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Faark.
Oak Grove, Ivan Shishkin, 1887
That is bonkers!!
Tird!
I’ve never seem him lay down.
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woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the P-22 Day Festival 2023 in Griffith Park (4 of 6)
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
James Campbell on some underhanded actions:
These people really hate Australia.
In reality they have no desire to represent you in any corridor of power. Upstart arseholes.
You mean they will not grant any new citizenships? Yippee!
Oh, you mean they will just reschedule them for some other date? Bummer. I suppose as things stand Labor are desperate for new voters.
Sky is becoming more like the BBC these days.
Headline: Trump removed from ballot by second state.
Actually, it’s a deranged Dem Secretary of State acting unilaterally. it won’t hold up in court, and is just another bit of corrupt practice.
These people really hate Australia.
In reality they have no desire to represent you in any corridor of power. Upstart arseholes.
Yes. Psychopathic, marxist wreckers. I doubt if it ever occurs to this toxic trash that they are our elected representatives.
Hopefully a journalist will ask Sonny Bill Williams and Usman if they have read the NY Times investigative article about what happened to Israeli females on 7 October.
Their concern for victims only seems to apply to Palestinians.
Sonny actually now looks the part of the demented pro Palestinian supporter.
What a two-faced hypocritical monster he is. Each-way Albo.
Once a Trot, ever a Trot, in his case. He hasn’t changed since he was twenty, says Hairy, who knew him in the inner-city Labor Party branches at that time. Running the country now like some Trot-influenced Labor Party branch back then.
Cassie put this magnificent piece up on the auld fred It deserves a place on this one too. For the hostages, from an extraordinarily talented and together nation, calling them home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyI2GPDDLWc&t=4s
Yes Lizzie if Albo really appreciated Australia then he would suspend all funding for local government until they stopped the stupidity.
But as we see with his sidekick Tony Burke, who said he was proud of the town hall flying the Palli flag, they hate you.
Every year this shit happens and I am heartily sick to death.
Thanks for the toons, Tom. They make waking up early bearable.
Power starts at the grass roots. It’s well past time for a concerted movement to oust these green dreamers and peddlers of doom from our local governments. There’s enough to do with roads, repairs and garbage as well as making efforts to keep rates down.
I don’t often repost something I’ve written, but it was at the end of the old fred last night, here are some recent examples of Australian police priorities…..
1. On 9 October 2023 Muslim and leftist Nazi scum, after being provided with a personal escort by the NSWaffen Police, stood on the steps of the Sydney Opera House and screeched, screamed and shouted “kill the Jews” and “gas the Jews”. Now, you may ask, what did the NSWaffen do that night? Well, I tell ya, on that awful night, the NSWaffen stood back, did nothing and “monitored the situation”. I hear nobody has yet been arrested from that night. So much for hate speech laws.
2. Every weekend since 7 October 2023, Muslim and leftist Nazi scum have protested on the streets of our CBD streets, screeching, screaming and shouting “from the river to the sea”, an explicit call for genocide, a transparent call for the complete eradication of the state of Israel and the Jewish inhabitants of the state of Israel. Now, you may ask, what have the NSWaffen and VICWaffen been doing during these protests? Have they charged anyone for hate speech, for threats against Jews? No, nyet, nup. Our Waffen police forces have been standing back, been doing nothing and been “monitoring the situation”.
3. A few weeks back, Muslim and leftist Nazi scum stormed a Melbourne CBD hotel where families of murdered, raped and kidnapped Israelis were staying. What did the VICWaffen do during that unseemly and violent protest? Well, I tell ya, they stood back, did nothing and “monitored the situation”.
3. On 29 December 2023, a group of young white Australian males decided to engage in a good fun frolic at the MCG where they formed a snake like train of beer cups. I’m quite sure none of these young men called for genocide or for the killing and gassing of Jews….BUT, BUT, BUT….police priorities Cassie! VICWaffen were onto these young men at the MCG, quickly putting a stop to such lighthearted fun. You will note that the VIC police didn’t stand back, do nothing, and just monitor the situation at the MCG, goodness no, they were on the job, just like Dick Tracy!
But I get it, it’s okay for some to “let off steam”, it just depends on their skin colour, their politics, their religion, and particularly their levels of JEW HATRED.
Australia in 2023.
What a two-faced hypocritical monster he is. Each-way Albo.
Sleazy speaks with a forked tongue.
As I wrote last night, Dunny Bill Williams is a bogan David Irving.
I hope Sky never let go of James Macpherson and Liz Storer. Both are treasures.
I hope the Late Debate returns.
Strong article by Brendan O’Neill at Spiked, on the love affair between the woke left and the forces of barbarism, particularly Islam.
It has brought them all out of the woodwork, hasn’t it?
Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch in the Oz – the year in review:
Dieticians don’t usually recommend low carb diets but rather they tend to push vegetarianism. Low carb means upping the animal proteins.
Anyone know which lottery pays a $60k win by instalments? .. I know there are pay by the month lotteries in Oz but they are worth alot more than 60K? ..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12909641/Lotto-winner-warning-60K.html
James has been on active duty all over the Well Earned Breaks of others at Sky. He even turned into Rita Panahi last nite! Liz Storer is clearly on holidays.
They are both very good value, and so is The Late Debate, where James plays dad to squabbling adult kids Liz Storer and Caleb Bond in a show that keeps growing hordes of people up too late because it is so lively, so good-humoured and so well on point in commentary.
Anyone know which lottery pays a $60k win by instalments? .. I know there are pay by the month lotteries in Oz but they are worth a lot more than 60K? ..
Oops! .. answers own ? .. apparently 2nd prize is $60K .. $5K is paid monthly over 12 months …… they don’t mention it’s 2nd in the article … duuuuh!
Yes it does. Very heartening.
I’d like to drop a few kilos but wouldn’t go near a dietician. I love my animal proteins and would starve under a vegetarian regime.
Hey, maybe that’s the point, for a diet! 🙂
My diet downfall is having around the place stuff that’s nice but bad, bad, bad.
Like the tin of biscuits my keto-eating son left here because he doesn’t eat such rubbish.
But I do. Yum. They are going down very fast.
Is Dunny Dill $signs an OZ citizen ..?.. if not why isn’t ASIO on the job ..?
deportation for terrorist supporters should be standard procedure …… FFS!
Early morning blues .. forgot to insert the link to Dunny Dill ……..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12909335/Sonny-Bill-Williams-Hamas-claim.html
The first instalment of family descended, next lot tomorrow and then it’s a full house for New Year’s.
Year of the Rabbit, you say? Now seeing Bugs in the garden makes sense! Next year is the Dragon…hopefully a hungry one with a taste for rabbit pie.
Via Ace Of Spades, you could blame those above mentioned in Gerard Henderson’s piece linked by Lizzie.
FMD they hate you
As long as I win I wouldn’t care how they paid it out.
I only buy lottery tickets at Christmas, mainly for others, but also one for me.
