Takže je vymaľované! Súčasný parlament zložený z totálne neschopných politikov skončil. Je úplne namieste povedať, že konečne. Zvádza to konštatovať, že aj fraške je koniec. Lenže… ako možno vidieť z toho, čo sa teraz deje a ako sa títo politici správajú naďalej, vyzerá to skôr na začiatok nového konca. Taký september, aký nás zrejme čaká, nebol ani v Amerike po 11. septembri 2001. Tam spadli len dve budovy, ale u nás hrozí, že padne celý štát… síce len na hubu, ale aj to by malo byť pre obyvateľov Slovenska varovaním.
Stačí sa poobzerať naokolo po predvolebných plagátoch a heslách na nich. Ksichty, čo tu celé roky škodia a neurobili nič z toho, čo nasľubovali predtým, sľubujú ďalej. Jeden hru „mení“, iný ju „nemení“. A „jamkatý“ sľubuje, že všetko bude lacnejšie. Kde bol odteraz? Veď bol aj premiérom! Dokonca vyťahuje kartu o „zodpovednosti politikov“. Doteraz však neprešla a ani nikdy neprejde cez parlament – vlastne cez nich samých. „Hranol“ na „jamkatého“ vyťahuje buzerantstvo a „Balónik“ vyzýva „Hranola“ do súboja, kto má lepších odborníkov. Všimol si azda niekto, aby hocikto iný, mimo SaS, o „Balónikových odborníkoch“ povedal, či napísal, že sú odborníci? Samozrejme, že nie. Toto nehorázne klamstvo šíria o sebe len oni sami . Pripomíname, že ešte nedávno tvrdil, že odbornosť na vrcholných miestach je „na príťaž“, že to všetko musia riadiť „manažéri“. Ale manažér, ktorý o probléme nič nevie, je úplne „nanič“. Viete, ako sa hovorí o odborníkoch a špecialistoch: Špecialista vie všetko o hovne a odborník vie hovno o všetkom. Alebo naopak …? 😊

Ale netýka sa to len „Balónika“, týka sa to všetkých. A netýka sa to len odbornosti, ale najmä toho, kto z nich čo kedy dokázal a najmä ich charakteru. To by mali byť rozhodujúce kritériá na to, aby sme niekomu dovolili nás zastupovať (myslíme tým, v parlamente).
Blíži sa termín ďalších parlamentných volieb a je jedno, či sú predčasné. Znova nás idú tie isté ksichty presviedčať, aby sme volili práve ich. A čo urobí Slovač? Nuž, ako sprosté, tupé stádo pôjde voliť znova tých istých. Veď pamäť nemá žiadnu, sme holubičí národ, ktorý všetko všetkým odpúšťa a tak sme zabudli na výzvu Sama Chalupku ešte z roku 1864 „Mor ho!“. Nemáme už cisára, tak sme si našli na svoje vlastné zotročovanie svojich vlastných ľudí – politikov. Sme ich otrokmi, hračkou v rukách ich moci. Sme presne ako Mimoni zo známeho filmu, ktorí celý čas hľadajú na Zemi toho najhoršieho Zloducha, aby mali koho velebiť a poslúchať. Slovač si tých najhorších zakaždým nájde raz-dva. Nerozumieme, prečo sme my Slováci taký sprostý národ.

Nemá význam rozoberať, koho vlastne voliť. Niet totiž koho. Všetci tu už raz boli a všetci ukázali, že im ide len o ich vlastné blaho. Československo vraj kedysi patrilo medzi najmenej zadlžené štáty. Zvládalo dokonca ekonomicky podporovať Kubu, Vietnam, aj kusisko Afriky. Všetko sme mali zo svojho vlastného vrecka. V pamätnom novembri 1989 sa kričalo, že „Máme holé ruce!“, teraz sa k tomu môžu pridať, že aj „holé rite“. A komu za to vďačíme? Možno by ste povedali, že práve týmto politikom, no nie je to celkom pravda. Vďačíme za to len a len sami sebe, pretože my sme im umožnili robiť si s nami, čo sa im zapáči, či čo sa im v ich chorých hlavách v noci prisnije. Každý robí to, čo sa mu dovolí a my sme im to doteraz dovoľovali. Silne pochybujeme, že by sa to po nadchádzajúcich voľbách zmenilo.

