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the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour on my birthday My birthday is four days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour.
Oops, link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/09/19/climate-change-a-more-fundamental-threat-than-terrorism-according-to-leftist-uk-govt/
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The Salem Witch Trials commenced on my birthday. I find this highly significant, even though I wasn’t there… ….or was…
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Good moaning all.
Big money from a farm in Germany. Why now? Reparation?
I’ve posted close to 100 clips of this dog and Stevo here. Nothing but the best of humanity on show when it comes to interactions. The only exceptions have been two fat Karen’s at a shopping mall.
I think they got him banned?
I’ll never stop posting this dog.
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Cash 2.0 Great Dane at The Grove and Farmers Market in Los Angeles 78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq2cmiMPS5c
Unsung heroes of war.
Nurses in war, I haven’t read her book, bit of a tear jerker according to my friend who sent me the link, she has read it.
I wouldn’t be surprised, after all those years working as a nurse during the war.
It’s a surprise how not more of them broke down.
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“We all cry in private. But not in front of the boys. Never in front of the boys.” – June Wandrey
“An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward, and he looks up at me trustingly asking, “How am I doing, nurse?” I just kiss his forehead and say, “You are doing just fine soldier.” He smiles sweetly and says, “I was just checking,” then he dies. We all cry in private. But not in front of the boys.
Never in front of the boys.” – June Wandrey
June Wandrey Mann (1920–2005) was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army
Nurse Corps from Wautoma, Wisconsin. She was the author of Bedpan Commando, an account of her military service in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany from 1942 to 1946, during which she was awarded eight battle stars.
Source:
American Military History
(From Indiana Spirit of ’45)
The good old days eh?
I have little time for modern day unionism but there was a dire need for it in the early days of industrial revolution.
Even from just less than 6 Bil K the Earth looks insignificant.
Let us take care of it, and I don’t mean climate change rubbish.
So, this is how they transport huge cargoes?
Human ingenuity is nearly boundless.
A small seaside town I visited today.
The EU is funding a harbour redevelopment. Very ugly atm, especially with the tide out.
My Navan landlady mentioned the black and tans had been active in Trim, extra judicial shootings and hangings, in Balbriggan the sacking is commemorated every year.
Was a glorious autumnal day though, the best weather this trip.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Balbriggan
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez RFK derangement.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Perfect.
https://x.com/Terfs_R/status/1829415269933920418?t=2eIQ57uvudmfVsBkLT1Z1A&s=19
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/08/30/tim-walz-made-kamalas-first-interview-worse-not-better-n4932117
an ugly old turd in every way
Gerard Henderson in this Weekend Paywallion:
How campuses became hotbeds of anti-Semitism
Gerard Henderson
31 Aug 2024
There was a time when anti-Semitism was virtually non-existent on Australian university campuses. I recall a debate at Melbourne University just after the Six Day War of June 5-10, 1967, when Israel fought – and won – a defensive war against the combined military forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
Israel’s victory led to the capture of the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip (from Egypt), the West Bank and East Jerusalem (from Jordan) and the Golan Heights (from Syria). Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in April 1982 and gave autonomy to Gaza in 2005. Negotiations concerning the West Bank have continued in search of what is called a two-state solution.
The Melbourne University debate in 1967 was attended by students, academics and some others. Speakers from both the Arab and Israeli sides were heard with respect. And then a vote was taken in which Israel was supported by a large majority. It was a time when both the left and political conservatives supported the existence of a Jewish state within secure borders.
One of the speakers on the pro-Israel side was Dr Frank Knopfelmacher who held a position in the psychology department. He was best known as an informed and intellectually courageous anti-communist whose criticism of communist totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia proved to be correct.
Recently, Connor Court published Frank Knopfelmacher: Selected Writings. It contains an essay that was published in Quadrant in November-December 1967, titled “The Consequences of Israel”.
Knopfelmacher had been the star performer at the university debate with some great lines and a few telling jokes. He was much more restrained in his Quadrant piece, for he could see the problems with Israel’s victory in the field of battle. As Knopfelmacher put it: “Jews have now ceased to be victims” in that “from the ashes of six million dead” in the Holocaust “a pretty commonplace phoenix has arisen” which looks like “a tough Yankee or French hawk”.
He added, “in losing their status as victims … the Jews will lose their status as pets of the left” since “in the eyes of the masochistic left” the Jews have “committed the most unpardonable of crimes: they have won, and they have sent the New Emergent Forces packing”.
And so it came to pass. On October 6, 1973 – on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur – Egypt and Syria went to war with Israel. Egypt attacked from the Suez Canal and Syria attempted to break through on the Golan Heights. After some hesitation, the United States supplied Israel with military weapons while the Soviet Union supplied arms to Egypt and Syria. By the end of October 1973, Israel had prevailed.
In 1973, I had a teaching position at Melbourne’s La Trobe University. It was only half a dozen years since the Six Day War but the atmosphere on campuses in Australia had changed dramatically. If there had been a debate on the war, the outcome would have been close.
The problem for Israel now turned on the fact that it was recognised as a
military superpower in the Middle East and an ally of the United States. Writing in the Daily Telegraph on August 13, the Melbourne lawyer and businessman Joe Gersh (who is a member of The Sydney Institute’s board) recalled debates about the Middle East in the Australian Union of Students in the early 1970s following the Yom Kippur War.
Gersh was president of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students. As he wrote, by the mid-1970s AUS motions to effectively wipe Israel off the map were defeated. But not without having been moved and gaining significant support.
Half a century later, the hostility to Israel has increased dramatically on campuses in Australia and other Western nations. Now the student bodies – with the support of many academics – are totally hostile to the Jewish state. Despite the fact that it is the only democracy in the Middle East.
On August 7, the Student Representatives Council at Sydney University passed a motion calling for a single state in what it termed Palestine. This would lead to the destruction of Israel. The meeting refused to condemn the terrorist group Hamas. Both motions were passed by about 800 to a couple of votes and only one side of the debate was heard. Moreover, the few dissenters were abused.
Soon after the event, organisers marched to the office of Sydney University Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott chanting: “We don’t want no two states; we want all of ’48.” As Bret Stephens pointed out in The New York Times on April 2, this is a demand for Israel’s demolition.
Speaking on Sky News’ The Bolt Report last Tuesday, Julian Leeser – the Liberal Party member for Berowra who is Jewish – said that Jewish students at Sydney University do not feel safe on the campus. He commented that anti-Semitism was a problem before October 7 but had “reached fever pitch since that time and the university authorities have just failed to take action”.
According to Leeser, “We’ve had Jewish students spat on, we’ve had Jewish students wearing yarmulkes … being taunted and told they are responsible for the actions of the Israel Defence Forces”. He pointed out that anti-Semitism had increased significantly with the encampment on campus.
For his part, Scott has declared that the “greatest gift” he could give “Jewish students and staff was for the encampment to go”. He is referring to a time of some eight weeks. Really. Also, part of the “gift” was to give the Sydney University Muslim Students Association – which has connections to Hizb ut-Tahrir (an organisation banned in Germany and Britain) – a right to be consulted on defence and security matters related to the university.
And then on Thursday, Sydney University announced that a professor who described the Hamas atrocities committed on October 7 as “fake news” and a hoax – including the rape of women and murder of children – would be disciplined, but refrained from stating what this might amount to. Presumably, this is another one of Scott’s “gifts”. Knopfelmacher would not have been surprised by such weakness.
Gerard Henderson is executive director of The Sydney Institute.
Miltonf
August 31, 2024 5:44 am
What I don’t get is, why does he insists with his military records?
Surely he thinks it doesn’t matter or the MSM covers up fro him.
odd that CNN actually asked the old creep some difficult questions
People had to die for Germany to start doing this.
https://www.dw.com/en/deportation-flight-leaves-germany-for-afghanistan/a-70087498
So, I guess everyone is still “over the moon” about the IDF intervention in Gaza? Especially military geniuses like Knuckledrageer, Bespoke, Lizzie et al.
Lets see:
the PM, (Bibi Pfizer), has called the IDF Generals cowards and there are now huge rifts between the Military and politicians,
the economy is falling through the floor, (another credit downgrade last week),
secular Jews are leaving Israel by the tens of thousands,
well over 100,000 Israeli’s are displaced,
the majority of the world want nothing to do with Israel any more,
the IDF are still fighting Hamas in Gaza after almost 11 months, and
now Israel is looking at full on conflicts with Hezbollah and Iran as well.
When was the last time Israel fought a hot war for 11 months?
The conscript IDF is not designed for urban warfare or extended conflict, which is why morale in the IDF is at an all time low.
Hezbollah launched a rocket attack Thursday, after Israel launched a very significant air assault on Lebanon. (More than 100 aircraft).
Israel said minimal damage occurred and only one person was killed.
Then, they immediately censored any footage of the strike damage being shown.
Still, the main aim of the Gaza operation still succeeds. That is, to keep Bibi and his crooked wife out of gaol.
As soon as hostilities cease, they will both be tried, convicted and sent to prison for the rest of their worthless, vile lives.
No amount of Israeli lives thrown away in Gaza, Lebanon or against Iran is too many to achieve that goal.
Very similar to St Volodymyr the Pure!
