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A GOLD Coast dad has pulled his 10-year-old son out of school in protest after students were encouraged to ‘dress like hippies and sing climate change songs’. Matt Karlos, a professional pilot, withdrew his son Max from Bilambil Public School ‘near Tweed Heads last week over concerns the youngster was being brainwashed by ‘greenie’ teachers. “Max has come home a few times over the last couple of months a bit concerned about some of the green ideologies being pushed on him,” he said. “The last straw was early last week when they held a Green Day and wanted the kids to dress up like hippies and sing climate change and environmental songs like (Joni Mitchell’s) Big Yellow Taxi. “Max didn’t want a bar of that so we’re looking around for another school.” Max said: “Why would I want to dress like a hippy? Hippies just sit around all day doing nothing.” Mr Karlos, who has had a long-running battle with environmentalists and the Greens-dominated Tweed Shire Council over water mining on his family property, said schools should not be pushing ‘green political agendas’. “Kids like (Swedish teenage climate activist) Greta Thunberg are being used as pawns,” he said. “I called the Bilambil school principal and told him if they want to teach kids about environmental awareness, teach them something practical such as good agricultural practices and land management in farming. “Get the kids to dress up as farmers, not hippies.” A NSW Education spokesman said Year 3 and 4 students were studying ‘the theme of change’ through topics including ‘the survival of living things, animal and plant-farming processes and ‘different views of how to manage places and environments’. “Students choices for study included climate change, the changes brought by plastic pollution and possible remedies …” he said. “No political content has been taught.”
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Sep 29, 2019 23:28
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I still love how they push Farmers versus Environmentalists as if the two must be mutually exclusive.
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Sep 29, 2019 23:38
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loving lol thats the oval office that was selling bore water to industry on an ag permit and sending massive rigid trucks up kennedy drive at 4am so nobody would report it. He's a piece of fuckin work and you won't find a fuckin farmer willing to go into bat for him. Same poo poo cunts are doing up at springbrook. gently caress em, give em 5 years in jail.
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Sep 29, 2019 23:43
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Sep 29, 2019 23:59
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Zenithe posted:Credential dropping your unspecified doctorate to argue against man made climate change is weird. Here's another gem from the esteemed physics PhD and moral educator quote:I am on a mission, like Brian Carthew (Letters, 25/6), to encourage people to use the word “toilet” for a toilet, instead of employing the “bathroom” Americanism. For some reason, Americans treat the word toilet as if it were some dirty word. I heard an American on radio recently refer to her dog “going to the bathroom up a tree”.
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Sep 30, 2019 00:05
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it's pretty funny though, I can't wait until I can comment on a wide range of issues as Dr Recoome, even though my PhD is in a specific thing
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Sep 30, 2019 00:06
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Intoluene posted:I still love how they push Farmers versus Environmentalists as if the two must be mutually exclusive.  "Generations of farmers have done it this way (and starved to death) so get out of here greenies with your hippy bullshit!" To be fair, if my kid's school was doing something I disagree with, e.g. a "celebrate Amethyst's posting" day, I'd do the same thing.
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Sep 30, 2019 00:58
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Father of brainwashed child complains teachers are trying to brainwash his child
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Sep 30, 2019 01:16
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Amethyst posted:There’s no point in engaging with this level of cloistered stupidity on a rational level. Apparently the Australian women and children left at the mercy of the Kurds in refugee camps are an "unsolvable problem". Well not if you wish to use them as out and out propaganda puppets they aren't. I hesitate to suggest something Machiavellian to the current establishment but returning them to Australia as quietly as possible and setting them (Closely supervised) to work on the cause of deradicalisation would be the smart money. Unfortunately it seems all the smart money has left the upper echelons of the intelligence community.
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Sep 30, 2019 01:20
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Matt Karlos sounds like a law-breaking fuckwit based on other articles
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Sep 30, 2019 01:22
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Anidav posted:Matt Karlos, a professional pilot, withdrew his son Max from Bilambil Public School ‘near Tweed Heads last week over concerns the youngster was being brainwashed by ‘greenie’ teachers. For some reason, nearly every pilot I've ever met has had fuckheaded opinions about something.
