Belisarius Begging for Alms, Jacques-Louis David, 1781
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It would be staggering if it were his money but being Twiggy you can bet your last dollar that it’s…
Nelson Mandela assured the blak population that “You won’t be driving a BMW right away, it may take as long…
There is post from Trump heaping shit on RFK Jr. One of the things Trump says is RFK Jr views…
Peta Credlin yesty: The online world is something that most of us now live in but don’t think about –…
Aged “care” latest:
Aged care resident allegedly repeatedly raped by man working at facility in Adelaide’s south.
79 year-old lady raped at least three times before anyone knew.
Aged “care.”
See also ‘abortion care’ and ‘gender affirming care.’
Notice how the left has now hijacked the meaning of another word?
The anniversary of the second-deadliest air raid on Australia – the attack on Broome of 3 March 1942.
86 killed in an attack by nine Zero fighters.
Doing a round-Aus cruise giving WWII talks – 750 turned up to my talk off the coast.
Still a B-24 bomber out there not found yet. Also not found was the Zero that shot it down.
It should come as no surprise to anyone here, but government does not ‘create’ jobs. At best, it *transfers* resources from the private sector to the public sector, employing some people, but the losses involved mean that, overall, jobs decrease, not increase.
that won’t work.
Your grid-feed solar install only works if the grid is up.
Disconnecting from the grid is a whole ‘nother ballgame.
“Beginning to wonder what isn’t far right.”
Everything that goes against the left’s narrative is now “far-right”. The description is deliberate, designed to cancel, smear and silence ALL dissent from the progressive left’s playbook. We saw this during Covid, when ordinary Australian men and women who dared to question lockdowns and vaccine mandates were daily smeared by the left and their useful idiots in the MSM as “far-right”. It is now the standard descriptor used by the left in the US, UK, Canada, NZ and here. Watch Labor use it more frequently against the Liberals and Nationals, in fact they’ll start using “Nazi” more often too, just as Daniel Andrews used the smear “Nazi” prior to the Victorian state election.
If you believe in biological reality, you’re far-right, if you attend a conservative conference such as CPAC, you’re far-right, if you question climate hysteria, you’re far-right and on and on it goes.
The Other Woman Behind The Wars
Girlboss Militarism
In the past, some feminists suggested that the world would have fewer wars if women were in charge, but in recent years, we’ve seen the rise of “Girlboss Militarism”. In a recent post (“The Woman Behind The Wars”), we wrote about Victoria Nuland, but as Christopher Mott wrote last fall (“The Rise of Girlboss Militarism”), the trend probably started with Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright:
With that in mind, I have a thread to share with you about Samantha Power, whose latest project seems to be attempting to foment a color revolution in arguably the most conservative country in NATO, Hungary.
Meet Samantha Power
This thread, by Niccolo Soldo, on Samantha Power is informative.
Meet Samantha Power: a true believer in “humanitarian intervention” who was jointly responsible in destroying Libya while serving on Obama’s National Security Council.
She is now head of @USAID and recently visited Budapest, Hungary to destabilize its government.
Alongside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, she convinced Obama to bomb Libya, an act that he later admitted to be the biggest mistake of his Presidency.
R2P was the main thrust of her argument in favour of bombing.
Even though the USA succeeded in its efforts at regime change in Libya, the fallout was a disaster.
Libya descended into anarchy, slave markets popped up, Salafis moved in, and the migrant spigot closed by Gaddafi and Berlusconi was reopened.
Samantha washed her hands of it.
Despite this disastrous outcome, she was promoted to US Ambassador to the UN (thanks to support from neo-cons like John McCain and Lindsay Graham, where she did her best to bully the UN into doing the same thing to Syria. This time Obama rejected her advice.
She ended her posting by viciously attacking Russia in the most undiplomatic language possible for a senior diplomat:
She waited out the Trump Admin by going back to a gig at Harvard, but was immediately named head of
@USAID by Biden in Jan of 2021.
What is this woman, the “Typhoid Mary” of international affairs, now doing in Budapest, the capital city of a US ally?
Great to be here in Budapest with @USAmbHungary where @USAID just relaunched new, locally-driven initiatives to help independent media thrive and reach new audiences, take on corruption and increase civic engagement
The ad hom was always that.
And for that reason it is frequently resorted to by politicians in an attampt to control “the narrative.” Unfortunately, with the decline in critical and logical thinking, it is an effective tool unless the target knows how to respond and is indeed given the opportunity to.
Terry McCrann making it all about him. Wanker.
Chatted yesterday with a friend who owns a small business and orders from Coles online. Apparently, they dangled thousands of points with QANTAS to eligible customers.
In her case it involved making an order over $80. She duly ordered, and was then told that she was ineligible because one of the items was unavailable, taking her order value to $78 something. Note that the online order form is supposed to tell you if something is out of stock, but it didn’t.
Bastards.
Farking laugh until my sides ache. Hun:
Wayne Swan has slammed a morning TV host in a passionate defence of Treasurer Jim Chalmers during an interview with a rival network.
The former Treasurer and current Labor president took to Nine on Friday morning to hit back at critics of the government’s move to double tax on super earnings for balances of more than $3M.
Mr Swan said the government’s estimate would affect about 80,000 people but claimed they were doing “what every Treasury has done” before.
“Well I think it’s a modest proposal. It’s been turned into the end to the world in the sorts of stories that are out there today,” he told Today.
“Every other Treasurer before him would have handled the announcements the way he has.
“The difference here is hyper stupidity in the media and some of the stories that have beaten it up to the point it’s not even recognisable as the original proposal.”
Mr Swan lashed out at Sunrise host David Koch after he cornered the Treasurer in a trainwreck interview on Wednesday morning.
That appearance resulted a slapdown from the Prime Minister and a mea culpa just hours later.
“Some of the coverage that we have seen, particularly on one of your rival channels … that performance was disgraceful,” the former treasurer said.
Mr Swan was the longtime boss of Mr Chalmers, (I changed from Dr, because he ain’t no Dr) working alongside him during the Global Financial Crisis.
He wasn’t the only Labor man sent out to defend the Treasurer on Friday morning.
Current Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles also lined up on the Today show to spruik the government’s plan.
Things soon turned curly for Mr Marles as host Karl Stefanovic gave him three chances to explain if Labor was going after unrealised capital gains.
“How are you going to tax the increased paper value of an asset that hasn’t been sold?” the Nine host quipped.
“This goes to the question of earnings, in super funds with more than $3 million and the way it is put in place,” Mr Marles started, seemingly unable to recall the answer.
Mr Marles’ answer didn’t satisfy Stefanovic, nor the Minister’s regular sparring partner, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
“You are the Deputy Prime Minister. You are on the Expenditure Review Committee. You agreed to this crazy plan,” the Opposition Leader pushed.
“If you don’t understand the detail, how on earth can the Australian public understand what it is you are proposing?
“It is a basic question.”
Mr Marles said he understood the detail, clarifying a process would be put in place to assess superannuation earnings.
“An assessment is going to be made in relation to super funds and their earnings. So there is a tax applied to those earnings. And that is what will occur,” he said.
“What you’re now talking about goes to people who are in self-managed super funds and a process will occur in order to enable that assessment to be undertaken on an ongoing basis.
“But, again, this doesn‘t apply unless you have got $3 million in your super.”
Australia’s Treasury on Tuesday revealed it would include “all notional gains and losses” in its calculation of earnings under the superannuation tax concession crackdown.
Earnings would be calculated as the annual difference in the fund’s value at the end of each financial year and largely affect people with self managed super funds.
My question, to paraphrase the interminable idiot monty, is who has the most punchable face? Albo, Chalmers, Bowen or Marles?
All of which needs to be carefully parsed with the aid of a grammar of newspeak.
If you like Chartreuse (green or yellow), now’s the time to stash away a bottle:
The monks of Chartreuse have announced they’re scaling back production to a volume to legacy markets; intention is to support their monastery only (+ the environment). Their liqueur will now become “much harder to find.”
