That makes it a rare double segue since I was segueing off Lysander! 😀 😀
Open Thread – Wed 20 Sept 2023
- Bumtree #16
- Open Thread – Mon 20 May 2024
- Guest Post: Wally Dali- Archibald Prize predictions
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
Now try a prayer for winning the $150 million in Powerball this Thursday, An ignorant comment. You have much to…
LOL 🙂
I knew it was tongue in cheek, Bruce, but it was the perfect segue for my true anecdote about prayer.
Delta A May 20, 2024 12:59 pm Sounds like they are hoping for a Hail Mary.Very dry in our part…
If the retards I know who are using choppy can find their way to illegal suppliers with minimal effort, it speaks volumes about policing priorities when Plod is apparently struggling.
I chortled a lot…..
Outstanding. I watched this and the first thing I thought of was this skank has teeth in her minge. You just know the type: self centred and angry to the point where they would literally bite your dick off.
Oh, and Professor Spitz is not an animal lover. It appears the altercation started over a pen of lambs left in the hot sun at a Cooma demmo.
PETA is unavailable for comment.
Huawei makes processor breakthrough in flagship smartphone
Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro
Huawei is emulating Apple in developing the processors that power its latest smartphone, a breakthrough that will help the Chinese company to reduce its reliance on foreign technology as it confronts US sanctions.
Analysis of the main chip inside the Mate 60 Pro smartphone, which launched at the end of last month and immediately sold out, reveals that Huawei has joined the elite group of Big Tech companies capable of designing their own semiconductors.
Four of the eight central processing units in the Mate 60 Pro’s “system on a chip” (SoC) rely purely on a design by Arm, the British company whose chip architecture powers 99 per cent of smartphones.
The other four CPUs are Arm-based but feature Huawei’s own designs and adaptations, according to three people familiar with the Mate’s development and Geekerwan, a Chinese technology testing company that took a closer look at the main chip.
Huawei has been struggling since 2019 under sanctions aimed at cutting off its access to advanced chips, equipment and software from the US for making 5G smartphones, forcing it to pivot to selling 4G gadgets and focus on its home market.
While Huawei is still licensing Arm’s basic designs, its own HiSilicon chip design business has improved on them to build its own processor cores on the Mate’s Kirin 9000S SoC. This will give it the flexibility needed to produce high-end smartphones despite the constraints of US export controls, said analysts and industry insiders.
The Kirin 9000S also features a graphics processing unit and neural processing unit developed by HiSilicon. Its predecessor, the Kirin 9000 SoC, had relied completely on Arm for its CPUs and GPU.
The developments show that Huawei is pursuing a strategy similar to Apple’s Silicon initiative. Over more than a decade, Apple has improved upon Arm’s basic architecture to give its iPhones and Macs a competitive edge in performance.
The complexity, huge costs and scarce engineering resources involved in semiconductor development mean only a few companies are able to take such an approach.
Huawei may have made a breakthrough that allows it to “have indigenous design and not rely on foreign nations too much”, said Dylan Patel, chief analyst at consulting firm SemiAnalysis.
Other benefits to Huawei include reduced patent licensing costs and the opportunity to differentiate its products from rivals’ that use off-the-shelf chips, said analyst Brady Wang of Counterpoint Research.
Huawei was able to produce its own phone processors by adapting CPU core designs that were originally used in its data centre servers, according to people with direct knowledge of its development. The strategy resembles Apple’s moves to turn its iPhone processors into chips capable of powering its Mac computers — but in reverse.
“No one ever did this before,” Wang said of Huawei’s server-to-phone innovation.
“Huawei called on as many different internal resources as possible to achieve results in order to reduce its dependence on imported technology,” said a semiconductor analyst who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation.
However, the company still faces the challenge of producing cutting-edge chips with the latest equipment because the US restricts Huawei’s suppliers. The Biden administration said earlier this month it was seeking details on the SoC inside Huawei’s new phone.
Research group TechInsights earlier this month reported that the Mate 60 Pro’s main chip had been made by China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International at the 7-nanometre node of miniaturisation — two generations behind the most advanced smartphone chipmaking production lines.
Huawei did not respond to a request for comment. Arm declined to comment.
The Mate 60 Pro has been touted as proving Huawei’s ability to innovate to get around US sanctions, though analysts say the phone’s performance shows how its progress has been hampered by export controls.
Various testing teams, including Geekerwan’s, have found that Huawei’s semiconductor capabilities are one to two years behind those of chips made by the US’s Qualcomm, the leading mobile chipmaker. Huawei’s chips also consume more power than its competitors’, according to measurements, and can cause the phone to heat up.
“We could tell from the teardown that Huawei managed to replace most risky elements that were subject or vulnerable to export controls with homegrown or even in-house products,” said a person familiar with the company’s smartphone chip design.
“The endeavours are worthy of applause but not enough to claim victory.”
Oh, yeah.
The ACT legal ‘profession’ is a very small world, and that Drumgold was not the brightest bulb in the legal chandelier was well known. But, what can you do with a semi-permanent Labor/Greens government which appoints people according to their politics, across the board.
And, they were imitating the Labor governments in Victoriastan that appointed those who will now be tasked with doing a ‘lessons learned, but nobody is to blame’ review.
The fate of the little people who passed through the system is of no concern. Just like the phony COVID review, the perpetrators are running the show.
In Fighting Torries news:
A 12-month inquiry into the Commonwealth response? With full access.
Time enough to fully document a shit-file on the Morrison Government before an election in late 2024 or early 2025.
In the Tweet link before, Musk reckons there are about 2 million illegals jumping over the border per year. Mark Levin reckons the Demonrat long term plan is to turn Texas into a blue state. That’s not so much as a prediction but a fact.
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Dr Faustus
Sep 21, 2023 2:40 PM
In Fighting Torries news:
On Thursday, the prime minister announced the one-year inquiry will be headed by epidemiologist professor Catherine Bennett, health economist Dr Angela Jackson, and the former director general of the NSW health department Robyn Kruk.
At a press conference in Adelaide, Albanese repeatedly deflected questions about whether the inquiry will have compulsory powers, telling reporters that seeking “conflict” is “completely contrary” to its aims.
A 12-month inquiry into the Commonwealth response? With full access.
Time enough to fully document a shit-file on the Morrison Government before an election in late 2024 or early 2025.
Yep – Pure Labor Stich Up
Australia news
Covid-19 inquiry will exclude state and territory decisions, Anthony Albanese says
Inquiry headed by independent panel of experts will cover commonwealth pandemic response but exclude unilateral actions of states or territories
“Denise Ferris
Professor Emerita at The Australian National University
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
A school spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia they are ‘investigating, and will take appropriate action as required’.
‘This video has just been brought to the university’s attention. Emeritus professors are not paid members of staff,’ the spokesperson said.”
Where are the police, she should be charged. Spitting at someone is assault.
Aside from the teeth in her “minge”, that’s an assault.
Try the NAB Exec floor Bourke St.
A one year inquiry? Maaaaates!
The baksheesh is getting crazily big.
Results may vary in different jurisdictions.
In my jurisdiction:
1) The bloke who got spat on has to proactively make a complaint to police. Otherwise no assault.
2) Based on the video alone, cops could book her for “Disorderly in public” (they do this for speeding & dangerous driving, based on tik tok or Youtube uploads)
3) She can be done only once for this incident. If the cops book her for disorderly, it may hamper the chances of an assault charge being allowable.
I’d like to see the cow in the dock, answering to a criminal charge of assault, with aggravation by reason of bio-hazard in her spittle.
But, what can you do with a semi-permanent Labor/Greens government which appoints people according to their politics, across the board.
And therein lies the rub.
“Inquiry headed by independent panel of experts will cover commonwealth pandemic response but exclude unilateral actions of states or territories”
Good-oh – so we’ll find out WHY the feds refused to prosecute the various state individuals/entities that ignored superseding federal law and applied lockdowns, mask mandates and virtual vaccine mandates to citizens without the right to due process?
Nah, didn’t think so…
Those running it are obviously “sound” as Sir Humphrey would put it. And also as Humpy would say, you never initiate an inquiry unless you know what the outcome will be.
