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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?
Maybe not instantly but eventually everyone will restart their manufacturing industries simply as a self-defence mechanism. In the short term there are other manufacturing countries in Asia.
I’ve been wondering if Albo will send their tank to Ukraine.
(My old dad lives with within quite close walking distance of said beast…)
“I suppose it will not make any difference for me to get into the priest’s ear.”
Yes it does make a difference. You absolutely should let him know. I would be very vocal if my rabbi allowed voice spruikers in his schul, in fact I’d be f*cking furious.
That may be true but the Maori society as it existed at the time of discovery met the common law criteria requiring a treaty (organisation, recognised leader etc). Again, discussed in Mabo.
I’m watching the supposedly artificial intelligence (AI) program on Sky. All I can see is photoshopping, clever but still photoshopping.
Crossie,
there is a great clip on youtube by Mel Gibson about the @@#%&* Bishops in the Catholic Church. It shouldn’t be too hard to find. They seem to be the direct cause of a lot that is wrong with the Church these past years. Their power really needs to be reined in.
It’s right there in the definitions (S6) :
S121 has this to offer…
But, fundamentally, NZ wouldn’t be a “new” state. If they wanted in (which is all hypothetical) I read that as meaning we’d have a bit of a hard time stopping them. It is all a bit woolly.
Maybe best 2 out of 3 in rugby?
Jeffrey Archer is very gullible re the AI, they had everything preprogrammed to solicit his reactions. On the other hand he is probably going along with the interviews. Still unimpressed.
“H B Bear
Aug 29, 2023 8:13 PM
A Maori told me that the British had to sign a treaty because they knew the Maori would be excellent guerilla warriors and would not give up
That may be true but the Maori society as it existed at the time of discovery met the common law criteria requiring a treaty (organisation, recognised leader etc). Again, discussed in Mabo.”
Absolutely Bear.
The Maori even had a Royal Family.
China is bleeding foreign capital.
Xi is running the economy into the ground.
None of this would be an issue if we had somebody like Cardinal Robert Sarah for pope. The current pope seems to fit in with the rest of the West’s leadership so we may have to wait for a change all around. These things seems to come in waves but I hope the current one dissipates soon.
Still not impressed with pre-programmed or remotely programmed robots.
Crossie,
the current Pope is like the Church’s version of Biden for President.
A definite behind the scenes Cabal intent on running things their way. Pure Evil.
That robot (AI) being showcased on Sky is very similar to the robot that was wandering around Narita Airport in 2017, about the same capacity.
Companies are factoring in a looming crisis involving the US.
I just realised what the AI robot on Sky reminded me of, the GPS voice, and about the same intelligence capability. The only difference is that there is a keyboard jockey, or a team of them, providing replies to the interviewer instead of a canned program.
Do you mean that they are factoring in the possibility of Trump winning the next election and steering the US economy away from relying on Chinese manufacturing?
Rowdy!
Lt. Rowdy miniature horse walking around Rodeo Dr 1 of 9 82723
With AFL etc running around with teams called Naarm etc, it seems only a matter of time before some national team trots out with a Furst Naishuns moniker. Anybody have a clue what that moniker might be?
PS I fully expect ANZAC, Christmas and Easter to be gone as public holidays in my lifetime. I’ll be dead by 2060.
“Australia Day” will be next on the list.
There are huge problems Roger. Increasing numbers of the young have moved from lying flat to let it rot, bailing out of society. The real estate boom was a primary source of investment but is now in serious trouble. Apartments are prepaid but not being completed, leaving individuals with mortgages but no asset. That’s a disaster personally and economically. The USA is already shifting production away from China and other countries are exploring means of uncoupling. Corporations are seeking manufacturing opportunities in other countries.
https://www.businessinsider.com/made-in-america-companies-bringing-manufacturing-back-to-us-2022-7
Steve,
I finally had a look at part of one of your videos. The one you just posted of the pony.
I am not surprised you receive complaints. A loooooooooooooong clip of a pony being walked on a lead down a footpath.
I had a genuine miniature horse. Corey. I had the privilege of owning him for 22 years. I used to cart him and my two dogs around in the back of my Panel Van. I trained Corey to saddle and harness, Competed with him in harness at many shows.
I am very happy to relay that Corey would never have walked quietly through the streets like boring Rowdy. He would have stolen every sandwich, ice cream, bag of chips and cigarette that he came across. And for fun, he would have head-butted, knocked over, then stomped every noisy kid who came screaming “can I pet the pony!!!!”
Link to something interesting for Christ’s sake.
Sorry Zulu: should have mentioned that I believe oz day is already gone. My work place lets employees to swap it out – trauma day etc – but says it understands if we don’t because we might want to spend time with family. It doesn’t even acknowledge that anybody might like to observe Australia Day to, um, celebrate Australia
CCP let their hegemonic mask slip too early so that even small economy countries are now getting nervous about being tied exclusively to the Chinese economy. They offended too many people which raised red flags with others. It’s not going to end well. I hope Australian agriculture producers are looking at alternative markets as the Chinese market is too capricious and thus unreliable.
No, just stuffed.
It will hit us hard.
https://www.china-briefing.com/news/record-high-australian-exports-to-china-ignite-optimism-for-bilateral-trade/
““Australia Day” will be next on the list.”
Yep, if da Voice gets up, Australia Day will be binned and “Voice Day” will be inaugurated. What am I saying, even if da Voice doesn’t get up, Australia day will still be binned. It’s inevitable. We live in progressive land now, and progressives rule.
Listened to somebody over the weekend talking about BRICS who said India would not play ball over the One Belt plan and that this was going to seriously hamper the success of the whole alliance.
“Dunny Brush
Aug 29, 2023 9:03 PM”
Snap Dunny.
Cassie, Dunny,
I will celebrate Australia Day no matter what.
My parents didn’t escape a Dictatorship and make their way here for their children to kowtow to another Dictatorship.
Pogria
Aug 29, 2023 8:58 PM
Steve,
I finally had a look at part of one of your videos. The one you just posted of the pony.
