Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 22, 2023 12:19 PM
We must warn trees about climate change.

—

Kool Keith:

Dr. Octagon – “Trees” feat. Kool Keith & One Watt Sun

Biden has done it again…

Nearly knocking over the Brazilian flag and then not responding when Brazil’s pres asks “Mr Biden, can you hear me?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqcGGCjJVY&pp=ygUUYmlkZW4gYnJhemlsaWFuIGZsYWc%3D

John H: “You and Steve want to demonstrate contempt…”

I generally agree with the sentiment expressed in your post, however I feel the radical left has managed to take control of the conversation on their side – “normal” people such as your 160+ IQ left-leaning friends don’t want racism etc, and in fact fight against it (as do most sane people, left or right).

It is worth pointing out that the right understands the position of the left, they just disagree with it. The left – and most especially the radical left – see the position of anyone who disagrees with them as “far right” and evil – they don’t want to argue with you, they want to shut you up and “un-person” you for “wrongthink”.

Sorry John, but being reasonable and nice no longer works – I wish it did, but it doesn’t. Better to “offend” some of these people than to let it fester and then explode into violence or other radicalism in the opposite direction. Because that is what will happen – again, I wish it was not so, but it is.

The Hoover Institution interviews Steve Koonin (who was an Obama appointee) on the failure of climate alarmism:

https://youtu.be/l90FpjPGLBE?si=mAUlIdvCh8R_n3OY

If you’ve never heard of him:

Steven Elliot Koonin is an American theoretical physicist and former director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University. He is also a professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. From 2004 to 2009, Koonin was employed by BP as the oil and gas company’s Chief Scientist. From 2009 to 2011, he was Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy, in the Obama administration.

Boambee John
Sep 22, 2023 1:20 PM
Cassie

I think we can make a good guess as to who provided the single “Thumb Down” (Hi Johnny R) to this comment.

I gave the post an “Up Thumb” to make it 12 to 1.

Another chirpy young woman on Daily Wire.

The Russell Brand Shakedown

and a couple of the comments –

Russell has been poking the globalist bear for years. The fact they are attacking him now is significant.

If only they cared this much about epstein

51% of CEOs within FTSE 100 companies have a financial qualification or began their professional life in a finance role — finance is becoming more embedded in the c-suite.

Currently on a bus excursion in Kushiro. Advertised as requiring significant walking over rough ground and up and down steps. Why oh why then did one of our lady passengers, who must be pushing 200+ kilos, come on it? She is suffering badly … and only probably in her late 30s!!

Former ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold’s office manager went to the territory’s integrity watchdog with allegations her then boss mishandled expenses and broke department policy by claiming for alcohol and $5000 in global phone roaming charges.

WTF?
Telstra charges $10 a day with 1 Gig of data included.

Dover, I don’t get it. Does the US pay the Ukrainian police and firemens’ pensions?

Additionally, American “pensions” are paid through the Social Security fund and state pension schemes. Is this aristocrat (the Baron) suggesting the SS and state pension payments will be blocked if there’s a government shutdown. None of that comment makes any sense. Can you help explaining it?

F*ck them.
COVID was the greatest self selection exercise in recent history.

I used to think so, feelthebern, but now I am not so sure. In the dark days of Covid I joined a city group of people in my area who were as vehemently opposed to the mRNA “vaccines”, as I was. Although I formed some firm and lasting friendships, I soon found out that many among them were devoted “Greenies” and supported the local Teal candidate. They began to use the “get-togethers” to support the latter, and also the return of that monumental bore Julian Assange. That was the end of the “socials” for me, although I will always be grateful for their support during those dark years of Covid madness.

I note Henry Ergas touches on the Noble Savage myth. Some people get a bit upset when you do that.

The Voice. A Landcruiser in every pot.

It seems that some entrepreneur in the territory has the contract to salvage those Landcruisers that are abandoned by the side od the road, when they run out of fuel…

Casual Senate vacancies are always a test for any political parties. Naturally expect the Lieborals to fail this one. Always a conga line of hacks and time servers ready for a spot on the red leather. Especially if it does not involve those grubby voters.

“I’m embarrassed, until Monday or Tuesday I didn’t realise they (Indigenous people) were considered not human,” he said.

I hope they paid him a lot cos no one can be that stupid for real .. can they?

And the decapitation begins.

Musk is an evil anti-Semite because the New Yorker says his grandfather was.

Cancel him!

Elon Musk’s grandfather was a pro-apartheid, antisemitic conspiracy theorist. Although his views are not Musk’s responsibility, “what would happen to those rantings, if they were posted on X today, really does lie at his doorstep,” Jill Lepore writes.