Does anyone actually take the train to Canberra? And if they built a fast train to there would any pollies or staffers actually travel on it?
On the other hand if they did build such a white elephant it’d be awesome to then mandate that all pollies, staffers and Canberra bureaucrats must use it on all possible occasions. For the planet and all that. The wailing would be epic.
When superannuation is withdrawn, you pay 20% for the, er, privilege to access your own money?
Top Ender says: March 3, 2023 at 11:05 am
Preparing people for a new unwanted adventure?
If you really want the Zero to be found, start spreading a rumour that the pilot had a gold-encrusted ceremonial dagger on board. The Legend Of Kishi’s Gold.
It should also come as no surprise that goods and services provided by the government cost between two and 10 times what it costs a private contractor to produce.
Government is by far the least efficient method of producing anything.
And it’s no coincidence that all governments are monopolies backed by lethally armed police forces so, if you don’t like it, you can be jailed – increasingly a non-theoretical possibility as governments have been using lawlessness as standard operating procedure since 2020.
Laugh out loud tweet by Gray Connolly:
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1631109536991035394
Bowen wins hands down! I feel the urge to punch him every time I see his stupid face. The other three are worth a good kick in the nuts.
H B Bearsays:
March 3, 2023 at 9:42 am
Meanwhile, I see the ABC has come to the rescue with reports of large account holders in support of the changes.
Quentin Dumpster and Red Kezza?
LOL, not a hope. They only have pots of (taxpayer provided) money, they’re not rich. Just ask them, they’ll tell you.
Tape…government is very efficient at producing tape…red tape, green tape, black tape (more colours to come, no doubt).
Tape which they use very efficiently to bind the productive class.
“My question, to paraphrase the interminable idiot monty, is who has the most punchable face? Albo, Chalmers, Bowen or Marles?”
Black Ball,
take your pick.
Found this on Twitter, a proposal for an election poster for the UK Conservative Party.
Similarly here.
…start spreading a rumour that the pilot had a gold-encrusted ceremonial dagger on board.
There are two items I’d like to find. One is the misappropriated pistol from one of the midget submarines that attacked Sydney. (As well as getting the sign fixed in the AWM which says the sword there is from Lieutenant Chuma, not Lieutenant Matsuo)
The other is the dive klaxon from the Japanese submarine I-124, which is likely somewhere in Melbourne. I have a photo of the financier of the 1970s salvage attempts holding it.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
March 3, 2023 at 11:12 am
“Beginning to wonder what isn’t far right.”
Everything that goes against the left’s narrative is now “far-right”. The description is deliberate, designed to cancel, smear and silence ALL dissent from the progressive left’s playbook.
Tine to respond with “communist”, “extreme/far left”, or “fascist”.
Lay flat to save the world.
Down with work: How reducing hours in the workplace could help avert a climate catastrophe (2 Mar)
by Lachlan Gilbert, University of New South Wales
“Working and producing less to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint is part of a growing movement towards a “degrowth” economy.
The Great Resignation and four-day work week trials around the world have shown that many people are ready to shift their work-life balance towards life. While this is a movement that is ostensibly about health and well-being, it could also help with the most pressing problem of our time—climate change.
According to a sustainability expert at UNSW Sydney, focusing on well-being rather than wealth could actually be our best chance of avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes of climate change.”
Communism for Gaia! You know you wants it, Cats.
(From UNSW…amazing how we overachieve in utter bonkers stupidity in this country.)
“My question, to paraphrase the interminable idiot monty”
Speaking of munty, did you all know he has Published a book?
Why do we always end up with noisy submarines? These new ones announce themselves way before they’ve arrived!
😀
hardly – they’ll be on the lucrative defined benefit scheme. Dumpster certainly is.
Correct.
As soon as the NDIS participants started getting their budgets, our town was affected . The girls who previously worked retail suddenly got online training to be aides and assistants, hourly rates much higher. Similar with home cleaners – they all moved over to working for the newly formed service outfits that mushroomed and charged $80 an hour. Total subversion of free market.
Last one, promise. 😉
Nuclear Submarines made easy for Politicians.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 3, 2023 at 11:21 am
the Albanese government should pursue its high-speed rail ambition by progressively upgrading sections of the existing train corridor, starting between Sydney and Canberra as the cheapest and quickest way to deliver fast trains by the end of this decade
Does anyone actually take the train to Canberra? And if they built a fast train to there would any pollies or staffers actually travel on it?
Thebonly way to make a train really fast is to minimise stops. No more stops at Queanbeyan, Bungendore, Goulburn, Moss Vale, Campbeltown, etc.
Thus destroying about half the potential market.
It was quite a treat in that link above though to watch Sardik Khan being very soundly howled down when he tried that sort of slander at a major community meeting about his new low emissions areas. The more he retailed that objectors were ‘far right, covid and vaxx deniers’ and other demonizing attacks the more angry and loud the crowd became. Those tired old memes are now being strongly rejected by the people, who are increasingly aware that they have been hoodwinked, and are resisting.
Samantha Power gives the nod
It’s a setback for your country
Samantha should be persona non grata everywhere.
Why take the investment risk when there are taxpayers? For my sins, I got the task of moving a defined benefit scheme after an acquisition. Attempts to move people across to contribution schemes were spectacularly unsuccessful.
Nambas
Bowen wins hands down! I feel the urge to punch him every time I see his stupid face. The other three are worth a good kick in the nuts.
Do any of them actually have nuts?
Bugger!
We were offered that cruise really cheap. If I had known you were the expert I would been on it.
The expert (Prof UNSW) that was on our New Guinea cruise was hopeless and put his audiences to sleep and did not even know that we were almost over the the Lexington as he was giving his talk about the Battle of the Coral Sea (it was @5NM away as he finished up). According to Mrs D , his Mrs was a hell of a lot better talking about the culture..
A fast train over Australian terrain is fanciful: very expensive and in a limited market, unnecessary.
A cost-effective alternative would be to upgrade and improve the existing train service, making that faster and better. And with more traffic, trying to also make it cheaper or at least value for money.
Walk hard.
For older adults, every 500 additional steps taken daily associated with lower heart risk (2 Mar)
“Researchers analyzed health data for 452 participants who used an accelerometer device similar to a pedometer, worn at the hip, that measured their daily steps. Participants were an average age of 78 years old; 59% were women
…
The analysis found:
– Compared to adults who took less than 2,000 steps per day, adults who took approximately 4,500 steps per day had a 77% lower observed risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event.
– Nearly 12% of older adults with less than 2,000 steps per day had a cardiovascular event, compared to 3.5% of the participants who walked about 4,500 steps per day.
– Every additional 500 steps taken per day was incrementally associated with a 14% lower risk of cardiovascular disease.”
The problem of course with a study like this is that the people doing 2000 steps per day or less are probably only doing so because they’re sick. So the heart attacks could well be because they are already suffering from illnesses rather than because they don’t do enough exercise.
John Campbell reviewing the “masks do nothing” Cochrane report.
Link
“Tine to respond with “communist”, “extreme/far left”, or “fascist”.”
I agree, ignoring the “far-right” smears hasn’t worked, being nice and polite hasn’t worked, shrugging one’s shoulder’s when called a Nazi or far-right hasn’t worked. They’re laughing at us. In fact I would argue, as Matt Walsh does, that being nice has simply empowered them. Last week, in Oxford, ordinary men, women and children who live in Oxford, turned up to protest the new and very absurd 15 minute policy. And guess who else turned up? Antifa and other far-left groups who then proceeded to scream, shout and smear the residents of Oxford as “far-right” and “Nazis”.
I really think it’s time to throw it back.
Funfact, the Germans actually have a word for this:
Backpfeifengesicht: A German compound word which, in common use means something to the effect of “A face badly in need of a fist” meaning this is a person that needs to be punched. Alternate translations list the given action as “slap” rather than “punch” or the given weapon as “crowbar” rather than “fist”.
