Open Thread – Mon 18 Sept 2023
1,013 responses to “Open Thread – Mon 18 Sept 2023”
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Bummingham a “flog”? Yep, a flog, a flake, a fraud. Yet another example of my visceral loathing of the Liberal Party of Australia and why, if I lived in SA, I’d vote for Peter Malinauskas and Labor.
Just in from The Oz…
‘Disgusting’: Liddle, Malinauskus blast protest
David PenberthyLiberal senator Kerrynne Liddle has blasted the actions of protesters at a No campaign event in Adelaide, describing it as “pretty disgusting behaviour”.
She was a keynote speaker at the Fair Australia rally headlined by leading No campaigners senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Warren Mundine.
“I feel more for the people who spoke to me who said they were coming along to hear our views,” Senator Liddle told The Australian.
“The irony was that there were three Indigenous speakers and they were trying to drown out everyone’s voice.
“I spoke to a family from the western suburbs who had their children there. More power to them putting up with this rubbish.”
Senator Liddle said it appeared the protesters originally intended to picket another event but that they “flipped over their signs” and had pro-indigenous slogans written on the back.
“It was quite clear to me observing them early that they were focused on AUKUS,” she said.
Premier and Yes vote advocate Peter Malinauskas condemned the protesters, reiterating his earlier warning to the Left that calling No voters racists or ignorant was the surest way to alienate people from the cause.
“I’m deeply disappointed and frustrated by it,” he said.
“I do not know whose cause these people are helping. I’ve said from the outset that I don’t think somebody who votes no is automatically defined as a racist.
“I don’t think Australia is a racist country. If the people shouting and calling people names think they are changing anybody’s minds they don’t understand human behaviour very well.”
Well said Premier Malinauskas.Hmm, wonder why the SA Liberals under Marshmallow lost in a landslide in March 2022? Not rocket science. By the way, Bummingham’s wife was Marshmallow’s Chief of Staff. LOL…seriously, you couldn’t make this shit up.
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Re the NSW school closures, the decision was reportedly made on advice from the NSW Rural Fire Brigade.
On the face of it, it sounds overly cautious but then we don’t know what the local conditions are, including the fuel load and the manpower available.
We’ve recently had a fire in these parts that couldn’t be contained and led to properties being evacuated. It eventually burnt out 1000ha.
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Because nothing inspires you to work harder & smarter than the government’s hand in your pocket.
Saw that early on as a Trades Assistant in the mines during Uni holidays. We were changing out two grizzly feeders as a major shutdown. 8 hours normal time, 4 hours double time plus dinner at the mess for a fortnight. The foreman would come around at afternoon smoko to see who wanted to work back. “Nah,not worth it.” “Nah, just want to go home.” For a while there I was earning more than the old man as a GP. And the best bit they gave all the PAYG back when things started to get a bit lean during the year at tax time.
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Black Ball:
Mr Dufty said along with council rates, petrol costs, and high food prices, many families were “getting smashed” and considering whether they can afford to buy new school uniforms for their kids or go away in school holidays.
I think there’s a lot more fat to trim if they are tossing up uniforms or going away for the holidays. Especially when it comes to mortgage or school excursions or food.
But we survived it, and so will they. It just takes some difficult decisions. -
Sky News. More
2 hours ago
Calls for government to denounce ‘unacceptable’ protests
Staff writersLiberal MP Tony Pasin has called on the government to denounce the “abusive” behaviour of protestors who disrupted last night’s anti-voice rally in Adelaide.
“What I want to see is prominent Yes campaigners in Australia, in South Australia, the Prime Minister, Minster Linda Burney, (Senator) Penny Wong, (South Australian Premier) Peter Malinauskas… I want these people to call these protestors out and say this behavior is unacceptable,” Mr Pasin said.
“We’ve got to have a respectful debate and that wasn’t respectful, in fact it was (intimidating) and bordering on assault.”
Mr Pasin said his main concern was for young people who may have been affected by the abuse.
“I don’t want to see these scenes across the next four weeks, I don’t want to see them on referendum day, we need the leaders of the Yes campaign to call this behavior out as unacceptable and disassociate themselves with this rogue, radical element.”
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In addition to regulating the radio spectrum (necessary) and possibly regulating free speech ( 🙁 watch this space), ACMA already has a number of regulatory roles. Apparently Elon didn’t read the entire ACMA documentation and got caught out. ACMA have subsequently made an example of him:
19 September 2023
Starlink breaches consumer advertising rules
The ACMA has directed Starlink Internet Services Pte Ltd to comply with the Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code after the company did not specify the end date of a ‘limited time offer’ advertised on its website.
