Never heard of her (not that I watch A Current Affair).

Pro-Vaccine Journalist Jane Hansen DIES From A BRAIN TUMOR Just Three Years After Proudly Announcing Her Pfizer Injections Online

@PeterSweden7

BREAKING NEWS: A woman has been killed and two others injured in yet another mass stabbing attack in Britain.

PM’s tone-deaf Gaza response risks repeat of Voice disaster

Dennis Shanahan The Australian 19 August, 2024

There are growing echoes of the disastrous and divisive debate over the indigenous voice to parliament emerging in the political fight over Australia’s acceptance of people coming from the war-torn Gaza zone. Anthony Albanese, having missed or dismissed the warning signs for Labor and his leadership during the year-long indigenous voice debate, which ended in abject defeat, needs to be careful he doesn’t follow the same path of political misjudgment.

The echoes of the dismal voice defeat are deep-toned and faint right now but they are growing by the day and the Prime Minister needs to ensure he doesn’t put blood in the water.

After starting a referendum debate on the back of majority sympathy, progressive support, indigenous leaders’ campaigning, corporate backing, academic urging and a lack of public consultation, Albanese’s response to Peter Dutton’s decision to oppose the voice was to accuse him of negativity, division, lowering public standards and threatening our relations with regional neighbours as he allowed others to accuse the Opposition Leader of racism.

Albanese accused people opposing the referendum of being “chicken Littles”.

Dutton’s response was to ask reasonable questions, seek facts and information, encourage indigenous leaders who did not support the voice and warn people that there would be unintended consequences for giving an indigenous voice body the power to intervene in government decision-making.

Public opinion flipped, Albanese was accused of misleading the public about the extent of the voice and his commitment to truth-telling, as well as using insults instead of providing factual argument.

Dutton got the national mood and the politics right while Albanese has suffered ever since for the misjudgment.

The current debate over immigration and the security checks on people coming to Australia from Gaza – 3000 mostly tourist visa issued and 1300 arrivals since the October Hamas terror attack – is shaping in a similar fashion to the voice debate.

Labor is relying on genuine and general public sympathy for refugees from war zones, vague inferences that ASIO is involved in the visa process, supporting Muslim leaders’ criticism of Dutton, encouraging “racist” slurs without explicitly repeating them and holding back key facts.

Dutton is pursuing reasonable questions seeking facts, accusing Albanese of misusing ASIO boss Mike Burgess for political cover, tapping into wider security concerns and dismissing allegations of racism against him and those who want increased security checks on Gaza visas.

Labor’s response in recent days has been dangerously mixed and reminiscent of the failed voice campaign despite the winter Cabinet shuffle which replaced Linda Burney as Minister for Indigenous Australians and Andrew Giles as Immigration Minister.

When Dutton called for an end to bringing in people from Gaza without the full security checks in a third country and involving ASIO, face-to-face interviews and biometric data for identity, as was the case in Syria and Afghanistan, Albanese accused him of sowing division and declared ASIO was involved in security checks.

Dutton struck last week in parliament and exposed Albanese for misquoting the ASIO chief, as he made it clear ASIO was not involved in every tourist visa check, some of which were issued online within an hour.

On Sunday Industry Minister Ed Husic – whose Chifley electorate in western Sydney has a high Muslim population – shifted ground and dropped the inference that ASIO was involved in every check and simply said it was a more convenient and faster method.

Early on Monday Albanese also shifted the argument on ABC radio, while not disassociating himself from teal independent Zali Steggall’s claim Dutton that was a racist, and said — correctly — the Gaza border was shut and no Gazans were coming out.

“Peter Dutton … knows that at the moment no one is coming out of Gaza. Because in order to leave Gaza, of course Israel, due to the nature of the situation there, was having to approve people going through the Rafah crossing in order to depart earlier on,” Albanese said.

“I think Peter Dutton is deeply divisive and that creates a risk.

“I was astounded that last week when we welcomed home our Olympians, a moment of national unity, Peter Dutton once again showed that there’s no moment too big for him to show how small he is.”

Nationals Leader David Littleproud has clashed with Sky News host Laura Jayes over Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s call for an outright ban on all refugee arrivals from war-torn Gaza.

But evidence is emerging that, once again, the public mood is shifting in Dutton’s favour and that Albanese is, once again, making an error in judging the public mood, not answering reasonable concerns and being beaten by Dutton.

The latest polling is showing Labor is, at best, treading water and on key issues going backwards as Coalition support rises and Dutton closes on Albanese as preferred prime minister.

Significantly, the latest Freshwater Strategy poll shows that since the Gaza visa debate began not only has Dutton closed on Albanese as leader but Labor’s support on the issues of national security and immigration and asylum has fallen markedly.

The government’s handling of national security is down six percentage points to 24 compared to the Coalition’s 44 per cent; on immigration and asylum seekers Labor is down 4 points to 24 compared with the Coalition’s 38 per cent and on the related issue of crime ALP support fell a point to 22 per cent compared with the Coalition’s 38 per cent.

