Today marks the end of the forth week of this sowing season.
Everyone concerned is averaging just under or just over 100hrs week.

Canola and wheat are up, boosted by 12mm last Friday/Sat.
Lentils finished yesterday morning and we are now on barley, hoping to finish a 350ha paddock before more forecast flanneries (ff’s) arrive tonight and tomorrow promising up to 40mm. We’ll take it of course but 20mm would be better.
Will still be 620ha of barley, 440 of field peas and 380 of irrigated durum to go when it drys out.

Walgett client has already had near 50mm with another 30 forecast. Canola and wheat doing nicely with chickpeas slated to go in on the 15th.

Long story short, it’s another great start to a season!

Wind turbines and solar panels are making a difference already!!

@mazemoore

Chris Cuomo just said that ivermectin works, he takes it daily, and that the medical community knew it couldn’t hurt you if you took it for Covid.

Flashback to Cuomo version 2020.

From the tail end of the old thread.

Neil Oliver: Evil, Evil Evil!

FBI Confirms It’s Restarting Online Censorship Efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election

German Politician Convicted of ‘Incitement to Hatred’ For Citing Migrant Rape Statistics

The readers’ context is even funnier.

@ThebestFigen

Volvo automatic braking system test.

@EndWokeness

This just won the internet for today. Hands down.

UN Accuses Israel of Denying Aid as Hamas Fires on Aid Crossing

Kevin Donnelly:

The violent anti-Semitism erupting on university campuses in America and Australia, while offensive and unacceptable, should not surprise. Since the anti-Vietnam demonstrations of the late 1960s, campuses have become breeding grounds for woke ideology and student activism.

The ’60s was when radical groups such as Students for Democratic Action, inspired by communist revolutions in Russia and China, preached the Communist Manifesto, recited Mao’s Little Red Book and condemned America as a global imperialist.

On American campuses including Columbia and Berkeley students cancelled free speech, intimidated academics who disagreed, disrupted lectures and clashed violently with police. At La Trobe and Monash in Victoria, radical students broke into buildings chanting, “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh”.

Underlying the protests was a radical, cultural-Marxist ideology intent on overthrowing capitalism by taking the long march through the institutions and building a supposedly utopian society based on equality for all.

Ignored was under communism was the millions were imprisoned, starved and killed by totalitarian dictators including Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Cuba’s Castro. Instead of freedom for all, communist societies descended into inequality and oppression.

Today’s students chanting “from the river to the sea” and “intifada”, while different in some ways, are much like those who protested America’s and Australia’s involvement in Vietnam.

In both cases, rationality and reason give way to emotive chants and hate speech calculated to intimidate and silence any who question or disagree. In both cases students, like Lenin’s “useful idiots”, fall victim to cultural-left propaganda and agitprop.

Students, drawing on Herbert Marcuse’s belief capitalism is inherently evil, believe any strategy or ruse is acceptable if it contributes to the campaign to change society. Verbal abuse and hate speech, destroying property and breaking the law are all permitted.

It’s also true today’s students are very different to generations past. In addition to classical Marxism, current students have been indoctrinated by a rainbow alliance of far-left theories.

As a result of postmodernism, deconstructionism and radical feminist, gender and post-colonial theories, students have been conditioned to believe the West is inherently racist, sexist, homophobic, imperialistic and classist.

For those American students breaking into Columbia’s Hamilton Hall and those occupying the lawns at Melbourne and Sydney universities, Israel, instead of being the Middle East’s only democratic society, is a neo-colonial, foreign power.

Ignored is Jews settled in Palestine centuries ago and have suffered countless pogroms culminating in the Holocaust and last year’s barbaric attack on October 7.

Today’s students – because schools and universities have long since abandoned a commitment to rationality, reason and common sense – are conditioned to respond emotionally instead of seeking the truth.

Whether the Black Lives Matter movement, the cult of man-made global warming, or the belief all men are misogynists, the default position for new-age, woke students is to interpret issues in terms of victimhood and identity politics.

Add the impact of digital technology, where lies and deceit are promulgated by terrorist groups such as Hamas intent on destroying Israel, and it’s no wonder students uncritically chant anti-Semitic slogans.

While one of the foundations of an open society is freedom of speech and the right to publicly demonstrate, it’s critical such freedoms are qualified so as not to infringe the rights of others.

The balance is a delicate one as many Australians well know, given the way governments overreacted during the Covid-19 epidemic, violently breaking up peaceful demonstrations and censoring public debate.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr argued passionately to defend the rights and liberties of all regardless of race, religion or sexuality. At the same time both preached tolerance and nonviolence.

Given the hateful anti-Semitic abuse and intimidation prevalent on university campuses it’s obvious students have overstepped the mark. What is occurring should never be allowed.

While American police have arrested pro-Hamas students at Columbia guilty of breaking into one the buildings, authorities in Australia, including Sydney’s vice-chancellor Mark Scott, have failed to act.

As argued by Liberal MP Julian Leeser, what we are seeing in Australia is a failure of leadership where Jewish students are so threatened many are afraid to attend classes.

Even worse, the spectre of anti-Semitism once again walks the land.