And in the New Yorker:

This month, Elon Musk threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League, alleging that its denunciation of X—the A.D.L. had accused the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter of amplifying antisemitism—has cost Musk’s company a fortune in advertising revenue. The Anti-Defamation League, in turn, asserted that Musk’s threat was “dangerous and deeply irresponsible.” This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to California to meet with Musk to discuss artificial intelligence, but their other much-anticipated topic was antisemitism. Netanyahu asked Musk to “stop antisemitism as best you can.” Musk, alluding to SpaceX and his hope for a mission to Mars, responded that he favors anything that “ultimately leads us to become a spacefaring civilization,” and, since hate hinders that mission, “obviously, I’m against antisemitism.”

This all unfolded amid the release of Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Musk. Musk’s family history has a bearing on the dispute, but, in the book, as I pointed out in a review, Isaacson only glancingly discusses Musk’s grandfather J. N. Haldeman, whom he presents as a risk-taking adventurer and whose politics he dismisses as “quirky.” In fact, Haldeman was a pro-apartheid, antisemitic conspiracy theorist who blamed much of what bothered him about the world on Jewish financiers.

And

Elon Musk is not responsible for the political opinions of his grandfather, who died when Musk was three years old. But

The leftist but always gives it away.

JC
Sep 22, 2023 4:02 PM

Whoops. Source was Twitter.

Real estate porn

Pretty incredible apartment building in Dubai.

Cheap at only US$34,500 per square meter. Just kidding.

I hadn’t consciously thought that far ahead.
That’s a nasty little scenario you’ve assembled there.
Addit:
South Africa, anyone?

I’ll bet good money on that scenario.

Dover, the aristocrat was quite specific. He was talking about pensions. Here:

The pensions of Ukrainian police and firefighters will be paid while the pensions of their American counterparts aren’t.

This is almost the textbook definition of America Last.

Pensions aren’t shut down in a government closure. State pensions aren’t also. Unless I’m mistaken, what gets shutdown are annual appropriations and SS isn’t, as it’s paid out of the separate Trust Fund.

What could be shut down are applications for new entrants as the civil service slobs are sent home if it’s a full closure.

Pretty incredible apartment building in Dubai.

I’m not sure if I want to live in an IUD.

250 pages into KL: a history of Nazi concentration camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann and starting to wish I’d never started! .. Read, probably, a coupla hundred WW2 non fiction, including maybe 2 dozen or so “Holocaust” dedicated, but definitely unprepared for the horrors this tome brings to light ..
The main impression I’m getting is that the Allies just didn’t care enuf to pursue the perpetrators of this horror into their graves! .. The reality of the farce that was the Nuremburg War Trials comes to mind .. How anyone on that stand avoided the death sentence is ridiculous .. The book leaves little doubt that they all knew what was going on! .. Speer who was deeply involved, thru his use of slave labour, from the beginning really got off scot-free with only a 20 years sentence before a lucrative career as an author should have been hanged .. Justice would have been best served if anyone apprehended wearing SS Death’s Head insignia had been shot out of hand …..
The fact that by 1948 the Allies had almost lost interest in pursuing war criminals, especially SS and by 1952 95% of all the convicted had been released shows the apathetic interest in justice for those who died horrific deaths …
The book doesn’t even reach WW2 until page 160 .. up until then the victims were primarily German citizens yet it is obvious that the general population was well aware of what was happening but chose to look the other way .. this “we didn’t know” rubbish post 1945 just doesn’t wash …
The only Nazi who, for a little while, showed some opposition to the camps was Goering but by 1936 he had realised it wasn’t a politically sane gesture and went with silence .. he wasn’t too bothered by the incarceration side but by the fact that the mounting death tolls were becoming public knowledge …..
Not a book for thr squeamish but a real eye-opener as to what really went on between 1933 and 1945 in these camps ……

Whoa!

Page podium!

Speaking of Romans, here’s a song by the Horrible Histories team that’s very funny about ‘Marcus Licinius Crassus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wINLmGb4cbM

The Horrible Histories team do a lot of funny songs about historical figures and their earlier material is not politically correct – LOL stuff. 😛

His point was about pensions. And no, America is not putting America last because this is a political showdown trying to prevent the ravages of the Hiden Administration.

I’m not a mind reader trying to pry out what he meant besides pensions.

Getting ready for start time of the Preliminary Final at the G

Are all 3 GWS supporters there?

(#GoSwannies)

And… (!!!) you can learn the Horrible Histories song to learn every Monarch of England in order (something I was not able to do previously):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sefbmiiyjXE

I’ll stop labouring the point now… 😛

I love the non-prediction predictions.

Make a statement inviting obvious controversy then make a prediction that people will contest the stupid comment (and why) sprinkled with obvious derision.

@MichaelPascoe01

Has any Australian-born individual done more harm to society and the environment than Rupert Murdoch?
Now watch a conga line of arse kissers compete to praise the old fake.

