Conceived on a Ministerial desk with Jan Murray in 1987. A good start to a useless activist career.
Open Thread – Mon 4 November 2024
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Gave up on the SMH in 2013. I used to love reading the letters and had the odd one published.…
The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity
The worst elements of the Muesli society are laughing at the police. I am sure they see the appeasement from…
‘Censorship is about power and control’: Government’s misinformation bill ‘not the solution’
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
An historic building that still exist but no longer in use and according to recent visitors, not worth the effort going there. Bad roads, long distance, nothing to see.
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Cordillo Downs Woolshed 1883.
60 metres long x 13 metres wide. Housed 120 stands, to shear up to 85,000 sheep. Longest Woolshed in Australia of its kind.
The property is situated right at the top of South Australia with it’s Northern and Eastern boundaries running along the Queensland Border. The Cordillo Downs Station consisted of 7,800 square kilometres.
The shearers used to ride their push bikes up from the south to work here.
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Why no longer operating?
Several reasons offered.
#1
“Australia used to have over 150 million sheep and now has about 70 million. The demand for Australian wool dropped sharply due to synthetics and the export of ram semen(export of live merino rams was prohibited) by idiots in the wool industry that helped improve the quality of fleeces in overseas countries especially the old USSR who had poor quality sheep. Our own wool industry lead by LNP supporters have basically killed their own industry.”
#2
First Nation Land Title grab
I like cheese with cheese.
The Germans knew a thing or two when it came to engineering, the Russians are still benefiting.
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The 30,000-ton Schloemann closed die press from WWII. This monster, along with two 15,000 ton presses, helped create components for German aircraft production.
After the war this press was taken back to the USSR and rebuilt. It is still in use today at the Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurgical Works in Russia. Note the people at the bottom for scale.
No flab, no tatts.
Bubble bubble toil and trouble.
By Leonard Solomon of some note.
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My antique kettle, or cauldron; English bulge pot style. I estimate it to be nearly 300 years old now, bought many years ago from a barn sale in southern New Jersey.
It was no doubt sand-cast in the mid 1700s, at one of the many iron furnace and foundry towns that were thriving in that early colony. That area is now deep in the Jersey Pine Barrens, where very little now exists except a few ancient sand roads and hidden foundation holes amongst the trees, to mark the locations of those vanished industries.
When I use the kettle to cook “stone soup” for parties of my friends, I like to imagine the multitudes of hungry mouths that gathered around it in the dear dead days beyond recall, and ladled up their sustenance from it.
That is a question.
The question was, what do the residents call themselves?
A poster reminded me of this.
According to some in the cattle industry, the same thing is happening with live cattle export to Indonesia, we export breeding cattle to Indonesia which they keep as breeding stock and in years to come replace import.
Short term gain long term loss for us.
I hope you are all donating to the legal costs.
It’s bigger than Pauline.
Need to reign in the progressive judiciary.
Join me as I pray for Farmer Gez.
Told breathlessly all of last week we were looking at a 41 degree day in North Central Victoriastan. Then revised down to 39 on Sunday, further revised down to 37 today.
Top Men at the Bureau of Meteorology
Psst, wanna buy a packet of fags?
UK Moving to Ban Cigarettes Outright (5 Nov)
Many many immigrants are smokers, so I suspect this legislation will have basically zero effect. The immigrants will get theirs through the black market and plod will never ever dare to arrest them because of bad optics.
Aaron
November 6, 2024 6:41 am
I hope you are all donating to the legal costs.
It’s bigger than Pauline.
Need to reign in the progressive judiciary.
Indeed. I will be donating. It’s actually much deeper than having to rein in an out of control progressive judiciary, it’s about having to rein in an out of control, unhinged, progressive far-left political class who desire to intimidate and silence us. And this latest judgment has empowered them, after it was delivered last Friday Fatso Faruqi said, in black and white (pardon the pun) that she intends to come for you and me.
But all of this could have been avoided had we had a Coalition government with any spine prepared to fight to abolish Section 18C. It was the same after yet another sinister and idiotic federal court judgment only two months ago, with the Sal Grover case against the pervert. In that case the federal court ludicrously deemed you can change sex. That judgment was equally as sinister as the judgment against Hanson last week. Both Section 18C, the law used against Hanson, and the Gillard government’s 2012 changes to the Sex Discrimination Act laws, used against Grover’s ‘Giggle’, should have been kiboshed by a Coalition government. Instead, being the inept political cowards they are, successive Coalition governments either sat and did nothing about them or they cowered in the corner, as they did with Section 18C back in 2014, hoping all this ‘difficult stuff’ will just go away. But here’s the thing, these hideous laws don’t sit idly by, no, no, no, they lurk like unexploded hand grenades, primed and ready to go off when someone picks one up. Just ask Sall Grover, Andrew Bolt, Pauline Hanson, Bernard Gaynor and others.
