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Two Steps From Hell – Impossible Live @ WACKEN

Not news to anyone that hospital staff are part of the hamas machine.

not surprisingly Israel claims shift hospital is a terror headquarters, video of where they think the cockroaches are hiding

it is hamas committing genocide in Gaza

no phones no internet according to the Guardian.

gang wars unsurprisingly draw unwanted police attention, of course the government is responsible for the black market’s existence in the first place

Qatar is already using a workaround to get additional flights to Melbourne

Vikki Campion puts it on our useless public servants:

Canberra is the home of soiree virtue: It’s not what you do that matters, merely how you talk about it.

That’s why senior bureaucrats in charge of a $7m net zero unit can fly business class from their Melbourne home to their Canberra office every three weeks and not even worry about their emissions.

The boss of the Transport Department’s Net Zero Unit, Ian Porter, told senators he flew to Canberra one week in every three.

Not only has he never done a calculation of the carbon emissions of flying to Canberra every month, but he was working on establishing a full offset for flights across the whole of the public service with the Finance Department, which also had not yet set a standard.

The Net Zero Unit was budgeted $7.759m across four years to create a decarbonisation report, under the line item in the 2023-24 budget “reducing transport emissions measures”.

When the boss of the unit in place to reduce transport emissions had not even counted his own emissions for flying back and forth between Canberra and Melbourne — and his boss Jim Betts, the department secretary on about $1.6m a year, responded to a question with the words “nice try”, it was simply galling.

Here’s a taste of the transcript:

Senator Matt Canavan: “The Net Zero Unit is not yet net zero.”

Infrastructure Secretary Jim Betts: “You wouldn’t expect that. Nice try.”

Nice try?

Politicians go to an election to determine their fate and senior bureaucrats go to the exclusive Commonwealth Club. They are the government that never gets elected out and taxpayers foot the bill for that privilege.

For the rest of Australia living on planet prudence, working out their emissions on business class flights from Melbourne to Canberra would never be a problem because they would drive the seven hours instead.

If they did indulge in the spoils of a plane trip, it is with the tea and bickies at the back, not the G & T at the front.

Even if you calculated the carbon emissions at the top of the plane — where it is just four seats across compared to economy in six — the carbon emissions a square metre in economy are still less than business class, so live your virtue and move to the back.

Or better still, drive one of those electric vehicles you keep telling us about and that your department wants us to squeeze our families in at a cost of more than $70,000.

While Mr Betts may not have calculated the emissions, according to carbon calculator MyClimate, Canberra to Melbourne return in a business seat is 0.369 CO2 tonnes.

In an economy ticket, it is 0.287 tonnes and driving a compact electric vehicle the 1200km there and back would be about 0.162 tonnes of CO.

There it is.

You can answer with a smirk and an eye-roll Mr Betts but are you happy to collect your wage in your drive to force the rest of Australia to live a certain way.

At the same time, other parts of Australia can’t afford their power bill or their grocery shop.

People under a pitiless blue sky, in the drought that no one is talking about, are paying $2000 for a tank of water in cartage fees and graziers are getting paid as low as $2 for a sheep.

Pensioners don’t get change from a $20 note for a few lamb chops.

If the cost of living weren’t crushing so much of Australia, it would be simply annoying — but with people on more than $1m a year, it’s an example of the total disconnect between the pulpit and the parishioners.

Under scrutiny, the same department responsible for the transport transition revealed that in calculating its very important net-zero reports, they have not considered the entire life cycle of electric vehicles.

Just like the cost of electricity of a wind tower doesn’t include the transmission lines, or the now infamous Snowy Hydro 2.0, the cost of the electric vehicle only counts when it’s moving.

Even though they have 50 to 60 per cent higher emissions than an internal combustion engine during construction, the department, using selective economics, said: “Our analysis is on tailpipe emissions.”

When Senator Slade Brockman asked if they knew that one low-mileage EV being written off “could wipe out the carbon benefits for dozens, if not hundreds of cars”, they said they were aware of reports, but: “It has not been reported to us by our international peers.

“We have quite a close relationship with regulators in California, for example, who have not raised this issue with us.”

If the people in the home of flower power don’t think it’s a problem, why should we?

Senate estimates went on, with the Health Department admitting that it spent more than $3.5m on advertising half-price medicine, only to disclose that only some people would actually get it.
As if the plane ride wasn’t enough, the Infrastructure Department told the committee it spends $26,551.95 of taxpayers’ money on Welcome to Country each year.

The lure of other people’s money is too much to resist for unemployable idiots. And the bolded last line. Multiply that across every department, state federal and local. Money that could be going to where it’s needed.
Sack the lot of them.

Not to mention, for employees driving would be on work time, who’s going to pay a fat cat a full day’s salary to drive to Canberra?

The welcome to country scam needs to end.

Faborigines need to start getting proper jobs, not these earmarked sinecure for insiders.

Au contraire it’s a risible gross Humpty Dumpty misuse of the word, you terrorist apologist.
Gaza is now under complete blackout. Electricity, internet, and communication have all been cut off. Genocide isn’t enough of a word to describe what’s happening.

