My ego demanded I copy and paste this from the tail end of the last page, replying to Roger’s comment…
Open Thread – Weekend 23 Sept 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
Why are Man City going shit all of a sudden? I like top shelf soccer. I don’t barrack for any…
Omit the last question mark
One of the “true believers” over on Andrew Bolt assuring us that the first act of the Whitlam Government, when…
An anecdote to support the “toxic female traits” comment: 25-y-o grandson today saw a late 30-ish woman struggling up steps…
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You’d better run…
Good morning, fellow insomniacs.
Hello, fellow insomniac.
Sheep counting is for chumps anyway.
16 Tons
Me and my big mouth. That last comment will land me in trouble with Big Dorper.
More sound advice from Senator Jacinta Price –
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/i-love-jacinta.html
The Uluru Statement compilation video that PHON published yesterday is highly concise about treaty being the real aim of The InVoice, though it won’t change the mind of anyone who thinks a treaty is a good idea.
It’s still Hobbit Day in some parts of the world.
Hobbit Post, Part I;
Hobbit Post, Part II.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
David Pope.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
A.F. Branco.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne.
Thanks Tom. And Deadman.
That last comment will land me in trouble with Big Dorper.
A comedian on Compound Media was ranting about COVID this week & referred to Big Parma.
Hilarity ensued.
Farmer Gez, how does a working dog auction work?
What age are they?
Do you get to see them do anything before the bidding?
Also, Steparty at 3:40pm.
The fields get bigger & the fields become classier.
Going for 5 wins from 5 starts.
If Steparty wins this & goes onto the Caulfield Guineas, will they look to the Cox Plate?
From memory, if they do set Steparty for a Cox Plate, I’m trying to think of a more lightly raced horse.
From memory, Adelaide won the Cox Plate from its 8th start.
Deadman! Just in time for First Breakfast. Or Very Late Night Snack (a new category for extremely hungry Hobbitses).
Starmer-the very model of a modern pollimuppet
Magpies are up early.
Getting ready for the GF.
Chris Kenny has gone into full condemnation mode. Nasty little country apparently. Thought we wouldn’t get to that stage until the last week.
From Crikey:
Yep, we know. Thanks for confirming.
Is Assheton Old English for what I think it is?
Love it!
Is the first part done in alliterative verse? It has a stirring cadence when read aloud. Tolkien, the wordsmith, had fun with that also.
Chris Kenny has gone into full condemnation mode.
Who the hell does he think he is to cast aspersions like that? Just piss off. Another deadshit who’s never had a real job.
Broelman losing the plot as are all the MSM (BIRM) over this El Nino.
A natural event that’s been well forecast for months along with the historical records of an El Nino always following a triple La Nina.
(Carlton fan sweating intensifies)
Chris Kenny needs to be drug tested.
Today I learned (via the Jimmy Dore show) is that it’s just over 2 miles from the Elipse to the Capitol building.
And it’s up to another half a mile depending on which entrance one wants to use.
So depending on the pace of your walk, it’s somewhere between 30-45 mins.
Based on all legal precedent in the US, incitement doesn’t hold up.
But that doesn’t matter in the DC court.
Thank you for the toons Tom. Johannes Leak of course the stand out by many furlongs.
The green-left narrative that China is striving to save the planet from global boiling just took a hit…
China Says Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Is Unrealistic (23 Sep)
Meanwhile Guterres has gotten all religious or something:
U.N. Chief Guterres: Global Warming Has Opened ‘the Gates of Hell’ (22 Sep)
Is that where all those climate zombies who glue themselves to things came from? Sounds like he and Mr Xi aren’t quite on the same page at the moment.
If Trump’s incitement/insurrection case goes before SCOTUS and he loses, it means Brandenburg v Ohio is dead.
And the threshold for incitement is lowered to whatever the security state wants it to be.
Hope I’m proved wrong but those climate zombies may be responsible for more than one fire this coming season.
feelthebern
Sep 23, 2023 7:14 AM
If Trump’s incitement/insurrection case goes before SCOTUS and he loses, it means Brandenburg v Ohio is dead.
Is that surprises you? That is the aim.
Thought For the Day.
Gez I hope the Top Dog performs better than the Top Men we keep hearing about.
Teal* logic: Poor people don’t drive.
*I’m betting Mz Hockeysticks votes LibDem.
Vikki Campion:
in NDIS news
Make it count. Beat the rush.
“Based on all legal precedent in the US, incitement doesn’t hold up.”
Nothing holds up about that day.
Today I learned that there were all black companies fighting for the British in the US war of independence.
And towards the end when the Brits knew they were going to lose, they evacuated the soldiers to Nova Scotia because they wanted to protect them.
Imagine a “Glory” type movie being made about them.
The Brits don’t get enough credit for ending slavery.
Betting wise there is little in it as to the Brisbane Lions against the Colliwobbles but my money is for Collingwood and Carlton for the final.
Had good odds so theoretically I can’t lose.
Gaia hates grass.
California’s Democrat Legislators Vote to Ban Grass Lawns to help the state ‘adapt to climate change’ (22 Sep)
Unlike self-appointed National scold Chris Kenny, Greg Craven adopts a melancholy voice of defeat in Teh Weekend Paywallian. Chin up Greg.
Disadvantage based on need, not race, says Price
The Catholic Weekly -By Staff Writers – September 22, 2023
Mr Norman asked Senator Price how faith communities can contribute towards drawing the nation together.
“The faith community has had a lot of influence throughout communities within the Northern Territories. The missionaries provided—during the violence of the frontier—safe haven for a lot of Indigenous groups,” Senator Price, whose mother was brought up a Baptist, replied.
“It’s not acknowledged enough the good work that was done back in the day, to not just provide safe haven against the violence of the frontier, but provide the opportunity for Indigenous Australians to become skilled and a part of the Australian economy, as well, learning those skills for employment.”
So long as the Grand Final is a better game than last year I won’t even mind if Collingwood win. Last year was more disappointing than your dealer not delivering before the Mardi Gras after party. Thanks Sydney.
Dogs, horses and football, proper topics of conservation for manly men.
The dogs are mixed age and training at the auction. Some are fully trained and usually above eighteen months. Younger ones are classed as started or well started. This means they’re already better trained than most dog you’d see in the local park. There’s also older dogs that are proven workers from exceptional bloodlines sold as breeeders.
Steparty meets a higher class today and hopefully gets a birth in the Guineas. The Cox Plate would be the next goal. I know the breeder and many of the owners so I’m hoping they have a great ride this Spring.
As for the umps last night – they did miss a few for GWS but also allowed a sling tackle in front of goal and seemed to award 50’s for the protected zone early against the Pies and then forgot all about the rule after half time.
