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Bread and circuses.
NOT MY PERSIDENT!!!
Good one but no. It’s actually Gabriel, but I thought it would sound more exotic spelled as Gabor. /reference to…
Still watching Gutfeld (mostly because Emily Compagno’s on): “I know I’m experiencing Post Election Euphoria …” He missed such an…
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne.
Fantastic.
Say you, Say me (1985 White Nights) Lionel Richie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxIF9e0465E
Great article by Chris Merritt about ‘first nations’ BS
The pitter patter of rain is great for the soul.
A good note to hit the pillow.
Better late than never ……. LOL!
I did (try) post my surgical results Wednesday morning from my laptop in hospital but the post went to moderation then disappeared followed by rejection of my account details several more times so I gave up … duuuuuh!
Anywayz .. the body beautiful …. Surgery Tuesday morning, 5 hours, 7 docs (I’m popular with the boyz ..LOL) .. into theatre (8.30am) someone said “Hop onto that table’ then “Comfortable” & next thing I knew I was looking at a clock with the hands on 2.20pm …
Overall, they tell me … a complete success … Prostate gone, Cancer out & fixed 2 Hernias whilst in there …
Keyhole surgery .. amazing .. very little pain, no nausea .. in fact, more aches & pains from lying in bed than anything else … Out yesterday (Friday) & now back home with orders to do very little for the next 2 weeks …….
“Do not cut the grass” .. I wuz told, emphatically! .. LOL!
Overall NSW Health system ratings op-wize 15/10, actual administrative care 6/10 ..
Getting into a ward was a bit of a run around & getting out of the place a bloody disaster (paperwork-wize) but with an overall bloody good physical result no need for further denigration of the pencil pushers ………
I was thinking about Elgar and the Enigma Variations and how it must mean nothing to dead souls like the soft handed Starmer. Except maybe something to cast scorn upon.
I know knighthoods mean absolutely nothing to me if a soft handed empty suit is considered to be worthy of one.
shatterzzz
August 30, 2024 4:57 am
Thems are great news shatterzzz, all the best and forget about the grass.
They did it last time, will they do it again?
”There has always been unanswered statistical irregularities about absentee ballots from the 2020 election. These irregularities suggest massive, systemic, voter fraud among absentee ballots. Viewing the percentage of the vote each candidate won from absentee voters precinct by precinct, one can see a very suspicious correlation between the candidates in 2020 that does not exist in 2016. This suggests there was major electronic manipulation of votes combined with the physical ballots placed to back up those fraudulent votes.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/never-forget-jocelyn-benson-dana-nessel-hid-greatest/
Good article by Chris Merritt. Not only is First Nations a misnomer designed to mislead and propagandise, but the Mabo case as I recall it was based on islander culture not mainland culture. They did have garden plots allocated to families. Islanders could not carry on a roaming hunter-gatherer existence like the mainlanders could and did.
Elgar was quite a character. After recording his violin concerto with a very young Yehudi Menuhin, he said “Right, we’re off to the races”. An early enthusiast for bicycle riding, he was also an amateur cryptographer. Each of the so-called Enigma variations is a musical portrait of a friend, and beautifully done. No point anguishing about what the “original theme” was, but the theory that it is in some way derivative of Auld Lang Syne has charm if not truth.
The Left is getting very frustrated with us proles.
Brazil Judge Blocks Elon Musk’s Starlink Accounts (29 Aug)
Democrats Trying To Censor AI Created Memes Before Election (29 Aug)
Labor’s new ‘disinformation’ portal backfires after people submit party’s own ads for fact-checking via online form (Sky News, 29 Aug)
How dare people tell the truth on Twitter and make funny memes that the Left doesn’t like!
If anyone is wondering why Newscorp sites are getting leftier…
Visualizing US Election Contributions By Corporate Employees (29 Aug)
Yep, News employees donate 99% to the Democrats and 1% to the Republicans.
Ya gotta ask …! How the F**K do these jungle bunnies from 3rd world s**tholes get vetted not only to get into Oz but to qualify for carers certificates .. And the gummint expects us to believe they check out Gaza terrorists thoroughly .. FFS!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13791761/James-NgAngA-Irungu-Kenyan-immigrant-care-worker-forced-dementia-suffering-grandfather-83-perform-sex-act-learns-fate.html
If you believe this you’ll believe anything!
Michael Ware on the usually sensible Stefanovic timeslot of Daytime Sky says Kamala Harris merely “panders to the progressives and is no Bernie Sanders”.
He adds that Kamala is consistently outperforming Trump by one to two percentage points!
“Not only is First Nations a misnomer designed to mislead and propagandise”
1st Nations rubbish is no different to “Welcome” .. They stole the 1st Nations wak-fest from the Canadian Injuns and the media has cheer-leaded it it ever since ..
“Welcome” was an Ernie Dingo 70s invention to coin a few bob from the gullible and the gummint(s) added their enthusiastic applause to the same media luv and since then yer “auntie & uncle’, laughable, honorifics have been overtaken by 98% of 251s acquiring the title “elder” …..!
Sadly, the left gullible luv it all and the “come in spinner we’s 251s” is now a gold-mine (tho not in Blayney . LOL!)
Bruce O’Nuke:
We got a young bloke in from the local lockup at Ivanhoe. He’d managed to get a face full of cement powder on a work duty. He was just looking for a few days in hospital, and being able to take it easy.
What he didn’t take into account was the cement dust was as dangerous as it was, and despite running many, many bags of saline into his eyes washing them out, by the time he got to us the damage was done but not yet apparent.
Over half an hour, his eyes slowly clouded over until he was blind. Harsh words were said to him from us when he admitted why he was so careless, but… what was the point.
This would have been in 2001ish and the only treatment for the eye damage was corneal transplant.
Stupid bastard.
A few days ago, on Twitter, Canadian Jewish professor Gad Saad, a man who isn’t timid or cowardly, wrote this…
The maniacs who have infiltrated the West and are causing mayhem and destruction are not as much to blame as the Western politicians who have systematically allowed this to take place. There is nothing more cowardly, more weak and more castrated than a Western leader today.
I think the professor says it best.
In an ideal world, when the inevitable happens and one or more of the 3000 newby Gazan Nazis residents of this country performs a terrorist attack, no doubt on an Australian Jewish target, not only should the Gazan Nazi perpetrators face justice but also the very scum who brought in these people or who justified the entry of these Gazan Nazis, names such as Anthony Albanese, Hanson-Dung, Fatso Faruqi, Jacinta Allen, Tony Burqa and Mike Burgess, these people should also face the courts for providing succour to Jew hating barbarians.
It won’t happen of course, because the aforementioned politicians never face any consequences for their idiocy and failures, in fact they’re rewarded time and time again for their idiocy and failures. But I can dream.