Hamas should have thought more about who supplies it with water, electricity and fuel before invading and massacring civilians.
Oh they did but went ahead anyhow?
Hamas hates humanity.

The welcome to country scam needs to end.

Yep! .. I missed the 1st goal (40secs) in the Brizzie – Sydney fitba match last night cos I never switch the TV on until a minute after, scheduled, start time (any sport) to avoid that bloody ‘welcome” rubbish …………

It’s almost like there’s a conspiracy against Trump…

Tweet of note two

“I recognize that some of the language I used was reprehensible and did not reflect my values,” he added.”

Yes it was reprehensible and yes it did reflect your values.

Getting very disgusted by this new favourite term of the media .. ” Gaza ministry of … ” when repeating the “official” rubbish coming out of Gaza .. there are NO “ministries of anything” in Gaza! .. PERIOD! ..
Just HAMAS scum who masquerade as ministers reading the, daily, script to gullible & fawning media outlets whilst on tea breaks from their full time terrrorist jerbs …….

Melanie Phillips spoke about this a day or two ago…..there are rumours that there’s an Iranian cabal in the state department.

It’s more than a rumour.

If your ‘care bucket’ is empty get another job.
About half of the ambulance officers I had dealings for three local requests a couple of weeks ago were females, they couldn’t pick up a 50kg patient let along a 150kg one.

WAYNE ROOT: This Jewish Republican Responds to the Dumbest & Most Dangerous Thing Obama Has Ever Said.

How, exactly, does and “employer” know what you eat? Sounds more like a “master” to me.

Germany: Employer Now Docking Wages Of Employees Who Eat Meat, Drive Autos!

Despite government claims, myocarditis found not temporary after COVID mRNA injection

Dow drops more than 350 points to end brutal week, S&P 500 closes in correction territory: Live updates

If Israel have been able to listen to so many phone calls, they probably have a very good idea how many hostages are alive.
I think those taken by ‘civilians’ were murdered pretty quickly.

Australian, paywalled
Hamas’s armed wing said it was fighting Israeli troops in two areas inside the Gaza Strip.
“We are confronting an Israeli ground incursion in Beit Hanoun (in the northern Gaza Strip) and in east Bureij (in the centre),” the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement, reporting heavy fighting on the ground.

The welcome to country scam needs to end.

Didn’t Marcia Langton promise that “Welcome to Country” was finished, if the referendum was defeated?

Be interesting to know which gaza hospital in that live feed, I’m guessing not Shifa.

The message Australians sent is clear: we won’t be divided by race
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As they do, political experts, campaigners, party officials, commentators and the like will be analysing the referendum results for months to come.

They’ll pore over every detail looking for trends. They’ll send out surveys, online polls and hold focus groups to understand how the voice failed.

But I think the reason it failed is obvious.

On October 14, Australians sent a clear and unmistakeable message: we won’t be divided by race.

It’s a lesson the Yes campaigners and so-called Indigenous leaders have yet to learn. Despite a six-state and 60 per cent majority result, they continue to push guilt and grievance politics, playing the victim and doing everything they can to twist this result into an attack on Indigenous Australians.

In a cowardly, anonymous open letter to parliamentarians, they have tried to make this referendum result about rejection.

“Rejection of constitutional recognition will not deter us from speaking up to governments, parliaments and to the Australian people.”

This letter is a pathetic, cynical attempt to keep race in the national conversation and to keep Australians divided. They know that this wasn’t simply about recognition, and no one was trying to silence the voices of Indigenous people.

But their letter highlights a failure of understanding, the same failure of understanding that plagued the Yes campaign for the past six months.

October 14 was not a rejection of recognition, it was not a rejection of reconciliation and it was not a rejection of the significance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in our nation’s history.

The referendum was not a rejection of anyone’s right to be heard.

This referendum was not a rejection at all.

It was an affirmation of every Australian’s equal right to be heard, of every Australian’s equal right to have a say – of every Australian’s equal right to a voice.

This is something the voice advocates never understood, and from the beginning the road to the referendum was one of exclusivity.

The Referendum Council’s final report – the report Anthony Albanese failed to read – describes how delegates were chosen for the initial Uluru Dialogues. It was a process of selection and invitation, where local host organisations invited 100 delegates to one of 13 First Nations Regional Dialogues.

“Delegates were selected according to the following split: 60 per cent of places for First Nations/traditional owner groups, 20 per cent for community organisations and 20 per cent for key individuals.”

It was from this pool that the 250 signatories to the Uluru statement came.

The referendum clearly showed that the 250 signatories do not represent the views of all Indigenous Australians. What should be even clearer to anyone is that it has always been paternalistic and wrong for anyone to claim they have the ability or the authority to speak on behalf of all Australians of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.

But that hasn’t stopped them from claiming they do.

In their open letter they write: “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are in shock and are grieving the result. We feel acutely the repudiation of our peoples and the rejection of our efforts to pursue reconciliation in good faith.”

Far from a message of unity, this letter is a clear example of the division and disharmony the voice would have delivered and is a continuation of the lies peddled by the Yes campaign across the past 12 months.

