Almost half of those polled believed Queensland was headed in the wrong direction as voters turn against premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Qlders won’t turf out Labor until they see what they believe is ‘an alternative’. The LNP had this problem in the past, polling was good but QLD refused to elect them due to Lawrence Springborg. They eventually convinced Brisbane Mayor Campbell Newman to run.
Australia has been warned to expect a “feral” reception from the notoriously hostile Headingley crowd, who will be out to fiercely back their hometown hero Jonny Bairstow.
From behind the pay-wall – deliberate bureaucratic sabotage?
Donald Trump Jr’s speaking tour of Australia has been postponed.
Sharri Markson reported on Sky News on Wednesday that it is due to the former president’s son not obtaining the necessary immigration clearance ahead of his scheduled tour that was set to commence this weekend.
“Turning Point wishes to advise that, due to unforeseen circumstances, Donald Trump Jr. Live, scheduled to appear in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne has been postponed,” a statement on the event’s official website stated.
Tickets to all the events are also no longer available on Ticketek.
It is understood Mr Trump’s visa application was submitted in May.
It was confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Trump’s visa has since been granted by the Australian government.
‘Her heart just stopped’: Tributes flow for beloved teen after sudden death
The heartbroken mother of a Sunshine Coast teen and roller derby team member says she is being remembered as “the sweetest person you could meet” after her sudden death.
Kaysee,
I’m on Twitter quite a lot and am not verified but have never reached my daily “limit”
Woolfe,
Until the Twitter blocks were set up last week, I was viewing posts on Twitter without a log in. I do not have an account of any kind – not registered, not verified. I don’t want to have to log in each time I want to check something on Twitter.
If I get myself a log in to view tweets, it means that any links I post here can only be viewed by those who also have accounts and are logged in. I want to be able to read info quickly and then pass it on to others who want to be updated with news and links.
I am not a trolling bot or an AI data scraper. I don’t want to interact with anyone on Twitter by replies, retweets or likes. I don’t have the time to read hundreds of posts each day or to post any.
The reason for the problems is the large scale of interactions taking place. If Musk cannot find a way to allow unregistered users with a read-only access that allows reading, copying of links and tweets to share with others, it would be a pity. It becomes an exclusive club that limits the free access of information, especially for those who are supporters of free speech, especially conservatives.
The need for a free flow and sharing of real news has never been greater than it is now.
Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders . The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse.
The make-believe qwerty world where two people of the same sex think that they can shop around, buy a baby and pretend that they a nice, happy family. If all goes to plan.
This surrogate was faced with a decision most pregnant women hope they never have to face – saving one life at the risk of losing another. To make matters worse, the two intended fathers wanted her to abort the baby…..
The writer of the article, Adjunct Professor Dr Damien Cremean, has taught constitutional law for half a century. He raises an issue that he considers a serious problem. The conundrum is way beyond my pay grade.
Print out this article. Carry it with you. If you meet a Yesserr, pose this challenge to them: If they can correctly answer all the questions, you will vote YES. If not, they should vote NO.
The Referendum Bill to amend the Constitution to provide for the Voice is finally available, and it raises an issue that does not yet seem to have attracted any or much attention amongst its supporters. Or, if it has, they have kept quiet about it — which is not surprising.
A film review website has been launched with the sole purpose of weeding out and warning others of the wokeness in new and popular films.
The brainchild of James Carrick, Worth It Or Woke promises to discern the deep from the deranged by applying a non-wokeness percentage rating to films.
Until the Twitter blocks were set up last week, I was viewing posts on Twitter without a log in. I do not have an account of any kind – not registered, not verified. I don’t want to have to log in each time I want to check something on Twitter.
I’ve been registered with twitter for years .. I don’t twit just read links .. never have to login as it is auto .. no different to coming on here to read …….
… Another similar app, the Jack Dorsey-affiliated Bluesky, claimed to have had “record” traffic after Musk’s move to restrict usage at the weekend.
Some in the industry have even referred to Threads as the “Twitter Killer”.
But it is Zuckerberg’s Threads that will present the greatest challenge. It has been tied to Meta’s other popular social sharing platform Instagram. Those signing up for Threads can piggyback Instagram accounts by retaining their usernames and migrating their followers.
