Open Thread – Thurs 5 Sept 2024


Anguish, August Friedrich Schenck, 1878

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H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 3:52 pm

Goose Swansteen wades in to help former staffer Jim Chalmers. Even I feel sorry for Albo at this point.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 6, 2024 4:13 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Bestest Treasurer Evah vs Nextest Bestest Treasurer Evah!
A cage match would be fun.
Bring on the J Curve.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 5:48 pm

Worst performance since 1991 was a nice tribute to Keating.

Roger
Roger
September 6, 2024 5:55 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Mind you, the RBA did miss the fact that the real economy – wages, spending and business investment considered apart from the artificial stimuli of government spending and immigration, that is – has been in recession for three months.

Just a few weeks ago it was “running hot” according to them.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 6, 2024 4:18 pm

To borrow from “51 intelligence experts”, this whole Tenet, Tim Pool, Dave Rubin saga bears all the hallmarks of a classic Russian disinformation operation.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 4:25 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

You expect they will sit this one out. “Fool me once …”

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
September 6, 2024 4:25 pm

Senator Rennick in that clip questions why if two doses of vaccine was supposed to work why would we need 12 per person.

Kelly the CHO naturally avoids explaining or admitting the two jabs did not work.

That clip is just one of many that shows the Federal Health Department should be renamed the Department of Misinformation as so much of what they said was BS. One of Rennicks other clips showed him saying the Vax spike protein moved all around the body whereas TGA had previously said would stay in the arm.

The other problem is the Coalition and more recently Labour Ministers have accepted all the BS without question. They will defend them no matter what the evidence.

It is actually scary that our health depends on these people.

Oh, might as well mention that previous head of TGA John Skerritt now works for Medicines Australia the main lobbying group for big pharma. Sponsored by the major Vax companies.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 6, 2024 4:36 pm
Reply to  Bourne1879

To be fair no one in either the Coalition nor the Labor Party has enough scientific understanding to write onto a Maccas napkin.

So they have to accept the advice of the totally captured medical industrial complex. Which donates entirely to the Left.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
September 6, 2024 4:41 pm

Rennick, Roberts and Antic being notable exceptions but written off as anti vaxxers.
Combine with a media that failed miserably and you can see will will keep charging down the jab jab jab road.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 4:41 pm
Reply to  Bourne1879

Too many people have no interest in anybody finding anything about the whole Covid episode. I’m with the 4Chan boys on this one.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 6, 2024 4:53 pm
Reply to  Bourne1879

Yep, that used to be one of my lines when speaking at rallies – ‘If 2 shots work, why would I need a 3rd?, If 2 shots don’t work, why would I get a 3rd?’

Roger
Roger
September 6, 2024 5:44 pm
Reply to  Bourne1879

Oh, might as well mention that previous head of TGA John Skerritt now works for Medicines Australia the main lobbying group for big pharma. Sponsored by the major Vax companies.

While the husband of Qld’s former CHO (now governor) was a consultant to Pfizer.

One doesn’t have to allege wrongdoing to see the problem.

Speedbox
September 6, 2024 4:33 pm

BoN – And Russia is bleeding out. Sadly Putin isn’t a statesman or he’d cut his losses and get out of the morass.

Monty level trolling.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 6, 2024 4:37 pm
Reply to  Speedbox

Truth. Stop watching Russian TV.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 6, 2024 4:43 pm
Reply to  Speedbox

I look at a lot of things, like the expanding cemeteries in Russia. I see the footage of the combat losses that both sides have been suffering. I see the maps of progress: not much (although ironically Ukraine has gotten about twice what Russia has been capturing lately).

The harm that Mr Putin is doing to the country of your family will not be repaired in a century. All for ego. A complete and miserable waste of blood and lives. I am sad for Russia.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 6, 2024 4:59 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Presumably you don’t personally know any of the hundreds of thousands of young Russian men who have been killed or maimed.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 6, 2024 5:46 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

I have Russian friends who got out in 2022.

(I think perhaps I should add some more. She was placed with us a few times. Australia is a long way from Moscow! All the Russian students we had work with us were excellent. But she was quintessentially Russian: we offered her an all expenses paid PhD in Oz but she just wanted to go home to her guy and back to Russia.