Totiž, každý národ má takú vládu, akú si zaslúži… alebo horšiu.

Tento portál mal slúžiť na to, aby si náš národ uvedomil, kde je skutočná podstata jeho vlastnej biedy, kde sú korene toho zla a aké sú možné cesty z tohto marazmu von. Nezdá sa nám, že by sme boli dosiahli, čo sme zamýšľali. Podľa všetkého sa tu nič nezmení, lebo ľuďom je už všetko jedno.

Ale pamätajte si, nikto nám neurobí tak zle, ako my sami sebe. Na to pamätajte, keď pôjdete v septembri k volebným urnám.

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  13. Australians have discovered an unlikely pop-up store offering shoppers ‚incredible‘ deals
    on clothing, homewares, food, and electronics.

    The temporary Vinnies locations have been set up around Victoria to
    help shoppers get through the cost of living crisis ravaging
    the country.

    Vinnies, or the St Vincent de Paul Society, is a charity that works
    to provide support and assistance to people in need.

    Most items are brand new stock donated by corporate partners
    including Christmas decorations.

    Popular bargains include $10 large jars of Biscoff, $2 bags of Red Rock
    Deli chips, and discounted shoes from Boston Bros. 

    Shoppers will find men’s, women’s, and children’s
    clothing, shoes from top brands, and even electrical
    goods at the Vinnies pop-up locations. 

    Many have purchased vacuums, air fryers, Adidas shoes, printers, and
    kitchen knives from previous pop-up shops. 

    There is presently a location in Ascot Vale which is open until 3 November, and another in Boronia which will remain open until Christmas – or until stock runs out. 

    Australians have discovered an unlikely pop-up store
    offering shoppers ‚incredible‘ deals on clothing, homewares,
    food, and electronics

    Popular bargains include $10 large jars of Biscoff, $2 bags of Red Rock
    Deli chips, and discounted shoes from Boston Bros

    A new store will open in Richmond at Dimmey’s on 7 November. 

    The themed Richmond location will focus on goods for Christmas, summer,
    and the holiday season – but it will also include household items, Bric-à-brac, and electrical items.

    Shoppers have shared their thoughts on the pop-up locations online.

    ‚They have all the trending products – it’s so
    awesome,‘ one said.

    ‚I bought a hair dryer from Vinnies and I’m obsessed with it,‘ another wrote.

    ‚I always have such good luck at Vinnies, I have to go,
    ‚ a woman added.

    For those interested in the finer things, shoppers have discovered
    a ‚hidden gem‘ discount retailer where you can find designer buys from
    brands like Fendi, Dior, and Aje for affordable prices.

    TK Maxx – which has stores in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South
    Australia – is the answer to buying new clothes and shoes on a budget.

    TK Maxx has stores in New South Wales , Victoria, Queensland and South Australia 

    Beth Zazlan, from Queensland, recently found a gold mine of clothing lines from Australian brands like Camilla and
    Marc, Acler, Bec+Bridge, Shona Joy, Dion Lee, Zimmerman, and
    Acler.

    ‚I was there for a pillow but I ended up grabbing some
    sparkly earrings from [American jewellery brand] Badgley Mischka,
    ‚ Beth told FEMAIL.

    TK Maxx sells old stock from previous seasons – and shoppers have described it as a ‚clearance treasure
    hunt‘.

    Many have seen bags from Fendi, Dior, and Bottega Venetta
    on sale.

    Others have spotted Gucci and Versace sunglasses, Hugo Boss accessories, and Christopher Esber dresses.

    Beth said, ‚I was truly blown away – so if you’re looking for a bargain, head there.‘

    A David Jones employee revealed in a comment that discounted items from stores that aren’t
    sold are shipped to TK Maxx.

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  25. The existence of an exclusive hideaway for the country’s movers and shakers where secret deals were
    done in private luxury first exploded into the public eye
    back in 2007.

    Back then, the fact that Qantas spent hundreds of thousands of dollars wining and dining the nation’s political
    elite in ultra-exclusive VIP lounges was relatively unknown.

    It was a time before Alan Joyce’s tenure as the CEO of
    Qantas had even started, when he was boss of the comparatively lowly budget airline, Jetstar.

    And unlike Anthony Albanese’s current slide in the polls leading up to an election in next year, the
    prospects back in 2007 were rosy for Labor. 