I am not surprised you receive complaints. A loooooooooooooong clip of a pony being walked on a lead down a footpath.
I had a genuine miniature horse. Corey. I had the privilege of owning him for 22 years. I used to cart him and my two dogs around in the back of my Panel Van. I trained Corey to saddle and harness, Competed with him in harness at many shows.
I am very happy to relay that Corey would never have walked quietly through the streets like boring Rowdy. He would have stolen every sandwich, ice cream, bag of chips and cigarette that he came across. And for fun, he would have head-butted, knocked over, then stomped every noisy kid who came screaming “can I pet the pony!!!!”
Link to something interesting for Christ’s sake.
F8ck off!
I think people are underestimating how difficult ‘decoupling’ from China is going to be. It isn’t just manufacturing that China is engaged in, for instance.
“F8ck off!”
I rest my case.
At least link to boring Australian videos.
“I will celebrate Australia Day no matter what.
My parents didn’t escape a Dictatorship and make their way here for their children to kowtow to another Dictatorship.”
I’m with you Pogria. I remember earlier this year when my department head (I work for a very woke corporation) said that people could swap Australia Day.
I just rolled my eyes. I am sooooooooooooo sick of it all. The good news is that nobody took up the offer.
BRICS is separate to Belt and Road Intiative.
My favourite was the local member of the younger generation here, who was asked if he knew what “National Sorry Day” was about.
“Is that when the Aboriginal kids say “sorry” for beating us up, after school, and stealing our bikes?”
Funnily enough re: the oz day swap out thing, it winds up being two holidays. Those that turn up don’t do anything on Jan 26. And those that turn up on the swap out day don’t do anything either. Long lunch days. Trebles all round!! The system works.
I don’t think so. There were 23 applicants to get into BRICS this year and 6 were accepted. It’s only going to get bigger.
Cassie,
I recall you telling us about that.
I am so sick of most people giving in to this bullying.
Growing up, I was the wog migrant in a sea of aussies. I never had the same clothes as the other girls, my skirts were never as short as theirs, I was never allowed to stay out as long as the other girls. It hurt for a long while, until I learnt to embrace the fact that I wasn’t a face in the mob. That early experience taught me to never “go along to get along”.
I think that people should be confronted with the reality of their silly ideas.
Allow individuals to have the same number of public holidays as now, but take them when they wish. If they work on any of the current holidays, they get no penalty pay. All they get is days off at a time of their choosing.
Don’t believe in Christianity? Work Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day at standard rates. Hate Australia Day? Work 26 January as a normal day, ditto for Anzac Day, Melbourne Cup in Victoria, King’s Birthday, Labour Day and all the others.
The system will soon sort itself out.
On the schools front, I think the Woke brainwashing attempts are going to backfire spectacularly. The result will be clear within 5 to 10 years.
Pogria
Aug 29, 2023 9:17 PM
“F8ck off!”
I rest my case.
At least link to boring Australian videos.
[ Middle finger ]
Nicely said Pogria.
I trained Corey to saddle and harness, Competed with him in harness at many shows.
My miniature horse is more butch than yours. The gauntlet has been thrown down Steve, demand satisfaction.
I want to see jousting on miniatures.
Steve,
at least I had a pony. 😀
With tons of personality. He was nobody’s lap dog.
Someone pointed me this this surprisingly good piece in Zero Hedge on the alternatives to the US dollar. In short, there’s nothing on the horizon.
As I’ve said in the past, if the Euro couldn’t make much of a dent, nothing will.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-brics-dethrone-us-dollar
Farmer Gez,
a friend with a shetland and I actually did joust our way around the local park.
We used squash rackets.
Bugger,
squash RACQUETS!!
Dover, I think he was suggesting tensions and rivalries between India and China to do with the OBOR proposal we’re having an impact elsewhere on cooperation and harmony within BRICS. He thought it was doomed.
What’s on SKY News, What’s on SKY New, What’s on SKY News?
Retards!
First pass to Steve.
Spelling foul.
Actually,
I should give Steve some leeway. Rowdy is in California. Poor pony is fortunate he isn’t laying prone on the footpath in a Fentanyl stupor.
Pogria
Aug 29, 2023 9:44 PM
Actually,
I should give Steve some leeway. Rowdy is in California. Poor pony is fortunate he isn’t laying prone on the footpath in a Fentanyl stupor.
It’s a mini horse, idiot!
“t’s a mini horse, idiot!”
You cut me deep.
bwahahahah
The US trade deficit with China actually went up during Trump.
Pogria
Aug 29, 2023 9:54 PM
I reckon you’d be cool in bed. Horse Girl. ( :
Joking…
Meanwhile in the Territory, perfectly normal:
‘I’ll sue you for millions’: Inside the corruption scandal plaguing the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
By ELLIE DUDLEY
LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
@EllieDudley_
“I’m going to get a f..king reference from the Prime Minister,” ousted North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive Priscilla Atkins screamed down the phone line.
It’s a conversation NAAJA chair Colleen Rosas recalls in ¬detail. She says Ms Atkins called her, hysterical, and yelled: “You have accused me of criminal activity. I am going to f..king sue you for millions.”
The phone conversation came after Ms Rosas accused Ms Atkins of forging her signature on a contract extension document, securing her position as chief executive – and its $350,000 salary – for another five years.
Ms Atkins denies doing so, and says she never raised her voice at Ms Rosas.
The two women, along with chief financial officer Madhur Evans, are at the centre of serious allegations of corruption, bullying, fraud and deception within NAAJA, the country’s largest and best-resourced Indigenous legal organisation.
Some allegations include:
• Ms Atkins used company funds to acquire clothes, artworks, flights and cars – including a $129,000 Range Rover;
• Ms Evans secretly paid $20,000 directly into Ms Rosas’s bank account, in breach of the agency’s funding agreement;
• Ms Rosas requested her pay be given to her on a credit card so as not to alert the tax office and threaten her Centrelink pension;
• The NAAJA board was paid “huge” amounts of money, despite claims the attorney-general approved their pay for only eight days a year;
• Ms Rosas appointed her nephew as acting CEO, and a friend as head of HR – a position that was not publicly advertised;
• Ms Rosas told employees Ms Atkins was using cocaine;
• Ms Evans left her mobile phone in offices to record unsuspecting colleagues and logged on to Ms Atkins’s computer after hours without permission. When a cleaner saw Ms Evans on the computer, the cleaner was fired;
• Ms Evans is paid a phone ¬allowance but also has a NAAJA-paid mobile.