@DocNetyoutube
So, as you know, I have been engaged in a Little House Bing watching. Last night my source in DC left me a voicemail to stop watching Little House and call them back. I did. You are not going to like this:
@ABC has given the Harris campaign “SAMPLE” questions of what might be asked of her at the debate. In other words, they are not giving her the exact question, but they are giving her what the questions will be about. Thus, making it easier for her to memorize bullshit talking points. They are also going to produce the debate in a way to minimize Kamala Harris being towered over by Trump, Trump is 6’3 and Kamala is 5’1. They will allow a stool or they will do a split screen type of broadcast to make sure you cannot see Trump towering over Harris. These detailed were negotiated separately with the Harris campaign and the Trump campaign is not even aware.
Furthermore, the questions are designed to allow Harris to explain how she will differ from Biden, they will not be directed at her involvement with this disaster of an administration. So, just like everything else, we now have a rigged debate. Before any of you leftists say I am lying, you better check out my timeline and the perfect record of this source.
Finally, US intelligence has been getting uptick in talk regarding an election timed attack, what kind of attack is uncertain. Could be terror or an attack aimed at having some kind of an effect on the election turnout. They are hoping to get me more details very soon. Nothing these people do surprises me, but @abc are pieces of trash. They can deny this all they want, In fact, I dare them. I dare them to deny this. The second they deny it, I will destroy them with proof. So go ahead ABC, post your denial.
@GuntherEagleman
Taxing unrealized gains is the dumbest sht Kamala has said yet.
You hardly need the example, but here it is.
shatterzzz —
Better late than never ……. LO
Thanks shatterzzz have been thinking of you and hoping that the outcome is all good for you.
outgoing-idf-intel-chief-haliva-says-he-failed-to-warn-of-oct-7-urges-state-probe
“Repeated calls for an independent review of October 7 have been rebuffed by government leaders, who apparently feared they could be criticized, insisting that investigations must wait until after the end of the war against Hamas.”
Which Israeli leader pushed for the removal of ALL human security on the border, replacing people with a fully electronic system?
Was this the same politician, that in a massive attack of hubris, televised how this new system worked?
Do you think that people, other than Israeli’s may have been interested in the broadcast?
What other “actions” may this particular individual be “criticised” for?
For example, was the IDF ordered to attack everything on the roads in the south, in an attempt to stop Hamas getting hold of those 40 odd female intelligence officers, taken from the Army base closest to the border?
No, of course not. Hamas killed all 1400 people that day, ……., right?
“Do not cut the grass” .. I wuz told, emphatically!
I suppose a goat would be out of the question?
She could never be elected under half normal conditions but the level of cheating will be in the stratosphere.
@catturd2
If Kamala is elected … This will be her joy -vs- your joy.
H B Bear
Once Upon a Time, driving through the wilds of a dirt road between Wilcannia and Dubbo, I overtook a combination of:
One dirty great big grader, towing a tip truck a with a backhoe on it, which was towing a Land Rover, which was towing the crib room caravan combination. How to move 5 vehicles with one driver. I wish I’d taken a picture, I really do.
but the Mabo case as I recall it was based on islander culture not mainland culture. They did have garden plots allocated to families. Islanders could not carry on a roaming hunter-gatherer existence like the mainlanders could and did.
Exactly — and the Undertaker did what Andrew Giles did — misapplied the judgment in the Mabo case. I recall a guest lecturer in law who did a lot of work on the Mabo case said that Keating had perpetrated a fraud on all Australian aboriginal people for the very reason set out in Bungonia Bee’s comment.
Tonight’s Harris interview: Scripted. Recorded. Edited. Bogus.
Don’t get distracted: Kamala is historically extreme
Biden-Harris Refused to Stop Houthi Attacks on Ships to Avoid Offending Iran
How is this different from the old Soviet Union? So much for the land of the free and the brave.
89-year-old pro-lifer ARRESTED by Biden’s DoJ Ready to Die in Prison
Blame Shin Bet.
‘Hamas doesn’t want a war’ | Top secret Shin Bet documents from before 10.7 revealed (29 Aug)
That would make it the greatest intelligence failure in Israeli history since it is now apparent that Hamas had been planning 7 Oct for something like 7 years, with Iranian planning and support – all the while building an unparalleled underground network of defensive tunnels.
Received this recently from Advance Australia..
Dear Gilas,
As I write this, we have started work on the powerful Greens Truth Documentary that will drive the next stage of the campaign to rid the country of the Greens.
But the project budget is still short by $169,662.51 and I can’t approve the rest of the work just yet.
etc…
This is only one of the projects they are working on, while attempting to fight the ruination of this country from the UNIParty and the watermelons.
Despite what many Cats (naively) hope, the SFLs are a spent political force, far more interested in keeping taxpayer-funded political benefits as part of the UNIParty, rather than fighting effectively the leftards’ attacks on our culture.
Advance were essential in defeating the inVoice scam last year. The SFLs were nowhere to be seen in doing ANY work on the ground, where it counted.
Had it not been for the work of Advance volunteers and the Nationals’ Jacintha Price, blak-tape would be enshrined in our Constitution by now.
I made a modest contribution here. I would encourage all (even Montz..) Cats to do the same.
The SFLs are a flailing, dying dinosaur… they are part of the problem, not the solution.
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Walz Has A History Of Rubbing Elbows With Nonprofit Linked To Chinese Intel And Influence Agency
Those of us residing in SE Australia have spent the last week or so in the middle of the Battle of the Seasons.
In the red corner, Antarctic blasts and cold fronts surging up from the south.
In the red corner, high pressure systems and warm north-westerly winds pushing down from the north.
They keep bashing into each other. This morning it has gone from still to windy to still to windy, plus we had a couple of sunshowers.
Here, we have mornings near zero and mornings about 8C in the space of a week.
Spring is very turbulent. 🙂
Perhaps a metaphor for growth in human activity.
Ms King is unhappy…
Labor lands King hit on the Big Australian (Paywallian)
So she doesn’t like it that BHP opposes nutty Labor stuff like massive royalty increases and crazy energy policies? And she is also upset that BHP hasn’t been working productively with the utterly corrupt CFMEU? Oh, ok.
Daily Telegraph. Bruce Pascoe was unavailable for comment.
Not Welcome: Land Council tells Neil Evers to stop conducting Indigenous ceremonies
Sydney’s largest Aboriginal Land Council is demanding a northern beaches resident cease conducting Welcome to Country ceremonies, claiming he has failed to prove his Indigenous ancestry.
Neil Evers addressed a “Meet the Candidates” public forum at Narrabeen on Monday night, ahead of the upcoming local council elections.
Mr Evers, who describes himself as a “fifth-generation Aboriginal”, told the crowd he was a “Guringai man from the Warandigi Garigal Clan”.
He has provided regular Welcome to Country ceremonies on the northern beaches over the past decade, including at the Manly Sea Eagles’ Indigenous Round match at Four Pines Park in May.
In a previous interview, Mr Evers insisted his grandmother “was definitely Aboriginal”. “We all just thought she had a good sun tan” he said.
However, the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council (MLALC) claims that Mr Evers has been unable to prove his Indigenous bloodlines.
