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Wonderful news!

Drinks on you ?

Interesting . Earlier this week,someone posted a comment that EVs sales had collapsed in Europe. Turned out to be fake news. No surprise there.

Europe Car Sales Jump 17% as Growth Streak Reaches a Full Year
Battery-electric vehicle registrations surged 62% in July
Automakers work down order books as supply issues ease

Bloomberg.

David Pope.

Ouch.

FTB.
By the theory of light sabre …that would be a v handy implement when camping. Although at 32000 c i expect you may need to wear some hand protection.

Luigi channelling his “inner” Bob .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/h7CJg1Q

Oh and sorry to ruin your breakfast but the article I posted came with a pic of Dean Makin, the Wong Chap and….Julie Bishop. True colours being revealed by some ex Liberal leaders, most notably Turnbull.

The stupidest of stupid ideas, a Mexican SMO.
How about securing the southern border instead.

Now union membership is at what, 20 percent or something? No doubt higher in areas like construction, not many in retail. Tony Burke has an idea, might not go down well:

Union officials will be able to turn up at workplaces without notice and inspect businesses’ payroll records where they suspect wage underpayment under proposed changes to the nation’s industrial relations laws to be unveiled next week.

The proposed legislation, to be released on Monday by Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke, has sparked fears unions will gain unfettered access to non-union workers’ personal details.

Employer groups are also worried the changes will enable unions to appoint delegates in workplaces with as few as one union member, and employers will have to give them access to company facilities, reasonable time off to carry out union duties, and the right to negotiate even on behalf of non-union workers.

The Saturday Telegraph spoke to industry groups and lawyers who were given confidential access to drafts of the proposed IR changes.

They said the legislation contains provisions which will effectively abolish rules that force unions to give 24 hours’ notice to employers when they plan to turn up to a workplace to inspect company records where they suspect there has been wage underpayment.

A member of one business group which had been briefed in-confidence on the legislation said it was “a horrendous breach of privacy” which was “designed to clear the way for unions to expand their powers and membership”.

He said the bill would “extend the power of unions to enter businesses and rifle through personal documents and private information”. “Even if you are not a member of a union, they could gain access to your address, phone numbers, tax file numbers, wage statements and courtesy of access to sick leave forms, information about your health,” he said

At present the Fair Work Commission can only grant unions the right to turn up to a workplace unannounced where there is a reasonable suspicion records are in danger of being destroyed if the employer is given 24 hours notice that the union is coming.

They also need to specify the allege breaches they are probing. The current rules allow employers to separate the records of union and non-union members ahead of the union’s inspection.

But under the new rules Fair Work would need only to be “satisfied that the suspected contravention or contraventions involved the underpayment of wages” before turning up at workplaces unannounced.

Once there unions would be able to exercise extensive investigative powers, including the right to speak to workers and access documents.

A spokesman for Mr Burke declined to comment.

Not a stretch to say something more sinister at play with this draft.

Tom- I disagree. Years ago we had businesses in western Sydney and they are not backward in telling you to F—— off if necessary. On the other hand they respond to decent behaviour. Husband and I once handed out how-to-vote tickets for the Libs at a booth out there at a federal election. We helped old ladies out of cars, chatted & generally had a good time. Our booth apparently had a record hit for the Libs.

A rather extraordinary news item. Herald Sun:

Channel 7 has refused to confirm whether it will axe a television show after a woman featured was charged with rape and a raft of serious child abuse offences allegedly spanning more than 10 years.

The woman, who cannot ever be named, is facing multiple charges involving offences she allegedly committed in multiple locations in Queensland.

The charges include multiple counts of indecent treatment of children aged under 16, multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, torture and assaults.

One of the indecent treatment charges has been listed as “indecent film”.

Her partner has been charged with a number of assaults.

Police allege the offending occurred between 2005 and 2020.

The Saturday Courier-Mail has approached Channel 7 for comment but it has refused to state whether the show will be axed or altered.

It has also refused to comment on how long it has known about the allegations.

The network was approached on Thursday night for comment regarding the allegations against the woman and her partner as well as the show’s future.

Channel 7 gave no response, however, the station later aired details about the allegations without referring to the fact the person was featured on the station.

On Friday, further attempts were made to contact the network to ask if the television show would air, if an altered version would air and how long the network knew about the allegations but lawyers for Channel 7 only responded with letters explaining Queensland laws.

The man has been released on police bail to appear in the Richlands Magistrates Court in September.