Dark days Cats and Kittehs. Rabz doctrine required

Cognitive warfare: how the West is losing its youthMichael de Percy and Sascha Dov Bachmann

The Spectator

Part I

Pro-Palestinian student protests across the US have led to allegations of anti-Israel hate crimes and damage to property and occupations of university buildings that have created an environment in US academia which is – rightly – perceived as hostile to Jewish students and staff. Following the lead of elite campuses in the US, students at Australian universities began their own protest action, protest camps, and even occupation of university buildings.
The current situation indicates that the West is losing its youth to anti-Enlightenment ideas about liberty and security perpetuated through cognitive warfare.
Student protests are not new: recent examples come to mind that were critical of military intervention or climate change. What is new, however, is that the support for Hamas-led Palestine is also an open challenge to our Western liberalism, democratic values, and heritage which brought about the Enlightenment. It is precisely these rights that allow for the expression of one’s opinion and to demonstrate peacefully.
But support for Palestine is in fact support for Hamas, an internationally recognised terrorist organisation, which is a proxy of the global state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, and its regional non-state actors. Hamas started the war when it attacked Israel on 7 October last year, where it and other Islamist terrorists (including civilian Palestinians) allegedly went on a rampage of rape and murder in Israel.
Hundreds of civilians (including infants) were taken hostage and over 1,000 civilians were allegedly murdered. The number of alleged deaths alone makes this massacre of Jews the worst since the Nazi Holocaust of over 75 years ago.
The events of this day were celebrated immediately across the globe and not only in the Middle East. The Sydney Opera House was the backdrop of a pro-Palestinian rally with reports of antisemitic chants including ‘gas the Jews’ (an allegation which was disputed by NSW Police later). Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong condemned the antisemitism, but the condemnation did not extend to what has been supported through omission since then.

Part III

We find the West in this space now. Western youth, in a quest for individual identities that determine their rights and privileges, have lost their cultural identity. Lacking identity, they have become susceptible to malicious influence. This space is ripe for coercion and ultimately the loss of the West.
If we lose our youth to identity politics, we lose the great ideas that make Western Civilisation the most successful of all hitherto civilisations in terms of individual liberties, rights, and individual prosperity. And identity politics is ripe for exploitation by the enemies of the Western way of life.
The most obvious example in Australia is the copycat/cosplay approach by mostly white, well-to-do students to pro-Palestinian protests at our elite universities. Interestingly, only the elite universities have these camps. Working-class and regional universities do not have the same type of privileged students who can afford to live out their identity politics.
There is a major assumption that ignores not only the diversity of human experience and the practical realities of human nature but the evidence of individuals on the public record. Some people just do not fit the ‘narrative’.
Even the term ‘the narrative’ is a socialist construct. We don’t need to ‘change the narrative’. We need to understand that ‘the narrative’ is a socialist construct designed to speed up the process of ’contradiction’.
Most importantly, extreme individualism contradicts the very idea of liberal democracy. John Stuart Mill was radical for his time, and while we might accept that ‘eccentricity’ is good for diversity of opinion and lived experience, diversity is not good in all circumstances, especially when it comes to cohesion within a democratic society, resilience, and in the end, national security, which brings us back to our case.

Part 1 & Part IV of that article from The Spectator are in suspension awaiting dover’s approval.

It is hoped they will appear in order.

Worth pondering.

Climate Catastrophe Headlines Don’t Match Reality

Japanese Professor Delivers Stunning Message Everyone Needs to Hear

Masayasu Inoue, MD, PhD, and Professor Emeritus at Osaka City University Medical School, recently released an eight-minute video with a groundbreaking message for the world.

He said, “The pandemic was used as a false pretext by the WHO to drive vaccinations of all peoples in the world.”

Inoue also declared that the fraudulent use of “experimental gene therapy to healthy people” was not only an “extreme violation of human rights,” but “the result was the induction of the terrible drug-induced injury that has never [been] seen in human history.”

“The pandemic was used as a false pretext by the WHO to drive vaccinations of all peoples in the world.”

Good thing the vaccinations didn’t work then.

I mean, seriously, the idiots at the WHO are now backtracking on much of their covid advice, which is tantamount to an admission they were wrong.

It’s the politicians who jettisoned their sensible pandemic plans in a panic and imposed the Chicom response on us whom we should targeting our anger at.

calli
 May 9, 2024 2:18 am

Second! And greetings from San Sebastian. So far we have driven from the Balearic Sea to the Bay of Biscay.

We did that drive in reverse – in the other direction, not in reverse gear – in 2016. We always thought we would go by train, but that isn’t easy to do.
I was struck by the nearly deserted motorways with traffic bumper to bumper on the minor roads. Couldn’t figure it out.
Until we got to our first toll booth.
I think it cost us EUR 120 for tolls and one nights parking in Barthelona.

The question is, WHY? What will they get out of it that they don’t already have?

Their goal would be to further the establishment of the so-called global community at the expense of the sovereign nation state, which they regard as an impediment to solving problems such as climate change, poverty and nuclear war.

That’s the philosophy of cosmopolitanists like Soros, et al (btw I think it’s a mistake to focus just on Soros, as a sort of bogeyman of the right, along with the much less serious Schwab).

Things haven’t been going too well in the globalisation business lately, which might explain the rather cynical use of the Palestinian cause, such as it is, to mobilise protest.

See also the Spectator article I posted upthread for another angle.