Here’s Janet A in the Oz, it’s good……
Even a bogeyman like Russell Brand deserves a fair trial
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
That English comedian Russell Brand has met with his comeuppance is not unwelcome news. The numerous claims of him being a sexual predator and an alleged rapist, his own gross history of bragging about shagging, his transformation from being a Corbynista anti-capitalist to being at home on podcaster Joe Rogan’s show and running alt-right conspiracy theories point to a mercurial man whose past eventually would catch up with him in one way or another.
Few can be surprised that Brand has been accused of serious sexual assault by several women, or that he denies the allegations. This is not an explosive story. That it is yawn-inducingly predictable is why the Brand saga raises important matters beyond his alleged crimes. What is more troubling than the abusers are the enablers. And there are many more of the latter than the former.
If you worked in a large law firm or investment bank in the 1990s, for example, like I did, you would know that some young women occasionally were treated as sexual meat. Not always. Not by all men. But there were times, usually involving alcohol paid for by the firm, where some men, including very senior ones, behaved badly. These men were as well known to junior employees as they were to their more senior peers in the firm.
Less well known were the names of those who allowed the behaviour to continue. Partly, a bit of groping and other sexual shenanigans were seen as no big deal. Plenty of women engaged in, and enjoyed, sexual banter back then too. But there were enough senior lawyers and bankers, male and female, who knew the difference between that and the lewd, unwelcome behaviour of their peers.
There were two categories of enablers who allowed the worst harassers to remain in their senior positions: the low calibre enablers who turned a blind eye, and other high calibre enablers who absolutely knew about the behaviour and should have done more to stop it.
Some young women were, at times, bold enough to tell the transgressors, though they were more senior to us, to “f..k off”. But not all young women could do that. All of us had this much in common, we had nowhere to go to complain about a man who, for example, thought it was fine to ask a young employee for oral sex at a work function. If there was someplace to report it, we didn’t know about it.
The allegations about Brand from many years ago point to the fact these young women may have felt they had nowhere to go either. It wasn’t that the media had no interest in learning that a high-profile celebrity was a sexual predator. Establishment media and the public facilitated the predator.
Large media organisations encouraged Brand’s tawdry behaviour, they banked on it, paid big bucks for it. And millions of people revelled in his reliable indecency and mercurial political views.
Brand’s particular form of entertainment included pleasuring a gay man in a Soho pub to push his own sexual boundaries, meeting a neo Nazi and seducing a pensioner.
In 2008, BBC Radio 2 broadcast a prerecorded program where Brand and fellow presenter Jonathan Ross were paid vast sums to laugh about a series of phone message they left on the answering machine of a lonely old actor, Andrew Sachs. The messages recorded threats by the men that they would “kick in his front door” and that Brand had “f..ked” Sach’s granddaughter. They joked about how a grandparent might have a photo of a young grandchild on a swing next to their bed and how Brand had “enjoyed” Sach’s granddaughter on a swing.
Brand was suspended for that, but his fame was fuelled by other media outlets too, all of them investing in his ugly character.
When he was left-wing, Brand had a column in The Guardian, he was on Channel 4, he was invited to speak to Jeremy Paxman on the BBC’s Newsnight, he was guest editor of The New Statesman.
Sections of our own country were seduced, too. Brand appeared on Ten’s The Project where a female panellist asked him how his recent commitment to celibacy was going. “What time do you finish work?” he shot back. They all guffawed with delight at the boom-boom predictability of this walking, talking sex act. In 2012, Brand grabbed Nine journalist Liz Hayes, kissed her and offered to undo her bra when she interviewed him for a 60 Minutes segment.
The investigation of Brand by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 is admirable, painstaking work. And why wouldn’t women go to the media when they can secure instant, albeit rough, justice? The attraction of doing that is obvious if you have spent years staying quiet. But let’s not imagine that those who are part of this new line of reporting, exposing allegations in the media before they are reported to police, are naive to consequences.
Even the most responsible, carefully legalled media investigation into Brand has, once again, given way to a public lynching where a complainant becomes a victim and the presumption of innocence becomes redundant.
Some will say this case is different, that we can head to verdict before a trial because several women, unknown to each other, have made accusations that tend to corroborate each other. But they are still untested claims. And what is the right number of women making allegations against one man that justifies the verdict first, trial later model? Three? Four?
One untested allegation set off a public witch hunt that enveloped Bruce Lehrmann when Brittany Higgins chose to go to the media before progressing a formal complaint to police.
I am all for a pile-on, after a guilty verdict by a court of law.
Just as the enablers of sexual misconduct were part of a rotten culture in the ’90s, a new class of enablers has emerged as part of the #MeToo movement.
They are the drivers of this new culture where legal advocates in a court of law are replaced with myriad self-appointed victim advocates in the media and in other institutions who rouse public opinion about a man’s guilt, and to heck with due process, the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. Months or years later, there may be a court process, but to what end? Before a charge is laid, let alone a criminal trial begins, the damage is done, quickly, publicly, irrevocably through trial by media, a career is destroyed, friends are lost, a family is crushed.
In these circumstances, what does an eventual acquittal by a court mean? The enablers of trial by media know this.
We can’t ignore the tensions between the media’s important role in helping to expose the abusive treatment of women and, at the same time, the media’s role in enabling this dangerous culture of trial by media. Dangerous because it transcends responsible reporting. Social media is an unregulated breeding ground for these public witch-hunts. As we saw with Scott Morrison’s injudicious apology to Higgins, and ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold’s misguided press conference that he could win a second trial against Lehrmann, even senior leaders of powerful institutions, people who should know better, appear to have succumbed to the worst impulses of the #MeToo movement.
The pendulum has swung from a set of people who enabled men to abuse women to a new class of enablers who, to make amends for the past, and with the best of intentions to support women, are damaging fundamental values in a democratic society.
The same law firms and other professional bodies that turned a blind eye to sexual abuse decades ago now overreach by describing every complainant as a victim, leaving the presumption of innocence in a precarious state.
A spokesman for Britain’s Operation Hydrant, a police unit that will help the Metropolitan Police investigate the allegation against Brand, urged “any victim or survivor” to speak to police.
There are no victims yet, there are complainants. Taking an allegation seriously is very different to “believing all women”.
In this respect, the Sofronoff report into the Lehrmann matter missed a golden opportunity. Among the policy changes recommended in the final report, Walter Sofronoff KC did not suggest the word victim be replaced with a less loaded term in the Victims of Crime Commission legislation and to the title of the Victims of Crime Commissioner. That’s a shame.
Patently, to many people, including potential jurors, the presumption of innocence was placed in a precarious state when the Victims of Crime Commissioner accompanied Higgins into court, sat with her, and stood by her in front of cameras. Higgins was not a “victim”. She was and remains a complainant.