Under the TCP Code, if a special promotion is advertised as being available for a limited time only, telcos must be transparent about the date the promotion will end.
Following a consumer complaint, the ACMA undertook an investigation into the promotion available on Starlink’s website between 1 June and 26 July 2023. The investigation found that the promotion, which offered discounted hardware and high-speed internet plans, did not include an end date as required.
When advertising special promotions, telcos must include information about important limitations to allow consumers to make informed choices.
In late July 2023, Starlink amended the promotion on its website to include an end date. The special promotion has since ended.
Telcos may face penalties of up to $250,000 for breaching ACMA directions to comply with the TCP Code.I’d hate to think what they’d do with the misinformation powers.
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Governments should consider granting First Nations defendants special rights to be heard by a mixed jury of half Indigenous Australians, according to a report commissioned by a peak judicial body and backed by a Northern Territory Supreme Court judge as “ground breaking”. The report made strong recommendations that a national inquiry be launched immediately to remedy chronic under-representation of Indigenous jurors.
The top men seem to have forgotten to read the “ineligible for jury duty” rules – dot points 5, 6, 7 & 9 apply to pretty much all the blackfellas out bush.
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Exactly my point. The custodians of the Ed Dept’s are marxists/green/left. Regardless who is in power. We can change Govt’s but does anyone really think the LNP has any where near the conviction needed to make foundational wholesale change to the curriculum? To take on these parasites and their comrade journos it the Marxist media?
Clearly, whoever is in power, they are our enemy. That is the situation we are now in. They do not represent us or our best interests. They are there for themselves and their interests. Daylight second. We are the necessary evil in their parasitic lifestyles.
…and you DON’T want to abolish the Dept of Ed, BOSTES, NESA, etc?
The only logical cure to an infected limb that can’t be treated with antibiotics is to have it amputated.
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Germany scrambling to subsidise the power bills of industrial users after BASF announced it was pulling out and will build a $10bn plant in China because of cheaper electricity costs.
The government will draw on its $400bn climate transition fund to do so. The fund was initially set up to fund green technology.
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BASF …commitment to CC
Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time, we thus aim to achieve net zero CO
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emissions by 2050. To achieve this, we become more efficient in our production and energy usage, we will increase our use of renewable energies and we will accelerate the development and deployment of new CO2-free processes for the production of chemicals.…unless its too expensive, then we be off to Chy-nah!
But will continue to support local (German) initiatives to undermine industry. So good luck with that. -
Military Finds F-35 Debris 80 Miles From Pilot’s Ejection Area
The military has called for a two-day hat of all aircraft, both domestically and internationally. The developments in this story become more bizarre by the day.
The Babylon Bee provides a comedic take on the incident…
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBeestrong>Military Personnel Seen Wandering Forest Pressing Button On F-35 Key Fob https://buff.ly/3t5TajB
What remains a mystery is why the pilot ejected.
Update (1456ET):
The F-35 is still missing. However, the flight tracking website Flightradar24 has revealed numerous aircraft have been searching an area north of North Charleston.
“How in the hell do you lose an F-35?” South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace wrote on X Sunday night, adding, “How is there not a tracking device, and we’re asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?”
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What a curious mistake…
Racist pig: No protesters abuse Yes rally attendees (Oz, 19 Sep, not paywalled)
Campaigners on both sides of the Voice debate have been warned against ‘personal attacks’ after Yes campaigners hurled abuse at a No rally.
The headline is as it presently appears on the Oz main page. Exactly opposite of what the story says. Talk about gaslighting or what! I’m sure it’s a completely innocent error though.
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…and you DON’T want to abolish the Dept of Ed, BOSTES, NESA, etc?
The only logical cure to an infected limb that can’t be treated with antibiotics is to have it amputated.
dotty, stop with the verballing and touting your opinion as mine.
Here’s my opinion: Change of Govt to the LNP will not fix this whatever cure is supposed to be. The reality is for now we only have Govts in Australia along the spectrum covering Marxist to Green/Left/CINO.
So stop harping on about your mystical solutions because they are pure fantasy. I’m dealing with reality here- while you are off with the pixies.
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Trump Leads Biden Nationally As RealClear Asks ‘What Happened To DeSantis?’
Ron who?
Meanwhile, RealClear Politics’ Sean Terende asks: “What happened to the DeSantis campaign?”
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The German car industry has won a concession permitting it to continue to manufacture ICE vehicles after 2035 provided they run on synthetic fuel.
Things weren’t looking too good without it. Light bulb goes on for Big Business. Big Car generally doesn’t have much to worry about, particularly in Germany. The door is always open.
