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And, yet again, this is why I say any Australian political party with yet the slightest ounce of vision would institute a policy to promote the mass manufacture of peptides, including GLP's, but under a suitably designed regulatory framework.
We can either turn a blind eye to it (because we're intellectually impaired and designing a workable solution hurts our heads) or we can accept that millions of Australians might soon be buying chemicals of dubious composition and manufacture, which helps Chinese industry, whilst hindering our own health and economy.
Your peptides may be coming fentanyl suppliers.
Anhui Renchen Technology was indicted in 2023 for supplying the Sinaloa Cartel with fentanyl precursors.
Their website currently sells semaglutide and melanotan II.
Of roughly 200 Chinese firms TRM Labs tracked selling fentanyl precursors, at least 50 now sell peptides.
The shipments enter the US in “master cartons” mislabelled as snack food, broken up by a domestic handler and mailed on. CBP has intercepted around 400 of those operations and seized over 130,000 vials in the past year.
FDA records surfaced showing two deaths, one in July and one in September, reported after people injected untested black market retatrutide.
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Erm…. Australia has no “Hindu Heritage”
We have AUSTRALIAN heritage.
When will we have Australian Heritage Month?
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I mean, I'm not offended.
I'm just bemused that people waste their time to post up a comment and then frenetically act to block someone.
(as an aside, I am certainly seeing a spike in the deranged lunatic left coming out of the woodwork. seems as if they pay no heed to their leader's impassioned pleas for turning down the temperature. If they won't listen to him, and he's not taking his own advice, he seems like a leader of nothing?)
COULD ALBANESE BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER?
Allegations are emerging that the Office of PM&C have been compiling a dirt file on Dr Helen Haines.
Whilst this is as nauseating as it is insidious, I hope all Australians understand this is ‘par for the course’ for all political parties – all the way down to their rank and file, branch levels.
But what may stick in Australians craw is twofold:
1. Is there a tenable link between the existence of this file and yesterday’s incident?
If so, I anticipate the Governor General (no matter how conflicted she otherwise may be) stepping in and calling a double dissolution of parliament.
The ALP will lose both houses.
2. What proportion of the 59 staff within the DPM&C has been expended to this activity, as opposed to more appropriate matters of state?
If this does not bring down a government from within, nothing does.
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What does it mean to turn down the temperature?
Let me explain.
The technique is called HALA.
That stands for High Affinity, Low Accountability.
It is the art – the science in fact – of speech which sounds immensely virtuous, but when efforts are made to unpack the true meaning, it is in fact vaporous.
The US democrat party are renowned for this – with slogans such as ‘build back better’
For their part, the Australian left is almost as prolific:
‘nation building’
‘moving forwards’
‘standing shoulder to shoulder’ and
‘the clever country’
Logic and literal meaning have given way to virtue signalling
It is this brazen technique of cognitive dissonance that gives us ‘turning down the temperature’.
So, let’s examine what this can and should mean.
But first, let’s start with one observation and two principles:
Observation – Australia is at its most divided at any time in its history.
Whether it be a military force, a business enterprise or a sports team – if such division were present in these environments the leader would most certainly be required to fall on their sword.
Alas, that will not happen, and let’s not bother asking.
Principles:
1. If the Prime Minister seeks to tell Australians to turn down the temperature – he needs to be the one to extend the olive branch first, with some truly substantial gestures. Which I discuss below.
2. Leaders of the Liberal, National, Greens and One Nation parties need to contribute meaningful gestures for their part.
So, what can Albanese start doing, right here and now? A thread….
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2/ How can Albanese 'turn down the temperature'?
These would be a good start. It's a 10-point plan:
1. Personally apologise to Helen Haines. We've seen Pauline Hanson man up twice now and offer up apologies. In light of the dirt file you shopped on Helen Haines, the least you can do is apologise. Everything else is a non-starter if you cannot do this.
2. Stand down Justin Lloyd, who issued the document. Look, we all know its ceremonial and you'll get him another job elsewhere, but accountability needs to be visible. Give him a 6-month spell before he can return.
