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Honestly? Not a huge amount, but more than the previous conservative government would have.
I can see a few of the minor law wording changes being implemented. I can see some additional funding for advocacy and ndis, but not the full $36m they want for next budget. And I think the support worker registration will happen.
For me the value is more in having the thorough research, well worded arguments from commissioners with disability, and the proof that things are really wrong. And having an official inquiry that has been saying all the same things I've been arguing for years is... reassuring I haven't lost my grip on the issues.
It will help me in my personal battles, but systemic change still is too far off.
I hope that there are other people though, worldwide, who can benefit from the very solid work and recommendations though. That's where the changes start.
I impulsively bought a single bottle of a fizzy premix at the bottle shop the other day that had way more alcohol in it than I realised. I think I'll drink that tonight.
My congratulations and condolences to everyone involved in this report and the reasons behind its necessity. It is painful, grossly overdue, and simultaneously vindicating.
Brutal. Thankyou for your time and energy and emotional labour. I hope whatever you drank to celebrate/commiserate tasted much better than my impulse-purchase premix. I understand why it was discounted now.
So that's why he disabled the feature. He has skin as thin as a soap bubble. It's always some perceived personal slight that motivates his business decisions.
It kills Musk to know his employees are openly ridiculing him. All that money, but still, nobody likes little Elon.
A bank recently shut down the accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company, citing unauthorized transactions — a move that caused panic at the business when its balances suddenly dropped from more than $2 million to zero, according to a lawyer for the company....
This is the underlying problem with how we use money as a proxy for power. As soon as someone signs something into their family's name it becomes nearly inaccessible to the justice system, because of due process and corporate personhood. Bank transfers are pretty instantaneous nowadays, the justice systems are very much not. Which leaves these families on years-long time-consuming expensive missions to force any blood from that stone.
I have a zany idea for partially remedying this. Send the person to actual prison when it becomes clear that the companies they have a financial interest in have not shown progress on divesting their assets and removing the person from the business, let's say after 1 month - just enough to appoint an independent auditor. No professional communication with the person except via their lawyers and auditor. Economic sanctions for all companies dealing with that person until all appeals are exhausted, except their lawyers. No merchandise deals, movies, supplements contracts, guest hosting on Steven Crowder's podcast, none of that.
If businesses have legal personhood, it's time to start applying personal consequences for the key decision-makers of those companies when they commit crimes or facilitate the people avoiding consequences.
There’s a test for that: the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale. You can look up that term online for more information. I’ve linked to one source that has a decent, short explanation, and the complete scale itself. Other sites can offer more in-depth perspective....
His SS division's history wasn't about Ukrainian independence. It was formed by Nazis in 1943 when everyone knew that Nazis were slaughtering people. It was formed after all the ghettos inside Lviv, Galicia's main city, and Ternipol, in this old man's home oblast, were built and had been running for years. It was formed after Jews, who were 44% of Ternipol's population, were dragged from their homes to be publicly shamed, beaten and evicted in the pogroms. It was formed after the Final Solution began. It was formed after mass deportations, slave labour, after the ill, elderly or orphaned were shot in the streets of the place he lived. It was formed after the mass graves of all those victims and more were exhumed and their bodies burned in open-air pits. This man had functional eyes and ears at the very least, because the Nazis did not like people with disabilities, and he knew what he was signing up for because he was living in the middle of it. Every major town surrounding his birthplace had ghettos and were already sending people by train to the death camps. He didn't choose a charitable hypothetical peaceful Ukrainian autonomy, he and 53,000 other people volunteered to fight for the new unit of an army who were very publicly killing and torturing the majority of the people around him.
And, this wasn't about a Ukrainian group allied to the Nazis to achieve long-term independence for Ukrainians. They were voluntary Nazis under direct Nazi control fighting for greater Nazi control in countries outside of Ukraine. This man could have changed allegiance at any point if he had been naive and somehow swindled into committing atrocities for Nazis instead of Ukrainian Independence. Atrocities like the Huta Pieniacka massacre where his division committed 500 murders of civilians by grenading the town. Where, assuming he was with his unit at the time and not in hospital, he murdered civilians too.
This is about the active celebration of Nazis to the point where the highest courts in Ukraine are granting exemptions to their own anti-Nazi laws because the Nazis didn't "own" the symbols, as though they "owned" the Swastika. This indicates a huge systemic Nazi problem.
And for Canada to find itself failing to even check what the guy was actually veteran of, and applaud him on the world stage for his service... no. The Canadian government, the MP who invited him, the old man himself, the Ukrainian nationalists marching in the streets waving politely heiling Hitler during the embroidery marches, the judge granting exemptions, they all have agency and have freely chosen Nazis.
And you, for reasons I can't fathom beyond "it's important to consider the reason they chose Nazis", are determined to give actual proven verified Nazis the benefit of the doubt and positing entire hypothetical storylines that might give an innocent explanation and plausible deniability to them choosing to be a Nazi and cheer on blatant Nazis.
Giving Nazis the benefit of the doubt is what got us a Holocaust in the first place.
Australia's top public investigation organisation finishes 12 volume report on Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, after 4 year long inquiry. (www.abc.net.au)
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Fired for liking a tweet on Twitter?
How it started...
Bank that handles Infowars money appears to be cutting ties with Alex Jones’ company, lawyer says (apnews.com)
A bank recently shut down the accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company, citing unauthorized transactions — a move that caused panic at the business when its balances suddenly dropped from more than $2 million to zero, according to a lawyer for the company....
Why am I feeling so stressed out? (www.jibc.ca)
There’s a test for that: the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale. You can look up that term online for more information. I’ve linked to one source that has a decent, short explanation, and the complete scale itself. Other sites can offer more in-depth perspective....
Justin Trudeau apologises after Nazi veteran honoured in parliament (www.bbc.com)
The prime minister says it was a mistake that "deeply embarrassed parliament and Canada".