As we wait for our moral, political and media compass to settle somewhere more sensible, let’s not buy into Brand’s banal claim in recent days that there is a mainstream media conspiracy out to get him. “Is there another agenda at play?” he said in his statement this week. Some of his latest fans, including psychologist Jordan Peterson, hinted at dark forces. “Someone wants (Brand) destroyed,” Peterson tweeted.
Maybe it’s as simple as Brand’s past catching up with him. As journalist Rosie Taylor tweeted this week: “Anyone who thinks ‘the media’ plots Machiavellian global schemes should spend a week in a newsroom. Once you’ve witnessed news and features forgetting to talk to each other and Xmas taking us by surprise Every. Single. Year … you’ll realise we’re incapable of what you imagine.”
Brand has built a lucrative career by peddling conspiracies and battling bogeymen – from capitalism to cancel culture and Covid. Maybe he was the bogeyman all along. But he was aided and abetted by the media, first on the left when it was early Brand, then on the right when he transformed into anti-woke later Brand. Brand’s brand of sexual and political deviance turned audiences on.
That said, even a bogeyman who has made money from telling dick jokes deserves a fair trial.”
Some thoughts, I think Janet’s piece is very, very good. I’ve long though Brand to be a low grade grub. But he’s a child of our low grade culture, and particularly our low grade media. It was the media who made him, and they’ve spat him our because he refuses to conform to their agendas.
When Janet A says it’s probably a case of Brand’s past catching up with him, she’s right, but Jordan Peterson is also right, Brand has become a target for elimination because of his questionable past. He’s crossed lines, which means the MSM will no longer cover for him.
California has water supply problems, it makes sense to replace some grassed areas with other types of drought tolerant plants.
Conservation?
That as well.
Neh, I don’t talk about footy. Or horses. And I’m even getting a horse next week.
Mutt of the weekend. Any Victorian Cat like to pick her up and put her on the train to Marybrook?
California has a Marxist environmentalist problem.
There’s enough water.
Space X has completed 65 missions during 2023 so far.
Keep sending up them satellites Elon !
Meme;
https://substack.com/redirect/ec733a1f-709b-452f-8634-199b1d797c6c?j=eyJ1IjoiaG85YmoifQ.bMnuNm5GLk5MFSCvcs0G5r0y-jYhpNwjaZVrL0QBwGM
Cassie, think you mean Brand has become a target for elimination NOT because of his questionable past. It’s his present that they want to silence.
Intelligence Official: ‘Russia Has Already Won,’ White House, Media Are Lying About Ukraine
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@DC_Draino
Zelensky has asked Marina Abramovic to be an ambassador for Ukraine and help rebuild schools
Yes, this Marina Abramovic
They’re flaunting their evil right in front of our faces
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Our Monetary and Fiscal policy in one sentence
Great to hear respectful silence during the Welcome to Country last night at the footy, followed by generous applause, despite Sam Newman calling for fans to boo.
The footy gods rewarded Collingwood with a famous victory.
Sam Newman, now mates with Avi and Rukshan, is a sad old man.
Andrew Sachs’ grand daughter was hardly Hayley Mills.
Dickless enjoys a little victory.
monty Pascoe.
Now I’ve heard it all.
Protests across Canada against gender ideology in schools. The protests, of course, are being smeared as “far-right” and “racist”, except the problem with those descriptions is that most of the protesters in Vancouver, in Montreal, and particularly in Toronto are brown skinned Muslims, women wearing hijabs and so on.
It’s funny about leftist ideology, and particularly about LGBTQI+ perverts, they love brown people and they love brown people’s food, until those pesky brown people actually stand up to the far-left fascist perverts, who want to groom and sodomise their children.
Whilst I believe we live in bad times, and I believe those bad times will get worse (I’m not optimistic), I’ll have my popcorn ready, because the coming confrontations between the perverts and the brown people are going to be lots of fun to watch.
I think Oz is slightly better off than the US and Canada in that we have a strong independent and Catholic system. It doesn’t mean that the pervert ideology hasn’t permeated through curriculum BUT the strong independent and Catholic system does provide a bulwark against the groomers, or maybe I’m too optimistic about that.
But what we will see happen here is that the far-left will go after independent and Catholic schools, the template set in the ACT with Calvary.
Nothing to do with his views on vaccines, and pharma companies and lockdowns then ?
Geez, don’t you like the pervert apologist’s casual Jew hatred and racism on display? Both Avi and Rukshan being “brown”. The only “sad old man” is the pervert apologist.
And here’s the thing, most people are too polite to boo.
I wonder how many ‘Nazis’ the pervert apologist plans to punch today? He probably has a list.
They are talking about it like an alien invasion. None of these bright sparks mentions that if this is correct, it’s entirely self-inflicted. The god complex at play again. They’re trying to move beyond humanity.
In five years AI could be so advanced it would mean the “end of human-dominated history”, Yuval Noah Harari says
How do you know the silence was respectful?
You cannot know the mind of every person present.
It could have been sullen, resentful, co-erced, reluctant, unwilling.
I haven’t been to the football for several years but I do recall constantly being reminded to report others for any purported bad behaviour.
‘The University of Melbourne has come under fire for appointing non-Indigenous academics to senior roles focused on Aboriginal studies’ reports The Guardian.
Does one have to be of English decent to teach English lit?
“How do you know the silence was respectful?”
Exactly. It was like when I was at the SSO two weeks ago and we had to endure one of the musician’s spruiking da Voice. Half the audience was silent, the other half clapped.
Personally, I think some serious booing is needed, but people are cowered.
I wonder if the cameras were panning around looking for non generous applauders to have their cards marked as casual racists?
And is there a benchmark for generous applause?
5 7 12 claps perhaps?
Did you rise to your feet in your enthusiasm?
If rumours of her dodgy behaviour began to circulate on
social media, would she consider that sufficient evidence
to justify cancelling herself?
If so, it might be worth getting an X account.
mUnty Dreaming. The sounds of Meh. 3 more weeks.
‘Gates of Hell’ is the same portentous excess that Biden used to describe what he saw on September 12th 2001 in New York – which was a lie as he was in DC. He uses these overblown but cliched terms to try to inspire uncritical acceptance of whatever fib he is telling. Even though he has tossed the poker chip of his son Beau’s death on the table repeatedly, it is always with the thing about ‘a black hole in your chest’ which might ‘suck you in unable to escape’ – this last but accompanied by the motion of both hands open and outstretched being drawn with closing fists simultaneously.
You hear about people getting their hair cut, or their suits, at the same place. Gutteres and Biden must download their programming into the jacks at the back of their skulls at the same place too.