Just having the good prof as one of the heads of the Inquiry shows how slanted it will be. Bennett was one of the most vocal supporters of what the government was doing during the pandemic.
Not happy, Janet.
The terms of reference for Albanese’s cunning Covid stunt will be something to behold.
Citizen Morrison abjectly surrendered Covid control to the States via the National Cabinet. It’s hard to see how any proper analysis of the Commonwealth’s performance could be conducted without following down State rabbit-holes.
But there you go.
In Queensland for absolute certain, any questioning of Hannibal Palaszczuk over the next 12 months will be met with Silence of the Lambs.
Queensland dirty secrets are for Queenslanders.
On the Spitting to Parliament.
Police normally want to see any footage leading up to the incident and not just from the victims pov.
Ahahaha! I see my fan club has scrolled back and meticulously downticked every single one of my comments from hours ago.
Thanks, you petty imbecile.
Spat on anyone lately too?
I thought Catherine Bennett was not a huge fan of Dan’s Lockdowns.
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Sep 21, 2023 11:00 AM
Saint Matthew, the first-century tax collector turned apostle who chronicled the life and ministry of Christ in his Gospel, is celebrated by the Church today, September 21.
I am amazed that so many of these apostles had English names in the year zero before the English language was invented around the years 1000 AD to 1300 AD. Very odd that.
” I see my fan club has scrolled back and meticulously downticked every single one of my comments from hours ago.”
Only to keep you suitably modest… see? always thinking of you. 🙂
She’s Correct – Questioning AG Merrick Garland, Representative Spartz Compares Current DOJ to Soviet Era KGB
September 20, 2023 – Sundance
Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) is Ukranian by heritage, and understandably she is a full supporter of Ukraine (and NATO) in the battle against Russia. That said, what Ms Spartz notes in her comments and questioning of Attorney General Merrick Garland is very accurate.
Representative Spartz puts the context of the citizen fear of the soviet era KGB into the context of American fear of the weaponized DOJ. “People are scared of our government,” she outlines. The comparison is accurate in context and history. However, as Spartz goes on to share, the end result is horrible for Ukraine, as the constituents in her community will no longer trust the word of the American government. WATCH:
Interesting 4 mins 31 Secs
Ron DeSantis Drops to Fifth Place in Latest New Hampshire Polling
The ACT government is a legislative setup, no? The federal government could remove them through legislation I believe.
Dismantle rather than remove.
calli
Sep 21, 2023 2:57 PM
Ahahaha! I see my fan club has scrolled back and meticulously downticked every single one of my comments from hours ago.
Thanks, you petty imbecile.
Spat on anyone lately too?
They are down thumbs. Get along to Specsavers and get yer’ eyes tested. Dipstick.
Citizen Morrison abjectly surrendered Covid control to the States via the National Cabinet.
Yes, the most insipid piece of leadership ever. Gave dictator state premiers licence to do as they wished. And didn’t Andrews and Chook love that.
Scotty from marketing joins R-G-R as the worst.
Why thank you Johnny.
Charming abuse.
I’ll make sure I don’t enquire after you should you go missing any time soon. New Zealand wasn’t it? Your friend Dragnet must be so proud.
I know what you mean, but how much clearer could it be though? You can see the disgusting pig making up the spit glob sitting on her ugly lips and then lobbing it at the dude.
Denise Ferris
Professor Emerita…
I might just point out that Mx Ferris is claiming their gender as ‘female’, through the feminine adjective ‘Emerita’, but leaving their profession ‘Professor’ in its masculine form.
No wonder they are a confused farquewit.
Ahahaha! I see my fan club has scrolled back and meticulously downticked every single one of my comments from hours ago.
Ignore the thumbsdown Calli, anyone who cares/knows will only give you thumbs up.
Trolls have to be trolls.
I will reflect on my stay in Japan, I do want to go back, perhaps in the New Year, if everything is settled.
We had another medical situation three hours out of Melbourne, not as bad as the previous one, thanks to increased levels of medication.
Stabilised enough to travel to the public hospital closest to home.
And very grateful to the two doctors on board who came to our aid, particularly the Indian national visiting Australia for the first time who sat with my sister for the duration of the flight and was kindness personified.
We shall find out in due course if it’s just one of those things that people with her condition experience from time to time, or something more sinister.
Glad that we came home.
Sad it was necessary.
Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
@RepTroyNehls
SLAMS Garland Over Quid Pro Quos
NEHLS: “Joe Biden threatened the Ukrainian President and Prime Minister – to fire Shokin – if that is not quid pro quo, sir, what is? – It’s bribery, and it’s impeachable. Are you gonna do something about it?”
GARLAND: “…”
NEHLS: “I bet you’re not. And that’s why you – also need to be impeached!”
Calli, ignore the worthless POS. He’s a lowlife who should;’ve been deported ages ago.
For once I agree with JC 🙂
calli
Sep 21, 2023 3:06 PM
Why thank you Johnny.
If you don’t know the difference between a tick and a thumb then you should go back to school tomorrow. FFS.
Such a precious person you are. Bwhaaaaaaaaaaah
Learn Greek son. 😀
I especially like Strong’s concordance, which is nowadays available online. You can see what the Greek and Hebraic words actually are, and what they mean. It can be quite eyeopening. Like the speech Paul gave to the Athenians…look at the actual words he said which are rendered in our translations as “man”. Nope. Western conceit and cultural angst.
Bruce O’Nuke:
The link to asteroid, shows a diagram of the orbit of Eris. In the piccies of the orbit, LHS, Saturn is shown on an inner orbit to Uranus. Is this just an artifact of the drawing, or has someone made a classic boo boo?
J.D. VANCE: Five Years From Now, We’re Going to Find Lots of People Have Gotten Rich off the Ukraine War (VIDEO)
One of the criticisms of the U.S. funding of the war in Ukraine is that it appears to be a money laundering operation.
Jesse Watters addressed this issue during a recent episode of his show, pointing out that the folks at the Clinton Foundation are already licking their chops about the prospect of rebuilding Ukraine.
Senator J.D. Vance predicts that in several years, we will learn that people got rich because of this.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
JESSE WATTERS: Please don’t hunt me down, Sarah, I didn’t do anything wrong.
So Senator, when you see this new news about the Clinton Global Initiative Ukraine Action Network, and we’ve got Airbnb, you know, we’ve got famous Hollywood actors now involved, and the World Bank is kind of laundering American taxpayers through the Clintons into Ukraine, it could be a noble cause, yes, but it also seems a little suspicious, considering what the Clintons had been known for their entire career. Do you agree?
SEN. J.D. VANCE: Oh, I certainly agree, Jesse. I really guess that five years from now, we’re going to find out that between the Clintons and a number of American private equity firms and other hyper-global corporations that, you’re going to find a lot of people have gotten rich from this,. And it’s really sad and it is really despicable because of course, the Ukrainians didn’t invite the war on themselves.
I have disagreements with their leadership but not with the people. But you can almost see the elites of Washington and New York City salivating over acquiring more power and more money for themselves on the backs of the Ukrainian war effort. Anybody who doesn’t see this for what it is, I think, is blind to the reality. It’s one of the reasons why, Jesse, we have to start asking tough questions about how long is this going to go on.
To your point, are we going to let the entire country be destroyed? half of it has already been destroyed.
Are we going to encourage American investors and American politicians to get rich and powerful in Ukraine?
Watch the video below. Vance enters at the 7:24 mark:
JD Vance exposes the Biden-Clinton cash pipeline to Kiev:
“The U.S. is sending the World Bank $25 Billion. And then the World Bank is sending the money to the Clintons. And then the Clintons are sending it to Ukraine.” pic.twitter.com/g2gp6VVV0J
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) September 20, 2023
The American people are sick of forever wars and the grift that goes with them.
LOl, Brits never went pink in the sun in those days.
New book lies to kids: falsely claims Stonehenge was built when Britain was a “black country”
Ted Cruz Predicts Democrats Will ‘Parachute’ Michelle Obama Into 2024 Race to Replace Joe Biden (VIDEO)
“Such a precious person you are. Bwhaaaaaaaaaaah”
And you’re not precious? Spare me.
