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His bedroom was Upstairs and his parents never let him Downstairs?
Swapping paint with swarthies, comrade.
Bcuase breaker morant was an evil scum that deserved to be shot. Much like the Australian cricket team, too ms y Australians have shame their nation in South Africa.
Toby Greene is the David Warner of the AFL
The Krauts wanted Opel to make EV’s (GM Tech)?
Now owned by the Frogs.
/Holden
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You buy less of their stuff, they make less stuff, they use less coal to do so, you sell the coal to whoever is now making the stuff. The spot price stays the same.
Our Jane is one of the few literary figures I would have liked to meet; she would have kept anyone on their toes; and as I say she was non pareil in her insights about men and women:
Another of Phatty’s famed phantom memories?
Oh calm down Cronkers. Stick to your knitting, which is reporting the global temp record and correcting the skullduggery that goes into it. Focus on your strength and stop deviating.
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We are not the bad guys.
It doesn’t help that Nifty Nev (ALP) sold off the required land for the M4 to be fully constructed.
Were, Arky.
I can’t see a moral justification for the Second Boer War, let alone the first one.
I’m enjoying the Jane quotes thank you Cohenite.
That’s an inconvenient truth. His real name was Edwin Murrant, he and Peter Handcock were suspected of some thirty murders – including two twelve year old boys – but nobody concerned themselves with a few dead Africans, and all the stuff about “not taking prisoners” was complete bullshit.
Homeland’s Elizabeth Marvel looks hawt playing Louisa May Alcott on PBS.
Alcott herself looked like a good sort in her yoof.
Anyone who thinks we should stop exporting to China ought to realise that is 5% of our GDP.
I showed the calculations the other evening.
I am Dennis Denuto at the photocopier
Speaking of Dennis Denuto, when will munty explain the Trump indictments?
Was East Kew!
scroll down the comments to a John Sinclair who knew him back in the day
some Philip Adams article
Perched on a hill that looks to me to be part of a small caldera on the shoreline, in a house-sitting arrangement.
Queenslanders are quaint.
They build houses as close to the top of eucalypt and other flammable Aussie tree- covered pyramidal hills, on slopes so steep that the houses are held up in part with very long stilts, such as the one I’m minding in a desultory fashion. Plenty of stairs.
Looking across the flat to where the hills leap out of the ground, they have small thickets of palm trees and various exotic species that follow the road to give the tropical feel, which from a distance look like a very piss poor effort.
Meanwhile surrounded by the magnificence of the untamed natural landscape.
Both Barnaby Joyce and Tony Burqua want the illegals from Sri Lanka to stay.
Other than being long term federal politicians, do these two have anything else in common?
At a rellie’s in Hobart, and the ABC News is on the tellie.
Article on bushfires says that climate change will make them worse;
Article on RUOK day runs for several minutes;
Article on the cashless welfare card features lots of criticism, led by Albo;
Article on how a university had nasty anti-Muslim materials in a course
Article on the economy – we’re all doomed, apparently – features a Syrian restaurant with a gay couple. Mining = bad.
Nothing from overseas. We pay for this?
At a rellie’s in Hobart, and the ABC News is on the tellie.
Article on bushfires says that climate change will make them worse;
Article on RUOK day runs for several minutes;
Article on the cashless welfare card features lots of criticism, led by Albo;
Article on how a university had nasty anti-Muuslim materials in a course
Article on the economy – we’re all doomed, apparently – features a Syrian restaurant with a gay couple. Mining = bad.
Nothing from overseas. We pay for this?
I thought Adams came from Far Kew.
The chicoms are only good for the five percent of our GDP until OBOR allows them to play suppliers off against each other and blow up commodity prices in a race to the bottom.
Linkie no workee Notafan.
“zyconoclast
#3150770, posted on September 8, 2019 at 7:38 pm
Both Barnaby Joyce and Tony Burqua want the illegals from Sri Lanka to stay.
Other than being long term federal politicians, do these two have anything else in common?”
Well yes…but Barnaby paid a higher price than squalid Tony Burqua. Plus I don’t recall a front page spread of Burqua’s love life when he dumped his wife.
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They started both of them.
The first, only after strategically waiting for the British to finish off the Zulus.
They were slaving, wandering Dutchies with no rightful claim over anything.
I have many strengths.
OBOR won’t work. Crap like this has never, ever worked.
It also has a completion date of 2049.
I can’t see a moral justification for the Second Boer War, let alone the first one.
They’re Dutch.
Do you need another reason?
John C
The race to the bottom of commodity prices has been occurring since the Iron and Bronze Age. The spot market matches bidders and sellers at the agreed price… the race to the bottom.
Doesn’t matter was boring anyhow.
Adams grandparents had a small farm at East Kew where he grew up in the 1940s.
The article where he writes a bit about it is paywalled.
If they hung on to it long enough they’d have made a tidy sum from subdivisions.
Britain braces for one of its COLDEST winters in 30 years as ‘Beast from the East’ makes bone-chilling return with -14C lows after jet stream shifts south
England cricket team hoping for an early winter.
Um…Jamieson launched an unprovoked attack and the Brits were amassing troops at the Transvaal border.
The British broke two prior treaties – recognising Boer sovereignty. If they weren’t valid, neither was the annexation of the Cape Colony in the first instance.
The British did not end slavery in Botswana until 1936.
There was plenty from overseas.
I hope you are getting favours from some huge- titted blonde dutch chick in return for that bullshit.
You make it seem like the slavery in Bechuanaland was imposed by whites. Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H15mdeOemt8
If you had an Empire which outlawed slavery and had casus belli in other parties being slavers, would you allow a protectorate to continue to practice slavery?
With a clear conscience?
I will always remember Kees Flodder.
Actually Arky, I’d be interested in your take as to why the Boer Wars were justified.
he said as he glanced knowingly at Marieke Hardy and Louise Milligan, seated at the far end of the couch on the ABC’s new flagship book program Book Bash. They looked at him sternly and he winced slightly, reminded briefly of someone now, alas, far away in Havana. Would Marieke and Louise ever dance invitingly in their undies as he expanded on the mysteries of quadratic equations ?Well, Marieke might, but probably not Louise. What times he’d had in Havana !
Dot, would you impetuously destroy the economic foundations of a society?
The dignity of risk is nearly extinct, and well demonstrated in tourist hubs.
People pay a lot of money to come somewhere where signs say don’t go swimming at all in the hottest months coz you’ll die or something, and recommend wearing a body covering rashie at other times when swimming; which is not encouraged.
The tourists are warned with alarming yellow and black signs shouting Achtung of the danger of crocs a short drive from the hub.
This could be explained by the crocs up here having a preference for Teutonic flesh, which should come as a relief to the not inconsiderable number of Asian people and a fair smattering of other people.
Or that the bloke who did the sign had to meet the KPI of a warning in English and a foreign language, and Achtung was the only thing he could think of.
One licensed premises in the middle of the hive has a sign saying that anyone drinking in the small, roped off bit of footpath they have poached must be seated.
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They don’t need justification.
The game at the time was Empire.
