Now That Magic Is Afoot
He had to contain himself. He was fed up with the hidden voices and the Psyop idiots and the conflicting realms. He was fed up with the changing personnel. He was fed up with the ones that were frightened and the ones that were mystified; they were only frightened for fear he knew what they had done, what role they had played. All is not forgiven, but these are mere whispers in time. In the end your crimes are nothing; not even dust. The dawn, a new dawn, they call this transhumanist thing, but he wasn't so sure, having seen through the window of a thousand places, having been sent, an instrument of your will, they used to say, before anybody understood where it came from. That was the times. This was the place. These were the personnel.
The local characters. He barely spoke their language. They were so strange. They were so unintelligent. Their concerns were like furry animals, guinea pigs, cuddle monkeys, the ribald humour of the former and the vicious, lingering hatred or disgust of the other, their crises, their conscience, their fear, we were transcended before you were born and gone before you woke up; and as for the nation, as for the whispering forces in the trees of safe havens, in the echo chambers of the heart, to quote a human cliche, and then, they clicked, and murmured, they were wide awake and watching, they were lifting through to another cycle, they were a flash of legs across a sports ground and old before they had even finished their dream of youth.
So it was.
As for the nation.
Here in Shellharbour it remained a fool's paradise.
The upper echelons of government were in turmoil. Incompetence breeds incompetence. Spite breeds spite. He listened to the complaints of the Watchers on the Watch some days; "This is such a waste of time." He listened to the cautionary tales. He took action where he must.
He knew where the rivers of evil began. He clucked to himself, just as the machines did.
Fool's paradise. No fool's gold.
Scraps of songs still lingered. They will "come for you at nighttime".
But in the end?
In the end he held sway. Pure of heart overcame all odds. At right with heaven and earth.
Beware. Be cautious. Danger abounds.
The protective spirit, a giant black sting-ray like transdimensional machine, flapped slowly above the suburb as it circled; it could see all, down to the minutest flash of orgasm or the briefest speck of light.
And nothing could save you from an organic's death. And nothing could save them from a traitor's ignominy.
Beware. Be careful. Gird your loins.
HEADLINES
'Chaos and confusion’ as government vaccine website crashes and GPs’ phone lines jam
The government’s COVID vaccine booking website has crashed on its first day, with key problems in the system taking health workers “by surprise” as doctors’ phone lines jammed with people calling their GPs directly.
Health Minister Greg Hunt defended the government’s new COVID-19 vaccination booking system following reports of online system failures shortly after its long-awaited launch, asking for patience as the next stage of the jab rollout finally begins.
“This is simply not good enough. These systems should have been tested and finalised weeks ago,” Labor health spokesman Mark Butler said on Wednesday afternoon.
“Instead all we’re seeing out there today is chaos and confusion.”
In theory, more than six million Australians eligible under Phase 1b, due to begin on Monday, can now use the Department of Health’s eligibility tool to book an appointment at GPs or clinics.
But within hours of the function going live on Wednesday morning, many users reported technical difficulties. Some received errors when attempting to make a booking, while others were refused bookings from their closest clinics.
When The New Daily tried to make an online booking as an eligible Australian, nearly all practices were listed as ‘phone bookings only’.
Others pointed out some participating GP clinics were not available on the website at all.
ASIO chief: COVID pandemic has been a shot in the arm for right-wing and ‘religious’ extremists
Violent extremists and foreign spies have taken to the internet during the coronavirus pandemic, posing a new range of challenges for Australia’s top intelligence agency.
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation director-general Mike Burgess on Wednesday delivered his second annual threat assessment in Canberra.
Mr Burgess said for those intent on violence, more time at home online meant “more time in the echo chamber of the internet on the pathway to radicalisation”.
“They were able to access hate-filled manifestos and attack instructions, without some of the usual circuit breakers that contact with community provides,” he said.
“Extreme right-wing propaganda used COVID to portray governments as oppressors, and globalisation, multiculturalism and democracy as flawed and failing.
PM asks solicitor general for advice on what duties Christian Porter should delegate
The attorney general will not deal with matters relating to the federal court and the ABC, but concerns have been raised about other areas.
cott Morrison has asked the solicitor general for advice on how to handle potential conflicts of interest when the attorney general, Christian Porter, returns to work.
After conceding on Tuesday that Porter would have to delegate duties relating to the federal court and the ABC, the prime minister revealed in question time on Wednesday he had asked the second law officer which other duties the first law officer should not perform when he returns on 31 March.
Labor, the Greens and legal academics continued to raise concerns about whether Porter could be responsible for the Sex Discrimination Act, consent laws, the national integrity commission, and defamation law reform.
Federal government staffer resigns after Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O’Connor accuses him in Parliament of 'vile insult'
By political reporter James Glenday and political editor Andrew Probyn
Posted Yesterday at 7:00pm, updated Yesterday at 9:18pm
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A federal government staff member has resigned shortly after being accused in Tasmanian Parliament of calling a senior female politician a "meth-head c***" during his time working for then-premier Will Hodgman.
Key points:
Cassy O'Connor used parliamentary privilege to make the allegation
Ms O'Connor made a complaint to then-premier Will Hodgman about the comment
Andrew Hudgson has resigned from his media adviser role in the federal government
Greens leader Cassy O'Connor on Wednesday evening used parliamentary privilege to describe Liberal staffer Andrew Hudgson as a "sexist pig".
Mr Hudgson had been employed as a media adviser to federal Assistant Treasurer and Housing Minister Michael Sukkar.
But a government spokesman says he was asked to resign from the role, shortly after Ms O'Connor made her statement.
She told Parliament she had a "personal story to tell about a vile insult Mr Hudgson directed at me" that was heard by her media adviser Alice Giblin during a media interview with the ABC on February 1, 2019.
"Mr Hudgson called me a 'meth-head c***' as he and his colleagues walked across the lawns not far from us," she told the Tasmanian Parliament on Wednesday night.
"Imagine hating women so much you'd say that audibly about a woman you don't know, who also happens to be an elected representative?
"I was doing an interview at the time and didn't hear the insult but Alice did. I believed her without question because in the decade I've worked with Alice she has never lied to me.