One of the first comments
The attendees love their team and their footy. No doubt security would have been hovering around ready to ID any terrorist booing. To be met with life bans for such a disrespectful egregious attack. Perhaps those so inclined figured; not worth it.
Surveillance of football crowds…not for potential violence, but Wrongthink.
Any school system which receives the bulk of its funding from government is not independent.
Yeah, and remember what happened to that twelve or thirteen year old girl at the footy a decade ago. Singled out, smeared, pilloried. All of which, no doubt, our resident Jew and brown people hating pervert apologist approved of.
Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, wreaking havoc on flight delays and cancellations as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight
“Any school system which receives the bulk of its funding from government is not independent.”
Well maybe, but it still provides a bulwark of sorts. I’m not saying it is perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better than the US system, which is now a dog’s breakfast.
“Surveillance of football crowds…not for potential violence, but Wrongthink.”
The pervert apologist approves.
Candace Owens.
U.K. Government Asks Platforms to Demonetize Russell Brand
Whoa, the ABC publishes an article vaguely critical of solar rooftop power – but only because it’s hurting large solar farms who are forced to shut down when rooftop solar production surges.
Goes on to mention – oh no, whoops, solar rooftop is actually also destroying the profitability of gas and coal and we kinda sorta need those to stay operational for when the sun isn’t shining and the wind blowing.
But don’t worry! Solutions presented are more batteries, more pumped hydro (never-mind the cost of Snowy2.0 blowing out from 2 billion to 12 billion) and and of course, it’s consumer behaviour that’s wrong, we need more consumer demand in the middle of the day.
Titus was obviously asleep last night.
Dallas mayor flips to Republican:
‘Mayor Eric Johnson said he believes the future of the United States’s “great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism” and that he was leaving the Democratic Party because it was not committed to making the country safer.’
– Washington Examiner
Dallas is the 9th largest city in the US by population. 24% of the population, including Mayor Johnson, is black.
Thank you very much, Adam Goodes.
feelthebern
Sep 23, 2023 7:46 AM
Today I learned that there were all black companies fighting for the British in the US war of independence.
And towards the end when the Brits knew they were going to lose, they evacuated the soldiers to Nova Scotia because they wanted to protect them.
Imagine a “Glory” type movie being made about them.
The Brits don’t get enough credit for ending slavery.
John Randall, was an African slave of Captain John Randall of Stonington, Connecticut, United States of America.
When he later joined the NSW Corps he gave his place of birth as New Haven, Connecticut. The first certain record for him is his conviction at Manchester Quarter Sessions, England, in April 1785.
It is surmised that, because of his later career, he might have sought his freedom through being recruited as a musician to a British regiment and then travelled with that regiment to England in around 1783.
Following his sentence for 7 years for stealing a watch chain, he was gaoled on the Ceres Hulk and then transported to Botany Bay aboard the Alexander in the First Fleet.
https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/randall-john-30314
https://firstfleetfellowship.org.au/convicts/john-randall/
Why is it so?
– the ground-breaking TV series with the enigmatic Professor Julius Sumner Miller – ran on the ABC from 1963 to 1986.
Professor Miller’s infectious enthusiasm for physics delighted, educated and entertained generations of Australians, most of whom have at some point asked each other ‘Why is it so?’ in the characteristic Julius Sumner Miller voice.
The Lab has found some of the funniest, most entertaining segments from the Why is it so? series, and made them available for twenty first century enjoyment – over both dialup or broadband connections. Now you too can watch some ‘enchanting experiments’ with the good professor!
FWIW –
“If you use a period in your email address, be warned…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/09/if-you-use-period-in-your-email-address.html
Chris Kenny’s angry spray is a true insiders view of the dilemma caused by one way traffic.
Missing in this analysis is that the “considered request to the nation” contains far more than the Voice – self determination, compensation, traditional law – and comes devoid of any information as to how it might improve policy delivery by the States.
Kenny might have been brought along by the process, but bulk Australia has not. Whether by design, or because the Great and Good didn’t consider the Smaller People to have a valid view, it doesn’t matter. The net result is that people have been humbugged and many of them know it.
Here we are then, with a socially and racially divisive disaster on our hands because bien pensants and the First Nations Industry knew better than to be open and honest with the people paying.
From the OOT..
Davey Boy
Sep 22, 2023 10:10 PM
Those who have volunteered via Fair Australia to assist at referendum “pre-poll” places and at booths on the day itself may have just received an email like the one below (italics). etc….
I agree with Davey Boy, the best we can hope for with the involvement of the SFL is that they remain ineffectual ie. they don’t actively f@ck up the currently effective NO campaign.
I have also received other emails, like the above, from Fair Australia in the last 2 days.
In the interest of keeping Cats informed, below are two more.. (word-wall alert!!)
Dear XYZ,
This could change everything.
The Yes campaign has just bought $20 million worth of TV and radio ads – $3 million in South Australia and Tasmania.
You can help match their spend in these two must-win battleground states.
But at midnight tonight you and I will run out of time to unlock a $250,000 ‘no’ campaign Match Fund promised by supporter Simon Fenwick that will be crucial in the fight against the Voice of Division.
Meeting this target TODAY will unlock critical campaign firepower.
Your generous gift will be matched dollar for dollar, but only if you act right now to help activate this Match Fund.
This is an urgent request.
We can stop them catching up, but only if we keep our foot down.
Your support now will help unlock these vital funds and will mean we have a chance to take them head on in South Australia and Tasmania.
Grateful for you,
Matthew Sheahan
Director, ADVANCE
and
Dear XYZ,
Big banks and billion dollar corporations.
That’s what we’re up against.
Can you believe ANZ announced this week they are donating $2 million to the Yes campaign?
That’s $2 million they made from the interest they charge on your mortgage.
On top of the millions and millions in donations from companies like Qantas, BHP, Rio Tinto and Wesfarmers (the company that owns Bunnings, K-Mart and Target).
That’s how the Yes campaign has added $20 million in advertising to its $100 million campaign.
You and I know there is no grassroots movement behind their plan to divide the country by race.
Instead, they are trying to use this wall of corporate cash to buy a result on October 14.
They will flood the battleground states with expensive TV and radio advertising.
But I know how to beat them.
It’s going to take a lot of work between now and referendum day.
And it’s going to mean you, me, everyone has to turn up and say NO!
Imagine waking up on the Sunday morning after the referendum to the news that they’ve won.
It’s possible. They have the money to spend and tens of thousands of workers thanks to their union backers.
Make no mistake.
They will win if we stay home.
They will win if we don’t give it everything.
You and I know Australians don’t want the Voice of Division in their Constitution.
The only question left is whether you and I will be there to warn them.