In 2022 she contacted me for a reference which I provided. I haven’t heard where they’ve ended up since, but they’re bright and very competent people, so will do well wherever they’ve ended up.)

Last edited 4 months ago by Bruce of Newcastle
Lysander
Lysander
September 6, 2024 5:03 pm

Very funny:

Where Shopping Trolleys Fear to Roll… (youtube.com)

Real Estate Agent tries to sell shithole in Gosnells, Perth for $399K.

Possibly the worst house I have ever seen (in Australia)…

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 5:21 pm
Reply to  Lysander

That’s a bit harsh. Needs work.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 5:52 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Somewhat disturbed to say No 1 and No 4 in our complex have roller shutters now. Very unbecoming in the Western Suburbs. I expect an anonymous note in my letterbox any day now.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 5:46 pm

Nice to see Jon Faine hasn’t been forgotten by the Media Watchdog.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 6, 2024 5:53 pm

One good thing is that the plot to make the repulsive Shorten PM didn’t come off. I know as a retired pollimuppett and as VC of a miserable institution he’ll pocket more OPM than I ever will earn, but it’s good he didn’t make PM. Geeze Mickey Mouse CAE- what a sick joke.

calli
calli
September 6, 2024 5:59 pm

Interesting interview with Eric and Lara Trump on Sky. It was soft, basically a character reference, but still a few snippets of new info.

Trump had no rally scheduled for the day after the assassination attempt, but decided to go anyway.

Also, he was the one to go to Arlington on the anniversary of the deaths of those US soldiers in Kabul. Joementia and Cackles didn’t bother.

calli
calli
September 6, 2024 6:22 pm

Is everyone at the pub? 😀

Roger
Roger
September 6, 2024 6:26 pm
Reply to  calli

Present!

For about an hour anyway.

Pogria
Pogria
September 6, 2024 7:22 pm
Reply to  calli

I was.
Friday night I drop a heap of baked goodies for the raffle.
The raffle supports our local Rugby team.
The rugger buggers thanked me for my support over the last eighteen months with a whole lamb. Cut into pieces of course. 😀

I cried….

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
September 6, 2024 8:02 pm
Reply to  calli

No.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
September 6, 2024 10:06 pm
Reply to  calli

Well, I certainly am.

Cassie of Sydney
September 6, 2024 6:22 pm

And Russia is bleeding out. Sadly Putin isn’t a statesman or he’d cut his losses and get out of the morass.

I remember how, just a short time ago, in fact it was only 2021, when a ‘statesman’ called Joe Biden cut his losses and withdrew from the morass that is Afghanistan. How did that go?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 6, 2024 6:23 pm

Liars lose to lying liars.

Greens Party overtake Natasha Fyles in NT seat (Sky News, 6 Sep)

The Greens have made history by winning their first-ever seat in the Northern Territory Parliament.

The seat was previously held by former chief minister Natasha Fyles and was deemed Labor’s safest seat.

The victory was ultimately claimed by candidate Kat McNamara by 33 votes.

No doubt if the Greens fix climate change NT will become a utopia.

Helen
Helen
September 6, 2024 9:58 pm

It was a vote against Labor – CLP HTV said put Greens last but many, many put Labor last.

Helen
Helen
September 6, 2024 9:59 pm
Reply to  Helen

Still am pissed that ANY green got in.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 6, 2024 6:35 pm

Still chortling muchly watching “A Touch Of Class” on Prime TV, the pisstake of BBC Crime/Detective shows.

The brother of the star leading detective is found murdered so the team follows up a lead to a small village called Funtcuck.

The sign on entry to the village…..

WELCOME TO FUNTCUCK
(Pronounce Carefully)

Haha

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 6, 2024 6:36 pm

Doh!!!

“A Touch Of Cloth”

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 6, 2024 6:45 pm

Faarkin funny! Opinions may vary.

HeavyDSparks amd Cleetus would have spat over keyboard.

Cody is mental … but in a good way.

(- :

—–

WhistlinDiesel:

What happens when you fly your helicopter inside? Things go very wrong…

Flying A Helicopter Indoors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwxKFzvcpDM

Muddy
Muddy
September 6, 2024 8:27 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

I really don’t know what to think. I also don’t know why I watched (some of) that.
I think I’ve been steveteed.