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It wouldnt be impossible to wreck the education mafia.
Straight forward as vouchers for schools and only mandating the broad areas needing to be covered.
Eg: 10 hours per week on math, 10 per week on literacy etc.
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And, right on cue, Liberal wet Simon Bummingham calls on both sides to show respeck.
I remember years ago seeing a joke on TV where they posed the question:
Spot the odd one out.
Gorgonzola
Cheddar
Limburger
BirminghamAnd the answer is, of course, Cheddar – as it is the only one that does not smell disgusting.
That is how I think of Simon.
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By the way, Bummingham’s wife was Marshmallow’s Chief of Staff. LOL…seriously, you couldn’t make this shit up.
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The Australian way at work again. I guess it pays better than employing her in the electorate office. Maaaate.Speaking of such things…
Nicola Roxon to chair new $1.4trn industry super lobby group (AFR, 19 Sep, paywalled)
Get your super out when you can, before it gets used on union boondoggles and green woke stuff. Or simply stolen by the government like Argentina did.
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President Trump Will Give Speech in Detroit on Night of Second GOPe Debate for First Losers
September 18, 2023 – Sundance
A smart and strategic move by President Trump, the MAGA warrior of the middle and working-class.
On the night of the second GOPe ‘first loser’ debate, President Donald Trump will be in Detroit giving remarks to striking union workers, pipefitters and various trade workers.
The core of the MAGA coalition is the working and forgotten men and women who keep this nation functioning; a constituency that extends far beyond all races, colors, creeds and affiliations.
(New York Times) – Former President Donald J. Trump is planning to travel to Detroit on the day of the next Republican primary debate, according to two Trump advisers with knowledge of the plans, injecting himself into the labor dispute between striking autoworkers and the nation’s leading auto manufacturers.
The trip, which will include a prime-time speech before current and former union members, is the second consecutive primary debate that Mr. Trump is skipping to instead hold his own counterprogramming. He sat for an interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that posted online during the first G.O.P. presidential debate in August.
The decision to go to Michigan just days after the United Auto Workers went on strike shows the extent to which Mr. Trump wants to be seen as looking past his primary rivals — and the reality that both he and his political apparatus are already focused on the possibility of a rematch with President Biden.
So instead of attending the next G.O.P. debate — on Sept. 27 in California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum — Mr. Trump intends to speak to over 500 workers, with his campaign planning to fill the room with plumbers, pipefitters, electricians, as well as autoworkers, according to one of the Trump advisers familiar with the planning. Mr. Trump has not directly addressed the wage demands of striking workers and has attacked the union leadership, but he has tried to more broadly cast himself on the side of autoworkers. (read more)
As a businessman and Main Street builder, President Trump knows the value of labor and is well known for treating his employees and staff exceptionally well.
As a builder in many metropolitan areas, for decades Donald Trump has maintained a good working relationship with labor unions and trade workers.
One of the distinctions that separated Donald Trump from the professional Republican field in 2016, was his support for organized labor and his belief that all deals and business enterprises should start with a common respect for the people who do the work.
Many stories have been told about President Trump just listening to the people closest to the work to find optimal solutions for the organization; it has been a very effective style of leadership.
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Nicola Roxon to chair new $1.4trn industry super lobby group
Hannah Wootton and Joanna Mather
Former Labor health minister and attorney-general Nicola Roxon will chair a new superannuation policy and lobby group expected to be dominated by Labor party and industry super heavyweights.
The new body, named the Super Members Council of Australia (SMC), combines two industry bodies – Industry Super Australia and Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees – and establishes a new “big eight” group of funds that will dominate the $3.5 trillion system.
As first reported in The Australian Financial Review, those eight funds – AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA, Hostplus, Aware Super, ART and REST – drove the merger of the two groups and will each get a seat on the final board.
The funds selected Ms Roxon, who chairs HESTA, as interim chairwoman last week pending a formal selection process when the final board is determined.
There are five more spots on the board yet to be filled, which will include three representatives of small-to-medium profit-to-member funds and two non-voting directors from the Australian Council of Trade Unions and employer groups.
The SMC’s formation comes as non-profit super funds emerge as the leaders of the mammoth retirement industry and a key force in shaping politics and capital markets after several high-profile mergers and ructions with retail funds.
The marriage of the more politically and union-aligned AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA, REST and Hostplus with the historically less Labor-linked UniSuper, Aware and ART also indicates that big super is becoming a powerful unified block.
$1.4 trillion in funds
The SMC will have significant lobbying power to government and industry, given that it will represent more than $1.4 trillion in the retirement savings of more than 10 million people.