So, please. Tell your family, your friends, your work mates, everyone: you have to turn up, you have to vote NO.
That’s how we end this Voice of Division once and for all.
Grateful for you,
Matthew Sheahan
Executive Director, ADVANCE
P.S. Thousands of Aussies have already said they’ll give it EVERYTHING by volunteering for Fair Australia to stop the Voice. Are you with them? Find out more at volunteerforno.com.au.
Regarding Simon Fenwick (who I had never heard of), some more information on him in the AFR, from April.
Naturally, for any paywall issues, 12ft Ladder is your friend here.
I’d wager most youngsters imagine they invented it.
The MCG, like most universities, is not the place for overt displays of free inquiry or thought. Just the way they want it.
Save it for the privacy of the ballot box.
Note how Kenny regards the indigenous population as a homogenous group.
They aren’t.
Progressives seem to have a particular difficulty acknowledging this fact.
From OOT:
Correct, he used it to illustrate his point. Examples cannot be the subject.
He’s talking about the DoD’s preferences (Ukraine over America) following a possible shutdown. He’s right.
This is Kenny deliberately missing the point. Making it about race and leftard feelz. This is the very same guilt bullsh*t being rammed down kids throats at our schools.
The No vote is about deceit and people fed up with it. Fed up to the back teeth in fact. Fed up with the squandering of our hard earned and the sleazy ways that we are robbed to fund the parasites in the indigenous industry.
So, STFU Kenny with your lies and guilt trip propaganda. It’s not working but you are just too dense to see it.
A book I was reading reckoned the Poms were responsible for around 5% of the African slaves traded, with the Portuguese and Spanish accounting for the bulk mostly going to South America. As usual, the volume of protest bears little resemblance to reality.
He will sub-contract the actual punching to Ante-Fa (comes before fascism), because he is too weak and sickly to do it himself.
Gutless worm (apologies to any worms that are offended by the comparison).
A description of a typical slave trading vessel was truly horrific and every instance of slavery should be condemned, irregardless of historical norms.
Woof!
Dover, stop playing word games. You’re reading into this something that wasn’t there. The Aristocrat directly referred to pensions as an illustration of what’s gone wrong with the US system whereby Ukraine’s pensions are paid while, because of the shutdown America’s aren’t. That’s just bullshit, because US pensions will be paid.
Also, the DoD isn’t sending money to Ukraine, it’s sending equipment over there. I’d be very surprised if any funding (money) goes through the DOD as I would likely move through the Treasury. In a shutdown equipment doesn’t suddenly morph into money.
It was taped at 6:30 with effects likes in the outer muted.
A mate at Channel Seven told me that was the plan.
In Hong Kong a few years back when the local youths refused to stand up for the Chinese anthem and made disrespectful noises, plain clothes cops stood in front of the crowd and recorded their behaviour. Dissidents were rounded up later.
The AFL learnt the lesson well.
Oh and by the way, I fully support the shutdown. 🙂 Do you?
It’s the progressive conceit – they regard anyone who disagrees with them as their moral and intellectual inferiors…too stupid to know what’s right.
We saw it in spades from Kerry O’Brien this week.
Is the world running out of patience with Zelensky’s ‘blank cheque’ demands?
Poland stops giving arms and US gives a fraction of what Ukraine’s leader asked for as he visits Canada today to win support
. Zelensky landed in the capital Ottawa late Thursday and will address parliament
. It comes after Biden offered more weapons but refused to give ATACMS missiles
So-called “Progressives” just lurrrrve their racial stereotypes.
How long before Channel Stokes and Gillon McPolo-Pony run dress rehearsals of the footy for focus group testing before prime time broadcasting?
He does have form.
Silence doesn’t mean acceptance.
No real difference.
We’ve been there, had it. Behavioural Awareness Officers, introduced to stop people calling umpires flogs.
A thankfully short-lived exercise in idiocy.
Polls reveal Australians are thumbing their noses at Blackout Bowen’s renewable energy dream as a new generation embraces nuclear power
A recent poll – from the ABC of all places – reveals that those opposed to nuclear power have been relegated to an obsessed, shrinking few, writes Nick Cater.
It would be a mistake to read too much into any online opinion poll, let alone one conducted by the ABC.
However, the poll on nuclear power on Monday’s Q&A should to be allowed to disappear into the dark hole of spent social media posts, where the show’s producers would probably happily put the results to rest.
Of the 16,000 viewers who responded, 61 per cent were in favour of nuclear power, and 32 per cent were against it.
Even if we assume a 20 per cent margin for error, Energy Minister Chris Bowen is among a shrinking minority who believe Australia can achieve its energy ambitions with renewable energy alone.
A more respectable survey by Compass Polling conducted last month confirms that opposition to nuclear power is an obsession of the shrinking few.
Seven out of ten Australians (71 per cent) either favour nuclear or claim to be open-minded.
When Australia’s first nuclear generator begins operation, as it inevitably will, Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison may be recognised as the prime ministers who did the most to change the public’s opinion.
Morrison’s pursuit of the AUKUS nuclear submarine agreement was the turning point.
Support for nuclear power rose overnight as Australians recognised the synergy of a defence and civil nuclear industry working together.
When Albanese chose to lock the 2050 zero emissions target into law, it is doubtful he would have foreseen the tectonic shift it would cause on the political landscape.
Yet by changing the policy debate about zero emissions from whether we should do it to how, an unlikely partnership has emerged between conservatives and a growing number of those on the Left who think that tackling climate change is too important to leave any option off the table.
The Australian Labor Party is not alone in feeling the discomfort of the nuclear wedge.
An inter-generational war has erupted in the global environmental movement where a new generation of activists challenge their elders’ Cold War hangups toward nuclear power.
Teenage Swedish activist Ia Aanstoot is one of the leaders of a social media campaign to persuade Greenpeace and other legacy green groups to drop their opposition to nuclear energy.
Their campaign was prompted by Greenpeace’s decision to lodge a complaint in the European Court of Justice against last year’s decision by the European Union to classify nuclear power as clean energy, making it eligible for government support.
Aanstoot, who rose to prominence in the School Strikes for Climate Change, has become the face of a “Dear Greenpeace” campaign designed “to pull Greenpeace into the 21st century”.
At least the Poles are showing finally some sense. Admittedly they are caught in a shit neighbourhood with a lot of tragic history needing alliances to create protection and economic prosperity. Tough choices some of them.
But, the US appoints a satanist to help build Ukraine’s schools system. For what? To breed a new generation of godless?
You have to marvel at the breathtaking evil that’s running amok in the US at the moment-officially sanctioned and enabled evil.
Heroic neighbour saves man from unit fire after suspected scooter explosion
34 minutes ago
A man is lucky to be alive after an explosion tore through a unit near the Queensland and New South Wales border.