Jorge – I know a Catholic priest who has been “on mission” in Malaysia for some years now. They have to celebrate mass in private spaces without anyone outside knowing and you’re certainly not allowed to invite anyone in – but some people still turn up. It’s been this way for 10+ years now… but by what you say, it may be getting worse…

The very people it’s purported to assist. Daily Telegraph:

The sacred rock Uluru has been invoked as the birthplace of the upcoming referendum but here — in the heart of the nation — some locals say they don’t know what the vote is all about or have any knowledge of the proposed Voice to Parliament.

The Daily Telegraph travelled to Yulara, the tiny resort town beside Uluru, to ask locals from the nearby Aboriginal towns like Imanpa and Mutitjulu for their views on the referendum.

It was here, after all, that a convention of Indigenous leaders met in 2017 and signed the Uluru Statement from the Heart which called for a Voice to Parliament.

Access to Indigenous locals was limited — in some cases barred completely — by multiple layers of bureaucracy.

But The Telegraph did meet a dozen Aboriginal community members over a number of days, like Mutitjulu couple Jefferey Curtis and Evelyn Aiken, who were not aware of the Voice or the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

“We don’t know (what it is),” Ms Aiken said.

Asked if she recalled the 2017 meeting, she said “I don’t remember that”.

They said the chair of their community’s management committee may know more.

When attempts were made to contact the board, The Telegraph was told the chair was on leave and no other members were available to speak.

Media are also banned from entering the Mutitjulu township without being granted a permit, which could not be given until the committee met again next month, just prior to the referendum.

Mutitjulu’s traditional owner Sammy Wilson has previously said he supports the Voice, but others from the region like elder Murray George have opposed the statement and its proposed Voice.

Underneath the squabbles from the community’s more senior members, the Telegraph discovered the sentiment was not of support or opposition — it was apathy.

Two other women from Mutitjulu, who did not wish to give their names, did not recognise the proposal of a Voice, with one asking “where is it happening?”

Nor did they recall the statement signed in 2017 calling for a Voice, a truth-telling commission and a First Nations treaty.

Four residents from the town of Imanpa said they did not even recognise the concept of a Voice to Parliament. “We don’t know. What is that?” one resident said.

Mike Tucker, who is the principal of the independent school Nyangatjatjara College, said there had been limited exposure to the referendum debate in the region.

“We have done some classroom work talking about both sides of the argument but we don’t necessarily get involved with it in a political sense,” he said.

“Our exposure is quite limited here, in as much as there is plenty of stuff on the television but if you don’t have a television or watch it, you won’t see a whole lot on it.”

However, Mr Tucker said local groups like Empowered Communities, NPY Women’s Council and the Central Land Council had promoted a Yes vote.

NPY Women’s Council said there were currently 100 women meeting in Pipalyatjara near the tri-state border, who recently unanimously supported the Voice proposal with a resounding Yes, or “Uwa” in the local language.

Empowered Communities said they had held numerous community meetings and made presentations to community leaders, including in Mutitjulu, Imanpa and Finke.

Central Land Council Chief Executive Les Turner said: “Since early May our Voice team have held 72 information meetings about the voice across the southern half of the Northern Territory, attended by around 2300 people, including traditional owners of the Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park.”

However, a spokesperson for the powerful Ayres Rock Resort, which owns and operates the entire town of Yulara, told The Telegraph they could not speak on the referendum issue and neither could resort staff.

Less than a month out from the referendum, there was no mention of the Voice to Parliament at the resort’s many public venues.

In fact, the extent of the referendum’s promotion at Central Australia’s iconic holiday town was one tourist wearing a Yes T-shirt.

Indigenous woman Margaret Geebung moved from Brisbane to work at the Erldundna Roadhouse, about two hours from Uluru, and does not support the Voice.

The Telegraph witnessed her asking Indigenous customers — as she often does — for their opinion on the referendum and none knew what it was.

“I think really it’s a load of crap. We have people already in parliament, we already have someone to talk for us but it’s not going to give us what we want, the treaty,” she said.

“I get a lot of locals, a lot that come through here … a lot of them don’t even have proper living quarters, you know. Where they are, they don’t even have proper water supply.

“A lot of locals don’t know what it is.”

Ms Geebung wanted Australians to understand the true history of First Nations people and for a treaty to be signed, but does not believe the Voice would achieve that outcome.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has repeatedly refused to be drawn into whether a Voice would result in a First Nations treaty and the truth-telling Makarata Commission, but the government has said it is committed to implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full — which includes both the elements Ms Geebung is calling for

But she remains unconvinced about the referendum.

“It’s all just for the government. It’s going to separate the Indigenous to the non-Indigenous, it really is,” she said.

