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Glenda Barry
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Channelling Mephistopheles, there's no malice in it, but just a hint of temptation
A figment of my own imagination & may contain traces of nuts
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This is a very good read on precisely the equivalent "astroturfing" that was perpetrated in the US by the Koch Brothers with Americans for Prosperity & The Tea Party Movement.
I call it downright dangerous, in addition to being decidedly unoriginal & derivative.
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January 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Transplanted:
#SiliconValleyBros. skillfully imported their SthAfrican apartheid mentality to #USApolitics. None of them could run as president given not born in #USA.
Libertarians, they’ve long resented taxation, yet relied on their businesses being subsidised by the public. #TrumpUsefulIdiot
January 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Thinking of designating myself another species altogether, call it a divorce, divorcing nearly the entire species of homo sapiens
January 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The internet never forgets, and nor do I - saved for you, for posterity
The archive.org URL is in the metadata also
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220804040406/https://beat.com.au/a-brief-timeline-of-every-fucked-up-thing-peter-dutton-has-done/ A brief timeline of every fucked up thing Peter Dutton has done Yikes. It’s time to face facts. Peter Dutton isn’t backing down. So in case you’re wondering who he is, and what he’s been up to during the last ten years, here’s a brief political timeline of his *ahem* crowning achievements. The future is bleak, my friends. A brief timeline of every fucked up thing Peter Dutton has done Peter Dutton Boycotts the Apology to the Stolen Generations The year is 2008. The Labour Party is still riding high off the zeitgeist that was ‘Kevin ’07’. But before their party turned to shit, they actually managed to get something done. A formal apology was made by the Prime Minister of Australia to the Stolen Generations. As time would tell, this would far from solve the issues that still effect Indigenous Australia today. However, it was a long overdue and powerful gesture that opened the door for numerous important conversations in the years since. Where then, was Peter Dutton? He boycotted the apology altogether. “I didn’t appreciate the symbolism of it, and the importance to Indigenous people,” said Dutton as quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald. Nice one. What’s that old saying again? One step forward, ten years back? Yep, that’s it. 2015 He Allegedly Oversaw A Spying Operation on Senator Sarah Hanson Young During a visit made by Greens senator Sarah Hanson Young to Nauru in 2013 – the same visit that ultimately uncovered systematic abuse taking place on the island – provisions were made to have Hanson-Young followed and surveilled. While Dutton denied any knowledge of the incident (even going so far as to call Hanson-Young an “embarrassment to our country” for bringing it up) “Operation Raven” as it was known was confirmed by Wilson Security – the very private security operator that oversees the infamous detention centre. Peter Dutton Thinks Climate Change Is A Joke. Literally. While standing next to Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott at a summit addressing the rapidly rising sea levels surrounding the Pacific Islands, Dutton decides to take the piss out of the very issue he was tasked with finding a solution for. Luckily for us, the whole thing was caught on camera. Bonus round: the expression on his face after Scott Morrison whispers “there’s a boom mic here” is priceless. https://web.archive.org/web/20220804040406/https://beat.com.au/a-brief-timeline-of-every-fucked-up-thing-peter-dutton-has-done/ A brief timeline of every fucked up thing Peter Dutton has done Caption reads: Dutton: Times doesn't mean anything when you're about to be...you know, have water lapping at your door FUCKEN CLOWN - my notation! 2016 Peter Dutton Got Caught Out Calling A Female Journalist A “Mad Witch” Have you ever done that thing where you accidentally text the very person you’re talking shit about? No? Neither. But old mate Peter Dutton has. Dutton was intending to text his ousted chum Jamie Briggs (who left parliament for allegedly inappropriate conduct towards a female staffer) an insult towards Sunday Telegraph editor Samantha Maiden. She’s a “mad fucking witch”, texted Dutton. But here’s the thing – the gumnut hamfistedly sent it straight to Maiden herself. 2017 Peter Dutton Refuses to Take Accountability for Manus Island From the get-go, Manus Island was an Australian atrocity. But in 2017, over 600 asylum seekers without food and water pleaded for Australians to come to their aide after a communication breakdown on Manus. The situation escalated to the point where even the United Nations began to call Australia out for breaching basic human rights. This, sadly, is one of the many atrocities that took place on Manus. But what was Immigration Minister Peter Dutton doing? He wasn’t listening to New Zealand – who were offering to resettle over 150 https://web.archive.org/web/20220804040406/https://beat.com.au/a-brief-timeline-of-every-fucked-up-thing-peter-dutton-has-done/ A brief timeline of every fucked up thing Peter Dutton has done 2018 Leads a Fearmongering Campaign Against “African Gangs” Research has shown that Australia’s views on African immigration have been unfairly skewed by media-induced hysteria, in part born from fearmongering politicians. Enter: Peter Dutton. Victorians are “scared to go out to restaurants” because of “African gang violence”, according to Dutton. He, of course, said this knowing full well that only 1% of alleged criminal offenders in Victoria are Sudanese-born. So, What’s Next For Australia? All in all, this only scratches the surface of what Peter Dutton has been responsible for over the past ten years. It’s far from an exhaustive list – which is saying something, considering the number of decisions he’s been involved in ranging from the awkward to the inhumane. Currently, the Liberal Party – and subsequently Australia’s parliament – is in an absolute state of disarray. But considering Australia’s revolving door of leaders over the past few years, are we really so surprised? What is surprising though, is our nation’s complacency when it comes to who leads our elected government. Ask yourself this: is Peter Dutton really the right leader for our country, considering all he has done? Or is this just another revolving face, destined for failure, fronting a party that is being torn apart from the inside. Australia deserves better. But until then, we at least deserve better than Peter Dutton.