According to data provided by German software company Sistrix, Twitter’s visibility has plummeted by 25 per cent in critical markets such as the UK (28 per cent drop), France (down 17 per cent), Italy (26 per cent fall) and Germany (25 per cent decline) since the weekend when its usage was restricted.
Separate research by Evolving Digital shows that Twitter’s projected traffic in Australia dropped by 34.6 per cent over the past eight days, representing a loss of 3.3 million compared with the preceding week.
Social media is the real battleground. Threads is a clear and present danger.
Threads, the soon-to-be-launched app touted by Facebook (now known as Meta) as the “sane” alternative to Elon Musk’s Twitter, will — much like other Facebook apps — collect a dizzying array of details about its users.
Screenshots of the app, which is available for pre-download on the App Store, shows it will collect data on users’ health & fitness, financial information, contact information, user content, browsing history, usage data, diagnostics, purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers, sensitive info, and more.
Google has announced that it now reserves the right to scrape virtually all content posted online to enhance its AI tools. The internet giant’s privacy policy now doesn’t just describe how the Masters of the Universe will use all your personal data in its products to generate ad revenue, but also explains it considers the entire internet fair game for its relentless data collection systems.
Gizmodo reports that Google’s updated privacy policy has raised eyebrows in the tech world. The tech giant has made it clear that it reserves the right to use almost everything posted online to build and train its AI tools.
While picking on Elon may be personally satisfying to some, he hardly rates compared to the big predators out there.
I can see Twatter stuff again. Yay.
Their ABC tells us 130,000 Indian/Paki parents can’t join their skilled chillun here and the chillun might just have to go back to Shotholistan. I wonder what the real figure is when you take all the other ethnicities into account.
Margo Robbie stars as the new Barbie. Merchandise already available
John Ruddick is a newly elected member of the NSW Legislative Council representing the Liberal Democrats, and a former member of the Liberal Party. His maiden speech in Parliament has been rated by some as “the greatest speech ever made in Parliament”, there’s more than a little hyperbole in that claim but it’s a good speech nonetheless.
Another super-fit guy dies from an aneurysm at age 30. Jo Linder (never heard of him before) took the vaxx, four shots for heaven’s sake, then he had second thoughts about it.
He went to his doctor and had his blood cleaned, he was attached to some machine which sucks his blood out and cleans it then returns it, and he was surprised by the amount of particles in his blood.
He went through the same procedure six months later and this time the white gunk was in his blood.
Rest easy according to the French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin foreigners were not the majority behind the unrest. Only 10 % are of non-French nationality. So there you go, it was Jacques and Pierre and their amis NOT Mohammed and Abdulla and their habibis….. er
Fabulous example of Gov. misdirection. Obviously the 17 year olds are first generation and being, born in France, are therefore non foreigners. I wonder if they will publish the names of the thousands arrested.
Protestors in Baghdad have descended on the Swedish embassy following the burning of a Quran outside a Stockholm mosque. The Quran burning was performed by Salwan Momika, an native Iraqi, after the Swedish police deemed there to be not enough reason to justify banning the protest. As a response, hundreds of Baghdad residents turned protestor themselves, storming the embassy, climbing the walls and raising Iraqi flags on its roof.
It is unclear what the current situation at the embassy is, however the Swedish embassy have told the media that everyone is safe. The protestors, acting on the orders of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, are demanding the removal of the Swedish ambassador over the Quran burning.
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This week Fire-Mad Sweden:
Scandinavians Set to Burn Koran, Torah and the Holy Bible in the Name of ‘Freedom of Speech’
I’ve been registered with twitter for years .. I don’t twit just read links .. never have to login as it is auto .. no different to coming on here to read …….
But anyone can come to this blog and read the content, copy links and repost elsewhere without logging in. They may not be able to see the “latest comments” posted, but that is due to a system bug not intentional blocking.
Soon after Elon took over Twitter, it had the same open access as our blog. Until last week. As of today, it is possible to open links but still cannot “follow” accounts.
Some in the industry have even referred to Threads as the “Twitter Killer”.
But it is Zuckerberg’s Threads that will present the greatest challenge.
I have several old twitter links that I have saved so I will be able to post those here. But sharing of new links will not be possible unless I register. Should I take one for the team?
Lefties don’t care about their privacy or how their data is used. Some of our Labor pollies have already posted on Zuck’s Threads and then displayed the screenshots to show them off.