A neighbour pulled the man through a window of his burning building just after 5:30am on Friday morning.
Paramedics wheeled the victim to a nearby field where he was airlifted to the Brisbane Hospital.
A lithium battery scooter is being blamed for the explosion and fire.
Forensic officers removed the standing electric vehicle for ongoing investigations.
I will wager quite a few believe that the abolition of slavery was engineered by by the slaves, and a handful of forward thinking whites who had listened to their wisdom.
It is like female suffrage, usually depicted as a victory of women – when in fact it was done by the only people with the power to grant it – stale pale males.
Good lord Aussie sports administrators must be the most counterproductive muppets.
All of the footy codes we play are a decent product, how they manage to sabotage themselves is bloody bewildering.
Small beer compared to what politicians are doing to the country.
Promised?
By who?
Oh, well.
Just put it over there next to my $275 electricity bill cut.
The MSM will love the money but incessant advertising is probably going to have the exact opposite effect they intend.
The Yes campaign’s ad campaign using John Farnham’s iconic hit song ‘You’re the Voice’ is backfiring, new research has found (Sky News, 22 Sep)
Might be good for J&B Hi Fi though, as people have to replace destroyed televisions.
No, you’ve focussed on his example because you don’t like his point that money will still flow to Ukraine even if there is a shut down in the US.
And now you’re quibbling about which department US money flows through to Ukraine (as if that matters) while the shutdown operates in the US. Still, who do you think pays trainers, defence ‘contractors’, etc. in Ukraine? What’s paying for the reconaissance, surveillance and intelligence operations conducted by the US in that theatre? It’s not just equipment that is being squandered.
You haven’t got yours?
Given only 33% voted for the party that promised it, and I was not one, I do not feel bound by that promise.
The $275 reduction has a target date of 2025.
By the end of next year the average power bill will have increased by $2,000, and then they will announce a $275 cut.
Promise delivered!
Obviously I am joking about the above. Labor has no idea how things work and assumed they could deliver something with understanding what is and what is not possible, and why.
Awareness Officers, introduced to stop people calling umpires flogs.
Correction
‘Bald headed flogs’
Our recent Fire Safety report contained a useful reminder on the comparative dangers of e-scooter/e-bike batteries.
The battery packs on EV’s are considered dangerous items by the Fire Services – and they do indeed self-destruct in a most spectacular way when they let go. However, EV manufacturers’ product liability/brand self-interest ensures they are heavily engineered not to ‘fail hot’ and they are therefore comparatively safe.
Not so with the battery packs on small appliances, bikes and scooters. These are knocked out from Chinese factories on a ‘cheapest possible’ basis of design – with ‘safety’ coming a distant last.
Nobody at the Golden Farkew E-Scooter Battery Corporation (Shanghai) gives a toss about being sued by someone in Meanjin for supplying an unsafe product. And most (not all) retailers don’t know, or don’t care about the risk.
Unlike EV fires, the vast majority of small battery fires go unreported, usually it’s some sort of near-miss event. You might have a fit-for-purpose convo with the retailer, but who/why report it?
And there they are, in an increasing number of homes.
Sincers was an umpire?
Easy, the administrators are the never were any good, wannabes, self promoter’s and grifters.
Bad me for explaining his example was completely wrong.
It’s not a quibble. I’m explaining to you that the DoD is most likely sending equipment over there to help push back the Orcs. It’s not funding that falls under appropriation. Consequently, everything about that Tweet was wrong.
The US.
Okay, you don’t like the US involvement in the war. I get that, however talking about pensions as though they won’t be paid is just bullshit. They will.
The shutdown is complex because it impacts almost all on annual appropriation requiring consent from Congress. What falls in and out of that is not easy to reconcile. You ought to be thanking me for explaining pensions aren’t impacted and possibly how equipment transfers many not be considered as part of the shutdown. But no, I’m not.
(That was a jovially mocking nickname, wasn’t it? Like the manikin thing.)
That bald headed, mankind wearing, Mariah Carey loving, fascist gnome flog!
Worst of all – an Essendon fan!
mankini wearing
Damn you autocorrect!
Do Cats really appreciate how the so-called conservative commentariat (eg. J Albrechtsen) has handled the Russell Brand allegations?
As if wanting to pander to the leftards that would kill them on a whim, if they could, we read an awful lot of “tut, tut” moralising about RB’s past and how allegedly vile he had been.
This from people who are never shy in reminding everyone about the Christian tenets of forgiveness and redemption.
Hypocrisy clearly isn’t the sole province of the Left.
There may be also some admission to the fact that RB has had an epiphany from his days of “dissolutism” and has shown himself to have grown and matured as a man, openly admitting fault in his past actions.
The overall impression is that, yes, this is an unfair, nasty social media and MSM witch-hunt but that, really, RB had it coming.
Now, truly compare that to how the leftard commentariat, including the MSM, handles ANY allegations against one of their own.
Conservatives really DO deserve the florid cultural defeat they have suffered, and with bells on!
Meanwhile…
‘Treasurer promises a secure, fairly paid job for everyone who wants one’
– SMH
Dover
It doesn’t necessarily mean US personnel stationed in Ukraine will not be paid. We don’t know, and the reason is that the Federal government may have other previously appropriated funds that can be used. As I said, it’s pretty complex and like everything in the US not straightforward.
From BoN @10:16
This. Where the Leadership Class in its political sophistication has got it so very wrong.
In three weeks, polling tells us there will either be a decisive No, or a narrowly decided result one way or the other.
We have racial division baked in by the Top Men who have misconducted the whole ‘public conversation’. Hopefully it serves as a reminder to the dim farqueres who nominally run the joint, that slogans and smoke and mirrors do not a national debate make.
Kenny is sooo salty that the reconciliation and recognition cheques he and his ilk have been handing out and basking in the halo of for the last decade are about to be cancelled by the populace at large.
“We should be equal,” traditional owner Dale Pascoe says. “I want to see the teachers teach my grandkids to have that knowledge and wisdom.” An urgent upgrade to the facilities also is needed, Pascoe says.
11 hours drive from Darwin .. these folk talk as if they are just an outer city suburb and can’t grasp why no one wants a job in the middle of nowhere ..
This is what the Voice wants us to pay for. To educate these 7 kids they want US to fund teachers on expensive FIFO/DIDO weekly/fortnightly swing rotations, power water electricity, training materials and aids, internet – in short all the modern amenities of our education system. Rather than move or accommodate the kids where adequate education facilities already exist. Multiply this by tens of thousands of cases , and this is just education. Medical and Health? Transport (roads)?
The tip of an immense taxpayer funded gravy train stretching out forever.
Sanctioned and demanded by the revised Constitution. Of every Govt.