Roger
Roger
September 6, 2024 6:59 pm

Liars lose to lying liars.

While we may enjoy indulging in a bit of Schadenfreude at Labor’s electoral misfortune, the Greens’ ability to win urban seats does not portend well for the country given our developing economic malaise.

Keep an eye on metropolitan Brisbane in the next federal election.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 6, 2024 7:03 pm
Reply to  Roger

Off and on have spent a bit of time in Darwin. Greens winning up there is something I thought I wouldn’t see in my lifetime.

Brisbane on the other hand has been flooded with southerners since the 1990’s and they have regrettably bought their disease with them…

Roger
Roger
September 6, 2024 7:10 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

The rot started with public servants sacked by Kennett.

Prior to that we’d only had retirees attracted by low state taxes.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 7:39 pm
Reply to  Roger

I’m of the school things have to get worse to get better. Like others I never thought I would see Greens in the NT. Or live where I would have a Liar member. The end of days – or somewhere close.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 6, 2024 7:55 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

At the end of the second flagon of McWilliams Royal Reserve, I sometimes think it might be better for a quick trip to ‘worse’, via the learning experience of Greens in government.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 6, 2024 7:15 pm

…. and

Peter Greagg
Peter Greagg
September 6, 2024 7:18 pm

I am a little late with my report from my 15 year old grandson at Father’s Day lunch.

He tells me that most of his cohort are very keen to enrol to vote when they turn 18.

He tells me a reasonable number of them recognise that the curriculum is imposed on the school and that it emphasises aboriginity, climate change and multiculturism. And despite the attempts to indoctrinate them, a fair number of his friends can see through those attempts, and they can see most things as they really are.

And they mostly want to vote for a government that is prepared to reward effort, tax lightly, reestablish law and order and limit immigration.

It was the best Father’s Day present I think I have ever received.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
September 6, 2024 8:04 pm
Reply to  Peter Greagg

Trick is, to get a good reading list into them while they have time and interst to learn. Good Luck !

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 6, 2024 8:45 pm
Reply to  hzhousewife

I’ve met an American trucking multi millionaire, who gave each of his children a copy of “The Millionaire Next Door” when they turned sixteen.

Indolent
Indolent
September 6, 2024 7:26 pm

@ByronDonalds

The reason why your groceries cost so much…

The reason why you can’t afford a home…

The reason why you can’t take that vacation…

Is because Kamala cast the DECIDING VOTES on the bills that directly caused inflation.

On 11/5, the American people will HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 6, 2024 7:31 pm

The Australian’s Washington Correspondent Adam Creighton discusses the “embarrassing” photo that shows Tim Walz’s family wearing shirts reading ‘Walz’s for Trump’.
Family members of vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz have declared they’re throwing their support behind former US president Donald Trump, including Mr Walz’s older brother.
“Certainly, that is very embarrassing,” Mr Creighton said.

Another stumble for Kamala’s running mate. Along with his National Guard claims.

Indolent
Indolent
September 6, 2024 7:40 pm

This is Tucker’s full speech in Phoenix, AZ as part of his current American tour. Excellent, as usual. Russell Brand is a guest.

Russell Brand on his Baptism, Big Pharma, Donald Trump, and the Globalists’ Attempt to Become God

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 6, 2024 7:41 pm

the “embarrassing” photo that shows Tim Walz’s family wearing shirts reading ‘Walz’s for Trump’.

And the Babylon Bee had his dog wearing a maga hat.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 6, 2024 7:48 pm

Russell Brand on his Baptism, Big Pharma, Donald Trump, and the Globalists’ Attempt to Become God

I thought this one was fun.

Russell Brand: ‘The More I Pray, the More Coincidences Happen’ (27 Aug)

That is also my experience. 😀

God works on the second level, not the obvious one.

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:16 pm

I’m a Kiwi. Union is in our blood. And I am watching AFL. Go the Dog’s!

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:19 pm
Reply to  Ellie

An Eastern suburbs snob following the Western suburbs.

Follow my rehab friend – JP.

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:21 pm
Reply to  Ellie

We did rehab hard. Judge us. There but the grace of God. Sorry, Dover.