“Mr Evers has no authority to conduct a Welcome to Country.” said Nathan Moran, CEO of the MLALC.
“In his introduction on Monday night at the council forum we believe he acknowledged the wrong Aboriginal people and used cultural names that aren’t actually from the northern beaches. From the moment he opened his mouth … our word for bull s*** is goona. Absolute goona.”
When approached for comment, Mr Evers said he had learnt about his Indigenous heritage in his late 60s, after “reading a history book about Bob Waterer and King Bungaree”.
“I am regularly asked to do the Welcome to Country at local events. Sometimes I’m paid. Sometimes I volunteer.”
He said he had “received a certificate roughly 10 years ago from the Guringai Tribal Aboriginal Corporation” proving his heritage.
“That is all the proof I need,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
Very clear explanation. This would be a giant step down the “you’ll own nothing” path. And aren’t they threatening the same here? I guarantee if it happens there we’d get it too.
Ramaswamy Warns Of ‘Forced Selling’ If Kamala Harris’s Unrealized Gains Tax Plan Comes To Fruition
From someone who got Remedial Marching in the army, I don’t know how they do it.
Mum was forbidden from Parades in the AWAS because of the same reason – Total Body Discoordination.
a gotta ask …! How the F**K do these jungle bunnies from 3rd world s**tholes get vetted not only to get into Oz but to qualify for carers certificates .. And the gummint expects us to believe they check out Gaza terrorists thoroughly .. FFS!
Sorry this is gonna be a long comment:
Glad you brought that up shatterzzz — a tale I will tell on that point. The time was the 50,000 illegals to these shores during the Rudd Gillard Rudd ineptocracy.
As many here know I and the mother of a severely intellectually disabled family member who is non-verbal and unable to use any form of communication except grimaces, smiles, hand gestures, a made-up sign language AND behaviour.
At the time the disgrace of a service provider which was providing residential services invariably used agency staff. Those staff were almost exclusively the illegal immigrant who had to be given employment so the government thought it terrific idea to get the labour hire organisations to put illegal immigrants on their books.
Because of this policy things like this happened, just one example:
Mother calling at 11.30pm to remind staff that X was to have a surgical procedure the next morning: Hi I am X’s Mum I want to be sure that X is given NIL by mouth from midnight tonight
Support worker/carer: Which one X?
The person on the end of the phone had very little English couldn’t read English and heaven alone knows how medications were to be administered given the person did not even know the names of the disabled person in their care. – there were 4 people in the house one of whom suffered uncontrolled epileptic seizures. We families were never ever apprised of what was going on; we found out by other means.
The standard of care was simply abysmal and heaven alone knows what other indignities/abuse/neglect were suffered by the people with disabilities in the ‘care’ of this service provider. I know some of the stuff but because all of the people with disabilities in the residence are non-verbal and severely intellectually disabled we will never know — except for the psychological damage they have all suffered and to this day is manifest in their behaviours.
This was in the day of NSW Department of Ageing Disability and Home Care ADAHC — so many of those who worked in ADAHC were evil on steroids. It took us 2 years to get rid of that service provider thanks to the disgraceful behaviour of ADAHC — but sometimes you have to go through great challenges to get to something much better and that is what we have now and I thank God every day for the incomparable service provision we have for our family member today and thanks to all Australians for the NDIS which was meant to provide for people who simply CANNOT live a decent life without daily assistance with every aspect of their lives because of their disability.
Thank you Australia for the NDIS
Again apologies for the lengthy comment.
Apropos my previous post..
It has been very clear to any dispassionate observer that the SFLs have been extensively infiltrated by Liar spoilers and termites.
Just like the RINOs in the US Republican Party and the many ideological commos in the UK so-called-Conservative Party.
This has been happening for years, it cannot now be denied by any rational observer.
Leftards infiltrate and destroy the host.
That’s why they are winning.
CharlieP
The techniques used are the same as those that produced the Red Guards and the Hitler Youth.
I think that the practitioners should be executed for the damage they do to the kids, but that’s just me.
Yes I saw that on front of the Oz this morning at the truck stop. The anal mal administration getting very shrill
I made a modest contribution here. I would encourage all (even Montz..) Cats to do the same.
Thanks Gilas, I’m a member of Advance, I will make a contribution. I am also going to contribute to Sall Grover’s legal case for her refusal to call perverts ‘female’ and allow them on her women only app.
Thanks Gilas I too am a member and regularly contribute because Advance does very effective work in the interest of the people NOT the polliticks
BHP has been very successful in keeping Unions out of their site operations. Bless them. They know that once the union cancer takes hold, BHP productivity will go through the floor. The stupidity of that is BHP shares will be in all the union members Super and a poorly productive BHP will be priced accordingly. This is a perfect example of Labor idiocy not being able to see the world beyond how can be made to fit into union boxes.
King- a know nothing nobody bint in a very important portfolio. Another Labor dummy;
via BoN
Ms King is unhappy…
Is this the same Minister who arrived 20 minutes late for a meeting with the leaseholders of the Jabiluka uranium deposit, giving them just ten minutes before being on time suddenly became important? And then not only refused to extend their lease, but announced that it was to become a national park, so that it could not be developed?
She’s a wrecking ball through national prosperity, of course insulated by a hefty salary, lots of juicy allowances (tax free) and a spot on a super board or similar to look forward to after politics.
Awful, and has her eyes on the prize. Pity about the rest of us.
“Tch tch tch tch tch tch. Tch tch”.
Brendan O’Neill on the Oasis reunion.
“Woof, woof, woof woof woof woof”.
I make regular conributions to Advance.
A new attempt is made to send Tommy Robinson to prison
ALP declares war on BHP.
Wow, BHP are incredibly powerful. I saw them get approvals and thumb their nose at Federal Regulations in the Bowen Basin and get away with it.
Not supporting their power because having done a few contracts for them I think they are an incredibly flawed organisation that had the foresight to swallow up the best coal leases in CQ and hold on to them back in the 1970’s. Their insight into the resources market trends is second to none, in 2011 I was talking with an exec who was forecasting a slight downturn and lower prices in 2013/2014 and they were already planning for. It happened and then Rudd added his MRRT which made it worse. Then later Gillard’s Carbon Tax caused the market to crater.
Good luck King, you’ll need it. Rumour had it when I last worked there the Senior Exec in Brisbane had Bligh on speed dial in his mobile phone. That said Corporations of this side have the luxury of waiting out a bad government till there’s a change.
WA Treasurer warns against changes to GST arrangement
Western Australia Treasurer Rita Saffioti has launched a staunch defence of the GST reforms that have pumped billions of extra dollars into the nation’s richest state, while also taking aim at other “absurd” federal funding arrangements that she says short-change the west.
Speaking to The Australian ahead of her address to the Bush Summit in Port Hedland on Friday, Ms Saffioti said she would use the upcoming Productivity Commission review of the GST arrangement to advocate for not just an extension of the current settings, but also for WA to receive more from a variety of other federal funds.