Don’t start.
A description of a typical slave trading vessel was truly horrific and every instance of slavery should be condemned, irregardless of historical norms.”
I don’t think anyone would disagree with your assertion. However, I’m getting tired, very tired of the deliberate obsession with the Atlantic Slave Trade whilst at the same time refusing to acknowledge that slavery was the historical norm across every ethnic group on the planet, and that the Atlantic slave trade was a historical blimp compared to the brutal, hideous Arab Slave Trade, which began in the 600s and continued until the 1950s. Also, the reason why there aren’t big populations of blacks in Arab countries such as Iraq and North Africa (where, by the way, racism towards blacks is endemic) is because Arab slavers castrated sub-Saharan males immediately, whereas sub-Saharan females were used for either or both domestic servitude and sexual slavery. Nobody today learns about the Zanj Slave Revolt, which was a revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate….
“The Zanj Rebellion was a major revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate which took place from 869 until 883. Begun near the city of Basra in present-day southern Iraq and led by one Ali ibn Muhammad, the insurrection involved enslaved Bantu peoples who had originally been captured from the coast of Southeast Africa and transported to the Middle East, principally to drain the region’s salt marshes.”
Historical sources to do with the Zanj Rebellion are quite solid, the estimated dead from the revolt, between two and three million, mainly sub-Saharan blacks.
Who reads about this? Nobody, because it doesn’t fit the current zeitgeist that slavers were only white….and all white people are evil.
But the thing is, historically slavery had nought to do with race, people were enslaved when land was captured, when tribes lost wars and so on. Millions of Europeans were enslaved by the Berbers from North Africa, their ships roamed as far north as Iceland.
Nothing is taught nowadays, the focus on the British and slavery is all because the British were white. We hear nothing about the Arab Slave trade, oh and today, gifted by the always meddling USA under Obama and Clinton and the UK, there are now sub-Saharan slave markets operating in Tripoli in 2023.
You couldn’t make this shit up.
Here’s a fact, every effing ethnic group on the planet practised slavery until recently, be it the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Africans, Polynesians and so on. But no, according to progressive critical race bullshit, it was the only British slavers who were evil, despite the British being the only race on the planet to outlaw slavery.
There was a Tesla fire in NJ this week:
Green Inferno: Tesla Model 3 Engulfed in Flames After Hitting Debris on New Jersey Road (21 Sep)
Another one north of Canberra occurred similarly about a week ago when a Tesla ran over something which fell off a truck.
I suspect driving at speed over failing roads is going to become a big wake up call, since the battery pack is under the floor of all EVs. One decent pot hole and a stone or two and either the car catches fire or you’re up for forty grand for a new battery pack.
Dogs, horses and football, proper topics of conservation for manly men.
Aye sir. I see Nullawil fell short in the grand final last week. Great effort by them in their first year.
I’m off to watch the grand final between Kerang and Balranald. Balranald smashed them in the second semi to advance. They have the sons of Merv Neagle playing.
As for Kerang, they are looking at a 9th flag since 2010. Last time these two played in the big dance, Balranald literally bashed them. 2 players out with concussion within the first 5 minutes.
I expect something similar to be honest.
Pop. 45.
96km from Maningrida, which has a school with 120 employees.
Access could be a problem in the wet season, but otherwise a small bus would suffice.
Chris Kenny, if you want reconciliation, then urge black fellas to get jobs, to speak English. Take pride in your possessions and life. Not phucking hard.
If you don’t think African slavery associated with sugar production stands alone I can’t effing help you.
And yet:
And
Not to mention if your children are at three letter words, you aren’t working get out a damn spelling book and teach them yourself.
How do you think all those dreadful isolated colonialists taught their children pre school of the air?
Incidentally isn’t that also an option?
Albo has an article in the Daily Tele this morning:
Win for Yes can be a win for us all: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the Voice
Nearly 1000 comments so far underneath it, and not one supporting him. Quite a few are calling on him to resign.
Re Monty
Only a collectivist would construe the silence of self preservation to voluntary deeds agreed to without coercion.
But it does show more public cracks in the “unified” anti-Russian facade. On the heels of Poland’s decision to pull out of supplying Ukraine. All of this in context of Ukraine’s disastrously expensive failed Summer Offensive.
Mr. 32% never had a lot of political capital to begin with, his main appeal being that he wasn’t Scott Morrison.
He hasn’t spent wisely.
“Orcs” = sub human, deviants, = the Nazi de-humanising strategy directed at Europe’s Jewish population = justified actions ….
We all now what happened next.
The mask just slipped.
Re. “electric” battery fires, I suspect it won’t be long until insurance companies pull the plug with regard to damage caused by said batteries.
This is a sign that will be placed on my property with regard to EVs.
DUE TO POTENTIAL FIRE HAZARD, EVs NOT PERMITTED ON THIS PROPERTY.
PARK ON THE ROAD AND WALK.
Gilas,
Thank you for putting so eloquently into words what has been on my heart and mind since the RB affair came to prominence.
When he was actually doing all this reprehensible s**t, the media was well aware of it AND LEFT HIM COMPLETELY ALONE.
It was only after getting clean, becoming by all accounts a family-oriented man and building quite the following by challenging the structures of power and corruption that currently hold sway over us, only then did the media think it a good use of their time to investigate any possibly criminal behaviour.
Anybody on the Right who looks at these allegations and insists that he had it coming, well, they have missed the entire point. Completely, utterly and entirely.
If you don’t think African slavery associated with sugar production stands alone I can’t effing help you.”
It doesn’t “stand alone”.
Well said!
Like my aboriginal neighbours. He works 12 hr shifts, they have a young family, a nice set of wheels and a big bike. They’re living life and doing well. I had a nice chat with grandad who was visiting from Dubbo one week, we got along well.
Our body corporate has been advised that excluded event, or special risk premiums is imminent for EV fire damage in building insurance. This is driven more by the consequences of the difficulty in extinguishing the fire than the frequency of occurrence.
Yep. If you want to grandstand and take principled positions for which you’ll never be accountable for join The Greens.
Indeed.
For a long/term professional politician, who came with ‘canny operator’ marked on the wrapper, Albanese has been spectacularly clumsy.
I guess ‘Not Shorten’ only takes you so far.
Comment, from Chris Kenney’s article ,in the Oz.
No, the point of the tweet was Ukraine uber America following the Pentagon announcement. Your use of ‘most likely’ above also suggests you have no idea what is included in the Pentagon spending in Ukraine. You’re also focusing on equipment now even though spending, for instance, for trainers. 300M$ by last reports is also part of the massive Pentagon spending bill.
Why would I be thanking you here, JC? I wasn’t lost in the weeds as you are here.
