ASIO – late to the party now reality is biting – too focused on gaslighting garage n@zis

The sudden release of ASIO’s Mike Burgess of information relating to a traitorous attempt by an Australian politician to work in the interests of China is curious. Why now?

Are our spooks under pressure in relation to the outrageous anti-Semitic behaviour of the Palestinian supporters in this country? Is this a way of diverting attention from this issue?

Or is China increasing its operations here & this old info is a way of pressuring the Labor government ?

I retract that comment re avoiding the local Pallie issue, having now read Burgess’ comments in full.

BTW I don’t think it’s hard to guess who the actors in relation to China are.

From the OZ.

Election shock: Liberals’ logging expansion risks reigniting forest wars
Tasmania’s Liberal Premier is vowing to boost timber supply by logging 40,000ha of native forests protected under the 2012 forestry peace deal, reigniting the state’s “forest wars” and wedging Labor.

Jeremy Rockliff’s bold decision, to be announced on Thursday, boosts supply for sawmillers and allows Tasmania to capitalise on the phase-out of native forest logging by Labor governments in Victoria and WA.

However, it is almost certain to spark market campaigns against Tasmania’s timber industry and a level of protest not seen on the island for more than a decade while the disputed forests have been held in limbo.

State Labor, trailing further in the latest opinion poll, is divided on the issue and will need to decide whether to back in the Liberals’ policy or risk losing more blue-collar votes.

The 40,000ha is part of a highly contested 356,000ha area protected by the 2012 industry-conservation group “peace deal” or Tasmanian Forest Agreement. State and federal Labor governments enshrined the landmark deal in legislation but it was effectively frozen in 2014 by the incoming state Liberal government, which instead designated the area “Future Potential Production Forest” or FPPF.

Until now, these forests – which include parts of the Blue Tier, takayna/Tarkine and Ben Lomond – have not been logged, to avoid triggering a return to the level of conflict that preceded the 2012 deal and damaged the industry’s markets.

However, Mr Rockliff said it was the right time to access the FPPF. “Following our election in 2014, we rescued 356,000ha of production native forest from being permanently locked up, and set it aside in a ‘wood bank’ – the FPPF – for a rainy day,” Mr Rockliff said.

“That rainy day has now arrived. As result of both the closure of native-forest industries in WA and Victoria under Labor governments, as well as growing global demand for sustainably produced wood and fibre products, now is the right time to open this wood bank.”

The 40,000ha of additional production forest is understood to be mostly in the state’s northeast and northwest. Its harvest will increase the annual high quality sawlog harvest from the current 137,000 cubic metres to 158,000 cubic metres.

Mr Rockliff said the extra timber – from 27 land parcels – would be allocated only to existing Tasmanian sawmillers. That will allay millers’ fears of it being purchased by Victorian mills cashed up with compensation payouts made by that state’s government in the wake of its native forest logging ban.

Labor said last week it had no plans to alter the FPPF but pro-industry sections of the party, ­potentially including forestry unions, may push for a change.

The Liberals’ logging expansion follows increasing concern among Tasmanian sawmillers that they will not have sufficient resource, in the right regions, to sustain native timber processing after 2027. From that time, volumes of native forest wood decline sharply, to be replaced by plantation timber that requires retooling of sawmills and which millers fear will be sold to Victorian companies at high prices.

Mr Rockliff said the Liberals were the “strongest supporters of Tasmania’s high-value native forestry industry” and were “backing in Tasmanian sawmillers, contractors, and local jobs”.

The decision to begin logging the peace reserve forests is likely to boost the Liberal vote in the conservative, resource-heavy seat of Braddon, but may lose the party votes in green-left leaning Clark. It could boost the Greens vote by motivating that party’s base on a core issue, increasingly the prospects of the minor party gaining seats at the March 23 state election.

Mr Rockliff is expected to rule out supporting an alternative proposal to transfer the peace deal forests into Aboriginal custodianship, despite some in industry seeing it as a means of taking the sting out of expanded logging.

“Under the devastating Labor-Greens Tasmanian Forest Agreement … the area of production forest land in Tasmania was nearly halved and wood supply to local sawmillers was gutted,” Mr Rockliff said.

“Timber communities across the state were decimated and two out of every three jobs in the sector were sacrificed by Labor seeking to appease the Greens.”

An EMRS poll of 1000 Tasmanians released on Wednesday shows the Liberals on 39 per cent (steady), Labor on 26 per cent (down 3), independents on 14 per cent (down 3), Greens on 12 per cent (steady), the Jacqui Lambie Network on 9 per cent and others on 1 per cent.

Mr Rockliff will pledge to move within 100 days of his re-election to allow logging inside the FPPF. Liberal Resources Minister Felix Ellis said Tasmania’s forest industry supported more than 5700 jobs, while native timber provided high-quality floorboards and bespoke furniture.