Each woman denies the allegations made against her.
The NT Independent Commission Against Corruption is investigating the allegations, and both state and the federal ¬attorneys-general are considering intervening to prevent the organisation, which receives about $20m in taxpayer funds every year, from going under.
Meanwhile, Ms Atkins has sued the agency for unfair dismissal, in a matter that will be heard at trial in the Federal Court.
Sources believe NAAJA will spend up to $1m on the trial, after it recruited global firm King & Wood Mallesons to represent them.
NAAJA is mainly funded by the federal government, and conducts the lion’s share of Indigenous legal cases in the NT, where crime has increased by double digits in the past year. The organisation employs 200 workers in Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine, Alice Springs and Tennant Creek.
In a sworn affidavit to the Federal Court, Ms Rosas claims she first became aware Ms Atkins had forged her signature on a ¬contract-extension document in a June 2022 board meeting.
“Ms Atkins’s salary seemed much higher to me than I recollected. Further, I had no memory of any involvement in its ¬approval. I was troubled by this, so I decided to seek out a copy of Ms Atkins’s contract of employment,” the affidavit, obtained by The Australian, reads. “Over the next few months I repeatedly asked Ms Atkins in conversation (to) provide me with a copy of her contact. Although she kept ¬assuring me she would, by October 2022 she still had not done so.”
On October 18, Ms Rosas asked NAAJA executive services co-ordinator Kerry Keightley to provide her with a copy of Ms ¬Atkins’s most recent contract. The document stipulated her employment had been extended for five years on a salary of $357,235 per annum.
“The contact extension letter had two signatures on it – one purporting to be Ms Atkins’s signature and one purporting to be mine,” Ms Rosas’s affidavit reads.
“I have no recollection of signing that document and I don’t believe that I did so.”
Ms Atkins denies forging Ms Rosas signature, and says the baseless accusation was a way for the board to force her out of her position as CEO. The substance of her Fair Work complaint before the Federal Court is that she was sacked for alleging Ms Evans engaged in misconduct.
On November 7, Ms Atkins sent an email to Ms Rosas and mother-daughter board members Carol Smith and Marilyn Smith detailing complaints against Ms Evans.
Those allegations included that Ms Evans, in her ¬capacity as CFO, made discreet payments directly to Ms Rosas, bullied other employees, recorded interactions with her colleagues without their permission, logged into Ms Atkins’s work computer after hours without her permission, disclosed confidential company information and failed to use her work-issued credit card in accordance with policy.
One week after she sent the email, Ms Atkins called Ms Rosas, having learnt that the latter believed she had forged her signature on her contract extension form.
“On the morning of 15 November, 2022, I received multiple phone calls from Ms Atkins. In all of these phone calls, she) was yelling at me and gave me the impression of being hysterical,” Ms Rosas’s affidavit reads. “Ms Atkins swore at me many times in these phone calls. In these phone calls, (she) mentioned she knew about an issue to do with me disputing my signature on the contact extension and said things to the effect of: ‘You have accused me of criminal activity’; ‘I’m going to get a f……. reference from the Prime Minister’; and ‘I ¬am going to f……. sue you for millions’ ”
That afternoon, Ms Rosas chaired an “urgent virtual board meeting” after Ms Atkins said she was taking a period of extended leave. One week later, the board agreed to suspend Ms Atkins on full pay while the NAAJA investigated the validity of Ms Rosas’s signature on Ms Atkins’s employment document.
During Ms Atkins’s suspension, the NAAJA board engaged external auditors BDO to conduct an “independent special audit” into her conduct as CEO.
“More specifically, BDO was engaged to review, analyse and report back to the NAAJA board on any irregular or inappropriate actions within specified areas of the CEO’s role, responsibilities and accountabilities in corporate governance of the organisation over the period January 2017 to January 2023,” Ms Rosas’s affidavit reads.
The findings of the BDO report were as follow:
• Ms Atkins personally purchased nine vehicles over a four-year period by way of a “novated lease” arrangement that was not approved by the board. The cars included two Range Rover Sports ($88,253 and $129,118), two Jeeps ($22,500 and $8736) and VW Amarok ($28,700);
• Ms Atkins attempted to cash out her annual leave entitlements to pay NAAJA back the money she had used for the cars. She cashed out more annual leave then she was entitled to;
• Ms Atkins charged personal expenses to her corporate card, including four iPads and a $1320 artwork;
• Ms Atkins failed to reimburse NAAJA for personal expenses charged to her credit card;
• Instances where the approver signature on credit card reconciliation did not match any of the approved approver signatures;
• At least 37 months of credit card reconciliations were not approved by the board as required.
Ms Atkins denies the alle¬gations made against her in the BDO report.
Ms Atkins’s employment was terminated after the tabling of the report. Police were notified of the allegations, and Ms Rosas has since met three times with representatives from Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’s office and the office of NT Attorney-General Chansey Paech, who has also been referred to the NT ICAC for allegedly failing to declare a potential conflict of interest with the organisation servicing Alice Springs town camps.
A temporary injunction filed as part of Ms Atkins’s Federal Court unfair dismissal claim means her employment has not yet been terminated, pending resolution of the case.
Ms Atkins says since her employment was suspended, she has been continually harassed, including “current workers being advised she was on cocaine”.
In March this year, Ms Atkins wrote to Namatjira MP William Yan detailing claims of “improper conduct, abuse of power and corruption by the NAAJA chairperson, board and CFO”.
The email, obtained by The Australian, included dozens of allegations against Ms Evans and Ms Rosas, and urged Mr Yan to employ external investigators to look into her claim.
Mr Yan forwarded her email to the Acting NAAJA CEO.