January 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Well reports of whatever I am supposed to have done aren't ignored, appeals however are ignored, it's been nearly 2 months...
An excellent way to lose users.
I don't miss it.
December 30, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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December 25, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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December 21, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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My spirit animal is the little black cutie Scratch, she used to pitch in the middle of my chest and purr for 8 hours solid through the entire night - if I awoke she was there, sitting purring.
We also chatted with little trills and peeps
December 20, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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Morrison's Unicorn
December 17, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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😻They do that 😻
December 17, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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OH It's Labor's fault, Dan Andrews must be relieved...
December 14, 2024 at 6:14 AM
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December 13, 2024 at 6:38 AM
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December 13, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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Not even close - there's years of history behind this...years of deliberately obstructive conduct...
https://theconversation.com/labor-motion-on-palestinian-recognition-could-put-the-jewish-vote-in-play-at-the-next-election-80610 Labor motion on Palestinian recognition could put the Jewish vote in play at the next election Vexed argument in the Labor Party about relations with Israel is set to come to a head at the conference later this month of the party’s dominant New South Wales branch. Barring the successful intervention of federal Labor, the NSW branch will call for recognition of Palestine along lines of various Scandinavian countries, including Sweden. According to reports, the motion: … notes previous resolutions on Israel/Palestine carried at the 2015 ALP national conference and the 2016 NSW Labor annual conference and urges the next Labor government to recognise Palestine. This outcome would put the state branch on a collision course – potentially – with the Shorten-led forces that fought hard at Labor’s federal conference in Melbourne in 2015 to resist such an outcome. In the end a compromise resolution was accepted, under which Labor would work with: … like-minded nations who have already recognised Palestine and announce the conditions and timelines for the Australian recognition of a Palestinian state. That is, if there was no progress toward a two-state solution. Clearly, there has been no progress. In the interim, attitudes within Labor have hardened toward Israel over its settlement-building activities. Party elders like Bob Hawke and Gareth Evans have called for Palestinian recognition, along with Kevin Rudd. If the NSW branch were to carry the day at Labor’s next national conference due sometime in 2019, this would herald the first time since Israel’s founding in 1948 that Australia’s two major parties have diverged to such an extent on the Israel-Palestine issue. In 1973, the Whitlam-led Labor Party settled on what it described as an even-handed approach to Israel and Palestine in contrast to previous conservative government’s pro-Israel positions. This infuriated Australian Jewish leaders. At the time, Whitlam did not advocate recognition of Palestine. In the years since 1973, and including multiple attempts to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Israel has broadened and deepened its settlement-building in the West Bank, occupied in the 1967 war. Continued settlement construction in contravention of international law has undermined support for Israel, and fuelled antagonism on the centre-left of Australian politics. An avowed supporter of Israel and someone who is close to Melbourne’s Jewish community, Bill Shorten risks finding himself out of step with mainstream Labor sentiment. An indication of the toxic nature of internal debate on the Palestine question is reflected in comments this week by Michael Danby, the MP for Melbourne Ports. He accused former Labor foreign minister and NSW premier Bob Carr of having an “obsession” with the Palestine question, and urged him to engage in public debate on the issue. Carr is a prime mover behind the NSW resolution. A lifelong supporter of Israel, Carr shifted ground following his exposure as foreign minister to the Palestine issue. He is now patron of Labor’s Friends of Palestine. Carr is far from alone among senior figures in the NSW branch who are in favour