James Morrow in today’s Tele:
MEDIA’S ROLE IN HISTORY’S WILDEST US ELECTION
JAMES MORROW
6 Nov 2024
If you want to understand just why the US presidential contest is so bizarre and so close, just look at the role of the American media in telling Americans what to think, rather than what the arguments are.
For weeks, months, practically a decade now, much of the American press has told the world that Trump rallies are modern day torchlight rallies, seedy gatherings of fascists and misfits and white nationalists.
According to everyone from CNN to the New York Times, these occasions are nothing more than just a bunch of low IQ yokels being sold snake oil by a seedy New York property developer.
And yet.
This column spent the morning of the last full day of the presidential campaign in Raleigh, North Carolina, talking to people at one of Trump’s final events of the campaign and found a very different scene.
Let’s be clear that this was not a Fifth Avenue high society event.
Sure, there were a few office guys in blue blazers in ties scattered in among a crowd that also included mothers with small kids, a landscaping crew in their work gear, and plenty of other people who were able to get the Monday morning off to show up as early as 4am to see their guy.
Ebony Cootes, a middle-aged black woman who described herself as “an Amazon gig worker” said that this was her ninth rally, and that she enjoyed going because of the “love” she felt at Trump events.
Two Hispanic women, seeing us interviewing rally goers, came up to declare themselves “Puerto Ricans for Trump”, saying they were not bothered by the controversy over that comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage.
Yes, a few people had conspiracies on the brain and worried that a Harris win would mean the end of America and world government feudalism.
But frankly, none of it was more bonkers than anything that gets aired from the other direction in the New York Times, which evangelises like a fire-and-brimstone preacher that Trump’s return will herald the end of democracy as we know it.
And it goes without saying that a rally whose soundtrack is a mix of patriotic country ballads (Toby Keith’s The Angry American was a particular favourite) and Village People bangers is more house party than Nazi party.
As for Trump himself, his speech Monday was his usual performance: funny stories, riffing, but with the added punch of a push to slap tariffs on Mexican imports until the Mexican government did something to stem illegal migration.
Contrast this with Kamala Harris’s last day: A series of rallies in which hectored her supporters to cast their ballots. “Let’s get out the vote!” she repeatedly yelled at a crowd in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
While light on policy, the Harris campaign’s final hours were marked by a buzz of celebrity performances – her big closing act was to feature Katy Perry, Oprah Winfrey and Lady Gaga.
The only thing we have not seen during the course of this campaign has been anything remotely like scrutiny from the same press that has whipped up every Trump controversy like a meringue.
Which may be why she was able to get away with not holding a single proper press conference since becoming the party’s nominee.
A small example of this played out in the past 24 hours when it was revealed that several months ago Harris did a podcast with a prominent Muslim influencer in which she decided to argue the position that bacon is a “spice”.
The event took place during a sit-down with Kareem Rahma for his TikTok and Instagram show Subway Takes – but for some reason never wound up going to air.
Bizarrely, Harris used her feelings about bacon (“think about it, it’s pure flavour!”) as a way to pivot Rahma away from an attempt to talk about Gaza.
Of course, had Trump said something like this, the outrage would be felt on the Richter scale, with accusations of everything from Islamophobia to dementia being thrown at the man.
Yet Harris has mostly gotten a pass for this.
Contrast this to Trump, who most recently was raked over the coals for the very reasonable take that people like Liz Cheney who want to send other people’s kids off to war might feel differently if they were ever in the trenches.
Of course, if Trump edges out a win – he’s still a narrow favourite – his enemies in the press will do nothing to reconsider that they got it wrong.
Instead, we will be looking at a meltdown that makes what happened in the wake of the 2016 election look like a toddler’s sulk.
Things are messy in Israel this morning.
Protests Explode In Tel Aviv After Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Gallant (6 Nov)
1801 yesterday.
Hailstones, giant or otherwise: 0.
Rainfall, heavy or otherwise: 3.8mm.
The Legislature can reign in the Judiciary if they think they are straying.
Likewise the Judiciary can put checks on the legislature if they stray outside the enacted laws.
Likewise the Parliament with the executive and legislature can remove wayward or poorly performing judges or even change the law to check excesses.
IMO Justice Stewart probably has form, like Bromberg. Maybe a couple of examples need to be made by sending these guys back to private practise.
There is a fair bit of fault at the feet of politicians for where we are at.
Victorians.
Up here we class that as a “Time to unzip the cardigan” forecast.
Opinion: Couldn’t be more obvious why Qld regions abandoned Labor
At the recent state election Labor lost this seat for the first time ever. The reasons should be obvious, writes Warren Mundine.
It should have been no surprise that Labor was smashed in regional Queensland at the state election.