I can read posts on Gab without being logged in. Elon is losing users who are moving to other platforms. His promise of free speech was the draw card. I am still hopeful that he is cleaning out the rot, tracing the scrapers and will open up again.
The latest ‘Aussie Wire’, Topher Field’s news programme, has Sinc on as a guest (if you miss his insights) as well as Ed Dowd, who seems to be collecting some pretty horrific excess mortality numbers.
One of DAndrews advisors
Saying the quiet part out loud
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Excellent first para
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Their ABC also told us there was a mass shooter in Philadelphia. Waiting for updates
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Courier Paywall
I wonder what the fresh details are?
Vax status?
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Kaysee,
I’m on Twitter quite a lot and am not verified but have never reached my daily “limit”
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Linda Burney at the Nat Press Club. She’s had a liquid lunch.
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Qlders won’t turf out Labor until they see what they believe is ‘an alternative’. The LNP had this problem in the past, polling was good but QLD refused to elect them due to Lawrence Springborg. They eventually convinced Brisbane Mayor Campbell Newman to run.
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Same as usual then
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HARRY ENFIELD- THE YORKSHIREMAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY4tD2Hbg_A
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From behind the pay-wall – deliberate bureaucratic sabotage?
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I would like to see what Trump Jnr is saying on Twitter. But Elon won’t let me.
It was better under Jack Dorsey.
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Courier Paywall
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Woolfe,
Until the Twitter blocks were set up last week, I was viewing posts on Twitter without a log in. I do not have an account of any kind – not registered, not verified. I don’t want to have to log in each time I want to check something on Twitter.
If I get myself a log in to view tweets, it means that any links I post here can only be viewed by those who also have accounts and are logged in. I want to be able to read info quickly and then pass it on to others who want to be updated with news and links.
I am not a trolling bot or an AI data scraper. I don’t want to interact with anyone on Twitter by replies, retweets or likes. I don’t have the time to read hundreds of posts each day or to post any.
The reason for the problems is the large scale of interactions taking place. If Musk cannot find a way to allow unregistered users with a read-only access that allows reading, copying of links and tweets to share with others, it would be a pity. It becomes an exclusive club that limits the free access of information, especially for those who are supporters of free speech, especially conservatives.
The need for a free flow and sharing of real news has never been greater than it is now.
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How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine
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The make-believe qwerty world where two people of the same sex think that they can shop around, buy a baby and pretend that they a nice, happy family. If all goes to plan.
When Surrogacy Goes Badly, There Are Never Any Winners
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I wouldn’t be surprised
“Well, Watson, it’s clear to me”
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Smile
Easy peasy
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The writer of the article, Adjunct Professor Dr Damien Cremean, has taught constitutional law for half a century. He raises an issue that he considers a serious problem. The conundrum is way beyond my pay grade.
Print out this article. Carry it with you. If you meet a Yesserr, pose this challenge to them:
If they can correctly answer all the questions, you will vote YES. If not, they should vote NO.
Constitutional Conundrum
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London was NOT ‘Built by Migrants’, Mr. Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7tJbROiCZY
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Is it a woke film? Or is it worth watching?
Worth It Or Woke
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Hello there
EXCESS DEATHS – Establishment silence continues!
Jeff Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4zPuoNs5Xo
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If you really want to see what is on Twitter, why not open an account?
Access to Twitter is not exactly a human right.
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It just makes it crap, Johanna.
Like when News Corp made everyone sign in to view the blogs of Bolt, Blair and Akerman. Within 12 months they were forgotten.
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Until the Twitter blocks were set up last week, I was viewing posts on Twitter without a log in. I do not have an account of any kind – not registered, not verified. I don’t want to have to log in each time I want to check something on Twitter.
I’ve been registered with twitter for years .. I don’t twit just read links .. never have to login as it is auto .. no different to coming on here to read …….
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Challenging the Pandemic Treaty: Andrew Bridgen Speech at EU Parliament 04.07.23
Andrew Bridgen MP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wADMuGoLgjA
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English lesson
Noun definition
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The future of food with Bibi
I’ll pass.
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FWIW
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AI girlfriend ‘encouraged’ crossbow intruder to kill Queen Elizabeth
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From Power Line – BBC versus Israel
This is a journalist?
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Social media is not so much a battleground as a rpedator park.
Guess who the prey are?