Leave calli alone.
Why thank you Johnny.
Charming abuse.
LOL. I gave you some medical advice. Get yer’ eyes tested. If you get upset by that then you are far too insensitive. Maybe go on a harder Blog.
They are thumbs and not ticks. FFS. Go to Specsavers.
I’ll leave it there, Johnny. The comments can stand on their own merit. Precious or not.
Cassie of Sydney
Sep 21, 2023 3:21 PM
“Such a precious person you are. Bwhaaaaaaaaaaah”
And you’re not precious? Spare me.
Leave calli alone.
They are thumbs and not ticks. Get it right.
COVID INQUIRY
PM’s Covid panel backed hard lockdowns
Two-of-the-three experts hand-picked to lead the government’s Covid-19 inquiry publicly supported Victoria’s hard lockdowns.
Covid royal commission refusal ‘a racket’
By SARAH ISON, GEOFF CHAMBERS
Albanese ‘protecting’ Labor premiers on inquiry
Peter Dutton blasts the Covid-19 inquiry, which excludes unilateral decisions by state and territory governments, saying the terms ‘don’t make any sense’.
I’m not buying it, Ozzie. She’s a privileged black man who appears to have a lot of grievances over skin color and comes across nastier than Crooked Hillary.
I reckon Crooked would have more of a chance.
Winston – ok yes, Eris is actually the size of Pluto. I was using artistic license. Sue me. If Eris hit Earth it’d be worse than even the latest edition of Covid.
(It’s Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune btw, so the diag looks ok to me.)
She’s a privileged black man
Another one that needs to go to Specsavers………………
Beery:
Here’s one, it’s a bit mobility challenged, but nothing a good hit of meth won’t fix.
Anthony Albanese’s COVID inquiry is a ‘toothless tiger’ which lets ‘draconian’ state leaders off the hook
An inquiry into the handling of COVID which ignores the dangerous overreach of our state leaders is essentially useless and walks perilously close to being a broken election promise by the Albanese Government,
writes Jack Houghton.
An inquiry into the handling of COVID which ignores the dangerous overreach of our state leaders is essentially useless and walks perilously close to being a broken election promise by the Albanese Government.
How quickly we seem to have forgotten. Thousands of deaths, draconian lockdowns and families split at state borders. Quite literally, our country had never been so divided.
It was the catalyst for the inflation crisis which led many to economic ruin and still hurts those enduring cost of living pressure today.
But for Anthony Albanese, a Royal Commission – with the powers to compel witnesses and probe state actions – is not an appropriate answer.
Instead an inquiry has been called, to be run by seasoned bureaucrat Robyn Kruk, epidemiologist Catherine Bennett and a health economist Angela Jackson.
Those three are qualified in their respective fields but a Royal Commission would draw on an eminent judicial mind to oversee.
And the worst part of this decision is that the disturbing, manipulative and unscientific behaviour of our state leaders will not be probed.
<a href="“>The Commonwealth Government COVID-19 Response Inquiry scope, published to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet website, rules out the two most important aspects of an inquiry.
“The following areas are not in scope for the Inquiry,” the scoping document reads.
“Actions taken unilaterally by state and territory governments.
“International programs and activities assisting foreign countries.”
Really?
The stark contrast between each Australian state leader’s actions this pandemic shows the science was susceptible to being used for political gain.
If the science was being followed you would find very consistent policy approaches.
However, response decisions fluctuated frequently and confusingly.
The inquiry will be blocked from forcing the Queensland Palaszczuk Government to reveal how taxpayer funded polling of COVID responses was used to formulate policy.
It will not have the power to compel the Andrews Government to explain what scientific research existed to justify the state’s debilitating lockdowns.
Spoiler, no such research exists because lockdowns have widely been condemned, abandoned and relegated to the realm of pseudo-scientific policy mechanisms implemented by authoritarian crackpot leaders, such as Xi Jinping.
Even the World Health Organisation recommends, still to this day, that lockdowns should only ever be used as a last resort to prevent hospitals from being overrun.
Was the science truly being followed objectively or were politicians using the pandemic to garner votes, based on fear, and win elections?
Australians now know better.
Nothing should be off the table for an inquiry into the single most destructive health and economic event in modern history.
Instead, Anthony Albanese has opted for a toothless tiger which will be bound by strict parameters preventing states from being targeted. Is it any coincidence every state government in the country is run by Labor?
Why shouldn’t international programs or “activities assisting foreign countries” be probed by an inquiry?
You might recall the World Health Organisation went along with China’s lies in the early days of the pandemic, which delayed critical communication.
For example, in 2020, the WHO released a lengthy statement praising China’s transparency efforts.
“The Committee emphasized that the declaration of a PHEIC should be seen in the spirit of support and appreciation for China, its people, and the actions China has taken on the front lines of this outbreak, with transparency, and, it is to be hoped, with success. In line with the need for global solidarity, the Committee felt that a global coordinated effort is needed to enhance preparedness in other regions of the world that may need additional support for that.”
And then, as this writer reported in 2021, the WHO followed up with perhaps the most deadly sentence in modern history.
“The Committee does not recommend any travel or trade restriction based on the current information available,” WHO doctors wrote.
The Chinese cover-up was not some theoretical conspiracy. It was a conspiracy alright but a very real one.
Several years later the Albanese Government has finally announced an inquiry into this mess but tied the hands of those leading the taskforce.
Not only will the action of the WHO not be probed, but the Albanese Government has poured another $100 million of your money into this shambolic and unaccountable organisation.
Prior to the 2022 election Albanese spoke readily about a Royal Commission, and it was recommended by a Labor stacked parliamentary committee.
“It is beyond doubt that you will need an assessment. Whether that be a Royal Commission or some form of inquiry, that will need to happen,” he said.
He certainly left wiggle-room to avoid opening a Royal Commission, should it become politically inconvenient, but will Australians buy the weasel-word explanation as to why he changed his mind?
The tone of his words today were very different.
“One of the things that I want to do from the lessons as well is to ensure that we’re positive, that the process of learning from the pandemic is constructive, rather than destructive,” he said.
His intent is clear. Albanese does not want negativity coming out of the inquiry.
The Australian people should not care if the findings are political destructive for Labor, or the Coalition for that matter.
We are owed a rigorous Royal Commission and deserve better than poor public relations messaging attempting to put a positive spin on the situation.
The Commonwealth Government COVID-19 Response Inquiry scope, published to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet website, rules out the two most important aspects of an inquiry.
Saint Catherine Bennett of the Lockdown.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-19/dr-catherine-bennett-explains-how-the-delta/13450310
Self examination would be beneficial before this shameful woman examines others.
The ‘science’ says you brutalised our community and gave petty premiers the excuse to aggrandise themselves in a pointless lockdown competition.
The virus was never containable as the the vilified but sensible few in virology pointed out, but Catherine knew better.
What a ludicrous appointment.
It was meant as a joke, you constitutional scholar. Go see if the ladyboy will give his wodney a little hug as it sounds like he needs one.
JC
Sep 21, 2023 3:24 PM
OldOzzie
Sep 21, 2023 3:19 PM
I’m not buying it, Ozzie. She’s a privileged black man who appears to have a lot of grievances over skin color and comes across nastier than Crooked Hillary.
I reckon Crooked would have more of a chance.
JCm
I agree with you, but the push keeps appearing even if only Republicans stirring the Pot
Meanwhile on DemoCrap Side – Their Depends are swelling out
WH Aides Walk Around ‘On Eggshells’ as Biden Fears He’ll Die: Report
Health is primarily a State responsibility.
He did not surrender anything that was C’Wealth’s to direct.
Clearly he did not push harder against the tyrannical desires of the Premiers.
Arrgh, previous comment was addressed to Dr Faustus
Vicki:
Show your dissatisfaction and disdain by inserting half a stick of dynamite into their burrow on a mercury switch.
I’m told a full stick will put a wombat into orbit, but that will only be provable by DNA testing on the ..remains that er.. remain after the de orbit of the ..remains.