of Palestinian recognition. This reflects demographic changes in Labor-held seats in Sydney’s western suburbs sensitising the party on Palestine. A pro-Israel stance has long since ceased to be a defining characteristic of the Labor movement. The forthcoming NSW branch’s consideration of the Carr-inspired motion is presenting challenges for the likes of deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek, a NSW MP. She has indicated she will not support the NSW motion. Labor’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Penny Wong, has said: This is a motion before the NSW conference and is not determinative of the position of the federal parliamentary Labor party. In February, Wong said the: … current platform, which states this is a matter for a future Labor government to consider in light of the circumstances, is a very sensible approach. However, the problem for Shorten, Plibersek and Wong is that attitudes on the Palestine issue in the Labor movement show no sign of easing off. The Tasmanian branch recently urged the immediate recognition of Palestine, putting that branch a step ahead of NSW. Shorten and his team, therefore, face the possibility of going to the next election with a position that will enable the Coalition to drive a wedge between Labor and a Jewish constituency. Since the Abbott government’s victory in 2013, Coalition policy has shifted back to a traditional and fairly uncritical Israel-supporting stance reminiscent of the Howard era. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop set the tone early in her tenure for a more indulgent Australian government position on illegal settlements when she appeared to question whether settlements themselves were illegitimate. Asked by the Times of Israel whether such settlements beyond 1967 warlines are illegal under international law, she replied: I would like to see which international law has declared them illegal. The Coalition’s standard position when contentious resolutions critical of Israel are brought before the UN is to insist it will not support such “unbalanced” resolutions. In line with this position, the Turnbull government criticised a landmark UN Security Council resolution in December 2016 that said settlement activity in the Palestinian territories has: … no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of a two-state solution. In a move that had reverberations around the world the US abstained – that is, it did not exercise a veto. Malcolm Turnbull reiterated his government’s opposition to the Security Council resolution in an op-ed at the time of the visit to Australia in February 2017 by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Turnbull wrote: My government will not support one-sided resolutions criticising Israel of the kind recently adopted by the UN Security Council. In the UN General Assembly of 2013-16 (sessions 68-71), a Coalition government has repeatedly abstained on resolutions critical of Israeli settlements. The previous Labor governments of Rudd and Julia Gillard had voted in favor of these resolutions. In the UN since 2013, Australia has one of the highest abstention rates on resolutions critical of Israel of any western democracy.
December 3, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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So glad to see you here, and as it turns out, you are in Scotland...
November 22, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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BTW I got in trouble for saying something with respect to US President elect tRump's burger eating capacity...
November 18, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Almost a little monochrome tiger
November 18, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Wonderful to see you here!
November 18, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Love machine!
This one, Scratch, used to pitch herself right in the middle of my chest in bed and purr for up to 8 straight hours through the night - I'd awaken through the night to see and feel this beautiful little black purrer blissed...nothing quite like it IMO, she was so gorgeous.
November 15, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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November 15, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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I reckon you'll get there, easy!
The benefits of being adorable and it's so nice to be on a site where I'm like a Doggo whirring around finding and doing all of my favourite things.
November 14, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Wong didn't grow a spine, I suspect that there's been some polling and focus group research that's demonstrated that this is hurting them electorally - Wong has been obstructionist with respect to the Palestinian's rights and pro Zionist for literally years.
theconversation.com/labor-motion...