Queensland Labor’s embrace of progressive policies popular with the urban elite meant it had abandoned the regions.
These communities have suffered.
They have suffered from inflation driven by government spending and energy transition.
They have suffered with job losses from baseload power stations being wound down while their communities make way for the forests of wind farms, carpets of solar panels and untold miles of high-voltage transmission lines.
They have suffered from soaring crime fuelled by progressive ideologies, a tourism industry regularly undermined by activist lies about the health of the Great Barrier Reef, and with coal industries demonised – even as they carry the state’s economy.
Queensland Labor talked a lot of talk about renewables and energy transition.
But its big-spending government was funded by royalties from coal mining and dividends from coal power stations.
At the same time Labor attacked Queensland’s coal-based industries and, in doing so, they attacked the communities which depend on the coal industry for their livelihoods.
Labor raised Queensland’s coal royalties to the highest level in the world.
In the short term this delivered a record surplus to fund Queensland Labor’s election spending, including billions to fund its energy transition agenda and power bill rebates to compensate people for that agenda.
But over the medium to longer term this decision will destroy jobs, with billions of dollars of mining projects cancelled or postponed.
Queensland’s once-booming coal mining industry is now looking towards more competitive markets elsewhere.
Coal companies directly or indirectly support over 372,000 Queensland jobs.
That is 13.5 per cent of total state employment, and that proportion is much higher in regional Queensland.
Labor’s faceless operatives in Brisbane may be shocked that the party lost Mackay for the first time. But I’m not.
The resources sector supports a significant proportion of regional employment in Mackay, and in 2022-23 coal accounted for over 97 per cent of the billions in direct resources-sector spending in the region.
BHP has seven metallurgical coal mines in the Bowen Basin and the Hay Point Coal Terminal near Mackay.
This year BHP announced it will cease further investments in Queensland’s coal industry due to Labor’s royalty hikes.
When you set out to destroy an industry in a community where alternative employment opportunities are scarce, you set out to destroy that community.
Unemployment and increased welfare dependency lead to socio-economic decline and dysfunction.
This is an especially hard cycle to break in regional areas.
Regional Queenslanders don’t want gimmicks like 50 cent bus fares that mostly benefit those living in the cities.
They want a secure job, to be able to provide for their families, raise their children in a good community, to own their own home, and feel safe in it at night.
But this war on the regions by the progressive Left that now dominates the Labor Party is not happening in Queensland alone.
We saw it in Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s decision to side with green activists and stop a gold mining project in western NSW by issuing an Indigenous heritage protection order, against the advice of the Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council.
We saw it in Prime Minister Albanese’s decision to fold the Jabiluka uranium deposits into Kakadu National Park, ensuring there will never be mining at Jabiluka – not now and not in the future.
We saw these same tactics fail to block the Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election.
But the result may have been different if Albanese and Plibersek had been in power.
Their inner-city seats are a hive of urban, progressive elites and are most vulnerable to green-Left challengers who are out of touch with the realities of those living in regional communities.
Plibersek also appears to be laying the groundwork to block gas extraction in Beetaloo Basin, requesting a government-appointed scientific panel to advise on the impact on water resources while being urged by Green activities to use new “water trigger” powers to stop it altogether.
Queensland Labor followed in the footsteps of its federal colleagues and consequently lost in the working-class areas of regional Queensland.
The so-called Labor heartland has been rejected by the party that used to support its interests. And now it has returned the favour in kind.
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Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO is a former National President of the Australian Labor Party and Indigenous Forum director at the Centre for Independent Studies. He is chair of Fuse Minerals and non-executive director at Aura Energy.
Courier-Mail
Gallant finally orders draft of ultra orthodox into IDF. Netanyahu aide arrested. Gallant is fired. Talk of head of Shin Bet next as well as Chief of Staff of IDF.
Move over at the trough …
Snoozer Kelly seems to be having trouble in Teh Paywallian opinion pages as the Albo clown car heads towards the cliff. If Mavis has drifted into parody Snoozer may be working standup now.
Trump’s lost the election after picking on a grandma.
The Washington Post demands to know why Trump is a picking on a grandma just because she’s a 6’5″ ex-man who insisted on playing basketball against young women:
Highly publicised feminist paper of 2023 substantially debunked:
Hunter gatherer societies had gender based divisions of labour.
At Bendigo Base Hospital now for a checkup on the shoulder.
One could be forgiven for thinking this place hires the lady nurses for visually aesthetic purposes. Of course very professional but geez. Absolute stunners everywhere you look.
And guess who the all-powerful unions are backing to replace Miles if he fails to get traction against Crisafulli?
Far left progressive Shannon Fentiman.
I hope you are all donating to the legal costs.
It’s bigger than Pauline.
Need to reign in the progressive judiciary.
Tipped in a few quid.
I can’t find Pauline’s Go Fund Me. Help please.