Ms Roxon said the group would engage with all political parties and levels of government and industry to advocate for “stable, effective and equitable” superannuation policy.
“The nature of work and the workforce itself are changing, as are patterns and expectations in retirement. As many members’ balances grow, those in lower paid or less secure work risk being left behind,” she said.
“Our promise is member-centric advocacy that seeks to work with all political parties to deliver the best possible retirement outcomes for the millions of Australians we represent.”
The Financial Review understands that the ISA and AIST merger process was rocky at the start, with the big eight funds flexing their muscle to shape the new organisation.
The ACTU and employer non-voting board seats were granted in part to quell their disquiet over this, while the three seats for smaller funds partly compensate for the fact the merger diminishes their power.
They had more influence in the AIST, which has four times as many members as ISA including several not-for-profit but non-industry linked funds such as State Super and Super SA, but will now fold under the deal.
In addition to consolidating power, the SMC’s creation was driven by funds trying to cut down costs that are not directly linked to investments amid greater parliamentary and regulatory scrutiny of whether all their decisions are made in members’ best financial interests. Doubling up on memberships to industry groups such as ISA and AIST is one such cost.
The SMC will be operational from October 1 and is currently recruiting an inaugural CEO.
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Question – How come not paywalled?
I have no idea Old Ozzie. I tend to click through to the paywall since it’s then easier to block-copy and paste the headline and the teaser text. I was surprised when this time the full story came up. I’m not a subscriber.
(My version of the Oz daily quiz is to ask the question is it worth subscribing. So far I’ve scored zero on that quiz. Here’s a good example: another weirdly unpaywalled article on the Oz website today. It’s total unadulterated cow slime.)
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On 5 December 2011, an American Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it, after initial reports from Western news sources disputedly claimed that it had been “shot down”.
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What’s your solution Makka?
I don’t have one. My kid is already 6 years out of HS, 2 out of Uni and working. In that respect, it’s no longer my problem. My kid isn’t woke and is rather smart. We have made sure over the years she can see leftist/woke propaganda for what it really is and thinks for herself. No doubt her offspring will benefit from that.
For those parents and kids still in the “system”, I can only wish them the best of luck and hope that somehow, someway they wake up to the institutionalized brainwashing and lies they are being subjected to 24/7/365. And take the time to de-brainwash their kids. That helps a lot- sensible discussions in the home.
Until we have a real Right party here with the courage in Govt to do battle and IMPLEMENT sensible Christian centric values (zero woke/green/gender/LGBTQI teachings) and remove power of these destructive leftist freaks in our institutions, there will be no change in these institutions, no change to the Ed curriculum. No change- period. Each year, another cohort rolls off the line.
So I suggest people plan accordingly in their own way.
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Very weird the F-35 incident.
At least it shows the radar-proof paint job obviously works.
It does sound like a software problem though: if the plane got stuck in autopilot and couldn’t be rebooted then the pilot wouldn’t have much choice but bail. Insanely complex software on these high tech critters is more and more a significant problem.
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For those parents and kids still in the “system”, I can only wish them the best of luck and hope that somehow, someway they wake up to the institutionalized brainwashing and lies they are being subjected to 24/7/365.
And don’t imagine that the schools run by the mainstream churches are any different to state schools now in that regard.
You have to find a truly independent school – there are still some of those – or educate at home.
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13% American Amish Strike Again
Store surveillance video released over the weekend shows a clerk at the Friendly Normandy Market gas station in the Seattle suburb of Normandy Park being brutally beaten by a teenage thug during a gang robbery last Friday night.
The thug pummeled the clerk into submission while his accomplices robbed the store. Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the at least six suspects who arrived at the station in two stolen cars, a Kia and Hyundai which were later recovered by police.
In an interview with KCPQ, the clerk said the robbers were laughing during the attack:
From the Comments
– When the criminals are described as “teens” or “youths”:, we all know what that’s code for, don’t we?
– Yep, we all know. It’s the “I dindo nuffin” crowd.
– As Leo would say in Lethal Weapon, they’re “blek.”
– Ninjas – You have the first two letters correct. After those letters could be “ggers”.
– The 13%ers?
– Vikings, Amish? (Extreme sarcasm)
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“You have to find a truly independent school – there are still some of those – or educate at home.”
There’s one here in Sydney that’s been set up….Hartford College. A Catholic boy’s school. The founder spoke at CPAC.
“Hartford College is Australia’s first Liberal Arts school for boys (Years 5-12) based in Sydney’s South East.
Our highly regarded mentoring program, unique liberal arts curriculum and parent focused philosophy sets Hartford apart.”