https://theconversation.com/labor-motion-on-palestinian-recognition-could-put-the-jewish-vote-in-play-at-the-next-election-80610 Labor motion on Palestinian recognition could put the Jewish vote in play at the next election Vexed argument in the Labor Party about relations with Israel is set to come to a head at the conference later this month of the party’s dominant New South Wales branch. Barring the successful intervention of federal Labor, the NSW branch will call for recognition of Palestine along lines of various Scandinavian countries, including Sweden. According to reports, the motion: … notes previous resolutions on Israel/Palestine carried at the 2015 ALP national conference and the 2016 NSW Labor annual conference and urges the next Labor government to recognise Palestine. This outcome would put the state branch on a collision course – potentially – with the Shorten-led forces that fought hard at Labor’s federal conference in Melbourne in 2015 to resist such an outcome. In the end a compromise resolution was accepted, under which Labor would work with: … like-minded nations who have already recognised Palestine and announce the conditions and timelines for the Australian recognition of a Palestinian state. That is, if there was no progress toward a two-state solution. Clearly, there has been no progress. In the interim, attitudes within Labor have hardened toward Israel over its settlement-building activities. Party elders like Bob Hawke and Gareth Evans have called for Palestinian recognition, along with Kevin Rudd. If the NSW branch were to carry the day at Labor’s next national conference due sometime in 2019, this would herald the first time since Israel’s founding in 1948 that Australia’s two major parties have diverged to such an extent on the Israel-Palestine issue. In 1973, the Whitlam-led Labor Party settled on what it described as an even-handed approach to Israel and Palestine in contrast to previous conservative government’s pro-Israel positions. This infuriated Australian Jewish leaders. At the time, Whitlam did not advocate recognition of Palestine. In the years since 1973, and including multiple attempts to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Israel has broadened and deepened its settlement-building in the West Bank, occupied in the 1967 war. Continued settlement construction in contravention of international law has undermined support for Israel, and fuelled antagonism on the centre-left of Australian politics. An avowed supporter of Israel and someone who is close to Melbourne’s Jewish community, Bill Shorten risks finding himself out of step with mainstream Labor sentiment. An indication of the toxic nature of internal debate on the Palestine question is reflected in comments this week by Michael Danby, the MP for Melbourne Ports. He accused former Labor foreign minister and NSW premier Bob Carr of having an “obsession” with the Palestine question, and urged him to engage in public debate on the issue. Carr is a prime mover behind the NSW resolution. A lifelong supporter of Israel, Carr shifted ground following his exposure as foreign minister to the Palestine issue. He is now patron of Labor’s Friends of Palestine. Carr is far from alone among senior figures in the NSW branch who are in favour of Palestinian recognition. This reflects demographic changes in Labor-held seats in Sydney’s western suburbs sensitising the party on Palestine. A pro-Israel stance has long since ceased to be a defining characteristic of the Labor movement. The forthcoming NSW branch’s consideration of the Carr-inspired motion is presenting challenges for the likes of deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek, a NSW MP. She has indicated she will not support the NSW motion. Labor’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Penny Wong, has said: This is a motion before the NSW conference and is not determinative of the position of the federal parliamentary Labor party. In February, Wong said the: … current platform, which states this is a matter for a future Labor government to consider in light of the circumstances, is a very sensible approach. However, the problem for Shorten, Plibersek and Wong is that attitudes on the Palestine issue in the Labor movement show no sign of easing off. The Tasmanian branch recently urged the immediate recognition of Palestine, putting that branch a step ahead of NSW. Shorten and his team, therefore, face the possibility of going to the next election with a position that will enable the Coalition to drive a wedge between Labor and a Jewish constituency. Since the Abbott government’s victory in 2013, Coalition policy has shifted back to a traditional and fairly uncritical Israel-supporting stance reminiscent of the Howard era. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop set the tone early in her tenure for a more indulgent Australian government position on illegal settlements when she appeared to question whether settlements themselves were illegitimate. Asked by the Times of Israel whether such settlements beyond 1967 warlines are illegal under international law, she replied: I would like to see which international law has declared them illegal. The Coalition’s standard position when contentious resolutions critical of Israel are brought before the UN is to insist it will not support such “unbalanced” resolutions. In line with this position, the Turnbull government criticised a landmark UN Security Council resolution in December 2016 that said settlement activity in the Palestinian territories has: … no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of a two-state solution. In a move that had reverberations around the world the US abstained – that is, it did not exercise a veto. Malcolm Turnbull reiterated his government’s opposition to the Security Council resolution in an op-ed at the time of the visit to Australia in February 2017 by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Turnbull wrote: My government will not support one-sided resolutions criticising Israel of the kind recently adopted by the UN Security Council. In the UN General Assembly of 2013-16 (sessions 68-71), a Coalition government has repeatedly abstained on resolutions critical of Israeli settlements. The previous Labor governments of Rudd and Julia Gillard had voted in favor of these resolutions. In the UN since 2013, Australia has one of the highest abstention rates on resolutions critical of Israel of any western democracy.
November 14, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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Yeppers!
November 14, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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1.5K - WOW you got that done quick!
November 14, 2024 at 11:58 AM