We were better at it than everyone else. I wish we still were.
Go and have a look at the “National Women’s Monument” near Bloemfontein, some time, will you?
I’m saying the British lied their arses off to grab bits of land here and there. Slaves in Boer Republics: Bad! Slavery in British protectorates: clever, necessary, statesmanlike and humane.
Not even Lord Kitchener could get behind such a putrid turd sandwich.
I wish we still had young men willing to go into the darkest most primitive parts of the planet and die conquering foreign heathens.
But all we have is these fat, bearded sons of the boomers and their whining be- nose ringed nihilism.
Much of the Amazon remains unexplored Arky.
You have a passport and disposable assets.
So it was black on black slavery in the Boer republics which offended the Brits?
‘Adams grandparents had a small farm at East Kew where he grew up in the 1940s.’
Thanks, notafan.
I suppose that could involve a state of ‘desperate poverty’, although my impression of East Kew – we used to drive along Harp Road to get to Burke Road to go to the beach when I was a kiddie – was always one of relative prosperity, and it was just next door to posh North Balwyn.
duh… nothing to do with economies, power, capital, territory or influences.
…all feelz
A biting review of the “Dark Mofo” festival in Hobart.
Dark Mofo is praised for bringing “weird” and even “brutal and nauseating” art and performance to Hobart, as if we needed more.
Sounds like extreme leftie lunacy on steroids.
JC were you in NY when the Twin Towers were attacked ? Just watching it now on SBS. Fucking awful.
It’s unbelievable that the sprinklers weren’t working in those buildings.
So is the Moon; and the ocean depths; but not feminine depths because our Jane has explored them magnificently.
Phrasing.
Irony.
The reason why it makes no sense Snoopy is because the Brits were full of shit.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/indians-in-melbourne-a-bright-new-future-20190906-p52oqa.html?fbclid=IwAR2XXFW73Yv6LtTf4OXcmOvZrU1xKNeXaa37zMHC4YoDOI9EXxjOzFtsdOk
came to Australia in 2007. He wanted to study abroad, Canada ideally, but it was difficult to get into certain courses and the fees were high. An education agent in India told him Melbourne was affordable. “He explained to me about Melbourne being the world number-one liveable city.”
Australia has outsourced its immigration policy to transnational cartels that have taken the concession to sell Australian citizenship for profit.
If the three friends have one complaint about where they live, it’s the lack of infrastructure. “The traffic is killing all of us to be honest,” says Ms Kaur.
Meanwhile, development is booming: a Bunnings is opening soon in Clyde North. “A lot of the population is moving to this side,” Ms Kaur says.
The Victorian government has pledged to plan for a new rail link to Clyde but details and timelines are sketchy. Mr Gadani says a train station would be useful when their kids are older and would increase their house prices.
But in the meantime they are sanguine – they all have cars and work on the south side of the city.
The private developer has monetised the amenity of the city, taken the Indians money and run. The State can fund the infrastructure with borrowed OBOR money to boost GDP.
Yea max, on midtown though.
Never knew. No wonder the schools promote her.
Really?
A bank that inflates the currency they issue will totally fuck the value of their loan book.
We know JC never scrolls up, but for others, here is a report on how the australian left has used the victorian government to lock Australia into OBOR, just because they didn’t have control federally doesn’t mean that the left cannot dictate foreign policy by other means.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/china-s-one-belt-one-road-what-has-victoria-signed-up-to
The Victorian state government has released the details of a controversial agreement with China on its Belt and Road initiative.
Comrade Maaaaaates.
West Heidelberg. Ha.
The Olympic Village that became the prototype of houso flats in Melbourne, and the domain of old-fashioned bank robbers and extortionists all through the 60s and 70s.
I am fairly sure the Federal Government can fuck this right off without passing any new legislation.
There is an apocryphal story of a Eastern European couple holidaying in Kakadu being eaten by crocs.
Authorities chased down the suspect crocs, confident that the Czech was in the male.
Daniel Andrews kept the signing of OBOR top secret.
Clearly, some of Liability Bob’s proteges are working the cameras at the crikkit.
Not seeing the problem at all with that account of Morant’s activity.
The current Brereton Enquiry plaguing the ADF for doing its job probably used the Morant film as a training video.
Have you modified your icon
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/premier-warns-of-deadly-outcomes-in-cladding-crisis-blame-game-20190908-p52p7o.html?fbclid=IwAR3wbgiug9TnRMVxTNi0C4mD62DEr4J2iI1ELfq1MGShUThhWwWjxJvnWg4
Their andrewstown Satrapy announces there must be no blame game, The huge donations of the property developer landsharks makes them untouchable in regards the trillion dollar liability of the disintegrating dogbox deathtraps.
The utter dependence upon chicom OBOR to fund re-election and chicom secret police Skynet to identify and crush Dissent means victoria cannot blame chicom slave labour factories for supplying building materials that are criminally unfit for constructing human habitation.
Premier Daniel Andrews has warned that lives could be lost unless the state and federal governments work together to resolve the cladding crisis.
The Victorian premier said both levels of government have a responsibility to work together on resolving the “significant challenge”, warning a blame game could put innocent lives as risk.
Questioned on Sunday about cladding falsely labelled as fire resistant being imported into Australia, Mr Andrews warned of “deadly outcomes”.
“No one likes putting a levy on, no one likes having to invest so much taxpayers’ money,” he said. “But this is a very real issue and if ignored, if a blame game was to erupt … my fear is that there would be deadly outcomes from it.”
The State must bail out the billionaire property developers, because the proles don’t hand out Aldi plastic bags full of cash.
Comrade Maaaaaaaaates.
‘deadly outcomes from it’
Maybe for you at the next election, you hunchbacked lying commo freak.
Arriving in Aberdeen today, Dame Judi look sprightly and was wearing white trousers and a cream jumper, with a cardigan and scarf.
She was accompanied by another man who was pushing the luggage trolley.
Even for the hacks, it’s all so confusing these days. Better to be safe than sorry though with this gender malarkey.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Comment/Russia-is-in-danger-of-being-overrun-by-China-s-Belt-and-Road
not everyone in Russia is celebrating the warmer ties. In reality, Russia has begun to feel like the junior partner due to asymmetries between it and its giant Asian neighbor.
The gap between the two countries is widening in many areas, including the economy, population, military and politics. For example, Russia’s gross domestic product was only 12% of China’s in 2018 and, according to a survey by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, its military spending is only a quarter that of China’s.
On the other hand, China is short of resources and covets Russian oil, natural gas and forestry products. It is also sending large numbers of Chinese workers to Russia.
Russia has been shunned and sanctioned by much of the international community and is largely relying on China for its economic well-being. But Moscow still regards Central Asia as under its sphere of influence and has become alarmed by its partner’s growing presence in the region, both economically and on the security front.
Morant/Murrant”s own “batman” testified to his court martial that Morant himself had Hunt’s uniform, and, was in fact, wearing it at the time the Boer Visser was captured and shot. Eyewitnesses reported that Visser had an old and dilapidated “British warm”, but that Morant/Murrant was trying to get said witnesses to swear that Visser was wearing Hunt’s tunic.