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You have to find a truly independent school – there are still some of those – or educate at home.
Or, possibly, implement the core teaching of math/english/classics yourself. I have two school-age students who are not getting much in the way of solid Math, English and Classics(history, culture, philosophy that made us what we are now) at school.
So I prepared a small set of books to read (1984, Alice in Wonderland, Moby Dick, …), exercises to work through and also some cards listing artists & thinkers they should be familiar with (plato, einstein, curie, picasso, mondrian, okeefe, …). Tried asking teachers at school but they don’t want any extra work.
Interested to hear if there is a better way to deliver this “basics + classics” extra education. With Chat GPT, online teaching via MOOCs etc I believe there could be a way to educate students in a true sense.
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There’s one here in Sydney that’s been set up….Hartford College. A Catholic boy’s school. The founder spoke at CPAC.
There’s also around 80 independent, parent controlled Christian schools operating in all states. They were originally associated with Dutch Reformed migrants in the ’50s & early ’60s but were always intended to be under the oversight of parents rather than a denomination as a matter of principle.
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Fears ahead of bushfire season as RFSQ loses 10,000 volunteers in four years.
Concerns are growing for Queensland’s preparedness ahead of the upcoming bushfire season.Palacechook is not worried about the loss of volunteers as she has a new strategy for containing bushfire. From the start of summer bush fires will be in lockdown. Fires will only be permitted to burn outdoors for 1 hour within 3km of their starting point. They are confined to their home the rest of the time. Palacechook encourages fires to have wood delivered to their home to avoid the need for overland travel.
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And don’t imagine that the schools run by the mainstream churches are any different to state schools now in that regard.
Exactly. Our kid went to a Christian College in HS and part of Primary. Since she left, her old school has severely ramped up leftism/wokeism even more. But while she was in school we were always involved with homework and generally discussing the daily school work. That presented many opportunities to debunk or at least counterbalance the teaching with sensible fact based values and alternate perspectives. Uni didn’t present an issue in the Science/Commerce diplomas.
The kids now are being brainwashed with the guilt being piled on to them- for such “crimes”as the climate, the indigenous, gender/inclusion, colonialism/race etc. Subtle to be sure, but very real. Hence the breeding of today’s activists. They believe they have to assuage their enormous inherited guilt for these past wrongs. It’s a sick but effective system.
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Looks like Dutton might be making some way in the nuke debate. He has Bowen on the defensive – relying on his modelling of the cost of nukes, but then his modelling also said the price of electricity was going to go down (by $275/year by 2025) while it has actually gone up in the last year by up to 30%.
Good timing too. Summer is coming. Brown outs and black outs await.
At the same time usually talk about nuke centres around Chernobyl and Hiroshima (and now Fukushima). But instead we are hearing a lot about the US, UK, France and even Ontario. Looking at where it works and where it delivers instead of disaster pr0n.
This is a dramatic shift in what people think nuclear is. It is not an atom bomb ready to kill, but a quiet and efficient and clean source of cheap reliable electricity.
Add that to the Voice. Remember that the Coalition did not leap to the ‘No’ side on instinct. It took them a few weeks to make up their mind, but I think they could sniff the wind and they are now reaping the benefits.
We have also had the reality of the Aboriginal industry being exposed through the referendum – the enormous sums already spent for a start. But also we are hearing about the insane land-grabs, and now about a push to create special juries for Indigenous miscreants.
It is becoming clearer that the people behind the ‘Yes’ vote are not compassionate types but nasty, vicious, politically connected creatures who speak of other Australians in the most derogatory way they know. Stupid too. Histrionic appeals as to what the rest of the world thinks, or sides of history, or if you don’t grant special privilege to one race then you are racist, are not fooling anyone. Marcia’s bitterness has now been broadcast far and wide as densely packed with the word ‘racist’ as a bogan might say “fuckin’” – and in both cases with as little focus on literal meaning.
Marcia arriving at her office might go like this:
Racist! I’ve just had the racist most racist mornin’. First me racist clock didn’t wake me up so I racist slept in. Then me racist car wouldn’t racist start, so I ‘ad to get the racist NRMA, and they take racist forever, just to fiddle with a few racist wires. Then there was the racist traffic racist, and when I get in, I can’t get me racist muffin from the racist cafe ’cause I was racist late and some racist racist from the top floor took the last racist one.
Such racist bullshit.
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My God I love this woman, just in from The Oz. This is what you do, you don’t turn the other cheek, you don’t wimp and cower in the corner, you throw it back.
Leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has accused “tolerant Yes people” of “abusing and denigrating” attendees of Fair Australia’s South Australian No campaign launch on Monday night.
“The tolerant Yes people were busy abusing and denigrating attendees of our event in Adelaide last night,” Senator Price said on Facebook after protesters yelled “racist dog” and “racist pig”.
“Clearly if you don’t toe their ideological line you’re a racist dog amongst other things. Didn’t appear to be a single Aboriginal person amongst them – oh the irony.”
You go girl! And what a contrast to that SA flog, Bummingham.
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In moderation.
Perhaps if I tweak the language which was not intended as gratuitous…
Looks like Dutton might be making some way in the nuke debate. He has Bowen on the defensive – relying on his modelling of the cost of nukes, but then his modelling also said the price of electricity was going to go down (by $275/year by 2025) while it has actually gone up in the last year by up to 30%.
Good timing too. Summer is coming. Brown outs and black outs await.
At the same time usually talk about nuke centres around Chernobyl and Hiroshima (and now Fukushima). But instead we are hearing a lot about the US, UK, France and even Ontario. Looking at where it works and where it delivers instead of disaster pr0n.
This is a dramatic shift in what people think nuclear is. It is not an atom bomb ready to kill, but a quiet and efficient and clean source of cheap reliable electricity.
Add that to the Voice. Remember that the Coalition did not leap to the ‘No’ side on instinct. It took them a few weeks to make up their mind, but I think they could sniff the wind and they are now reaping the benefits.
We have also had the reality of the Aboriginal industry being exposed through the referendum – the enormous sums already spent for a start. But also we are hearing about the insane land-grabs, and now about a push to create special juries for Indigenous miscreants.
It is becoming clearer that the people behind the ‘Yes’ vote are not compassionate types but nasty, vicious, politically connected creatures who speak of other Australians in the most derogatory way they know. Stupid too. Histrionic appeals as to what the rest of the world thinks, or sides of history, or if you don’t grant special privilege to one race then you are racist, are not fooling anyone. Marcia’s bitterness has now been broadcast far and wide as densely packed with the word ‘racist’ as a bogan might say “f*ckin’” – and in both cases with as little focus on literal meaning.
Marcia arriving at her office might go like this:
Racist! I’ve just had the racist most racist mornin’. First me racist clock didn’t wake me up so I racist slept in. Then me racist car wouldn’t racist start, so I ‘ad to get the racist NRMA, and they take racist forever, just to fiddle with a few racist wires. Then there was the racist traffic racist, and when I get in, I can’t get me racist muffin from the racist cafe ’cause I was racist late and some racist racist from the top floor took the last racist one.
Such racist bullsh*t.
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If 251s are so disadvantaged and ignored how did they manage to score a “referendum” .. ? .. The majority of the vote-herd who fill the gummint coffers are never asked if they’d like to see any changes to improve their lives ..! .. When was the last time that we were consulted about the high levels of immigration or what could be dun to lower energy costs .. answer .. NEVER & nor will we ever be .. this referendum is no more than a single cell wet-dream of Luigi sold under the guise of “level playing field” .. a “field” the vote-herd will never play on ..!
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Germany scrambling to subsidise the power bills of industrial users after BASF announced it was pulling out and will build a $10bn plant in China because of cheaper electricity costs.
The Chinese Communist Party can’t believe the success of its strategy of using the climate superstitions of its useful idiots in the West to sabotage the capitalist free market.
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Remember that the Coalition did not leap to the ‘No’ side on instinct. It took them a few weeks to make up their mind, but I think they could sniff the wind and they are now reaping the benefits.
This is like some kind of zen politicking.
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My concern with the Yes campaign is that they are engaged in an effective social media campaign, Dan Andrews style. This is not visible in the traditional way. Andrews proved you did not need to be seen in the electorate or walk the shopping centres, as his social media team pump out their message day in and day out.
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The Chinese Communist Party can’t believe the success of its strategy of using the climate superstitions of its useful idiots in the West to sabotage the capitalist free market.
It’s of our own making. When you see a competitor making mistakes you don’t correct them, and often you invite them to dig further.
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His rhetoric is direct and withering. A year ago British prime minister John Major dismissed Goldsmith as “living in cloud-cuckoo-land.” Goldsmith has always voted Conservative, but he thinks the current Conservative government is “appalling on all the most important issues that matter for me.” Major, in Goldsmith’s view, “doesn’t dare lead. He thinks leadership is equilibrium. He is the ultimate rubber man.” Nor does Goldsmith have much use for Tony Blair and his “New Labour” image. Labour, he says, has become “the soft Conservative Party. They are all one party.”
from a magazine interview of Sir James Goldsmith, almost 30 years ago.