“It’s important to remember more than 50 per cent, or 3.43 million hectares, of Tasmania is in formal reserves, making Tasmania one of the most protected places on earth,” Mr Ellis said. “This includes around … 85 per cent of its old-growth forests.”

However, this figure is understood to relate to what remained of Tasmania’s old growth in 1996. About 30 per cent of pre-European settlement forest cover remains and is protected, while conservationists argue key forest species attractive for logging are under-represented in reserves.

Mr Ellis said the 27 parcels of former peace deal forest reserves identified as suitable for logging were mostly “regrowth forest”.

However, conservationists say the official definition of “regrowth” includes forests subject to selective tree removal in the early 20th century.

MATTHEW DENHOLM

Australia’s top spy boss has revealed a crack unit of spies ‘cultivated and recruited’ a former politician who then ‘sold out’ their country, party and former colleagues to help the foreign regime

Three guesses, although I don’t expect most people would need three.

Or is China increasing its operations here & this old info is a way of pressuring the Labor government ?

China’s hooks are everywhere. Sorry, word wall here. The Biden corruption clan in action. This US Administration is run like a South American Banana Republic;

KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
?I hope congressional investigators question Hunter Biden about his message to Hallie, where he claimed China arrested CIA agents in “retaliation” for the Department of Justice imprisoning “my client the chief of intelligence of the People’s Republic of China.”

What could that possibly mean?

On November 18, 2017, the DOJ arrested Patrick Ho, Hunter’s business partner from CEFC China Energy, for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Ho was charged with bribery and money laundering after offering millions in cash hidden in boxes to the President of Chad and a Ugandan foreign minister for oil rights in their respective nations.

Remarkably, Ho’s first call from prison was to President Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.

Subsequently, he wired $1 million to Hunter Biden under the guise of “legal representation,” despite Hunter not being a criminal defense attorney and court records showing no indication of his involvement in Ho’s legal defense.

This incident is just one among dozens detailed in the
@MarcoPolo501c3
Report on the Biden Laptop, where the Biden family and their business associates violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

The punishment for each violation carries a potential five-year prison term for ordinary American citizens.

Court records revealed that the FBI monitored Hunter and James Biden’s communications with Patrick Ho, tracked their bank transactions, and raided Ho’s offices while prosecuting him for bribery and money laundering.

However, U.S. prosecutors redacted Hunter Biden’s name from court exhibits and failed to investigate his lucrative dealings with the foreign operative.

In May 2018, Hunter recorded a voice note in his iPhone Voice Memos app, labeled as “Most Genius Shlt Ever.mp3,” where he once again referred to Patrick Ho as the “spy chief of China.”

I would really love to know what Hunter Biden meant when he said China arrested CIA agents in “retaliation” for the DOJ jailing “my client the chief of intelligence of the People’s Republic of China.”

Does anyone know what happened to those CIA agents?

Neil Pharoah is a Melbourne gay bloke failed Labor candidate and self-appointed homo spokesman. His view on the Hyphen Moidas (the CM again):

when you look at the LGBTIQ community response to what has happened in NSW, it isn’t an isolated incident. It is 50-plus years of heavy-handed policing, profiling, and distrust. While mechanisms exist to review police behaviour, time and time again they favour the police over anybody else and are almost never independent. It is often even worse for other minority communities as well.

This was preceded by six paragraphs of whinging about police dogs sniffing out dodgy pills at rave parties restricted to gays.

Mr Pharoah – if in fact that’s your real name, which it almost certainly isn’t:

The. Killer. Was. One. Of. Your. Own.

This was once, ostensibly, an economics blog.

If you wanted to know just how economically ignorant some of the Teals are, I present to you Monique Ryan.

https://twitter.com/Mon4Kooyong/status/1762933300119945532

Victoria is awash with rooftop solar, but rather than rewarding us for this, our energy market is decreasing tariffs for electricity fed back to the grid!

Rabz – you forgot state players. Dan comes to mind.

Bob Hawke ran the Shanghai Shuttle for Chinese big wigs & their families coming to Oz for medical treatment.
He also had family set up a consultancy in China, one of the first Australian WFOE’s to be approved.
I would look at that ecosystem.

Richard Lewis brown bread.
His stand up wasn’t my cup of tea.
But he played very off Larry David in Curb though.

Turns out he was soy-rent-boy.

Oh dear.

Muddy

The Duntrooners got their revenge for what they perceived as lack of command opportunities during WWII. (Which, when you examine the postings, seems somewhat overblown. That’s a much longer story, however).

Yet one of Duntroon’s Own, HCH (Red Robbie) Robertson chose to have his varicose veins treated rather than take the 19th Brigade to Greece.