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:24 pm
Reply to  Ellie

I am not ashamed to say I did rehab.

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:29 pm
Reply to  Ellie

It was a private rehab that cost a shi* load of money. Am I better off? I have a bottle of vodka sitting a my front door. What do I do with it? My father died. How do I deal with it?

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:32 pm
Reply to  Ellie

You sit in your shame. And then you need to pee.

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:36 pm
Reply to  Ellie

So many people here hate me. You never got to know me. It’s ok. Far too emotional. But my father died. I don’t know how to say goodbye ?

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:50 pm
Reply to  Ellie

Look at the down ticks. Lovely

Ellie
Ellie
September 6, 2024 8:58 pm
Reply to  Ellie

And this is ,as a Jewish gal, why I love Monty. You people are deranged. I couldn’t work unless I was injected. I was locked down. No one in 5 ks to visit me. I sat alone in my home for months.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
September 7, 2024 7:24 am
Reply to  Ellie

There’s a damn sight less now.

will
will
September 6, 2024 8:23 pm

And they mostly want to vote for a government that is prepared to reward effort, tax lightly, reestablish law and order and limit immigration.

Here is an interesting contrast between sane government and a socialist sewer. Note the incredulity of the media.

will
will
September 6, 2024 8:30 pm
Reply to  will

Why does this happen: malice or stupidity?

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 6, 2024 8:52 pm
Reply to  will

A mixture.

Past the age of around 40, only the stupid are still socialists. Unfortunately far too many of those are also malicious, probably because of anger at those who reject their stupid political beliefs.

132andBush
132andBush
September 6, 2024 8:25 pm

m0nty
September 6, 2024 3:37 pm

A horrid cynic might think the Kremlin has jarked Tenet here. Small-change investment, RT staff safe, tipped off to the FBI – (correctly) expecting an immediate DOJ and slave media gotcha response – with the payoff being righteously indignant US influencers pointing out Russiagate 2.0 to a scornful and suspicious Nation.

No, that sort of thing does not require a level of cynicism. It does require a strong grasp of the stupid stick, though.

It’s noteworthy wrt this case that the nefarious players had to deceive the conservative channels to the upmost in order to channel money their way.

As opposed to, say, The Young Turks who are an overtly anti west, socialist, anti semitic outfit run by a bombastic slob of a human who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into acknowledging the Armenian Genocide and who in the past have taken large amounts of money from Qatar. (You know, the same country harbouring the hamas leadership.)

Oh and they still maintain a partnership with AJ+, the social media arm of the anti west Al Jazeera.

It’s painfully obvious Comrade Montgomery is an avid watcher of TYT.

Last edited 4 months ago by 132andBush
Boambee John
Boambee John
September 6, 2024 8:53 pm
Reply to  132andBush

TYT? Tug your todger?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 6, 2024 8:50 pm

97,000 plus at the G for Hawks v Dogs elimination final.

Proof positive that people know what is and is not (chick footy) football.

Little Gidding
Little Gidding
September 6, 2024 10:33 pm

And the mighty Hawks win.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 6, 2024 11:00 pm

Friday night footy at the G might be the only argument for still being in Victoriastan.

cohenite
September 6, 2024 9:23 pm

RFK Jr’s siblings turn on him, especially the skanks. What a pack of shits. Some great comments about how bad for the US the kennedys have been:

RFK Jr.’s Siblings Go TDS Postal    | Frontpage Mag

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 6, 2024 9:27 pm

Did I just see Albo at the footy with a Hawks scarf on?

Morsie
Morsie
September 6, 2024 9:33 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

Probably got a Dogs one under the seat

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
September 6, 2024 9:48 pm

Tucker Carlsons tour of US this month certainly has a good mix of guests.

Indolent
Indolent
September 6, 2024 9:54 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 6, 2024 9:55 pm
Old Lefty
Old Lefty
September 6, 2024 9:57 pm

GayBC bias again. Notice how the report in question is much more guarded than the ABC’s pro-genderbending headline:

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
September 6, 2024 10:07 pm

Microstructures found self-assembling inside cells after incubating the Covid vaccines in vitro.
On John Campbell’s channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEgjuB-0bw8 [15:11]

“They resembled carbon nanotube filaments, ribbons, and tapes”. Quantities of 3 million of these things per millilitre of culture.
Holy fark.
Possible explanation for the variety of adverse reactions people had to the jabs.
Published in the peer reviewed literature.
(Paper by Young Mi Lee and Daniel Broudy in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory Practice and Research.)