It’s one of the inconvenient truths of the whole matter, that it was Morant/Murrant’s own men who made the statements, that led to his and Handcock’s trial and executions.
The Olympic Village that became the prototype of houso flats in Melbourne, and the domain of old-fashioned bank robbers and extortionists all through the 60s and 70s.
And the beer in hand might well be your last if you dared look sideways in the Olympic Hotel.
JC
Your own link says this.
John C
Andrews action is meaningless. The Feds can tell Victoria and China to fuck right off … and is constitutionally at liberty to.
Also, foreign investment has to go through the review board. That’s federal. Don’t sweat it.
Fair enough Zulu.
I shall retreat from the subject in deference to those who know more about it than I do, other than to speculate that given the time period, any captured combatants on either side were probably lucky not to be shot out of hand.
Recently a new accord was signed to lease about 150,000 hectares of farm land in the Trans-Baikal region in Eastern Siberia to the Chinese for 49 years at a symbolic price of about US$5 per hectare. Almost all the woodlands in the area near the Chinese border had already been leased for timber extraction.
Critics in Russia are saying that it means a sell-out of the native land at a discount price. This is rhetoric. However, more major matters for concern also exist.
The top headache is the excessive use of chemicals. The nitrates in the fruits and vegetables grown by the Chinese far exceed the norms, according to Russian monitoring authorities. Many chemicals they use are unknown in Russia, and there is no methodology for their analysis. This poses health risks for consumers, and also risks soil degradation.
One more surprise for Russians was Chinese-run pig farms. The animals grow at an “unthinkable” pace and to an “unthinkable” size – apparently, due to the intensive use of chemicals in their forage.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2100228/chinese-russian-far-east-geopolitical-time-bomb
The 1858 Aigun Treaty between the Russian Empire and the Qing Dynasty established the Sino-Russian border along the Amur River, reversing the previous Nerchinsk Treaty of 1689. Russia got over 600,000 sq km on the left bank of the Amur, known as Priamurye, which had been held by China. With the signing of the Convention of Beijing two years later, it also acquired the vast area on the right bank of Amur, east of its tributary Ussuri River (Ussuri joins Amur in Khabarovsk) – thus gaining complete control over the Primorye region down to Vladivostok.
A Chinese man sells goods at a market in the town of Vladivostok. Some estimates put the number of Chinese in Russia at 300,000 to 500,000. Photo: AFP
In China, both treaties are viewed as unequal, drawn up in a time of China’s weakness.
In 1969, when confrontation between Beijing and Moscow peaked, military clashes broke out on the border, raising fears of an all-out war. In 1989, bilateral relations were normalised. The border was largely finalised by the agreement of 1991. Historian Boris Tkachenko said China netted 720 sq km.
Ironically, the territories it got included the Island of Zhenbao – the scene of the bitterest military confrontation in 1969. The issue of the territorial status of the two small islands near Khabarovsk along the junction of Amur and Ussuri rivers – Yinlong and Heixiazi – was left to be settled later. Under the agreement of 2004, the former and about half of the latter were transferred to China. Critics in Russia say that Moscow made too many concessions. With the signing of the additional border agreement in 2008, officially all the territorial issues were settled. China and Russia are now strategic partners. But many in China feel that as the Aigun Treaty and the Convention of Beijing were unjust, China should at some point get back territories it ceded.
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The hunch back kept the signing secret because it was signed on used toilet paper. That’s how worthwhile it is.
Cummins!
7 to go.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
#3150831, posted on September 8, 2019 at 9:08 pm
Nice distraction.
But you don’t deny that Hunt was tortured and murdered.
JC, the ChiComs are the best at this stuff.
They don’t sign any old shit for no result. They are rat cunning.
Trouble is that I can’t think of a single godless commo andrews state government initiative that the feds have stood up to and cancelled, when it comes to funding time the feds just roll over and pay up.
600 million dollars as the first part of the bailout of the political donor class of property developers. All this does is establish the precedent that the proles of victoria are liable for the greed and corruption of the apartment Ponxi scheme and must pay to prevent its collapse.
Desal plant, de-electrification, deindustrialisation, vikpol, thoughtcrimes, re-education.
Their Pol Dan wants Year Zero in victoria, anyway he can bring about the collapse of old australia and create the eternal gulags.
Two of the best books written on the whole matter are “Breaker Morant and the Bushveld Carbineers” edited by Arthur Davey (that contains the eyewitness accounts) and “The Legend of Breaker Morant is Dead and Buried” by Charles Leach — both South African historians. (Not surprisingly, they have a somewhat different perspective on the issue.)
It’s also worthy of note, that the Boer Visser was the only actual combatant, taken prisoner after a battle. The rest were what the Boers contemptuously called “handsoppers” – they were obeying British injunctions to surrender themselves, hand over their weapons, take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown, go home and take no further part in the fighting. (It’s another of the myths that the Bushveldt Carbineers were some sort of elite colonial Special Air Service – they were formed as a sort of mounted police to accept the Boer surrenders, and escort them to the nearest British Provost Marshall, to start the process.)
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At that point the war was lost, by any traditional reckoning, and any Boer taking up arms against the British was a criminal, plain and simple.
Knuckle Dragger
#3150835, posted on September 8, 2019 at 9:14 pm
Fair enough Zulu.
I shall retreat from the subject in deference to those who know more about it than I do, other than to speculate that given the time period, any captured combatants on either side were probably lucky not to be shot out of hand.
Morant might have got away with a relatively light sentence for shooting the Boers and Africans.
But one of his shooting parties was witnessed by a German born missionary and his black servant. Morant sent Handcock to murder the embarrassing witnesses, the German government got involved, and so it went …
John C
I don’t know how this can be any clearer. State governments cannot formulate foreign policy or sign international agreements with a foreign power. It’s unconstitutional.
Now Andrews may have met with Chinese officials (were they from a Chinese company or the government?) and the federal government would not physically stop the hunch back from doing so. However, if the hunch back signed an agreement, it carries no legal worth unless it is cleared by the Federal government/ Investment Review Board.
How much clearer can it get to assuage your fears?
https://www.axios.com/hurricane-dorian-foreign-aid-china-bahamas-infrastructure-7268e2e7-3980-459b-a59b-a638a21a26ea.html
The Tyrant will help out the Bahamas in their hour of need.
Just sign here.
Comrade Maaaaaates.
They are rat cunning.
But are they
Those Chinese fvckers are trying to rat-fvck us,’
Okay, then please explain how these “rat cunners” can make a significant investment in Australia bypassing the Federal government and the Foreign Investment Review Board?
As I said, the hunch back can fucking sign anything he wants, but the ultimate decision rests with the Federal government. I can’t explain what the hunch back was doing because the Liars do all sorts of crazy shit. Mark this up for another meaningless grandstand.
Over – I see a new dignity in standing in front of such signs, with a big ‘FU’ grin.
I’m more and more teaching my kids that there are many such signs which should be ignored.