The woman, who was also released on bail on the conditions she must live at a specific address and not contact specific individuals, will appear in Richlands Magistrates Court in October.

I’m guessing Channel Stokes did know about some of these issues, I mean 15 years is a long time of offending.
Also guessing the woman is a big star, or whatever passes for a star in Australia these days.
Because of the fact she can never be named. Why is a mystery, but keep an eye out for some show alterations.

Because of the fact she can never be named. Why is a mystery…

No mystery.
Identifying her would likely identify her victim(s).
You can join the dots.

‘California Forever’ founder Jan Sramek unveils first renderings for utopian city near San Francisco and boasts it will feature better schools, safer streets, and less homelessness

The broke-woke-stroke convergence: Why professors lower standards

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

Such a perfect microcosm of this party.

Aussies berated by one clown for imaginary racism while another clown does real damage to a prestigious reputation.

The, how does one say it, “facial pose” of said clown is what struck me.

More than a third of NSW residents doorknocked by Yes campaigners have indicated they are still unsure whether they will vote in support of a Voice to Parliament, according to Yes23.

My guess would be that they were not undecided but polite and just didn’t want to engage with the doorknockers.

Being happily retired I will leave it to others to do the work.

I will apply for the position of ‘Pollie’ Executioner if asked.

Bad luck, I’ve already bagged the position of “Minister for Interesting Executions.”

China’s newly published official map sees it absorb an entire Indian state, the South China Sea, Taiwan and Russian territory.

The next BRICS summit is going to be a real hoot.

Thank you for your assistance with the non naming of perpetrator. Still, some high level arseholery at play by Channel Stokes.

Speaking of buying a coffee, we got chatting to a girl at the next table at breakfast yesterday.
She was French and had been backpacking alone around Japan since early June. She told us she had been working on a tea plantation and gave us some travel tips (probably for future reference as our itinery is set).
We were comparing breakfasts and we mentioned that the coffee was very good. She said it was too expensive for her to have coffee.
We paid for her brekkie.
She was totally shocked that anyone would do that.

Dodi Al-Fayed brown bread.
Unsure if a Fiat Uno was involved.

New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind

-Judith Curry, an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and author of the book “Climate Uncertainties and Risk”.

Because they plan to do it again?

Why Won’t COVID Lockdown Tyrants Admit They Were Wrong?

Fauci’s replacement on masks.

The blame should be on the incompetent public servants.
Not the billionaires who own land no where near where the fires were.

You’re missing the point. What this lady is saying outright is that they were deliberately burnt out to enable the construction of a “satellite city”.

Until a month ago, Alan Joyce was one of the world’s most highly rated airline CEOs. He now looks like a low-information retard.

He looks like a corporate crook.

The blame should be on the incompetent public servants.
Not the billionaires who own land no where near where the fires were.

You’re missing the point.
I found this person ranting on the innernet about it.
She sounds like a trusted source.

More from the Marshall article:

What if the ‘out of Africa’ theory is wrong?
Alexandra Marshall

Those who have lived through the last two decades will be well acquainted with the increasing rigidity applied to scientific theories that also hold political value.

We have returned to an age where the truth of a theory comes second to its significance as scaffolding maintaining the validity of lucrative ideological and economic causes. This is what happens when the proverb ‘knowledge is power’ becomes corrupted by the idea of ‘divine knowledge used by the powerful’ – the latter being little more than a cynical dogma protected by a mixture of censorship and propaganda.

The narrative of catastrophic climate change, for example, carries with it trillions of dollars, thousands of political careers, and the reputation of extraordinarily dangerous bureaucracies. To challenge ‘climate change’ is to blow on the house of cards supporting these creatures. This is why you must believe in climate change, otherwise you are a denier instead of a sceptic.

This situation parallels the problem faced by Charles Darwin upon his discovery – made against his religious faith – that life exists in a constant state of evolution. In his case, as with most major shifts in knowledge, it was the scientific institutions themselves that fought to hold back progress, fearing the wrath of their benefactors, the moral outrage of a society, and the personal insult of people’s life’s work being proven wrong.

The scientific establishment has long been an unhelpful gatekeeper, which makes its current pretence of being the ‘sole source of truth’ even more laughable.

Thomas Huxley, Darwin’s famed bulldog, stepped into the public gaze in 1860 to rattle the insides of the Radcliffe Library during ‘The Great Debate’. Truth needs a fearless champion and in the end, undeniable scientific truth usually wins out, but we should always remember that it does so in defiance of the established experts, not with their support.