Ms Atkins alleged the NAAJA board made “huge” payments to board directors instead of the permitted $300 a day, without consulting the Attorney-General’s office as required. She also accused Ms Evans of being complicit in Ms Rosas’s scheme to avoid tax office scrutiny, and protect her Centrelink pension.
“NAAJA has approval to pay 8 days per year per director sitting fees,” the emails says. “At the NAAJA board meeting on 25 & 26 August, 2022, the NAAJA board agreed to pay the chairperson an annual salary of $15,000 per year.
“NAAJA has never paid an annual salary to any NAAJA chairperson or NAAJA director. At the NAAJA board meeting on 10th and 11th November, 2022, the NAAJA board agreed to increase the chairperson annual salary to $20,000 per year plus sitting fees.
“The chairperson is on a ¬Centre¬link pension and was meeting with the CEO after the 25th & 26th NAAJA board meeting requesting this payment be made without the ATO being aware so it did not impact her ¬pension. The chairperson requested I give her a credit card to the value of $15,000 so Centrelink would not find out about the NAAJA fee. The CEO informed the chairperson we couldn’t and that it would need to be taxed.
“This annual salary for the chairperson has not been approved by the funding bodies. The CFO paid $20,000 into the chairperson bank account in December 2022 tax-free. The NAAJA board conduct constitutions (sic) reasonable ground for dismissal for inappropriately appointing the chair under a salaried position, failure to manage an actual conflict of interest, breach of public trust and illegal performance of official functions.”
Ms Rosas has denied allegations made in the email. The NAAJA has denied allegations that Ms Evans and Ms Rosas engaged in deceptive conduct.
As part of her latest affidavit to the court, Ms Atkins has included reference letters from NT Supreme Court judge Jenny Block, NT Chief Justice Michael Grant and barrister Phillip Boulten SC.
The matter is scheduled for trial from October 23.
The Australian
Article above may appear twice – it went into moderation the first time.
Tthe original contained two examples of the F word later on, despite the sub-editor editing the two earlier versions.
Sure it’s not a dog?
We are one step away from screensaver clips of goldfish.
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 29, 2023 10:08 PM
Footy results !
The goldfish beat the dog and the little horse.
National Archives acknowledges 5,400 Biden pseudonym emails, faces lawsuit for their release
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™
@P_McCulloughMD
XBB.1.5 Kraken is long-gone. New booster too late again! No large-scale randomized trials. No evidence of improved safety. XBB.1.5 Biden booster dead on arrival.
the commanding heights of the reputation war
Crossie said
We joke Trump will have to run the country from a jail cell, but he’s already doing it!
At some point, sooner or later, it will happen. The only question apart from when is what replaces it or enjoys the same status. None of this will happen overnight. It took almost 50 years for the USD to replace the British pound.
Canberra news (the Hun):
And:
It’s a cover story. Obviously.
Nanowrigglers!
IT’S HAPPENING SHEEPLE! WAKE UP!
The worm story was in MedXpress today. Quite interesting in an icky sort of way.
Australian woman found with parasitic roundworm in her brain caught from carpet python (28 Aug)
The purchase of either is a crime in itself.
Videos of ponies out walking?
Goldfish?
No, don’t thank me.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opens with …
a black screen with a full-size warning that the film “contains tobacco depictions”.
FMD
Goldfish?
Won’t someone think about the flying toasters?
Yes.
There’s been altogether too much Baz-Ball with this one already.
Porgia
Not casting aspersions or anything, but please check with Pedro re: your aledged miniature horse.
It was a dorper wasnt it?
Cut to the quick by the flash girls at the pony club you sought refuge in the belligerent wrinkle nosed ovine as a substitute.
Can you still hear it Porgia, in the night, the screaming of the dorper?
More pony videos please.
The longer the better.
Situation normal.
Ouch!!
The UKs had a direct hit on a new high tech Russian coastal defense installation.
Not sure how they could be that precise???
Excellent.
Paul McCartney & Wings – Silly Love Songs (Official Video) [Remastered in 4K]
Since the video was shot from a drone my first guess would be via laser designation, as in the drone lased the target and the missile guided on that beam. That technology has existed since the 1960s.
Second guess would be via GPS.
“Can you still hear it Porgia, in the night, the screaming of the dorper?”
Mole,
you promised you would never tell. You PROMISED!
Sob…
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Chip Bok #2.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
Cheers Tom
A headline from the MIT Tech Review publication.
The tricky ethics of brain implants and informed consent
After two years of MIT forgetting about informed consent, they’re back !!
Article in the Hobart Mercury says Tasmanians are going to vote no against Da Screech.
Quotes an opinion poll which puts it at 53% No and 42% yes.
Funny thing though, is the paper is running its own poll in the article:
How will you vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum ?
Yes 6 %
No 91 %
I’m still undecided 3 %
3095 votes
which is far more indicative.
Mercury
Article in the Hobart Mercury says Tasmanians are going to vote no
It will be fascinating to see which state has the biggest % no vote.
Can you imagine the smugness of the state that votes yes?
At this time, it looks like Victoria will be the only state voting yes.
Dan Andrews will fire up the twitter with a “I see you, I hear you” situation again.
That should read, Victoria is the only state close to voting yes.
The euro accounts for about 20 percent of foreign currency reserves in the world, the USD 60 percent and slowly declining. Nice economy you’ve got there, Germany, shame if something was to happen to it.
Oh my goodness looky here a NSW Liberal MP whose found a spine on the side of the road to perdition – petition agains the Shut Your Face Bill
List of currency reserved by currency
U.S. dollar. 59.0%
Euro. 19.8%
Japanese yen. 5.5%
British pound sterling. 4.9%
Chinese renminbi. 2.6%
Canadian dollar. 2.4%
Australian dollar. 2.0%
Other currencies. 3.9%
The interesting thing is how the Aussie dollar is 2%. I guess that sort of matches the size of the Australian economy in a global perspective.
I’m not really buying into the Euro stat. I’d bet a lot of the Euro countries would be holding the Euro and that would put it way out of proportion. I can’t find the breakdown by stats, but just a hunch.