Interesting story, and one worth reading, in today’s Oz about wealthy Jewish donors, benefactors and philanthropists pulling their dosh from numerous Australian artistic, women’s and environmental organisations. Good.
The piece is called…
Jewish donors are pulling and redirecting their funds as they ‘despair’ at rise of anti-Semitism
It’s quite a long piece, too long to cut and paste. However I’ll paste this small bit….
Jewish philanthropists are in “despair” as they push back against the anti-Semitism that has exploded in the wake of the Israel-Gaza conflict and created an environment for prominent donors and Jewish artists that has been described as “toxic”, “destructive” and full of “vitriol’’.
A quiet revolt against “bullying” and anti-Semitic rhetoric, used by some pro-Palestinian activists including publicly subsidised artists, has seen Jewish donors withdraw or redirect their funding deals with environmental, women’s or arts groups.
Lillian Kline, head of philanthropy for the Victor Smorgon group, said the fallout from the Israel-Gaza war “has had a massive impact on, not just Jewish philanthropy, but philanthropy across the board in Australia’’ and left some Jewish donor families in “despair’’.
“For Jewish people it has led to absolutely a re-examination of strategic priorities of funding, and there were many conversations in the wake of October 7 to strategically fund both Jewish and non-Jewish organisations in the wake of rising anti-Semitism,’’ she said.
Good. You see, and I know it’s cliched but money talks. So, I look forward to these organisations, many now ideologically captured by far-left activists and many who now, post October 7, openly espouse and celebrate vile Jew hatred, getting the same amounts of dosh from Arab/Muslim groups………LOL.
You make your bed, you lie in it.
Season update!
Spring is springing and all the birds are in full song this morning ahead of sunrise.
For us it’s been another phenomenal year which makes it the forth in a row. Canola is at or just past 100% flower, barley pushing heads up with wheat about a week behind and lentils as high as my upper shin.
Some frost damage in the canola with two small sections of aborted pods on the primary stalk but overall looking great. Flowers in some cases as high as my chin. No bugs as yet but there’s a horde of Heliothis flying around every night now so it won’t be long and the grubs will be chewing at the pods. Lentils also at risk from these voracious bugs later as well.
Aphids and Red Legged Earth mites have made an appearance in large numbers in the early sown wheat variety (Raider) so the operation for the next few days is to get them sprayed.
To my uneducated eye it looks very much as though another LaNina is setting up so it could be “look out” for another wet harvest.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/
Note the Nino 3.4 SST Anomaly has fallen off a cliff in the last week and the Indian Ocean Dipole looks set to go negative as well.
Working on my header in between everything else in preparation to what I hope will be an early start to harvest at my Walgett client. A huge crop up there this year with an almost perfect season.
All that rain that was never going to fall again and fill our dams and river systems has, and it certainly makes for busy times.
*I know things are not as good for Gez this year. Spoke to a mate a Wycheproof the other day and he’s nearly out of moisture with only an average year to be expected IF and only if they get a soft spring.
More from the Oz piece….
The Weekend Australian can reveal one Jewish philanthropist recently withdrew her financial support for the Biennale of Sydney and the government-funded Artspace visual art centre in inner Sydney because of social media posts she considered anti-Semitic. She said that within the visual arts, “the vitriol is beyond imagining”, partly because of peer “bullying” if artists weren’t aligned with an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian cause.
As a long-time visual arts donor, she said: “I am absolutely shocked and betrayed and disturbed by the lack of thought by so many artists who rely on private collectors to support them and purchase their work … A lot of people (other Jewish donors) feel the same way.’’
Well, it’s high time those ‘artists’ suffered some consequences.
Wimmera report.
A big general rain is needed in the west of the state. Moisture is adequate in some areas for now but borderline in most parts.
Crops are four weeks behind in maturity which is a concern if the dry continued and temperatures get above normal.
Canola is early flowering on fallow paddocks but any sown on legume stubbles are bolting on a poor vegetative base.
Wheat looks OK and barley stands out as the winner at the moment. If you grew nothing but barley as a cereal in most years you’d be ahead.
Legumes have a lot of work ahead to be a crop. Lentils don’t have full ground cover yet and I think beans won’t amount to much.
Still no real bulk of feed for sheep and other stock. Dry windy weather shows on pasture around trees which has that wilted look during the afternoon.
There’s still plenty of hope around with spreaders putting a top up rate of urea out this last couple of weeks. We just love throwing money at crops!
Spoke to an old friend from Ouyen at the protest rally in Bendigo. He said it’s very iffy there and they certainly don’t need temperatures in the high twenties before a good rain as the crops would fall apart.
Patchy is the word for this year but we’ve had a dream run off late and shouldn’t complain too much. Most blokes are still carrying stocks from last year, though they won’t talk too much about it.
We live in hope.
Two-Thirds Of Americans Now Believe That The American Dream Is Unattainable | ZeroHedge
It has been aborted by successive Dem admins plus interference during Trump’s last term.
In other news.
A battery project fifty kms to the south of us had been approved by the state government in just nine weeks and the carpet baggers are crowing.
Throwing fire risk and costs onto the rural community is now a policy for Labor. We will bring them down, count my words.
The BBC has its undies in a knot over the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) polling really well in local elections. It’s the best result for them in a long time, “since the Nazis” bleated the Beeb. Over there, like here, you can’t just be conservative, you have to be called “extreme right”.
Like Kamala, Scholz is taking on some conservative methods and deporting some illegals.
Zuby raises some interesting points in a longer than average Lotus Eaters.
Where Fr Calvin loses any chance of a Bishopric in the C of E by endorsing heresy.
Labor kicks a hornet’s nest with the Indigenous Heritage ActChris Kenny
7 hours ago
82 comments
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek would have made herself something of a hero to radical Indigenous activists when she used section 10 of the Indigenous Heritage Act to ban the tailings dam for the proposed Regis Resources goldmine near Blayney in the Central West region of NSW.
Here was federal Labor, less than a year after turning the Indigenous voice into a divisive failure, trying to prove its heart-on-the-sleeve commitment to Aboriginal empowerment. Only, just like its handling of the voice, it will achieve the opposite.
Plibersek has kicked a hornet’s nest by ignoring the most appropriate heritage custodians and making judgments about cultural interpretations that at least are contested and, in the view of some Indigenous people, may have been fabricated.
This controversy has a long way to play out and likely will undermine trust and become another setback for reconciliation, not to mention creating investment uncertainty and more political pain for the Albanese government. The echoes down the decades from Hindmarsh Island are deafening.
The fabrication of secret women’s business to block a proposed bridge to Hindmarsh Island near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia could easily have gone unexposed. It certainly worked initially; the federal Aboriginal affairs minister at the time, Robert Tickner, used the secret information, sight unseen, to ban the bridge in 1994, giving Indigenous activists a famous victory.
If it had been left at that, perhaps people would still be taking ferries across the Murray to the island, and the marina development reliant on a bridge would have been curtailed. And perhaps the secret women’s business of Hindmarsh Island would have been passed down to generations of Ngarrindjeri women.
But a brave group of Indigenous women stood up. They were intent on standing up for the truth and preventing their Ngarrindjeri culture from being bastardised for quasi-political gain.
Led by Dulcie Wilson and Dorothy Wilson, they called out the hoax in 1995. After I checked and verified their claims and they went public with their dissent, my investigations continued and forced a royal commission that vindicated their stand, confirmed the fabrication and gave a clarion warning to the nation about Indigenous cultural heritage claims.
The bridge was built and opened within years. Then Dulcie, Dorothy and the other truth-tellers of the Ngarrindjeri community went back to their community lives.
Three of their leading lights, Dulcie, Bertha Gollan and Beryl Kropinyeri, have since died. But back on the day we gathered to celebrate the royal commission findings in December 1995 Kropinyeri matter-of-factly summarised what was at stake, and I used the quote on the title page of my book about the saga: “Reconciliation starts with the truth.”
These women experienced considerable trauma and won no benefits from their principled stand. And I wonder now whether it was worth their while because it seems the nation, or at least the Labor politicians, have learned nothing.
Once again, this month, a federal government minister, Plibersek, has banned a project based on contested Indigenous cultural heritage claims. In doing so, she said the reasons must be kept secret.
Regis Resources spent five years on planning, environmental and Indigenous approvals, including winning the assent of the Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council, for the new goldmine, between Bathurst and Orange. Yet at the last minute another Indigenous group convinced the minister to ban the mine’s proposed tailings dam.
Plibersek’s formal statement cited “traditions … disclosed to me privately” that “must remain confidential due to their cultural sensitivity”. So much for transparent government, I guess, but at least Plibersek was told about these traditions, even though her explanation for keeping them secret is thin and convenient.
When it came to the Hindmarsh Island secret women’s business, Tickner decided he could not assess the claims on account of his sex so he had female anthropologist Deane Fergie examine them. You could drive a truck through her emotive, wishy-washy report (and I later did) but Tickner took her word, banned the bridge and became a hero to Indigenous activists and the green left – for a while. Within a year the whole farce caved in on him.
Some people think that Donald Trump was not at the DNC. In fact he was to be found everywhere.
@WallStreetApes
@BRICSinfo
JUST IN: Brazil to fine anyone using a VPN to access X (Twitter) up to $8,874 per day.
