The Australian reports the latest Newspoll has Labor’s two-party lead widening from 55-45 to 56-44, although Labor and the Coalition are unchanged on the primary vote at 38% and 33% respectively, with the Greens up one to 11% and One Nation down one to 7%. Both leaders’ personal ratings have softened, though from a substantially higher base in the case of Anthony Albanese, who is down three on approval to 53% and up two on disapproval to 37%, while Peter Dutton is down two to 33% and up four to 52%. Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister narrows from 58-26 to 54-28. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1514.
Asha says:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 6:16 pm
Surely there aren’t too many people under the age of 30 who still willingly suffer through a medium as archaic and redundant as radio? I’d assume most would know how to either plug a USB cable into their car stereo or to connect up to it with Bluetooth.
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I think radio still rates its arse off among young people. It’s free, and a lot of people wouldn’t want to sit through pretentious podcasts. They just want some trashy interviews, banter and some music.
Well, if no-one is going to tell me the limit, or who it applies to, I will feel free to ignore it.
Actually, unless it is a limit imposed by William, I will ignore it even if someone does tell me what it is! 🙂
The brutality of it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNchj8dpLvs
Player One @ Friday, April 28, 2023 at 6:09 pm:
[Have you noticed how Lars never picks up on this? His critiques are always very pointed and used as a weapon against targeted individuals.]
“Boring posters?”
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Player One, since I am one of Lars’ targets, and I post largely on the issue of Russia’s destructive and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine, you had better not be insinuating that Ukraine’s plight at the hands of aggressive Russian imperialism is a topic which you think is ‘too boring’ to deserve discussion on this, or indeed any other, blog? How mightily inconsiderate of those Ukrainians to be boring you with their tiresome resistance to the Kremlin’s genocidal imperialism! 😡
Rescuers work at the site of a residential building hit by a missile strike in Uman Photograph: Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/apr/28/russia-ukraine-war-live-air-raid-sirens-sound-in-kyiv-and-across-ukraine
Young families with little children were sleeping there in their beds when this Russian missile cruelly struck them dead.
EA, time to deploy yourself into the Bakhmut battlefield?
Enough Already @ #2004 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 6:24 pm
Is the limit to do with off-topic posts? Because I think my posts are by and large on topic. They are just not popular with some people. Perhaps the limit is to do with popularity? In that case I think we are probably both in trouble.
Right wing Govts regularly cut social programs and limit welfare spending to attain budget surpluses.
Player One:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 4:49 pm
Save for several short posts I’ve been absent from this site for a few days, following two deaths in my extended family: Les & Jerry? But I feel compelled to comment on your para lengths, close to exceeding Andrew’s… I trust you’re okay.
Is Kyle Sandilands the lefty Alan Jones?
Don’t listen to either. From what little about Kyle that gets into the media that I consume, he seems to be a bit of a dick.
EA
Stephen Kotkin pointed out a number of truisms in his excellent podcast on (mostly) Ukraine just today.
https://youtu.be/dTXEmz6nJGk
One of them, was that whenever Putin bombs a civilian target, the donation of heavy weaponry to Ukraine from the West and NATO increases.
Many other observations from this student of Russian history.
nath @ Friday, April 28, 2023 at 6:28 pm
“EA, time to deploy yourself into the Bakhmut battlefield?”
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Do keep up. Ukraine is effecting a staged withdrawal from that city, and focusing its efforts elsewhere.
‘Oliver Sutton says:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 6:09 pm
BW: “Sohar along for the daily snark.
What is the point of Bandt?”
Obvs: to trigger your hourly snark.’
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And along comes a jackal with a yip and a yap.
nath, do you have the skinny on Dan’s car crash 10 years ago?
Seems to have the Melbourne Daily Rupert agog.
sprocket_ says:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 6:36 pm
nath, do you have the skinny on Dan’s car crash 10 years ago?
Seems to have the Melbourne Daily Rupert agog.
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A few questions have been raised. It will be interesting to see what the court case unveils.
I’m totally with you there Boerwar. In any society that claims to be based on equality for all, that’s the only way it can be. Anything less just makes a mockery of the whole concept.
Mavis @ #2009 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 6:33 pm
Aha! Is that the limit? What size should I be aiming for?