My tickets never win. When it comes to lotteries, or even simple lucky dips, I have an unlucky thumb, rather like my black thumb for gardening.
If no one’s posted it earlier ..
FREE GAZA …… excellent!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1716283585978859677
Apparently young Americans who support Osama Bin Laden have been strongly influenced in this by the Chinese-owned social media network Tic-Toc.
Is there is a strong case for banning Tic-Toc and its ability to corrupt Western youth? I don’t like any censorship but banning malicious propaganda from a foreign power comes close to acting in defense of the nation.
Dieticians don’t usually recommend low carb diets but rather they tend to push vegetarianism. Low carb means upping the animal proteins.
Another captured ‘profession’.
That very pertinent link was on the old thread, Shatterzzz, but it is good to have it on this one too. I’m keeping all of these videos on separate tabs so that I can show my grandson (if he’s interested). His father would appreciate them I am sure, for he has undergone quite a transformation from leftie to thoughtful conservative (thanks there to the influence Jordan Petersen has had on the men of Gen X and Y).
A year after Anthony Albanese promised there would be “no changes” to Australia Day, more than 80 local councils across the country have said they will dump their traditional citizenship ceremonies on January 26.
been here since 1967 (10pound tourist) and never took out Oz citizenship .. not for any special reason just never got around to it ..
Npowadays, given the state of Oz caused by the contentious decisions coming from gummints (state & Fed) I’m quite happy with myself for not bothering ……!
Yes. What they got instead was the victory of stupidity, bigotry, and small-minded viciousness. And a similar path is being taken in Australia, as Cassie has warned.
For my collection, Rabz, can you repost that satire on Hamas leadership living the good life on the spoils of money for Gaza? Also anyone, the satire of the three men of the west (Harvard) visiting the Holy Family in Bethlehem at Christmas. It is almost impossible to find these by searching google. Might be just my inexpert efforts though.
Lizzie, here it is…Israeli Comedians MOCK Leftists For Calling Jesus ‘Palestinian’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qEze-NNM0w
It is very good.
Black Ball, when you are heartily sick of it all, as you expressed above, I find a return to look at some satire can really help, and Jewish satirists are some of the best, thank goodness. Inspirational music can also work wonders.
For home grown we have cartoonists Leak and others Tom selects for us.
Thanks, Cassie. It loses nothing on re-watching.
And it’s Berkeley, not Harvard. Same, same.
Hello…
Dutch study finds immigration has cost Dutch tax payers €17 billion a year on average, with a peak of €32 billion in 2016 due to the 2015 refugee crisis.
The authors of the study emphasised that the vast costs are mainly a result of financial redistribution via the welfare state and concluded that either immigration will have to be curtailed, or the Dutch welfare system will have to undergo dramatic cuts.
FOOD FOR THE SOUL
by Miranda Devine
12 . 29 . 23
This article is part of our 2023 year-end campaign series, featuring reflections from prominent authors on why First Things matters.
Can’t resist it, Calli. This song, made in a simpler time to encourage children to head for the bomb shelters during World War 2. It’s always been just a little bit Beatrix Potter to me, for one of the first books I ever read was Peter Rabbit.
Lizzie:
You need to understand the problem isn’t with the Greens/Marxists. It lies with the electors, and until they get hit with the effects of their political naivety, things won’t change.
In many inner city council areas the electors are watermelons.
The three wise persons of the west. Gold.
Everyone should read the Spiked piece by Brendan O’Neill….”The unholy alliance between wokeism and barbarism”
O’Neill nails it.
Thanks Tom for the daily toons – you’re a treasure.
Leak nails it again.
Woollahra Council, supposedly run by Liberals, has dumped Oz Day. It begs the question, can anyone tell me a good reason to vote Liberal?
There’s certainly a case on the grounds that it is a propaganda tool.
But you’d still have the problem of the Fifth Column of “educators” in our schools.
Cassie of Sydney
A vote for the Liberals only ends up on the Uniparty ticket.
Voting for PHON or Advance Australia can at least tip the scales a bit.
The piece in today’s Oz….”Radical groups sharing anti-Jewish handbook” makes for chilling reading. Here’s a snippet…
Radical groups in Australia are circulating and sharing guides for anti-Israel activists, unionists and educators to sabotage and vandalise property and evade police by using encrypted communications and special codes.
Dozens of pro-Palestinian groups, ranging from well-organised criminals who damage property linked to Israel or its military trading partners to unionists trying to blockade Jewish-owned ships, have surfaced in Australia since the Israel-Hamas conflict began in October.”
No doubt our resident pervert apologist (who’s lurking here everyday), the same pervert apologist who screams “Nazi” at those he doesn’t like, approves of this very targeted harassment of Jews and Jewish businesses. Now where was that done before? It all sounds so familiar, I’m pretty sure I read in my history books of similar harassment of Jews and Jewish businesses in Germany and occupied Europe eighty and more years ago.
One good thing since 7 October, at least we now know who the real Nazis are. But you see, I have always known who they are, that those who’ve screamed “Nazis” over the last decade are themselves the Nazis.
Along with Janet A. from the Oz he’s my favourite columnist.
He writes approx. 3 columns a week in Spiked and is always spot on.
The Left Are the Great Destroyers of Civilization – Victor Davis Hanson
Net zero is about to get even more painful
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
The FDA license for the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA shots should be revoked immediately.
Evidence shows the licensure approval process was corrupted by politics and corporate lobbying.
Congress ‘must step up’ to help Ukraine after massive Russian strikes: Biden
Why can’t we have both.
I suspect that if welfare is dramatically cut many will leave.
Didn’t the Netherlands already limit benefits per household a while back.
I also recall complaints that aged care was being shafted (to encourage euthanasia?) so more could go to immigrant welfare.
Basically Dutch indigenous work so immigrants can lounge.
Biden rolls over like a lapdog for Mexico’s el presidente
Women raped by Hamas were found with nails driven into their thighs and groin and were passed around by terrorists who slaughtered them after or even during gang-rape, horrifying new witness accounts of October 7 reveal
and
‘If Your God Permits You To Do This In His Name Then Your God Is Wrong’: Miss Iraq Visits Scene Of October 7 Hamas Massacre
Meanwhile, ASIO has been consumed by rumours of Nazis.
COVID Mask Mandates Return to Hospitals in Five States
Michael Cohen gave lawyer fraudulent case citations generated by AI
Ex-law prof claims Harvard president Claudine Gay made a career out of attacking black scholars
Cassie of Sydney:
Sheer Projection, Cassie.
They do what they are accusing others of.
Here it is
BBC vagueness
Ancient Tunnels Finally Revealed To The World. What Do They Mean?
Hezbollah even more incompetent than Hamas
Pro-Israel UK politician targeted in arson attack
Unless you spoil your ballot in 9/10 cases your vate ends up with the UniParty anyway thanks to compulsory preferential voting. A Lieboral first preference vote approaching 30% might tell them they are doing something wrong. The Lieboral’s always get my 4th preference and ahead of the Liars and the Greens.