The catch-cry ‘trust the science’ harks back to those dusty, power-hungry, archaic establishment scientists. ‘Trust’ is a measure of faith, not fact. If someone is asking you to ‘trust the science’, they are probably nervous practitioners of an unsteady cult. Or idiots.

One of modern science’s cornerstones is the ‘out of Africa’ theory that posits the birth of humanity in the cradle of Africa. It plays into the preferred mythology of Africa’s Eden-esque beginning destroyed by the greed of European nations. Africa is the innocent victim of history and the tarnished creation around which global bureaucracies circle.

To question the ‘out of Africa’ narrative is a sin against evolutionary science.

And yet for some time there has been a suspicion that ‘out of Africa’ may be wrong. It has been a cascade of little things. A fossil here. A clash of migratory patterns there… A gradual accumulation of facts that chip away at the grand theory.

Recently, one of those chips has become a crack.

As reported in various scientific journals after being published in Communications Biology, an 8.7 million-year-old fossil from Anadoluvius turkae has been found in Central Anatolia in Turkey.

The journal states:

‘Fossil apes from the Eastern Mediterranean are central to the debate on African ape and human (hominine) origins. […] Here we show, based on our analysis of a newly identified genus, Anadoluvius, from the 8.7 million-year-old site of Çorakyerler in Central Anatolia, that Mediterranean fossil apes are diverse, and are part of the first known radiation of early members of hominines.’
The fossil is part of a group known as the Late Miocene apes that have been found across this region and in Europe, with more than one sub-species discovered. They are a common ancestor sitting above gorillas, humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos in the Tree of Life. Those researching the find believe this species moved from the Mediterranean into Africa around 8 million years ago.

‘These findings contrast with the long-held view that African apes and humans evolved exclusively in Africa. While the remains of early hominines are abundant in Europe and Anatolia, they are completely absent from Africa until the first hominin appeared there about 7 million years ago,’ said Professor David Begun, according to Sci-News.
He noted that at this particular time, South-Eastern Europe contained the ancestors of rhinos, giraffes, and other animals more commonly associated with Africa. His point being that if these animals could get into Africa over 7 million years ago, why not the apes?

‘This new evidence supports the hypothesis that hominines originated in Europe and dispersed into Africa along with many other mammals between 9 and 7 million years ago, though it does not definitely prove it. For that, we need to find more fossils from Europe and Africa between 8 and 7 million years old to establish a definitive connection between the two groups.’
The original report concludes:

‘Hominines may have originated in Eurasia during the late Miocene, or they may have dispersed into Eurasia from an unknown African ancestor. The diversity of hominines in Eurasia suggests an in situ origin but does not exclude a dispersal hypothesis.’

Yes23 calculates its volunteers have doorknocked an estimated 30,000 households across NSW over late July and August, with efforts to be bolstered from this weekend, especially in the seats of Lindsay, Macquarie and McMahon.

Not expecting a visit .. LOL! .. living in the bottom house of this McMahon/Fowler “houso” ghetto I’m confident that if any of the YES23 start door-knocking here they’ll be long gone before reaching me .. after the 1st half dozen “up-yours” and other less polite greetings they’ll get the msg …….
YES votes out here will become a collecters delight .. LOL!

I have been having granola at our brekkie place in Asakusa, which is very ‘vironmental.
I will interrogate them about the origin of the nuts, grains, fruit and cereal.
I am pretty sure they will pass that test.
But I think the provenance of the milk might be their stumbling block.
I expect seppuku if they can’t answer.

Data, not evidence, I should say.

As it turned out, the British scientific establishment of the day was quite right to be wary of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Darwin egregiously misinterpreted the data, postulating a grand narrative that it simply didn’t support.

Megan
Sep 2, 2023 9:05 AM
Just great, I hope I’m out when they come knocking in my street.

The Prince is rather hoping he is. Plans on asking when he can expect a Sicilian Voice.

Exactly, if one race deserve extra privileges then we have a right, even an obligation, to demand the same for ourselves otherwise we accept our lower status.

Kim Beazley wants Australians to vote Yes for an Indigenous voice to parliament to show respect

EXCLUSIVE
By troy bramston
Senior Writer
@TroyBramston
5:58PM September 1, 2023
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Kim Beazley remembers Indigenous boys and girls forcibly separated from their parents coming to the family home in Perth for a meal in 1950s and 60s, and shaping his belief in the ­dignity, opportunities and rights that should be afforded to the First Australians.