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JC
Sep 21, 2023 3:36 PM
Johnny Rotten
Sep 21, 2023 3:29 PM
She’s a privileged black man
Another one that needs to go to Specsavers………………
It was meant as a joke, you constitutional scholar. Go see if the ladyboy will give his wodney a little hug as it sounds like he needs one.
You don’t have a sense of humour. Your comments on this Blog show your usual abuse as being very obtuse.
All you can do is to throw out the toys from your baby pen (sand pit) when anyone challenges you. You Sictorian short arse. And pompous windbag to boot. Sictoria needs you and your ongoing taxes. Please keep paying on time. Desperate Dan needs T.W.A.T.S. just like you
“epidemiologist professor Catherine Bennett”
Disgraceful. This woman is evil. A Covid hysteric from day one.
Pogria
Sep 21, 2023 3:46 PM
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Practise? Please learn to spell.
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Dipstick.
A sense of humor isn’t relentlessly copying and pasting other people’s jokes, and giving yourself a
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Me loves you long time Wodney.
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One more Tick and I score a Brain Fart.
Can’t wait!
Neuralink Brain Implant Trials Begin
“Elon Musk’s Neuralink received approval to begin a six-year trial to study the effects of brain-computer interface (BCI). A specialized surgical robot will be used to implant the devices into participants’ brains. The company’s mission: “Create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.” Participants in the first trial must have a disability such as blindness, quadriplegia, paraplegia, deafness, or major limb amputation. Permitting those with disabilities to live a normal life seems noble, but Musk has stated he dreams of expanding the Neuralink’s availability to everyone.
The non-human trials failed miserably, resulting in 1,500 dead animals since 2018. Some past employees have criticized Musk for rushing his research, but not illegal acts were committed as it is common, if not expected, for at least some animal test subjects to die. Numerous errors could have been avoided if not for human error, according to those familiar with the studies.
“The PRIME Study (short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface) – a groundbreaking investigational medical device trial for our fully-implantable, wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) – aims to evaluate the safety of our implant (N1) and surgical robot (R1) and assess the initial functionality of our BCI for enabling people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts,” Neuralink states on its website. It would be an unbelievable feat if this device gave someone the ability to walk or see for the first time. It would make all the testing worthwhile. Musk stated himself that the chip will work. “As miraculous as it may sound, we’re confident that it is possible to restore full body functionality to someone who has a severed spinal cord.”
However, Musk has loftier goals and said that the Neuralink will be for everyone. Musk stated that he personally plans to have a brain chip installed once available. Neralink is not beholden to shareholders as Musk owns the company outright. The company claims it will not sell data to third parties. However, Neuralink’s third-party affiliates, regulatory boards, and research partners will have access. Time will tell how this six-year trial goes, as I expect we will hear much more about the new technology once the trial begins.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/neuralink-brain-implant-trials-begin/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Border control.
Quarantine.
Done on consensus, rather than science or coherent public health policy.
But primarily unbudgeted and largely unplanned financial and industry support that facilitated and enabled the overreach and excesses of the State governments. Lots of it.
JC
Sep 21, 2023 3:53 PM
You can’t spell limey (limy) and you can’t spell humor (humour). But maybe then you are a Yank with not much idea about English.
A Sictorian short arse and Pompous Windbag.
she has a personal page: http://www.deniseferris.com/
” Please learn to spell.”
Wats rong wiff yous – deres nuffink rong wiff the spelink!
(oddly enough, the only words NOT marked with a squiggly line are “yous” and “the”).
From Ferris’ page…
Like this?
Practise is the verb
Practice is the noun
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1704432366180053468
And more for “Jer Cough Cretin” and his Cronies……………Armstrong……………………
The Problem with Goldbugs
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I just wanted to say thank you so much. I was listening to the perpetual gold analysts for years who never changed their tune. It was always buy, buy, buy, and the dollar would go to zero any day now. They always looked at the Fed and the balance sheet, and when they were wrong, they blamed the bankers for manipulating gold.
I sold out in 2013, and you said gold would decline for two years. It did not crack $1,000 as you hoped, but it elected two monthly bullish reversals within two months of that low, and you said it would rally to test $2,000. You also projected that the stock market would outperform gold, and contrary to all the gold bugs, you said they would rise together. Nobody made that forecast.
I had two friends who did not listen to you. They took home equity loans to buy more gold and did not sell in 2013. The gold bugs ruined the marriages of my former friends, and both lost their houses. We no longer talk because they lost everything when I followed you. The stock market did much better. People need to understand that when you forecast the world, you see things are all connected.
Thank you so much for the education.
ED
REPLY: I am glad you understand that you cannot forecast a single market to the exclusion of everything else. The world economy is all connected. As I have said, without World War I & II, the USA would still be an agrarian society. The capital shifted, transforming the USA into the world’s financial capital. The problems with the goldbugs’ view of the world is that:
They have broken rule #1 of investing – NEVER MARRY THE TRADE.
They are prejudiced by old economic theories that have not been updated since the 16th century.
When Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1519 – 1579) devised his Law that bad money drives out good, the metal content determined foreign exchange on the Amsterdam Exchange. Today, the backing of a currency has returned to the days of the Roman Empire. Rome was militarily superior, as is the case of the United States, when it became the #1 military power after WWII. Yet more importantly, Rome had a consumer-based economy, so everyone was proud to be Roman, for it gave them access to the largest consumer market in history. The Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD) had even sent an ambassador to meet with the emperor of China. The United States currency is NOT backed by gold or any commodity. It is supported by a consumer-based economy, the same as Rome.
India traded with Rome. That is where the silk from China moved through India to Rome. However, India was also the supplier of dyes and spices. Rome’s coinage was worth more than the metal content of the time of Gresham during the 16th century, for there was no significant military power nor a consumer-based economy. For over 200 years, Southen India imitated Roman gold and silver coins; at times, they even weighed more in gold than genuine coins.
Here we have an imitation gold aureus of Septimus Severus (193-211AD), which weighs 11.3 grams compared to 7.1 grams for a genuine Roman aureus. That meant that the Indian imitation was nearly 60% heavier. The coinage had a premium because of the consumer-based economy in Rome, and that attributed a premium to the coinage that had NOTHING to do with the metal content. Southern India NEVER issued their own gold coinage. They imitated that of Rome. Today, many emerging markets use the US dollar and borrow in dollars.
The world has changed – I hate to tell them. The old theory of the Quantity of Money does not hold up under any correlation. The nonsense that gold rises with inflation has ruined many and bankrupted others. The central banks have used this theory supported by Keynesian Economics, and it has utterly failed. We have ballooning national debts thanks to Austrian Economics, which propagated the idea that borrowing rather than printing would be less inflationary because you were not creating more money – you were supposed to be draining the money supply. Everything is connected. If a foreign investor buys property in the United States, his money, be it in euro, yen, or yuan, is converted to dollars, and the domestic “real” money supply increases, for the seller, now has that cash to spend. This is not accounted for in any of these antiquated theories.
It is time we reassess how the modern economy of the 21st century truly works. Currency pegs, gold standards, and schemes like the G5 Plaza Accord, which tried to lower the value of the dollar to reduce the trade deficit being oblivious to the fact that they also lowered the value of foreign investment in the dollar, have done nothing but create confusion and economic chaos. Central banks have nothing other than the old-fashioned 16th-century theory of the quantity of money to play with.
Keynes added to the chaos by advocating, like Marx, that the government had the power to control the economy. Keynes advocated the end of Laissez-Faire in 1926. Yet, before he died, Keynes admitted that he was wrong. Nobody paid attention because once the government seized that power, they refused to hand it back to the people.
Gold is NOT a hedge against inflation. It declined for 19 years after 1980 when inflation rose, as did the national debt. Gold is a hedge against the government. That will be why it will make new highs on the 4th run – not because of the Fed or the CPI.
I am finishing up a new book on this crisis in theory. Not only have the goldbugs been wrong, but so have the central bankers and those in government. It is time we take a closer look at how things truly function that apparently, like Thomas Gresham, it takes someone to observe reality from a trader’s perspective.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/precious-metals/gold/the-problem-with-goldbugs/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
As luck would have it, I did go to the optometrist yesterday. Good news and bad news, to be expected given Dad’s history. Fortunately the bad news appears to be a long time in catching up with me.