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Sep 30, 2019 01:32
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It's pretty hosed how many farmers think climate change isn't real yet in the same breath complain about some of the worst droughts on record. The same people that will talk about passing the farm down to the next generation etc
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Sep 30, 2019 01:43
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abigserve posted:It's pretty hosed how many farmers think climate change isn't real yet in the same breath complain about some of the worst droughts on record. The same people that will talk about passing the farm down to the next generation etc If they admit it's real they might have to do something about it or face facts that they can't farm how they have in the past.
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Sep 30, 2019 02:10
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Any suggestion that they may have to alter their practices is "city bullshit" to be fought against tooth and nail
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Sep 30, 2019 02:21
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Would love to read the Tele opinion piece on how every little thing capitalism does improves the planet. I'm sure it wouldn't make my head explode.
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Sep 30, 2019 02:41
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The past year has been filled with articles about Aussie farmers talking about how they're the "first line" against climate change though?? And that only they know how bad the (climate change-induced) drought is out there.
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Sep 30, 2019 03:43
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The idea farmers are anti climate change on a macro level is 100% bullshit conjured up by heavy industry and it’s amazing people swallow it, including plenty of vocal fuckwits who move out here mostly to raise horses
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Sep 30, 2019 04:14
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abigserve posted:It's pretty hosed how many farmers think climate change isn't real Ummm.... yeah nah. Most farmers are actually quite well aware poo poo's going south and in a hurry. Whether they actually vote for their own interests is a different story
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Sep 30, 2019 04:24
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There are lots of switched on well educated farmers that 100% get it. Like without a doubt there are many that are stubborn or whatever but a lot of them get into agri science because it benefits them and they are well aware of how they can change their business. I'd say the terrible ones are the cotton farmers and those farming the wrong poo poo by legacy who just don't want to spend the money or lose a gov supported cash cow.
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Sep 30, 2019 04:27
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It's probably good to keep in mind that for a lot of you your perception of 'farmers' views on things is probably somewhat coloured by what 'farmers' actually get press time; conservative sooks with the same bugbears as the conservative media. Yeah there's a fair few of those but that's not all of them, your just unlikely to see any of the rest on TV outside of an episode of Landline.
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Sep 30, 2019 05:37
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How much of Australia's farmland is now corporation owned anyway? Would it be fair to say the majority of farmers are working for Woolworths or what have you?
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Other posted:It's probably good to keep in mind that for a lot of you your perception of 'farmers' views on things is probably somewhat coloured by what 'farmers' actually get press time; conservative sooks with the same bugbears as the conservative media. Yeah there's a fair few of those but that's not all of them, your just unlikely to see any of the rest on TV outside of an episode of Landline. Farmers federations are heavily stacked with Nationals aspirants and poo poo like that. They get a lot of the airtime via being heavily stacked with nats and country libs who can connect with media more easily. MysticalMachineGun posted:How much of Australia's farmland is now corporation owned anyway? Would it be fair to say the majority of farmers are working for Woolworths or what have you? Wesfarmers and Woolworths like the food supply chain to be susceptible to bullying, so they're not vertically integrated in most cases. Huge corps own many farms, but a lot of them are still disparate medium sized businesses. Most of the fresh food production in Victoria comes from medium sized "family" businesses across the east and the supermarkets only really kick in after bagging and final product. Same goes for meat outside of Woolies having a new meat packing shed in Tarneit. JBP fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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Sep 30, 2019 05:40
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JBP posted:Wesfarmers and Woolworths like the food supply chain to be susceptible to bullying, so they're not vertically integrated in most cases. Huge corps own many farms, but a lot of them are still disparate medium sized businesses. Most of the fresh food production in Victoria comes from medium sized "family" businesses across the east and the supermarkets only really kick in after bagging and final product. Same goes for meat outside of Woolies having a new meat packing shed in Tarneit. Wesfarmers spun off coles about a year ago, just saying. Coles have a massive meat plant somewhere in nsw so they can tick boxes on humane slaughtering, hormone free and paddock to plate narrative etc. It also allows expensive discounting and loss leads that no supplier would bear. Hint: supermarkets don't put their hands in their own pocket for sale prices. Meat has also turned into a big export game to China and everyone is ramping up. The supers pretty much run the same line with independent growers with near exclusive deals. And yes, they are portrayed as "family" businesses. Don't agree that it's all care and no responsibility though. It's not unusual for retailers to spring for interest free loans to allow farmers to invest in plant. If you look at Aldi they go to crazy lengths to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of their supply chain. E.g. if they find something like poo poo packaging affecting produce they will invest in the supplier to improve it and then let them use the IP as long as it isn't for competitors. The producer also wins as they get a better return for doing very little.