Not all Indigenous Australians are “in shock and grieving” because a constitutionally enshrined body that gave an extra say to just one group of people based on nothing more than racial heritage was democratically voted down.

We do not all feel “acutely the repudiation of our peoples” because many of us – about 40 per cent according to polling the week before the vote – voted No ourselves.

The letter goes on: “That people who came to our country in only the last 235 years would reject the recognition of this continent’s First Peoples – on our sacred land which we have cared for and nurtured for more than 65,000 years – is so appalling and mean-spirited as to be utterly unbelievable a week following. It will remain unbelievable and appalling for decades to come.”

The “us and them” language continues; the division instigated by the Prime Minister last year continues.

The results on October 14 signal that Australians want our country to turn a corner, to leave all of that behind and unite as one Australia.

There can be no denying that the prevalence of race has increased in our national discourse. No one can deny the increase is heated rhetoric, name-calling and unfounded accusations of racism. The authors of this letter go so far as to claim there is “racism imbued in the Australian Constitution”.

If we want to move forward, we must acknowledge that the people who need our help most in this country are not all Indigenous Australians, just as not all Indigenous Australians are in need of our help.

There are, of course, some Indigenous Australians who genuinely need our help, but our focus must be on need, not race.

In the areas where some Indigenous communities need help, our solutions need to be targeted in a way that reflects that.

That’s why my colleagues and I have called for a thorough audit of the structures that exist, to see where problems exist, to see what is working and what isn’t, and take action to implement real change where it’s needed.

It’s why the Coalition is calling for a royal commission into Indigenous child sexual abuse, so we can provide a targeted solution.

This year – this campaign – has been the most divisive period in recent Australian history. Now, we must put it behind us.

We need to come together to focus on need, to look for those who need help – no matter their background – and work together to help them.

Because whether they are of Indigenous heritage or otherwise, whether they were born here or are a new citizen, this country belongs to all Australians.

And our government needs to work for all Australians.

Didn’t Marcia Langton promise that “Welcome to Country” was finished, if the referendum was defeated?

It would seem Marcia has the conceited view of her prestige that movie stars do.

When she made that promise she will have thought it would send an icy chill into the hearts of Australians.

No idea that we are sick of the damn things – a ceremony with telling us we have their permission to be there by a person who claims all sorts of mystical connections and senses but who in absolutely no way exhibits anything at all remarkable. It looks like humbug because…

Marcia never meant it any more than Hollywood stars threatening to leave the US every time a Republican is on the ticket for the Presidential election.

Marcia will, if challenged, likely explain she now realises in light of the referendum results that what Australia needs more than ever is shed loads more welcoming to country.

A new whitewash?

That they’re undertaking it at all will only result in more public scrutiny and pain for the bank.

It’s 39% owned by the British public after a GFC bailout, btw.

Is the welcome to country not just a benign, rather beige, ceremony but rather a pointed reminder to non-Indigenous Australians this is not their country? When the ABC tells us its broadcasts come from Gadigal land rather than Pyrmont, or when Qantas welcomes us to Naarm instead of Melbourne, is this because we are illegitimate occupiers of someone else’s land?

Janet Albrechtsen, in the Oz.

The Voice was a magnificent poke in the eye to the elites. Possibly even better than Brexit. It remains to be seen whether it has any lasting effect.

The Duran: Germany is FINISHED as Baerbock Leads Europe to Sanctions Suicide

UN calls for ‘immediate humanitarian truce’
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The UN General Assembly called by a large majority for an “immediate humanitarian truce” in Gaza, on the 21st day of the Israel-Hamas conflict as the Israeli army announced it was extending its ground operation into the shattered territory.

The non-binding resolution on Friday – criticised by Israel and the US for failing to mention Hamas – received 120 votes in favour, 14 against and 45 abstentions from UN members.

Israel angrily dismissed the measure, and said the country would use “every means at our disposal” in confronting Hamas.

“Today is a day that will go down as infamy. We have all witnessed that the UN no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance,” Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan said, telling the assembly: “Shame on you.

“Israel will continue to defend itself. We will defend our future, our very existence by ridding the world of Hamas’s evil so that it can never threaten anyone else again,” he said.

Hamas meanwhile welcomed the call for a break in the conflict. “We demand its immediate application to allow the entry of fuel and humanitarian aid for civilians,” said a Hamas statement.

The rival Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry said that as Israel’s campaign “reaches a new peak of brutality,” there was “a solid international position rejecting Israel’s unhinged aggression”.

The text proposed by Jordan in the name of 22 Arab countries called for “an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities.”

An earlier version called for an “immediate ceasefire.”

Well they won’t be touching the Constitution, for starters.

Fair to say “Trust us” hasn’t worked as a strategy. Nor should it – even with $50m of TV ads with some doe eyed kid wondering whether he will go to school. Might work with a nation of Greta Thunbergs. That’s why minors aren’t allowed to vote – despite what The Greens may want.

with some doe eyed kid wondering whether he will go to school

Of course you can go to school – all your parents and uncles and aunties have to do is not sit up all night, playing cards, and keeping you awake, so you go to sleep in class next day.