I could not find the German word for ‘desperately needing a kick in the nuts’.
For absolute incompetence, you’d be hard to beat the New Zealand academic who lectured on the Bounty Voyage. After an hour he hadn’t even arrived at the start of it, spending his time with a lot of murmuring in a distracted manner about Polynesian culture and European impact (most of which I knew to be wrong).
Hairy was very patient, although I know he was fuming, he gave him the hour, looked at his watch, got up and said I haven’t time for you to get to the actual topic, and departed, with me following.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/sport/rugby-league-fans-lose-it-as-storms-cameron-munster-plays-on-after-suffering-compound-fracture-against-parramatta-eels/news-story/18d5759c0f62aff571ecad9ce37b7062
Nobody patched up this Hermann Munster’s body parts before going back on the field.
What drugs are these guys on?
duncanm says:
March 3, 2023 at 11:09 am
Back to the only point of installing solar which is to make sure you have power when the blackouts start after Liddell is closed
It is and quite doable, otherwise the emergency switchover to standby generators in an instant for large public buildings wouldn’t be possible.
Why the authorities went with the inverter option instead of an automatic switch that cuts off the incoming line and connects the solar to the house is a mystery.
Just make one up.
Einenkickbrauchennüsse
Has a certain ring to it, even if it makes no sense. You can almost feel the impact.
How much is $3M in super going to be worth in 10, 20, 30, 40 years?
ABC: ‘BOM. Forecast shows below median rainfall outside south-east.’ Since when does a forecast show anything? It’s deliberate and it’s propaganda.
NSW LNP going for a spanking in three weeks. Labor’s primary is at 38% and Watermelons at 11%….panning out to ~56%-44% TPP.
“Working and producing less to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint is part of a growing movement towards a “degrowth” economy.” So who is going to pay the tax to fund your dole, pay for hospitals, education etc. There really is a case for making university students work for 5 years before being allowed to study.
All that sunshine, they could literally make themselves a beacon of how a network could be solar powered. They will be able to trumpet, day after day, what a model of
susssubsistsuirenewable energy usage they are.It would also be an example of an ‘if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it’ business model.
Hey, they would also be perfectly positioned get right on in there and show the rest of the country the proper way to deal with the dysfunctional people in the dysfunctional communities and bring them back to their authentic selves.
God knows, they have tried to tell everyone else what they are doing wrong but they just won’t listen. But once the ABC shows us the way it will be a forehead smacking moment of “It is so simple! Why didn’t we think of that.”
But reactionary white cis males (who run the patriarchy) have never understood the power of a yoga mat, or a free-trade cockroach-milk latte.
Yes, we do need to work on our anti-Antifa invective. Come on down Rabz and Tinta. I used the term Marxist Thugs at some of them once, and Uniformed Freak Shows. Add ‘fascist’ to taste. That locates them more in present day oppositions. Admittedly I was at a safe distance and they were behind barriers. The terms ‘Communists’ and ‘Stasi’ can still carry a sting, so can Antifa Nazi, so we could consider returning those in fire. I wouldn’t use socialist as a slur these days because our educators have made it seem holy and just.
By that I mean calling someone a ‘socialist’ at a demo is going to confirm them in their vision of virtue.
Calling out socialism in general conversation, that is something else altogether. Go for it.
I could not find the German word for ‘desperately needing a kick in the nuts’.
The German word is – ‘Kickenzenutz-agin-anzagin’. ‘Desperately’ is not required.
You can tell the men from the boys………………………………………….
Hey I am kind of homo for Justin Bieber.
What a handsome face.
For a moment I was about to pull out the angry pen and tell some home truths to my bank.
They sent me an email entitled ‘Trans’.
It was of course to do with Transactions.
They need to be more cautious regarding their terminology, and perhaps I need to be a little less reactive.
Nah, stuff it.
Slight correction.
It took less than two days.
Tennis Albo was on the Perject on Sunday night saying, “No, no. Not bwoken pwomishes. Jusht shtarting a convershation.”
Tuesday afternoon Jug-ears declared the conversation over.
So, yeah, they really needed to stop a conversation which was going to places they hadn’t thought possible.
Jug-ears was definitely planning a much broader whack. The Treasury stuff covered “savings” from all sorts of things, including CGT on the Principal Residence.
Politics 101 – Never, ever publish stuff which you aren’t seriously considering.
Usually this sort of kite flying is done via a leak to a friendly journo and, if the kite gets lots of holes shot in it, they just say “Treasury options paper for discussion. Never seriously considered.”
Three parent babies!
Haha
Word for the day:
Microchimerism
Tim Pool says there is a mentally ill, sexually perverted version of Wolfenstein where trannies go around shooting TERFs.
The gays have got to expel the trannies like they did the MAPs.
Mem @ 8:45am
The huge spike depicted seems out of proportion for 16%.
With respect, that is nitpicking. I would’ve thought that a 16% increase should be the issue. But on the use of graphics…
I just watched Dr John Campbell from mid February regarding deaths during the pandemic. Though Campbell is discussing the possibility that the hospital protocols in England were the reason for the above average deaths in there in 2022. Take a look at the charts he presents. In those charts the depiction of those deaths is a huge spike as well.
https://youtu.be/3BqbVo2sQi0
I think this analysis suffers from the “percentage of a percentage” problem.
I think it would be better to say “around 12 in 100 older people suffer a cardiac event if they walk less than 2,000 steps a day.
This risk reduces steadily for any activity over that, such 3,500 steps a day will halve this risk.”
(I think that is what it is saying).
Then go on to say what 3,500 steps looks like. “Two laps of a normal oval is x steps/one large city block equals y steps.”
Shit, 2,000 steps means you are pretty much housebound.
dringend einen Tritt in die Nüsse brauchen
Gabor
Why the authorities went with the inverter option instead of an automatic switch that cuts off the incoming line and connects the solar to the house is a mystery.
Because they wany you to be dependent on them.
FABalice Festival (Alice Springs): 9 – 12 March 2023 and
Parrtjima – Festival of Light (Alice Springs): 7 – 16 April 2023
Will these events go ahead? If so, will any MPs attend?
It’s almost like they don’t want you to be able to power your own house when the grids down ….. almost….
Bar Beach Swimmersays:
March 3, 2023 at 1:11 pm
Mem @ 8:45am
The huge spike depicted seems out of proportion for 16%.
With respect, that is nitpicking. I would’ve thought that a 16% increase should be the issue. But on the use of graphics…
I just watched Dr John Campbell from mid February regarding deaths during the pandemic. Though Campbell is discussing the possibility that the hospital protocols in England were the reason for the above average deaths in there in 2022. Take a look at the charts he presents. In those charts the depiction of those deaths is a huge spike as well.
The people preparing the graphs are hoping to get jobs graphing past and “forecast” future temperatures for klimate “scientists”. They can make a 0.1 degree temperature rise look like the side of Mt Everest.
Stasi should have a sting to it.
Black Stasi might be better given their love for the SS’s old favorite color.
Year zero mongs.
LARPing Jacobins
Or just, in minecraft, applications of extreme physical violence towards them.
Some more observations of NZ. It may have only been the sort of people I like have similar sorts of friends. All the people I met through my mate are similar sorts. They are doing ok but all know others doing it tough. They all have varying occupations that provide good incomes and all have something else on the side that invariably means swapping time, services or goods produced for the same. They all do it on trust. One guy has a small holding, running some free range chooks, pigs and sheep for meat and greasy wool which his wife knits into jumpers for fishermen and outdoors types. He has around the boundaries old growth pines which he is slowly removing for firewood, replacing them with cedars. His 10 yr old picks up the sheep and pigs poo mixing it with humus from the pine trees for compost. He bags a huge number of pine cones and wood splinters from his father splitting firewood. The kid makes about $60 an hr doing this. The bloke is making a bomb out of the egg shortage. All the people I met are doing stuff like this. None of them trust the government for anything. All live slightly away from the city or further out. I’m past doing this sort of stuff but it certainly appeals to me. I think we have to get back to doing things ourselves. Easier said than done but we have to start somewhere. This cargo cult attitude is going to have to stop.