3. Commit to improving parliamentary standards – where do you think this all starts from? We see you behaving like a bunch of prats all day every day. Allow a behavioural psychologist to sit in the chamber somewhere and intervene the moment an MP devolves into useless mudslinging. We pay enormous taxes, yet your workplace is easily the most childish and unproductive any of us have seen
4. Palestine is not an official nation at this moment. With a clear 12-month sunset clause, immediately rule the public display of the Palestinian flag a Federal offence punishable by jail. Everyone sees this - even leftists would have to concede the point - there is not a single flashpoint anywhere in the west where the Palestinian flag is not waving. If Australians feel so motivated, they should fly over there, pick up a stick and go full tilt at the IDF - but we here in Australia are utterly sick of this BS
5. Pause migration - between yourself and Tony Burke you have created an unmitigated disaster here. It is clearly the most contentious topic in Australia - and the polls show extraordinary support for heavily reducing immigration. When you ignore the democratic wishes of your people, you are turning the temperature up. The solution here is clear.
The next 5 are nice to haves
6. Reduce your expenses - commit to paring back MP expenses and allowances to 15% below corresponding quarter the preceding year. Every other Aussie is doing it tough. We need to see you feel and share our pain.
7. Do your cabinet reshuffle now – just get it over with so nobody is bit**ing and moaning later. Burke, Chalmers and Bowen - they're the main ones. Charlton will replace Chalmers - we know that much already. Give immigration to Jason Clare. Try for once in your lives to hire someone with 10 years private sector experience
8. Pause ADF property sales and commence BOM and CSIRO property rationalisation instead. Reduce the service offerings of both and reduce their operating budgets by 20%
9. Reduce super for all Commonwealth employees to the 12% SGC rate. This is what it was always meant to be - per Keating's vision.
10. Establish a national indigenous taskforce that outlines 5 key social metrics, and commit to a measure of improvement on each under your stewardship. Enough of the navel gazing, the blame shifting, the proselytising and the pork barrelling - less money spent, for more results
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COULD ALBANESE BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER?
Allegations are emerging that the Office of PM&C have been compiling a dirt file on Dr Helen Haines.
Whilst this is as nauseating as it is insidious, I hope all Australians understand this is ‘par for the course’ for all political parties – all the way down to their rank and file, branch levels.
But what may stick in Australians craw is twofold:
1. Is there a tenable link between the existence of this file and yesterday’s incident?
If so, I anticipate the Governor General (no matter how conflicted she otherwise may be) stepping in and calling a double dissolution of parliament.
The ALP will lose both houses.
2. What proportion of the 59 staff within the DPM&C has been expended to this activity, as opposed to more appropriate matters of state?
If this does not bring down a government from within, nothing does.
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UPDATE 21/10
Thanks to @DrewPavlou who's knocking out some stellar investigative work lately
For those who asked.
Here it is. YOUR SMOKING GUN.
Credible evidence of the actual information payload (and comms metadata, which is curious) which confirms:
1. The dirt file is real
2. It was initiated by Joshua Lloyd, Deputy Director of Communications to the Prime Minister of Australia.
Lloyd works within the team of 60 or so personnel in the Prime Minister's Office.
He is paid over $350K per annum
And here he is, doing anything but toning the volume down.
By now, we can conclude the ALP are nothing more than vile grubs
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Yep. This. Exactly this.
I do a bit of audit work here and there. I can assure you one of these easiest, most efficient and most economic methods for reducing fraud is the pervasive threat that 'someone may sing'
@DrCameronMurray I was at your talk on sunday. This is an effective foil against the game of mates (only when illegality is concerned however)
I'd like to see temporary migrants who are employed in the 'grey areas' be offered this incentive. It's offensive Aus businesses should be forced to close because only they complied with employment law, tax laws, etc
BREAKING: President Trump reveals his new anti-fraud program set up to reward people who expose fraud with a 1% commission on the money uncovered.
"If you turn somebody in and you, let's say report and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%."
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I want you to sit with this for a minute
Helen Haines attacker actually complained about the system making it too hard to get off the pension
Which is, of course, code for 'you are paying me too much'
Because that was his conundrum...
Why work? When for only a few bucks less you can stay home, drink and do drugs?
Perhaps hard working Australians need to reassess whether or not we are actually being TOO generous in terms of the welfare we bestow upon others.
The 'take cycle' cannot function in perpetuity
Maybe it's time we considered alternative welfare models, that incentivised work, and disincentivised staying on welfare forever
Has mendicancy killed Australia?
It's now emerging that Brendan Nugent was on a disability support pension for a considerable time.