    The election that was looming was the ‚Kevin 07‘ landslide that would
    see Kevin Rudd become prime minister and John Howard
    lose his own seat. 

    The issue which blew open the ‚guilty secret‘ of the
    Chairman’s Lounge then wasn’t about a prime minister’s privileges, although John Howard and Kevin Rudd were certainly both
    members during their terms as PM. 

    But when broadcaster Steve Price – himself a long time
    Chairman’s Lounge member – revealed a politically charged remark made within the club’s hallowed walls, the cat was out of the bag.

    The political revelation – a comment by ex-rock star turned senator
    Peter Garrett that Labor would change the policies it campaigned on if it won government – did not deter his
    party from romping in on election day.

    In contrast, the scandal currently engulfing Anthony
    Albanese about his Chairman’s Lounge membership and that of his ex-wife Carmel
    Tebbutt, and their son Nathan could bring down the prime minister.   

    The exclusive Qantas Chairman’s Lounge (above) has been a well-kept secret for years, but
    it exploded into the public conscience in 2007 as the
    result of a political furore

    Broadcaster Steve Price revealed he had been a Chairman’s
    Lounge member since 2002 during a row before the 2007 election won by Kevin Rudd
    which let the cat out of the bag about the VIP club

    The existence of the lounge was so little known back in 2007 that in defending his disclosure of Garrett’s remark, Steve Price had to explain what the private enclave actually was.

    In a first person piece he wrote: ‚The Chairman’s Lounge is a
    separate frequent flyers lounge away from the crowded normal Qantas Club. 

    ‚As its name implies, the people given access to it are
    approved by the Qantas chairman, Margaret Jackson. 

    ‚I have been a Chairman’s Lounge member since 2002.‘

    In his opinion piece, Price also revealed TV entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins was also a member
    of lounge.

    Wilkins had also been inside at the time and was his only witness to the remark Price said Garrett had made.

    Other prominent media figures, such as 60 Minutes reporters, actors and performers, and well-known writers and
    sports people are said to be among the lounge’s exclusive membership of around 6000.

    Price went on to defend himself for reporting what some claimed was a
    confidential conversation in a private place, but which exposed him
    to criticism over his own membership for allegedly promoting Qantas on his radio show.

    Back in 2007, Alan Joyce (left) was boss of the comparatively lowly budget airline
    Jetstar, and then Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon (right) had the power over who made the cut to the
    Chairman’s Lounge

    One observer has described the relationship bet6ween leading politicians such as PM Anthony Albanese and the former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce (above) as
    ‚alarmingly cosy‘

    ‚Why on earth is Qantas giving a controversial shock jock membership of its
    Chairman’s Lounge, which is supposedly to enable our elite
    politicians and business leaders some privacy from the hoi
    polloi?‘ demanded Crikey reporter Stephen Mayne at the time.

    ‚The Chairman’s Lounge is meant to be all about discretion and confidentiality,‘ he said, accusing Price of breaking ‚a confidence‘.

    The following year, before he was succeeded as Qantas CEO by Alan Joyce,
    Geoff Dixon was the sole gatekeeper of entry into
    the club’s hushed confines.

    Qantas Chairman’s Lounge membership was ‚so exclusive that you have to be personally
    invited by the airline’s chieftain‘, Nine newspapers reported in 2008.

    ‚A marvellous benefit of lounge membership is that the mega rich and powerful avoid having
    to mingle with the riffraff who will be travelling cattle
    class.

    ‚Having said that, members of the ultra-exclusive
    club have included Pauline Hanson.

    ‚Another lounge member is Brad Cooper, who is currently enjoying a prolonged exposure to cattle-class in Kirkconnell Correctional Centre.‘
    (Cooper was the former HIH insurance executive jailed for eight years on fraud and bribery offences).

    Membership of the elite lounge is confined to about 6000 Australians including politicians from both sides, senior public servants, TV
    stars and actors

    The ‚scandal‘ currently engulfing Anthony Albanese about
    his Chairman’s Lounge membership and that
    of his ex-wife Carmel Tebbutt, and their son Nathan could bring down the prime minister (above
    the PM with partner Jodie Haydon and ex-Qantas CEO Alan Joyce)

    The report noted that politicians declaring membership of the lounge ‚which most of
    their spouses got too‘ in their pecuniary interests that year included Liberal
    MPs of the day, Philip Ruddock, Bob Baldwin and Andrew Southcott.

