This idiot seriously thinks that a UN group and the NYT would actually look for evidence that would support Israel…
Open Thread – Weekend 1 April 2023
I’ve actually done those thankyou, one week stopover on the way home from the US in 2015.
Pallas sez just now on Channel Stokes that Victoria has the best economy in the country. With a straight face.…
Second that one.
And fly Aer Lingus naturally. I suspect that’s why we went to Ireland in February in the first place. Stupid…
Indolentsays:
April 2, 2023 at 8:24 am
Indeed it is. It deserves wide distribution.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Truth bomb incoming.
A familiar name popped up on the link, Juanita Broadrick. One of those cases where “Believe all women” was too inconvenient to apply.
Oops, Broaddrick.
I just don’t understand the Liberal party, they are clearly as dumb as a bag of hammer handles, they can’t win by being more Labor than Labor. They need to oppose Labor on everything, they need their own policies. Remember Abbott, destroyed Labor by being in OPPOSITION.
Unless the Liberal party fight against the following they are doomed to extinction;
Climate Change mitigation
The destruction of our cheap energy
Mass immigration
The Voice
Empowering the Unions
Super changes
And on and on the list goes, no hope for conservatives with this wet useless opposition.
In many ways, the trans stuff is the greatest win for cultural Marxism. They rub the patently absurd in your face and demand you celebrate it. Everyone knows you can’t change your gender. And yet everyone from doctors to the President of The United States will say you can.
Morons like m0nty-fa celebrate this as a triumph in the Culture Wars. The rejection of reality is wonderful, just ask the fascist left, who don’t follow science, but follow “The Science”, a false god.
So what’s happened to the voters who gave Abbott a massive ten seat change to get 30 seats overall?
They voted for Abbott for real change, especially against global warming fantasies and carbon taxes.
Those voters are still out there. Disenchanted, voting Labor holding their noses because the Liberals are so wet on energy and gender matters, the voters are drifting off to alternatives where they can.
If Dutton had been stronger, a change of sorts, even despite his unappealing presence (face it, he looks thuggish and this while not his fault is not great for elections), he would have got over the line in the Aston by-election. Instead he’s put forward Labor Lite and has hardly any media profile since taking over from Morrison. Where’s the dynamism one might expect from a major Opposition Party? The Libs as we often lament here give no hint of changing back to anything like Abbott’s policies. Maybe the time has come for a realignment of the right into a different set of coalitions? Do it soon, before the wretched Voice becomes entrenched in our Constitution.
How could things be worse than they are now for the Libs? Won’t someone tell them?
Half of the electorate are screaming out for something different, with energy at the core of it.
m0nty says:
April 2, 2023 at 9:17 am
I also know Piers, and would not conside myself, nor cassie or Piers, Crones
I believe you would enjoy his company
He would throw his Marie Antoinette glass of merlot at me within ten minutes.
I would make sure of it.
Pre judging is not a good look of an open mind!
Last night I watched a video which stated at least half of Russian aircraft losses were due to friendly fire. They really need to lay off the vodka.
If you look at recent election results across Australia – where Teals, Greens and Labor (plus tree-hugging Pocock) swept to power from sea to shining sea – and think there is still a silent majority of fossil fuel freaks in the electorate, you are completely delusional.
But you just said that Liberal voters switched to Labor because the Libs are too green, which makes no sense at all. Look at yourself Lizzie, you are talking gibberish.
m0ntysays:
April 2, 2023 at 8:45 am
What do you think of Greg Jericho then Fatboy?
I had to mute him on Twitter. Just too much.
Not fascist enough for you?
How many ethnic Chinese voters in Aston voted against an ethnic Indian candidate?
Problematic Munty.
Trump & the Risk of an Indictment
QUESTION #1: Marty, What is going on over there in America? It looks like the country has completely lost its mind. Indicting Trump over such a stupid thing when our politicians over here have open mistresses and in France, you have the head of state who married his high school teacher. How about Berlusconi in Italy who married a 32-year-old? We have a war on our doorstep. Is this some planned distraction so they can start World War III? We are laughing at America over this craziness.
JQ
QUESTION #2: It looks like this indictment of Trump is precisely what Socrates has forecast. Then a major swing into 2026. Could that be a Trump victory as a backlash against this indictment? I think they are making Trump a symbol of absolute political victimization. The videotapes from January 6th show that were all blown out of proportion with the Democrats calling it an insurrection while the police had walkways set up and escorted the guy with the horns to the podium. What hypocrisy! Then there are videos of Hunter Biden with lines of cocaine where anyone else would be in prison. Just unbelievable how corruption is surfacing.
LK
ANSWER: It is hard to say. Some people hated Trump and already have declared him guilty. They are such fools for what goes around, comes around. It is these very people who are destroying the United States. Pelosi is a total fool who honestly does belong in jail for corruption.
I know a lot of Democrats who are not really happy about this at all. We don’t know for sure the charges yet. As they stand now, it is just insane. This may now have serious implications for prosecutors around the country can view this as fair game to start prosecuting politicians just as he says – haul in Pelosi and Hillary for starts. Everything is now on the table.