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/04/daniel-andrews-hock-china/
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews will attend Chinese president Xi Jinping’s forum to promote its controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure program next week, as Australia’s relationship with Beijing comes under fresh scrutiny ahead of the federal election.
The visit by Mr Andrews and Australian business groups to China comes as tensions resurface in Australia’s relationship with China over a ban on Huawei’s 5G equipment and restrictions on Australia’s coal imports. China has complained about Australia’s ban to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Bank of China faces a bout of public scrutiny after its emergence as the fifth largest lender to the Australian government sector behind the Big Four domestic banks.
Disclosures in APRA’s monthly banking statistics show that a government customer borrowed A$100 million from the state-owned Chinese bank in October last year.
It is rare for Australian governments or their agencies to borrow directly from state-owned foreign banks given the potential for such arrangements to create conflicts of interest for domestic governments.
Banking Day has not been able to verify the identity of the government borrower, but the reporting of the loan to APRA coincided with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews signing a bilateral trade deal with the Chinese government on 8 October last year.
I think Adams grew up in Kew, where his father was the local parson, and then Eltham. If Dad didn’t like Little Fatty and thrashed him from time to time, that need not necessarily count against him. The only condemnation that he did not do it hard and often enough.
Hoping they do, so it saves the US some money. Lets hope the Chinese money is quickly put back into fixing up the beaches as we may be heading that way sometime next year.
Since we’re getting precious and pious over the Boer War.
The poor old Xhosa had their arses kicked by everybody before and after the war.
Good god man. I hope you’re trolling.
Cummins!!!
2nd Boer War, with some interesting gun talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnukc-b7Ask
JC, I expect the Fed Gov knew what was going on. It’s not like they expressed any real anger when the Vic OBOR signing eventually became public.
The Coalition thinks China is a benign power.
baked in … making dog box living more affordable for everyone
I don’t believe the government thinks that, mh.
They want to be careful how they tread because China is responsible for 7% of our exports and they are canutes (China).
Amazing what happens when you get decent Test match umpiring.
For both teams, I mean.
Australia $1.14
‘And the beer in hand might well be your last if you dared look sideways in the Olympic Hotel.’
Where there was reputedly a van in the carpark with two whores in it to service the clientele.
Jesus Christ,
are you lot still going on about Kaffi® Kickers?
It’s almost as bad as Vietnam.
Poms need 299 with 72 overs and 6 wickets left.
No chance.
They are glued to their crystal sets up here in the Isle of Skye.
They hate the Poms with a passion.
Don’t be racist, Stimson.
https://reachmarkets.com.au/news/are-the-ceos-of-the-worlds-top-companies-moving-to-change-the-shareholder-model-as-we-know-it/?fbclid=IwAR1yzcq7uEGO1AIsLU2fnM8bs4LJgkmY3fSrtNAn-soNWrts5MBfjZYr9aw
The Business Roundtable (BRT) has sparked vociferous debate, releasing a breakthrough statement on the overall purpose of corporations, and why maximising shareholder returns is perhaps no longer the main goal. A statement signed by nearly 200 of America’s biggest CEOs, including JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, forecasts the beginning of the end for shareholder primacy and says companies should focus on all stakeholders, including employees, customers, and local communities.
While it may seem to be wildly progressive and perhaps even a response to social pressure, this kind of development is nothing new. Whether we go back to Henry Ford doubling his employees’ rates in 1914, or the Business Roundtable’s declaration that companies need to balance shareholders’ interests with ‘the legitimate concerns of other constituencies’ in 1981; the fact remains that what’s most important about this mission statement isn’t the words on the paper – but what action is taken next.
Another way companies are being prompted, both internally and externally into effective action is through examining their product and investment portfolios and assessing the social and environmental consequences. Many of the BRT member companies are bound by business models that affect these areas directly, intentionally or not, and whilst it may be profitable, it can be significantly harmful to the health and wellbeing of key stakeholders. These companies have signalled that changes are on the horizon, with even companies the size and scale of BHP ‘evolving’ their stance on climate change, ‘confronting (the) complexity’ of the numbered environmental problems facing the future, and acknowledging that business, as usual, may not be a sustainable or indeed profitable model
This latest development surely is big news, but the next thing to watch will be what these 181 CEOs decide to do next. Crucially, it will be interesting to see how the market will respond to this shift in overall attitude. Will this have an effect on the model as we know it overall, and will the market themselves begin to ‘confront complexity’ or look to maintain business as usual?
Crony corporate socialism.
Awful numbers for Albanese on Newspoll. Another smoking dud for Labor. The next Labor PM probably isn’t in parliament yet.
GhostWhoVotes
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#Newspoll Albanese: Approve 35 (-6) Disapprove 40 (+6) #auspol
Don’t be bagging Vietnam, Stimpy.
Apparently they show the best movies going around over there.
I hope you are getting favours from some huge- titted blonde dutch chick in return for that bullshit.
Confirmed
When was the last time any PM got these numbers? Remarkable turnaround.
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As per usual, libertarians doing the spade work for the Green Left weekly.
Surprisingly aided tonight by ZK2A, who should fucking well know better.
Morrison spoke well re the Tamil non refugee situation. The public is with the Feds.
Plus I don’t recall a front page spread of Burqua’s love life when he dumped his wife.
For a staffer.
Much of the Amazon remains unexplored Arky.
You have a passport and disposable assets.
A great book.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Book Summary
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century”: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?
In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world’s largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions helped inspire Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization—which he dubbed “Z”—existed. Then he and his expedition vanished.
Fawcett’s fate—and the tantalizing clues he left behind about “Z”—became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness. For decades scientists and adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett’s party and the lost City of Z. Countless have perished, been captured by tribes, or gone mad. As David Grann delved ever deeper into the mystery surrounding Fawcett’s quest, and the greater mystery of what lies within the Amazon, he found himself, like the generations who preceded him, being irresistibly drawn into the jungle’s “green hell.” His quest for the truth and his stunning discoveries about Fawcett’s fate and “Z” form the heart of this complex, enthralling narrative.
Patrice O’Neal.
Harassment Day.
Genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eAU0EadxEc
Adams’ father died when his son was about nine and his mother remarried. It was the stepfather who beat hell out of him. All detailed in an entertaining podcast with Richard Fidler. It was undoubtedly a nightmare for the kid.
Even if the public isn’t with the LNP on this specific issue with the Tamil family, Labor have made a huge strategic error. If they don’t have the spine to throw a bunch of failed asylum seekers out of the country, after every court has said they aren’t refugees, no one will believe Labor’s resolve in the face of an armada of boats over the horizon.
Wonderful trolling, not my work.
If their turnbullites can be the smartest man in the room by finding a signed transnational treaty on the rights of waterfowl to use as a loophole to beat the Australian Constitution, how is this for a signed transnational convention?.
Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions:
It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive.
The clearances of the civilian irrigation community of the Murray Darling Basin and the rewilding of the farmland is illegal and a crime against the Geneva Convention.
Anyway, 99.99% of Australians don’t even know this Tamil family personally. Sure a country town are up in arms about losing a “local” family, totally understandable. This will do nothing to Morro’s numbers once they are deported, but Albanese has Keneally’ed himself for no reason.