The moral of the tale is to make every day count.
Bruce, I know that, but a Noddy Boat here is going spare every time he perceives a spelling or grammatical error.
It’s funny being wrong. 😀
Bruce in WA
Sep 21, 2023 4:21 PM
Practise is the verb
Practice is the noun
And a tick is a tick and a thumb is a thumb.
Never mind that spitting professor, I’ll warrant anybody who has interacted with Yes voters on social media will attest they’re pretty much all the rudest nastiest most vile people you’d meet.
If they have a hallmark, it’d be their liberal use of the “c” word, to describe No voters.
The last thing we need is these sort of people with a constitutionally validated ability to make representations direct to the executive government.
Who’s the wanker that gives calli a thumbs down with every post?
She is one of coolest females on the net … along with a few others here.
My gut tells me it is a bloke.
Also on the Albo’s covid team is Health economist Angela Jackson who was once Chief of Staff for Lindsay Tanner.
Lots of gender work in her background.
No doubt the findings will revolve around women being most impacted and ScoMo’s
many failures.
Calli,
watch out for the thumbs! 😀
Re Drumgold, I was at uni with Stephen Kaye, first rate mind and first rate judge.Son of another judge.
Definitely no Labor stooge.
They can be nasty. Their conceptual frame is very limited. That makes them an easy target. I introduce concepts that they have never thought about and won’t think about because it means they have to think.
Just taking the dogs for a walk, okay?
Was an Alan RM Jones ever a Cat visitor?
Add Braun to the list of shavers to boycott.
Long-term history of violence in hunter-gatherer societies uncovered in the Atacama Desert
Not with the indigenous here. It was all sugar and spice, lovey dovey, and peace all round. As I have previously suggested, if we want to challenge an advocate ask them one question: what are some of the negative aspects of indigenous culture? With the exception of Jacinta and Bess Price, I never hear that raised in public debate.
Another empty chamber. All the wankers have gone home.
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Senator Gerard Rennick:
No details, No transparency, No accountability. Senate – 14.09.23
Dover,
the name is familiar. He may have been a visitor on the old Blair Blog.
Peter Dutton says that Sleazy, with his inquiry, is ‘protecting’ Labor premiers. This is 100% true.
But I also remember how Scumbag Morrison, during those dark years of 2020 and 2021, not only enabled Labor premiers, he also protected those Labor premiers from any censure, and he funded them.
The problem for Dutton and the Liberals is that for two and a half years they said nothing at the grotesque overreach by various state Labor governments. When Victorians were being beaten, bashed and bludgeoned, Morrison and the Liberals, including Victorian Liberals, said nothing.
calli
Sep 21, 2023 4:19 PM
From Ferris’ page…
While photographs can be documents of reality, as images translated from the world these also carry ideas beyond their face value. I make and write about images to galvanise thinking, identifying photography’s power to provoke thought about subject matter that lies outside the image.
Like this?
FMD; she looks as though she’s just given a blow job to a pig.
Want, want, want.
“Was an Alan RM Jones ever a Cat visitor?”
He’s definitely appeared (and appears) at Tim Blair’s site and I think he used to appear, occasionally, at Sinc’s site.
I’ve slipped and cut myself shaving a few times, but never that badly.
Still haven’t bought Gillette after they went woke. I’ll add Braun to my list.
Ah SloMo. Rolls over for a tummy rub by convening the National Cabinet. Gets a thorough kick in the nuts. Albo is a stupid man but rat cunning. So what does this say of SloMo? Good Lord we are in a mongocracy.
Will try again. It’s worth it. 😀
As I have previously suggested, if we want to challenge an advocate ask them one question: what are some of the negative aspects of indigenous culture? With the exception of Jacinta and Bess Price, I never hear that raised in public debate.
I do; the last time I commented about pretty little Teela Reid; and if she had been born 300 years ago she would have had 7 kids by the time she was 20 and then been bashed on the head and left for dingos.
“Was an Alan RM Jones ever a Cat visitor?”
Be careful.
Could be a flamer.
Pogria! Those thumbs…I’ve head the expression “got a face like a thumb”, but never an entire head.
I seem to recall a Letters to the Editor by that name back in the dead tree days.
Thanks. Name is familiar. He appears on my timeline responding to Gray Connolly and is aggressively pro-Ukraine.
BT @ 3:05pm
I couldn’t agree with you more; 1000 upticks to you.
WSJ.
The Venezuelan population is 28 million. That’s 1.7 %. Just wow.
Ice-cream Nazi? “No ice cream for you, No voter!”
International ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s has ordered its franchisees in Australia not to display support for an Indigenous voice to parliament in their stores, despite its long history of backing progressive causes from gay rights to Palestine.
Cairns based franchisee Nick Lorentzen asked Ben & Jerry ANZ’s head of retail for permission to develop in-store deals and promotions to support the Yes campaign, as well as displaying posters and allowing their employees to wear Yes T-shirts.
In response, he was informed Ben & Jerry’s had decided to take a neutral position on the issue and that he would not be able to continue this promotion.
Mr Lorentzen told The Australian he was dismayed when he was told he couldn’t voice his support for the Yes vote, and that he had first invested in the ice cream company because of its social progressive agenda.
Mr Lorentzen has stepped down from a position on Ben & Jerry’s national franchise advisory committee in protest, and described the proposed Indigenous Voice as the biggest moral issue of our time.
Oz
Presumably Ben & Jerry management thought “We don’t want to be the Bud Light of Australia.”
A case of don’t go woke, don’t go broke.
Dr F earlier.
A tactical error I think.
It is one thing to bag a sitting PM from the opposition benches.
But running a stitch up on a long gone PM over a past issue when people are choosing between groceries, filling up the car or turning the heater on?
May not fly.
calli
Sep 21, 2023 4:24 PM
As luck would have it, I did go to the optometrist yesterday. Good news and bad news, to be expected given Dad’s history. Fortunately the bad news appears to be a long time in catching up with me.
The moral of the tale is to make every day count.
calli,
no idea where you live but recoomendation by Pommie Optometrist at Spec savers was excellent – Northbridge
Dr Jay Yohendran
I am an ophthalmologist specialising in refractive cataract surgery . I graduated with Honours from the University of Sydney Medical School in 2001, and was awarded the Claffy Prize in Ophthalmology. Prior to this I completed a Bachelor of Medical Science degree at Sydney University, and later a Masters of Public Health at NSW University.
After completing ophthalmology training at the prestigious Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, I returned to Sydney, just before my wife gave birth to the first of our two sons in 2009.
I subsequently completed a Fellowship in comprehensive ophthalmology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, whilst undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Cataract and Refractive Surgery at Sydney University.
I have also completed a twelve-month Fellowship in Glaucoma at Sydney Eye Hospital.
I am a member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, as well as the Australasian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.
I am a very experienced cataract surgeon, and currently one of Australia’s highest volume cataract surgeons. I have also performed thousands of intravitreal injections, for the treatment of macula diseases. I am proficient in pterygium and glaucoma surgery.
I enjoy teaching, and am the Head of the Ophthalmology Department at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where we help to train the next generation of ophthalmologists.
I come from a family of doctors, with both of my parents working as GPs in Sydney for over forty years.
My wife is a GP also, working in Cammeray. Socially, I love spending time with my young family, and watching the mighty Wests Tigers.
Jay,
was excellent for both Cataracts and My wife will be seeing him as well
Stay Well
Old Ozzie
Of course he can. If he’s registered with the AEC he can voice his support.
As an individual.
Just like everyone else. He might be wealthy and think he’s important, but he has just one vote. Use it.
Pro Palli ice cream?
“I hate Illinois Nazis”.
Indeed.
But I do recall Morrison condemning protesters with an inflatable Dan Andrews on a scaffold.
This at the same time that Vic police were actually physically (not symbolically) assaulting and even shooting rubber bullets at essentially peaceful protesters.
Then Morrison said nothing.
Ironically, far from being rewarded for sticking by Labor, I expect Morrison is to be targeted by the Covid inquiry as a scapegoat.
I’ll have a look around for a violin that fits into a redheads matchbox.