Mia Shem
Last election in Curtin I may have helped elect a Teal but I doubt it. I honestly can’t remember. All I remember was I forgot to take some coins for the sausage sizzle. Won’t be making that mistake in 2025.
If you have time and the inclination, this movie called Brides of Allah is instructive on the depth of ideological fixation that has been imprinted on these women by their hatred of Israel and Jews. It shows life in an Israeli women’s prison holding women who have performed suicide bombings that failed, or assisted in those, either failed ones or ones that caused Israeli deaths. This is what Israel faces in the mopping up operations in Gaza, de-radicalising these people. One woman is instructive about the roots the problem: ‘all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I have dreamed of becoming a suicide bomber’. Many also come from a generation of orphans, due to constant war involving mothers and fathers in many years of guerilla warfare vs Israel. The orphaned children then belong completely to Allah, for which read Hamas.
Get these people away from anything to do with education of the next generation, and provide benefits to those mothers who are prepared to teach their children not to hate.
link to Brides of Allah.
translation of her interview here
This has all been foretold:
And ye shall hear of Nazis and rumors of Nazis: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Typical NY story.
My daughter asked me if we’d seen Maestro and we talked about the movie. Anyway, she told me a funny story about Bradley Cooper. A work colleague takes her kid to the same city playground as Cooper’s daughter. One day he was there with his wife- a Russian model . The wife began to loudly sing some horrible Russian songs to the kid. He was so embarrassed he left.
From Indolent’s Net Zero link, re British efforts:
And there’s the problem, in bold.
Until the CO2 hypothesis is challenged and a wide genuinely scientific debate is had about what all of this Net Zero fantasising is really about, then further pain for no gain will be the outcome.
Doesn’t seem to work with Mr. 32%, however.
H B Bear
They still have Sausage Sizzle? That just proves the Nazi connection….
Naturally the Pakis – after having crumpled in the back end and losing the Test yesterday – are on the sook.
Their complaints centred on their last remaining batsman, after initially being given not out by umpire Michael Gough, was dismissed caught behind the wicket courtesy of a review by Straya.
That review found the pill had hit the batsman’s wristband – considered part of the glove if it’s touching the glove – and the finger went up.
Displaying typical attempts at gamesmanship, the Paki batsman immediately began rubbing his arm halfway up during the initial appeal, putting the story forward that the ball hit the top of the forearm instead.
The vision contradicted this cheeky byplay, the batsman acted like someone cut his arm off when given out and after the inevitable lower order collapse team management blamed the umpires over the course of the entire Test.
We wuz robbed, they said, conveniently forgetting that Pakistan was the entire reason neutral umpires were introduced to Test cricket a couple of decades back. The odds of an away team obtaining an LBW decision then were roughly parallel with winning Powerball.
If the Pakis could catch, perhaps they wouldn’t be compelled to make fools of themselves in post-match pressers.
Anyone with a Layman’s grasp of physics should know it is a crock of shit. Unfortunately most people are morons.
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
The Censorship Industry’s 2024 Election Censorship Playbook:
Leverage the EU Digital Services Act + Lobbying US State Governments to create a “Transatlantic Flank Attack” on ? & force it re-staff its old army of censors & turn over platform data so AI censorweapons turn back on
Are You in an Anti-Free Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List
Tayler Hansen
@TaylerUSA
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In When too much equivocation isn’t enough news:
Sydney Imam: Labor should have condemned ‘heinous Israeli crime’ that killed two Australian citizens
[Unlinkable OZ]
Translation: Nice country you’ve got here: be a shame if something happened to it.
Go on Penny.
Go on Handsome Boy.
You know you want to…
USA political cartoons 2023 review …..
https://ibb.co/VTgLJFf
Sorry, will try again.
Woollahra Council, supposedly run by Liberals, has dumped Oz Day. It begs the question, can anyone tell me a good reason to vote Liberal?
Labor….
“We expected the government and Australians to condemn, in the strongest terms, this heinous Israeli crime…”
Not just the government but Australians too…you’ve been warned, people – adopt our foreign policy or else.
Meanwhile the GayBC has this offering on urban planning and housing:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-30/australia-housing-single-person-high-density-family-home/103213054
Three-word summary: ‘Down with breeders!’
Breaking – question mark shortage sends prices sky-high as families forced to flee their homes and euthanise pets.
More to come.
I can’t change that Tayler Hansen item I tried to post above to an acceptable format but this item has the link to it. It really is extraordinary the lengths they went to to force the narrative down our throats. No expense spared.
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
This is absolutely insane. Tayler Hansen posted an Internal document that shows he was stalked by the DHS and labeled a Domestic Terrorist with “violent tendencies” over his reporting on January 6th. They spent nearly $100,000 following him for two years and assigned 48 air Marshalls to follow him.
No. It’s OK. Really. No need.
I will say this one final time:
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God, you people.
So ASIO is worried about Nazis.
What is it that makes Nazis so horrible? I would imagine for most people – normies at least – it would be their treatment of Jews (and other groups they deemed sub-human). In war they carried with them the same brutality and the same inhumanity.
And yet ASIO is still worried about Nazis even as there are groups demanding Jews be annihilated. If Nazis in Australia advocate genocide (and they would by definition almost have to) we are not hearing it. Their influence, their threat, such as it is, would appear to be marginal.
Meanwhile we actually do have people roaming the streets demanding what the real Nazis did, but it seems hardly to have piqued much interest by our languid national watchdog.
So why are they so focussed on Nazis? It can’t be for what they believe because the far more numerous marauding ‘goat-botherers of Allah’ believe in much the same thing.
Can it be that it is simply that Nazis are a symbolic threat? Dealing with the real, socially corrosive, culturally poisonous, and readily violent threat is just too hard.
Just another can to kick down the road until we discover it was actually a grenade. Every person who joins ASIO must spend their entire career with their fingers crossed hoping that it does not blow up on their watch.
‘Dad, what’s the difference between Labor & Liberal?’
‘Um…about three years, son.’
Relax; they’re just letting off steam.
From the country which is genociding white farmers.
The irony of that one did not escape me, indeed.
Indolent, this sounds like bullshit. $100,000 like a tiny amount if they spent that amount of resources to follow the dude for 2 years.
The last sentence qualifies the first.
There is every suggestion that this is the case…it’s just that the public seal of approval has not been applied.
Scratch any of them, even the tiniest bit, and they ooze like the seemingly urbane Cenk Ugyur.
Indolent
Dec 30, 2023 10:13 AM
Please don’t!
“The Palestinian struggle is one that brings groups, movements and people of all backgrounds together, because it speaks to a struggle for values we all share – justice, equality and human rights, and what should be the universal application of international law and democratic principles,’’ Mr Mashni said.
Call me cynical, but I suspect many Palestinians don’t share those values.
‘From the river to the sea’ is the tell.
Winston is correct. Get the f*ck out of the joint if you can. I hope he’s got his parents out of there.
6 months ago.