Young Vivek
Victoria to ban hand and arm movements.
Don’t hold your arm and hand to chin level and keep it up there to say block the sun. You’ll could get arrested in Victoria. What a sad state of affairs.
FMD, he’s an insidious hunchback prick.
JC
Aug 30, 2023 5:50 AM
Page not found, how can he ban arm movements?
Banning the nazi salute I can understand.
Not approve of, just as I don’t approve of book burning.
JP Sears skit as the corrupt politician reacting to Oliver Anthony’s Rich Men North of Richmond
Victoria to ban hand and arm movements.
This is the kind of thing Full Frontal would have sent up.
Like Joan Kirner busking when Victoria was going bust in the late 80′, early 90’s.
3/10 in the Oz quiz today…scurries away.
Also has link to salute story
Woman at centre of mushroom mystery visits lawyers, one month after deadly meal
You know, during covid when I was walking with my daughter and new grandson a long way from my home wearing my ‘not happy Dan’ facemask* a couple of Dan fans yelled something from their car at me and I threw them a nazi salute.
To their credit they laughed.
If I were ever to spot Dan himself I’d be itching to do it again.
*I eventually ditched the mask because my youngest son was worried it might bring trouble our way.
Latest from John Campbell
Vaccination leads to easier infection?
Today’s large dog and small horse clips are brought to you by Basil Zemplas and 6PR.
Sounds fascinating.
Do they come with free earthquakes?
Tintarella di Luna
Aug 30, 2023 5:38 AM
Oh my goodness looky here a NSW Liberal MP whose found a spine on the side of the road to perdition – petition against the Shut Your Face Bill
Coleman’s not a bad type, I actually do think he has an antenna glued to reality, something rare among most Liberal MPs, federal and state.
I’m curious though, because this bill was drafted under Scumbag and that vile rodent Paul Fletcher (sadly, one the Teals missed in their scalp haul last year), my question is, what were the Liberals thinking when they drafted these laws?
Hey Bern, I got 7/10!
I’m shocked. I’m wearing Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face this morning.
Snowy 2.0 Hydro Scheme set to cost $12 billion (30 Aug)
Can they get in another doubling by Christmas? Pity they didn’t use the money to build a couple of HELE plants instead.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
None of our leaders are punished for lying. Instead, regular people are punished for telling the truth. That was part of our conversation with Hungarian leader Balázs Orbán. It happened immediately after our speech in Budapest. Watch.
More than 1,600 scientists, including two Nobel laureates, declare climate ’emergency’ a myth
Today’s Paywallion:
Canadian speech is free – except for Jordan Peterson
PETER RIDD
12:00AM AUGUST 30, 2023
A Canadian court has ruled that Jordan Peterson can be instructed to undergo re-education coaching by the College of Psychologists of Ontario if he wants to keep his licence to practise as a psychologist. The CPO objected to some of his comments on a range of topics, including transgender and racial issues, as they could pose “moderate risks of harm to the public”.
Failure to comply to the “coach’s satisfaction may result in an allegation of professional misconduct and the commencement of disciplinary proceedings by the College”.
The court ruled that the re-education does not prevent Peterson from “expressing himself on controversial topics”. But he must abide by the profession’s rules, which may restrict him.
This is yet another troubling example of a judiciary failing utterly to uphold freedom of speech.
Let us imagine that Peterson complies and submits to the complete indignity of re-education, and by some miracle can hold his tongue and suck it all up. What if he says the same harmful things again – something shocking but sensible, such as: we should stop encouraging the mutilation of our children on the altar of trans ideology?
The Ontario judges have agreed that the CPO has the power to mandatorily moderate Peterson’s speech and, if it deems it warranted, to take away his licence to practise if he fails to comply. He has free speech, claims the judges, but only if he sacrifices his professional opinion. As Peterson says, this does not worry him personally because he makes a good living by helping change the world for the better. But all other psychologists in Canada now know what to do – and say – if they want to earn a living.
This is a dangerous precedent and, although it applies to Canada, Australians should be aware that something similar could be forced on us by our own judiciary.
Australian courts have already shown themselves to be, at best, ambivalent about free speech.
At risk of being self-serving, the matter of Ridd v James Cook University was a case in point.
The High Court ruled that JCU acted unlawfully in censuring Ridd for his speech about science quality-assurance, but then ruled that JCU had a right to instruct Ridd to be silent about their unlawful behaviour.
After invoking John Stuart Mill and the importance of freedom of speech, they cast aside that freedom at the earliest convenience.
And it was the same with Peterson and the Ontario Court.
In the first sentence of their ruling, the judges showed their contempt for freedom of expression, at the same time as apparently affirming a citizen’s right to it, by stating: “When individuals join a regulated profession, they do not lose their Charter right to freedom of expression. At the same time, however, they take on obligations and must abide by the rules of their regulatory body that may limit their freedom of expression.”
This makes no sense – they clearly lose their right to freedom of expression if the regulatory body can limit that freedom of expression. So, I say this to the judges: spit it out and say it straight. Peterson lost his freedom of expression. Do not pretend he did not, and do not pretend you did not take his freedom of expression away – because you did.
But even the worst offenders claim they support freedom of expression as they take it away – think Xi Jinping or Benito Mussolini. They merely argue that while speech is free, it must be “responsible”, or not “harmful”, or not against the national interest. All these terms are sufficiently indefinable to cover almost anything.
In addition, the ruling against Peterson quotes five other Canadian case law examples, all recent, where other professional bodies (nurses, physicians and surgeons) have been given rights to restrict professional speech. One example was nurses who spoke against mask and vaccine mandates. It seems that professional associations in Canada are firmly in control of the speech of their members, and the Peterson case just reinforces this fact.
So, consider this: engineers, doctors, nurses, accountants, pharmacists, barristers – every professional who is more or less forced to be a member of a professional organisation is probably owned by their professional body. Stray from the official line, and do it in public, and you risk losing your job.