Yet not only did he complain about the difficulty in obtaining this pension, he then railed against the system making it difficult to wean one's self off this welfare.
Read that again: society's fault he couldn't get sit down money. Society's fault he wouldn't go back to work.
I've known a few grubs like this over the years.... Always quick to claim chronic fatigue, but never short of adrenaline when a protest came to town.
Always ready to bemoan 'the rich', but eager to extract as much money from the system as was possible.
Its my observation that the proudest Aussies are the ones whose contributions are oversized.
They pay huge tax bills. Additional imposts as the cost of business. They struggle on and work hard, yet genuinely love their country.
Which contrasts greatly with those who seek perpetually subsidised uni degrees of little economic worth, spending their days protesting about climate, gaza, first persons or whatever is the outrage de jour.
We seem to be approaching that moment when we need to have a serious conversation about *forcing* people back to work.
Reduce immigration
Incentivise employment of hard core unemployed, youth, first persons, elderly, etc
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Has mendicancy killed Australia?
It's now emerging that Brendan Nugent was on a disability support pension for a considerable time.
Yet not only did he complain about the difficulty in obtaining this pension, he then railed against the system making it difficult to wean one's self off this welfare.
Read that again: society's fault he couldn't get sit down money. Society's fault he wouldn't go back to work.
I've known a few grubs like this over the years.... Always quick to claim chronic fatigue, but never short of adrenaline when a protest came to town.
Always ready to bemoan 'the rich', but eager to extract as much money from the system as was possible.
Its my observation that the proudest Aussies are the ones whose contributions are oversized.
They pay huge tax bills. Additional imposts as the cost of business. They struggle on and work hard, yet genuinely love their country.
Which contrasts greatly with those who seek perpetually subsidised uni degrees of little economic worth, spending their days protesting about climate, gaza, first persons or whatever is the outrage de jour.
We seem to be approaching that moment when we need to have a serious conversation about *forcing* people back to work.
Reduce immigration
Incentivise employment of hard core unemployed, youth, first persons, elderly, etc
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Has mendicancy killed Australia?
It's now emerging that Brendan Nugent was on a disability support pension for a considerable time.
Yet not only did he complain about the difficulty in obtaining this pension, he then railed against the system making it difficult to wean one's self off this welfare.
Read that again: society's fault he couldn't get sit down money. Society's fault he wouldn't go back to work.
I've known a few grubs like this over the years.... Always quick to claim chronic fatigue, but never short of adrenaline when a protest came to town.
Always ready to bemoan 'the rich', but eager to extract as much money from the system as was possible.
Its my observation that the proudest Aussies are the ones whose contributions are oversized.
They pay huge tax bills. Additional imposts as the cost of business. They struggle on and work hard, yet genuinely love their country.
Which contrasts greatly with those who seek perpetually subsidised uni degrees of little economic worth, spending their days protesting about climate, gaza, first persons or whatever is the outrage de jour.
We seem to be approaching that moment when we need to have a serious conversation about *forcing* people back to work.
Reduce immigration
Incentivise employment of hard core unemployed, youth, first persons, elderly, etc
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I can assure you this logic will go well over most people's heads
Yet it is further rationale for cutting migration. Especially from China.
For if CCP / PRC functionaries are openly influencing Chinese nationals here in Australia, we are essentially opening our doors to political subversion
I wish more people could grasp this risk.
Reports of China-linked transnational repression targeting people in Australia are deeply concerning. As Australia’s close security partner, the U.S. stands with Australians in defending individual freedoms, national sovereignty, and the right to live free from intimidation – in their own country. These shared values are central to our alliance: news.com.au/national/crime/e…
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I really hope we can salvage just something out of this awful situation for Dr Haines. I've been truly sickened by some of the commentary today, not merely the left, but a tiny percentage of quite revolting commentary from some right leaning accounts too.
So whilst we wait and hope for Dr Haines to make the fastest and fullest recovery humanly possible, what can we expect to learn from this?
I'm going to offer up some normal themes, and one that borders on the impossible.
Please share your ideas too.
A thread.
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2/ The criticality of enabling truer democracy faster
I'm not sure for how many centuries casting a vote on paper and tallying those votes has been de rigueur, but a replacement is long overdue.
But more importantly, so too is the notion we vote for a party, and then have to accept each and every policy or program they stump up.