This follow today’s announcement of Brazil’s Supreme Court officially banning X in the country.
I think it’s fair to say that the US State Department and three letter agencies are largely responsible for turning Brazil into a totalitarian state and they’re working hard on repeating the story in the US itself.
HUGE! US State Department Pushed “Voting Machine Semiconductors” Prior to Brazilian Election – Then CIA Pressured Populist Candidate Jair Bolsonaro to Keep His Mouth Shut When He Lost! – Elon Musk Responds!
Pro-Hamas group push Aussie government for MORE Gazan refugees
Someone needs to explain how this is actually legal to serve to people
How seed oils are made has put me off Canola oil, Sunflower oil and the like I now only use olive oil, macadamia oil, and avocado oil — a drop of sesame oil is essential and so tasty so that’s OK. I don’t know about bran oil I haven’t looked into that — I don’t know about the Nuttelex butter substitue either.
I do know that over the weekend when my little granddaughters had a sleepover they specifically asked to drink COW’s milk — clearly they’ve had it with the rice, soy and almond ‘milks’
Muddy, thanks for your OT comment at 9:20 considering the covidfascism visited upon us by the Public Service and the police. A Public Service so isolated from the community that they no longer exhibit any traditional Oz cultural values. The ease with which they crossed the line into full blown fascism is terrifying.
Your summary rekindled my barely repressed rage at what they did to our society.
I reserve a special contempt for the police. I am resolved to express that contempt during any future encounter that I may have with those whores.
For me, two examples stand out to demonstrate the police contempt for for our value system.
Firstly, for Australians, encouraging (demanding) ‘dobbing’ is nothing less than scab behaviour.
But the ultimate demonstration that the police are no longer members of civil society was the raiding of funeral services. Our language lacks words of sufficient disgust to describe what kind of animal would have engaged in that outrage. “Just doing their job” doesn’t cut it by a huge margin.
They live amongst us, indeed. In the days when Australia possessed a culture, every one of the bastards would have discovered prawn shells in their letterbox.
Early morning coffee on the verandah overlooking the Avon Valley, and reading Graham Lord’s authorized biography of David Niven.
James Graham David Niven emerges as a man with a life that was a bit of a train smash, a determination never to let the truth get in the way of a good story, and a record with the ladies that would make Giacomo Casanova green with envy…
Truth doesn’t come into it any more.
@ReduxxMag
A German court has ordered the Hoss and Hopf Podcast to delete an episode where the hosts referred to a balding trans-identified male by “he/him” pronouns.
The hosts now face a €250,000 fine or even jail time for misgendering Nicolas “Laura” Holstein.
@VivekGRamaswamy
The media was trying to gin up a scandal about Trump being rude to someone there but they didn’t mention that Biden/Harris hadn’t even responded to the invitation to attend.
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Gold Star Family Member confirms Biden and Kamala were invited to the Arlington Memorial service
“We never heard back from them”
“This movement was born out of the need to stand for justice. All of our eyes are fixed on the injustice in Gaza. Something needed to be done and so a decision to mobilise was made,” he said.
You read this rubbish and realise that for these neanderthals Oct 7 never happened and they are the victims of, unjustified, persecution .. FFS!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/labor-will-have-itself-to-blame-if-it-loses-western-sydney-over-gaza-issue-says-muslim-vote-convener/ar-AA1pIRsY?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6a0a374683c54b29b91210bf5e5f043c&ei=16
Minister says he failed to read damning cashless debit cards reportDavid Penberthy
12 hours ago
43 comments
South Australian Indigenous Affairs Minister Kyam Maher is under fire after admitting he failed to read a damning report showing the abolition of cashless debit cards has led to increased violence and alcohol abuse in remote communities.
The independent report by the University of Adelaide shows that while many Indigenous Australians welcomed the removal of the cards, most key stakeholders including business owners, tourist operators and local residents said their abolition had been largely negative.
The cards were introduced by the Coalition government in 2016 and were operating on a trial basis in Ceduna in SA, the Kimberley and Goldfields in Western Australia, and the Bundaberg/Hervey Bay region in Queensland.
In keeping with its election promise, the Albanese government abolished the cards in October 2022, labelling them paternalistic and ineffective.
But the UA report shows that in these four communities – most notedly Ceduna – many people interviewed by researchers reported an increase in lawlessness once the cards were removed.
Stakeholders also said the removal of the cards was so sudden that communities were immediately hit by a surge in bad behaviour, with no plan to transition people with alcohol and drug problems into managing their own affairs.
The cards quarantined 80 per cent of the bearer’s welfare payments so money could not be spent on alcohol, gambling or unmonitored cash withdrawals.
The UA report was released in early July but Mr Maher, who is also Attorney-General, told Parliament this week in response to questioning by the Liberals about its disturbing findings that he had not read it.
“The report’s findings were unequivocal,” Liberal MLC Ben Hood told Mr Maher. “The report found declining levels of child wellbeing and welfare, children not being fed or clothed properly due to cash being spent on alcohol and gambling, increased instances of unsupervised children on the streets at night, and decreased school attendance, particularly in Ceduna.
“Has the minister read the report? Does he stand by his previous comments that the Liberals are misrepresenting the situation in Ceduna?”
Mr Maher said: “I haven’t read the report but I certainly will.”
He questioned the methodology of the report and strongly defended the abolition of the cards which he said had been “weaponised” to “demonise” Aboriginal people for political gain.
“I will be very interested to see whether the report draws a distinction between areas that have never had that card in place,” he said. “It would of course need to have that comparison against other places in order to draw any conclusions whatsoever about the removal of the card and any impacts it has had.
“What I certainly won’t resile from is my disappointment, and certainly the local Aboriginal community leaders’ disappointment, in some of the demonising of Aboriginal people that has gone on for purely political gain.
“To demonise Aboriginal people and to weaponise disadvantage is a deeply unfortunate thing that some do for their own political advantage.”
Mr Maher told The Weekend Australian he had always intended to read the report but noted three other studies had already shown the cards were not as effective as their supporters claimed.
I wonder how many things we wouldn’t even be aware of?
@catturd2
I hope everyone fully understands … without @elonmusk buying Twitter, the world would be in big trouble right now.
Although Elon’s adventures in Space, Tesla, etc. are incredibly impressive … saving free speech will be his legacy.
Without free speech, everything else goes away.
ABC News rejects Kamala Harris’ last-minute bid to change Trump debate rules, will keep muted mics
Care factor … ZERO .. on yer bike, doc …!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/perth-doctor-mohammed-mustafa-provides-chilling-account-from-hospitals-of-gaza/ar-AA1pCqkt?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=d7fdd36d41034d799a80d786910c731d&ei=18
Kim Howard, last night:
#2 The cigarette black market – as predictable as the dawn – is enabling organised crime. It’s not the governments job to decide peoples smoking decisions for them. And get rid of the plethora of regs that interfere with the owners of pubs, etc to make commercial decisions about their own property.
#3 Remove all the racist laws that elevate one Australian above another.
#4 Binding Referendum on Immigration.
#5 Binding Referendum on UN membership.
#6 Binding Referendum on the right to drill and mine.
#7 Federal Flood/Drought Aid tied to State Legislation regarding water resources.
#8 Remove all subsidies to power generation. Repudiate Net Zero.
#10 Shut it down. Rabz Doctrine.
Anyone get the feeling that despite the Hindmarsh Is feelz of the McPhillamy Park mine affair that Plibbers is going to skate through with barely a scratch?
Media wonder why trust is so low in their profession too…
Some don’t keep their wounds green.
Great-granny lotocoti got whacked by the B&Ts for breaking curfew in deepest, darkest Co. Monaghan, of all places.
Shot for being Irish is the way it’s described (with plenty of eye-rolling)
by those who view the past as passed.
However, the way her second eldest, who earned a particularly impressive Gazette entry two years earlier, went full HAM afterwards, is still viewed with pride.
Neil Oliver really cuts loose. Unfortunately, everything he says is true.
How much more ‘unchecked HYPOCRISY’ and ‘blatant breaches of trust’ can the public take?
I note Dutton has joined Albanese in backflipping on the ‘sexuality’ census question, going from “it’s woke” to “fine.”
What I’d like to know is what is the rationale?
Besides pandering to a minority that apparently needs to be affirmed at every opportunity, that is.
Labour in the UK want to ban smoking.
Australia proves exactly why Keir Starmer’s smoking ban won’t work (Express, 30 Aug)
Given the prevalence of lawlessness in certain parts of the UK there will be plenty of cheerful fag salemen available. Cheap too, since I doubt they will be paying excise or VAT. Zero chance of enforcing a ban. Meanwhile pubs will be going out of business since they’re an easy target for plod fascists.
It would appear likely thanks to the Greens, Pocock & Thorpe:
Cohenite, last night about Starmer and the Margaret Thatcher portrait:
Another regional report.
The half year could not have been more perfect on the Gregory. The autumn rain held off sufficiently to allow the summer planting to be harvested without stoppages and reserve moisture was sufficient for the contractors to undertake the winter seeding confident that the traditional spring dry will not be an issue.
All of which will no longer be my concern. After eighteen months of, at times, intense effort, the sale of the property to our manager couple will be enacted next week.
