time. 40,000 years still on my mind.” However stirring that mural might have seemed when you read it, that feeling was quickly snuffed out when you passed it and saw the crumbling wasteland that was Eveleigh street.
So…where did the 60,000 number come from?
‘Paradise’ lost to a woke-city future on brazen display in Canberra
ANGELA SHANAHAN
The Australian
What is going wrong with the nation’s capital? Why is it that the government of the federal territory cannot appoint a prosecutor unable to divest himself of his own prejudices in his zeal for a conviction in a high-profile political case? Why indeed? It seems strange to me, having lived in the nation’s capital for 30 years and written about its gradual change from sophisticated country town to dark green Truman bubble, that people have only just woken up to Canberra’s wokery under the Barr Labor-Greens coalition government.
As I wrote during the previous fiasco of its forcible acquisition of a Catholic public hospital, this government has been in power for 22 years, and consequently believes it has carte blanche to do whatever it wants. The Barr administration is more Green than Labor. It is much more Green than even the Stanhope government was. What is more, the ACT government now has the backing of the federal government. Hence Katy Gallagher could crow about getting the territory rights bill passed, the sole purpose of which was to introduce voluntary assisted dying the ACT Human Rights Minister, who is setting up the “framework”, says could be extended to 14-year-olds.
The Drumgold affair might have far-reaching implications outside Canberra as the apostles of woke, safe under the umbrella of state and territory human rights apparatus, are not confined to the federal capital. However, shonky wokery has long infected Canberra’s governance, from various victimhoods to fanatical gas-hating Greens. A lot of this has only just begun to permeate wider Australian society. So, if you want to see the future, come to Canberra where we are steeped in this stuff.
Under Barr, the ACT has enacted some of the most bizarre laws in Australia, covering all the woke preoccupations. VAD for 14-year-olds is quite possible in a place where, under the guise of banning “conversion therapy”, the government has passed a law forbidding anyone, even a parent, taking a child out of the ACT for any gender dysphoria therapy except affirmative therapy. Although this is claimed as a “health measure”, the government has legalised hard drugs and forcibly acquired Calvary Hospital even though it can barely run the one it operates at Woden, which has had some of its teaching accreditation removed.
On fossil fuels, the government has decided to ban household gas by 2035. The new suburbs do not even have gas pipes, and the rest of Canberra, which mainly uses gas for heating and was encouraged to do so, will be forced to find some other way to heat our houses. On transport, it has built a tram that (to the amusement of the population) cannot cross Lake Burley Griffin, so in the government’s own words it will have to “go back to the drawing board” to work that out.
Despite the trenchant criticism of former DPP Shane Drumgold’s ineptitude by the press both within and outside Canberra, it is really these local problems and ideological force-feeding that gets under the skin of Canberrans. So, while many people are shocked by the fallout of Brittany Higgins mark two, many more people are frankly worried about the state of emergency at the hospital and the looming gas ban.
So why do people in the ACT put up with all this? Here are some reasons. First, the Liberal opposition is frankly hopeless. Under the leadership of Zed Seselja there was some impetus, but he bailed. The only hope for a shift in government is to take a leaf out of the Greens’ playbook and have some decent independent candidates. Under Canberra’s complicated electoral system, it is easier to vote independent candidates into power. Another reason is the changing demographic of the ACT, which now has a population the size of Tasmania. It has always been a young, well-educated population, but mainly families. Now under the Barr government there has been a huge upsurge in apartment developments aimed at the influx of single young people working for the federal and local governments – and overseas students. There are more renters in the ACT than ever before, and despite opposition to untrammelled development from long-term residents, Barr simply said he didn’t want to talk to anybody over 45. Hence the upsurge in the Greens vote – and they hold the balance of power.
Another reason many of us put up with the crazy stuff in the ACT and don’t decamp permanently to the south coast is because, like Truman, we are captives in a suburban paradise of sorts. After only experiencing life in big cities and one of the world’s great metropolises with two small children in an apartment the size of my Canberra kitchen, Canberra 30 years ago was almost Nirvana for a family.
It still retains many elements of the ideal city its founders envisaged. It has a very high standard of housing and amenities. It is beautiful. Its much-maligned paradoxical sobriquet, the “bush capital”, means everyone has access to a bush reserve. It has a cultural life that is a mixture of sophisticated and popular. It has the youngest population in Australia, and the schools were some of the best in Australia and, unlike most other states and territories, Canberra has real free preschools within the education system. The woke takeover is sad, yet I still like living in Canberra. But for how long before “paradise” is lost?
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Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years,
Oz
Shirley this is borderline waaycisssst? The suggestion that a “dedicated Aboriginal service response” is necessary implies that aboriginals are highly likely to be found drunk in public.
•Gave Canadian taxpayer’s money to the Clinton Foundation.
Dolly Downer was doing that to us too iirc
Barron’s piece.
China Is Slipping Into Deflation. Beijing Has Lost the Private Sector.
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From wikipedia
Really?