Last edited 4 months ago by Colonel Crispin Berka
mareeS
mareeS
September 6, 2024 11:00 pm

I saved that. He expects it to disappear.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
September 7, 2024 8:03 am

I checked some of the other references – Quora attacks the publication. But very noticeably, doesn’t attack the study.
Good enough for me. Quora itself is a mere opinion site that commonly gets facts wrong while presenting itself as an authority on just about any subject.
I’d trust John over these whore experts.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 6, 2024 10:12 pm

Explosive letter buries Tanya Plibersek’s reasons for blocking $1bn Blayney goldminePaige Taylor
2 hours ago

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Claims of ancient camp ovens, possible burial sites and an initiation area near a proposed $1bn NSW goldmine were examined and dismissed as having “no authenticity” in a cultural audit overseen by the Indigenous elders representing the local land council, according to senior Wiradjuri ­adviser Roy Ah-See.
An explosive letter provides the first detailed account of what is believed to have swayed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to make a rare Section 10 declaration against the Blayney goldmine in central-west NSW in a last-­minute intervention on cultural heritage grounds last month.
She controversially took the advice of a small charity over the Orange land council that holds land on behalf of local Wiradjuri people and has cultural authority for the area under NSW law.
In the letter to Ms Plibersek, obtained by The Weekend Australian, Mr Ah-See conveys the Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council’s anger that the expertise of its elders was dismissed in favour of “baseless claims” of the dissident group and calls for an ­urgent review of the Section 10 ­evidence.
“You have made baseless claims now the accepted truth,” Mr Ah-See tells Ms Plibersek.
“You and your advisors (sic) do not have the skills to make these determinations. Surely Aboriginal culture and heritage decisions should be under the guidance of the Aboriginal Affairs Minister.
“OLALC are respectfully requesting a review of the Section 10 evidence, through proper consultation … OLALC have a voice and they are using it, they just want to know if you are listening.”
Mr Ah-See’s letter says the initial Section 10 application against the mine contained claims of camp oven sites, scar trees, ochre sites and possible burial sites aligned with the frontier wars.
According to Mr Ah-See, the Orange land council then insisted that mine proponent Regis Resources grant it access to the site so its own surveyors could conduct cultural audits. These surveyors are highly skilled and respected, Mr Ah-See says, and claims of camp ovens and multiple scar trees were rejected as having no authenticity.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 7, 2024 5:15 am

She’s done now. That diminishing chance of being PM just vanished…

Foxbody
Foxbody
September 7, 2024 8:43 am

Roy Ah-See has done the aboriginal cause a great service.
To state, loud and proud, that local people have carefully reviewed the proposed dam site and are sure there is nothing there of cultural significance is a huge boost to the credibility of his people.
Also a major blow to Green manoeverings behind the curtain.
How many other projects were/are cancelled or delayed by a tissue of lies?
From Hindmarsh Island to the NT gas pipeline, invented aboriginal issues are
economic treason.

Helen
Helen
September 7, 2024 12:08 pm

I guess No Mine, No Royalties.
Just saying.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 6, 2024 10:15 pm

Microstructures found self-assembling inside cells after incubating the Covid vaccines in vitro

Uh huh.

Beaming straight back to Beiling, I bet.

JC
JC
September 6, 2024 10:17 pm

The Russia/Tenet Media story gets curiouser and more.

@amuse

I never followed Lauren Chen’s work but after doing just a little digging it seems as though she was working overtime to sow discord inside of the GOP and MAGA. She held herself out as a conservative but would attempt to divide @realDonaldTrump and @JDVance supporters on an issue-by-issue basis. While I’ve read the indictments (that don’t name Chen) it is clear whoever was paying her (the government claims it was the Russians) supported her efforts. I don’t have any independent information about the case and haven’t make any determination about its merits – I don’t plan on discussing it much until AFTER the election. But I did want to point out that SOMEONE wanted to help Chen divide us – it is important that we all realize there is a concerted effort to defeat Trump by undermining those who support him. Be careful…

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 7, 2024 8:18 am
Reply to  JC

All the hallmarks of a classic disinformation campaign.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 6, 2024 10:23 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mwkxVfUYp4

Memories of a mis spent youth Daddy Dewdrops, Chick a Boom…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 6, 2024 10:27 pm

They resembled carbon nanotube filaments, ribbons, and tapes”. Quantities of 3 million of these things per millilitre of culture

Look. For clarity. Absolute clarity.