I am reminded of Ignaz Semmelweis, a pioneer of antiseptics in hospitals. He proved if doctors washed their hands before delivering a baby it greatly reduced the risk of the mother and baby dying from infections. The profession crucified him. If there had been social media in 1850, the Canadian judges would have forced him to be re-educated. Thank God for the outspoken dissenters such as Semmelweis and Peterson – they have given us so much, at significant personal and professional cost.
We cannot stand silently by and allow freedom of speech to be taken away from dedicated professionals.
Peter Ridd is an adjunct fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
Who’s Making the Variants?
‘Never Again’ – Mixed Reactions As Biden Proposes To Reinstate Vaccine Mandates
I wouldn’t predict they do.
Fani Willis’s Dad Was a Black Panther
Fani Willis’s Dad Was a Black Panther
YES or NO? ..
https://ibb.co/98mMcjv
“Ulez backlash begins as vandals target 14 cameras on one road as Londoners protest”
I never thought I’d say this but I think that the only way normal people can fight these far-left sinister and insidious controls is through social disobedience and vandalism.
If only he were a pink panther.
Seems to me that panther story was been posted here yesterday and it the day before too.
Beertruk
Aug 30, 2023 7:20 AM
And yet, people question how the nazis got to power.
Easy does it, little by little eroding your rights.
At least the communists had the guts to start a full blown revolution and fight it out,
some they won, like Russia, some they lost, Spain and others.
Taxing the poor of London, nice work Khan.
I see Damian Oliver will retire after the spring carnival. Excellent career.
Hey Bern, I got 7/10!
In a Sam Jackson voice “Check out the big brain on Cassie”.
Imagine a world with no Tarantino movies.
Shudder.
Black Ball
Aug 30, 2023 7:35 AM
Excellent career.
True, a good horseman, too smart for me alas.
Still made a motza backing him when odds were over about $7 and up.
Rita Panahi:
The real cost of wind energy is starting to hit too.
1st US Offshore Wind Auction Attracts Paltry Interest (29 Aug)
Yep. And just wait until they start noticing all the whale deaths and put restrictions on wind construction to protect them. Suddenly the economics will ratchet another step worse.
New documentary ‘proves’ building offshore wind farms does kill whales (28 Aug)
I wonder whether Mr Bowen will watch the documentary?
All this horsey talk…
For Pogria.
I see Damian Oliver will retire after the spring carnival.
One of the good ones.
In my opinion there are still some dodgy jockeys out there.
Oliver was not one of these.
Some opinion writer at The Age wants Melbourne renamed to ‘break our colonial chains’.
They aren’t chains, for starters, and Naarn is just a stupid made up word.
But sure spend millions and millions of dollars on the quest to erase what most consider a great heritage.
Near San Fran. Good luck with that.
The deep-pocketed investors reportedly plan to turn the land into their vision of an ideal city, featuring sustainable energy and a pedestrian-friendly layout.
Snow are now just a thing of the past. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is – Climatologist David Viner in 2000
Guardian in 2023:
Alarmists Warn of Snow Shortage at Ski Resorts from ‘Climate Crisis’ (29 Aug)
I wonder if Katharine Viner is daughter of David Viner? That would be a fine irony.
“calli
Aug 30, 2023 7:48 AM
All this horsey talk…
For Pogria.”
Lol, Calli, so true. Have spent many years doing just that. 😀
Although, Corey didn’t need a float, just scrambled into the panel van with the dogs.
Was a hoot when I would pull into a servo and two dog and one pony head would hang out the window to see what was going on.
This is very, very good, and I would urge everyone to watch. It is only half an hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2AuVQKpq0
This frightening dystopian nightmare happening in Canada under Turdeau is already in the ACT and Victoria, and now with Labor wall to wall and in Canberra, we will follow Canada.
I regard far-left progressive scum like Justin Turdeau, Daniel Andrews, Anthony Albanese, Andrew Barr and so on as not just dangerous but deeply, deeply evil.
At the next election, when Sleazy and his Squeezy turn up at a church or a Catholic school for a photo op, the priest or principal should shut the doors on them. I’m sorry, but until there’s some militant pushback, progressive scum like Sleazy and co are laughing out loud at our niceness. It’s time to stop being nice.
I reckon Dumbgeld is threatening legal action to boost his outgoing sinecure in case it comes out in a trial of local political interference. No doubt before the report was made public the town council had said you’ll be right, nothing to see here. Oops, sorry you’re on your own.
Twelve billion for Snowy 2.0
Renewables are the cheapest form of power…renewables are the cheapest form… renewables are the cheapest….renewables are…renewables.
Peter Costello really ought to dissociate himself from that vomit making dinosaur formerly known as Fairfax.
More covid rubbish. Enough to boil the blood.
‘Get a clot and die.’
It came out of the covid debacle.
ACMA said they didn’t have sufficient powers to police “disinformation” about published on the internet….such as, you know, outlandish theories that it was produced in a Wuhan lab
Morrison & Fletcher said “What do you need?” and ACMA came back with five items to which Fletcher agreed.
The Liberal Party is not your friend.
Because the left’s primary weapon is to label opponents of the voice racists, we’re likely to see a much bigger rejection of the Voice than in the opinion polls.
In a democracy, the voting booth is the only place voters can be totally honest — especially now the left is telling them they’re racist if they refuse to vote to replace one vote one value with an apartheid system where blacks get special privileges.
I’ll go as far as to predict the result of the referendum will be shocking.
One more before I leave for work. Please laugh, Daily Telegraph:
FMD what codswallop.
I’ve been given the heads up regarding some No polling.
Looks like the Chinese & Indian communities No votes are big enough to knock it on the head.
I hope this becomes a mainstream news story whenever it’s released.
This is assuming he doesn’t actually agree with them.
I’ll go as far as to predict the result of the referendum will be shocking.
Groin grabbingly shocking ?
h/t Homer Simpson
New Australians.
Not on board with Original Australians.
As defined by Nino Culotta.
Can someone here please enlighten me as to what exactly is “abortion care”. Is it just me or do others also find this oxymoronic?
On China from an Australian perspective
105 bn AUD exports to China
85 bn AUD imports , a few years ago 145 bn AUD from China
Just saying we’re likely not going to fare well with a Chinese downturn.