It’s Over! South Africa is F*&$d – Failed State
JC
Read even what you quoted more carefully….
they were A I Rmarshalls following him on flights not 48 marshalls full time for 2 years
As Mr. Erdogan helpfully pointed out, for Islamists democracy is like a train: once you get to your destination you get off.
FIFY
Click through to the original item. He was talking about air marshalls.
The point is that a credentialed reporter was designated a domestic terrorist with violent tendencies.
Yeah, I did. You reckon the cost was 100K for 48 doofuses over two years? Take account of the pay rate, travel costs. Sounds like a lot more, no?
Indonesia turns away fellow Muslims.
Link here.
Like you didn’t recognise socialism when you saw it in every government since Whitlam? The national part is optional.
There are some good articles in The Weekend Australian on the dangerous escalation in anti-Semitic activity in Australian and the ambivalence of the Albanese government in response. It is heartening to see at least some attention being directed towards this evil. When it first began too many commentators and citizens in general were silent. They need to be reminded of moral and intellectual integrity in regard to such fundamental principles of our society.
Okay
The explanation is further detailed in the link.
100K sounds like airfares.
Mother Lode
Dec 30, 2023 10:21 AM
So ASIO is worried about Nazis.
I’m hoping that ASIO are playing the ‘look over there’ game so that we think they are incompetent / corrupt and while they pretend to look for ‘Alt-Right Nazis’ (which should take next to no effort as there aren’t any), they can really direct their resources to watching the real Nazis (the Left) and Muslim threats.
I hope but am not confident.
Why would you need any immigrants when you don’t have any industries that need workers? Then it’s only logical that all immigration will be a net expense for the country. I’m surprised that taxpayers have not already objected to the situation.
Remember Man Monis?
I’ve not seen much indication that ASIO has learned anything “in this space” since.
I have had limited exposure to a couple of dieticians and they didn’t push any particular diet as such.
They just talked about ways to manage intake of stuff which features heavily in modern processed foods (refined sugar, salt and saturated fats).
I don’t know. Maybe if I turned up like Lizzie with a specific goal of losing 20kgs in three months, they might be more prescriptive.
+1.28
Great reply
Woollahra Council, supposedly run by Liberals, has dumped Oz Day. It begs the question, can anyone tell me a good reason to vote Liberal?
Labor….
The trouble in recent times with the Libs is that they thought that by casting their net into Labor waters and Labor values, they would be more successful in the electorate – especially amongst the younger voters. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Voters will come back to conservative representatives when they feel that their way of life is being threatened – whether through security failings or diminishing quality of life. The Morrison government, in its last term, failed them in almost every possible way. The tide of disapproval washed them clear away. And that same tide, I believe, will wash out the Labor pretenders.
That is, unless the Libs lose their nerve – which is quite possible, though Dutton is squaring up to revive the Party.
Cassie of Sydney
Dec 30, 2023 9:09 AM
Jewish businesses.
I for one would appreciate the list. So I know where I can support such businesses with my dollars.
I remember when BDS (last time) were saying that every piece of chocolate you buy from Max Brenner buys a bullet for an IDF soldier. I could have run the risk of ending up with no teeth and diabetes!
I asked an acquaintance who lives in the vicinity of South Caulfield about the protests at the synagogue a few weeks after Oct 7 which received a lot of press. This person’s response to me was “Oh. That didn’t bother me”. This attitude seems widespread.
here
Only 8 comments under the Sonny Bill Williams article at Daily Mail. Suggests they are restricting the comments.
Meanwhile Sonny could read the other DM article about Israeli females. Looking forward to him setting up his own fact checking organisation. Sponsored by Hamas.
Anyone with a Layman’s grasp of physics should know it is a crock of shit. Unfortunately most people are morons.
Let’s just say impressionable. The global boiling bullshit has been shoved down the publics’ throat for a long time. That incessant propagandising plus some goodwill – most people want to do the right thing -, laziness and indifference have led to the current precipice.
There is no doubt the lights will go off but I think blackout and his fellow bastards are smart enough to manage this. In NSW for example Tomago Aluminium is a huge negative battery. When there are shortfalls a call will go out for them to shut down thus freeing up 10% of NSW’s electricity. The fact that any close down longer than 2 minutes will destroy Tomago’s $billion worth of pot-lines is beside the point. I understand Tomago has already invested in back-up for this eventuality.
Please stop using up all those question marks. What are the rest of us supposed to use#
I don’t understand Europeans even if I come from them or maybe that Europe is long gone and what we are seeing is some caricature of the original.
This doesn’t only happen in Europe, I read somewhere that in the US funding has been taken from Veterans Affairs to finance the illegal border crossers.
This will continue until voters rebel.
Why would you need any immigrants when you don’t have any industries that need workers? Then it’s only logical that all immigration will be a net expense for the country. I’m surprised that taxpayers have not already objected to the situation.
Pollies frequently make the case for increased immigration due to worker shortage. In reality most of them believe that an expanding population will increase demand for goods and services, and will therefore increase national prosperity. I believe that is a fool’s dream. It comes at a great cost, and that cost is certainly social cohesion, as we have witnessed in most western countries.
Years ago had lunch with Sinc and a few guys, in the city, Sinc insisted we go to Brenner’s for coffee and dessert. Good man.
This god also allows lying to non-believers. Now who is it that is known as the Prince of Lies? No wonder the Left feels an affinity with them.
The Morrison government, in its last term, failed them in almost every possible way. The tide of disapproval washed them clear away. And that same tide, I believe, will wash out the Labor pretenders.
I’m not convinced it was Morrison who was at fault with the misstep of the Liberals. Turnbull took them so far left and in doing so pushed Labor further left and into the hands of Albanese and the Greens were pushed off the scale. Getting back to sanity has taken time and Morrison was caught in the maelstrom. He didn’t have the capacity or authority to move back… His election in the party room was more at fault than Morrison himself…
As I said here yesterday, dropped catches cost them >100 runs (Warner in the first and Marsh in the second).
And that is ignoring that the Warner drop would have seen Fidget Labushagne and Cap’n McCheaty in to face the swerving ball much earlier.
Insolent at 10:10.
Couldn’t agree more.
The solution is starkly simple: deportations of all those found to have taken part in the attacks. There’s no need to waste taxpayer funds on extensive legal procedures.
Woollahra Council, supposedly run by Liberals, has dumped Oz Day. It begs the question, can anyone tell me a good reason to vote Liberal?
Woollahra councillors
A lot of teal there plus a couple of greens. Little johnnie’s broad fuking church.
There certainly are hidden costs in terms of building expensive infrastructure if you’re adding to the population as we are. However, if the fertility rate is 1.78 and the replacement rate is 2.1, and there is no account taken of the aging population with respect to welfare, what should be done?
Legal immigrants (not refs) are not eligible to welfare until they become permanent residents.
Voting 1st preference for minor parties at least deprives the Liberals of the per vote funding.
Europeans are a varied lot, but if I may continue with the generalisation…
There’s a lot of self-hatred among the European chattering classes and they’ll generally only admit they were wrong when things have gotten beyond repair.