States angry about WA’s improved share of GST revenues, such as Victoria and NSW, have been eyeing the Productivity Commission’s 2026 review as their chance to push hard to scrap the GST floor that has been in place since 2018.
The GST floor was put in place by then-treasurer Scott Morrison in Malcolm Turnbull’s government. The changes have guaranteed WA retains at least 70c of every dollar of GST revenue it generates, rising to at least 75c. WA’s share had previously fallen as low as 30c for every dollar raised and would have fallen to about 10c if the system had not changed.
Secession now! One Western Australia lad/ladette with the light of battle in their eyes is worth ten of your pimply faced Eastern Staters!
As in the ecclesiastical realm, so in politics, a conservative broad church must of necessity relax subscription to its doctrinal beliefs to broaden its membership.
Once it does that, its defences are weakened from within and soon breached from without.
The Liberal Party has always harboured “wets”, but in the contemporary cultural context an inebriated wombat could have predicted that John Howard’s vision of a “broad church” Liberal Party would essentially dilute its principles and promote factionalism and careerism, if not eventual subversion.
John H and KevM – those who ignore my hypothesis about the two types of economists do so at their peril – ergo:
There are two distinct types of economists – those that are wrong about everything 91.3% of the time and those that are wrong about everything all the time.
Bungonia Bee, 0622:
The fact of electronic/software manipulation of the count reminds me of a film years ago – Crooks had broken into a bank and had also tapped into the security system. The cameras showed the previous days video of the after closing time frame of the vaults. The clocks in the room were keeping time – only they were a day late and nobody noticed.
Meanwhile as the crooks broke into them, the vault security video evidence showed no activity.
The US elections are going to be a reenactment of this movie. What you see on your monitors will have no connection to the reality of the counting rooms. There will be no sampling of the votes by a disinterested third party – the checkers will be excluded by “overflowing toilets”, closed counting rooms that will suddenly reopen when the Republican Poll Observers go home. Votes for Harris will be reread multiple times, the count will stop when the Communists need to find out how many votes need to be made up and the counting machines will be connected to the internet – illegally.
What you see will have no connection with reality.
So the question needs to be asked now – will the US voters rise up and demand a fair count, or will they sit in their garages impotently polishing their weapons mandated for an occasion they refuse to support?
In which case, what was the point of the first and second amendments?
rumours that the Melb Suburban Rail Link (tunnels to nowhere) might get cancelled
… no tunnels for you !!
She’s funny!
The Cringe: Animated Kamala Harris Talks Word Salad to High School Students as She Kicks Off Georgia Campaign Bus Trip With Tim Walz (28 Aug)
The word salad is included, it’s epic. Then JD Vance trolls it perfectly with a seven word tweet.
Your taxes are paying for this:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-30/older-brother-sydeny-mayor-developer-links/104282396
Sydney mayor Ned Mannoun’s older brother has not disclosed his developer links in a bid to win a seat on Liverpool City Council in the upcoming September elections.
Wael Khalil Manoun, known as William, declared he was not a property developer or a close associate of a developer in a statutory declaration lodged with the Australian Election Company earlier this month.
That’s despite the 50-year-old working for a developer, owning three sites approved for multi-unit developments and co-directing a company with a developer.
Good story, if it’s true (always a concern at TheirABC).
But, FFS, The Australian Electoral Company? Does anyone, and I mean anyone including the office cleaner and the IT fixer, read this stuff before it is posted nationwide?
Does anyone at TheirABC even care about accuracy any more?
Let me tell you, in both the private and public sector jobs I had over my lifetime, the sloppiness that is accepted at TheirABC would not have been accepted. You might get a pass the first time, but if it happened again you would be fired.
I suppose that Kim Williams will be just as impotent as his predecessors.
And more proof that righties can run rings around the Left. In this case Tucker Carlson…
Tucker Carlson Wins the Internet — Trolls Kamala Harris with a Savage Fake Letter After She Pretended ‘Tucker’ Wrote Her (28 Aug)
Kamala for some reason known only to her (or her handlers) decided to fake up a letter from Tucker to her. So Tucker then returned fire with a “letter” from Kamala to him… And a thing of beauty it is, especially the little hearts over the “i”s.
“She’s funny!”
Funny is not the word I’d reach for…
Labor lands King hit on the Big Australian
Resources Minister Madeleine King has gone to war with BHP in an extraordinary spray, attacking the mining giant for always ‘railing against’ Labor policies and refusing to work productively with unions.
Gosh, didn’t BHP donate $2 million to the campaign for an Indigenous Voice to parliament? Or perhaps my memory is faulty? Nah, it isn’t. I also recall BHP sanctimoniously preaching about ‘informed and respectful discussion’ before last year’s referendum, except those of us who were against the Voice were smeared and branded as ‘waaaaaacists’.
Sorry, perhaps I am alone here but I have little sympathy for these large corporates such as BHP. With their ridiculous activism, they chose to sit down and sup with the devil, and now the devil is biting them. You reap what you sow.
“…Kamala Harris merely “panders to the progressives and is no Bernie Sanders”.”
The most left-leaning member of congress EVA – left of Bernie!
That is the official record!
And you will notice that every “change of mind” since she was anointed Dem candidate has been made by an anonymous “staffer” and she has not once, ever, come out and said it herself – as Tom Cotton noted.
Some more on the far-lefty Brazilian judge who is monstering Elon – which I linked a story about earlier.
It’s pretty amazing that a judge, who is trying to get X/Twitter to take down some tweets he doesn’t like, can order an unrelated company’s bank accounts to be frozen just because he’s peeved. But that’s lefties for you.
Jordan Petersen has done another interview with Tommy Robinson. Currently up on YouTube. For the mentally challenged JC YouTube is a popular outlet not hard to find and should be no problem finding Petersen’s podcasts.
So far only listened to first ten minutes or so. Petersen mentions all the actions taken to suppress his previous interview with Robinson.
Will finish listening to it during today but might be one to check out early. Comments open but were removed from previous interview. After all it would not do to have people know the support Robinson has.
I’ll add that I thought the data they mention is quite interesting too. If Elon has 250,000 subscribers in just Brazil alone then SpaceX and Starlink must be fairly raking in the dosh. I can’t recall what they charge but it was something like a hundred US per month, which would be half a billion Aussie per year just from one country, albeit a large one.
I wouldn’t contribute to Advance or GetUp. Advance is an attempt by Liberal wets to grift their way out of irrelevance. Sending them money would be like donating to the Melbourne Club.
Getup is an example of “Internet activism”, which in my view is a contradiction in terms. Activism happens offline: on the streets, at community meeting halls, and in committees in conference rooms. Its philosophy is personified by Dan Ilic, a preening dilettante.
I make one political contribution, a monthly pineapple to the Wilderness Society. They at least have their hearts in the right place, and are focused on small-time activism that generally doesn’t make headlines or rouse up the terminally online.
