Balneus

Grumpy old white male. Lefty ex-biologist IT nerd. Less grumpy when Bach plays and the Geelong Cats win. Hanging to see the first Cats AFLW silverware.

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Timeo Americanos pacem ferentes

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@DaveMilbo HI IM HUGHSIEEEEEEE

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@DavidShoebridge Denying the well-recognized healing power of a catharsis of a well-structured public disclosure of the details of crime and damage victims want to disclose, versus the potential further damage of gagging, is a choice to cause further potential harm to the victim.

Bad precedent.

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@JJKALE2 @AlboMP Our High Court warned of loose definitions of terrorism in Thomas v Mowbray [2007], with Gleeson and Kirby pointing to Jesus whipping moneylenders (religiously-motivated violence intending to intimidate) or Joshua and the Children of Israel genociding Canaanites (plus ça change)

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If you are looking at the total lethality of the US capacity based in Australia, compared to our own military, once you factor in the C4ISR (basically "electronic command and control"), we're an occupied country already - and it's getting worse by the minute.

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@DavidPocock Seen China's offshore AI datacentre? Underwater for cooling (deeper means colder water, less power needed), powered by nearby offshore windfarm?

Or do our "leaders" want giant concrete buildings that can be turned into prisons for a new underclass the techlords are creating?

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@leckie_cameron @ASPI_org Malcolm Fraser's "Dangerous Enemies" and associated speeches is a good source on the threat to Australian sovereignty from the US ... I condense it, but he said "No Australian with any sense of national pride would tolerate the US's control more than the UK did before Federation"

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@criprights @SenatorJordon Including not only permanent public servants, but those who worked for considerable time on contract.

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@criprights @SenatorJordon Is it possible to highlight which of those are former politicians, staffers, backroom "faceless men", or senior public servants to get an idea of the Australian "revolving door" and possible decisions-incentivised-by-dangling-of-future-jobs?

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Typical long-term thinking Chinese are building datacentres under the ocean for easy cooling from cold deep water, powered by offshore windfarms/batteries. Our politicians are screwing us, because they are either malicious or stupid: unfit either way.
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@JJKALE2 There's a lot of non-lethal lab equipment and chemical precursors that would get anyone into a LOT of trouble if the cops found them in a garage or kitchen, @SenatorWong - and very good reasons why people are charged with having precursors or kit to make bombs or drugs.

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@allicat76 @JJKALE2 @Coles You reckon that's bad? I'm often covered in explosive residue and there's ALWAYS a loud ticking under my whatever I'm wearing over my chest.

(I use and carry nitroglycerin spray for my heart and I have a mechanical heart valve that some people can hear from across a room)

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@JJKALE2 @nswpolice @ChrisMinnsMP Actually, Minns' cops ARE troops - a rose by any other name, etc.

Most people just haven't figured it out yet.

When your police look and act like an occupying force, they ARE an occupying force.

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@DaveMilbo Just commercial TV??

I had to give up on the ABC as well years ago (Well, apart from Muster Dogs, local bushfire bulletins and occasionally Media Watch).

SBS is tolerable now and then.

But news? In Australia only independent media is worth the time, let alone any trust.