This represents the total collapse of the American Legal System. Bagg has crossed the Rubicon that can be so damaging to the United States and the world by undermining the confidence in the entire government. The rule of law has collapsed.
These charges as we know them, are a novel theory at best. What if Trump takes them on, goes to trial, and wins? What will that do to the Democrats altogether? That scenario would probably ensure he returns to the presidency. This, I fear, the Neocons will escalate the war on a fast track for they may end up in jail themselves as enemies of the state and treason if Trump gets back in.
This is what I mean. Socrates can project trends we do not even think about. I do not care what they say, the last election was rigged. They had to get rid of Trump (1) for this whole climate change agenda, and (2) so the Neocons could start World War III. None of this would have happened if they did not remove Trump. Not that he was this fantastic guy, there are far worse people in Washington. He fired all the Neocons when all they wanted was war – Bolton & Hill just for starters. The Neocons had to remove him and anyone who thinks they cannot rig the votes is a fool. This was certainly not the first time. Removing Trump was way too important for their agendas. We would not be facing World War III if Trump was still there. That is not a statement against Democrats. It is the Neocons who seized control because Biden is too old and too corrupt.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/trump-the-risk-of-an-indictment/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
On the Voice, as I’ve said often, the Libs should be against Constitutional change, just throw in a sop to waverers by having a policy of a Federalised Voice from all of the States, doing it via the existing billion dollar advisory group that already exists across Australia.
Show that there are other ways to Labor’s in dealing with significant issues like energy and remote aboriginal welfare and a symbolic ‘Voice’. Take charge of the debates rather than buckle under to Labor.
I have heard and read enough of Piers Akerman over the years to know exactly what sort of person he is. I am sure he purrs like a kitten when he’s among friends who think the same way he does, that is unsurprising. In the presence of someone like me who think he’s a dickhead and would say so to his face, the bile would rise up quickly in him.
If ‘No One Is Above The Law,’ Democrats And Their Partisan Pawns Would Be Arraigned, Not Trump
If Democrats truly valued rule of law, they would pursue cases against many more people before even considering indicting Trump.
America’s two-tiered justice system status was solidified on Thursday after a Manhattan grand jury voted to hit former President Donald Trump with a felony indictment and the threat of imprisonment.
Cue the chorus of Democrats and corporate media mouthpieces who spent all of Thursday night on Twitter condescendingly warning: “no one is above the law, not even the former president.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the anti-Trump Adams, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Rep. Adam Schiff, and even Trump’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen say Trump- or anyone else- doesn’t just get a free pass because he’s a 2024 presidential candidate. Yet, it doesn’t take an expert to know that the sole reason Trump ever faced indictment is because his political enemies requested it.
In addition to suggesting that Trump is not “above the law,” former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed that the former president has the opportunity to “prove innocence” in court.
Of course, the law, smugly touted by Pelosi, dictates that defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty- not the other way around
Whether Pelosi’s “innocence” comment was a Freudian slip or a genuine assertion, we may never know.
What we do know is that for years, Democrats have operated under the belief that their party members and their partisan allies are above the law.
1. The Criminals Alvin Bragg Refused To Prosecute
2. Hillary Clinton
3. Barack Obama
4. Election Law-Breakers Like Marc Elias
5. President Joe Biden
6. Hunter Biden
7. Eric Swalwell
8. Eric Holder
9. Susan Rice
10. The Pelosi Family
The same people who love lording “no one is above the law” over Americans are the ones who think they are above any semblance of oversight or law, or constitutionality. If Democrats truly valued rule of law, illegal border crossers, Russia hoaxers, Jeffrey Epstein’s clients, pro-abortion vandals, rioters, and the people who run corrupt government agencies like the Department of Justice, the FBI, the NSA, and the Manhattan DA’s office would be the ones standing in court next week, not Trump.
So after the wonderful result in Aston, has Dr Mutton committed hara-kiri?
THE JACARANDAS HAVE STOPPED FLOWERING.
THE JACARANDAS HAVE STOPPED FLOWERING.
…
PETER MEETS JANE IN THE GARDEN.
Call it a Federal Voice rather than a Constitutional Voice and sell it hard on the view that it will operate well at the State level as well as having a right to represent a Federal view to Federal Parliament.
Why can’t they start to do some thinking on these issues rather than blindly flail and follow?
More proof the US is fu.ked:
New Report on Motive of 2017 Las Vegas Shooter is Raising Eyebrows
The shooter was a disgruntled punter!
Rambo has spoken.
Munty, surrounded and totally reliant on the bounty of fossil fuels, calls people who know it’s value to humanity, freaks.
India and China are the biggest users in the world and must be freaks.
Racist Munty
In the presence of someone like me who think he’s a dickhead and would say so to his face, the bile would rise up quickly in him.
Piers doesn’t hang around dickless tards.
As C.L. wrote on his blog about Dutton and Aston….