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Sep 30, 2019 08:07
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:The idea farmers are anti climate change on a macro level is 100% bullshit conjured up by heavy industry and it’s amazing people swallow it, including plenty of vocal fuckwits who move out here mostly to raise horses Yeah it's rough for those guys who've been I'm it for literally generations understand the impact it has on themselves, their family and community.
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Sep 30, 2019 09:33
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Gridlocked posted:Yeah it's rough for those guys who've been I'm it for literally generations understand the impact it has on themselves, their family and community. It would kind of suck after 5 generations or something to be the one on the land when the climate goes to poo poo
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Sep 30, 2019 09:42
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When I went to a climate change rally in Tamworth in 2016 it started off with a bunch of farmers giving pretty good speeches about the impact climate change will have on farming (I actually learnt a lot from it because I know gently caress all about farming )and the then nsw young farmer of the year gave a speech about it as well and she’s still out there trying to educate people about the impact it will have on the next generation
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Sep 30, 2019 10:00
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Sep 30, 2019 10:08
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A PhD in physics from the early sixties. Hmm.
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Sep 30, 2019 10:19
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you need better hobbies
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Sep 30, 2019 10:22
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Graic Gabtar posted:you need better hobbies This but to anyone posting here.
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Sep 30, 2019 10:25
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Graic Gabtar posted:you need better hobbies Someone else sent it to me. Do you actually think I search for anything myself lmao
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Sep 30, 2019 10:48
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JBP posted:Someone else sent it to me. Do you actually think I search for anything myself lmao i’m not going to pull that thread
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Sep 30, 2019 11:01
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Speaking of farmers, if you want where the worst ones are its gotta be queensland, many of them just think farming is cutting down all the trees and wonder why the dirt is so dry
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Sep 30, 2019 13:19
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JBP posted:Someone else sent it to me. Do you actually think I search for anything myself lmao Checks out.
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Sep 30, 2019 13:27
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What's going to happen to these ISIS wives? I can't determine why they went in the first place outside of a charming maths teacher said it would be cool.
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Sep 30, 2019 13:50
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Prine Andrew's in town for some entrepeuner disruptor nonsense thing he runs https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10026216/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-paris-home/amp/  Very generous caption The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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Sep 30, 2019 19:51
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JBP posted:What's going to happen to these ISIS wives? I can't determine why they went in the first place outside of a charming maths teacher said it would be cool. i need a couple of wives, i'll have 'em
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Sep 30, 2019 21:31
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"The Failing New York Times posted:The White House restricted access to the call’s transcript to a small group of the president’s aides, one of the officials said, an unusual decision that is similar to the handling of a July call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump. Like that call, the discussion with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia shows the extent to which Mr. Trump sees the attorney general as a critical partner in his goal to show that the Mueller investigation had corrupt and partisan origins, and the extent that Mr. Trump sees the Justice Department inquiry as a potential way to gain leverage over America’s closest allies.
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Sep 30, 2019 21:50
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JBP posted:What's going to happen to these ISIS wives? I can't determine why they went in the first place outside of a charming maths teacher said it would be cool. Hopefully the fash are let back in the country then promptly locked up. Shouldn't be dumping our trash in other countries.
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Congratulations on getting roped into the American impeachment clusterfuck Australia! https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1178782277016473601?s=19
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