And the Liberals, if they had any political acumen whatsoever, which of course they don’t, would not say a word in support of BHP. The Liberals owe corporates like BHP nothing, nada, zilch. Instead, they should simply affirm their support for small and medium sized business.
err, Joh, it’s even worse than that – the “Australian Election Company”, an entity I’ve not had the misfortune to have heard of before.
A question that answers itself.
Hopefully with the rough end inserted up their collective fundament.
Woo hoo cleared to fly by the doc. Plotting my escape from Vic as we speak.
These bush summits on Sky Regional at the moment. Couple of things stand out, a jismist back slapping session. All the school kids speaking so far have been girls. The Victorian one crapped on about health, yes important but hey there are other problems in the bush more pressing like powerline easements and third world roads. The WA one is on now, Dep Premier of WA crapping on about building industry, betcha London to a brick this will be on the fringes of Perth. Qld one had Gina on but the rest was Miles, sleazy and other useless grifters trying to screw the regions.
Also not one word about the live export ban.
The Oz has a story on it.
Bush Summit: Farmers feeling fleeced by live sheep export ban (Paywallian)
He’s quote tweeting this fellow:
As with the Russo-Ukraine War, a lot of Western discussion of China is simply narrative maintenance, wishcasting, and cope.
Here you go Dover, I was just about to post this one since I know you have been watching the Chinese economy.
The Latest Signs that China’s Economy is Struggling (29 Aug)
Much more in the story, but I thought the bit I’ve quoted was the most interesting, since it reflects family finances.
In Trouble At t’Mill news:
Green obsessions puts nation’s steelmaking and security at risk
[Unlinkable OZ]
A well aimed kick in the cods for the Albanese Government’s abject energy and industry policy failures and the dire consequences for the real Australian economy.
Splat!!!
Bend over, Far White Devils, and receive dumped Chinese steel, then.
But Future Made in Australia…
But, but Rewiring the Nation. Shirley that’s got to help…
That critique could have been written by any number of Cats. It should have been written by – and be a mantra for – Team Dutton.
Instead it came from the pen of Jenny George – former ACTU Supremo and current ALP Member for Crosby.
Instead it came from the pen of Jenny George – former ACTU Supremo and current ALP Member for Crosby.
Jenny George is old Labor, mentored by the likes of Bob Hawke, Bill Kelty and Simon Crean. That Labor is long gone and she knows it. George represented the electorate of Throsby for Labor, she retired in 2010.
An interesting tidbit, such is George’s alienation from contemporary Labor that in 2022 she assisted Dai Le in her campaign in Fowler, a campaign Dai Le won.
Sorry, Bruce of N, but that style of article just illustrates my point.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/good-for-them-go-hard.html
Miltonf
August 30, 2024 8:08 am
Reply to Gilas
Agree 100percent. I already contribute but might have to up it.
Thank you Milton.
Sad to see that Trump wants the state to subsidize IVF and now he’s going to vote Yes making abortion a constitutional right in Florida. He’s effectively given the prolife movement the finger. He’s the lesser of two evils, but these decisions are manna from heaven to Democrats.
Assistant minister defends lives sheep ban
Charlie Peel
Anthony Albanese’s assistant minister Patrick Gorman has defended the government’s live sheep export ban, saying the trade had declined in the past two decades and boxed meat markets provided new opportunities for sheep producers.
Perth-based Mr Gorman said the government’s transition package and the four-year notice of the phaseout of the sector, which is based out of Western Australia, would help the industry adjust.
“What we’ve been seeing for 20 years is a year-on-year decline in the live sheep export trade. That’s just a fact,” Mr Gorman said.
“What we see is there’s a very big positive opportunity to manage that decline, rather than just to let it happen.
“That’s why we put $107m into a transition package. And I know we’ve given appropriate notice. We’re talking about ending in 2028.
“Our transition package starts now. I think that’s the appropriate thing to do.”
According to Meat and Livestock Australia, in 2023, live sheep exports by sea lifted 22 per cent or 107,191 head to 593,514.
It was the first rise since 2020 when the Covid pandemic began.
Ms George has been writing a lot of columns for the Oz lately which have been very coruscating about Bowen’s renewbulls brainfarts. She’s also been supportive of Dutton’s nuclear policy.
How Two US B1-Bombers Bombed Syria from Texas (youtube.com)
No other airforce can come close to this.
This is promising: https://x.com/BikeBoyScandal/status/1829313614102294953
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been left angered by a hot mic moment at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga.
Mr Albanese was caught asking a US diplomat to “go halvies” on a $400 million policing initiative.
Luigi, the bumbling diplomat, does it again.
They have that capability because they have bases on both sides of the Atlantic and USAF gave them a fighter escort once in the ME because they have bases in the ME.
I would of course prefer the procedure to be utterly banned,
You are clearly not a woman. I don’t want the procedure ‘utterly banned’ and I suspect most women here on this site would agree with me.
I want the ‘procedure’ to be safe, legal and rare.
I am a proponent of the ‘procedure’ being ‘safe, legal and rare’. And no, I will not rot in hell.
Albanese backs down on decision to exclude LGBT question from next census after Labor MPs revolt
Naturally, Handsome Boy is showing characteristic clarity and leadership:
And, equally naturally:
So, it looks like the next Census is going to have a sealed section:
and I suspect most women here on this site would agree with me.
Actually, not even ‘most women’, most men and women here on this site would agree with me.
I always find it both nauseating and amusing how some males despotically try to enact authority over women’s bodies. And I’m no rabid feminist.
Port Hedland council welcome to country controversy rears head once againCain AndrewsNorth West Telegraph
Fri, 30 August 2024 10:40AM
Port Hedland council’s welcome to country controversy reared its head once again at the August meeting with a community member labelling the ceremony as “manipulative,” “nonsense” and “divisive”.
Using public statement time to deliver a speech, South Hedland resident John Ashenden said the council was ignoring the contributions made by other nationalities by acknowledging traditional owners at the start of council meetings.
“Must we continue to play the victim card? Must every council meeting become an opportunity to bash those of English and European descent?” he said.
“It is time to stop the nonsense and work together to build a community that respects all cultures and heritages without allowing any one group to be manipulated for political or administrative gain.
“For the love of unity and progress can we please move beyond this divisive rhetoric and come together as one people? We must stop playing the race card and focus on the real issues at hand.”
I wonder, about an “interesting loophole” in regard to failed abortions that we hear about where babies are left on trays to die.
In my view, that’s actually wilful murder, voluntary manslaughter at the least.
But, legally, can you be prosecuted since the child would not have a name nor any medical record of birth nor any birth certificate? How would it appear in a Court Register?
Surgeon Vs Nobody? (I don’t mean “nobody” in a flippant way)
A few years ago, circa 2019, it came out that Joondalup Hospital had overseen six failed abortions, in each case, everyone walked out of the operating room until the child was dead. Nobody on either side of the uniparty (except Nick Goiran) raised it.
This is the Liberal party here in NSW, run by the incompetent Harwin the Whale, who is still yet to be harpooned, Matt Kean, now an official Labor stooge, Mark Sleazeman, Photios and other Greens….
NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon charged with child sex offences
NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon has been charged by police with alleged child sex offences.
Mr Amon, the representative for the state electorate of Pittwater was due to face Manly Local Court from 9:30am on Friday according to the state registry, but NSW Police said he would not appear.
The charges relate to an alleged sexual assault in Mona Vale in July 2017, in which Mr Amon reportedly assaulted a teenage boy who was known to him.
Mr Amon was charged with five counts of sexual intercourse with a person over 10 and under 14 years, two charges of indecent assault of a person under 16 years, one charge of commit act of indecency with person under 16 years and two charges of attempting sexual intercourse child with a child over 10 under 14.
“Following extensive inquiries, a 35-year-old man was arrested at Manly Police Station about 6am today,” a NSW Police spokesperson said.
Ross Cameron was right about the NSW Liberals
Winston Smith
August 30, 2024 10:28 am
Labor wins and with 5 years before the next election, and knowing that they can ignore whatever the British people want, because they’ve done the same thing with the Judiciary, the Courts and the command structure of the police – and quite probably the Armed Forces as well – and now you have a government that can terrorise the people.
Easy, wasn’t it?
Gramsci was right – the only method that works is The Long March Through The Institutions and it’s worked in GB, Canada, and is on the cusp of victory in Australia.
The US is about to show us just how bad it can be.
100% correct.
The destruction of the West has been a long term project begun sometime in the 1850s, not in 2020 or with the fanatics of the Frankfurt School …
.. and that is why none of us will ever see any significant change for the better in our lifetime..
UNLESS
True patriots grow a pair and perpetrate counter-violence that will accelerate a return to something resembling normality, while consigning leftards and their ilk to the mass graves that were reserved for us.
“Where are you going Clark”?
Obstetrician Vs Recalcitrant clump of cells.
mmm seem to have lost a comment?
This is great news: The Bike Boy Scandal
Who knew the Assistant Police Commissioner was on leave from Police, but working for Dan at the time ? Sheesh!
https://x.com/BikeBoyScandal/status/1829313614102294953
Forget the headline:
67% of Australians would vote for Kamala Harris for President | YouGov
Scroll down past the Khamalar love and see LNP/Labor now 50/50 in latest YouGov Poll. Last time was 51/49 in Liebor’s favour…
The cynic in me reckons the real reason Albo wanted the qwerty question dropped from the census is because it would reveal exactly how small that community is – I know gays who refuse to engage with qwerty extremism and wouldn’t answer that question anyway, as will I – and it would cease to be a useful baseball bat to belt everyone else with.
As was demonstrated in the 2021 UK census. See here for the utterly laughable explanation as to why this was so.
Trigger Warning: Garudain j’ism piece
Seems the Greens never picked up a seat in the Northern Territory, after all!
NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon charged with child sex offences
Is there a tick box for this in the census?
Roger
August 30, 2024 8:58 am
As in the ecclesiastical realm, so in politics, a conservative broad church must of necessity relax subscription to its doctrinal beliefs to broaden its membership.
Quite..
So….. How are the Liars and the Commo watermelons able to increase their political capital by constantly becoming more extreme and narrow-focused?
And yet.. amazingly, incredibly, they don’t have to worry about ideological white-anting within their membership??
Could it have something to do with the innate fanaticism and commitment to doing the political “hard yards” that smug, comfy Centrists have avoided for the last 50+ years?
It was that charlatan Howard, who boasted about a “broad church” within the SFLs, that truly started the rot, while treasurer in the Fraser ministry.
The very same treasurer that gifted us Part IVA of the Tax Act.
It has always been my contention that Howard, not Saint Gough, was the true Terminator of common-sense politics in Australia.
PS. If replying, please don’t use nested comments.. few Cats ever see those.
Hello…
Matt Kean was prominent in his criticism of local North Shore denizens preselecting Rory Amon over two capable women.
Cranky’s take: this is all Matt Kean’s fault.
I’ve regarded Fraser – McPhee with their multicultural policies as hard left for many years.
A coincidence of no consequence, to be sure …
It really stinks
Imagine:
You realise inflation isn’t going away. Or you research value Australian companies. Or you just like Australian gold miners.
A couple of years ago you buy Regis.
You hang on.
Gold prices start rising.
Sure, there aren’t any dividends. And it’s a miner, so you know there is risk, you accept there might be a mine issue, or a gold price decline.
But you hold.
Gold reaches all time highs.
The miners haven’t followed yet, but you know they will eventually.
You hang on, forgoing the income that money could have made elsewhere.
You have a long term strategy, you know the risks.
You hold on and on.
Then along comes Tanya…
Has anyone here ever used that expression in their entire life? What an insufferable twatpoodle Luigi is.
I offered my opinion and provided some evidence. How about you provide some of your own.
to rehash.
25% to 30% of the Chinese economy is construction. That’s basically rooted.If the Chinese economy was in fact doing well, it would show up in the stock market, but it’s not and the Shanghai index is basically at the level seen in 2005. Chinese bond yields are falling indicting that deflation is very likely developing a head of steam.
But hey, cope, you say.
Dr Faustus
August 30, 2024 12:48 pm
Outstanding. Just outstanding.
With Nyree in her ear, Nyree…who is also known to Mehreen.
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair…’
Because they understand that the majority of people are not solely motivated by reasoned argument and that everyone is at least in part motivated by non-rational factors like genetics, emotions, and the environment. Conservatives are too preoccupied with rational arguments, ironically being irrational in presuming that is a winning strategy. An irrational person who risks a conviction through protest is more persuasive than a rational letter to the editor.
They aren’t narrow focused, quite the opposite. Fighting for SSM, the alphabetarians, the NDIS, the indigenous, better worker protections, equal opportunity, these are very emotionally laden issues and it is difficult for people to say no to issues that apparently involve a loss for certain groups. What you call extreme many call inclusive, what you call irrational many call compassionate.
I have no solution to this. It’s bloody hopeless. The Hawke-Keating government white-anted the history of the Labour Party by enacting The Campbell Report, commissioned by the Fraser government which supported the reforms in opposition. They had no choice, it was obvious to everyone the Australian economy had to be transformed. I think the current trends will burn out for much the same reason: it is becoming obvious that the extremes are not practical or for the greater good. Women walking off the field because of trans dominated teams, the failure of the Voice, the continual attacks by comedians on wokery is having an effect. The trend is there, be patient.
Now, damn it, only 20% of my next game downloaded. Oh well, another episode of Spiral.
But I did. I provided a quote with some evidence. If exports have as it appears increased by over 12% for the last 12 months the claim that the Chinese economy is cratering is a myth.
Not necessarily.
We know the Chinese government has been boosting exports to cover for a weak domestic economy.
But GDP is still not matching forecasts and is predicted to decrease further next year.
Carry on.
Okay, have it your way. The Chinese economy is on firm ground and taking off like a rocket. All things I mentioned are a myth.