Well done, NATO.
Having popped up in yesterday’s Cat, Piggy Howes photo appears in today’s Paywallian Margin Call column. at the races (unsurprisingly).
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/position-vacant-must-hate-australia-jews-and-smoke-pot.html
Former detainees unshackled from ankle bracelets, curfews after High Court winBy Natassia ChrysanthosNovember 6, 2024 — 10.35am
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The High Court has ruled that forcing former immigration detainees to wear ankle bracelets and live under curfews is unconstitutional, in a massive blow to the Albanese government that throws into disarray its response to last year’s NZYQ case.
In a decision that exposes Labor to another fierce opposition attack, a majority of justices on Wednesday said the federal government did not have the authority to impose curfews or electronic tracking anklets on the former detainees because that was punitive and therefore unconstitutional.
The case was brought by a 36-year-old stateless refugee, known as YBFZ.
His lawyers sought to challenge controversial curfew and electronic monitoring laws that the Albanese government rushed through last December as it sought to get on top of the unfolding crisis that emerged when the High Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to indefinitely detain non-citizens who cannot be deported.
That court case, brought by a Rohingyan man known as NZYQ, released 152 former immigration detainees – many with serious criminal convictions, including murder and rape – into the community.
As of September 30, there were 215 former immigration detainees in the community on bridging visas. Of them, 128 are subject to 10pm-to-6am curfews and 140 must wear an electronic monitoring device.
YBFZ’s lawyers argued those measures represented “a restriction on liberty” and were punitive by design. Since only the courts, not the government, can inflict punishment on people, they made a case that the laws were unconstitutional.
The government argued the legislation was not a form of punishment but instead an alternative response to managing non-citizens who could not be deported.
YBFZ arrived in Australia with his family in 2002, aged 14, having fled from Eritrea to Ethiopia and then settled as a stateless refugee.
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2014, when in his mid-20s, and had his permanent visa cancelled years later when he was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.
After serving his jail sentence, YBFZ was moved into immigration detention, where he remained for five years until the NZYQ decision.
His lawyers sought to question whether the government had the power to impose such restrictive and punitive conditions.
“If he is late home by one minute, or doesn’t recharge his ankle bracelet on time, he potentially faces a mandatory minimum one year prison sentence – for each breach,” they said.
Ta upthread H B. I have a rudimentary understanding of the legal system from civics at school and one subject that delved into law in second year of my Science degree.
I was thinking given O’Shane’s outbursts and disdain for the law that it was more political cowardice that she wasn’t summarily sacked.
Any ideas how this problem can be fixed?
Politicians are easy we just vote them out, courts though are not. I don’t support electing judges as an alternative either. I thought it would be easier to corrupt but seeing how Soros is active I could only imagine Simon Homes-a-Court minions here.
Wouldn’t care too much if the law was affordable but know from experience retainers are out of the reach of most people and the higher you go the more is needed. I have never had anything get to court and have been involved with VCAT which was enough for me.
Open question, is it me or are we seeing more of these defamation actions since they tweaked the laws? Or are more public people thinner skinned these days?
Ankle monitors, curfews for freed detainees ‘unconstitutional’: High Court
Paul Garvey
?The foreign murderers, rapists and other serious offenders released from indefinite detention will no longer have to wear ankle monitors or comply with curfews after the High Court ruled that the measures were invalid.
The nation’s highest court on Wednesday morning ruled that the measures introduced by the Albanese government in the wake of last year’s NZYQ decision amounted to a transgression of the constitution.
The case had been brought by an Eritrean-born man, identified only as YBFZ, whose lawyers argued that the curfew was a “significant infringement of liberty” and the ankle monitor a “scarlet letter”. The man, who had arrived in Australia in 2002 as a 14-year-old, had stabbed at least three people, was convicted of burglary, and had set a property on fire.
The conditions were imposed under the special Bridging Visa R, or BVR, issued to each of the former detainees upon their release.
“The High Court held, by majority, that the imposition of each of the curfew condition and the monitoring condition on a BVR is prima facie punitive and cannot be justified,” the High Court judgement said.
The number of detainees released from indefinite detention has now grown to 215. Another 13 were released in the first few weeks of October, with Department of Home Affairs officials this week confirming that releases were set to continue indefinitely as more and more detainees exhausted their deportation options.
Fresh data table in a senate estimates hearing this week revealed that 65 of the 215 released detainees had since been charged with fresh state and territory offences.
Of the 215 individuals released to date, 12 of those had previously been convicted of murder or attempted murder, 66 with sex offences including child sex offences, 97 with assault-related offences, 15 with domestic violence, 15 with serious drug offences, and five with people-smuggling. Another five had “low level or no offending”.
Oz
Watching the US election coverage on SkyNews.
Heavy TDS from the usual suspects on daytime Sky.