Aussies win the first session. How good is Pat Cummins? 4/87 at lunch with still 296 needed.
A duplicitous ferret-faced brothel creeper is unpopular with the wymminses?
I’m shocked!
The mental image of their turnbull in chains facing the court at the Hauge for crimes against humanity for his devastation of the Murray Darling Basin can only be improved if howard was his cellmate.
Fascinating at the end when he reveals the evidence for a jungle metropolis of sorts.
Fawcett, by one account, talked his son out of abandoning the quest when the lad fell in love with a girl on the ship. Perhaps it was the other manly companion.
I’ve wondered why no one has made a Fawcett movie. Great story.
Do the Labya wymminses have compromising photos of Albo?
I’ve wondered why no one has made a Fawcett movie. Great story.
Unfortunately they did make a terrible Lost City Of Z movie in 2016.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/
It’s nothing to do with Green Left Weekly, and everything to do with the fact that Morant/Murrant and Handcock were war criminals, who got what they deserved.
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Green Left Weekly agrees completely with you, as would Numbers:
Yep. Go to Tasmania, rival of Milan in the international art community, to see Dark Mofo:
‘In 2016 art students protested when their school was surrounded by poster artworks saying “Your work is shit” and last year, as the ABC reported, one event by an international artist “included mock crucifixions set to music, culminating in a frenzied squabble by blood-soaked participants writhing in the entrails from a freshly slaughtered bull carcase”.’
Go for the satanic bits. Stay for the drugs:
‘Some hours earlier a friendly sniffer dog in Devonport discovered $220,000 of ice being carried by a passenger on the Spirit of Tasmania—a festival “travel partner”.’
All enthusiastically sponsored by the Tasmanian and Commonwealth governments, Qantas (of course) and run by a dude called David Walsh. In a salute to ‘his’ artists, he said:
‘most of them are pretentious twats … they create stuff, maybe it’s because they think they are trying to create beauty, or create a new movement, or they want to do an exhibition on the moon but really all they want to do is get laid.’
Which is the exact same reason males become part of the vegan movement and Extinction Rebellion.
Weimar on the Derwent, Michael Connor, Quadrant Online.
Dark Mofo
c 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9TeVdW8sYA
Again, just now in Q Online. The best kablammo I’ve read to date on the Pell circus, written by this bloke:
‘John Finnis AC QC is professor emeritus at Oxford University, having been Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy from 1989 to 2010. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (Law and Philosophy sections). A barrister of Gray’s Inn, he practised from 1979 to 1995 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel [QC] (honoris causa) in 2017. Originally from South Australia, he was created a Companion in the Order of Australia in 2019 ‘for eminent service to the law, and to education, to legal theory and philosophical enquiry, and as a leading jurist, academic and author’.’
I reckon I’d back him over Milligan.
Milligan is not even, intellectually, in the same category as Finnis. It’s like comparing a rock to a human being.
Denly gone. 5 more to get after Lyon strikes.
The Sopranos. Mob daughter outright asks mob boss father if he is a crook.
At some stage, in Australia, a lot of people are going to need to be openly asked where their money came from.
Comrades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoXKd-x3VPA
Well, that was the only reason I signed up to the Summer of Love (1967). I was trying to get some.
The council in Coffs Harbour has generously allowed Jacinta Price to speak in their town, but only on the proviso that she grovel to the local indig first.
They sent her a letter saying they are:
“committed to the “customary protocols of our indigenous Community members” and would “appreciate” Price “requesting permission from Gumbaynggir Aboriginal people to enter the land”.
“Please advise as soon as possible when this has been done.”
Or what?
(Bolt.)
So what you’ve never seen Dr Cusamano go out at 3 am?
Did other kids find $50k of Krugerrands and a .45 on an easter egg hunt?
LOL
Great scene.
Wow. He isn’t mincing words. He. Did.
Not. Do. It. The lefty anti Catholic Liberty Victoria Maxwell and the comatose woman judge phoning it in should be barred from the bench.
Milligan has no intellect. Intellect requires virtue. She has none.
Stunning visuals and sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLenvFexXyQ
This (the Pell matter) will lay down the rock upon which a High Court silk will make his her career.
Leave to appeal will be granted. They dare not disallow it.
And the appeal will be heard, and upheld. However, it will take years, and dependent on the Cardinal’s health he may not be there to see its end.
But it won’t matter. This will, or can, only ultimately end one way.
And the end will not be the end. It will be the end of the beginning, for then not the accuser, but the organisations and the people in them that caused this will be held to account.
Walsh is direct, no shit. Mona is a success but a matter of choice.
He was a kid from the back blocks of Glenorchy – the mean streets of Tassie are the meanest in white Australia – who taught himself maths and a love of art. He accumulated wealth through gambling where he applied mathematical models. He then funded the creation of Mona.
Some who know him say he is like a savant, can be with you one moment and then in another space.
About a decade ago he literally bet Mona on the Melbourne Cup, in order to see off creditors. He won. When asked, he couldn’t name the horse, because he said it was all in the system.
A very clever man. Visit Mona and suspend disbelief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqnMq8gaqbE
Bairstow gone LBW to Starc on umpires call. Closing in now.
You’re being uncharitable to rocks.
Knuckle Dragger:
Optimist.
The Criminal Caste will walk away untouched by the damage they’ve inflicted on the nation.
The Billabong in Australia is deeper, wider, and smellier than anything the US has.
Our Constitution has been ripped apart so many times it isn’t even useful for a ticker tape parade of the Chicom Army doing its Victory Lap of Canberra.
Our leaders – political, industrial, social, and religious, have shown themselves to be morally and intellectually bankrupt.
I won’t cheer as the whole rotten edifice crumbles into the dust, but I certainly won’t lift a finger to save a people who would elect these lying, thieving, corrupt, and decadent main chancers.
New Telstra ad on TV last night showed two men in a car parked at a romantic lakeside. One resolves to finally tell ‘them’ as he grapples with a phone – which doesn’t work. Never mind, says his confrere, as he hands over his Telstra-connected unit. Call goes through to mum and dad (dad is an ocker Aussie – of course). Son tells them he and the other bloke are “engaged.” Ocker dad responds with a hearty, “about bloody time!” See, there’s nothing more Aussie, true-blue or touching than fake homosexual nuptials. Even this contemporary parental incarnation of Dave and Grace Sullivan agree.
Very common C.L., this virtue signalling in casting. I have seen a number of adverts lately with gay couples, vastly over-represented.
Lots of back-slapping among the hipsters in marketing and advertising no doubt, but eye-rolling stuff for Joe Average.
I have also noticed this in printed brochures for government departments and large corporates. They all contain an aboriginal, a middle Eastern woman with a headscarf, a black African and a jolly avuncular Mediterranean grandpa type, and gays.
White bread Aussies are hard to find, and if they are there they are usually hipster looking types.
Oh, with one exception that is.
When casting Domestic Violence adverts and brochures the usual multi-culti and minority types are MIA.