Vendor financed purchases are high risk for the purchaser when the vendor is elderly. An agressive estate administrator can attempt to overthrow the arrangement and make costs impossible for the purchaser.
I eventually overcame my reluctance and brought Elders on as advisors. They were outstanding. I guess a hundred plus years of handling property transitions has seen them confront every possible circumstance and have off the shelf strategies available.
The Gergory is an impossibly wild district but I am going to miss it.
The last remaining act, and the one of which I am most reluctant, is to sell the venerable 210 that has carried us back and forwards for nearly twenty years. Another miracle of mid-twentieth century engineering.
Starmer and the Margaret Thatcher portrait:
Hope Maggie comes back to haunt him and give him bad dreams.
Filthy lawyer socialist.
For those interested Megan Kelly latest podcast has a good analysis of the Harris Waltz CNN interview.
For the mentally challenged JC the interview can be found at a place called YouTube. Just type in Megyn Kelly in the search.
I’m sure she has better things to do.
Meanwhile, Starmer will be kept awake at night by his poor polling.
Sad story.
STS Leeuwin II destroyed following incident at Fremantle Port (30 Aug)
She may be able to be rebuilt if the hull is ok, but the ship looks in really bad shape. The guys were very lucky.
The “and more” includes the royalties and taxes that allow governments to provide services such as hospitals and schools, not to mention electricity bill rebates.
Thatcher had more substance and competence in her little finger than Starmer ever will.
Maybe he feels inadequate with her portrait staring at him every time he walks past.
Britain since the war has had some woeful PM’s Atlee, I heard Wilson was bad and Blair which the latter I remember.* I reckon on present trajectory Starmer will join their ranks if he isn’t booted first.
*Know there are some expat Pom’s here with longer lifespans than mine be interesting to hear their opinions
Going to the Avoca Hotel for lunch with my youngest daughter and my wife. It’s a late birthday and early Father’s Day treat. Under new management and got a recommendation from a shearer yesterday.
Plenty of wineries around Avoca to fill in the afternoon. Moving a big mob of ewes and lambs fresh from shearing this week. I should get them there in good time as I’m on a warning not to be late heading off.
Let’s hope someone’s yanking her chain.
Otherwise it’d really kick off.
Atlee is generally regarded as second only to Churchill by both historians and popular acclaim. He guided Britian through a very difficult post-war period and took on the Communist challenge successfully.
Thatcher rated Atlee very highly in her memoirs, commending his patriotism and remarking that, in contrast to most modern politicians, he was “all substance, no show.”
Cassie earlier.
The Smorgon family are massive donors to all sorts of things in Melbourne, and are very influential in philanthropic circles.
if they start something others follow.
And they support causes which aren’t necessarily tied to the Jewish faith. For example, there is a huge Smorgon wing at the nominally Catholic Cabrini hospital.
I suspect donors like the Smorgons will now start becoming very prescriptive about the the structure and composition of organisations they donate to. Where previously they might have tolerated the odd feral on a board of a recipient organisation, those days are gone. We won’t see the impact straight away, but as money is diverted to other causes, we will see Pally-pals on the boards of arts organisations, hospitals and private schools getting a quiet tap on the shoulder.
ZK2A 0750:
Plibersek has kicked a hornet’s nest by ignoring the most appropriate heritage custodians and making judgments about cultural interpretations that at least are contested and, in the view of some Indigenous people, may have been fabricated.
So here’s the problem. Will the media be willing to ask the questions about this group that claim aboriginal heritage – that have suddenly appeared from a very murky background – or will they be bedazzled by the brilliance of the Plibersek Teddy?*
*I’m working on replacing a certain West Australian codpiece. Feel free to add your own bits.
simple “houso” that I am, my idea is you come along find some ground no one else has that looks promising buy it and mine it in the shortest possible time for best profit ……
Even if you own the land freehold, the Crown still owns any valuable minerals. The reason it takes so long to get a mine in operation is because of the red, green and black tape hurdles.
It is amazing that were weren’t at Argentina or Venezuela levels long ago but we’ll get there.
Will the media be willing to ask the questions about this group that claim aboriginal heritage – that have suddenly appeared from a very murky background
The Slovenian Hag/Dealer’s Missus has dropped herself into a pile of shit with this decision.
And the horrible hag with British teeth that pretends to be an Abo has to be investigated. An organisation with 18 members that are not listed that can force an opinion on a minister of state reeks of corruption.
Follow the money.
Shatterzzz wot Eyrie said. I’ve been a cog in all stages of mine development. Some you know from early on will be a no-goer but the client will generally exhaust all avenues before running up the white flag so that’s why these things take so long.
If the Geology of the area is unfavourable but worth the risk/return that adds extra complexity.
Lucky here in Queensland most of our mining areas are well over a thousand km from where the green rabble rousers live and the cultural heritage mobs are reasonable.
Outta here, enough thread bombing for one morning and I got to be sociable. Bloody dreary cool central Vic day outside.
I’m raising the rent, Rooster.
By the way, I saw this and it reminds me of you. Also on YouTube
Roger
August 31, 2024 8:57 am
What’s the rationale?
Well, let’s say the real level of trannies in the population is 0.2%.
The census will become a tool for fellow lefty travellers to tick the box as a sign of solidarity and, along with the odd jokester ticking the box for fun, the census number will come in at 2-4%.
This justifies buckets of funding and an imperative to “give them a voice”
That’s a motive, not a rationale.
And likely the truth.
This is where identity politics leads.
Someone say “buckets of money” and “voice”…?
‘Significant fraud’: Warning ignored about people ‘self identifying’ as Indigenous (Tele, paywalled)
Gotta wonder about a certain gold mine too.
The global war on free speech online | spiked podcast
“Dictatorial, Authoritarian, Verging On FASCIST!” Labour Plan Health Checks For People At Work
When you think about it, it is terrifying that merit has been so eroded that a transparently bubble- headed whiny bimbo such as Kamalala is in a position to possibly become president.
Historians (assuming at some point in the future there will actually still be properly qualified historians) will write tomes on how this happened.
The gold mine sabotage needs to be investigated and the wreckers brought to book. What is it with these foul old wimmin?
At least Hillary had the appearance of competence from a distance.
Of course, her disqualifying attribute was that she was transparently a bitch.
That census question on sexualities shall be so open to ridiculous answers from the public…
Do we fully understand it yet?
The problem with conceding industry after industry after industry and making excuses about “competitive advantage, old man” is that eventually the wreckers will run through EVERYTHING.
Tinta’s raised discussion of ‘seed oils’ and human consumption of them.
I’m doing my low-carb diet thing, trying to change a few high-carb habits, so I’ve been immersed in the Youtube videos of hows and how not to’s. Seed oils do seem to be rather suspect (though short-term epidemiological studies show no ill effect, as you might expect short term). This debate, and the debate about ‘dangerous’ colourful vegetables full of basic poisons to repel plant predators, are simply part and parcel of a bigger picture of human plant and grain production and dependence that’s intruded onto human diet since the Neolithic. Large-animal flesh eating was part of some hunter-gatherer lives on open savanah lands, but not so much for others, jungle dwellers who ate nuts, berries and root vegies to supplement small animal meat sources. Dependence on bovine meat and milk is also ancient and no doubt shows adaptive mechanisms (the A1 vs A2 controversy indicates that).
Where it leaves us is anybody’s guess. One point is that humans do seem to have an omnivore dental impress going back to paleolithic times; which may of course have been related to tool-using replacing the need for pongid (ape) canine teeth when it came to the meat eating diet – and of course the very early hominid use of fire for roasting meats soft made a meat diet more nutritionallly accessible for brain development.
Much is made in the videos of the fact that we can survive well entirely on meat and animal fats which we turn into glucose, but that survival without some meat leads to nutritional deficits. This all turns the ‘healthy’ food pyramid on its head and leads to calls to revise the dietary advice in order to avoid the modern ‘obesity epidemic’. While much of that epidemic is due to over-eating highly processed glucose-rich foods, it does suggest we should turn our agriculture immediately back to increased meat production on pastures. And the climate hysterics insist we do the exact opposite!!
My neighbour’s place is up for rent. It has been rental for the entire duration I haven been here. The agent has listed for $100-$150 less than others in the vicinity. Nearly 25 groups went through.
I am putting my assessment of Kamala, made in reply to Arky, up here as a main comment. As has been noted by some, no-one really reads the ‘reply’ comments. I think we are starting to see the true Kamala in that ‘reliant on notes still’ very soft ‘interview’ which was more like a campaign ad.
My impression: when Kamala ‘gets serious’ she comes across as rather ugly and uncertain. It is clear that her broad glowing smile is there as a defense mechanism to hide the underlying lack of confidence (hold my hand, Daddy Walz) and to animate a face that is otherwise full of anxiety.
JC,
An interesting and somewhat hypocritical comment :
“I’m raising the rent, Rooster”.
It is you who constantly reacts with the same childish comment each time I mention something but don’t put a link. I guess you are too dumb to realise the fact you constantly mention it guarantees I will never do it. Yet you still persist. I guess being a blog Prefect is still important to your mental well being and reminds you of when you were the cowardly bully at school.