I am not saying Covid and everything to do with it wasn’t shit.

Because it was. It was shit. Elite-level shit.

But it spawned thousands of these sorts of comments from alleged and apparent ‘professionals’ on all sorts of platforms. Platforms which allowed nuffers to display their nuffery to millions.

I am astounded this is still going on. A fruitless search for either relevance or attention, perhaps.

MatrixTransform
September 6, 2024 10:42 pm

their nuffery

… your f’ken nuffery

just don’t, you shit talking gambling piss-wreck

Last edited 4 months ago by MatrixTransform
Titus Groates
Titus Groates
September 7, 2024 7:46 am

Charming, Trans.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 6, 2024 10:33 pm

And, as the kicker – the original post:

Paper by Young Mi Lee and Daniel Broudy

Oh, righto. Daniel Broudy, according to his own site:

My work integrates research in linguistics, psychology, and communication theory to describe ways in which power centers design and conduct propaganda

Done, done and done.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 7, 2024 8:46 am

‘Cast of thousands’ headlined Reynolds defamation trial
Aaron BunchAAP
Sat, 7 September 2024 4:32AM

The defamation trial initiated by Senator Linda Reynolds against Brittany Higgins has wrapped up.

What started as a defamation case between a senator and an alleged sexual assault victim ballooned into a who’s who of Australian politics and media.
Prime ministers, television presenters, journalists, members of parliament and political staffers made the court transcript in the Perth trial that pitted Senator Linda Reynolds against her former staffer Brittany Higgins over social media posts the ex-minister believes damaged her reputation.
All told, more than 20 witnesses gave evidence at the five-week trial, which re-examined Ms Higgins’ alleged rape at Parliament House in 2019 and subsequent events including her decision to publicise her claims two years later.
Senator Reynolds’ lawyer Martin Bennett told the Supreme Court of Western Australia Ms Higgins and her now-husband David Sharaz created a “fictional story of political cover-up” that cast the senior Liberal as a villain in a bid to harm her.
Mr Bennett also alleged the recently married couple courted journalists Lisa Wilkinson on Network Ten’s The Project and Gold Walkley award-winner Samantha Maiden from News Corp with their “fairytale” while Ms Higgins was still working for Liberal senator Michaelia Cash.
Ms Higgins’ five-hour pre-interview with Ms Wilkinson and producer Angus Llewellyn laid bare her visceral hatred and “was the genuine, unguarded, unrehearsed, real, true expression of the motive” for the “premeditated” ambush on his client, he alleged in court.
Justice Paul Tottle also heard Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz’s conspiracy included providing a “dossier” to Labor politicians in the lead-up to the political firestorm that erupted after Ms Higgins’ emotional tell-all television interview.
Senator Reynolds testified that Kimberley Kitching gave her a heads-up before fellow Labor senators Katy Gallagher and Penny Wong led the intense grilling that resulted in her physical and emotional breakdown in parliament.
She also delivered a bombshell when she linked the saga to Senator Kitching’s death from a suspected heart attack in March 2022, amid tearful evidence in which she alleged her friend was bullied by her colleagues.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison said Ms Higgins’ accusation her former boss mishandled her alleged rape amid a political cover-up was weaponised to discredit his government, and the political attacks were aggressive and co-ordinated.

Vicki
Vicki
September 7, 2024 12:14 pm

There are some Cats who had no problem – and still no problem – with the mRNA genetic application in response Covid 19. But I forward this medical research article that indicates where this is headed – so called “replicons” which are self generating, as I understand – in the human body.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266560/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Read it and think about it.

  1. Chris Kenny has been putting up some good columns for the Oz though. Stuck on a horse-drawn buggy as world…

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