Michael Ware in particular is deranged, pissed or on drugs. Incoherent.
Speaking of Legal o’s. Bruce Lehrman new silk doesn’t want to be in the open yet. Probably a wise move:
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/mystery-silk-in-lehrmann-appeal-as-he-fights-to-overturn-defamation-case-loss/news-story/cad81f8b863da1ec68ccdd6d88548d9f
Appeal next August and what’s a bet the name is leaked before then…
Here you go.
https://www.onenation.org.au/free-speech-now
Pauline Hanson’s fundraiser – $168,000 so far..
Another reason for Johanna why things should become obsolete once in a while in our brave new world. The limitations of the mobile phone system, particularly 2G and 3G, which are being left behind here but, curiously, are not in Europe since your mandatory SOS button in the car must continue to work. How the phone system can be hacked to take over your mobile or at least locate whether you are at work or at home, even with WiFi turned off.
Veritasium: Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System (YouTube: 31:54)
I’ve made a life changing decision.
Rather than buy litre bottles of glue, for a task to use a few mils then come back in a year only to find the whole bottle dried up, I’m from now on buying multiple small bottles.
It only took me 6 decades to figure this out.
Arky-
Hide glue. Aka rabbit glue, protein glue. Little stinky pearls, keep in a vegemite jar forever, melt to use, sticks forever. Brilliant stuff. I use it on my guitars- takes a sh*t-tonne of torque, miraculously lets go under reasonable heat for re-setting.
Trump leads Harris in first results, clear favourite in key swing states of Georgia, North CarolinaDonald Trump has won Florida, a key state and is leading Kamala Harris in Georgia and North Carolina, both key battleground states as the Vice President takes the northeast.
Gilas:
Free Enterprise will beat Communism at a moderate cost.
Christianity can beat Islam at a moderate cost.
The West can beat Islam and Communists at a heavy cost.
We cannot beat Islam, the Communists, and the treasonous bastards already inside the walls.
The Treasonous Bastards (TM) are what will destroy us – they have to be dealt with.
Now you can see why Pinochet gave out so many helicopter flights – he had no choice.
Let’s hope we aren’t forced to that choice.
Pauline Hanson’s fundraiser is over $200,000.
Sky 207 to 91
Outback truckers used to enjoy but has become very repetitive but I suppose was bound to run out of material quickly so has to manufacture drama now or jump in with cowboys.
Some of those oversize guys they had on recently were definitely sloppy, running through some pretty solid ongoing roadworks without checking the Qld Tpt website is either looking for drama and blaming it on the permit issuer or poor planning.
Unsurprising that the High Court ruled against ankle bracelets and detention for criminal illegals, yet they agreed that locking up average Aussies, and forcing them to take the stab was quite okay.
Definitely not an egregious breach of OUR Human rights.
Calling it now.
Trump is going to shit it in
The Cackler is fcuked.
It seems Arky has exposed Big Glue’s nefarious marketing ploy.
Trump should win both GA and PA, both require Harris leaning counties to considerably outperform the current vote for harris with the remaining expected vote. That’s the show.
Chris Uhlmann correctly pointing out that one of the most worried men on the planet would be Zelensky.
Pearler, son. The tragedy is no one’s gunna see it, they’re all glued to the other thread.
Shock parole decision in Samantha Barlow caseBy Perry DuffinNovember 6, 2024 — 2.25pm
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The drug addict who bashed a heroic police officer and left her for dead will be paroled despite warnings he is a “high risk of violent offending” and his victim saying NSW has now become “a more dangerous place for women”.
Roderick Holohan repeatedly bashed sergeant Samantha Barlow in the head with a brick while she walked through Kings Cross on her way to work in 2009.
Holohan thought he had killed Barlow, and robbed her of $200 for his next heroin fix.
The NSW State Parole Authority on Wednesday said it intended to release Holohan to supervised parole after 15 years in prison.
The parole authority said Holohan, who poses clear dangers to the community, could only be supervised while on parole and not after the end of his sentence in 2029.
“The authority has come to the view that the community safety is better protected by monitoring this offender on a very lengthy period of supervised parole with strict conditions to manage his reintegration and reduce his risk of reoffending,” it said in a statement.
“If the offender were released at the end of sentence, there would be no risk mitigation plan in place and no supervision, and the danger posed to community safety would be substantially greater.”
Barlow and her husband Laurence said Holohan’s release undermined their faith in political commitments to halt violence against women.