In fact you remind me of the Pavlov dog as your reaction is so predictable. Since you have a nickname for me I think it fair I now address you by a nickname. I am torn between Pavlov’s dog or just Woof Woof. Waltz also springs to mind as he is somebody who follows someone else around but is lacking in substance. Tough choice.
Mad Karen science news.
Lower speeds on local streets cut deaths, injuries by a quarter in Wales—experts want Australia to do the same (TechXplore, 30 Aug)
The 20 mph speed limit in Wales is immensely unpopular. It probably will cause the current government to be booted unceremoniously at the next election. Here’s who this creature is:
Friggin UniSyd yet again. As an extremely irate alum I recommend bulldozing it flat.
Welsh Labour’s ‘barmy’ 20mph speed limit overwhelmingly rejected by drivers in new poll (20 Aug)
The elites and the globalists undid us bit by bit.
The played one part of us against another, time after time after time.
They applied labels to people depending on the outcome they wanted.
People became “consumers” or “minorities” or “traditional owners” or “workers” or “stakeholders” or “the xyz community” depending on what thing was being dismantled.
Imagine if we hadn’t let them dismantled the footware and apparel industries for the sake of “consumers”. Then they wouldn’t have been able to go on to other industries. They wouldn’t have had an army of malcontents to run through the universities, the tertiary sector wouldn’t have become the woke monster and visa factory it became. The CCP would still be overseeing a billion illiterate peasants.
We would be taking our own resources, using our own people and modern technologies to turn them into consumer goods and exporting the excess into our region.
Instead we have a million pseudo- educated harpies with little to do and in the position to ram DEI down everyone’s throats.
Could anyone here honestly say that the contents of our c suits, universities and HR departments wouldn’t be more efficiently deployed sewing shirts, socks and undies?
Good to see Trump is now saying he will vote No on Florida’s Amendment 4.
Here’s the link to Megan Kelly analysing the Kamala Harris interview.
It wasn’t as easy to find as suggested by someone who couldn’t be bothered putting it up.
Essential viewing.
Looks like Elon’s back in business again.
The fun thing is the Launches page only lists the Florida one. Maybe that’s why the FAA got their finger out for a change, after a booster fell off the drone ship and sank in the Atlantic this week, and recertified Falcon 9 in record time. Uncle Sam wants whatever the secret satellite is up in the sky pronto!
(The Polaris Dawn manned mission is still on hold because of unsettled weather off of Florida.)
Looks like Elon’s back in business again.
The FAA’s business is protection of the general public. A stage falling off a DRONE ship puts nobody at risk. None of the FAA’s business. They seem to be trying hard to model themselves on CASA.
Ukraine’s military strategy is all over the shop now. Kursk is turning to dust in their mouths, the line in Donbass is now going through a slow motion collapse, and they are now reduced to firing MLRS at the city of Belgorod to no end apart from spilling blood.
Bruce of Newcastle
August 31, 2024 9:33 am
Sad story.
STS Leeuwin II destroyed following incident at Fremantle Port (30 Aug)
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I had a great night on that boat. The Printers Association booked it and we were the first that was allowed to take booze onboard. It’s usually a dry boat.
Great crew, great food. I remember leaving Freo for Rotto. As soon as the sails were unfurled it took of like a rocket. It spun me out. I climbed the mast and read the brass plague at the top. The crew said don’t tell anybody what it says. They have to climb up find out for themselves
If it is a write off, I’ll spill the beans.
Leak Jr really doesn’t hold back when it comes to displaying his contempt for collectivist cretins, entirely unsurprising given they hounded his old man into an early grave.
His rendition of that mad ol’ fraud “Aunty Nyree” is absolutely brutal and spot on.
I’d rather they were out either shovelling pigsh*t or breaking rocks in the hot sun (or both).
Some honest toil for the most useless and obnoxious people to have existed in human history.
Eat your heart out, Liz Storer and other ‘natural’ anti-plastic fanatics. Good science now exists showing plastics are not ‘forever’.
They disintegrate well in the ocean environment via photosynthesis into harmless carbon dioxide and dissolved organic carbon.
Because his audience is so retarded, it doesn’t matter. He could sodomize a goat in Time Square and it wouldn’t matter. Leftards will vote for him because the Demorats chose him. He knows this so, he’ll bluff his way through. He is also confident the cheat will work.
Good work from the IPA in email to members. Worth supporting.
“This week in Canberra, IPA Research Fellow, Mia Schlicht and I called for the termination of the net zero agenda at the Senate Economics Committee on the proposed Future Made in Australia Bill.
This is part of what Mia told the Senate Committee in her opening statement: “Net zero is creating massive economic and social upheaval across our nation. The legislation will impose significant costs on the Australian economy and our society, while delivering little discernible environmental benefit, and is also creating a substantial national security risk.”
You can watch the highlights of our appearance before the Senate Committee here.
Mia presented analysis that concluded the bill would trade 650,000 existing jobs and 480,000 potential job losses for 145,000 jobs by 2030. For every job created by this proposal, more than eight are threatened, leading to social and economic upheaval in regional communities.
The quality of these jobs is also in question; the jobs created in the renewables sector so far have not been the full-time, high-paying, stable jobs that currently exist. As it stands, the jobs created from renewables projects are part-time, low-paying, and cannot sustain hard-working Australians with families.
We also drew the committee’s attention to the glaring energy generation hole net zero leaves unaddressed. Australia’s competitive edge in energy is in utilising our natural resources in gas and coal. In contrast, the shift towards renewable technologies, driven by investments in finite minerals like lithium and cobalt, places Australia at a significant disadvantage. China is the big player in the processing of these materials, and in the renewable energy sector in general, and is using net zero to re-orient global supply chains around its economic and strategic interests.
The IPA is the only organisation in the nation making these crucial points. There were over 50 submissions to the Senate inquiry, and the IPA’s was the only one recommending the termination of net zero. Your support is vital to this work, enabling us to give a voice to mainstream Australians.”
Just looking at the toxic Winfrey makes me think TV has foisted truly stupid, evil and repulsive people on society. TV – one of the most evil inventions of the 20th century.
Beware politicians posing as paragons of ‘decency’ – spiked (spiked-online.com)
If it weren’t for the gas chamber and sopher forceps, I’d call TV the most evil invention of the 20th C.
It’s been their MO for 1500 years. Nothing at all new here.
Friggin UniSyd yet again. As an extremely irate alum I recommend bulldozing it flat.
Yes.
Why don’t these waste of space people just fcuk off after getting their BA majoring in gender studies loading the taxpayer with a massive HECS debt that will never be paid because they can never get a job paying enough to hit the threshold for repayment through the tax system.
Kids that go straight from school to work at Maccas and climb their way up the ladder to managerial positions and success will be streets ahead of these dickheads whose only claim to fame will be that they joined the Greens party therefore perpetuating their childish idiocy.
(End of Saturday rant ‘cos there’s no footy on – though the Raiders will be on later))
Vikki Campion and Chris Uhlmann(!) have articles today along similar lines.
Fossil fuel bans are hazardous to our health (Paywallian)
by Chris Uhlmann
The fiery pits of hell are powered by wind farms (Tele, paywalled)
by Vikki Campion
Mr Uhlmann lately has been scoffing red pills like jelly beans.
Great bodyguards. Any wild animal attacks and Gabby would go mental!! Then the lion blokes would snap into gear.
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The Lion Whisperer:
What are the Benefits of a UNIQUE BOND with LIONS? | The Lion Whisperer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q6TIm9gAlQ
Mr Uhlmann lately has been scoffing red pills like jelly beans.
Yep.
Not sure if Tom will agree yet but he has been making some sense recently.
His piece in the Oz lambasting hippy doctors demonstrates this.
Enough material here for several Question Times:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/more-aussie-taxpayer-millions-and-millions-and-millions-for-palestinian-communities.html
Rooster:
At the rate you’re going you’ll be homeless with these daily rent increases.
Learn how to link, FFS, you insufferable old karen.
Musk is running at a couple of lawsuits a day. Imagine being his personal lawyer and pocketing the cashola amount.
My apologies Lizzie.
I did not realise typing in YouTube Megyn Kelly and finding all her podcasts (with that episode at the top) was that difficult. It might explain Pavlov dog’s difficulties as his paws probably can’t work the keyboards.
“It wasn’t as easy to find as suggested by someone who couldn’t be bothered putting it up”.
Last day of winter – 31 degrees.
Skuse me, what happened to spring?
I feel for the poor sods at the Seven Network who have to wear a devastating commercial disaster in the AFL off-season in order to keep the AFL rights in winter, which underpin the network’s Australian free-to-air TV ratings leadership.
Part of the deal is that the Seven Network has to air the AFL women’s football (a.k.a the Lezzo League), which is a ratings dog that only relatively small audiences want to watch.
Last Friday week, 1.742 million Australians watched the final Friday night coverage of the AFL men’s home-and-away season – almost as big as the audience for the network’s 6pm news bulletin, for which the AFL acts as a lead-in on key nights.
Even though Seven is giving the same prime-time coverage for the Lezzo League, Seven’s prime-time Friday night audience has been halved as the chicks footy season gets underway.