Thanks Ozzie. It’s the usual untreatable macula problem, but going very…very slowly. I’ve known about it for a while, but it’s progressing.
Lots of things you can do to slow it down, so there’s always hope. And it makes me appreciate beautiful things even more…like Dover’s paintings.
In one of life’s great ironies, I worked my bottom off to raise money for the cause long ago – a dear friend went blind within a few years and we did a lot of charity work together.
It’s an uptick. Or a downtick.
An ‘up-thumb’ is a peculiarly English arrangement, most commonly practiced in boarding schools frequented by upper-class elites, and mimicked by the Northern English (aka Scottish) with delusions of mediocrity.
The quote:
JC, at 3.08:
Yep.
But thinking three or four steps ahead, which is what plod should be doing, is discounting at any future trial the possibility that the spittee photoshopped or CGI’d the footage of the spitter spitting.
Ideally they’d get at least three independent sets of vision from different people. Incontrovertible.
Sympathies Calli. Wet or Dry? IIRC there has been some progress with the Wet form.
Johnny Rotten of the Knotted Hankie, at 3.21, and to calli:
Oooooooh. Oooooh. Watch out, people.
This is a bloke who professed to be a ‘part-time bovver boy’.
Let’s just go over that again. A. Part-time. Bovver. Boy. It is improbable that anyone has ever uttered a more ridiculous statement.
Please, please don’t hand out bovver! Not bovver, whatever you do!
Ha ha ha, you scrawny Walter Mitty simpleton constantly moaning gullible import.
Just got downTICKED by the bovver boy!
Whatever will I do? He may even throw a kipper at me….
On second thoughts, that would have to be a cooked kipper. If it was raw I doubt he could lift it.
As would Lidia Thorpe.
Dry, John H. Maybe I’ll end up with a patch. If I do, I want a parrot for my shoulder.
I believe I will refer to Mr Rotten from here on in as Hando.
Hando, from Romper Stomper. He had ‘bovver boots’ too.
Oh my lord. There’s months – literally months – of material here to work with.
Saw some p.o.s. get off a granny bashing mugging (Noose IIRC) on exactly that.
Right out the front of a shop, on the footpath.
His smartarse solicitor asked the police prosecutor to provide comfort that the video had not been tampered with, to superimpose the face of “his client” onto the torso of the “actual offender”
Case was thrown in on the spot.
Lesson for me: Ensure all video is watermarked, in addition to being time & date stamped.
Rosie at 3:10.
Sorry to hear of the medical issues.
Sometimes you roll the dice and it comes up 3 instead of 6.
But good to be home safe and it can be looked at.
I was just thinking about the discussion about self insuring for travel cover.
One kind of intangible factor, apart from the pure risk-reward calcs on premium cost, is if something happens to one member of a couple or parent of a small family, the insurance company can provide assistance in organising all the logistics around medical evacuation, finding medical help or, heaven forbid, repatriating a body.
Would hate to be doing that in a foreign country without help.
Ere We don’t want no trouble round ‘ere. Know what I mean?
Malcolm Roberts
What Do Globalists Hate About Nuclear Power?
And full time Wally.
Cassie earlier.
Funded them.
That is the key point.
When it became obvious that Hunchback and Sneakers were taking the piss for purely political purposes, ScoMo could have simply said that states could continue lockdowns if they wished, but would have to fund JobKeeper out of their own budgets.
All over in a week.
calli,
I can highly recommend this specialist.
I see him at his Castle Hill rooms. Surgery and laser treatment have to be done at Parramatta.
I’ve been going to Marsden Eye Specialists for 40yrs. I also worked for half a dozen years for an opthalmologist until he retired.
Voice Myths Debunked
I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
What did they think will happen after they kicked James out?
Karma is real.
Knuckle Dragger:
Keep the dress – it’s good advice & incontrovertible as well and it works.
calli
Sep 21, 2023 6:31 PM
Dry, John H. Maybe I’ll end up with a patch. If I do, I want a parrot for my shoulder.
One eye then? Hopefully it won’t start in the other eye. For a long time I’ve lived with monocular vision. Makes for interesting driving, causes eyestrain from too much reading, and reduces overall visual acuity which is annoying in visually dense environments. I’m used to it, the biggest annoyance is reading related eyestrain.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Ukrainian-born Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spartz UNLOADS on Merrick Garland for slow-walking probes into Clintons, Hunter, Joe Biden, and FBI involvement in J6:
“I can’t believe it happened in the United States of America!… Americans don’t trust this President!”
Bill Gates is one of the most evil people who has ever drawn breath. He is a cancer on the world.
Bill Gates Funded Research Into Genetically Engineered Cattle Ticks—Now 450,000 Americans Have Red Meat Allergies From ‘Alpha-Gal Syndrome’ Caused by Tick Bites
Snork, snork.
Calli:
Here ya go – it’s got a peg leg and everyfing!
+1
Thanks P and John H. It’s a just one of those ticking bombs in life. We’re keeping a close eye on it (sorry). I knew the moment I mentioned it that there would be others in a similar boat.
We shall paddle on regardless!
Just looking at the Bruce Pascoe video where he claims Aboriginal Identity.
Aboriginal Australia needs to clean the nest of these cuckoos or the genuine will be swamped by them.
Yeah Indolent, Gates is as bad as Hitler.
But tell us, your link said the Gates Foundation made a 1.4 million donation to a study on ticks. How does a $1.4 million and then a subsequent $4.8 mill donation come close to destroying the world. Sounds like a small sum.
And the piece appears to try and link the Gates donation to a timeline when people began to become sick with a tick disease in Southern US. This is a really big barrel being pushed uphill.
Mme Zulu continues to show signs of recovery – she’s returned from a shopping excursion with three pairs of new shoes…
The tick meat allergy issue was first detected in Australia(2007). Gates used Win95B to design a genetic mutation that enabled the ticks to create the meat allergy.
Keep the dress – it’s good advice & incontrovertible as well and it works.
Monica Lewinsky was unavailable for comment.
John H
When you say Gates used….
What do you actually mean by that?
Fine, I get it, my sarcasm was too subtle. FFS!
Gates Foundation is $67 billion according to the Google blurb.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Gates+foundation+size
It spends about 8.3 billion annually.
The donation would have been a 3 second glance and initialed inside the box to remit the funds.
Tanning expert sTan Grant appears in hereford face to promote abattoir conference.
Oh. You tend to go pretty technical at times, John. I didn’t catch on with the WIn thing.
But no matter, the Foundation distributes 8 bigges a year and some of that money will at times get caught up in not so great things I’d guess.
Let’s hope it doesn’t turn into a Soros Foundation after he turns it over to his kids.
Yes; like the referendum, it’s another Albanese masterstroke that isn’t.
Rukshan, Avi and Sam Newman:
Boo who? Sam Newman doubles down — The Opposition Podcast No. 14
Errsactly, everyone remembers the first stitch up when they just got into office. I forget what it was. 🙂
My bad. You’re a Mac fan. Win95B was arguably the first decent operating system Microsoft produced.
There’s some very significant downticks tonight, not to be confused with the Gates ticks. I wonder who’s on the night shift?
Which is why I voiced a hearty good riddance to Josh Frydenberg’s political aspirations today.
The hand that signed the cheques.
Actually I swore off Microtheft when Vista came along. It was the worst operating system that ever hit the market. It’s actually surprising they recovered from that abortion.
Time for some ‘truth-telling’ on racism narrative
ANTHONY DILLON / THE AUSTRALIAN
Let me state upfront and say that I refute the claim Australia is racist towards Indigenous Australians. But please note that by refuting this claim, I am in no way saying that racism towards Indigenous Australians does not exist; something my opponents are quick to wrongly accuse me of.
Some racism between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians exists for sure, but sound evidence for it being widespread and endemic is lacking.
Given the lack of strong evidence to the contrary, I assert that the amount of racism directed towards Indigenous Australians is very small. Nonetheless, academics, political leaders and Indigenous leaders will cite an example of either real or imagined racism and then make the unfounded claim that Australia is a racist country.
This would be like identifying a few cases of serious misconduct in a profession and branding the entire profession as bad. We know the damage this does. This sort of mud sticks when thrown.