During the voice debate Albanese dismissed the polling – just as he is dismissing the polling now – and stuck to his failing strategy.

I think it is closing so fast that it will jam Blackout Bowen’s and Luigi’s fingers between the bottom rail and the sill.

I saw a Sky clip headline asserting that Starlink is wiping the floor with the NBN. I remember when NBN was first being concocted they were including various heroic assumptions to make the numbers add up to ‘profit’.

Not having read the contracts I took a guess that the government would have had to put into place various clauses that would protect the NBN from market reality. I wonder if, with typical bureaucratic mole-vision, the overlooked the possibility of what Starlink is.

Chalk up another Labor ‘idea’ of ‘investing in the future’ and becoming ‘a world technology leader’.

Gotta luv “our” ABC .. they’ve re-vamped the ABCNews page & dun the “unthinkable” .. gone FULL Mail Online style ….. One should never, ever go FULL MAIL online copy .. LOL!
Basically, they’ve gone from mediocre to pathetic and the “news” seems to have gotten lost amidst the plethora of sob & social media offerings ….
Tho .. on the bright side it saves bothering to access ABC if your after “news” .. LOL!

It would be great if the f ckwit would stop dancing on the graves of people who are unfortunate enough to die of cancer, and basing his tap-dancing routine on the scribblings of dribbling morons.

Persactly.

I accidentally opened the link because I had just turned the page and my first thought was “Who are these guys?” The entire argument seemed to work purely on constantly saying she had been vaccinated and she got brain cancer. Just join the dots!

Recounting her glee at being vaccinated just adds a level of ghoulish delight. She did it to herself!

I wonder what people used to die of before the Covid vaccines?

Here are a few impressions from my visit to Malmo that ended last week, the trip continues in Germany. The whole place is obsessed with bicycles, young, old and everyone in between pedal all over town. Pedestrians have to give them the right of way except at marked crossings. I suppose it makes sense for them as there is no parking in the town centre and when you get a spot it is very expensive.

The residents are very keen to enjoy the brief summer by dining in footpath restaurants. Most of the menu offerings are some form of seafood, I even tried pickled herring. Not bad.

In my initial report about ten days ago I noted that the middle-easterners were not much in evidence. By the time I returned to Malmo from west coast of Sweden they were back in force. The young men were definitely not bicycle fans, they drove around in very loud cars. While having dinner at an outdoor restaurant there was even a pro-Palestine protest passing by though it was pointed out to me to note that they only numbered about a dozen protesters, significantly down from the earlier demos. Everyone just ignored their caterwauling.

Finally, the Swedes’ dedication to recycling and responsible rubbish disposal borders on fanatical. They even have several bins just for different colours of glass. Since religion doesn’t seem to be their thing environmentalism might be filling their spiritual needs. All in all a nice place to visit but too cold for me, I needed a jacket every day yet it was high summer.

Roger.

Any report that mentions Al Grassby in a positive light is a pile of shit.

A p.o.s. that will be placed at the centre of government in perpetuity if Labor has its way.

For starters, much of home affairs and immigration will be placed in a super-portfolio to be dubbed Multiculturalism, Immigration and Citizenship.

What does that tell you?

Mother Lode

 August 20, 2024 8:50 am

Figures,

What causes smallpox …

5G and chemtrails.

and why don’t we see it any more?

Tinfoil.

Unfortunately it seems Trump is incapable of accepting advice to tone down his rhetoric and personal attacks and immature comments (like he is better looking than Harris etc). The Harris Walz pair have so much he can mention but it is his uncontrolled jibes that gets the media attention and harm his campaign.

Trump is better looking than cackles. Why shouldn’t he say it.

Trump is a great stand up comedian. People who don’t think he is funny are lefties or have some leftie germs in them.

Cackles and tampon tim have no policies so the only thing you can refer to is their weirdness and make fun of the bastards.

Queensland politics from the Courier Mail:

Premier Steven Miles has sensationally claimed the LNP’s deputy leader wants “to see construction workers die”, before apologising for the quip.

Deputy LNP Leader Jarrod Bleijie had asked Mr Miles if he would reintroduce 24-hour right of entry notice provision for Queensland worksites.

“The Member for Kawana might want to see construction workers die, but on this side of the house we do not,” Mr Miles said.

It prompted a furious response from Mr Bleijie, who demanded an apology.

“The premier just said I want to see workers dying,” he said.

“That is the most offensive thing I’ve ever heard, I ask him to withdraw the comments that he made about me.”

I see. So why did the grinning idiot say this?

Mr Miles withdrew and said worker safety was a personal passion.

“My mother was a Workplace Health and Safety Inspector, there is nothing more important than workers being able to call upon a representative immediately where there is an imminent risk,” he said.

Just fantastic stuff Premier Miles.
What would the unions think?

You are big on assertions, Figures. Not much by way of evidence, either in demonstrated facts or analysis of them. I made my point – an epistemological one if anything (you may have been vaccinated against epistemology) that viruses and antibodies fit with a massive body of other ideas and work.