Shit. Just wow
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w
On the buses!!
I’ll get you, Buttler!!!
7-fer.
Welcome back to Perth from an overseas trip, no fast track, no passport machines at all operating, just suck up the equality and diversity. You’re just another fucking pleb coming home. What a country.
Archer gawn.
8-fer.
They are going wild here on the Isle of Skye!!!
Och aye!
Fuck orf, yer out, laddie!
I have yet to meet one parent who hopes and prays that their child will be gay. I have also yet to meet one parent who hope their grandchildren come from a sperm bank and some women acting as a womb for hire.
A person told me the other day that some recent studies show same sex attraction has some genetic basis. Oh that’s wonderful I say sarcastically. Now we can abort gay babies.
Leach gone to Labuschagne.
15 overs to go.
We win!!
Fourth Test scorecard.
We retain The Ashes.
Paul Zanetti.
Eric Lobbecke ‘toon with a pissawful Media Diary beatup in the Paywallian about Trump and Hollywood.
Paul Zanetti #2.
The new David Rowe strategy is to alternate BoJo derangement and Trump derangement.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Dominic Raab just said of the Surrender Bill:
Looks like he spotted the same flaw in it as I did last week.
Thanks Tom. Ramirez always cheers me.
Maria is coming in a taxi to take me back to the house of her “father in religion ” who is presumably a voodoo believer who is responsible for Maria’s morals. Not an easy job.
I interpret this as a godfather, but I have no clear idea of what his job is. Maria says she spent the morning at his house. It’s Sunday here, and I am to visit him. Maybe the idea is to check out my intentions. Or my morals. It will be interesting to find out.
Maybe he’ll turn me into a zombie. If you never hear from me again, you can conclude that I’ve been zombified.
Lead story in the Oz – the White House is having trouble drumming up “enough Hollywood A-listers” for a dinner ScoMo will be attending there.
Apparently Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are “enigmatic” – meaning they’re too sensible to come out for either Trump or the Clintons. Rusty is off the list because he once said something about The Donald and pussies. But Greg Norman will be OK. And so on.
These journalists get paid to write this shite.
I’ve arranged with my cleaning lady to come at nine o’clock tomorrow morning, and I plan to leave at ten for the airport. I am still on good terms with Maria.
I gave her daughter 10cuc last night because she asked for money, and said that turning her into a beggar girl might be a bad idea. Maria made her give me the money back.
Later I gave Maria 30 cuc for a taxi. She didn’t give any back.
Bloody hell read Weinberg’s dissent especially where he cites the transcript. Even the motherfucker accuser said he wasn’t sure if Pell was celebrating mass on the day of the first incident. He may have just been hanging around. Ah hanging around in full bishop’s regalia. And on it goes. Fucking hell. The accuser is a bold faced liar. Plain as day.
I don’t know where this house of her father of religion is, but she said that afterwards we would go back to Havana. Maybe it’s just a way of extracting large sums in taxi fares from the dumb gringo.
DrBeauGan
#3150936, posted on September 9, 2019 at 5:53 am
NVM it will be over soon unless you keep in contact after leaving.
Woo-hoo.
All that excitement over Stokes and Leach getting lucky in the third test has come to nought.
The Scots up here are so happy with the Poms being put to the sword.
Interesting.
Aust 1st innings 8/497.
Engerland 1st innings 301.
Engerland 2nd innings 197.
Engerland match total 498.
Two hits and they creep past the declared score of 8/497 byone run.
That is a smashing, almost solely down to Smiff’s double ton in the first innings and quick-fire 80 in the second (coming in when the ship was listing and taking on water.
He is still a cheat
Leigh Lowe
#3150940, posted on September 9, 2019 at 6:14 am
So what’s your conclusion?
Whom are going to drop?
I’d rather have a balanced even field that doesn’t rely on miracles and one off performances in an emergency.
I always thought the thymus was a book reading fawn who lived by a lamppost.
Warner.
Why is he in the team? It’s not form that’s for sure.
I’m thinking he had the dirt on someone and is just the guy to tell tales to the media.
Hi dover_beach, succinct and accurate by any comparison.
Probably we will exchange emails but I doubt if she will follow my suggestion and go to Panama, so it may die a natural death. Or she may try to extract money for the Panama excursion and just spend it. Or she may do it in good faith and start something interesting. These aren’t equally likely but none are impossible. Hope for the best, plan for the lot.
Farmer Gez
#3150945, posted on September 9, 2019 at 6:26 am
If so it’s most likely Smith, nobody else would matter.
Maybe he knew more that he told us, weeping or not.
‘Progressives’ love Antifa and call the NRA a terrorist organization.
Antifa Calls A Black Man Who Has De-Radicalized KKK Members A White Supremacist
This guy has the gut’s to confront KKK members with the objective of dialog. Huge amount of respect. There is also a black female Prof doing the same with the extreme end of the alt-right.
Oh noes, the UK might have to eat US food after Brexit.
Fears of U.S. ‘chlorinated chicken’ loom over Brexit
By Candice Choi – Associated Press
How can we dare to put aside the loving EU patriarchy and dive into the unknown? We’ll starve!
(Ok, I might be overdoing it a little, but then so are these mendacious lefty journos.)
Mark A,
It’s not a miracle or one off. Smith, as miraculous as he is, did not retain the Ashes – the powerhouse bowling unit did.
But Smith has, both before and after his suspension come in routinely – ie, all the bloody time – for Australia when the up-itself top order shows itself lacking the technique to cope with a moving ball at speed, and more importantly believing its own press. With the glaring exception of Khawaja, I believe the current religion of hiring athletes instead of cricketers has a lot to answer for.
The danger here is that people are now banking on Smith to make runs each and every time he goes to the crease. Not even Bradman did that, and people also forget that he was surrounded by genuine world class batsmen who also piled on the runs with consistency.
I truly believe the only reason Warner’s still there is a) a lack of quality openers to replace him*, and b) Langer keeps him because he’s another left handed midget opener.
*I’d really be tempted, given Smith run of current success to retain Harris and Bancroft as 1 and 2, and not buggerise around with the pairing for a year or so at least. For the moment, we have that luxury.
KD
That’s exactly what I was alluring to.
One star cannot shine all the time.
“None
#3150917, posted on September 9, 2019 at 2:10 am
Ocker dad responds with a hearty, “about bloody time!”
I have yet to meet one parent who hopes and prays that their child will be gay. I have also yet to meet one parent who hope their grandchildren come from a sperm bank and some women acting as a womb for hire.”
Agree 100%. Well said.
Butch le zzos are conspicuous by their absence?
#DVLeave #Aunty
Collingwood forward Jordan de Goey has flown to Chermany to consult a bloke who’s widely described as ‘a world-renowned hamstring specialist’ in a bid to blah rah rah de rah.
Which, of course, begs the obvious question:
Are there world rankings for physiotherapists? Does he take private health rebates? Is there a special stretch that you can only do in the Thuringer Wald? Is he appointed by his peers, or is there a Black Nobility-type council somewhere that appoints these people?
If the answer to the last question is yes, then I want in. Happy to buy my own Emperor Palpatine cloak.