DONE
EU Caused Spain Flood Disaster
Summary: In this live stream, the host Mahyar Tousi discusses the recent flood disaster in Valencia, Spain, which has resulted in significant loss of life and property damage. He argues that while the floods are often attributed to climate change, the real cause is the removal of flood protection infrastructure dictated by the European Union’s biodiversity policies. He presents historical context about flooding in Valencia, contending that the region has experienced similar incidents for centuries, and criticizes the EU for prioritizing eco-policies over public safety. The host emphasizes the lack of accountability and media coverage regarding the EU’s role in the disaster, sparking a broader conversation about governance, local autonomy, and the consequences of centralized decision-making. ### Key Points: #### Introduction: – Discussion on the recent flood disaster in Valencia, Spain. – Mention of protests against the Prime Minister’s visit to the flood-affected areas. #### Analysis of the Flood Cause: – The floods are described as a natural disaster but attributed to political decisions rather than climate change. – Historical context of flooding in Valencia for over 800 years, arguing the flood severity is linked to infrastructure changes rather than climate change alone. #### EU Policies Affecting Flood Management: – Critique of the European Union’s biodiversity strategy (2030) and dam removal policies. – Removal of flood barriers and dams across Europe, with Spain leading the number of removals. – The rationale behind these removals is framed as environmentalism, but at the cost of public safety. #### Consequences of Infrastructure Removal: – The immediate impact of removing flood barriers leading to exacerbated flooding. – A lack of media scrutiny of the EU’s policies and their role in the disaster. #### Call for Accountability: – A plea for accountability from the Spanish government and the European Union. – Discussion on how local populations are unaware of the decisions that affect their safety. #### Global Context and Audience Reactions: – Comparison of EU policies to governmental centralization in other regions (e.g., California). – Interaction with the live chat audience, discussing public awareness and the importance of spreading information about the EU’s role. #### Conclusion: – Emphasis on the need for awareness and continued discussion about the implications of EU policies. – Importance of local governance and understanding regional needs versus one-size-fits-all policies from central authorities. – A note about the upcoming U.S. presidential election watch party, shifting focus to current U.S. political events. This summary reflects the main themes and key points from each section of the transcript, providing a clear understanding of the operator’s arguments related to the floods in Spain and the EU’s influence on local governance and disaster management.
Apropos of Nothing, I asked perplexity.ai:
What Australian location is closest to the weighted centre of gravity for federal members?
so there you have it. We need to relocate Canberra to Ivanhoe, NSW. For fairness.
In Other News, the Greens are booted out of the new ACT government…Labor will form a minority government.
I don’t know why they didn’t go minority last time, TE. The watermelons had too much say last time.
Black Ball November 6, 2024 10:07 am
Could it possibly be a plan to distract one from one’s predicament? That’s the sort of competence I thought was outlawed these days.
Perhaps they have an arrangement with Qantas.
“How many know what I am talking about? I am not talking about burning down a building”
Trammps – Disco inferno Dj S Remix
Bee Gees – You Should Be Dancing (encore) (Live in Las Vegas, 1997 – One Night Only)
Bee Gees – You Should Be Dancing (encore) (Live in Las Vegas, 1997 – One Night Only)
Oops,link.
In other news, I have fallen foul of the Instagram algorithms and been banned again. For those of you wondering it did not involve nudity (at least on my part).
I look forward to the buffoons of the American news media having a spazzo freakout about why the American majority they don’t understand needs strong leadership which has been absent for the past 30 years.
To the tiny brains of the media, Trump is a “fascist” because they have forgotten what national strength looks like.
Putin, Xi and the mullahs in Iran are crapping their daks because they’ll no longer be able to run wild in the Middle East and Ukraine.
The cold hard truth is that America is the world’s policeman and when America cops out of the game, the world’s naughty children and grown up tyrants are let off the chain, the world becomes a very dangerous place.
The world has had a gutful of America’s juvenile delinquent government.
Lately a man has been spotted walking around Bondi Junction, Double Bay, Rose Bay and Bondi Beach and other suburbs where lot of Jews live wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words…..
F*ck Israel
F*ck Zionism
Last Sunday, at Bondi Beach, this man was charged and is due to face court in a month or two. Word went around that he’s the son of a former federal Labor minister.
It has now been confirmed that this Jew haters’ name is Andrew Brown, one time deputy mayor of Mosman, son of former Labor minister John Brown and his wife, Jan Brown, she of ‘sex on the desk’ fame.
Classy family.
It has now been confirmed that this Jew haters’ name is Andrew Brown, one time deputy mayor of Mosman, son of former Labor minister John Brown and his wife, Jan Brown, she of ‘sex on the desk’ fame.
Classy family.
It should console you somewhat that the antisemites are inevitably ghastly people. If the decent ones are on your side and the horrible ones are on the other, you’ve got a good hand
When is Trump’s sentencing?
Actually spotted my first Bitcoin teller machine in the wild at a service station in Perth today.
Didn’t know they were a thing.
H B Bear
November 6, 2024 9:22 pm
In other news, I have fallen foul of the Instagram algorithms and been banned again. For those of you wondering it did not involve nudity (at least on my part).