You’ve posted (excitedly) in the past about Chinese trade figures and I’ve explained to you with real numbers that the growth in the trade surplus doesn’t go anywhere near counteracting against the downside pull in the domestic economy.
But let’s play ground hog day.
Could it have something to do with the innate fanaticism and commitment to doing the political “hard yards” that smug, comfy Centrists have avoided for the last 50+ years?
Umm…..yes.
Let me put it another way, these numbers contradict the ‘China is cratering’ argument. It doesn’t establish that there are no problems with the Chinese economy but it undercuts the narrative of crisis and decline.
Ms George has been writing a lot of columns for the Oz lately which have been very coruscating about Bowen’s renewbulls brainfarts. She’s also been supportive of Dutton’s nuclear policy.
Jenny is actually a very nice and sensible person. As was her late husband, Paddy, who sadly died far too soon. Both Lefties, but excellent people.
Total Chinese annual exports are around US$ 4 trillion
12% increase represents around US$400 billion or there about.
Chinese GDP is around US$18 trillion.
US$400 billion/ US$18 billion = 2%
2% impact on Chinese GDP is supposed to counteract falling domestic demand and the real estate issue.
Roaring along.
I’d love to have a few beers and a hearty pub meal with Tommy. Top bloke.
Kudos to JP amd Tammy for getting him back on.
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Crime and Punishment | Tommy Robinson | EP 476
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with British journalist and activist Tommy Robinson. They discuss how peaceful demonstrations have been relentlessly tarred as extremist events, how the captured media and U.K. government have colluded to oppress and silence the majority population, how multiculturalism has not failed but activist communities have, the slew of controversies levied against Tommy — and why he keeps fighting for the truth.
Tommy Robinson is a British journalist and activist who first became an establishment target after reporting on the grooming gangs in London. From then on, he and his family have been smeared and punished for attempting to out those who are enabling Islamic extremism.
This episode was recorded on August 16th, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv0TW2LF_dE
Jenny is actually a very nice and sensible person. As was her late husband, Paddy, who sadly died far too soon. Both Lefties, but excellent people.
Yes, Jenny is the daughter of Russian refugees from the Soviet Union. Whilst of the left, she has absolute disdain for totalitarianism. She’s old Labor, a Labor that’s long gone.
fascinating side effect to my Prostate removal .. Over the years I’ve been one of those folks who dreams a lot during sleep .. Unfortunately, for me, tho no nightmares I have alwayz been subjected to the pointless drudgery of life .. Missed buses, caught in rain ect the absolute loser dreams have abounded ..
BUT .. since Tuesday night they’ve gone all erotic full on porn and because, there is no movement at the station cos the shock is still around, no interuptions to service by the body ..
I knew you’d all appreciate this “tit-bit” …….
Sleeping at the moment is WONDERFUL ….. LOL!
Sure, 2% growth from exports alone is terrible news. I’d be crying into my Tom Yum if I were part of or adjacent to the Chinese export sector.
Muddy
August 29, 2024 9:20 pm
I think you are joking here, so all I will be doing is explaining the joke.
There is no social or ideological position that is being compromised in order to eat the food. So appreciating food of foreign origin does not carry one any way towards the political left.
One level deeper in your joke is the leftist assumption that the only explanation for right wing positions is ignorance. It would also overlook the fact that food unfamiliarity breeds caution no matter your political leanings.
There is possibly some truth in your joke because (IIRC) Jonathon Haidt found that a greater openness to new experience was a personality factor that correlated well with progressive left (“liberal”) political opinion. Aha! Finally I have ruined the joke. I knew I’d figure out a way eventually.
‘Imagination’ as in ‘their’ truth.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis dismisses migrant gang takeover of apartments as ‘imagination’ — despite video, mayor confirming truth
Bruce of Newcastle
August 30, 2024 6:55 am
The one closest to 50:50 tells you what the main game really is.
Fill in the blanks. Su________ce Ca______sm.
I would prefer abortion to be banned.
*Noting that removing ectopic pregnancies aren’t abortions.)
Legal safe and rare is a fig leaf, sorry.
Is that just a cheap shot or you’re making a point?
Those other factors are a much bigger problem and the headwind is much more problematic.
I didn’t mention the balance sheet issues with the banking system. That’s the road that leads directly to hell.
Amazing feat. You actually provided a link. How the hell did you do that, Tickler? Can you teach Rooster how you link?
What did I miss?
https://x.com/Jewsarethegoat/status/1829202957663162394?t=VGlxYSHQjqgd7-GLWoYukw&s=19
Germans cracking down.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-ex-head-of-banned-islamic-center-faces-deportation/a-70076726
This is timely…just appeared in my inbox:
John Anderson interviews Steven Tsang.
But Chinese exports are up 12%.
It’s my wedding anniversary today (16 years). I’m married to a very special woman – a leftie with a sense of humour.
LOL
Justice (sort of) news (the NT Indy):
Governance issues? Surely not.
Troughing? Nepotism? Diversion of Commonwealth funding to personal interests? Yeah nah nah yeah nah.
But allegedly and I have heard it said, yeah.
Mmm.
Surely a Voice would have had this sorted, and toot suite as well.
The COVID shots are the most likely cause of the rise of ME/CFS
You’re married to mUnter?
Filed away for future use, thanks Kel Richards…
Word salad , coined in Germany in the 20s (wort salat) to describe the ramblings of the mentally ill.
“Absolutely Disastrous” Keir Starmer Causes Wealth EXODUS From UK
4 minute vid
White people saying, it’s racist to ask blacks to have ID because blacks can’t use the internet, don’t have access to the internet and don’t know where the DMV is.
Blacks respond.
The real problem in America is leftwing, white racists.
Dover – check your email.
‘Train wreck for Harris’: Kamala is ripped to shreds for ‘word salad’ CNN softball interview as ex-Obama strategist gives brutal verdict ahead of Trump debate showdown
BobtheBoozer
August 30, 2024 7:49 am
Only a bulldozer short of a Len Beadell road making outfit!
1984 Is Here – 40 Years Later
Difference is, at the time most of the LNP were opposed, but tolerated it as Fraser was so electorally successful.
Last time I saw McPhee he cut a fine figure as a Mr Creosote body double. Had been grazing in the very lush paddock of IR.
I really loathe McPhee and I believe he’s thick with the teals.
And who is Rob Ballieu?
Not to mention that every sexuality, every ethnicity, every whatever has to be there or they aren’t represented
Tell me Rob, if a trans gets elected to parliament they represent only trans, not the rest of the 99.99999999 people in their electorate?
https://x.com/salltweets/status/1829415377132048647?t=xLsEb_z7AMadNLT2GiyX7w&s=19
And this. Hazel Appleyard regularly highlights the sexual obsessions of trans. Too much information unfortunately.
https://x.com/HazelAppleyard_/status/1829268619668123897?t=dRAh3yTQ4afiQkT2hcMUNg&s=19
Finished listening to the latest Jordan Petersen interview with Tommy Robinson interview.