Straight eye for the queer guy?
Collingwood forward Jordan de Goey has flown to Chermany to consult a bloke who’s widely described as ‘a world-renowned hamstring specialist’ in a bid to blah rah rah de rah.
Which, of course, begs the obvious question:
Are there world rankings for physiotherapists? Does he take private health rebates? Is there a special stretch that you can only do in the Thuringer Wald? Is he appointed by his peers, or is there a dark, mysterious global council somewhere that appoints these people?
If the answer to the last question is yes, then I want in. Happy to buy my own Emperor Palpatine cloak.
Collingwood forward Jordan de Goey has flown to Chermany to consult a bloke who’s widely described as ‘a world-renowned hamstring specialist’ in a bid to blah rah rah de rah.
Which, of course, begs the obvious question:
Are there world rankings for physiotherapists? Does he take private health rebates? Is there a special stretch that you can only do in Bavarian forests? Is he appointed by his peers, or is there a dark, mysterious global council somewhere that appoints these people?
If the answer to the last question is yes, then I want in. Happy to buy my own Emperor Palpatine cloak.
memo to numbers
Look for these and similar IP addresses when you count your hits
These were visiting in the last two minutes on my website.
66.249.65.146
208.64.39.178
Plenty of variation.
Collingwood forward Jordan de Goey has flown to Chermany to consult a bloke who’s widely described as ‘a world-renowned hamstring specialist’ in a bid to blah rah rah de rah.
Which, of course, begs the obvious question:
Are there world rankings for physiotherapists? Does he take private health rebates? Is there a special stretch that you can only do in Bavarian forests? Is he appointed by his peers, or is there a dark, mysterious global council somewhere that appoints these people?
If the answer to the last question is yes, then I want in. Happy to buy my own Darth Vader cloak.
Collingwood?
Physiotherapists?
Aha!
Collingwood forward Jordan de Goey has flown to Chermany to consult a bloke who’s widely described as ‘a world-renowned hamstring specialist’ in a bid to blah rah rah de rah.
Which, of course, begs the obvious question:
Are there world rankings for physiother#pists? Does he take private health rebates? Is there a special stretch that you can only do in the Thuringer Wald? Is he appointed by his peers, or is there a Black Nobility-type council somewhere that appoints these people?
If the answer to the last question is yes, then I want in. Happy to buy my own Emperor Palpatine cloak.
None I haven’t read Weinberg yet.
Sounds like the artful dodger was worried saying categorically that Cardinal Pell had said mass might be disproven.
He also said when taken on a tour of the sacristy in 2016? that it was the same as it was in 1996 (it wasn’t)
Yet the ‘winning’ judges were laudatory of his exact recall of the sacristy the ‘only’ time he’d been in there.
The whole thing stinks to high heaven
Stupid, sneaky words. Hiding inside other words.
Five goddamn times that took me. I was almost convinced that ‘ham’ had been added to the spaminator Thermomix.
Knuckle Dragger
#3150966, posted on September 9, 2019 at 6:58 am
I would’ve thought we had the best knee specialists, given the number of knee injuries with footy and netball?
Warner.
Obvious.
Dead rubber and, on form, he has to go.
Everyone else did a bit, or at least got cleaned up by a good one.
This is going to be great.
Davey Boy will return to Australia to find good old Candace, having hurriedly transferred assets and turned any remaining assets into Botox and plastic surgeon bills for, um, improving the aesthetics of some bits, has now changed the locks on the waterfront mansion.
He can then take out his rage on Sonny Bill’s car which will be parked in the driveway.
A combination really.
Without Smiff, the bowlers would have had to knock the Poms over for 150 – 200 every time.
We need an opener like Chris Rogers.
Leaves everything not hitting off.
Happy to be 20 by lunch and 50 by tea.
Only brings out the cover drive and pull shot after that.
‘best knee specialists’
We do, Mark A. In fact, there’s a particular type of physiother#py (gotcha, spaminator!) developed by Australian gurus for AFLW players that’s being eyed off by the rest of the world.
It’s called ‘making sandwiches’.
The left loves sayings.
Antifa – “antifacist”
Google – “don’t be evil”
WaPo – “democracy dies in darkness”
and now…
New York Times – “the truth is worth it”
I do detect a thread in all of this. Maybe Satan can adopt a saying too, like “I am your best friend”.
Adams father was a congregational minister who was a world war 11 chaplain.
He says he saw nothing much of him after being sent to live with his grandparents on the East Kew farmer in the 40s.
He did go on and on and on about becoming an atheist at age five ( my brain is soooooo big, Dawkins didn’t get become an atheist until he was 19)
Incidentally I was reading newsweekly at my mum’s on the weekend.
Not a big magazine but had a bunch of great articles.
If you like quadrant, you should also like newsweekly.
Bees Nest Fire doubles in size overnight
RFS reported 100 km wide fire front on ABC Breakfast.
Lack of back burning and underbrush buildup in State forests?
Knuckle Dragger
#3150979, posted on September 9, 2019 at 7:13 am
Having a violent thunderstorm here, power’s dropped out for a millisecond, enough to reset the computer.
Keep reminding myself to get a UPS for home, always forget.
Indeed it does. As I suspected it was Maxwell who tried to find reason to convict (true to his Liberty Victoria background), the woman just phoned it in. Weinberg had just retired and was called back for this case as he had criminal justice history. I recall at the appeal he at one time had a short exchange with Pell’s Sydney based lawyer on the new evidence laws which “you in NSW” had been working with for ten years whereas it still represented a culture shock to the Vics who hadn’t got the hang of it. FMD if Weinberg didn’t just demonstrate that in his dissent, Finnis put the final nail in the coffin of Maxwell and Ferguson’s reputation (LOVED his swipe at that lazy bitches’ “taking the evidence as a whole”. Anyone appearing before Maxwell or Ferguson should demand another judge when they make such seriously bad errors as reversing the onus of proof. They should be disbarred.
Our governments’ lack of protection of farmers’ property rights and right to their own livelihood is treacherous. Fuck we should invade politicians and policemens’ private homes like these feral activists do and see how they like it when we get a $1 fine.
The following is less of a rant and more of a resigned entry into a war, in which despite massive bloodshed there can only be one winner.
Apropos of the WIP:
In hot dog land, I am a boss. Not THE boss, therefore I have my own boss (of sorts). Who is less experienced than me, has never seen an angry hot dog and has his eyes on the big prize in the promotion stakes. On the upside for him, he is slightly younger and better looking without the facial scars.
My office when I’m not on the stand with Barry, inside and out was subject to a small yet growing collection of gems from the WIP. None of which are actually offensive. My boss fronted me on Thursday and shut the door behind him. Said there’d been complaints about the WIP gear. That people had found them offensive, and further that people had complained about my forthright demeanour in meetings.
Then, in a glorious tactical error, said that he’d heard the complaints third hand and wanted to do me a favour before they became official.
Oh ho ho ho, I thought. Don’t bring that tiny little pocket knife to this gunfight. It begins.