So why do people so readily believe that Australia is racist towards Indigenous Australians in endemic proportions? First, because we repeatedly hear about claims of racism so often in reports, in the media, in schools, and in the workplace, we come to believe it without questioning it.
For example, Reconciliation Australia released a report: 2022 Australian Reconciliation Barometer. The report mentioned: “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s experiences of racial prejudice have increased in the last two years”; and: “In the past six months, 60 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have experienced at least one form of racial prejudice.” This is interesting, to say the least. Many social justice warriors will be salivating at this point; some perhaps claiming that this is why we need the voice – to end this endemic racism.
However, some care should be taken in interpreting these claims from the report, given that they are drawn from an online survey that captures people’s reported experiences and not actual verified experiences of racism. Again, I am not saying that racism does not exist, but only that there are limitations associated with self-report responses.
In addition to reports and news stories, people are constantly exposed to anti-racism messages like “End racism now!’, “I oppose racism” and similar. Such messages, although not explicitly stating the prevalence of racism, can influence the mind to think we must have a racism problem on our hands. Repetition of an idea, message, image, or concept can be powerful in instilling beliefs in people’s minds; something advertisers know and take advantage of. Believing something from hearing it repeatedly, is what psychologists call “illusory of truth”.
Another reason people are so quick to believe that Australia is racist towards Indigenous Australians is that tenuous evidence is offered in support of claims of racism. Although tenuous, again, repetition is all that is needed to be convincing. For example, the erroneous assumption that inequalities between the wellbeing of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is often offered as evidence of racism.
Last year this newspaper reported on Fiona Stanley as saying that “racism was endemic in Australia and was evident in the divergent outcomes for Indigenous people in areas like healthcare, education, justice and child protection.”
Stanley does not quantify what proportion of these divergent outcomes are attributable to racism, but I suspect it is very minimal. The sort of racism spoken about here is sometimes referred to as the impressive-sounding “systemic racism”. Where racism against Indigenous Australians exists, it should be stamped out and perpetrators dealt with accordingly. But to give events a racist interpretation or make unfounded claims of racism comes at a huge cost to reconciliation and the wellbeing of all Australians.
Focusing on excessive claims of racism against Indigenous Australians diverts attention away from the serious problems that disproportionately affect them: unsafe living environments, poor health, violence, child neglect, etc.
These are problems many Indigenous activists prefer not to address, let alone acknowledge. Their voices are notably absent, unless of course they claim racism is the cause of these problems.
Excessive claims also divert attention away from effective solutions to these problems.
Maybe it’s time to change the narrative from Australia being racist towards Indigenous Australians, to Australians caring for their Indigenous brothers and sisters. Maybe it’s time to stop telling attention-grabbing lies and start telling the truth about racism and Australians. I believe this can only better prepare Australians for the upcoming referendum. Isn’t it time for some truth-telling?
Anthony Dillon is an honorary fellow of the Australian Catholic University.
Link
😀
The Footwear Cure. Works every time!
By the way JohnH, I didn’t downtick you. 🙂
The Driller must be beside himself this evening with all the health discussions. So beside himself that he can’t even bring himself to sanction those folks. A straight down the line cowboy.
Just boarded for ride home.
A350-1000 has been subbed out for a 777-300 for the first leg.
Doh!
And a true champion of genuine reconciliation.
Good ride, Sanchez. I’ve never ridden one, but I’ve read the 350 is actually a better plane than the Dreamliner.
There’s a joke about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxIUs-pQBjk&t=50s
PS. I never do thumbs down.
“And a true champion of genuine reconciliation.”
I’ve met Anthony many, many times. One of the nicest, most intelligent, and most articulate people around.
Anthony was a very close friend of the late Bill Leak.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 25 Liberals like Karl Rove just tried to annihilate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. It didn’t work. Paxton just joined us for his first interview since his acquittal.
. Hear hear – a manly gentleman
Earlier this week, on the Old Fred, there was some discussion about an OZ letter writer named Rachael Kohn. Rachael is the Rachael who once worked at the ABC. She has a piece in today’s Oz…
Voice politics don’t belong in our concert halls
RACHAEL KOHN
Across the country, concertgoers have been hijacked by orchestras that have used the opportunity of a captive audience to campaign openly for the Yes vote in the upcoming referendum.
When my husband and I recently attended one of the dozen or so Sydney Symphony Orchestra concerts we enjoy each year, we were shocked that the usual acknowledgment of country was followed by a statement read out by an orchestra musician that the SSO supported the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Yes vote, and by implication exhorted us to do the same.
To put it mildly, we were displeased by this blatant politicking in a most inappropriate place.
At the very least, it was a breach of contract. Subscribers who pay hefty sums and travel to the concert hall to hear the classical music repertoire, and patrons who have generously supported the orchestras, funding chairs, international guest conductors and education programs, are being lectured to by orchestra spokespeople as if it is their prerogative to determine our political views.
It is not only an insult to the intelligence of the audience, many of whom would be well read on the issues surrounding the referendum, but it is also an invasion of privacy to which the orchestral musicians should be particularly sensitive.
It was not so long ago that some of our most celebrated composers were under the severe pressures of the dictatorial Soviet regime that used the arts as a vehicle of propaganda.
Many artists come to mind: Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninoff struggled to maintain their freedom of conscience as expressed in their music, with Rachmaninoff finally escaping to the West.
Musicians such as Vladimir Ashkenazy also fled, carving out a brilliant career as both pianist and conductor, and in 2018 with the financial support of the SSO Maestro’s Circle, of which my husband and I are members, accepted the role as conductor laureate of the SSO.
The heavy hand of politics within classical music has been a scourge, not a benefit.
Indeed, the acknowledgment of country that precedes every concert and presumably every event at the Sydney Opera House also has marred the concert experience with an unnecessary and tiresome political ritual that has had the opposite effect of its intended purpose.
Even Noel Pearson, campaigner for the Yes vote, acknowledged its overuse in other settings. Rather than inclusion, it has become an expression of exclusion. It not only is intended to make all non-Indigenous people feel as if they are invaders and here on sufferance, it also negates most of the population, diverse migrants who made Australia home, developed its institutions, including its conservatoriums and orchestras, and now contribute to our musical enjoyment as denizens of the state orchestras and as world-renowned guest musicians.
More recently, the apex of musical virtuosity is found among the many Asian Australians, such as Emily Sun and Ray Chen, who enthusiastically have taken up the classical music repertoire. It is to them and their elders we owe a debt of thanks for enabling their musical genius.
Whatever the SSO and other orchestras and arts companies around the country decide in respect to exploiting captive audiences to campaign for the Yes vote, there is a deeper issue at stake, which is the nature of our democratic freedoms and obligations.
Australia is one of the most successful and rare Western democracies because, unlike most others, voting is compulsory. In other words, it is a personal responsibility to be knowledgeable about political issues, facts and processes, and to keep oneself informed by reading reliable sources. The referendum asks just that of all of us and respects our ability to make informed choices.
As there are significantly different views on the subject, at the very least we are required to avail ourselves of as much knowledge as possible and, above all, freely exercise our personal and private conscience on this important constitutional matter.
Conscience is becoming more and more difficult to hold on to as concert halls and even pulpits are becoming vehicles of political campaigning.
When we enter the concert hall and take our seats, most of us are keenly aware that it offers us one of the last refuges where we as individuals of all backgrounds, faiths and political persuasions can come together and experience a human connection that transcends politics and borders on the sublime.
Let us fight to preserve that sacred quality. We need it now more than ever.
Dr Rachael Kohn AO is an award-winning producer and broadcaster. She was presenter of The Spirit of Things and The Ark on ABC Radio National and is the author of four books.
Well said Rachael.
I’ve met Rachael, and in another lifetime I used to listen to her programme on Radio National……..many moons ago. She’s a softly spoken, and formidably intelligent woman. She also knows the signs of totalitarianism.
As I said the other day, the ABC once had decent and talented people. Rachael was one of them. I suspect her politics always ran left, old left, but you would never have known her politics from her broadcasting. I don’t know how Rachael will vote in the forthcoming referendum but, given her writing above, I suspect she’s leaning to NO because like all of us she is sick and tired of the endless politicisation permeating everything, you can’t even go to an SSO concert and not be harangued by some jumped up little progressive fascist.