Methinks he foresaw a disaster there, and didn’t want to spend the rest of the War in a PoW camp. Ironically, he was replaced by Vasey, who held a series of significant commands until his death in 1945. Red Robbie spent much of the rest of the War in WA, commanding the 1st Armoured Division, and saw little more action after 1941.

*Nimen hao, fellas, ASIO have absolutely fatrucked me, comrades! What a programmatically specific political shitstorm!*

Yep, Mike”where’s my arse”Burgess has given up on the Garage Nasties coz he couldn’t find any even when presented with self confesed ones, or plod progeny pretending in melbum. Hope you had plenty of video from the Opera house coz there were thousands of self confessed terrorists or were they “not the ones you were looking for” H/T Obi-Won Kenobi.

The Otter is a champ.

Inspector, then Commissioner for that man.

I thought you had to be much smarter than that to get into a medical degree course at uni.

It’s about conformity, not intelligence.

Hence the COVID shitstorm.

It’s a shame Gillis flies around on such a tragically named airline.

And don’t take in “refugees” from the resulting conflicts.

The mass migration now we’ve seen post-COVID I think is simply out of spite. In the US, it is just a way to punish the voters for ever thinking of voting for a non-establishment candidate.

The long-term rational reason is to pay for the welfare state, in particular pensions and non-market DBSs of public servants. Whether that was ever going to work or not is another question.

There is a refusal to increase labour productivity and make the working tax base more sustainable through other means. The establishment refuses to lower the tax burden to encourage higher rates of investment, a higher savings rate and lower the cost of housing construction, thus choosing to disincentivise family formation.

There was a refusal to consider a NIT which would decrease the welfare state, get people out of poverty and increase the tax base. I’m not up on how it works now with higher TFTs but also with higher inflation.
There is a refusal to consider opening up primary & secondary industries such as nuclear, forestry and so on. This stuff is always a mind-boggling thing to do and self-harming.
There’s a political choice to subsidise women to work during their childbearing years.

There have been unquestionably demonstrable benefits of immigration in the past. The best reference for that now is over 25 years old (Tian and Shan).

The costs and benefits ratio has never looked so bad.

If we had sane economic policies to begin with, we wouldn’t have “needed” cynical immigration policies.

I thought you had to be much smarter than that to get into a medical degree course at uni.

From memory, you do a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science. The course is probably called something else now to make it sound more impressive.

Most of being a GP – allegedly – is having a lot of memory capability to be able to recall past symptoms and say “ah yes, you have tinea. That will be $80 thank you and here’s your prescription.”

Makes you wonder how things will progress now Dr Google is on the scene.

The long-term rational reason is to pay for the welfare state, in particular pensions and non-market DBSs of public servants.

This is just camouflage, window dressing. These are imported vote herds and that is all that matters to the poliscum creating these horrific outcomes..

In my midwinter Perth jaunt, I couldn’t understand if the WA Parliament was a modernist building or not. Was I looking at the library or staff offices? Or did they put a modernist shell over the Edwardian/Late Queen Vic era chambers?

I walked over 120 km that week and put on half a stone.

The food at the wedding wasn’t bad either.

I nearly had a heart attack, on the way back here, putting up with the Perth Airport staff.

I was so close to blurting out a banned four-letter word …B…!

Does Sgt Ottaway, the should be Commisioner of Plod in Queensland for doing what he paid to do sees a crime being committed on his day off, does he call in to ask if overtime is allowed or go WTF and walk on. Baring in mind plod are on duty all the time.

Public servants demand four day work week, 12 per cent pay rise in newest wages fight for Cook Government

The difference mining royalties make…NSW has coal but…

In the NSW PS, TSSM staff (people on 220k+, basically) across education, the police and TfNSW are going to be boned.

1500 – 2000 all up I expect. 120 – police, 1200 – TfNSW, Health – 90.

The people and culture consultants are engaging the turkeys for Thanksgiving in the NSW PS already.

My contact’s advice is to say nothing (like talking to the police without a lawyer); on the other hand, I have survived that jive by saying the minimum just outside the scope of what was asked.

Ah, bike riders who think they can do whatever they like:

Freeman James Henderson, 30, jailed for crashing bicycle into mum-of-three, leaving her brain injured

“He simply made a mistake he thought he had the green light when he didn’t,” Mr Edwards submitted

Courier-Mail

Transnistria may be in the news soon.

WW3 Watch: Eastern European Breakaway Republic Transnistria Asks Russia for ‘Protection’ (28 Feb)

Sounds like posturing since they already have three Russian BTGs garrisoning the place. They’ve been there a long time. I haven’t heard that they’ve been withdrawn, but then I haven’t bothered to keep track of that for a while. Russia would find it hard to get them out since both the Black Sea and the air route are subject to enemy action.