Typhus, plague and now leprosy…
The City of Angels is a pestilent hole. Amazing how the Left turns cities they run into such disasters.
Is a Dark Ages disease the new American plague threat?
But there’s another reason for the rise in large fires that often gets less attention. Over the last century, we’ve been suppressing the vast majority of wildfires and letting forests build up thickly with plant growth. So, when a large fire does escape our control, it has more fuel to burn — and can become far, far more destructive:
https://www.vox.com/2015/9/17/9347361/wildfire-management-prescribed-burn
Just saw this Liberty Quote:
Exactly what I was thinking when I was driving along the M4 between the Blue Mountains and the turn off for the M7.
Although the road starts as 110kph, a massive stretch of the motorway is 80kph due, according to the signage, roadworks. Yet within most of that zone there is not the slightest hint of any such work. No plant, no excavation, not even a bent blade of grass, not the tiniest crumb of dislodged bitumen – nothing. Except signs say there is roadwork.
In some places there are barriers off the shoulder of the road but they are as far back as any other fence or obstacle normally is.
So, in the 80kph zone I may have seen two or three cars travelling at 80. Everyone else was doing at least 90, some 100 (I matched speeds to see what they were doing). And a few cars went whizzing past even then.
The point is that all these speed signs citing roadwork where all evidence of roadwork is absent has rendered the signs – and consequently just about every other – meaningless. People have learned to ignore them.
So then I said, ‘Oh ok. I don’t personally find them offensive, but ok.’ Stood up and carefully took them off the walls. Then, collection in hand, said ‘Normally I’d just bin them, but I want to keep them to produce at any hearing into any complaint to see who finds what offensive.’ Put them in a big envelope, which went in the work bag (the stolen and recovered one).
Then I went all Thatcher/Negus on him. ‘Who made these complaints?’
‘Er, um, these are just people.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Look, I’m just hearing this.’ ‘Hearing from who? Is there anyone that actually finds this offensive, and if so did they say why?’
Another tactical error. ‘Look, people are saying you can be a bit of a loose unit.’
‘Who?’
‘Oh, look.’ A bit shaky now. ‘We’re just having a conversation.’
‘Yes, about who finds my demeanour or these wall decorations offensive.’
Wow… he just confessed right in front of you that he’s been bullshitting.
Ashes series
The Aussie bowlers did their job competently.
Aussie top order batsmen failed.
Lower order batting poor to average.
Steve Smith, please step forward. I now pronounce thee the New Don. Well done, Sir.
The powers that be must have expected that Weinberg was going to concur with his somewhat less illustrious colleagues. Why would they want dissent – especially from someone far more credible and legally articulate than the two marionettes bobbing and twitching as their strings are pulled?
And if so, then the aforementioned powers may have intended Weinberg to add legitimacy to their legal proceedings.
Well done that man.
From the link –
ROFL.
Climate Warriors Stuck In Arctic Ice
This month is the week that Arctic sea ice usually hits its seasonal minimum. It takes special talent to get so stuck in it in the height of summer that you need to be helicoptered out.
(More here.)
We retain The Ashes.
Smith retains the Ashes.
There, fixed.
Your boss has done you a favour, Gomer.
Unless you’re a complete idiot, he’s probably avoided a “hearing” (whatever that is).
You should buy him a beer.
So this went on for ten minutes or so. I didn’t let him off the hook, and found that I hadn’t lost the dark art of speaking to people. Then he changed tack, and said that people were ‘concerned’ about me, instead of apparently being offended by me.
‘Who’s concerned about me?’ ‘Uh, it’s confidential.’ ‘No it’s not. Now it relates directly to me. You’re telling me people are worried about my state of mind, and that has job ramifications, and I want to know who these people are.’
His body language by now was completely up in the air. Kept looking up and to his right. Almost gotcha.
Then, boom.
‘Progressives’ always use proxy’s to do there dirty work.
‘Progressives’ always do the opposite to what they expect from others.
Catcheck: numberwang.
The whole thing stinks to high heaven
To panel beat the last line of Chinatown:
‘Go home, Jake. It’s Victoria’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF7pLQh77w8
I personally refuse to buy a hot dog from a man who does not look like he might have brought down the very beast armed with nothing but a rusty teaspoon and strong language.
The contest of wills, the primordial struggle between predator and prey, mercurial fortune switching sides time and again – that is what I want in a hot dog.
And mustard.
‘All right,’ he said, and stood up. Put his arms out to the sides. “I find the cartoons, offensive, all right?’
Put his arms back down. Stayed standing up. I let the silence work its magics for seven or eight seconds while I eyeb#lled him. ‘No, you didn’t,’ I said.
Complete deflation. Sat back down and told me over ten minutes how hard his job was (it is, but it’s not that hard – I know because I’ve acted in that role before) and rah rah rah, and what he effectively said was that he like being promoted but not the responsibility that came with it.
And he was terrified that at some point somebody some day might lodge a complaint so he thought, in his words, he’d ‘nip it in the bud.’
Too much. I can’t handle all this schadenfreude so early in the week!
The USDA relocation to Kansas City is ripping apart the lives of its employees. Here are some of their stories. Washington Post, by Hannah Natanson
Please Mr ScoMo, relocate the Dept of the Environment and Energy to Bourke. It would be glorious.
Could be. On the other hand a retired judge has nothing to lose if he tells the truth.
Numbers. all Google and Amazon robots visiting on my forum just in the last 3 minutes
64.233.173.28
64.233.173.29
64.233.173.10
18.233.194.247
At this time of night(EU) I’m only talking to friend on my forum and yet I have 4 ‘unique’ guest IDs
Keep that in mind.
On ya Knuckles.
Bourke?
Why not Ceduna, Andamooka or, for those who like it cooler and deserve to live amid the consequences of the welfare state, Moe?
Welcome back to Sydney today, Tinta and the Sundowner. Hope you had a good flight in and that all has gone well with the Big Lad in your life while you were away. You have missed two days of fierce wind here, so no loss there. Seems a bit better today, but rather cold. Live well on the memories of a beautiful sojourn in Tuscany and elsewhere.
That was on Thursday arvo. On Friday, he didn’t come to work, citing a ‘personal day.’ Which he notified us underbosses of at lunchtime, via very short email.
Today, I will put up a solitary offering from yesterday’s WIP. The one about learning from mistakes so much I’ll make more. Smack in the centre of the door. Followed by (after doing some stuff I actually have to do) finding and putting up, in the biggest size I can find, the best visual impression of ‘loose cannon’ I can locate on teh webs. With paper I brought from home, obviously. Then I will finish a report for said boss which will save him money in the budget without reducing efficiency and/or outputs. It will be well written and impossible to refute.
Tomorrow I have a loud Hawaiian shirt I will wear to work, and be extremely productive – and be seen to be so – while wearing it.
As the great man said in Tombstone – ‘you called down the thunder, well now you’ve got it.’
Hopefully they only send electric helicopters.
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Made from seaweed.
Knuckles you are starting to sound like a public servant.
Americans are generally a very mobile workforce.
Unless they are DC climate change warriors.
Boo hoo.