Debate rages over whether straight couples should use the term ‘partner’
Ridiculous. These sick puppies can F. off.
Detailed NSW electoral map with links to swings and roundabouts:
https://www.pollbludger.net/nsw2023/
2022
2020
In Shuffling Titanic Deck Chairs noos, Daily Telegraph:
Premier Dominic Perrottet has hauled in the Liberal Party’s state director to examine allegations made against a series of party operatives including his own brother.
Mr Perrottet has revealed that the Liberal Party is now investigating why senior party operatives moved to dump sitting Hills Shire Council in favour of hand-picked candidates.
The move comes after allegations of branch stacking were raised in a parliamentary inquiry examining the influence of developers in the council.
Labor Leader Chris Minns on Friday called for the Hills Shire Council to be suspended, and for a new inquiry to be launched after the election.
Mr Perrottet said the Liberal Party is examining allegations made in the course of the parliamentary inquiry.
“I’m aware that the state director of the party … (is) looking at them as we speak,” Mr Perrottet said.
“Anyone who has done anything wrong in relation to the matters that you have raised, they will have the book thrown at them,” Mr Perrottet told 2GB’s Ray Hadley.
On Thursday, a Riverina councillor detailed an alleged branch stacking operation undertaken by a Liberal powerbroker, who had been unable to be found despite a statewide manhunt currently being conducted by a NSW parliamentary committee.
Edward River councillor Shirlee Burge told an inquiry into allegations of impropriety against agents of the Hills Shire Council and property developers in the region that Liberal powerbroker Christian Ellis and his faction “took over” the Deniliquin branch of the Liberal Party, NCA NewsWire reported.
Ms Burge told the inquiry about an influx of “new and unusual members” which occurred in 2021 which resulted in multiple long-time members being expelled or threatened with expulsion.
Ms Burge said that in a meeting with Mr Ellis in 2021, he also indicated he had “connections” to the then-NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, as well as to an unnamed brother, who could help him assist Ms Burge in establishing a new hospital for the area.
“He mentioned he was connected to the Treasurer’s brother and could achieve this via that avenue. I was sceptical,” Ms Burge said.
The inquiry previously heard Mr Ellis and the brother of NSW Premier, Jean-Claude Perrottet, approached another Liberal Party member, Frits Mare, for $50,000 to unseat federal Liberal MP Alex Hawke in 2019. Mr Frits claimed the funds would be used in an alleged branch stacking operation to fund call centres to appeal to members who would be “sympathetic” to the operation.
Mr Ellis and his mother, Hills Shire Councillor Virginia Ellis, have been unable to be located by the upper house committee, despite a statewide search by professional process servers.
When asked for the potential location of Mr Ellis, Ms Burge told the inquiry she believed he was on his large property near Deniliquin. She also mentioned a reported sighting in which Mr Ellis was potentially seen driving a vehicle linked to him, while “wearing a ski mask”.
“The location of his property Bernina backs on to the beautiful red gum forest of the Barmah-Millewa. It’s a large area; people could disappear in there forever if they wanted to,” she told the inquiry.
Ms Burge said Mr Ellis had revealed aspirations to run as a Federal member for Farrer, in the state’s southwest, which has been held by Liberal member Sussan Ley since 2001.
“I suggested he contact the current member and follow them around for 12 months, learning the ropes and getting to know the electorate,” she said.
“He refused and said, I quote: ‘I want it now, I’m not waiting.’
“I also asked him why he didn’t run for state politics and he said: ‘I’m not interested.’”
Ms Burge also referenced an “intimidating” phone call which she received from the Secretary of the Deniliquin branch, in which she was threatened with expulsion. She said the person was “aligned” with Mr Ellis.
The final hearing into the Hills Shire council is coming to a close, as all parliamentary inquiries must finish before NSW parliament is dissolved on Friday.
BJ;
They can make a 0.1 degree temperature rise look like the side of Mt Everest.
Yes they can, BJ. But a 16% above the average increase in deaths is not the same as a temperature increase (real or imagined) of 0.1 degree either.
Avi Yemini reporting direct from The Alice, doing the job the MSM flatly refuses to do.
Cops can’t cope with what they’ve got on their plate.
So they use their time & resources prosecuting a (former) police officer for having a “covid meme” on her private phone.
The meme? A fake, obviously joke, covid vax certificate.
Go F*ck Yourself = the name on the “certificate”
Go F*ck Yourself = the date of birth on the “certificate”
Doesn’t even look legit. So they’re prosecuting her for possessing a forged document.
MSM & the wanker class: Don’t like Avi Yemini’s reporting? Just STFU unless you can do a better job of reporting from the streets of The Alice.
GreyRanga, what you describe seems to me the only way to go. Smaller towns, good community connections, avoid factory food and pharmaceuticals.
Please all go over to JoNova and watch the Rumble interview of Ed Dowd by Tucker Carlson
“Its the greatest crime scene in history for the first time the healthy employed are worse off than the unemployed.” Since then we have had in the media some statistics from Singapore about peri-natal covid incidences, still-births etc. The statistical evidence is building.
“Working and producing less to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint is part of a growing movement towards a “degrowth” economy.
Have they figured out the consequences? In a no growth economy the only way to get ahead is to take from others. What a charming society that will be.
Why is anyone having trouble with Monica Smits’s chart?
It shows that excess deaths vary from year to year by +/- 5% from the average. A 16% increase is huge.
flyingduksays:
March 3, 2023 at 11:08 am
Canberra should do something to create more jobs in Alice Springs, and more opportunities for the people. One the best ways of doing that would be to relocate the ABC to there.
It should come as no surprise to anyone here, but government does not ‘create’ jobs. At best, it *transfers* resources from the private sector to the public sector, employing some people, but the losses involved mean that, overall, jobs decrease, not increase.
And if QANTAS are now reducing the number of flights into Alice Springs (owing to reduced demand) and a certain Tourist Bus Operator will now stop all services in and around Alice Springs, who is going to visit this proposed Federal Guv’ment $200 million dollar ‘plus’ Arts Gallery/Centre ‘thingy’? The Locals? Another ‘White Hefalump’ anyone?
“Working and producing less to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint is part of a growing movement towards a “degrowth” economy.
While festering slowly in a bubbling pool of satans excrement, Pol Pot rises from his “bad dragon anal devastator Mk2” throne, slaps the barbed acid spewing dick of the devil orally copulating with him out of his mouth and does a victory lap around marx’s pool shouting “We finally really did it.”
Before being gently pineappled back into his shit pit.
hzhousewifesays:
March 3, 2023 at 1:37 pm
GreyRanga, what you describe seems to me the only way to go. Smaller towns, good community connections, avoid factory food and pharmaceuticals.
Please all go over to JoNova and watch the Rumble interview of Ed Dowd by Tucker Carlson
“Its the greatest crime scene in history for the first time the healthy employed are worse off than the unemployed.” Since then we have had in the media some statistics from Singapore about peri-natal covid incidences, still-births etc. The statistical evidence is building.
Watched the interview other day when it was first posted on Jo Nova’s Blog. Absolute dynamite.
I wasn’t thinking a literal translation. Just something German-y and onomatopoeiac. Like you can feel it just by saying it. 🙂
Anything is ‘doable’
The typical residential install does NOT allow you to run without the grid. There are some inverters that will run in an isolated mode (eg: Delta E5), but you need to be aware of this requirement prior to install and make sure you spec it.
I’ve just sent it to my local member with the comment that statistical evidence is building, and reminded him that politicians are our servants not our masters and that he should be acting on behalf of us all.
“Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day.”
No you stupid c’nts, it should reflect competence at operating planes and that alone.
Fan Bingbing, one of China’s most famous actresses, returns to the spotlight/The story is not over
China Insights
Try a few.