Only 829,000 Australians watched the Lezzo League last night, resoundingly beaten by the 1.2 million Australians who watched Nine’s Friday night NRL match.
A major problem for AFLW is that it is being played on full-size AFL ovals, but female footballers have only half the physical strength of males, so AFLW scores are roughly half of the men’s game.
Last night’s AFLW game was won by Sydney over Collingwood eight goals to four (50 to 35 points), whereas the men aim to kick 100 points in a winning score.
It’s a giant turn off to TV audiences because it’s like watching a junior boys match.
But that’s the price the Seven Network is prepared to pay: an 15-week ratings disaster culminating in the Lezzo League grand final on November 30.
“Where Fr Calvin loses any chance of a Bishopric in the C of E by endorsing heresy”
Fr Robinson left the Anglicans, he is now Old Catholic but not the main Old Catholics a schism that doesn’t endorse women priests, Nordic Old Catholics?
Postcard from Portugal
The river cruiser we’re on is not allowed to move on Portugal’s Douro River so have just been woken up at 0630 by the engines starting. The Douro is a winding narrow river which meanders through terraced wine country.
Last night’s four-course dinner for the 140 passengers aboard was held in a local winery. If the locals eat that food all the time it’s no wonder quite a few emigrate. The desserts were good but the rest fairly boring: appetisers which weren’t; a lentil sort of vege soup; and some meat which although tasty was insufficient in quantity accompanied by potatoes and cabbage.
Yesterday we went through the river’s biggest lock: a 37m rise in 20 minutes once we were inside. Nice engineering, although the image of being at the bottom of it with the lock gate in front of us holding back 37m of water was memorable in its potential horror. The departure from Porto was also memorable: five bridges, some inspired by engineers from the Victorian era.
Lisbon was nice enough in its central tourist areas: wide streets with trees in the centre, and lots of statues and fountains. The best beggar stakes were raised by spotting one with a guinea pig, and another with a rabbit – presumably employed to raise the income via a pity margin – poor creatures.
Yesterday’s excursion was to the town of Lamego, about 30,000 people. The bus landed us at the top of the nearby small mountain at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, built in 1129. We walked the 780 steps down to the town where they were gearing up for the annual festival in her name.
Sadly just nearby was a firefighting helicopter crash into the river with four killed. The pilot was rescued by a tourist boat. Today is a national day of mourning, the president has just said.
Onto more locks today and an excursion to a medieval town.
In the midst of a pretty depressing period of general life tribulations, there is some joy still (if that word hasn’t been run out of town by the Kamala overdrive). Today, my little 5 year old autistic grandson ran in and instead of racing straight by to prise open a cupboard somewhere actually hugged me and said Lo Grah-ma, first time hug ever, and full of enthusiasm to give it and say it. He is slowly becoming more interactive and his speech, which while it is still very unclear and limited, is at least moving in the right direction, towards short sentences. Toilet training is also happening at last.
Well that was close. Cassie will be happy.
Easts 36 – Norths 35. Shute shield.
Me: What’s the wifi password?
Bartender: You need to buy a drink first
Me: Okay, I’ll have a coke.
Bartender: Is Pepsi okay?
Me: Sure. How much is that?
Bartender: $3
Me: There you go. So, what’s the wifi password?
Bartender: You need to buy a drink first
No spaces, all lowercase.
ha ha very good
From the main thread “Spinning For A Living”.
You might say that politicians, particularly those on the left, have always lied. To a limited extent maybe, but not to this current level. I put it down to the corporate media. Taken over by callow left leaners (and by women who by nature are less inclined to simply stick to the facts), they have long since given away holding authority to account. Now they only hold conservatives to account while buddying up to their left-leaning political mates.
The dealers missus slots into this category so easily. Never one to act responsibly for the good of all Australians. Just to help herself and her dealer husband, who gorges on the NSW public service tit.
Her banning actions are a disgrace to democracy in Australia. 18 unknown people got to her. There’s a quid in that somewhere for the skank.
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The fact that O’Barrell kept Couts-Trotter on in a senior NSW Pubic Service role says it all about the NSW lieboral pardy.
Woof woof.
Pavlov’s dog barks again.
Probably about his time for a can of Pal.
Rooster:
At the rate you’re going you’ll be homeless with these daily rent increases.
Learn how to link, FFS, you insufferable old karen.
David Penberthy in the Hun……
If you think back to your youth there is every chance that some – if not many – of the views you held are different to the ones you hold today. I was reflecting on that fact while reading up on Greens Leader Adam Bandt and his star turn at the National Press Club where he unveiled his big ticket economic policy for the upcoming election, a hefty $514bn tax on almost every major company that dares make a profit.
It’s a lot of money, $514bn. It could buy you a lot of tofu, a lot of organic sour dough and several pairs of tie-dyed hessian happy pants. I am not sure if that’s what Adam Bandt wants to spend it on, but maybe that’s not the point, as the point seems to be that these companies must be punished for making a profit at all.
Not just the companies that are involved in the alleged killing of the planet, such as the mining and fuel ones, but supermarkets – apparently complicit in the inequitable distribution of food – and even the poor old telcos, whose role in letting us make phone calls and use the internet is deserving of punitive tax attention.
This is what a country would look like if it was run by a 17-year-old student in the first year of his arts degree.
Adam Bandt – come on down you poof.
Winston Smith
August 31, 2024 8:48 am
Kim Howard, last night:
#2 The cigarette black market – as predictable as the dawn – is enabling organised crime. It’s not the governments job to decide peoples smoking decisions for them. And get rid of the plethora of regs that interfere with the owners of pubs, etc to make commercial decisions about their own property.
Nigel Farage on the subject of ‘durries / lung busters.’
I suspect the reality is that 18 unknown people provided cover for a decision that benefits the ALP. The laughable plop plop that ‘the mine hasn’t been rejected’ – repeated by Albanese and others – is a tell that there is secret politicians’ business at play.
They know completely that the resources sector and capital markets know it’s bullshit – and that it’s another hit to Australian sovereign risk.
The porky is served up for us.
I wouldn’t underestimate Bandt.
He’s a Marxist ideologue (PhD in Marxist legal theory) using the Greens as a vehicle for that agenda and he’s spent 30+ years as an activist going back to student politics.
And he’s about to wedge Albanese & Labor on several progressive left issues.
My thoughts are that this despicable decision is to bolster Blubbersack’s radical, economy wrecking profile in her own seat. Prosperity is only for nomenklatura as far as Anal and co are concerned.
Winston Smith
August 31, 2024 2:53 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
You don’t have to climb the mast to read it anymore, Steve.
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I take it you know what it says? (-:
LB2
August 31, 2024 5:02 pm
Me: There you go. So, what’s the wifi password?
Bartender: You need to buy a drink first
No spaces, all lowercase.
LB2, you brought back some pretty good drunken memories.
Up on the wall behind the bar in the ORs boozer at 11 Sup Bn Meeandah back in1983 when I got posted there:
IITYTAWYBMAB
If I Tell You The Answer Will You Buy Me A Beer.
Mega bucks to get your vehicle towed from out there.
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Wild Touring:
SIMPSON DESERT CARNAGE || FORCED to ABANDON one of our vehicles….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP9116qiavE
Bourne1879
August 31, 2024 2:22 pm
In general, if it’s worth posting at the Çat, it’s worth taking the effort to add a proper link (rather than sending 1, 10 or 100 Çats off on a wild link chase) and adding context to the description (since 1, 10 or 100 Çats may not want to fire up a random X-Twitter or YouTube page with the associated 5-second load just to get the gist of the contents).
It’s also nice to get the geographic context up-front for topics the might conceivably be in different regions. An earlier article today about violence on the streets turned out to be about the UK, but until that was clear from the prose I think I was simultaneously trying to place it in the UK, USA and Australia all at once! Once I confirmed the location my comprehension definitely improved.
/Rant
Oh f8ck, 11 grand for the bill back home. That would sink you guts.
…your guts.
Gob is well and truly smacked…
Just saw a government as on coercive control. The perp is indigenous.
This is the concert that was causing all the bus fuss on the 101 Dublin to Drogheda yesterday.
It just underlines how little Ireland is that a rock concert in Dublin could cause such a disruption in the next county.
For some reason it’s seated passengers only on double deckers on country routes so lots of students got left waiting for the next bus in
https://www.donegaldaily.com/2024/08/31/donegal-coldplay-fans-prayers-answered-after-flight-aborted/
And I agree NKP. It’s not that hard to link.
It’s a simple cut and paste, even on a phone that’s doable.
Barden Tower: very nice.
More 3rd nations bullshit:
First Nations educators push for school system to embrace Indigenous learning practices – ABC News
Highlights from this septic crap:
“The white system is always failing our mob,”
Arrernte woman and Children’s Ground research officer Veronica Kemarre Doolan said governments needed to embrace First Nations-led learning practices.
First Nations students are being left behind their non-Indigenous counterparts in all five testing domains of numeracy, reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation.
They include a national policy to support the teaching of Indigenous languages in the new system and developing and supporting a First Nations education workforce.
3rd nations have no learning practices beyond witchetty grubs, woomeras and bonga bangas. They survived for 47000 years precisely because they had no sophisticated aspects to their lifestyle, nor a common language.