Non-Indigenous locals who had lived in the area for years told The Telegraph they feared the Voice would split the community. Speaking anonymously, fearing repercussions from local authorities, one local said the impact of the Voice in Central Australia would be “divisive”, while another said it would add another layer of bureaucracy in a part of the country where land councils and other bodies already took weeks and months to process decisions.

I wonder if Ms Geebung plays polo. I will see myself out.

Got to love Aussie Post. It took 12 hours for one of my parcels to get from Mayfield(Newcastle) to Brisbane Airport, where it has remained recovering from its flight (arrived 3am this morning) before making the 1.5 hour trip to the Nambour mail centre.

Sigh

From the Hun – sadly missed.

Police & Courts38 minutes ago
‘Justice has been served’: Locals won’t shed tears over thug’s fate

Shepparton residents say their town is a better and safer place after fugitive Stanley Turvey was shot and killed in a standoff with police.

Dot:

Stew Peters is controlled opposition

F*ckwit! Go watch Sky News.

I wonder if Ms Geebung plays polo. I will see myself out.

Spell “Excruciating!”

Dot
Sep 22, 2023 5:16 PM

You are a MSM consuming Sheep.

On the Indigenous voice to parliament, I was tremendously naive
nikki gemmell nikki gemmell
I assumed the referendum would bring Australia together, in joy and healing, writes Nikki Gemmell. Picture: AFP

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1:00PM September 22, 2023
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We remember emotions. How a book, a film, a sporting event, a political moment makes us feel, long after the details have faded. For the potency of emotion is barnacled in memory. I’ll remember forever how I felt when Cortnee Vine shot her winning penalty in the Matildas/France World Cup match, and I know I’ll remember forever how I will feel when the vote for an Indigenous voice to parliament is declared. Win or lose.

Once upon a time I was tremendously naive. I assumed the Voice would bring Australia together, in joy and healing; that it would mark a new waypoint of maturity in the evolution of our nation. In simpler times I dreamed that the vision of an advisory body on Indigenous affairs, painstakingly devised over 15 long years, would be agreed to, and a new era of nationhood would be ushered in.

The proposal felt necessary, suturing, for all of us. It felt like a proposal that went some way towards lifting the corrosive weight of past wrongs. Considered and careful, it seemed a simple request: for an Indigenous committee to be able to advise parliament on Indigenous issues, without being able to make laws or control funding. Yet what a sour-spirited campaign we’ve seen from the forces determined to scupper this vision.
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One of the scupperers-in-chief, Peter Dutton. How will you feel about him, the day after the October 14 referendum? How will he go down in history? We will remember our feelings about him long after the specifics of the campaign have faded. We know, ultimately, he wants to be prime minister. So, saviour of the people – or master wrecker?

Politics is reductive. The individual gets de-coloured, rendered in monotone; reduced to a few distinct traits. If Australia votes No there’ll be an easy label to stick to Mr Dutton, by his opponents and a swathe of voters he’s trying to win over to reach his ultimate goal of the Lodge. He’ll henceforth be known, by quite a few, as the man who killed the referendum. Many from the political party Dutton leads have used all the tricks in the political playbook to divide, confuse and confound; and he will not be forgiven in moderate Liberal heartlands if the Voice is lost.

Dutton’s modus operandi feels like it has hardened into a stance of saying no, to just about anything proposed by Labor, including a cheeky suggestion for a public holiday if the Matildas won the World Cup. That rode the mood of a nation, but no surrender from the opposition leader to the national tone.

That stance of wilful negativity will be an easy slogan for opposing parties in future election campaigns, an energising gift to those forces. The reductive perception: Dutton has muddied the voice argument in order to damage the Prime Minister, and the Liberal leader’s relentless negativity for negativity’s sake won’t be forgiven by a swathe of people he’s seeking to win over to gain the keys to the Lodge.

More than 80 per cent of Indigenous people support this voice proposal. The idea came directly from Aboriginal communities, not politicians. I cannot imagine the broken hearts among many of them if this proposal isn’t carried; it would feel like a soul blow, along with all the other soul blows over generations, that would reverberate for years to come.

Once I dreamt of a feeling of great national pride, and relief, following a successful vote for the Voice. Now I worry there’ll be despair and disbelief among many, that in the end it came to this. And anger. Towards one of its scupperers-in-chief most of all. I feel certain Mr Dutton will never become prime minister if the No vote prevails. Be careful what you wish for, sir. The feeling towards you will linger, long after the specifics have faded.

Yellow card for posting Nikki Gemmel. Links only please. That is literally like treading in dogsh1t.

Pork

Cernovich got me off pork a while ago – not completely off but enough to get into a 24 hour guilt trip the two times since it’s sitting in a plate. He reckons pigs have an equal emotional IQ to dogs and asked people if they would eat dogs. He reckons pigs, like dogs know when their lives are endangered. That’s a downer for me.