But wait! There’s more!
While picking on Elon may be personally satisfying to some, he hardly rates compared to the big predators out there.
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I can see Twatter stuff again. Yay.
Their ABC tells us 130,000 Indian/Paki parents can’t join their skilled chillun here and the chillun might just have to go back to Shotholistan. I wonder what the real figure is when you take all the other ethnicities into account.
Margo Robbie stars as the new Barbie. Merchandise already available
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Journos verbal gymnastics outweighs gymnasts gymnastics
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Monique Ryan (Teal) saving us 27 times
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Me too.
The Elon shuffle.
You put your right leg in, your right leg out
In, out, in, out, you shake it all about
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John Ruddick is a newly elected member of the NSW Legislative Council representing the Liberal Democrats, and a former member of the Liberal Party. His maiden speech in Parliament has been rated by some as “the greatest speech ever made in Parliament”, there’s more than a little hyperbole in that claim but it’s a good speech nonetheless.
The Greatest Speech Ever Made in Parliament – The Crowhouse – 33 minutes.
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Another super-fit guy dies from an aneurysm at age 30. Jo Linder (never heard of him before) took the vaxx, four shots for heaven’s sake, then he had second thoughts about it.
He went to his doctor and had his blood cleaned, he was attached to some machine which sucks his blood out and cleans it then returns it, and he was surprised by the amount of particles in his blood.
He went through the same procedure six months later and this time the white gunk was in his blood.
The Criminalization of Opinion – The Crowhouse – watch from the 11 minute mark.
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Rest easy according to the French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin foreigners were not the majority behind the unrest. Only 10 % are of non-French nationality. So there you go, it was Jacques and Pierre and their amis NOT Mohammed and Abdulla and their habibis….. er
Fabulous example of Gov. misdirection. Obviously the 17 year olds are first generation and being, born in France, are therefore non foreigners. I wonder if they will publish the names of the thousands arrested.
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This ages like wine thanks to Piers Morgan being the perennial dickhead
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All western governments use that flawed argument when it suits.
If you are 7th gen Aussie and want to climb a rock, they say no no no, you’re not a first Australian.
A gang of Lebs targets white girls in Sydney for rape, the government say don’t bring race into it, they’re Aussies, born here!
Government is shitting on your face.
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Great column from the Ashes winning England captain Michael Vaughan
OPINIONThe Ashes are not nice – give Australia a chance and they will kill you
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When France was still France
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Burning the books in Sweden
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Last week
Protestors storm Swedish embassy after Quran burning
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This week
Fire-Mad Sweden:
Scandinavians Set to Burn Koran, Torah and the Holy Bible in the Name of ‘Freedom of Speech’
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Full-page anti-Voice advertisement in AFR
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But anyone can come to this blog and read the content, copy links and repost elsewhere without logging in. They may not be able to see the “latest comments” posted, but that is due to a system bug not intentional blocking.
Soon after Elon took over Twitter, it had the same open access as our blog. Until last week. As of today, it is possible to open links but still cannot “follow” accounts.
Report comment
I have several old twitter links that I have saved so I will be able to post those here. But sharing of new links will not be possible unless I register. Should I take one for the team?
Lefties don’t care about their privacy or how their data is used. Some of our Labor pollies have already posted on Zuck’s Threads and then displayed the screenshots to show them off.
I can read posts on Gab without being logged in. Elon is losing users who are moving to other platforms. His promise of free speech was the draw card. I am still hopeful that he is cleaning out the rot, tracing the scrapers and will open up again.
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Oui, oui. And now this is:
French revolution 2.0
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The latest ‘Aussie Wire’, Topher Field’s news programme, has Sinc on as a guest (if you miss his insights) as well as Ed Dowd, who seems to be collecting some pretty horrific excess mortality numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2CtA3J-ZZA
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Also, if you missed Dr John Campbell’s look at the increase in Type 1 Diabetes in young people in the UK, it’s worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRohIT7-aik
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Rainbow Pride stumps 🌈 flying everywhere at Headingly.
Khawaja gone, following Warner’s early dismissal.
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Smith gone 🙁
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OK, now hear me out…. Time for “OyVey23: Voice for Jews“. I am voting כן. They need to be heard.
We could have a Voice for every group. The Lebs, the Housos, the Mexicans, the Irish…. well maybe not the Irish.