3rd nation brats do badly because there is no consequences to their rabid anarchy. There is no better example of a failed virtue based indulgence than what is happening to abo sprogs. Any connection to the utter primitivism of their past and more importantly any Pascoe based embellishments of their lifestyle have to be eradicated and they have to be placed in schools to learn the basics: and I don’t mean the woke crap and pronouns.
This is just another manifestation of the terminal decadence of this fuked shithole.
I’m off home tomorrow.
I might come back to Ireland next year after all, maybe at the end of August when Irish schools go back.
My son would like to come and I’m happy to retrace my steps in company.
Of course that depends on my grandmotherly responsibilities which will substantially increase in the new year, God willing.
“Befehl ist Befehl”, to invoke the most monstrous use of that inexcusable copout.
Lackeys.
Advised by no prizes for guessing which distinct type of “economist”, Cats!
When offloading my record profitable portfolio back in 2017 before the relocation to Sydney, I kept $4,800 each ($9,600 pure profit) of BHP and Rio on the basis that humans will always need minerals.
It increased to $20,000 within a year of relocating and has largely oscillated between $19,000 (since the geriatric Joe steal) and $22,000 in the five years since.
It’s plummeted to just over $18,000 since the advent of labore and the jug eared wallet wizard, Dim Chambers.
I should have offloaded it once it hit $22,000 (pre the punting of the goose Morristeen goat rodeo), the refusal to do so being a profound (and regrettable) break with my golden rule of stock market speculating, “buy low sell high”. Now playing the long game, hoping Fatty Trump beats the steal in November.
If he does, the market will temporarily plummet in the following week, before roaring back to new highs in the following fortnight.
I observed (and gained) from this phenomenon post Brexit and Fatty Trump in 2016.
Not a financial advisor, Cats, just an ‘umble economist, trying to exist with being a member of that utterly discredited caste of the clerisy. 😕
Haha, just saw a report that the Labor NSW government wants to build 15,000 apartments within 2 km of Cafe Bruce, starting next year. Reason: our dinky train station and the next one in the neighbouring suburb.
Ludicrous. They are off their tree. Ain’t going to happen.
Top men!
Germany: Muslim migrant kills his ex-girlfriend to ‘restore his honor’ while screaming ‘I have the right to do this’
Known to police.
The standard refrain.
His ex wife was doomed from the moment she left him – the police weren’t going to help, the courts weren’t going to help.
The authorities were going to stand by while he murdered her and the lesson was learnt by all the bashed and battered women.
Islamic Republic of Iran: Father murders his 17-year-old daughter to restore the family’s honor
?https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/08/islamic-republic-of-iran-father-murders-his-17-year-old-daughter-to-restore-the-familys-honor
Wonderful people – let’s import more.
Wonderful day, I attended, with my wonderful friend Tintarella, the Bettina Arndt conference here in Sydney’s east on ‘Restoring the presumption of innocence‘.
Augusto Zimmerman spoke, Craig McLachlan’s partner, the superb Vanessa Scammell spoke (herself a gifted conductor and pianist and yes, Craig was in attendance), and many other many other men and women. An inspirational day but a harrowing day, listening to the men and women speak of false allegations, the trashing of the presumption of innocence and the daily injustice done to too many men.
A marvellous day, always good to meet and mix with like minded men and women. But one thing came through, we ALL need to be activists, and we need to…..
Fight, Fight, Fight
Officeworks engages top law firm ahead of VCAT battle with Jewish customer
Officeworks has engaged lawyers from a top Australian law firm to respond to discrimination allegations after a Jewish man was refused service by a “pro-Palestine” worker at its Elsternwick store.
From the Hun
Items 5 and 6 are already in place in the U.K.
@StephenM
If Democrats win they will:
Eliminate the filibuster
Pack SCOTUS
Make DC a state
Import a new electorate with full voting rights
Declare dissent “hate speech,” punishable with jail time
Enforce a vast censorship & surveillance regime
Make their power over you PERMANENT.
“Persecution” is right!
@LauraLoomer
SCOOP:
Because you simply can’t have people having their say.
@BrendanCarrFCC
On Brazilian Justice de Moreas’s order shutting down X:
I’m perplexed by the comparative lack of acknowledgement of
KevinM’s 3:03 am post. Certainly, military history is not everyone’s cup of tea, but, well. Time for bed I think. I’m tired.
Hun has story up about state gubbermint program to educate librarians to ask five year olds their pronouns or if they are comfortable with their names. Weimer Republic. Comments are open. For now.
@CollinRugg
JUST IN: Tim Walz’s brother says he is considering joining forces with Trump, says his brother is “not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.”
Dem AG Appears To Threaten Street Artist SABO After His Brilliant Artwork Blaming Kamala For Illegal Alien Invasion Appears On Street Signs, Bus Stops In Aurora, COhttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/soft-crime-dem-ag-appears-threaten-street-artist/
I don’t think she gives a fig.
From Price Controls to Mass Starvation
Just confirmed the report from another source which says the state government reckons they can fit all those apartments within 400 m of the two train stations.
Absolutely insane. The only way they could get the land is by forced sale, it’s all taken by freehold already.
I figure some Macquarie St weenie got the job of working out places to put thousands of apartments and looked up Google Maps.
Ah well, maybe I can sell Cafe Bruce to the government for five times the going rate. My birdies would be unhappy though.
This is an excerpt from a paywalled Spectator article which only emphasises his dishonesty.
Keir Starmer’s popularity delusion
All year Keir Starmer has been using a reassuring phrase about his inevitable Downing Street tenure in a bid to calm the nerves of those not certain they were keen on it. He debuted it in January, when the Labour leader promised to bring forth ‘a politics that treads more lightly on all our lives’. Starmer used a similar line on the steps of Downing Street on July 5, after becoming Prime Minister, when he pledged to ‘tread more lightly on your lives and unite our country’.
This suggested that he understood the limitations of his ‘loveless landslide’, gained on a sub-34 per cent vote share in a low-turnout election largely thanks to quirks in the electoral system and the obvious exhaustion of the previous governing party. But the first eight weeks of Starmerite rule have delivered the very opposite. His new proposal for a ban on smoking in outdoor places, including pub gardens, is just one policy that treads very heavily on the lives of millions.
There has also been the axing of winter fuel payments for more than 80 per cent of pensioners, the unexpected abandonment of social care reforms that were meant finally to curtail a vicious means-testing lottery – and a series of no-strings, inflation-busting pay deals for favoured public sector groups.
Starmer has also warned voters of a ‘painful’ impending Budget that will bring tax rises, despite having insisted throughout the election campaign that all Labour’s spending proposals were fully funded.
His tribalism has extended into social policy and penal policy too, earning him the soubriquet ‘Two Tier Keir’ for his draconian clampdown on those partaking in August’s riots – or even fulminating unwisely to tiny followings on social media – while turning a Nelsonian blind eye to violent crime at the Notting Hill Carnival…
One of the most insane ideas ever heard but it is VIC.This is complete article from Herald Sun just gone up this evening so presumably in Sunday edition. Mind blowing stuff. Suggest any who have subs make appropriate comments and contact MP’s etc.
Children to be asked pronouns at libraries under new taxpayer funded guidelines
Children as young as five will be asked if they identify as a she, he or they as part of new taxpayer funded guidelines rolled out to public libraries across the state. Library staff are being told to ask children what their preferred pronouns are, avoid “gendered-language” and to offer pronoun badges, pins or lanyards for patrons in a new government funded ‘Rainbow Toolkit’.
Staff at public libraries across Victoria have been given new guidelines on how to be LGBTQIA+ friendly, including adding books on gender diversity to their collections, promoting drag story time events and not assuming the gender or sexuality of children, teenagers and adults. The ‘Rainbow Toolkit’ was launched by the state government on Friday to celebrate LGBTQIA+ awareness day.
One section, labelled ‘Non-Gendered Interactions’, proposes that staff ask primary school aged children what their pronouns are. “It is also important to recognise that, especially for young people, gender identity and sexuality can shift or evolve over time,” it reads. “Even if you are familiar with a child, teenager, parent or other individual, leave room for them to express a change in their identity. “Checking in casually about their pronouns (‘Do you still prefer he/him pronouns?’; ‘Do you still go by Sam, or is there something else you’d like me to use?’) can let a young person in particular know that you are safe, accepting and flexible and that, by extension, so is the library.”
Staff are also told to avoid terms like sir or ma’am and to use gender neutral terms instead, such as ‘this patron/person/visitor’. “Children in particular may want to experiment with different gender expressions through dressing up, and we can support them by avoiding mapping our expectations of gender onto them,” it reads.
The Allan government allocated $14,020 to develop the toolkit which was created following a survey of 156 respondents from LGBTQIA+ families, and 80 public library staff. The majority of respondents, 85 per cent, said it was “extremely important” that their local library uses inclusive language for customer service interactions, including gender neutral pronouns.
In promoting the new guidelines, Equality Minister Harriet Shing said the state government will always back our LGBTQIA+ communities as we work to build a state where all people, regardless of their sexuality or gender identity, can live wholly and freely”. But Senior Fellow at the Australian Catholic University Dr Kevin Donnelly called the toolkit “dangerous”.