    Labor MPs with lounge privileges included Tanya Plibersek,
    Bob McMullan, and Sharon Grierson, and Martin Ferguson declared a bottle of Grange hermitage
    as a gift from Qantas, as did Liberal, Christopher
    Pyne.

    Asked if all MPs got the captain’s pick from Geoff Dixon,
    the airline’s spokesperson  told Nine: ‚We like to retain a bit
    of mystery. Membership is by invitation only and it is reviewed periodically.‘

    Fast forward to today, and nearly every single federal politician in the country has accepted free membership of the controversial, invitation-only lounge with one
    even describing it as an ‚entitlement‘. 

    Qantas and the Albanese government recently denied
    the ‚very, very high-end perk‘ gives the airline a
    disproportionate level of influence over the country’s politicians.

    They were commenting ahead of the launch of
    the new book The Chairman’s Lounge by former Australian Financial Review columnist Joe Aston, which
    has stirred up the controversy. 

    A Daily Mail Australia audit of the members‘ interest
    registers – in both Federal Parliament’s House of Representatives and the Senate – revealed almost 93 per cent of the nation’s leaders have been ‚gifted‘ membership to the lavish, all-inclusive
    lounge.

    Mr Albanese has defended himself by saying he declared
    all his benefits in pecuniary interest statements. 

    At a press conference this week, he repeated that all of his upgrades ‚have been declared as appropriate.
    What’s appropriate is transparency.‘  

    Apart from the PM, members include every one of his 22-person Cabinet, his seven-person Outer Ministry and all
    12 assistant ministers.

    PM Anthony Albanese and every member of his 22-person Cabinet, his seven-person Outer Ministry and all 12 assistant ministers are members of
    the exclusive Chairman’s Lounge

    Entry to the country’s six opulent VIP clubs are suitably discreet, but
    once inside, the designer lounges offer free à la carte fine dining, table service and a discreet army of dedicated lounge attendants

    On the Coalition side of parliament, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, deputy leader
    David Littleproud and former deputy Barnaby Joyce
    are also among the swathes of politicians who have disclosed they have taken up
    free membership to the contentious club.

    Bill Shorten is a member, Tanya Plibersek is still a member and so is Teal MP, Zali Steggall.

    Last year it was reported that Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairwoman Gina
    Cass-Gottlieb and Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Joe Longo and some of their deputies are members of the Chairman’s Lounge despite regulating the airline. 

    Senior public servants in the club included Department
    of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Glyn Davis, deputy secretaries Nadine Williams, Liz Hefren-Webb, Rachel Bacon and ambassador to Beijing,
    Scott Dewar.

    Other Qantas freebies bestowed on members include numerous business
    class flight upgrades, model Qantas aircrafts, frequent
    flyer points, and tickets to sporting and entertainment events. 

    Touted as ‚the most exclusive club in the
    country‘, membership to the Chairman’s Lounge is still veiled in secrecy.

    The new book The Chairman’s Lounge by former Australian Financial
    Review columnist Joe Aston (above) has stirred up the controversy 

    Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairwoman Gina Cass-Gottlieb and Australian Securities and
    Investments Commission chairman Joe Longo are members despite
    regulating the airline

    Even the entrances to each of the country’s six opulent VIP clubs – in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane,
    Adelaide, Canberra and Perth airports – are suitably discreet.

    Once inside, however, the designer lounges are noticeably luxurious, with free à la carte fine dining,
    table service, a decadent selection of wines and Champagne and a discreet army
    of dedicated lounge attendants.

    Virgin Airlines has its own version of the VIP enclave,
    the ‚Beyond‘ lounge. 

    Only a handful of federal politicians have relinquished their membership
    to the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge in the wake of the furore.

    The select few to take a principled stand on the issue include South Australian senator
    Barbara Pocock and former Wallabies star turned ACT senator David Pocock,
    along with MPs Stephen Bates, Queensland Green Elizabeth Watson-Brown, and Monique Ryan, a Teal from Victoria.

    Geoffrey Watson SC, a former counsel assisting the Independent Commission Against Corruption and
    a director of the Centre for Public Integrity, has implored
    all politicians and policymakers to follow suit.

    ‚There are certain positions in life where you cannot take Chairman’s Club membership,‘ he said.