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My only place in the digital verse IS here. No other platform. Not one comment on U-tube.
A million crazy comments a day will drive you insane.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom, after all the fuss
The swamp creatures have only themselves to blame.
They summoned Trump into existence originally with their overreach and radicalism in the Obama years. Without that, without what he could see happening to his country, Trump would not have entered politics.
Then, by stealing the Presidency in 2020 then embarking on years of denigrating Trump and turning their tyranny into overdrive, finally unleashing a whirlwind of legal action. The result is that Trump knows them much better and is more motivated than he would have been if he had been allowed to win unmolested in 2020.
They made him the first time. They made him mad as hell the second
So who the Hell is winning the popular vote?
I’ve been to three sites that claim to tell me, but don’t.
It will be interesting to see if California hands over the EV they claim the Republicans had to when they won the popular vote before.
Now that The Don has won, and also won the popular vote, where does that leave the retards that brought court cases against him?
Also on the kangaroo court that sentenced people to the slammer over events on 6 Jan 2021.
Rightly or wrongly, I am hoping for some medieval bloodletting on those involved on the kangaroo court and the retards and their court cases.
Winston, did you check the PJM results page?
Looks up to date, certainly the time signatures are correct. The map has the results by state as well.
I wonder how much the D’s lawfare turned people off them or even motivated a vote for the R’s? Did any of the exit polls ask a pertinent question?
Winston, here are the latest results from PJM. Popular vote at the end.
2024 Presidential Results
Last updated: Nov 6, 2024 at 2:39 PM
226
Harris
301
Trump
270 to win
67,503,624
votes
72,256,917
votes
PeterM
November 7, 2024 6:32 am
I am sure with thinking voters it made a difference.
(There for the grace of God go I)
Also surprisingly, killing a squirrel stirs up emotions and can affect votes, by how many, I don’t dare guessing.
Something remarkable has happened.
Now that Trump is president (again), lefties suddenly know what a woman is. Sky just had some abortion hungry chick rabbiting on about a woman’s “body rights”. Killing their babies is all these ghouls can think about.
There’s the precis to your fillum right there.
There’s the precis to your fillum right there.
I’ll reiterate on something I mentioned to Winston in the replies:
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (wiki)
The states who’ve signed up are blue ones, which stemmed from the 2016 election when Trump won but Hillary got the highest aggregate popular vote.
It isn’t in force yet which will give these blue states an excuse not to award their delegates to Trump, which would be great fun. But it’ll make for fun trolling of places like California who might be reconsidering this compact right about now.
Emus are invading us, and while the damn emus are doing nothing more than what they’ve been doing for the last 100 years
Hate those birds, they leave big sloppy craps everywhere. Like walking in a minefield when they are around. Chicks look cute though.
Dumb as dog s%$# as well, had them running alongside then suddenly turning at the car knocking themselves out.
I doubt there’ll be too many more of these. A total fraud and scam.
Queer Works CEO indicted in fraud scheme involving Palm Springs universal basic income pilot program
Damn! .. Did I dream it or did the Don (bless ‘im!) get elected next president of the USA yesterday ..? Not a mention on the main page of MSN News ………..FFS!
The crumbling of the Democratic empire
It’s a stunning repudiation of identity politics. No one cares about if you are Asian African American with a vagina.
Do the job that is asked, like secure the border. Keep your finances in order. Offer assistance to a trusted friend in the Middle East.
Oh and hi monty
Wisdom
https://www.facebook.com/61567804614409/videos/jim-spud-hepworth-a-litchfield-watchem-donald-stalwart-and-4th-generation-cereal/1053663596240626/
PEACEMAKER: Russia and Ukraine React to Donald J. Trump’s Legendary Victory, and Discuss What His New Presidency Means for the End of the War
My Thoughts on Donald Trump’s Historic Win (THE SAAD TRUTH_1757)
Looks like there’s going to be another consequential election in the near future.
Chaos erupts in Germany as Scholz’s beleaguered coalition ‘collapses’ (6 Nov)
Maybe the left and the greens will try to hang on in a minority government though. The prospect of losing a snap election and a massive swing to the AfD would not be very palatable to them.
Hitler Rants Parodies:
Hitler reacts to Trump winning the election
Nice work lady.
Kemi Badenoch leaves Keir Starmer dazed in brutal PMQs (6 Nov)
The Tories may be irrelevant for the next four plus years, but if Ms Badenoch can continue holding Labour’s feet to the fire like this it should be quite entertaining.
Bon .. you know your birds .. is this real or AI ..?
Third WIP for the week and it’s only Thursday!
Mid-Week in Pictures: Day After Edition | Power Line
The tide is slowly turning against them.
They can sense it, thus the rhetoric becomes more shrill.