Kicked in the testicles till your nose bleeds
in die Hoden gekickt, bis die Nase blutet
Testicle workover seems promising
Hoden Aufarbeitung
testicle destruction
Hoden Zerstörung
I think I have a winner, even has umlauts
smashed testicle destruction
zertrümmerte Hodenzerstörung
Knutzkikken, will that do calli?
Is Fetterwoman brain dead???
Could be breaking news.
Russell Brand on Joe Rogan.
I thought you had to be jabbed to enter the US.
And I thought Russell was not jabbed.
Hmmm.
die knackwurst bestrafen.
Testicle destroyer in Kraut.
Your new favorite heavy metal band
Hodenzerstörung
Ive even designed the first album cover
Confirmed.
Tucker: Here’s who you should be afraid of
Fox News
Russell Brand on Joe Rogan.
I thought you had to be jabbed to enter the US.”
I was under the impression Brand now lives in the US.
Knützenkraker?
Too literal? Too feminist? The “u” is definitely enjoying it so maybe too Weimar.
Bell’s Palsy and similar neurological symptoms have been a commonly reported adverse reactions from Covid vaccines – and Pfizer in particular.
Re this syndrome:
https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/guillain-barre-syndrome-expected
Guillain-Barré Syndrome expected from Pfizer Endotoxins
Pfizer jabs contain Endotoxins from gram-negative Bacteria used in production which cause paralysis via Molecular Mimicry between Bacterial Glycoconjugates and Peripheral Nerve Gangliosides.
Geoff PainPhD
Facial and peripheral paralysis were recognized early as Neurological Adverse Reactions after Pfizer jabbing trials. These were included among Neurological Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESIs including Demyelination, i.e. destruction of the protective sheath on our Nerves).
There was 1 confirmed report of GBS in the Pfizer trials.1
There were 24 reports of GBS in the first 90 days after Pfizer mass jabbing began.2
Pfizer reported 226 cases of GBS in its June 2021 report.3
To 15 April 2022, Pfizer reported 1,461 cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS).4 This amounted to 0.11% of all 1,348,079 case reports known to the company by that date.
Endotoxins from gram-negative E coli Bacteria, as used in Pfizer jab production, cause paralysis via molecular mimicry between bacterial glycoconjugates and peripheral nerve gangliosides.5
Note the similarity in structure of GM1 Ganglioside6 shown below to the Lipopolysaccharide (LPS, Endotoxin), known as Lipid A.7
GBS is just one of numerous Neurological diseases caused by the Pfizer jabs, many ultimately causing Death. Pfizer excluded people with family history of Guillain-Barré Syndrome from some of its later trials.
The madmen and madwomen at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are fully aware of 1 case of GBS with onset 7 days after vaccination and a case of Miller Fisher syndrome (considered a variant of GBS) with onset 8 days after vaccination, were caused by Pfizer’s Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine during its clinical trial.8
As usual, I am releasing this important news early, while I research further.
hzhousewife, Pharmaceuticals. They’re keeping me alive at the moment. I’ve tried without and the results are not good. Manage pretty well with minimal painkillers unless bad but if too much pain they don’t work anyway. That said, my nephew has Lyme disease. After almost dying found one of the drugs was killing him. A few days off them and he started to improve. So much so he went back to work as an ER nurse. Slowly went back onto the drugs that helped. I only have 2 drugs that work. All the rest that the quack wanted me to take as well have serious side effects. Went for an X-ray this morning for my rattling knee replacement and a blood test. Why are so many in the health industry morbidly obese? Only saw 3 that were normal. All the rest were obese to morbidly obese.
Brand lives in Oxfordshire and owns a pad in Hollywood.
Just an observation. I don’t think Super will bring down sleazy, too far out yet. What I am increasingly thinking though is inflation. I am increasingly noticing the growth in Supermarket dockets, compared to what I earn it is starting to eat into other areas spending/saving and we own our house for all but a residual on the loan.
People are people, they won’t blame themselves for the overleveraged property they bought or failure to pay down when times were good. They’ll blame whoever is in power and they now own it.
I did a little Coles on-line shop this week.
Jeebers, some things have skyrocketed.
Organic avocados are 5 bucks a pop.
Smoked salmon 8 bucks for a 100 gram sleeve.
Eggs still reasonable though.
that won’t work.
Your grid-feed solar install only works if the grid is up.
Disconnecting from the grid is a whole ‘nother ballgame.
The grid disconnect really annoys us. A few years ago we were constantly having blackouts on the farm and had to get a petrol driven generator. We had an external powerpoint wired up to side of the house which gen can connect too easily.
This works well, but it still annoys me that the inverter does not have cutoff switch that allows us to benefit from our solar supply during the day during these blackouts. The gen is fine, but what happens when petrol is in short supply????
feelthebernsays:
March 3, 2023 at 2:08 pm
Russell Brand on Joe Rogan.
I thought you had to be jabbed to enter the US.
And I thought Russell was not jabbed.
Hmmm.
Jo Nova couldn’t get to the USA to receive her award as she hasn’t been jabbed. She stated on her Blog that she couldn’t enter the USA as she hadn’t been jabbed.
the Rumble interview of Ed Dowd by Tucker Carlson
Ed is fabulous. As a result of his background as a former numbers man in BlackRock, he is a super sleuth in detecting incongruities in the government figures. Plus he is independently wealthy and is beholden to no man, company or government. When you look at the credentials of many the major global vaccine “dissenters”-they are either retired or have independent means. Thank God for them as they have done the hard yards that few could do.
Russell was married to a yank for a few years.
Does that get him a permanent visa or passport?
If you have something like that, you don’t need to be jabbed.
Tough gig.
hzhousewifesays:
March 3, 2023 at 1:55 pm
Watched the interview other day when it was first posted on Jo Nova’s Blog. Absolute dynamite.
I’ve just sent it to my local member with the comment that statistical evidence is building, and reminded him that politicians are our servants not our masters and that he should be acting on behalf of us all.
Well done.
My local MP is Tanya Plebersuck so I didn’t bother. She would never watch the interview. Too busy sucking up to The Alphabet Soup Mob along with this ‘Pride’ stuff and Left Wing nut jobs.
Latest One Nation cartoon is a riot – LOL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CdmQYTQRDk
Are the decision makers keeping the Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut expecting them to fight to the death?
It looks like they have watched too many Hollywood movies.
Ironman isn’t coming to save the day.
Priceless…just priceless, I need more popcorn. The voters of Kooyong replaced Josh with this…
“Teal MP ‘wanted to be prime minister one day’
Rachel Baxendale
Teal independent MP Monique Ryan declared an ambition to “be the prime minister one day”, according to an affidavit tendered in her staffer Sally Rugg’s Federal Court case against her.
In evidence on Friday, Ms Rugg claimed Dr Ryan said: “You don’t understand, I need to be the best, this is bigger than Kooyong. I don’t know what this is going to be, but I know it’s bigger than Kooyong.”
“Dr Ryan said ‘I want to be the prime minister one day, and I need to know my staff are prepared to work hard for me … If you are not prepared to work as hard as I want, I will need to consider my options,” Ms Rugg says her boss told her.
“I asked Dr Ryan what she meant by that, and she said ‘Well, I would have to let you go’.
Ms Rugg’s barrister, Angel Aleksov, argued his client was not “work shy”, but was simply being asked by teal independent MP Monique Ryan to work hours which “ordinary human intelligence” would indicate were “not reasonable” in light of her employment package worth more than $160,000.
Mr Aleksov told the Federal Court on Friday Ms Rugg was “pushed or jostled” by Dr Ryan into resigning from the “chief of staff” role, for which she received a base salary of about $136,000, as well as “personal allowance” for additional hours of more than $30,000.
Mr Aleksov also revealed Dr Ryan issued Ms Rugg with a formal warning, after she boarded a commercial flight while Covid positive. More
Two podcasts I need to catch up with
Russell Brand on Joe Rogan and
Julie Kelly on Tim Pool. She is one of the most knowledgeable about Jan 6 cases along with Darren Beattie of Revolver News.