“It’s an appalling indictment on those who seek to corrupt childhood and destroy the innocence of childhood,” he said. “Also it’s dangerous that these gender activists, a lot of them who are inspired by cultural Marxism, seek to take the place of parents.”
Dr Bella d’Abrera from the Institute of Public Affairs said parents should be “very concerned” that the government both supports and funds the “indoctrination of children with fringe theories about sex and gender”.
“It is incredible that families can no longer even visit a public library without staff members attempting to recruit children into the radical gender cult,” she said. “Children should be left alone to be children.”
Saturday Night cute owl: suck it up bitches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTH2CcofVMo
Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 – Mona
The longer der Stürmer remains in power, the more likely is he to be Ceausescued.
That would appear to be Fabio, or any other male lead on the cover of Mills and Boon paperbacks.
Saturday Night bit o’ that … 🙂
Today here in Sydney, the ‘Beasties’ won the Grand Final, aka Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union. They hadn’t won a Shute Shield Grand Final since 1969!
My stepfather is smiling in heaven.
Disgusting, toxic abomination
Still having trouble getting my head around this weird NSW Labor apartment proposal.
They want to build tower blocks 6 stories high the story says. Ok, well a decent 6 story high apartment building might fit 100 apartments say. So for 15,000 apartments that would mean one hundred and fifty 6 story high new tower blocks within 2 kilometers of Cafe Bruce.
Instant Hong Kong!
And were do these people find jobs? Sydney? Or don’t we worry about that any more?
Miss Antonia Haswell, apparently. 🙂
JC Trigger Warning: Atop Eye Caterpillars …
And, for those ELO fans out there: Don’t bring me down, I tells ya!
Two and a half hour train ride from my station to Central. That’s another thing why it’s so insane. My station is on the Sydney Trains network but very few people use it nor the next one. Which is why I suppose some mad urban planner came up with this proposal.
Apologies to Cats that I am not linking the stories, since I would be doxxing myself a bit too closely for comfort. Fwiw I’ve emailed Winston the links just to satisfy myself I’ve not gone mad.
Bruce of Newcastle
August 31, 2024 8:41 pm
Err … welcome to the world of “announcables”.
Announced with no hope or expectation that any of it will ever happen.
The editing and sound are spot on.
Have fun.
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Retro Session – Greatest Hits (Video Oficial) 70’s, 80’s, 90’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9uJeLJCG3E
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 31, 2024 10:19 am
Reply to Steve trickler
There should be more lovely dogs wandering on leash in markets.
Look at how dogs bring people together like nothing else can.
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I love it when Stevo just drops the leash in big crowds. People just spin out. Even bettter when he hands the leash over to strangers.
True WTF moments! Body language on the people is telling.
test
….better
Bit of variety for a Saturday night.
Light my fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iayGCGk4ebo
Sweet Child ‘o Mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI
This girl can sing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNKIjS2HaNg
Sarah Blasko and “Flame Trees.”
Late nights, smokey bars, good whisky and ladies who knew the rules of the game….
Rumours that the recently downed F-16 was courtesy of S-57 using R37.
Rabz
August 31, 2024 8:46 pm
Rabz, can you explain what that means?
Spewing.
The stars had aligned and my night before fly out day was coinciding with a concert I would love to go to…
Check for tickets and it’s been moved back 2 days..
Poop!
https://youtu.be/gTa0nv-127E?si=q_WM-OhGjHYKX356
Exciting news from Tasmania!
A Tasmanian Aboriginal man has made history as the first Australian man to take out the crown for Mr Universe.
Palawa man Jonathan Berry, from Opossum Bay, won the title, which was held in India this month.
Mr Berry is also a proud gay man and LGBTIQ+ advocate.
After his big win, Mr Berry took to social media to announce the news.
“History was made tonight … I won Mr Universe,” Mr Berry said via Instagram on Monday.
“The first Australian to hold a Universe title since Jennifer Hawkin’s win 20 years ago … The first Australian male ever sent and the first Aboriginal person in history.
“A huge thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way and who made this possible.
“I can’t wait to bring this home to you all and start my reign.
“I’m so full of pride and so honoured and so exhausted at the same time.”
Mr Berry showcased a piece of Tasmania during the competition, donning a maireener shell necklace
“It’s an incredible feeling to showcase the beauty of my country in this incredible experience,” He said in a post on August 22.
Mr Berry also won Mr World Australia in 2019 and was a nominee in 2022 for Tasmanian Young Australian of the Year.
Somehow it doesn’t seem anything to do with bodybuilding though.
Hobart Mercury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-lO3tZDKLQ
Somewhere, on the face of this Earth, are all the stiflingly respectable, who would deny they were part of that audience, ten years ago…
“Am I ever gunna see your face again…
No way, get vooked, vook off…”
Bloody exports.
Guess what makes up almost 2% of US exports?
Y’all have three hours left, until the end of trade tonight (2.30am) in which to buy cigarettes or pouch tobacco from me.
From tomorrow I must have a “Smoking products retailer licence” (or whatever it is called) which has more conditions on it than I can count.
I’ve applied for the new licence, by the cutoff date “to ensure continuity of trading”, however as of close of business yesterday (Friday) it had not been issued.
If the Smoking Products Retailer licence is ever granted, I’ll review the situation at that time.
I sold about $5,000 per week of tobacco. That customer base is not going to give up smoking. The supply chain infrastructure of chop-chop & smuggled overseas tobacco is in place for them to continue, at a reduced cost (to them) of $1,000 per week.
The only adjustment is to the Qld Treasury, which will be $4,000 per week in the hole.
Top men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVpihgwE18
The IMMORTAL Eric Burdon “We Gotta Get Out of This Place!”
Dr, I don’t know where the idea that Brown was only a tree hugger and not a communist comes from. Brown was always a communist pos. I wouldn’t be splitting hairs in trying to distinguish between Brown and the Bandt. Both are real live communists. Both have the charisma of a dried turd, but Bandt has even less.
Mr Berry may also have found that as a decliner* in a traditional indig ‘community’, he may have been thought of as unable to contribute to the furtherance of the tribe, and thrown into a pit with his skull fractured.
*Vagina decliner.
Cash!
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Woof Bark Growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance 2024 in Beverly Hills (4 of 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJuN34kZj8A
I’ve been to Shelby, North Carolina, before the vampire business opened of course.
For movie buffs, Hitchcock admirers.
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Alfred Hitchcock, when accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: “I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration.
The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat [Patricia Hitchcock], and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.”
“Had the beautiful Ms. Reville not accepted a lifetime contract without options as Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock some 53 years ago, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock might be in this room tonight, not at this table but as one of the slower waiters on the floor.”
Reville was Hitchcock’s closest collaborator. She worked for her husband as story consultant, script editor, continuity person and overall sounding board. She was his closest confidante, his most trusted ally. Her importance was such that the film critic Charles Champlin wrote an article in the Los Angeles
Times entitled ‘Alma Reville Hitchcock – The Unsung Partner’: “The Hitchcock touch has four hands and two of them are Alma’s. Other collaborators have stated that the greatest compliment that Hitchcock would give was to say “Alma loved it.” (IMDb)
Oops.
Bit of a stretch.
Coming to the shore near you, or has it already arrived?
Week In Pictures.
Brilliant … opinions may vary.
Bee Gees – More Than A Woman (Live in Las Vegas, 1997 – One Night Only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2tvp5j-E3Q
Went to the Conference on Preserving/Defending the Presumption of Innocence yesterday with my incomparable and feisty friend Cassie. Augusto Zimmerman is a hero, Craig McLachlan’s partner the talented Vanessa Scammel told us things the mainstream media never disclosed, harrowing and infuriating how three lesser women brought down a giant of the Australian theatre by malicious lies and envy. What a travesty.
The father of the man destroyed by that lying disgrace Sarah Jane Parkinson spoke of the battle to get his son out of gaol and the perfidious NSW and ACT police and the ACT injustice system — truly mind-blowing revelations –
Dr Debbie Garratt went through the details of how her son was falsely accused of sexual assault of a minor. She spoke of the destructive immediate and lifelong impacts on men and their families and friends – hearing it was so heart-breaking I can’t imagine what living it could do to one’s soul.
What we heard showed how important family is in defending the people they know and love. Had those falsely accused not had their loved ones in their corner fighting all the way I am not sure they would have survived the juggernaut intent on crushing them.
The Call to Action was a strong presentation particularly by Nadine Taylor former UK head of Fathers4Justice – I only wish I were younger but nonetheless I intend help wherever I can.
Bruce O’Nuke last night 8:55
Nuts.
Batshit mad.
No, BoN. Not you. The government. This is planning authority done by an AI that has been read solely copies of dystopian SF.
Australia is at the point where arts grads are doing the planning, arrogantly full of self confidence and no experience of living apart from university.
As mentioned before, we’re at the point where the army needs to redo a Ceausescu before much more damage is done to the nation.
But NADT. 🙂
Weird how NSW police having lost respect of the public is now having big problems getting recruits.
NSW shadow police minister Paul Toole warns of ‘detrimental impact’ as state’s force goes thousands of officers short (Sky News, 31 Aug)
Going to take a long time to get that respect back, if ever.
Some are born to be great and lived up to it.
Thank you Johnny Cash.