A really interesting bloke. Interesting family background and interesting family or families of his own. Mates with Kerry Packer too?
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Some of us are happy to spend our hard earned money subscribing to the Oz. The journalism of the Janet A and others makes it worthwhile. Whilst not perfect, the Oz is better than the rest.
I read it for free at the coffee shop. True, I spend money at the shop, but I’d be doing that anyway as they supply a lot of my staples while living at the motel. Plus, their home made vanilla custard cannolis are magnificent!
The coffee shop has multiple copies of the ghastly Canberra Crimes, probably available at no charge to the proprietors. Once or twice, when the Oz was unavailable, I took one to read. OMG, what drivel – very little in the way of content, just dribblings from J school pampered eejits. The local paper when I was growing up, the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, had much more content, and it was free.
Daily papers used to be called fishwrappers. Firstly, that is no longer allowed because elf and safety (wankers! Nobody ever died because of their fish and chips being wrapped in newspaper.) More importantly, the idea was that yesterday’s news was dead and gone. Well, the Crimes contains no news at all that I can detect, so that is now irrelevant.
The coffee shop does stock the Sunday Telegraph, which has the odd interesting article. But it is awash with wokeness as well.
I haven’t looked at the figures for print magazines for a while. I’m guessing that there is still a market for glossy design and fashion magazines, if only so that they can be displayed on coffee tables.
When it comes to newspapers, the combination of technological change and takeovers by leftist churnalist ‘collectives’ has destroyed an entire industry.
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The Chinese Communist Party can’t believe the success of its strategy of using the climate superstitions of its useful idiots in the West to sabotage the capitalist free market.
And it’s important to note that there are different kinds of useful idiot.
Nuclear power is no longer a fringe dream but is now mainstream – and that’s good.
What’s bad is that the Liberals and various commentators are selling it as desirable because it would help the nation ‘achieve’ so-called ‘net zero.’ This is the classical ratchet trap that gets our conservative halfwits every time. You MUST reject the false premise to make long-lasting change.
1. Reject the case for net zero – in toto.
2. Commit to a veritable Bradfield Scheme for nationwide energy modernisation – including coal, oil, gas and nuclear. -
Independent schooling and homeschooling is all well and good until the machine fights back.
Homeschooling is ILLEGAL in Germany, John Taylor Gatto wrote about this in “Weapons of Mass Instruction”.
Here’s a staunchly Catholic alternative to university entry:
https://augustineacademy.com.au/
Privatisation to the local community is the most important solution in the long run.
Great, your kids aren’t brainwashed, but what about 95% of the school population who will vote when they turn 18?
Gifting public schools to local communities (all property owners are shareholders in a non-profit charity)stops dead the typical low IQ lefty arguments about GREED! and so on.
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I also note that the ABC is running segments now about ‘renewables vs nuclear’.
As with every topic except the grandiose delusions of leftist thought I cannot help but laugh at them pretending to have anything to offer.
The technical matters like energy production, finance and markets are simply so far beyond them that the only thing sparing them embarrassment is an unassailable conviction that they are smart and everyone else is stupid.
Every time a prediction fails to come to fruition they assume malice on the part of the people they misunderstood – so it is their fault, not the ABC’s.
Have they ever got anything right?
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This is the classical ratchet trap that gets our conservative halfwits every time. You MUST reject the false premise to make long-lasting change.
I wonder why a phrase like “Energy Security” is not used by pollies as it captures the essential key element missing from the whole zero carbon discussion i.e. will we have a secure energy provision at a reasonable cost under plan 2030/2050/etc?
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Interestingly, in the latest Speccie there is an article about rampant shop-lifting crime now increasing in British towns and cities.
A Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant has hired guards armed with assault rifles as zombified homeless drug addicts continue to plague the city.
The original Jim’s Steaks has reopened under the new name Jim’s West, and have added stricter security measures.
It comes as the city has become overwhelmed by drug-fueled crime under Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner, a self-described ‘progressive prosecutor.’
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For once, the Ponds Institute did some decent work, albeit fro the wrong reasons:
Supermarkets reaping big profits are slow to support the removal of unnecessary use-by-date labels as Australian food waste soars, according to information gathered by The Australia Institute.
Key points:The Australia Institute says supermarkets are making $1.2 billion a year in profit due to food waste
It says regulation of best-before and use-by dates needs to be changed
Supermarkets say they are not opposed to labelling reformThe public policy think tank said Australians wasted 7.6 million tonnes of food each year, costing households $19.3 billion in 2018–19.