Player One:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 6:40 pm
[‘Aha! Is that the limit? What size should I be aiming for?’]
Player, that’s a matter for you. And it’s not that I’m being critical; more a matter of it being out of character for you. I have tell you that I start losing interest when paras exceed around 300 words, and I’m particularly uninterested when they’re accompanied by repetitive lists. And it must be said, you’re not guilty thereof.
sprocket_says:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 6:36 pm
nath, do you have the skinny on Dan’s car crash 10 years ago?
Seems to have the Melbourne Daily Rupert agog.
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Channel 7 News as well.
Jesus, he looked pissed off.
sprocket_ @ Friday, April 28, 2023 at 6:34 pm:
“Stephen Kotkin pointed out a number of truisms in his excellent podcast on (mostly) Ukraine just today.
https://youtu.be/dTXEmz6nJGk
One of them, was that whenever Putin bombs a civilian target, the donation of heavy weaponry to Ukraine from the West and NATO increases.
Many other observations from this student of Russian history.”
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Sprocket, thank you. I’ll give this a watch later tonight. One general remark on the observation you quote: Putin’s stubborn targeting of civilians in this war puts me very much in mind of the tale of the scorpion and the frog.
Nath:
Personally, I just hate having someone else choose the music I listen to, really hate listening to the same few songs again and again (regular readers of this blog might recall that I have a rather low tolerance for repetition), and especially hate desperately switching from station to station in a vain attempt to find one – just one – that is actually playing music instead of the usual sea of mindless chatter, sports, and – worst of all – National Tiles ads, and it shocks me that anyone with the means to put on their own soundtrack would willingly endure the alternative unless they’ve forgotten their phone/cable or have run out of charge. Torrenting still exists for those who don’t want to shell out for a streaming service.
But then I’m the sort of person who genuinely enjoys watching election coverage, so I’m probably in no position to judge how others’ choices of entertainment.
Yip.
sprocket_ @ #2016 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 6:36 pm
Asha,
Just listen to this:
https://bandcamp.com/?from=bcwdwnlds&play=1&show=644
Asha
Nothing wrong with watching election night coverage. Certainly since 2017 in WA, though 2019 was a bit a of a crap night.
NATO is like the Delian League transitioned into the Athenian Empire, with America as Athens. -a.v.
AUKUS:
Worst deal ever.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/defence-reveals-50-per-cent-contingency-for-cost-overruns-inside/102275806
Incredible risk, to the point that pillars 2 and 3 are both bordering on incredulous.
But ‘if all goes to plan’ $260-368 BILLION the government has run up the flag pole only gets us to 2054, at which point between 3 and 5 SSN_AUKUS class subs will still be NOT built yet. This not me putting shade on the program – THAT is according to the Government’s ‘PLAN’.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/defence-reveals-50-per-cent-contingency-for-cost-overruns-inside/102275806
Marles was fulminating today about ‘The Greens’, but in truth $500 billion will only get us to towards the end of the build in the 2060s (yep folks, it is ‘the plan’ to take FORTY YEARS to build eight submarines) but then there is still up to another FORTY YEARS of sustainment. Which will costs hundreds of billions more by the time the last SSN_AUKUS submarine is finally decommissioned.
And to think we could get a ‘cradle to grave’ 10 boat nuclear SNN boat program from the French for around $250-300 billion (between 2023 and the 2080s). Literally only between a quarter and a third of the cost of AUKUS … for kit that is just … better … for Australia’s needs and purposes (even if that means patrolling maritime sea lanes in the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan).
FMD!
Ah, the Lord Haw Haw of the blog has reappeared. 😐
EA/MacArthur – I log back in and you’ve clearly blown well past 6 posts. What went wrong?
I’m someone closely connected to rural workplaces, if an Aussie farmer can get something on the cheap, stand back…you’ll be injured in the rush.
“We want to hire locals, but if there aren’t enough people to hire, then we have to go to the international workforce — we don’t want to cruel ourselves here.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-04-28/ag-sector-worried-about-migration-changes/102278592
As right wingers tend to do…
C@t that comment directed at Andy was uncalled for.
” Ah, the Lord Haw Haw of the blog has reappeared. ”
And you have nothing of substance to offer. Just a football fan degree of ‘barracking’. And snark. You are no shrinking violet. Certainly no victim of cyber bullying. So I shall return fire.