It was not that long ago I remember Brand getting to 4m subscribers on YouTube. Now over 6m. I think he might be biggest UK podcaster.
Mr Aleksov also revealed Dr Ryan issued Ms Rugg with a formal warning, after she boarded a commercial flight while Covid positive. More
Ms Rugg has just had her card permanently marked.
Sounds like my QR pass …. it said ‘Go fcuk yourself you COVID NAZI’, complete with Green Tick and all.
Because they are closest to the kool aid (eg the diet pyramid, low fat good, grains good, fat bad), but unfortunately the kool aid is wrong and, instead of noting the disconnect, they double down.
There has been msm coverage of excess deaths in Australia and the latest ABS data for 2022 has shifted the excess slightly down to 15%, this article is from before the latest numbers were released.
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Excess deaths exceed predictions in first ten months of 2022
Data from Actuaries Institute has shown that excess deaths for the first 10 months of 2022 totalled 16,600, which is 11% more than predicted.
Applying its model to shortform data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the institute’s COVID-19 Mortality Working Group has estimated that a little over half (8,900) of these 16,600 deaths were due to COVID-19, while another 2,500 deaths listed COVID-19 as a contributory cause.
Converting a gen to run on wood gas is on my list of prepper projects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTqo4mCUUY
Nice Mr Z has been softening up the media the last several days in preparation for a pull out.
Zelensky Floats ‘Strategic Pullback’ From Bakhmut After Pouring In Huge Amount Of Reserve Forces (2 Mar)
Whether they can pull off a Gallipoli is the thing. Withdrawals under fire are tough gigs, as the Russians found when they over-extended in Kiev, Chernigov, Lyman and Kherson. If the Russians do it right and have armour ready to pursue it could be a serious win for them.
May I amend this to say ” avoid factory food in general, and unnecessary pharmaceuticals”.
Which means a third (5,200) of the “excess deaths” from other causes.
Lots of strokes and hear attacks. What could possibly cause that?
Especially when flu numbers were down.
Bother
heart
When an actuary says higher or lower than “expected”, I imagine they have already taken cohort distortions (ie. boomer numbers) into account. Because that’s their job.
I think tucker c has it right: they are trying to attack Christianity because it’s an obstruction to worshipping the state.
I’d sooner bow to an almighty God in whom I remain sceptical than the state. I’m a beneficiary of a Christian worldview and its morality, seeing it replaced by lunacy is horrifying.
Today in the Poofter Industrial Complex:
The Democrat mayor of College Park, Maryland, who had served as mayor for eight years, resigned after being charged with 56 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography.
Patrick Wojahn, the openly gay mayor who has lived in College Park for over 17 years with his husband, Dave Kolesar, served as a city councilmember for eight years before serving as mayor.
“On February 17, 2023, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified the PGPD that a social media account operating in the county possessed and distributed suspected child pornography,” the Prince George’s County Police Department acknowledged on Thursday.
“The image and videos had been uploaded to the social media account in January of 2023. Through various investigative techniques, PGPD investigators discovered the social media account belonged to Wojahn.”
“On February 28, 2023, PGPD detectives served a search warrant at Wojahn’s College Park home,” PGPD continued. “Investigators recovered multiple cell phones, a storage device, a tablet and a computer. Following additional investigation, PGPD obtained criminal charges against Wojahn and investigators took him into custody early this morning.”
“Wojahn is charged with 40 counts of possession of child exploitative material and 16 counts of distribution of child exploitative material,” PGPD concluded. “He is in the custody of the Department of Corrections.”
Berka, the thing is we don’t typically talk about people as objects, but as subjects. The point of my first comment was related to that; the manner in which the child in vitro/ utero is reduced to a ‘product of conception’, ‘clump of cells’, and the like, which can be bought and sold , destroyed, depending on the qualities, etc. we are looking for or want to avoid. And this attitude is not unique to the progressive left.
This is, indeed, based. More kids, increasing graduated tax discount. Excellent idea.
This is handmaid’s tale shit.
Giving people back money for having kids is the same as a lesbian bean flickers attempt at a book long jack Chick tract fantasy.
Or is he just quietly admitting that the tax system is set up as a form of financial birth control?
t
Hodensack, works well
Carpe.
Has to have the little dots over the U if its a heavy metal band.
You dont have to like it but its just the law.
Masks, the Jury Returns.
Campbell summarises the Cochrane mask metastudy. In sum, moderate certainty, they made no difference.
Without the incessant look-at-me-ism of Captain Climate and the midget houso ranga cheat, acting captain Steve Smith actually wins a game of cricket in India.
No doubt Captain Climate will have the sulks on his return.
Unfortunately, it will probably make no difference to the looming series defeat on India’s two-and-a-half-day Mickey Mouse Test wickets.
No turd to be left unstoned in the attempt to get the in-voice over the line.
Remove kids from abusive families regardless of race- worse than hitler
Leave kids in place to be abused to death- new stolen generation..
Calls for royal commission on Indigenous child deaths
An Aboriginal justice leader has called for a royal commission over mounting Indigenous child deaths, suggesting it could lead to another stolen generation, AAP has reported.
The number of Aboriginal kids dying who are known to Victoria’s child protection services has risen crazily in recent years, the Aboriginal Justice Caucus’ co-chair, Chris Harrison, said.
“More children have passed that have been linked to child protection … than that have died in the justice system,” the Wotjobaluk man told the Yoorrook justice commission on Friday.
The commission for children and young people’s 2021/22 annual report found Aboriginal children and young people were over-represented in its inquiries into kids who died within 12 months of their last involvement with child protection.
Two Aboriginal children and young people were among the 37 notified child deaths last financial year and made up seven of its 41 completed child death inquiries.
Thirteen of the 45 kids known to Victoria’s child protection services who died over the 2020/21 financial year were Aboriginal.
Harrison said the revelations in the most recent report should have been front page news, but were hidden in the data and among of a raft of 265 government documents tabled on December 20.
He’s a friend of Buttigieg’s.
Mayor Mentored by Buttigieg Busted for Child Porn (2 Mar)
Sucked in to the Indians. That first day pitch was an absolute disgrace.
Goat got a very nice bag though. Deserves it mightily.
Florida Republican Bill Would Require Bloggers to Register with the State in Order to Criticize State Government Officials, Including Ron DeSantis
March 2, 2023 | Sundance
History indeed rhyming, as the ‘new Ukranian democratic norms‘ merged with the totalitarian fiats and timing around the pandemic. Perhaps we should not have been surprised given that Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the entire European Union were quick to exploit the opportunity COVID-19 created.
Essential citizen definitions quickly promoted, digital identifies manifest, vaccine passports rushed to assembly, bar and QR code scans for human activity created gateways for permission granted by the state. Meanwhile unregistered movement was restricted, quarantine camps set up and mandatory vaccine compliance was the law.
Converting a gen to run on wood gas is on my list of prepper projects
Probably the bit to try and dive into immediately is the automation of mixture control. The rest is getting the right plans and just doing the metal fab. Some of the IC engines designed to run LPG may already have this effectively sorted out. Also probably not a bad starting point because it’s an engine / oil combo is modified to be running on a “dry” fuel.
Spark ignition IC engines don’t seem like the natural choice in these applications, but when you think about it they have a lot going for them. Ability to run on LPG which is the only fuel that doesn’t go “off” and ultimately for real SHTF the ability to run on wood gas.
On the gasifiers.
Checking any local farming type museum might turn up a near working model. Spotted a couple at a museum I took the little bloke to a few months back.
Organic avocados are 5 bucks a pop.
Stump up, ag science denier.
The thing about being energy self sufficient in the coming blitzkrieg is that it still requires some interaction with the rest of society, most of whom won’t be; and in between squabbles over food that majority will be mightily angry at the flourescence coming from a few houses. How to deal with that.