The institute’s 2021 National Food Waste Strategy Feasibility Study found the average Australian household wasted between $2,000 and $2,500 worth of food each year.
In its September 2023 discussion paper, the think tank said profits gained from food waste presented supermarkets with a strong incentive to resist policy changes to remove best-before dates on products that did not need them.
Australia Institute polling showed strong support for policies that would reduce food waste, including labelling reform, relaxed cosmetic standards, and kerbside
collection of food waste.Senior economist Matt Grudnoff said consumers were concerned about waste and change was not happening fast enough.
A profile image of a man with brown hair and a beard, wearing a shirt and dark suit jacket.
Matt Grudnoff says UK supermarkets have removed best-before dates on hundreds of items.(Supplied: Matt Grudnoff)“It’s high time for the government to act on food labelling reform and the other recommendations of the National Food Waste Strategy Feasibility Study,” Mr Grudnoff said.
“It proposed removing best-before dates from products that do not need them, scrapping sell-by and display-until dates, and extending allowable use-by dates for long-life products.”
I always ignore those labels, except when snapping up bargains at the supermarket because they are about to ‘expire.’
As a survivor of group student houses in the 1970s, I can assure readers that short of complete stupidity, it is difficult to get food poisioning.
Unless you are a Greenie who refuses to eat eggs that have been washed with an antibacterial solution, as supermarket barn and cage eggs are.
Then, you can get infected by E. coli, as patrons of a trendy Canberra restaurant serving ‘free range’ eggs were a few years ago, and end up in hospital.
I especially loathe the ‘use by’ dates on yoghurt. FFS, it’s made out of soured milk! I keep it in the fridge for weeks and months, it’s never given me so much as an untoward burp.
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Stand by for Ursula’s sure fire plan to help Italy with the current invasion from Africa
Ms von der Leyen said her aid plan for Italy included increased support for the European Agency for Asylum and the EU’s Frontex border control agency to register new arrivals. The increased measures include ensuring that fingerprints are taken and conducting interviews to make sure people are directed toward the proper authorities.
Can Moroni do much better?
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One of the peak mongdom indicators for me is the ban on feeding pigs ” swill”.
Incredible amounts of veggie and meat are wasted when it should be a no brainer to convert it to bacon.
I suspect it’s because the authorities know a lot of overseas products contain disease which won’t do bugger all to people but might infect pigs.
( eg- pork sausage from countries with swine flu)
In a sane world massive amounts of Colesworth waste could be turned into pig feed.
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DR Koncerthuset:
Premiered on 17 Sept 2023
“Thor’s Arrival – The Giant’s Theme – The Rainbow Bridge – The Whistling Song” from “Valhalla”Composed by Ron Goodwin, Bent Hesselmann
Performed by The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, DR Big Band and Danish National Concert Choir Conducted by Christian Schumann.
This performance was a part of the film music concert Cartoons in Concert (Så er der Tegnfilm i Symfonien) broadcasted on The Danish Broadcast Corporation (DR)
Light design: Jonas Bøgh
Director of photography: Karsten Andersen
Sound producers: Lars C Bruun & Ossian Ryner
Executive Producer, idea and concept: Nicolai AbrahamsenPerformed and recorded in DR Koncerthuset All rights reserved DR 2022
Valhalla // Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Concert Choir & DR Big Band (Live)
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I can assure readers that short of complete stupidity, it is difficult to get food poisioning.
Try the fish…
California mom had all her limbs amputated after consuming bad tilapia: ‘She almost lost her life’ (16 Sep)
Messina says Barajas was infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a potentially fatal bacterium found in raw seafood and seawater.
“The ways you can get infected with this bacteria are, one, you can eat something that’s contaminated with it [and] the other way is by having a cut or tattoo exposed to water in which this bug lives,” UCSF infectious disease expert Dr. Natasha Spottiswoode told KRON.
I’m a believer in antibacterial solution washing! Especially raw chicken. Had to give up on 4 leaf salads from Coles, even though I like ’em. Two doses of the runs this year cured me of my addiction.
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Libya and Morocco will only add to the number of ‘refugees’ crossing to Italy.
Ursula’s plan is to move them on to other parts of Europe but nobody is lining up to usher them across the border.
If they are moved off Lampedusa the next lot is already on the way.
This is called solving the problem but it is just kicking the can down the track.SBS reported on Lampedusa. We listened to two women with children describing their hunger, then a small kid also talked about how little food she’d received. A totally false picture of who these ‘refugees’ were, deliberately designed to pull the heartstrings. 95% are exultant, grinning military aged males out to raid the treasure house that is Europe.
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