Lie flat, let it rot!
From the same lexicon as “medically assisted dying.”
Stan being Stan and then Stan makes excuses for Stan.
Do they have a reflection pool at Ultimo.
“Looks like the Chinese & Indian communities No votes are big enough to knock it on the head.”
Unsurprising. Add in to that spicy mix the middle eastern communities.
Be prepared for the next six weeks though, a full on frontal assault of “yes”. Hopefully this full frontal assault will piss people off even more. My hunch is that it will, given the cost of living pressures which are really beginning to bite people in the bum. Further to that, I nearly fell over when I went to buy some rice the other day, it’s doubled in price, I reeled in the supermarket. Now because I live alone, these cost of living pressures don’t really impact me the way they would a family.
Oh and further to the Chinese & Indian communities in our cities, a Liberal Party with any spine and nous would already be targeting them over the Labor/Greens war on gas cooktops…….oh I forgot, our Liberals agree with Labor and the Greens.
By the way, I’m ready to be approached by YES spruikers here in Wentworth however I’ve decided not to be so nice. These spruikers will be on the receiving end of a verbal spray of the kind they’ve never ever received before. After approaching Cassie of Sydney, they will be stunned mullets!
Malcolm Turnbull should be horsewhipped through the streets….
“New Australians.
Not on board with Original Australians.”
Bern, watch that link I posted above to the UK Telegraph on ‘Oh’ Canada, and the interview with the Canadian Sikh.
The New Canadians aren’t on board with the far-left progressive Canadians wanting to groom their children. The pushback is coming from the New Canadians.
Tom, I need to qualify you statement a little bit:
“It is shocking that in a democracy the voting booth is the only place voters can be totally honest.”
The left was given the go ahead by Brandis who reacted to opposition to 18C by saying everyone has a right to be a bigot. He thereby labelled as racist anyone who insisted on free speech. Liberals have done more than Labor and Greens to destroy our free speech by not just inaction but actual actions such as Brandis’.
Touting for race based privileges when many people are doing it tough…what a brilliant idea, Mr. 32%!
They know real racism when they see it, most came here to escape it and be part of an egalitarian society. It seems our betters think that egalitarianism is unfair.
Whatever you may say about Peter Dutton, he certainly lives inside Turnbull’s head.
Palacechook upset that the media are hounding her on the Amalfi Coast. Which is good, I wouldn’t want to be annoyed on holiday.
Except she is a premier and is it really a private holiday? Or maybe work related holiday? One just doesn’t up and leave when the party are openly discussing your future.
Oh to be passing by with my mobile phone ready when Cassie let’s fly at a Yes supporter.
There are quite a few former PMs that deserve the same treatment. The best thing they could do is keep their mouths shut.
Most came here for a better life.
Along the way some old fashioned Australian egalitarianism rubs off on them.
Or ‘womens health’ or ‘womens rights’ – ignoring that 50% of aborted babies will be female.
JC
Aug 30, 2023 5:45 AM
He both asks the question and stakes a claim to having it! 🙂
Pencils down ladies and gents. Turn the lights off on your way out, if you would be so kind.
We’re done here.
And they will soon learn where they fit in the Canadian hierarchy, below progressives.
Even though the currently in power elites and progressives are going on about the great reset I am still betting that if worse comes to worst they will not be the ultimate winners.
That old saying “Eat the rich” keeps popping up in my consciousness and I wonder when the people will turn.
More than 50% once you allow for sex selective abortions.
Demographers in Australia have noted the higher number of male to female babies born in the Indian and Chinese communities and have concluded that pre-natal sex selection is taking place.
Progressives tend not to replace themselves.
The future belongs to those who have large families.
The Oz is pursuing a rather dishonest line about the chances of the No vote getting up.
Not to mention dirty tricks when it comes to counting the votes, that is, including an indeterminate number of informal votes as yes votes, as blurted out by the incompetent apparatchik running the ALPEC.
I still think the screeech will go down like the Hindenburg, as it rightfully deserves to.
I noted in the ad a reference to officials/bureaucrats imposing a fine of multiple thousands a day for failure to respond to their blandishments.
A couple of decades ago, the High Court ruled that fines can be imposed only by judicial bodies.
How and when did it happen that governments felt entitled to adjudicate on matters so far removed from what could at all be considered their wheelhouse. Facts of psychology?
I cannot think of a single thing government does well. Well, not anything they have any business taking pride in.
Look at economics. If even half of the economic diagnoses, prognoses, and remedies that governments made worked we would be eating Rolls Royce’s out of solid gold bowls while riding our own unicorns ever day. Every budget promises a golden future and they never happen.
Teachers’ unions and their vomitous sallow kin the MSM – two areas that talk rather than do, who eschew ‘doing’ as beneath them, lie (in both senses) at the heart of this.
Thanks Cassie.
Nothing more I can add to that.
A reality check for fact checking Green liars.
https://www.mackinac.org/blog/2022/nuclear-wasted-why-the-cost-of-nuclear-energy-is-misunderstood
Nuclear power plants in Japan only take four years to build.
Even at the exaggerated costs quoted by dishonest “renewables” shills, nuclear power is already cheaper than Snowy 2.0.
The upside of Snowy 2.0 ought to be better & more irrigation, flood mitigation and recreational areas with more efficient water trading.
John Howard undid any good he might have done (not much the more I look at his record) by facilitating Trumble’s rise.
Is sTan having a touch of self-awareness?
It began when Lenin & Trotsky, following Marx, declared that the bourgeois mentality was destined to recede from history.
And they would help it on its way, just to be sure.
Translation of Turdball’s babbling “It’s good apartheid, not the bad apartheid where eeeeevillll whities are the top of the pile.”
Farage is a genius.
Running his campaign against Kahn’s ULEZ as a series of broadcast public meetings is brilliant.
Not that the London Andrews will take any notice, but a few gutless conservatjves may worry about their seats.
C’mon Nigel get on with forming a patty and give the poor old Poms some hope.
That glib hag featured in the Canadian video…linking her expertise in “abortion care” with the social justice of “assisted dying”…if only you could reach into these clips and do some caring throttling.