The other thing about Troodough is that this loathsome creep is part of a political dynasty. Finishing off wrecking the place for Pierre. The mother is also from a political family. Democracy is a bit of a joke.
Paleolithic archeology is a politicised mess.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/19/dig-finds-evidence-of-aboriginal-habitation-up-to-80000-years-ago
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2011/09/dna-confirms-aboriginal-culture-one-of-earths-oldest/
“The first Aboriginal genome sequence confirms Australia’s native people left Africa 75,000 years ago.”
https://theconversation.com/factcheck-might-there-have-been-people-in-australia-prior-to-aboriginal-people-43911
https://theconversation.com/factcheck-might-there-have-been-people-in-australia-prior-to-aboriginal-people-43911
Okay
So the evidence that suits the narrative is gold, anything that is inconvenient is contaminated.
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Left Africa 75,000 years ago?
No other DNA other than through India and a land bridge?
Only one migration?
Despite three identifiable ethnic/language groups?
No interactions with the Chinese, Maoris or Indonesians?
Where did the dingoes come from and how & when?
Hahahaha!
That was a great thing about the Melbourne CBD that you could bring your car in while trying to do it in Sydney could lead to nervous breakdown.
You just knew this was going to happen.
Indigenous voices need to lead Australia’s response to the climate crisis (Phys.org, 11 Aug)
Yes Cats, the Voice will fix climate change…
Marvellous.
The English Breakfast is their version of Welcome to Country.
Dehydrated, no doubt.
I was buying pate the other day and it occurred to me that I have not seen for some time now a particular school sandwich filler from the 70s. Has anyone seen lately devon in Colesworth or anywhere else?
Haha Bruce, that has made my day.
Oh, and my question about the 60,000 number is not about The Voice – with regards to all the arguments for and against, 40,000 or 60,000 make no difference.
Generation Snowflake news, Hun:
FMD. May I suggest maybe put the phone down and get outside and experience life rather than wet your underwear about perceived world ills?
These Marxist dons and germalists would ship modern Kulaks off to be gassed in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. They are not normal people. Remember Jilly Singer in the HUN actually suggested gassing.
I have finally gained an understanding of ‘progressive’.
As in: Labor has progressed to the era of Arthur Calwell.
Easy really.
plans to study journalism and law
more germalists and lawyers just what the country needs NOT.
And …
What a disgusting race of people.
Our vet uses it as a distraction for dogs he is treating.
I’ve reported him to the RSPCA.
Consider this:
Pull out of the degree RIGHT NOW and do another double degree:
B Eng (Mech) / B Info Tech
Thank me later – your debt will be much lower and you will finish in the same timeframe, give or take a year, about half as much per year.
The entrance marks required for LLB/BA Journo are actually much higher than the B Eng/ B IT…
No wonder they’re all pasty, with sunken eyes and teeth that look like a knocked-over jar of toothpicks.
Why the eff is it LLB and not BL?
Pretentious shite.
Latin, old chum.
Like a Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB B Ch).
Dot, also Geotech. High demand now and into the future. Could also couple it with an Assoc degree in Surveying.
Also, do what my youngest did – PAYG. She worked a couple of jobs, studied and left Uni virtually debt free.
Also
Legus Baccalaureus, not Lex Baccalaureus, so:
–> LLB, not LB.
So why is a BA not an AB or why is MB BS not BM BS? I know it’s to demonstrate membership of the cognoscenti.
ok I get the LL bit
“They carry the weight of the world on their shoulders.”
Sigh.
She could have been one of those fighting in WWI. Or II.
It’s so hard being the young modern work saviour of the world today.
On the Full English Breakfast – you forgot the devilled kidneys in the chafing dish.
Also…”An Englishman is never served at breakfast”.
I learned that from Gosford Park.
Thanks, Dot.
Certainly Australian anthropology in Australia will be politicised in Australia.
The objective trend also seems to be to always push time lines further back as further finds are made or teased out of old finds with newer technology.
But I am suspicious about the 60,000 year number because it spills so readily and like sewage from a broken pipe from the mouths of politicians, j’ismists, and activists.
But again, 60,000 or 40,000 (or even 80,000 – which was a number touted for a while – I wonder why it was scaled back?) makes no real difference.
Actually, in some places it is!
https://gsas.harvard.edu/program/harvard-abam-and-absm
Thirty pairs of brothers, buried in the American cemetery, behind Omaha Beach…
No worries ML
I have some questions though!
Left Africa 75,000 years ago?
No other DNA other than through India and a land bridge?
Only one migration?
Despite three identifiable ethnic/language groups?
No interactions with the Chinese, Maoris or Indonesians?
Where did the dingoes come from and how & when?
Also – got here 80,000 years ago.
None. Of. This. Makes. Sense.
Meanwhile in the Territory:
Two Territory primary schoolers were injured by shattered glass after an “out of control man” attacked their bus with poles and rocks, a driver has alleged.
The North East Arnhem Land bus service GoLbuy Transport was allegedly attacked by a man while on the morning school route at Yirrkala on Friday.