Sam Newman is right, we should start booing, even at the ballet, the opera and the SSO. Enough!
So the 4 kids from Doonside have been found .. Yet no details whatsoever released by plod ..
Methinx we are looking at a mid east domestic issue which if it involved “white” folk would be headlining the media but being ROP we get ..
mooove along, pleeeze .. nuttin’ to see ‘ere!
Reading yesterday a coupla comments about the time taken to download and install the new update of Windows 11 .. Updated my (new-ish) laptop today, running 8gb ram and other than the internet very little software installed .. 45 minutes to download and 2 1/2 hrs to install …… not impressed!
No idea what changes/improvements made as I got fed up after it finished , switched off and came back to the desktop running W10 (12 years old and not compatible with a W11 upgrade) ..
O/T, I’ve taken delivery of William Manchester’s monumental account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy “The Death Of A President.”
Manchester had served in the United States Marine Corps, as had Lee Harvey Oswald, and qualified as an Expert rifleman, on the M-1 rifle, as Oswald also had. After examining the site in Dallas, Manchester’s conclusion was that, at that distance, with his training, Oswald could scarcely have missed.
I’ll have a look around for a violin that fits into a redheads matchbox.
https://ibb.co/FqWs2kh
Well Cassie, I disagree. Compulsory voting in a democracy a dreadful idea. It compels people who may not wish to vote and forces those who really have no idea about the issues to show up. It also makes the political parties very lazy as they know people have to show up and when they do there’s a good chance they will not spoil their ballot.
The “West Australian” was running that story. Comments have suddenly gone down the “memory hole.”
Reading the posts on vision .. up until I was 14 I had perfect eyesight .. went to bed one night, woke up in the morning with lousy vision could only make out objects by squinting with the left eye but, fortunately, about 70% vision in the right .. trip to the optician’s resulted in no explanation for loss but, at least, with prescription glasses back to near 20/20 ..
Worn glasses for the past 61 years and updated thru a dozen frames/lens changes over time yet never had a difference in the prescription strength ..
Eyes are still the same strength at 75 as they were at 14 …………
“Well Cassie, I disagree. Compulsory voting in a democracy a dreadful idea. It compels people who may not wish to vote and forces those who really have no idea about the issues to show up. It also makes the political parties very lazy as they know people have to show up and when they do there’s a good chance they will not spoil their ballot.”
I agree with you, JC. My post of Kohn’s OZ piece was to show her disgust at the politicisation of a concert, and I also know this because a week before I also attended an SSO concert, and I heard the same pro-Voice shit.
Ideally they’d get at least three independent sets of vision from different people. Incontrovertible.
Dear, dear! .. we is forgetting this is 2023 not 2019 .. no amount of recorded vision will be enuf! .. gummint sez YES, plod supports gummint ..
verdict: guilty of inciting, devoted, YES volunteer into self defence … case closed
Yea, I know Cassie.
Was an Alan RM Jones ever a Cat visitor?”
He’s definitely appeared (and appears) at Tim Blair’s site and I think he used to appear, occasionally, at Sinc’s site.
I think I saw a comment from him on a Quadrant Online article the other day.
Israel is considering a proposed nuclear program in Saudi Arabia.
Israeli officials are quietly working with U.S. negotiators on a proposal to set up a U.S.-run uranium-enrichment operation in Saudi Arabia as part of a deal to establish official diplomatic relations between the two Middle Eastern countries, U.S. and Israeli officials told WSJ’s Dion Nissenbaum and Dov Lieber. Allowing uranium enrichment in Saudi Arabia would be a significant policy shift in the U.S. and Israel, where leaders across the political spectrum have worked to prevent more Middle Eastern countries from developing nuclear capabilities.
From the WSJ.
then been bashed on the head and left for dingos. ..As would Lidia Thorpe.
They don’t breed dingoes that brave .. not even in that place wiv the apostrophe ..
I had lunch with an old mate today who a firm No advocate.
He went to a SSO event recently where the Yes support was read out.
No only was old mate disgusted at that, he was totally flabbergasted and ashamed when a roar of appreciation with prolonged clapping from the audience followed the Yes lecture.
Hopefully just a hall full of rusted on progressives and not representative of the country.
Dr Faustus
Sep 21, 2023 4:04 PM
Those are links to a post National Cabinet era text which does not explain the 16 months of lockdowns that preceded the 6 August 2021 consensus, nor what the default responsibilities for the Commonwealth and States were prior to Covid19, and the only border controls mentioned on that page are for the international border (which is also what “quarantine” refers to on that page).
So after that wild goose chase, all indications are still that the original pre-2019 arrangement was that public health is primarily a State responsibility, therefore the PM had no say in what States did about it, therefore he was not surrendering any responsibility that was his to surrender.
For what it’s worth, stopping the inbound flights on the national front was the right thing to do until the assessed risk was lower (due to more information, or lower severity, or more international immunity).
May I join in the Catallaxy-style hollow virtue-signalling too?
I also did not down-thumb anyone today.
Just wait until you see what I don’t do tomorrow!
(points nose in the air, swans about)
This joint is replete with virtue signaling. It is why I stay away for days. Makes me puke.
is there nothing the NDIS can’t do?
Just because the Fed is talking about leaving interest rates alone, it doesn’t there’s no tightening going on.
1. Fed chairman talked about how interest rates may stay here for the rest of the year, but he also said the Fed would be likely to be slow in easing. This alone is a form of tightening policy as the market wasn’t expecting this sort of discourse.
2. Quantitative tightening. It hasn’t been spoken about, but the Fed has reduced its balance sheet by about US$800 billion this year and will likely reach $1 trillion by years end.
heart-warming
China; it’s different when we do it.
Fukushima: China’s seafood imports from Japan down 67% in August
Utter tosh.
Rubashkyn’s lawyer James Olsen told the court a certain level of violence was implied at some protests and there was a “hint of self-defence”.
“There is some evidence that she was fearful of Ms Keen and the message that she purported to put out there,” Olsen said.
Their ABC on the Twitter it has foresworn-
ABC News
@abcnews
#QandA: The allegations against Russell Brand would be hard for the most beloved of Hollywood A-Listers to explain away, but the comedian and his millions of online followers exist in a different dimension far away from cancel culture.
Getting ratio’d 3:1.
Note, it’s not opinion or celebrity goss, it’s ABC News. They cover their poison pen by asking, What will you ask? at the end of their tweets.
calli
Sep 21, 2023 5:21 PM
Pogria! Those thumbs…I’ve head the expression “got a face like a thumb”, but never an entire head.
The olden daze expression was – ‘He has a face like the back end of a bus’.
Some thumbs here can only see ticks. Specsavers awaits them.
Blackout Bowen on dodgy ground with ‘Ruinaballs’ and Nuclear Power – LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSjAtpGtsUk
Based on AEC advice and recent High Court decisions, from today onwards an uptick on a comment will be counted as a thumbs up, but a downtick on a comment will not be counted as a thumbs down.
U-turn. Kamahl (a famous singer), after deep reflection, has decided he will vote Yes.
Quantitative tightening. It hasn’t been spoken about, but the Fed has reduced its balance sheet by about US$800 billion this year and will likely reach $1 trillion by years end.
I wonder what mugs are buying this crap that the Fed is selling.
The Chinese have been selling down this crap for a lot longer to mug buyers. The Fed is leaving it rather late IMHO.
Buyers? Come on down as we need you. LOL
Colonel Crispin Berka
Sep 21, 2023 10:56 PM
Based on AEC advice and recent High Court decisions, from today onwards an uptick on a comment will be counted as a thumbs up, but a downtick on a comment will not be counted as a thumbs down.
There are no upticks or down ticks on this Blog. Thumbs away to infinity and beyond……………..Specsavers awaits those who have trouble seeing ……………………….
you don’t own your kids?
Please, please don’t hand out bovver! Not bovver, whatever you do!
I could never be bovvered all that much by a Neanderthal like you.
Back to your cave at once.
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