Hi ftb, hope this not taken as a regional Queensland whinge but prices up here have exploded at Colesworths up this way. Eggs have nearly doubled, same fruit and veg. Meat other than pork too. Being tropical we grow a lot more than we used to now but it has it’s limitations. Just waiting for May to plant tomatoes and the likes. A pumpkin vine sprouted the other week from probably old seed but is looking sick as the humidity rainfall & heat haven’t dropped off enough, amazing thing though as it is still flowering.
I think realistically Sydney has the benefit of a lot more competition that we don’t have. I noticed the difference when I was regularly in western/southwestern Sydney. Viet market gardeners could undercut Colesworths and usually had a better/fresher product too. Only place I have seen it in the north was Rusty’s markets Cairns, then the stall holders realised they slap organic on anything and jack the price. If I was living up round Tully/Innisfail or driving that way more I’d certainly be buying most of my produce from the farmers gate as that is still common practise to set out stalls along the highway.
Regarding meat I’ve been buying.
I have found the prices are up a bit, but the quality is down a lot.
I get different meat from different places and the observation is for all of them.
I used to get beef & heart mince about once every two weeks.
I haven’t had it this year because the two places I used to get it haven’t had it when I’ve popped in.
One of them is a butcher & he’s said he just can’t get quality offal at the moment.
I could understand liver not being available.
Joe Rogan as got the boyz chowing down on that big time.
But beef hearts?
I’m the only person I know who eats it.
Huh?
$160,000 for a secretary-cum-filing clerk?
Is this
lottery winer… salary for real?Case closed. Rugg can go shove her claim, I find in favour of the Commonwealth & Dr. Ryan.
John H.says:
March 3, 2023 at 1:28 pm
Debate rages over whether straight couples should use the term ‘partner’
I don’t. I have a wife. I am my wife’s husband.
A partner is someone you share a business with.
So homosexual couples can call each other partners if they want. Just not husband and wife.
That’s promising, should raise the electorate IQ a good deal.
WAFarmers president John Hassell has been booted from a press conference with Federal Agriculture Minister Murray Watt after turning up unannounced to defend the State’s $92 million live sheep export trade.
Great work, we need to take the fight right up to the political scum, they won’t rest until everyone is living in abject poverty.
Would have got bonus points for punching the stupid arsehole in the face.
Can we call you Captain Beefheart now Bern?
We did used to buy them for our Siamese cat, who lived a long life, so they must be good.
Local Vietnamese bakery does a decent steak & kidney pie, might get one for lunch tomorrow.
Home Invasion update: Plea hearing was held yesterday. The dark chap pled guilty to Aggravated Home Invasion, a string of other offences…and then not guilty to reckless endangerment. Ie stabby stabby. The court room was surprised as the mandatory sentence has already been triggered by the previous pleas. Judge and Defence were surprised at the ng plea. Judge has given the chap until Monday to reconfer with his legal team and try again. Insert Self face slap emoji here.
Partners – If anyone asks me about my ‘partner’ I say I don’t have one, I have a wife. Whenever I have a form to fill out I write spouse or wife across the word partner. Trouble is so much is online and you can’t do that.
I rarely engage with gov depts but last time upset the person I was dealing with by insisting she call my spouse ‘your wife’.
Mate has a mutt he feeds beef hearts along with dry food.
Could be a reason for the shortage.
I think I just broke ChatGPT’s brain:
It has been hung, not finishing that last answer.
and in between squabbles over food that majority will be mightily angry at the flourescence coming from a few houses. How to deal with that.
Instances like this in Africa are well documented. Two enterprising young blokes in one village set themselves up a 12v generation, battery, lighting and refrigeration system built entirely from scrap. Offended at the “flouescence”, their neighbours came and wrecked the setup and beat the shit out of the boys.
Basically you have to be prepared to shoot the first arsehole that enters the property because of fluorescence.
that majority will be mightily angry at the flourescence coming from a few houses. How to deal with that.
We ha d a chap working here whos previous job (about 10 years back) was installing generators in South Africa.
Very important to have the high wall and guard dogs before you obtain the generator.
What we got here is two who fancy themselves as top chooks in the pecking order, and the inevitable happens.
So Mzzz Rugg-Muncher was working too many hours for her $160k salary (which included a $30k allowance for … extra hours)?
Is that really the problem?
When I read the list of things Rugg-Muncher claimed to be doing, it made me wonder what the Honourable Member actually did. So I think we have got an MP who was too busy doing Big Things to bother with the little stuff, and a CoS who also wanted to do Big Things, but was stuck with little things.
Interesting that the respondents in the case are Msss Ryan and the Commonwealth.
So there is a chance that the court finding will be the catalyst for the Gummint to provide massive staff numbers to MPs Who Would be King (which is all of them).
Claymores, backed up by crew served weapons?
Oh, and night vision…
“I just don’t think they are going to be able to do this without it being detrimental to farmers.”
This will help build poverty in Australia and exacerbate poverty in the countries that purchase these sheep.
When will there be enough poverty to satisfy these governmental scum? A governmental scum that are “not comfortable” having the people that they’re f’cking in the room with them?
People need to wake up and see the end game in all its ugliness, poverty and destruction.
They then need to act in accordance with the end game.
Stream broken = you have exposed ChatGPT’s bullshittium core.
I guess we’ve all got our tales about this. I went yesterday with Hairy to do his regular shop, which he does every few days at Woolworth’s in Double Bay, because I wanted to have lunch out with him as well. I know it’s by no means the cheapest supermarket but by golly the prices were eye-watering. I do a Coles shop occasionally in another less salubrious suburb for my second son, who needs a hand with costs. I buy cheap and basic stuff for him there and have certainly noticed the inflation even on that. I haven’t done one for about three weeks though, and the Double Bay prices were such a shock.
$75 for a kilo of supermarket steak! And $30 for a nicer brand bottle of Olive Oil, $18 just for the cheapo stuff. Everything else way up too. Things that not long ago were $6 are now $8. A third up.
They had those Lindt Easter Rabbits in for Easter already I noted, thinking of the grandies.
They wanted $14 each for them. I recall not so many Easters ago they were less than $8.
Or am I having myself on and they were really over $10 from way back?
Calli
It will be interesting to read the next month report with the more comprehensive 24th February 2023 ABS data taken into account.
Basically you have to be prepared to shoot the first arsehole that enters the property because of fluorescence.
I didn’t want to say that….
sfw wonders
at 8:06 am:
The PBO reckons that it will cost $63 Billion to electrify Aussie homes. They don’t seen to have a figure for industry and transport etc.
$63 B includes Industry and transport.
Keep in mind, they’re projecting a population of 9 Million by 2025.
It really is a madness, I just can’t understand how any rational person would think this is a good idea.
Well, it’s stiff cheddar for 16 million White and Aboriginal Australians, and the 9 million detritus that’s left won’t have much to cheer about either.
… what is the ALP trying to distract us from?
Something they’re up to in Ukraine, most likely.
Bringing the entire Azov Battalion over as Reffos and employing them in the Northern Territory Police, most probably?
What Monique Ryan needs is some office diversity.
Someone prepared to answer emails from constituents, for example.
Priceless…just priceless, I need more popcorn. The voters of Kooyong replaced Josh with this…
She’s still an improvement on Josh.
“Teal MP ‘wanted to be prime minister one day’
Uh huh.
Remember Craig Kelly, P.M.?
Remember “I’m voting Independent because ScottyMan bad”?
Multiple times, every. single. day. for months?
It’s not called “Double Pay” for nothing.
“feelthebernsays:
March 3, 2023 at 5:20 pm
I could understand liver not being available.
Joe Rogan as got the boyz chowing down on that big time.
But beef hearts?
I’m the only person I know who eats it.
2”
You are not alone. I really enjoy offal. Beef, veal or lamb hearts make an excellent casserole when cooked with red wine and lots of aromatics. Heart is also excellent done the Creole way, slice into thin strips, marinate then thread onto skewers and barbecue.