Much angst now in Sweden over the consequences of an unwise migration policy, for example.
Nasser Mashni
A very, very unsavoury and nasty person. The fact that Penny the Lesbian Wonk, their ABC and its failing star, La Karvelas from Lesbos, and all the other progressive wankers and wank sites gives a platform to this Jew hating piece of shit is proof of how far this country has fallen.
Australia in 2023 is NOT the country I grew up in. I don’t recognise it.
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A one word rebuttal:
Covid.
Political prophylaxis.
When Australia experiences a high-profile act of Islamic deadly violence, as experience tells us it may well, there has to be an established narrative that says it was in response to something external and on the establishment radar.
Man Monis tells us that incompetent intelligence won’t be acceptable. ‘Unknown reasons’ won’t work reliably in an Allen’s Snackbar situation. And the idea of blaming (and then, necessarily, acting against) an ideology shared by a large and largely unknown proportion of 800,000 Australian residents is obvious political and social anathema.
Far better to share the blame on triggering by overseas events, reinforced by a suggested role played by pitiful domestic dullards like Gay Grampian Blackshorts and other ironic spatterings of white supremacy. Demonic creatures who supposedly walk amongst us – but who will hardly register on the grievance table of Western Sydney.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
It’s a mentality of living in a bubble. Europe, particularly northern Europe lives in a bubble. And don’t forget, the great push with respect to climate change that influenced the rest of the West came from Sweden and Germany. It’s the same mentality that you see in 13% of the population here, that votes and supports the greenscum.
There’s no terrorist, no rapist and no pedo that the Australian greens would prevent from coming to Australia provided they’re the right skin color and from an “oppressed” part of the world.
Small edit suggestion.
“The Palestinian struggle is one that brings groups, movements and people of all backgrounds together, because it speaks to a struggle for values we all share – justice, equality and human rights, and what should be the universal application of international law and democratic principles, as well as killing every last Jew anywhere in the world’’ Mr Mashni said.
Vicki, of course it’s a fool’s dreams. If you don’t manufacture anything then increased immigration simply increases the demand for imported manufactured goods. Where is the economic growth?
They’re woke, so if that happens I won’t be sad, except for the poor workers put out of a job.
Renewables operators to line up for Tomago’s contract (Tele, 28 Dec, Paywalled)
Supping with the devil doesn’t ever work, chaps.
His election in the party room was more at fault than Morrison himself…
A one word rebuttal:
Covid.
Covid was a test of political fortitude, principles and independent, critical thinking. The Morrison government failed on every count. Morrison himself attempted consensus government through a national cabinet but failed. He failed to defend the principles of freedom of medical choice and public debate on a significant medical issue. He and Frydenberg impoverished the Treasury by financing a prolonged lockdown which stopped the economy in its tracks – which may take generations to recover.
And I say all of this as a one time Morrison supporter. As I have said many times on this blog – his defence of Australian values and representative of “Middle Australia” won me over years ago. Not any more. Covid was, indeed, a major test of pollies all around the globe. Few passed the test.
The one stand I will applaud Morrison for taking- was calling out China for the origin of Covid in the Wuhan lab. That sort of stuff is old Australian gumption. Its a pity he was unable to hold the line on other issues.
If you don’t manufacture anything then increased immigration simply increases the demand for imported manufactured goods. Where is the economic growth?
Absolutely, Crossie.
A mere formality that gets quickly corrected.
In days of yore (i.e. before multikulti) there was an unwritten but generally understood compact between Australians and “new Australians” that the latter would not bring the “troubles” and enmities of their old countries with them to this land.
It may have been naive and unworldly – as much about the old Australia (i.e. pre-1990s) was – but it was established in the recognition that migration from the old world (not to mention the third world) could threaten social cohesion. Except for the odd hothead it seemed to work.
I’m not sure it’s entirely died out.
I’d just like to remind people of what Scott Morrison said about free speech……
‘It doesn’t create one job’.
In fact, free speech is the bedrock of any successful, free, an capitalist society.
I’d also like to remind people here that during those two and a bit years of Covid, Scott Morrison never uttered one word to rein in the likes Andrews, McGowan, Marshall, the Chook and so on and their shocking assault on the rights and liberties of Australians. In fact Morrison financed it.
I have nothing good to say about Scott Morrison and his tenure as PM, although compared to the Jew hating maggott member for Grayndler who is now our PM, yes Morrison was better but Morrison himself, and his stupid spineless Liberals all paved the way for the maggott member for Grayndler to become PM.
We are reaping Morrison’s craven cowardice and ineptness.
But the end is nigh.
“The state keenest on binning Australia Day ceremonies was Victoria, where 22 of its 79 councils have dumped them this year,”
One has to ask why people want to come to a country that basically loathes itself. Are they going to fight to defend it?
Tomago has been poncing around with this for a few years – driven largely by the lure of front running premium-priced Green Aluminum into virtue markets.
A few major commercial and engineering issues still litter the pathway to these sunny uplands:
Firming. Every time renewables go down, Tomago has two to three hours before the potline freezes and destroys the business. Batteries are not a technical solution for several reasons – so, gas. The problem is finding sufficient guaranteed gas supply capacity to stand by to suddenly load up 850MW of OC turbine – particularly when the rest of NSW is gasping for electrons.
Bayswater: The moment Tomago contracts for renewables, AGL will cease sustaining capital for Bayswater power station – likely bringing its closure forward to 2028/29.
The prospect of knocking 2,600 MW of dispatchable supply out of the NEM in the next five years – and sending wholesale prices up 30%+ – will energise gas producers and renewables thieves alike in their negotiations with Tomago.
Long spoon dining writ large.
Same here, Cassie. We’ve all been on the ride together but so many of our compatriots failed to notice the direction we were heading towards. Those of us who pointed it out were ignored/laughed at/derided. Now so many are all standing about, wringing their hands and asking themselves how we got here.
By not paying attention, dipsticks. To politicians, councils, the media who were relentless in their efforts to whiteant everything that made this country a fantastic place to live.
The party is over. We have to reach rock-bottom and who know how long to climb out of the abyss will take us. Like all massive change projects that go off the rails, it’s highly unlikely we will ever get back to where we started from.
We can only hope and pray that we can find the strength and courage to build something better. On current observation of our citizenry it will be a very long wait.
To the hostages in Gaza…
“until the dawn I pray for you”.
As I wrote last night when I posted the link to the “Bring them home” musicians and singers, more than anything that concert proves that of the two sides in this conflict, one side, Israel, is light and the other side, Gaza, is darkness.
I choose the light.
= who knows how long the climb out of the abyss will take us.
I swear that autocorrupt waits until I’ve proofread and then leaps into action.
That Indolent post raises a lot of questions.
I apologise for submitting such a long transcribed post by Robert Malone. But, given that at this time of year we have the leisure and, these days the concern, to read material that fundamentally affects our future, I thought it important.