Random results of Trump’s win:
Gas-gone: Soros-backed L.A. District Attorney Gascón Loses in Landslide
Biden-Harris DOJ Prepares to Close Down Jack Smith’s Lawfare Prosecutions.
Disney Star Bette Midler Deletes Her X/Twitter Account After Trump Trounces Kamala
Targeting Starmer for his dishonesty and Lammy for his stupidity is picking low hanging fruit.
Starmer had a few retorts of his own. When Badenoch accused him of reading from scripts prepared by experts he ridiculed her for reading from the large print script she was holding in her hand at the time.
Kemi is going to have to move beyond the theatrics sooner rather than later and get on to matters of substance if she’s to be an effective opposition leader.
Loved the Varvel today. The Democrats will need to dump Obama, Clinton and the rest of them like how Trump has remade the Republicans.
A chilling message for the Orange Hitler from The Resistance.
chuckle 🙂
https://www.onenation.org.au/free-speech-now
Donation made. Total now almost $297k.
Good luck with that.
Government pledges to ban social media for minors under 16 (Tele, 7 Nov, not paywalled…yet)
VPN futures are up. I expect they’ll be next on Karenhair Inman Goebbels’ list of pet hates.
New OT at noon. We got to Thurs rather fast this week.
The Erosion Of Informed Consent: Sharyl Attkisson
**Summary:** In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” Sharyl Attkisson, an investigative journalist, discusses the erosion of informed consent in medical and scientific research, highlighting how financial interests, particularly from the pharmaceutical industry, manipulate studies and influence healthcare practices. Through her experiences and research, Attkisson reveals troubling trends in the integrity of medical practices, the decline of health outcomes despite increasing healthcare spending, and significant breaches in ethical standards regarding informed consent. She emphasizes the need for transparency and genuine informed consent in clinical studies while pointing towards emerging movements that aim to address the chronic health issues that have arisen in modern society. — **Key Points:** 1. **Manipulation of Research Funding:** – Government and pharmaceutical industries use taxpayer money, legally laundered through universities, to avoid accountability and generate biased studies. – Studies often serve more as narratives or propaganda rather than objective research. 2. **Attkisson’s Journey:** – Transitioned from believing in the purity of the medical establishment to uncovering serious issues and conflicts of interest in health reporting. – Investigated various medical scandals that revealed significant issues within the healthcare system. 3. **Case of the Smallpox Vaccine:** – Experienced awakening regarding the smallpox vaccine, questioning its safety and recognizing negative side effects. – Highlighted the controversial resumption of the smallpox vaccination program post-9/11. 4. **Reporting Adverse Effects:** – Discussed the discovery of potential blindness linked to Viagra, leading to the FDA acknowledging risks before Attkisson’s report aired. – Discovered that non-medical journalists often uncovered crucial health stories that medical reporters overlooked. 5. **Influence of Chemical Companies:** – Discussed the case of Tyrone Hayes, who found harmful effects of chemicals in water on frog populations but faced oppressive tactics by the chemical company to suppress his findings. 6. **Corruption in Scientific Publications:** – Noted that much of the scientific literature is unreliable due to financial interests and manipulation. – Described practices such as ghostwriting, where drug companies author studies that appear to be written by independent scientists. 7. **Changing Informed Consent Standards:** – Expressed concern over the declining standards of informed consent in medical research, citing historical examples of unethical practices. – Mentioned recent FDA rule changes allowing researchers to deem risks as minimal and not disclose them to study participants. 8. **Financial Influence on Medical Education:** – Explored how pharmaceutical companies influence medical education, skewing doctors’ understanding of medications and their side effects. 9. **Societal Health Crisis:** – Addressed the rising incidence of chronic health disorders among children and adults, despite increased spending on healthcare. – Critiqued the tendency to normalize health issues rather than address root causes tied to industrial food production. 10. **Positive Movements Amidst Challenges:** – Highlighted growing awareness and independence among the public and health professionals to address health issues overlooked by the establishment. – Recognized Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to bring attention to health crises and corruption within the medical field. Through these discussions, Attkisson advocates for a more critical examination of health practices and the importance of upholding informed consent to protect patient rights and public health.
Something to think about when you next go surfing at Coogee.
Mysterious Sydney beach blobs: Scientists uncover their complex composition (Phys.org, 6 Nov)
Floaters! Maybe Mr Minns should have a quiet word with who or what is the CEO of Sydney Water.
Bit slow but it just dawned on me: Trump really does go down as one the remarkable Presidents no matter what unfolds from here. If any record of our times survives the dark age, no historian of ancient history will be able to write him off as an aberration. The garbage people said: no, we meant it.
I used to be a great supporter of Nigel, but one thing that has stood out in the last year is that he’s always late to the fight, however when he tells the story, he’s in it right from the start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffbcKXM9-s
Hmmm… thinks the Winston.