Steak and Kidney, Devilled Kidneys, that’s a blast from the past. Tongue cooked in the usual way then sliced and barbecued until it has a crispy exterior.
My favourite is liver cooked in a Spanish way. Thinly slice whatever liver you have or prefer. Make a rub from pulverised garlic, very finely chopped parsley, a good grating of lemon zest and salt and pepper. Rub that sparingly on both sides of the liver, then dip into breadcrumbs, into egg, then into breadcrumbs again. Fry like schnitzel, only more quickly as you don’t want the liver to turn into cardboard. Even if you over fry, it is still tasty. Make sure you dip twice in breadcrumbs, NOT flour as is the usual way. It stops the gooiness from forming. This tastes great cold in the lunchbox the next day.
mmmmmmmmm That reminds me, I have some lamb’s fry in the freezer. A final tip, I find that if you use normal, fine breadcrumbs for the first coat, then Panko for the second coat, the end result is sublime.
Great work, we need to take the fight right up to the political scum, they won’t rest until everyone is living in abject poverty.
Would have got bonus points for punching the stupid arsehole in the face.
Ending Live Sheep export would force everyone into poverty?
Gimme a break?
Live Export is the triumph of greed and stupidity over humane treatment of our food sources.
Rosie, I just want to get to the bottle of it all. Something just doesn’t look right in those figures. Like most plebs I’m no statistician, but those books look cooked.
Like so many here, I want the powers that be to own up to what they did. Until they do no one can move on (from whatever point they’re at).
Uh oh. Friday night…
Get to the bottom of it all
Or does that make it worse? 😀
To those who wonder why I may look forward to such a simple thing as lunch with my husband before his supermarket excursion in which I join, it may help to know that for over a week now I have been laid low with the abdominal pain of diverticulitis, a sadly recurrent and can-be dangerous malady which must be treated immediately with ferocious regime of antibiotic tablets, one variety of which ensures you take no alcohol because it will make your face itch and your heart race. You also don’t feel much like going out so social life ceases and yesterday’s outing was rather an effort. The most I can do for entertainment is play along with Mr. Motivator, and that sparingly.
It still beats life at sea in the eighteenth century though, while lying through your teeth for the Admiralty! Thank goodness for books, and for Netflix and the Cat.
Avoid Liver.
Vitamin A levels are in the toxic range.
Stick with steaks and chops.
Calli,
was that a Freudian slip? 😀
Okay.
I think I read that wrong the first time.
Just the mutton oligarchs.
Expect quality to keep falling into a nosedive.
This week, I found out my local Woolies — meaning the whole chain Australia-wide — has sacked its in-house butchers, following Coles’ lead, which sacked its in-store butchers about a year ago.
The Woolies in-house butcher was top-quality and was often cheaper than the standalone independent butcher in the same mall.
That means I will start going back to the excellent independent butcher in neighboring Queenscliff (about 15 kms away) that I abandoned in 2020, whose quality is expensive, but top-shelf.
The supermarket duopoly is signalling that I should shop elsewhere if I want quality — and so I shall.
I expect hundreds of thousands of shoppers will shortly reach the same decision.
In terms of commercial strategy, this called cutting off your nose despite your face –dumbo central.
We are watching ‘Women and War’, a small series on Netflix. It is French, which adds interest to the First World War drama, full of blood and gore (somehow we seem to favour these), and a bit better than I thought it would be at first. Not great, but still watchable, is our verdict. It has a thickening plot.
The lights are going out, but you are not alone.
Delicious in many ways – my favourites are exactly as Pogria lays out above in her offal porn. Either chunks in a beef bourguignon (with plumbing removed), or marinaded strips done satay style and cooked hot and quick.
The main problem is finding a proper butcher who can be arsed to supply hearts (and other offal).
Littleproud reckons any Coalition Agreement going into the next Election is dependent of the Liberal Party committing to repeal any Live Export Ban.
That sounds like political sabotage to me, as well as being electorally an extremely
unpopular
Policy.
Smoked salmon 8 bucks for a 100 gram sleeve.
FTB, if you buy the smoked salmon pieces for cooking, you’ll get 200g for the same price.
Not as nice to look at, but tastes and looks the same after a few chews.
If I was a sheep for slaughter, I’d rather have a nice ocean cruise first.
Dr Faustus,
“offal porn”. Cacked myself over that one!
Beats “awful” porn.
Is there such a thing as “good” porn?
The main problem is finding a proper butcher who can be arsed to supply hearts (and other offal).
Offal goes off quickly, there’s a minimum purchase from wholesalers, it’s all cash up front these days and the type of dickhead who orders Tripe, Brains, Sweetbreads, etc. usually doesn’t show to pick up his order.
I was just over at Breitbart and the inestimable Andrew has been gone from us for eleven years!
Vale mighty Andrew Breitbart.
If I was a sheep for slaughter, I’d rather have a nice ocean cruise first.
So, what’s stopping you from identifying as a Sheep and taking that ocean cruise?
Tom thunders:
The Woolies in-house butcher was top-quality and was often cheaper than the standalone independent butcher in the same mall.
Yeah, funny how that works out, eh?
Ed Case, you say some dumb things but that takes the cake. Weapons grade stupidity.
Airfares down, but still higher than before, especially internationally. From the Oz:
Live sheep trade ?
Late term abortion ?
That does seem to be the issue for most butchers.
Not sure about that.
Tripe, (lamb) brains, and sweetbreads are fairly easy to buy. Hearts are more problematic – usually frozen.
I think anyone rationalising the self serving imperatives of politicians as acts of humanity must have missed the gross abuses of humanity that the same people visited on the general public during covid.
Sheep are lucky, at least they don’t know they’re being herded to destruction.
Mutton Boy turns what passes as his mind to offal. Pass the gluten, I may be some time.
Webjet data showed the average booking value for domestic flights fell 23.3 per cent in February compared to November 2022
Yeah na. I’m not seeing it and I grace airports regularly. Fortunately I don’t usually pay for it other than seeing the amount on a travel form or the chargeback when travel is at last minute.
Interesting ABC 612 this afternoon – Steve Austin discussing the decline of conservatism at the hands of cultural Marxism.
He interviewed Professor James Allan from UQ Law, who made the point that conservative academics are now virtually extinct. The cause, according to the professor, is woke careerism at universities.
If you want to be a Dean of Law, and you are stridently and loudly against the National Anthem and Australia Day having a place in the university life, no problem, you can be a Dean of Law.
On the other hand, if you find ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies patronising to the indigenous and an empty slogan which trivialises relationships – you can’t be a Dean of Law.
Lethal gluten, Nazi traffic paddles, septic offal and “you MUST vote Liberal”.
Nice going, Mr Bill.
Derrr.
Government policy on Kung Flu collapsed the air travel industry and caused the cost of travel — and the broader cost of living — to skyrocket.
Governments told business — big and small — they could stuff the effect government Kung Flu policy was having.
Government told the proletariat its job was to keep people safe — except it now emerges it did nothing of the sort as governments subjected the public to experimental vaccines, which have caused the number of excess deaths to soar — while Big Pharma was protected from the financial consequences of class actions.
If you reduce supply of a popular product like air travel, prices will rise.
Prices won’t return to normal until governments remove ALL restrictions on air travel — which they’re reluctant to do because fascist control of public behaviour is addictive for fascist government health bureaucrats.
FFS, governments are still attempting to force-feed Kung Flu booster shots on the public. Trust the government there’ll be no health consequences. Yeah, right.
Perhaps if we smuggled the live sheep out in submersibles.
Painted white.
WHIIIIITE SUUUUUBS in the mongset.
One thumbs up for the red roo, the replacement of the B717 with the E190. Much better for cabin comfort…
He apologises for advocating for mask in 2020/21. He changed his view in February last year.
Dr. John Campbell – Masks, the jury returns
No. A Freudian sip.