His father, Kim Beazley Sr, had been an early advocate for land rights, for removing racially discriminatory provisions in the Constitution, and as education minister in the Whitlam government allowed for Indigenous children to be taught in their own language at school.

“We always had kids coming out to spend a bit of time with us,” Mr Beazley told The Weekend Australian. “What those kids were actually experiencing, who had been through our house, it shocked me absolutely, and did very much affect my response to the Stolen Generation.”

When the Bringing Them Home report on the separation of Indigenous children from their families was tabled in parliament in May 1997, Mr Beazley was opposition leader. His emotional response, calling for recognition of past wrongs and supporting reconciliation, had been evoked by reading the ­report coupled with his own memories of meeting survivors.

Beazley Sr, elected to federal parliament in 1945, was responsible for adding support for land rights to the Labor platform in 1951 and was the first to speak about it in the House of Representatives in 1952. He was involved in the Christian social justice movement, Moral Re-Armament.

Mr Beazley, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke-Keating government, as deputy prime minister, Labor leader, ambassador to the US and governor of Western Australia, said the voice referendum was about showing respect and courtesy for Indigenous Australians, and would elevate our international standing.

“It’s not some product of a woke agenda in Canberra,” he said. “It is a product of what Aboriginals actually asked for. And they weren’t actually asking for this to be the vehicle for land rights or to intervene routinely in the ­affairs of the nation. It was simply asking that their views be heard.”

The constitutional referendum to enshrine an Indigenous advisory body with limited remit and no legal or spending power posed no risk to parliamentary authority, does not require the government to follow its advice or risked litigation, Mr Beazley said.

“It is quite simply a recognition of the Aboriginals as a part of our community,” he said. “It would mean that we have shown the rest of the world and, and shown ourselves, that we regard the views of the Aboriginals as important, not for those views to direct us, but an opportunity for those views to be heard.”

Mr Beazley was Labor leader during the republic referendum in November 1999. He said the voice was very different to the that vote and monarchists should have no concern about this modest change to the Constitution.

“You could be a constitutional monarchist and take the view that this was fine, and you could be a republican and take the view that this was fine,” he said.

“Vote for courtesy. Vote for a position that shows we are ­listening.

“We are lucky to be cohabitating a continent with the oldest civilisation on Earth. It’s a good thing for us to let that play on our minds.”

Kim Beazley joins the long line of Yes advocates revealing that there is no good argument for the change.

H B Bear

Sep 2, 2023 10:06 AM

I saw reference yesterday to Qantas as “our National Carrier”.
It is not.
Qantas is just another airline.

When you live in the wrong hemisphere at the end of the line the Mangy Roo is not just another airline. But I get your point. The tide might not be turning but it is slowing.

Keeping the competition out helps, but I think that decision might be quietly reversed after a while.
We flew here with Cathay.
So did our valises and accoutrements.
They didn’t cancel, and the staff didn’t seem annoyed that we had intruded on their day.

Kim Beazley joins the long line of Yes advocates revealing that there is no good argument for the change.

Like all of them, it does have a touch of the Dennis Denutos about it.

I try to fly Air Lingus whenever possible and make sure I tell people about it. We may even have holidayed in Ireland just for that reason.

“We are lucky to be cohabitating a continent with the oldest civilisation on Earth. It’s a good thing for us to let that play on our minds.”

Paying over $30 billion each year isn’t enough?

Sancho Panzer
Sep 2, 2023 10:15 AM
Razey

Sep 2, 2023 10:13 AM

Qantarse is better than Shitstar. Both are worse than Virgin.

I assume you flew JAL or All Nippon to Japan?

We flew with Singapore Airlines and had a couple of days in Singapore to catch up with relatives who were working there at the time.

I fly ABQ.
Anyone But Qantas.

I dunno, I like Quaintarse on international routes. It’s comfortable and the food is pretty decent. We recently flew Swiss (I guess it was formerly SwissAir) from NY to Zurich and it was also pretty good except when the started babbling in German over the mic. Their English was passable. United was also excellent from Europe back to the US.

I reckon you have to distinguish between domestic and international when comparing airlines as it’s a different service.

Losers.

I might keep that to myself today.
Let sleeping bygones lie.

Razey, they’re not milk drinkers so they wouldn’t need that many cows. Aren’t lots of north Asians lactose intolerant?

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