    ‚You’re taking public money for the job and you are supposed to represent the public.
    Why not sit with them while you’re waiting for a plane?‘

    QantasAnthony Albanese

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  37. Do Greens and crossbenchers who claim that transparency and integrity is at the heart of
    their reason for entering Parliament in the first place hear themselves?

    In the past few days they have mounted self-serving arguments against
    proposed electoral reforms that the major parties look set to come together
    to support.

    The reforms include caps for how much money wealthy individuals can donate, caps on the
    amount candidates can spend in individual electorates to prevent the equivalent of an arms race, and
    a $90million limit on what any party can spend at an election – actually less than the major parties currently spend.

    The proposed new laws also include lower disclosure
    thresholds for donations, thus increasing the transparency
    of who makes political donations in the first place.

    So the wealthy wont be able to hide behind anonymity while using their cash
    to influence election outcomes – and the extent
    to which they can use their wealth at all will be limited.

    The bill will further improve transparency by also increasing the speed and frequency that disclosures
    of donations need to be made.

    At present we have the absurd situation in which donations get made
    – but you only find out the details of who has given what to
    whom many months later, well after elections are won and
    lost.

    In other words, what is broadly being proposed will
    result in much greater transparency and far less big
    money being injected into campaigning by the
    wealthy.

    Teal Kylea Tink claimed the major parties were ‚running
    scared‘ with the policy and warned the reform would ‚not stop the rot‘ 

    Greens senate leader Larissa Waters (left) fired a warning shot – saying if it
    serves only the major parties ‚it’s a rort, not reform‘. Teal independent ACT senator David Pocock (right) said:
    ‚What seems to be happening is a major-party stitch-up‘

    Anyone donating more than $1,000 to a political party, as opposed to $16,000 under the
    current rules, will need to disclose having done so.

    And how much they can donate will be capped.

    Yet the Greens and Teals have quickly condemned the proposed new laws, labeling them a ‚stitch-up‘, ‚outrageous‘ and ‚a rort, not a reform‘. 

    They have lost their collective minds after finding out
    that Labor’s proposal just might secure the
    support of the opposition.

    I had to double check who was criticising what exactly before even starting to write this column.

    Because I had assumed – incorrectly – that these important transparency measures stamping out
    the influence of the wealthy must have been proposed by the virtue-signalling Greens or the corruption-fighting Teals, in a united crossbench effort to
    drag the major parties closer to accountability.

    More fool me.

    The bill, designed to clean up a rotten system, is being put forward by Labor and is opposed by a growing
    cabal of crossbenchers.

    It makes you wonder what they have to hide. Put simply,
    the Greens and Teals doth protest too much on this
    issue.

    Labor is thought to be trying to muscle out major political donors such as Clive Palmer

    Another potential target of the laws is businessman and Teal funder Simon Holmes
    à Court

    The Greens have taken massive donations in the past, contrary to their
    irregular calls to tighten donations rules (Greens leader Adam Bandt and Senator
    Mehreen Faruqi are pictured)

    The major parties have long complained about the influence the likes
    of Simon Holmes à Court wields behind the scenes amongst the Teals. 

    And we know the Greens have taken massive donations from the wealthy in the past,
    contrary to their irregular calls to tighten donations rules.

    Now that tangible change has been proposed, these bastions of
    virtue are running a mile from reforms that will curtail dark art of political donations.

    The Labor government isn’t even seeking for these transparency rules to take effect immediately, by the way.
    It won’t be some sort of quick-paced power play before the next
    election designed to catch the crossbench out.

    They are aiming for implementation by 2026, giving everyone
    enough time to absorb and understand the changes before preparing for them.

    Don’t get me wrong, no deal has yet been done between Labor and
    the Coalition. I imagine the opposition want to go over the
    laws with a fine tooth comb.

    As they should – because it certainly isn’t beyond Labor to include hidden one-party advantages in the proposed design which would create loopholes only the unions are capable
    of taking advantage of, therefore disadvantaging the Coalition electorally
    in the years to come.

    But short of such baked-in trickiness scuttling a deal to get these proposed laws implemented, the crossbench should offer
    their support, not cynical opposition, to what is being advocated for.

    They might even be able to offer something worthwhile
    that could be incorporated in the package.

    To not do so exposes their utter hypocrisy and blowhard false commentary
    about being in politics to ‚clean things up‘.

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