A far better mechanism would be for propositions to be raised and voted on at the same time as a broader election.
Imagine allowing each of the Top 4 parties on proposition each, and potentially another 2 or 3 through some side runoff process.
Imagine this allowed the entire country or state to vote on the more contentious policies of the day.
Should we ban abortion?
Should we ban coal?
Etc etc
In a manner that obligated the successful government to abide by the outcome.
Realise two things:
1. If run as a paper ballot in conjunction with an election, the delivery costs are massively reduced
2. This could potentially be administered digitally instead
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2/ The criticality of enabling truer democracy faster
I'm not sure for how many centuries casting a vote on paper and tallying those votes has been de rigueur, but a replacement is long overdue.
But more importantly, so too is the notion we vote for a party, and then have to accept each and every policy or program they stump up.
A far better mechanism would be for propositions to be raised and voted on at the same time as a broader election.
Imagine allowing each of the Top 4 parties on proposition each, and potentially another 2 or 3 through some side runoff process.
Imagine this allowed the entire country or state to vote on the more contentious policies of the day.
Should we ban abortion?
Should we ban coal?
Etc etc
In a manner that obligated the successful government to abide by the outcome.
Realise two things:
1. If run as a paper ballot in conjunction with an election, the delivery costs are massively reduced
2. This could potentially be administered digitally instead
I really hope we can salvage just something out of this awful situation for Dr Haines. I've been truly sickened by some of the commentary today, not merely the left, but a tiny percentage of quite revolting commentary from some right leaning accounts too.
So whilst we wait and hope for Dr Haines to make the fastest and fullest recovery humanly possible, what can we expect to learn from this?
I'm going to offer up some normal themes, and one that borders on the impossible.
Please share your ideas too.
A thread.
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Bit of a hairbrained concept from Paul Murray on Sky24.
Security for all politicians.
If we run the numbers - that's about 220 for the Feds.
Naturally State MP's then ask their share too.
Which is 847 MP's for all houses, all levels.
Given there'd be at least 4 per MP, maybe 5 (weekends, evenings, etc) - that's 4250 security personnel.
At an assumed cost of $200K per person inc kit, that's $850 million per annum.
Of course, Paul did say 'only when needed' - but Helen Haines was shopping on the street. Hardly a high risk event.
So 24x7 it would likely be.
Australia cannot afford this. There are better solutions.
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For the sake of clarity, one of the biggest winners from Vic Uniparty decision to cap tolls for consumers will be uber drivers and van drivers.
Which include an outsized proportion of temporary migrants.
Always nice to know that people in regional Victoria are again subsidising the costs associated with immigration
What's wrong with rusted on Libs like Michael Kroger?
Whilst admonishing Albanese for buying votes (hecs reductions), he conveniently ignores the fact that in his home state, Jess Wilson is busy chasing Ben Carroll in a race to the bottom with toll road caps.
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What's wrong with rusted on Libs like Michael Kroger?
Whilst admonishing Albanese for buying votes (hecs reductions), he conveniently ignores the fact that in his home state, Jess Wilson is busy chasing Ben Carroll in a race to the bottom with toll road caps.
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For those leftists who find my suggestion below a little unsettling...
It would behove you to remember that State Labor Premiers have been craven in their rush to introduce corporate manslaughter charges - always ready to threaten business owners or executives with fear of incarceration lest an unfortunate accident happen...
...and this was no accident.
What changed to make a man suddenly hate a person he has actually supported?
It's not drugs - they'll make you crazy but you still know your friends from your enemies. Something made this man want to kill this poor woman - which means 'he processed information he'd not previously been privy to'
What was it?
COULD ALBANESE BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER?
Allegations are emerging that the Office of PM&C have been compiling a dirt file on Dr Helen Haines.
Whilst this is as nauseating as it is insidious, I hope all Australians understand this is ‘par for the course’ for all political parties – all the way down to their rank and file, branch levels.
But what may stick in Australians craw is twofold:
1. Is there a tenable link between the existence of this file and yesterday’s incident?
If so, I anticipate the Governor General (no matter how conflicted she otherwise may be) stepping in and calling a double dissolution of parliament.
The ALP will lose both houses.
2. What proportion of the 59 staff within the DPM&C has been expended to this activity, as opposed to more appropriate matters of state?
If this does not bring down a government from within, nothing does.
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