If No voters do not boo WTC at the footy, that is entirely consistent.
My position is that footy is no place for political grandstanding of any kind.
If there was no booing that is testament to the patience and tolerance of No voters.
I just hope that those who have engineered this scare campaign will have solutions for the despair, anger and, I fear, militancy within aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that will follow a NO victory. I also hope that they will have ways to deal with our decimated international reputation.
I wonder if this commenter realises this applies particularly to Albanese.
If he has gone forth without a Plan B ‘open in the event of No’, it’s the political equivalent of betting the house on Red. Reckless.
I guess we’ll see how Team Albanese conducts itself if the vox pop says No. They’re going to have to shovel carefully, particularly if it lands 60:40; because the polling numbers say that a significant portion of Mr 32%’s base are No-sayers.
My nomination for Albos race based referendum.
You’re unbelievable.
I Continually Attack Conservatives gets some pushback.
Berejiklian launches proceedings against bombshell ICAC report (Sky mainpage headline, 23 Sep)
Not a fan of Gladys, but I’m even less a fan of deep state swampies. When even Stephen Loosely is critical you know exactly who they are and where they come from.
Albo might not have a Plan B. Rest assured da bruvvas will have one.
Makka, it’s a shit show right now.
The Coathanger gets more expensive.
Chris Minns justifies toll increase for Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sky, 23 Sep)
Um, why is there a toll on it at all son? It was paid off decades ago. On the other hand anything which keeps people away from Clover’s green-left utopia is a good thing. I haven’t gone there for several years and now I have even more of a reason not to.
I agree with Gilas re Brand and with good reason.
Russell Brand’s past isn’t catching up with him.
The allegations are bunk.
Here’s why.
Two TV stations and a newspaper “investigated” Brand in secret for four years, possibly with financial inducements.
No complaints have been made to the police.
The “under aged” claim is not that at all, it was perfectly legal.
One claim was a “medical report”. Not for rape. It was got STI testing.
One claim was an obviously false AI generated audio file.
One claim was an obviously doctored text message.
Brand denies all claims and other witnesses disagree with the accusations and assessments of his character.
Besides the anonymity of the “accusers”, the dishonest is amped up by “Lady” Dinenage and her authoritarian regime instructions to private companies- she is married to a spook (a former Major General).
These false accusations (some of them are mere smearing of facts which just add up to a pile on but would not be criminal acts even if true) are a crime. They are fraud. It is fraud not only to obtain financial advantage dishonestly but to cause financial disadvantage to another by the same means.
There are at least TWO falsified claims and therefore acts of fraud.
Pretty much.
On Channel 4 being outraged about Russell Brand:
Bad Penny is sad that the ALP will be unable to fully ravage Australia by 2030.
Penny Wong tells UN climate targets won’t be met by 2030 (Sky, 23 Sep)
C’mon Penny that’s not good enough. The gates of hell have been opened! Surely you believe Mr Guterres? He’s remarkably religious for a communist.
Dr F at 11:33.
I have been in transit* so this might have already been discussed.
I suspect the Owner’s Corporation issues regarding EVs might not be the slam dunk they should be.
That is, that EVs represent a yuuuuge fire risk so they need to be excluded from the building, or EV owners bear the additional insurance costs.
Remember, we are dealing with Virtuous Planet Savers here, and people who generally like the socialist spreading of costs for their pet causes (EVs, arts projects, whatever).
I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends in a protracted legal battle to force the Owner’s Corporation to accept the risk and pick up the insurance tab.
* Between Japan and here. Not between genders.
Two reasons
1. cost of maintaining it.,
2. the existence of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, which NSW is still paying off. Make the bridge free, who will use the tunnel?
A Kilo class sub and the Minsk seem to’ve suffered cope bumps last week.
Cope bumps seem to be multiplying lately.
Cassie of Sydney
His kind always have lists.
However, they never understand that others might have lists too.
Highly recommend the interview John Anderson has done with Anthony Dillon. Via YouTube etc.
Probably one of the best I have heard on Aboriginal matters.
Lotocoti:
https://twitter.com/cj_dinenage/status/1704092016764670139
“We understand that the police are now looking into…”
Weasel words. If you KNEW, you would say so.
She is stepping up to a line that is marked “Lying to Parliament.”
And she’s done it to herself, in her haste to curry favour with the Communists in the media.
According to Fire Rescue Victoria: “Victoria’s fire services are responding to an average of one significant lithium-ion battery fire each week, and this trend is expected to increase.” (My bold)
Sure, but how does that help their offensive in the south? The focus on Sevastopol seems to be intended to generate good news out of an otherwise failed spring/ summer offensive which overpromised but underdelivered. It also betrays NATOs strategic interests re Russian Black Sea fleet. Still, the only way the Russians can stop these attacks is either by hitting the store of Storm Shadow missiles in Ukraine, and a heavy strike at Kremenchug overnight is indicative of this, as well as their fleet of SU-24s that launch them, which is also ongoing. The only other means is interdicting the ISR capabilities that NATO is providing Ukraine. Given that Russia doesn’t want this to spiral, they are going for the former at the moment.
I see Daily Telegraph got an article up about today’s No rallies.
Anybody attending and any feedback?
….Sep 23, 2023 11:50 AM
I just hope that those who have engineered this scare campaign will have solutions for the despair, anger and, I fear, militancy within aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that will follow a NO victory….
Soyjack in written form.
Dear Mr Kenny.
Things are screwed now for some individuals of Aboriginal background.
Granting group rights to cure the pathologies of broken individuals won’t work.
$90,000,000 a day and you claim no one knows how to make things better?
What you really mean is you are uncomfortable with societies norms being enforced or encouraged which will, for 90% of that afflicted individuals, ensure they have lives comparable to most other Aussies.
It’s the same ” compassion” that leaves junkies/ alcos etc plaguing the streets of capital cities because enforcing norms makes you feel icky.
The fact Aboriginal people have a higher % of disfunctional members can only be cured by targeting those individuals, not by assigning group privelidges.
There are pockets of dysfunctional individuals in every group, yet you don’t think assigning group rights to them will fix their pathologies.
Why would it for Aboriginals?
I don’t particularly like EVs. We just bought new a petrol engine car. Are EVs really catching fire as much as people here are suggesting?
I actually believe that hybrids would be the worst and the reason is that the engine fit out is incredibly complex.
This one could be self-serving. Dunno
Gizmodo
EV Fires Are Actually Much Less Common Than Petrol and Diesel Car Blazes
Dot
What intelligence related post did the Major General hold? There are lots of current and former Major Generals in the British Army. Very few of them are likely to have held an intelligence posting at that rank.
Don’t go all “Ed Case” without some actual evidence.