My 4-5 year plan is to not be living in Sydney.

– Best move I ever made was out of that place.

+1000

🙂

In sentencing him to a head sentence of two years’ jail, suspended after he serves three months in custody, Judge Vicki Loury told Henderson he was speeding and ran a red light before he hit Ms Small throwing her 3.8m.

This is good.
Giving offenders a taste of the animal factory, then letting them serve the balance under a community protection order (or whatever they call them in WA) is a good mix.

Looks like Mike Johnson is toast.

Congress Strikes Deal to Avert Partial Government Shutdown (28 Feb)

One of the stipulations from the Freedom Caucus in electing the Speaker has been that he had to stop doing continuing resolutions and instead prepare and pass actual annual budgets like we do. McCarthy was booted when he welshed on that agreement, and that’s why Gaetz pulled the trigger.

So we’ll see what happens. If the Freedom Caucus does it again Johnson is gone…unless the Dems support him, whereupon he’ll be a lame duck.

The Elites Who Want to Change The World | Victor Davis Hanson

You’ve got to see the “Based Dad v Maddi”. What it comes down to, is that she is a lying, disgusting gaslighting anti Trumper.

Via Asmongold

He basically gave the ex-wife and mother 5 mn USD in 2005, or equivalent to 7.8 mn USD in 2023 – plus extra alimony/child support payments, 18 k per month, plus 12 k per month for medical etc, plus 600k in 2005 for their four children’s College tuition/living expenses.

“Your father never paid for anything! Not even your medical bills!”

In the end, he brings receipts.

Straight fire.

So she went full attack with two more viral videos.
I had no choice but to put up this detailed response.

It would be great for her channel and would likely put the relationship back together, which seemed to be going great before this — even though we disagree on politics for the most part.

This is so weird. It’s almost like they never meant to stick to the promises they made.

China built 47GW of coal power last year and is “way off track” to meet emissions targets (28 Feb)

Climate change: China at risk of missing its goals unless it takes drastic action to rein in coal expansion, new research finds
Eric Ng, South China Morning Post

Last year, the Chinese energy sector’s carbon dioxide emissions increased by 5.2 percent, the same as the gross domestic product, highlighting a failure to rein in energy-intensive growth, they estimated.

According to the Global Coal Plant Tracker, 70 gigawatts of new coal power were built around the world in 2023. Of the 107 countries they tracked, one country built 47 gigawatts. The other 106 countries combined built 22 gigawatts. … And this pattern has been repeated for 23 years.

Unlike the West the Chinese have actual scientists, and there’ve been plenty of papers from them on climate science. It’s clear as crystal that neither they nor the Indians believe in climate fairies.

Knuckle Dragger

Feb 29, 2024 7:57 AM
Australia’s top spy boss has revealed a crack unit of spies ‘cultivated and recruited’ a former politician who then ‘sold out’ their country, party and former colleagues to help the foreign regime

Three guesses, although I don’t expect most people would need three.

Knuckle Dragger, my one guess = Fraser.

Rabz:

Could be any number of labore or greenfilth imbeciles. An initial shortlist:
… Carr

Speculation appears to be zooming in on Boob Carr.

Bern, are you trying to send coded messages?

Ha!

Indolent
Feb 29, 2024 8:53 AM
the ponzi bomb under the city walls
The ponzi bomb is closer to detonating than it looks.
And it will be like bankruptcy – slow at first, then all at once.

I would not be surprised if it exploded when Trump wins the Presidency as part of the Democrat game plan.

“If you vote for Trump, we’ll throw the economy over the cliff.”

I expect to see this type of subtle threat being made in the middle part of the year.

The cities are in crisis and Trump doesn’t know how to fix it. We do.

Indolent

Feb 29, 2024 8:57 AM
Marc Benioff, who just happens to own Time Magazine.
A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

Didn’t Hawaii and the dead from the fires vanish suddenly?
I wonder what’s happening now?

Winston S

I was expecting to see some reaction from you to my comment at 2149 yesterday, about “encouraging” senior officers to retire by promoting their juniors over their heads, all the way down to relatively junior levels.

Isn’t Brown Street a back alley of Paddington. In and out the same way?

I doubt there are few politicians that haven’t had fortune cookies after dessert.

Science news.

Police pullback linked to increases in crime (Phys.org, 28 Feb)

“There were large-scale reductions in proactive forms of policing in Denver during 2020,” said co-author David Pyrooz, a CU Boulder sociology professor and a fellow at the university’s Institute of Behavioral Science. “We found that those changes in policing were also associated with increases in property and violent crime.”

The journal Criminology published the study’s findings.

That’s amazing! Who coulda thunk less policing would lead to more crime? Science is so perspicacious these days.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei Issues Epic Takedown Of Socialism In CPAC Speech