The company’s sole director and driver at the time, Mareva Pearse alleged an “out of control man” armed with two metal poles repeatedly attacked the school bus by throwing rocks.
“The front windscreen was smashed and a back window,” Ms Pearse said.
“Two small primary school children inside the bus were injured and had to be taken to Gove District Hospital by their parents.”
NT Police confirmed a teenager was arrested over the alleged disturbance, with the two children treated for minor injuries.
The 18-year-old man was charged with going armed in public, three counts of endangering the occupants of a vehicle and three counts of property damage.
He was bailed to appear in local court in September.
The Voice will stop this sort of thing…
What a pitiful, whiny complaint.
You lot wouldn’t be where you are today without a homeland founded on kippers, bloaters, lights, brawn, whelks and winkles, boiled beef, braised shoe liver, pickled trotters, tripe and onions, ways with mashed swede, suet puddings, and Ahh Bisto gravy done with giblets and boiled cabbage water.
Spoiled brat.
I don’t think the “For” case will regard this as helpful.
I see Wodney Woddenhead declared that the 500 sovereigns he spent getting to Straya was “money well spent”.
I am sure those left behind in Blighty would agree.
It’s all just to remind “Whitefella” how insignificant his occupation of this country has been. The fact that, in 60,000 or 80,000 years, no – one discovered the wheel, or how to boil water, is overlooked.
“Broad church” is now code for the right giving left-wing extremists their head.
In Menzies’ day, the man more progressive (or small “l” Liberal) believed in putting an end to sectarianism or getting rid of the old dictation test.
The man more progressive (or small “l” Liberal) in today’s Liberal Party believes sexual perverts should be allowed in to women’s toilets and that women who disagree should be expelled from membership.
I also find it amusing that John Howard – formerly known as ‘John HoWARd’ – is now being lionised by autograph hunter Troy Bramston as the Good Liberal. The latest Liberal leader is always Hitler.
Breakfast .. cooking .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/pWSzz4v
Generation Snowflake news, Hun:
Today’s parents have invested more in their kids than ever before. As a result, they’ve never had so many opportunities afforded to them, or been more connected thanks to social media. But meet Generation Angst.
An interesting article. It is very tempting, as some have done here, to satirise the description of the angst of Gen Z. But I think there is something quite serious emerging historically here.
A few years ago my husband and I attended a talk by a psychologist in a local library in Sydney on the overuse of iPhones by children. It was quite disturbing as he described the studies (even then) which showed significant cognitive aberrations in children allowed unrestricted access to these devices. He was very much concerned, but said he had encountered nil interest in educational authorities and parent groups.
Like all generational developments, it is well nigh impossible to persuade parents of such dangers to their offspring. The phones have been too useful as baby sitters, educational “assistants” etc etc. It is also incredibly difficult to deny offspring the “lollies”, be they fast food or mobile phones. The rest is history.
I also find it amusing that John Howard – formerly known as ‘John HoWARd’ – is now being lionised by autograph hunter Troy Bramston as the Good Liberal. The latest Liberal leader is always Hitler.
Well said, C.L.
I was initially bemused at Bramston’s “concessions”, but scanning the article saw that there was “method” in his madness. The Left have been delighted at the emergence of the Teals……and are now scared of a backlash at the next election when Lib voters have buyer’s remorse. Thus – the praise of the “middle path”….
There’s a very simple solution to all that. I wonder if anyone has thought of it?
My grandchildren’s social media time is strictly timed and monitored. Like all addictions, a time away will break the spell. Especially if content becomes increasingly toxic.
By the way, the clue was given thrice. Just like a spell. 😀
Amazing how it only works in one direction, like vote counting in the US.
Classics!
I’m still pissing myself laughing. True!
CANNONBALL RUN I and II Bloopers & Outtakes – Full Screen
It may have already been flagged on the blog, but in case it has not – everyone should read the excellent article in the Australian Spectator on the aim of co-sovereignty amongst the Voice protagonists:
If you cant get past the paywall – I’m sure the editor would not mind a copy on this vital subject:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/co-sovereignty-the-conversation-we-havent-had/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FLAT%20%2020230811%20%20SG&utm_content=FLAT%20%2020230811%20%20SG+CID_d4fa25b0ed573aa5a0c6153140d7ac1a&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Co-Sovereignty%20the%20conversation%20we%20havent%20had
Vicki
Aug 12, 2023 2:13 PM
Thank you.
Great speech – Andrew Hastie MP delivers first Jim Molan Oration. Lest We Forget.
Saturday, 12 August 2023
OldOzzie
Aug 12, 2023 2:50 PM
Great speech – Andrew Hastie MP delivers first Jim Molan Oration. Lest We Forget.
Thanks OldOzzie. Tennis Elbow, Blackout Bowen and Dim Chalmers should take note of this speech and ACT. FFS. Otherwise, this country is stuffed.
Sancho Panzer
Aug 12, 2023 1:26 PM
I see that Mrs Stencho Pantyhose has just woken up and trawled the Blog to make another pathetic comment. And she still has that lisp. ‘Sirry Iriot’.