It takes some courage … and brain cells … to go again one’s team. You have neither. Something you have demonstrated time and again.
This is the reality that alfred venison doesn’t want you to know about:
https://youtu.be/uIbire3o8eo
Kyle Sandilands was described as “controversial” on the ABC news. That’s better than “colourful”, like some of his guests.
Psephology time – this time from Germany:
“Russia is to blame for the war in Ukraine. That’s the opinion of just under 40% of Russian speakers in Germany surveyed by the dimap research institute on behalf of DW; 15% believe Ukraine is to blame, while 27% think both are responsible.
For the purposes of the survey, “Russian speakers” refers to native speakers with a migration history in Russia or another former republic of the Soviet Union. In other words, they were either born there or have or had at least one parent who emigrated from there to Germany.
Who is to blame for the war?
Russia 39%
Ukraine 15%
Both 27%
Neither 7%
Has your opinion of President Putin changed since the outbreak of the war?
Strongly positive 6%
Fairly positive 8%
Fairly negative 22%
Strongly negative 43%
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-what-do-russian-speakers-in-germany-think/a-65457001
Conclusion: the Russian diaspora in Germany views the war in Ukraine much more in line with general German opinion than with opinion back in Russia. A very hopeful indication of the prospects for ‘de-zombifying’ the Russian population once they are liberated from the repressive yoke of Putin’s Kremlin.
C@t dont you think its time you came clean about your conflict with the Pharmacy Guild?
I dont think its proper you diss the Guild when you dont disclose ur personal issues with the Guild.
alfred venisonsays:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:18 pm
NATO is like the Delian League transitioned into the Athenian Empire, with America as Athens. -a.v.
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at the time i compared the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the Athenians’ expedition to Sicily.
This by Randy Newman is apt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0EAwSpTcM4
What about the reality of the AUKUS costs that YOU and Marles dont want us to know about, C@t?
Lars Von Trier says:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:23 pm
C@t that comment directed at Andy was uncalled for.
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I would assume it was directed at Taylormade and therefore always called for –
Your wrong!
Lars Von Trier @ Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:21 pm:
“EA/MacArthur – I log back in and you’ve clearly blown well past 6 posts. What went wrong?”
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I’ve become persuaded that a self-imposed limit like this just cedes the field to those like you who want Ukraine’s plight to drift silently out of everyone’s consciousness. No thanks.
That’s disappointing EA. I think it hurts your cause.
I have another issue too – some of your posts have been inaccurate. I dont think that helps the cause either?
Critics of NATO from the Left/Russia cannot name one single country which was dragooned into the alliance against its will. The same cannot be said for how Russia is trying to press-gang Ukraine into its own so-called ‘sphere of influence’.
av:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:18 pm
[‘NATO is like the Delian League transitioned into the Athenian Empire, with America as Athens. -a.v.’]
av: don’t be put off by your deriders. I’m really not sure where you’re coming from, but stick to you’re guns – that’s probably not the most appropriate metaphor. And may I ask you a personal question: where are you coming from?
Lars – look up ‘concern troll’.
Dr John @ #1975 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 7:29 pm
Of course Mother Superior Lars was wrong. It was directed at alfred venison. It should be obvious.
wonderiniven ae is at odds with evry sinovernmeent was ri with the nsw esential asets speakin lazsis constant attacks on ea arnt very helpful whiy is he triyin putin apolak to that limet maybi its touh beinone of the few liberals on this blo wi
Dr John @ #1975 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 7:29 pm
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have both of them blocked, so, you see, I can hardly have directed the comment at Andrew_Earlwood in the first instance. Let alone seen the comment from Mother Superior Lars. Life is way less stressful for me that way. 🙂
EA has posted about the UKR Army being on the opposite Bank of the Dniepro and the start of the counter- offensive (as has Sprocket).
Posts like Def Mon 4 on Twitter (who is an avid follower of the conflict) have confirmed this is B.S
alfred venison
NATO is like the Delian League transitioned into the Athenian Empire, with America as Athens
Although using your crude analogy, Persia under Shāhanshāh Putin is not yet defeated.
It is amusing when people who know little or nothing about ancient history try to cherry-pick it for precedents. Equating the Delian League with NATO is ridiculously inapt.