Malone addresses the question of both informed consent and the ever increasing power and influence of bureaucracies in western democracies. I think this is worth reading.
Consent and Information
At the core of my beef with the USG is both lack of Informed Consent as well as lack of Consent of the Governed
ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
DEC 27
I am often asked some form of the question “what caused you to come out of the closet and start criticizing the vaccines”. On a related note, when interviewed by a reporter from the infamous Atlantic Monthly August 2021 hit piece, Stan Gromkowski (a former Vical colleague of mine) prophetically opined “He’s fucking up his chances for a Nobel Prize.”
The answer to this persistent question is nicely summarized in the first essay which I wrote in objection to what was being done, titled “COVID Vaccine Deployment under EUA: It’s time we stop and look at what’s going down.” published in Trial Site News on May 30, 2021 (three months before the defamatory Atlantic Monthly attack). I guess that article struck a nerve, because it currently has over 19,000 likes; pretty good for an article on a specialty paid site targeting the clinical research industry.
The essay was prompted by a midnight Saturday evening zoom call with a Canadian Physician who was pleading for me to help intervene with the Canadian authorities overseeing the “vaccine” campaign. This specific physician later had his office raided and office computers damaged by the Canadian government for prescribing early treatment and writing vaccine exemptions, and has now being required to submit to the Canadian government re-education and contrition program for his sins if he wishes to retain the ability to practice medicine, much as has been required of Jordan Peterson. But that was all in the future.
Talking until midnight Saturday, he had described what was being done in Canada to force toxic COVID “vaccines” on an unwitting population including children, imploring me to somehow intervene with Health Canada to stop the madness. I told him I did not have the necessary connections, and there was nothing much I could do to help. Waking early the following Sunday, I realized there was something I actually could do to advance his cause. I could dip into my extensive training in bioethics and write about the fundamental breaches of established biomedical ethics that were going on in Canada, and would soon migrate to USA, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and across the western “democracies”.
The following is the core of my argument back then (May 2021), which I assert has withstood the test of time much better than the notorious Atlantic Monthly hit piece published three months later.
I believe that adult citizens must be allowed free will, the freedom to choose. This is particularly true in the case of clinical research. These mRNA and recombinant adenovirus vaccine products remain experimental at this time. Furthermore, we are supposed to be doing rigorous, fact-based science and medicine. If rigorous and transparent evaluation of vaccine reactogenicity and treatment-emergent post-vaccination adverse events is not done, we (the public health, clinical research and vaccine developer communities) play right into the hands of anti-vaxxer memes and validate many of their arguments. The suppression of information, discussion, and outright censorship concerning these current COVID vaccines which are based on gene therapy technologies cast a bad light on the entire vaccine enterprise. It is my opinion that the adult public can handle information and open discussion. Furthermore, we must fully disclose any and all risks associated with these experimental research products.
In this context, the adult public are basically research subjects that are not being required to sign informed consent due to EUA waiver. But that does not mean that they do not deserve the full disclosure of risks that one would normally require in an informed consent document for a clinical trial. And now some national authorities are calling on the deployment of EUA vaccines to adolescents and the young, which by definition are not able to directly provide informed consent to participate in clinical research – written or otherwise.
The key point here is that what is being done by suppressing open disclosure and debate concerning the profile of adverse events associated with these vaccines violates fundamental bioethical principles for clinical research. This goes back to the Geneva convention and the Helsinki declaration. See https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/. There must be informed consent for experimentation on human subjects. The human subjects – you, me, and the citizens of these countries – must be informed of risks. As a community, we have already had a discussion and made our decision – we cannot compel prisoners, military recruits, or any other population of humans to participate in a clinical research study. For example, see the Belmont report, which provided the rationale for US federal law Code of Federal Regulations 45 CFR 46 (subpart A), referred to as “The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects” (also known as the “Common Rule”).
Quoting from the Belmont Report:
“Informed Consent. — Respect for persons requires that subjects, to the degree that they are capable, be given the opportunity to choose what shall or shall not happen to them. This opportunity is provided when adequate standards for informed consent are satisfied.
While the importance of informed consent is unquestioned, controversy prevails over the nature and possibility of an informed consent. Nonetheless, there is widespread agreement that the consent process can be analyzed as containing three elements: information, comprehension and voluntariness.”
https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/read-the-belmont-report/index.html
Information, comprehension, and voluntariness. To my eyes, it appears that in many regions public health leadership has stepped over the line and is now violating the bedrock principles which form the foundation upon which the ethics of clinical research are built. I believe that this must stop. We must have transparent public disclosure of risks – in a broad sense – associated with these experimental vaccines. It is either that, or the entire modern bioethical structure which supports human subjects research will have to be re-thought.
This was not a major intellectual leap. It was a simple restatement of the training in clinical research bioethics which I had received and which had been repeatedly reinforced over the prior decade. No big deal, except that few if any were willing to make such a statement at that time. Long before the infamous Dark Horse or Rogan podcasts.
The failure to disclose the risks of the gene therapy-based COVID vaccines by the US and other “western” governments became widespread, chronic and well documented. Fast forwarding to the present, on December 22, 2023 investigative journalist Greg Piper of the alternative “Just The News” published yet another chapter in the abundant library of documented government withholding of key information concerning COVID genetic “vaccine” harms.
Misinformation for thee, not me? FDA had similar concerns as COVID vaccine skeptics, docs suggest
FOIA production shows agency wasn’t impressed by Pfizer plan to mitigate “endotoxins,” complained about insufficient cleaning in manufacturing, had no basis to claim post-vax heart inflammation was rare.
If an outsider raises questions about contamination of COVID-19 vaccines or how closely the Food and Drug Administration monitors for severe adverse events, the agency considers it a boon to misinformation that lowers vaccine uptake and hence kills people.
If the FDA itself raises these issues, that’s a different story…
The FDA documents, some heavily redacted under the FOIA exemption for trade secrets, show less daylight than may be thought between the agency and critics of federal COVID policy such as Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
Mr. Piper went on to summarize a range of recent freedom of information act and court-ordered document disclosures which clearly demonstrate a systematic and intentional failure by the US Government to properly inform the public of the risks associated with accepting gene therapy-based COVID “vaccine” products.
The CDC had no scientific research to back its public claim in January that people can safely get their COVID, flu and monkeypox vaccines “at the same time.”
“Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, didn’t just tell Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo last week his concerns about DNA contamination were “quite implausible” but also shamed him for feeding what he considered misinformation that will cause preventable deaths. Yet an Aug. 6, 2021 email to Pfizer from CBER Senior Regulatory Review Officer Mike Smith about “endotoxins” – potential contaminants introduced in pharmaceutical manufacturing – shows the feds had similar concerns as they considered full approval for Pfizer’s Comirnaty.”