No different than her murderous sisters in the death camps eighty years ago, the seraphic smile on her vile face as she describes her monstrous activities. Justifying the act because “priests” are there to delver last rites.
An interesting observation that Canada, NZ and Australia are the “feeler” points of the Commonwealth for this evil tripe. Possibly because it gains no traction in Africa or the Pacific.
Eh?
I thought he was entering the halls of academe, to teach…journalism.
The Amalfi coast is for Amalfians.
She should know this.
Howard’s last decent act was advocating nuclear power.
He was off his rocker by the time he lost to Rudd (save the orang utans!), but that would have been a game changer.
At the end of the day it’s all about Malcolm vis a vis the Liberal Party.
Speaking of retribution for perceived wrongs, NSW Lib parliamentarians campaigning for No fear the party apparatus will punish them come pre-selection time.
If you’re in Melbourne and the mozzies are bothering you, don’t try and scare them off with the right arm outstretched. Get some aero guard instead.
Sociologist Rachael Busbridge is quoted in an ABC article https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-30/vic-local-council-voice-referendum-position-yes-no/102784634
I found Ms Busbridges use of “progressive Yes and progressive No” rather interesting. Trying to keep the comrades onside and not offending them whilst in the next sentence labelling those opposing story hour, as far right.
Incoming RBA governor says climate change an “acute challenge” to monetary policy.
It’s a freakin’ cult.
Let’s hope they weren’t from the latter.
Say it loud, say it clear.
This one’s for military Cats – reading “Vietnam – An Epic Tragedy 1945 – 1975” by Max Hastings.
At the battle of Ap Bac in January 1963, South Vietnamese soldiers were forming up for the final assault against the Viet Cong ( who were long gone by then.)
Fifty rounds of South Vietnamese artillery “fell short”, landing among the ARVN soldiers, killing four and wounding twelve.
A furious infantry battalion commander drew his pistol and shot the artillery forward observer through the head…
Good reading, highly recommended.
C’mon Nigel get on with forming a patty and give the poor old Poms some hope.
C’mon someone here getting on with forming a Party and give the long suffering Aussies some hope.
Oh, so there are a couple of Parties already? Get on board then and ditch the ‘UniParty’ and those horrible Greens.
You know it makes sense. And eat more lamb.
“calli
Aug 30, 2023 9:21 AM
Thanks Cassie.
Agreeable people are canon fodder for psychopaths – Jordan Petersen
Nothing more I can add to that.”
Yep, Dr Peterson nails it.
All of this is why, as I wrote above, it’s time to stop being nice. Canadians were long known for being agreeable and nice, and all that being agreeable and nice has done is facilitate a far-left dystopian nightmare. I think one can apply that to the West as a whole, and particularly across the Anglosphere.
Further to that youtube video I linked to, I’m a big fan of Maxime Bernier, the conservative founder of the People’s Party of Canada. In 2018 he left the Canadian Conservative Cuck Party in disgust, and he founded the new right of centre party. He did a Bernardi, except unlike Bernardi he hasn’t chucked it in. Bernier says that the party is around for the long haul, he understands it takes years for small parties to gain electoral traction and have some electoral impact. In September 2021, when Canada went to the polls for a federal election, the PPC did receive a few million votes, but didn’t win any constituencies. And remember, for those who complain about preferential voting v first past the post v proportional etc, Canada has first past the post voting. It is always difficult for minor parties to win seats. Now the Canadian Conservatives party are leading in the polls, because Turdeauism has made Canada a dysfunctional basket case of progressive lunacy, where groomers prey of children, I ask the question, if the Conservatives in Canada do win federally, will they rescind/repeal/reverse/abrogate any of this progressive lunacy? Or will they, just like the Liberals did here in Oz from September 2013 through to May 2022, tinker with stuff on the side, or simply put it all in the “too hard basket”, just like our Liberals did with Section 18C, with the various human rights commissions running amok targeting conservatives (just ask Lyle Shelton, Kirralee Smith, Sall Grover, Bernard Gaynor about these Stasi organisations). Right of centre parties in the UK, in NZ, in OZ, in Canada, in USA are always good at talking the talk, they’re just useless and spineless when it comes to walking the talk. They are ALL talk and no action. We are desperate for a right of centre government that is willing to speak up for the silent majority, that is willing to starve activist government departments of funds, that is willing to say that a woman can’t have a penis, rather than right of centre governments that cower in fear, because they’re scared what the far-left MSM says.
The good news this morning is that I didn’t run into any “YES” spruikers, but I did run into Dave Sharma, clumsily trying to ride a bicycle on the footpath. I smiled at Dave and I said to him, “don’t fall off the bicycle Dave”. When I got on the bus, I thought to myself, what a perfect metaphor that was for Dave Sharma, the Liberal Party and Wentworth. A man who no doubt has never read Menzies Forgotten People Speech, who crossed the floor to vote against religious freedom, who harassed Scumbag to sign up to the suicide that is net zero, who talked the talk about being a “Liberal”, but hasn’t a Liberal bone in his body. He can’t even ride a bicycle properly, and what kind of man rides a bicycle to work? What a wank.
Dover – This one was entertaining. He’ll be Mahatma Gandhi before you can say da.
Yevgeny Prigozhin hailed as ‘second Mandela’ in funeral tribute (30 Aug)
Funny that.
I would ask that our Lord Mayor be shown due deference. Unless he is working with Fat Cat. A personal friend of mine.
Vlad by the way has moved quickly to put his own guy in charge of Wagner’s African operations. He’s a military intelligence spook.
The problem with doing that is it becomes harder to have those operations at arms length, which was the most useful aspect of having Prigozhin run them as a private company boss. Wagner has been robust, lets say, in the fulfillment of their contracts.
Dot @ 9:21
This miss allocation of capital and physical resources must be unequaled since the pyramids were built.
Also; if you want to trade water you can also demonstrate an ability and a desire to grow food and fibre with it.
Apart from an Sydney insider deal alongside Trevor Kennedy on Ozemail, Lord Waffleworth does not have a track record of success.