Good news is Jordan says the first interview, which was heavily restricted by Youtube, will be put up on X. Hopefully latest one also.
Tommy is a very good speaker and he gives a good explanation about the events that happened before the Southport stabbings.
He is expecting he will go to prison for two years for putting out the video called Silenced.
Highly recommended.
I see the mentally challenged JC is still doing his stalking of my comments.
The Irish sometimes freak me out.
Forty something female, wearing what I would call a classic Miller’s Fashion Club outfit, tattoos and a massive bullring in her septum.
Superb interview with JD Vance and a hatchet-faced CNN female.
Don’t know if it’s been put up already, but worth a watch.
Vance destroys her, and is hugely articulate.
I’m married to a very special woman
So am I. 47 years next February. See Proverbs 31:10
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 30, 2024 8:57 am
Time to just untangle federal and state taxation.
The war against the past – spiked (spiked-online.com)
worth a listen
https://x.com/salltweets/status/1829415377132048647?t=xLsEb_z7AMadNLT2GiyX7w&s=19
Sall Grover nails the f*ckwit.
wow what an obnoxious twot
100 DV cases ignored by NT cops in two daysLiam Mendes
52 minutes ago
Northern Territory Police failed to respond to more than 100 domestic violence cases called in over a two-day period earlier this week, as leading domestic violence advocates questioned why police failed to conduct a welfare check on an Aboriginal woman later allegedly killed by her partner.
Of about 180 outstanding jobs police had in the 48-hour period, 60 per cent were domestic-violence related, with some of the requests up to two days old. Senior police said on Friday that on any given night the force could receive between 60 to 100 such calls.
The revelations paint a bleak picture of the limited resources and competing priorities front-line police face each day and comes after police were “too busy” to conduct a welfare check on an Aboriginal woman in Darwin nine hours before she was found allegedly murdered by her partner, Desmond Frankie Booth.
The Australian revealed earlier this week that police did not perform the welfare check, which was requested by Territory Families at 3pm the day before her death, because of higher priority incidents.
Booth had been banned from contacting the 43-year-old mother for two decades.
The incident has shone a spotlight on the handling of referrals made by Territory Families to police, with some taking 24-48 hours to be acted upon, and others being completely ignored.
Ana Aitcheson, operations manager at Darwin domestic violence shelter Dawn House, said when police are requested to conduct a welfare check, matters are at a “very serious end of the scale”.
“ … it’s not something that we do lightly,” Ms Aitcheson said.
“We try as many other ways to ensure that someone is safe and well before we contact police, so when we do contact police, it is that very serious end of the scale.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judges-rule-big-techs-free-ride-on
Seems to be saying that some kinds of algorithmic curation are free speech acts of the platform operator meaning they can be responsible for bad messages (or dangerous videos in this case).
Does this create a new motivation for companies to censor content about which they will go overboard and censor too much? Presumably our eSafety commisioner is eager to follow this path. Can society save the children without killing the free speech golden goose?
Another break from News and Politics.
Bee Gees – You Should Be Dancing (Moreno J Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxryZSOAThc
I was absentmindedly flicking through various ‘news’ items on websites I occasionally frequent when I came across this statement about the covidiocy:
While I didn’t lose anyone in such circumstances, I think it necessary to shine a light on this open wound, because for many people, there has been no closure, and I believe that most are prepared to ‘move on’ rather than admit they were duped, or that they did the duping.
I vowed then to never in my lifetime vote for a political party that existed during the covidiocy, regardless of the shiny new wrapping.
There is nothing I can do about the corporations and so-called ‘community’ organisations that wholeheartedly shared, promoted, and actively enforced the disintegration of remnant social bonds. I view them ALL, however, with deep distrust and suspicion.
Kamala is the Raygun of US politics.
Memographers do your thing.
Hey JC, explain to me what the hell Trump is up to by claiming in every speech that tariffs applied by the US are paid by foreign nations. Is he stupid, or does he think you are stupid?
Andrew Lawrence…..superb…..
Starmer’s Britain 2029….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2Q9rbL1Es
What a shame, the iconic STS Leeuwin II tall ship was crushed by a container vessel at Western Australia’s Fremantle Port.
But reading the article the damage, while massive, is not a complete disaster.
Hi Peter, I Laugh Ironically as I write
10 points:
1: Get Gina Rhinehart to advise you!
2: remove the cigarette and alcohol tax beyond the GST. (My Goodness cigarettes in Russia are $3.00 for 20 in Russia, to put this in context, Aus. Gov Politicians say we care for your health so we want you to stop smoking, no you are causing poverty and Australian Governments voted to allow people to euthanise.
3: Remove all Aboriginal voices over mining and investments!
4: Stop Immigration from Country’s at war excluding Ukraine
5: Co2 is vital to the Planet so stop kowtowing to the WEF and the UN
6: Drill baby drill, over rule the States as a National Security Issue
7: Over rule the States to Build more Dams as a National water and drought and flood issue.
8: Ban the wind turbines, the Solar Parks and introduce laws the Company’s that produce these Bird killers must repatriate the land as mining Company’s have to!!
9: Don`t back down to Media.
10: Privatise the ABC. ( 30 years now I have watched this channel take out Conservatives, whilst the Labor ministers get up there and get soft interviews, you do not see it, I have not watched for ten years except Landline but no more for two years)
About tariffs, not an economist’s bootlace here and I am grateful for that.
Having established my creds, yes, the people of the importing country will pay the tariffs.
But if it’s applied prudently, and suitable, comparable in quality substitutes are available, and that’s the important bit, then it’s a good economic weapon. (if a sub is not available it only hurt those least able to afford it)
Weaning consumers of the imported products will kill the exporter.
How to destroy a nation in five easy steps
Steyn is good again, how anyone can vote for K H is beyond me.
That CNN interview was a disaster despite all the life savers thrown in she couldn’t catch any.
Mark Steyn
Awaiting the Next Plot Twist
And it went down like a lead balloon –
@GuntherEagleman
JUST ANNOUNCED: Kamala Harris falls at least 5 points in national polling after the CNN interview…
It was that bad.
Centrifuge
Fair dinkum, what a piece of shit:
Keir Starmer removes ‘unsettling’ portrait of Margaret Thatcher from Downing Street (msn.com)
Here’s an excellent condensation on Twitter, with accompanying video.
Well worth the read.
Is he stupid? Nope, he’s not, but it’s certainly a blind spot when it comes to imposing across the board tariffs. There was evidence that the imposition of steel tariffs in his previous administration caused steel prices to rise in the US. The idea that tariffs could replace taxes in the US is fictional as there wouldn’t be enough money raised to replace taxes.
Yes, the US once raised revenue through the imposition of tariffs in the 19th and early 20th centuries. However the US government was tiny compared to now.
It would never get through the Congress anyway.
Imposing tariffs on a foe like China would be another matter though.
What’s extremely stupid is the idea of taxing unrealised capital gains as it would literally bankrupt the US. That’s the policy you support.