“A month before then-acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock told the media that post-vaccination heart inflammation “appears to be very low,” a CBER “surveillance” scientist made clear that the leader was not relying on the agency’s own data. Joyce Obidi reviewed how well CBER’s Sentinel Program, created under a 2007 law to monitor drug safety through electronic healthcare data, could “evaluate the serious risk for myocarditis and pericarditis” following Pfizer COVID vaccination in recipients 16 and older, the first population authorized for emergency use. “Post-authorization safety data identified serious risks for myocarditis and pericarditis after COMIRNATY, with increased risk in males under 30 years of age,” Obidi wrote in the May 18, 2021, memo, which is also buried in the agency’s 246-document public folder on materials related to Comirnaty’s approval.”
Obidi also stated that “”Available data sources in the CBER Sentinel Program are NOT sufficient to identify the outcomes of myocarditis and pericarditis” and not “sufficiently powered to assess the magnitude of risk” for ages 12-30, she wrote.
The program would need a minimum of 3-6 months followup data to check for “long-term sequelae,” and it cannot study subclinical myocarditis “because of the absence of a definition of subclinical myocarditis and unknown background incidence of troponin abnormalities,” according to Obidi. Sentinel’s data sources at full approval of Comirnaty did not have “sufficient power to assess the magnitude of risk in patients 12-30 years of age” and hence cannot assess the “serious risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, and subclinical myocarditis” associated with the vaccine.”
“In another May 18, 2021, memo reviewing Pfizer’s proposed pharmacovigilance plan for its vaccine, Analytic Epidemiology Branch Medical Officer Deborah Thompson evaluated the company’s claim that “vaccine-associated enhanced disease” is just a “theoretical risk.” She cited Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System reports of deaths in “fully vaccinated” patients at that early stage of vaccination. “Severe manifestations and death from COVID-19 raise the possibility” of VAED because it has “overlapping clinical manifestations with natural SARS-CoV-2 infection, making it difficult to differentiate VAED from severe” infection in VAERS reports.”
Despite assurances otherwise from Peter Marks in his letter to the Florida Surgeon General, major manufacturing process good practices were breached. “In a Form 483 to Pfizer following inspections that uncovered possible or actual product adulteration, FDA investigators made 13 observations about procedures at Pfizer’s Andover, Massachusetts, manufacturing facility. They include “insufficient data to support product quality prior to the release” of vaccine batch FA8057. The observation says “a deviation [redacted] was initiated due to the multiple control limit excursions during [redacted]” and the “affected batch was manufactured with a process that deviated from the validated process parameters” and was “not put on stability until July 22, 2021.” It was released on a redacted date. An observation on “inadequate quality oversight” implies that Pfizer was late in adding a notation to a batch record that “[redacted] exceeded the allowable [redacted].” The company’s quality assurance does not review “electronic data/reports” from a redacted manufacturing process “during batch record review or prior to batch release.”
Just the News asked the FDA prior to publication of this report on 22 December for its characterization of the FOIA-disclosed and related documents in light of Marks’ comments to Ladapo about feeding misinformation. A spokesperson responded two days later, saying the agency was working to provide an answer. As of 27 December, the FDA still has not provided a response.
At this point, the burden of publicly available documentation clearly demonstrates multiple examples of intentional breaches of informed consent by both the US Government and the Pharmaceutical Industry manufacturers of these products. It is difficult to dispute that the US Government and the Pharmaceutical industry sponsors are colluding in a public-private partnership to suppress information concerning risks of these products. Likewise, there has been an agreement between the UK and USA governments to suppress disclosure of information concerning risks and adverse events associated with these products.
In a normal, historic regulatory and bioethical environment, this breach of international bioethical norms concerning informed consent would rise to the level of a clear-cut crime against humanity. But in the “through the looking glass” world of COVID post late 2019, established legal, moral and ethical norms concerning patient and citizen rights to proper informed consent have all been turned upside down. All of these clear-cut breaches ostensibly being actively “justified” by mockingbird media, the massive censorship-industrial complex and government officials as being in service of the public interest and the greater good.
The western five eyes alliance participants, deferring to the leadership of the US Government, are all acting in coordination and cooperation to disregard and hide the implications and consequences of their illegal and unethical actions. This is being justified based on the following oft-repeated catechism, each element of which is demonstrably false or opposed to established western bioethical consensus:
COVID-19, the disease caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2, is highly pathogenic with a case fatality rate of 3.4 %.
The gene therapy-based COVID-19 “vaccines” are safe and effective, are effective as prophylactics, are effective in preventing infection and spread of COVID-19 disease, and if taken by a sufficient fraction of the population can be used to achieve herd immunity.
The gene therapy-based COVID-19 “vaccines” are effective at preventing severe disease and death from SARS-CoV-2, and have saved 14 million lives.
Fully disclosing actual risks, morbidity and mortality data concerning the COVID-19 genetic vaccines will result in “increased vaccine hesitancy” and avoidable harm due to reduced “vaccine” (booster) uptake.
This fourth point is a clear cut example of flawed logic. Flawed both in terms of the data on morbidity, mortality, and immune imprinting, as well as flawed bioethical reasoning.
Think this through with me. The essence of the statement is essentially the governments’ assertions that “if the public knew about the risks that we know about, then they would choose not to accept those risks based on their assessment of the effectiveness of the product and the clinical risks of infection with the virus. Therefore there would be much more avoidable disease, disability and death from COVID-19 than would be saved from vaccine products not administered”.
And on the basis of this ill-logic, governments and Pharma are withholding adverse event data, and thereby are unilaterally making medical decisions for sovereign individuals and their children. This is what we have come to. The ultimate embodiment of the nanny state, with corporatist allies. The State knows best, and will withhold medical information from the public which would cause members of that public to question its wisdom and decision making.
Basically, the State is asserting that it has the right to sentence you to increased risk of death and disease by purchasing (using tax dollars), mandating (vaccines for children program), distributing, enticing, and marketing an injectable product while censoring or defaming (using modern psychological warfare technologies) any and all who disagree or even have the temerity to question the decisions and rights of the State to do so.
Which brings me to my final points.
Most non-authoritarian governments, historically including the US Government under the US Constitution, rely on and derive their legitimacy from the consent of the governed. In return, the State is granted sole legitimate right to use violence and coercion against its own citizens. Through their voting, in the context of a republic as defined by the US Constitution, the citizens authorize elected officials to act on their behalf. This is the essence of what is otherwise known as the “social contract” between government and the governed.
But that contract has been made obsolete by the rise of an unelected body, the permanent administrative state, which is now guided by a shadowy elite commonly referred to as the “Deep State”. This elite acts to steer an independent “inverse totalitarian” (Sheldon Wolin) permanent and unelected administrative state which is functionally parasitic (economically, socially, politically) on the citizenry.
This administrative state, which has developed its own culture and sense of entitlement, acts to protect its own self-assigned prerogatives, and holds itself separate from and above the citizenry. The social contract is between the governed and those elected to govern. The permanent (unelected) administrative state is not a party to that relationship. The logic of social contract does not apply to either the administrative state or the deep state. Both are truly parasitic on the citizenry, including citizens economic activities and efforts to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”. The permanent administrative state benefits from the constitutionally authorized rights of the State to exercise violence and coercion on the governed, but it is protected from accountability for arbitrary and capricious or unconstitutional authoritarian activities.