I was thinking it a bit like Godel’s incompleteness theorems – the limitations of proofs that you have to accept and just get on with what works, but I am now inspired to see if there is a Godel theorem about conspiracies where you treat everything like its a trick to turn you into a robot.

Dana Perino, Megyn Kelly, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Anna Paulina Luna, Liz Storer here, Sharri Markson, Danica di Giorgio.
Put them up against the slags of The View. Rachel Maddow. Any of the Teals.
It’s a no contest.

Australia, Indonesia to sign ‘historic’ defence treatyJoseph Olbrycht-PalmerNewsWire
Tue, 20 August 2024 12:14PM

Australia and Indonesia have agreed to a major defence pact that will boost co-operation between the two countries, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced.
Mr Albanese told reporters on Tuesday that Australia’s relationship with its northern neighbour was “underpinned by mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
“I’m pleased to announce that we have today concluded our bilateral treaty-level defence co-operation agreement,” he said, standing alongside Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto.
“This historic treaty will bolster our strong defence co-operation by deepening dialogue, strengthening interoperability and enhancing practical arrangements.
“It will be a vital plank for our two countries to support each other’s security, which is vital to both countries but also to the stability of the region that we share.”
A strongman figure with a populist flair, Mr Prabowo is also Indonesia’s president-elect, having won 58.6 percent of ballots cast in his country’s general election in February.

Why does the image of Neville Chamberlain, pledging “Peace in our time”, spring to mind?

And he doesn’t even touch on the control aspect of this whole exercise. Not to mention the deliberate human culling. Evil.

@catturd2

Just so you know …

The CDC, WHO, and world health organizations build labs to create viruses that would never exist naturally, then their partners Big Pharma rakes in billions selling you a false cure.

Then they all split the money to get their puppet politicians elected to keep the billions flowing.

Maybe it’s because to be a conservative woman you have to be grounded

I assumed it was because they are more comfortable about their looks and don’t recoil from the possibility a male might see them and think them attractive.

They probably also benefit from the traditional family focus which is harmony with biology and tradition.

Progressives ignore all that. Without any reflexion on that to which women’s natures might incline progressives have created a new version of female – an amalgam of various ‘up yours’ posturings at the hated patriarchy. They have no choice but to work, always telling themselves they should be advancing past men, and exaggerating what they think are male traits to do so.

Then, of course, they spend every moment looking for offence. It is part of their self-image of virtue that they must be ready to call out evil, and progressives have shrouded the whole world in evil. Almost nothing is in it own beautiful form. Pets are oppression, mothers with children oppressed by husbands, a man smiling at a woman is rape, minorities are victims of racism, history is a long unbroken war against women, love songs are about possession, literature (the good ones) are glossings over of systemic historical injustices by the powerful.

And as they get older the corrosive nature of this becomes all too manifest and they discover also that all the things they spent their lives on do not in fact provide fulfilment because they never actually had a need for them. Their achievements are just trophies gathering dust on a shelf.

On the other hand there are women like Candace Owen – sharp as a tack, outspoken, and a mum.

And loving it.

@DefiyantlyFree

Listen to this former Democrat tell you why he’s voting for Donald J Trump in 2024.

Fast lane out of Gaza: Australia among most generous for visas in worldBen Packham and Geoff Chambers
20 hours ago.
Updated 9 hours ago

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Australia is one of the most generous nations in the developed world in accepting Palestinians from Gaza, new figures suggest, fuelling criticism of the Albanese government’s use of tourist visas for those fleeing the war zone.
International data compiled by the opposition indicates Australia’s nearly 3000 approved visas for Gazans since Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel far exceed the numbers accepted by the nation’s Five Eyes allies and like-minded countries such as France.
Belgium is a rare outlier, approving 2506 Palestinian refugees since January and 3249 last year, while Greece and Turkey are also dealing with large numbers of Palestinian asylum seekers.
As the government considers offering permanent visas to up to 1500 Gazans already in the ­country, opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said Australia was unique in its willingness to offer fast-tracked visas to thousands from the conflict zone.
“The Albanese government must urgently explain why Australia appears to have accepted more people from Gaza than almost any other country in the developed world,” Senator Paterson said. “Our closest allies and friends – including Five Eyes members the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand – are all taking a much more cautious approach and have accepted only a fraction of the intake we have.”
He said Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke needed to suspend plans to issue fresh visas to Gazans until he could assure Australians that “proper checks have been done”.
The demand came as Anthony Albanese sought to turn the tables on the opposition, revealing the former Coalition government issued more than 1000 tourist visas to residents of the occupied Palestinian territories.
“During that entire time Hamas controlled the Gaza Strip. They took over in 2006,” the Prime Minister told parliament.
He insisted his government was heeding the advice of national security agencies.

Mr Albanese attacked Peter Dutton’s call last week for a halt to arrivals from Gaza, arguing Palestinians were unable to leave the territory anyway.
“That border crossing closed in May. Did they say anything about it in May? In June? In July? The beginning of August? Not a peep,” he said. “It’s up to those opposite to explain why it is that they were silent about all of this for all of that time.”