The social contract is not merely broken, it has been made administratively obsolete via this unauthorized, arbitrary and capricious arrangement.
During the COVIDcrisis, it has become abundantly clear that the administrative state has acted extra-constitutionally, outside of its authority, in a wide variety of breaches of clauses relating to fundamentally protected freedoms such as assembly, religion, commerce, speech, and a wide variety of related guaranteed rights and privileges. A cowed, intimidated citizenry has been subjected to constant, escalating and irrational fear messaging from corporate (mockingbird) media. These media outlets have acted as agents of the administrative state via coordination with the intelligence operations and enforcers of the interests of the administrative state (CIA, FBI, DIA, etc.).
Furthermore, what we have seen during the COVIDcrisis is that the third (legal) branch of the US Government, tasked with upholding the constitutional checks and balances system intended to protect the citizenry from unconstitutional predations by the State, has failed to perform its constitutional mandate and responsibilities. In its actions, the judiciary has validated the dark assessment of anarcho-capitalists (ref: “Anatomy of the State”, Murray Rothbard) that the judiciary primarily functions to support and legitimize the State, rather than the fairy tale told to the citizenry that its primary function is to insure fairness, equity and compliance with the rule of law.
Consistent with this general theory, an argument can be made that our elected officials have either intentionally or unwittingly bypassed the social contract embodied in the US Constitution by creating an unelected, unaccountable permanent administration which is not bound by the terms and conditions of that contract.
The concept of social contract underpins the consent of the governed and relationship of citizens to the State. With the State actively acting and conspiring to withhold key information concerning the role of the State in engineering SARS-CoV-2, in circumventing normal processes and controls to insure safe and effective countermeasures (pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical) and acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner, and by intentionally withholding key information concerning the risks of medical products mandated or actively marketed by the State for treatment and prevention of COVID-19 disease, the State has clearly breached the social contract.
In the face of these arbitrary and capricious actions, a frightened, cowed and censored citizenry has essentially failed to take action in response to this breach of contract; meaning that there has been a violation of the agreed-upon terms and conditions of a binding contract between governed and the elected government (the US Constitution).
In sum, the Administrative State has repeatedly, knowingly, breached the terms of the US Constitution and hid its unlawful actions without suffering any consequences. Elected officials have failed to hold the unelected Administrative State accountable for its actions, and the other party in the contract – the citizenry- has failed to object.
Therefore, from a legal perspective, by failing to act in objection to this breach- by legislative oversight and actions, public protest, large scale civil disobedience or other means- both the citizenry and their elected representatives have functionally waived our rights to enforce that contract. By failing to act in objection to what has been done, the citizenry have essentially agreed to a waiver by estoppel regarding their constitutional rights. A waiver by estoppel can occur when one party acts in such a way as to suggest that they have agreed to waive their contractual rights.
The “Great Reset”. All in the name of globalism, corporatism, and protection against a fabricated story concerning a highly lethal pathogen that wasn’t highly lethal. Unquestioned and unquestionable Globalism, Utilitarianism, Marxism, Corporatism, and Malthusianism for all.
Happy 2024.
Morrison represented the nadir of “retail politics”.
He’d happily sacrifice any principle for a vote.
How so?
Correction: Josh “I believe in small government”* Frydenberg financed it.
* From his maiden speech.
Vikki Campion:
Vicki, it was obvious from the time that three Wuhan lab technical assistants came down wirh Covid that it was a lab leak. That was in 2010.
Because it’s usually the country that will give them better perks than to their own citizens, in fact it will be at the expense of their citizens.
Vicki, it was obvious from the time that three Wuhan lab technical assistants came down wirh Covid that it was a lab leak. That was in 2010.
Que? No – it was November 2019.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wuhan-lab-staff-sought-hospital-care-before-covid-19-outbreak-disclosed-wsj-2021-05-23/
>When Australia experiences a high-profile act of Islamic deadly violence, as experience tells us it may well, there has to be an established narrative that says it was in response to something external and on the establishment radar.
Last December 2022 the enquiry into the bombing of the Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club in 1982 was re-opened.
No-one has been charged with arson of the Synagogue at Bankstown in or fires at three other Jewish institutions in 1991.
I just had to post this (which I hope it hasn’t been posted already). From the Oz.
Did anyone else do this? Apart from Trump, of course.
If only 22 of the 79 councils in Australia’s most leftist state are prepared to ditch Australia Day doesn’t that suggest the opposite – that most Australians want to keep Australia Day and don’t loathe their country?
If Albanese has ruled it out at the federal level it’s because the polling is telling even him that it is a political fight he will lose.
Strikes me that this young lady would make a damnfine Kitteh!
Peggy Noonan’s look back at ‘2023 has the following take on recent events.
For person who asked about Russian authors to read.
That was certainly the clear expectation when I arrived on these shores 40+ years ago. Dissatisfied foreigners and (especially) Whinging Poms were expected to settle or go home.
I’m less certain now. Mission creep in the social role of government, rapid immigration and the march of progressive identity politics has diluted and localised the concept of an ‘Australian’ culture and empowers grievance groups who would like everyone else to fit in around their enthusiasms, or else it’s off to the Commission.
When the political response is politicians trying to dance to 57 varieties of tunes, the result is babel – underscored by the loudest political noise at the time.
“been here since 1967 (10pound tourist) and never took out Oz citizenship .. not for any special reason just never got around to it ..Npowadays, given the state of Oz caused by the contentious decisions coming from gummints (state & Fed) I’m quite happy with myself for not bothering …”
But presumably, in the event, you would expect the locals to defend you.
Pies.
The chef at the gold club makes them. Many…many pies – plain beef, chicken (and sometimes Thai chicken), bolognaise, stroganoff, beef and mushroom. He often makes too many.
So, golfers on the late run up to the 19th can sometimes pick them up for a handy $2.50 just as the kitchen closes. Almost as good as the Glenorie pie shop (twenty year old experience – goodness knows what they’re like now). Large, round, deep and set at the temperature of the sun’s core.
How to eat? Remove from foil base without scalding fingers, pump full of tomato sauce through the roof vent and chomp.
Australia has 537 councils – WA: 137, NSW: 129, Vic: 79, Qld: 78, SA: 71, Tas: 80, NT: 19.
85% of councils haven’t dumped Australia Day citizenship ceremonies.
Listen, Fatso, I’m nicely covered and well proportioned. You obviously aren’t. A loss of five covid kilos over six months is the height of my slimming ambition. I don’t want to get wrinkles on my skin.
Good luck with that dietician of yours. Enjoy the bugs.
Peggy missed something.
The hostages.
Funny how they seem to be forgotten in all the handwringing. If they aren’t mentioned in conjunction with Israel’s activities in Gaza, all the crocodile tears in the world will not move me.
I’d suggest the response to the Voice referendum was also an expression of the rejection of identity politics.