“He made a meal of the Deeming affair when it was actually an opportunity to stake big claims about religious liberty, free speech, women’s rights, woke extremism, the whole shebang.
The thing is, Dutton is no conservative, as he said in May of last year upon becoming Liberal leader, he’s a “Liberal”. Well that’s great Peter, but you and the Liberal Party refuse to speak up and stand up for Liberal values, such as religious freedom, free speech, limited government, individual responsibility, aspiration and so on.
When you stand for nothing, you lose. But it’s even worse than that. The Liberals now just do the bidding of the Labor Party, the Greens and the leftist partisan MSM. They’re chasing their own tail. They fell for the nonsense that the Liberal Party has a “woman problem” and so they decided to parachute into Aston a candidate who wasn’t even a local, all because she’s a woman, ignoring the branches who’d chosen a local former mayor.
You reap what you sow.
m0ntysays:
April 2, 2023 at 9:17 am
I also know Piers, and would not conside myself, nor cassie or Piers, Crones
I believe you would enjoy his company
He would throw his Marie Antoinette glass of merlot at me within ten minutes.
I would make sure of it.
LOL. m0nty=fa is a front bar urger, except his front bar is in Melbourne, Piers is in Sydney.
You only have to read the 1st sentence of this article to see where it is going ..
“When Roger (not his real name) migrated to Australia in 2017, he looked forward to settling down in Melbourne, close to family and friends.”
This isn’t about “migrating” this is about coming in on “student” visas and then whinge-ing when you have to apply to stay ……. it’s no wonder they aren’t allowing comments .!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/the-australian-dream-is-costing-migrants-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-and-career-opportunities/ar-AA19mvTL?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=2783e0554c9d4bc2903d6053cda17a79&ei=7
Guileless and bileless, that’s you is it, M0nty Black Shirt?
Go join your friends and punch up another woman wanting to speak.
Piers would eat you for breakfast and still be hungry, Black Shirt Soy Boy.
Have alternative motives been discussed?
“In the presence of someone like me who think he’s a dickhead and would say so to his face, the bile would rise up quickly in him.”
LOL…..soon the pervert apologist will be taking selfies of himself with toy guns and kitchen knives, warning everyone……”I’m coming for you”. I wonder if he’s written his manifesto yet?
Piers would just laugh at him, because at the end of the day, he’s sad, pathetic and laughable.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
April 2, 2023 at 9:32 am
On the Voice, as I’ve said often, the Libs should be against Constitutional change, just throw in a sop to waverers by having a policy of a Federalised Voice from all of the States, doing it via the existing billion dollar advisory group that already exists across Australia.
Show that there are other ways to Labor’s in dealing with significant issues like energy and remote aboriginal welfare and a symbolic ‘Voice’. Take charge of the debates rather than buckle under to Labor.
Someone is trying to Take charge of the debates rather than buckle under to Labor.
We are one together, not two divided.
https://www.fairaustralia.com.au
INTRODUCTION
Australia is the greatest country in the world. We’ve enjoyed a peace and
prosperity that’s the envy of nations from all corners of the globe. But we’re
not perfect and there is no issue that exemplifies our shortcomings as the
ongoing disadvantages faced by our Indigenous brothers and sisters.
We understand the gap in health and economic outcomes between Indigenous
and non-Indigenous Australians is a national problem that needs solving and we
believe the promise of Australia is in our capacity to find solutions together,
not separately.
The upcoming Voice referendum will ask you a basic question: do you want to
change the Constitution?
The Constitution is our founding document, our national rulebook.
It has underpinned our success, and it gives us the tools to solve the problems
we face together. Not apart.
There is nothing modest about changing the Constitution because when you
change the Constitution you’re changing the foundation of the country. There’s
no reason to do it otherwise.
In 1967 Australians voted overwhelmingly to change the Constitution so that
Indigenous Australians were “recognised as part of the Australian population”1, to
make Australians one together.
The proposed Voice undermines 1967 by enshrining division in our constitution.
Instead of being one and equal, we become divided, with separate voices,
separate powers, separate votes.
At its core, the Voice is divisive.
And that’s why we’re voting ‘no’!
Because we’re not going to help our Indigenous family by separating them.
We need to do it together.
As Australians. One and free.
CONTENTS
WHY VOTE ‘NO’? – HERE ARE 10 REASONS WHY
It’s not ‘modest’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
It undermines ‘recognition’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
It will divide us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
It’s expensive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
It’s a Canberra politician’s Voice . . . . . . 8
It divides Indigenous Australians . . . . . . 9
It’s a package deal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
It undermines our one-vote
democratic system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
It won’t Close the Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
It’s a platform for radical activists
to attack our values and institutions . . . 13
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
If you look at recent election results across Australia – where Teals, Greens and Labor (plus tree-hugging Pocock) swept to power from sea to shining sea – and think there is still a silent majority of fossil fuel freaks in the electorate, you are completely delusional.
m0nty=fa’s short term memory loss is such that he jas completely forgotten the triumphal expectation of decades of Labor political dominance in the aftermath of the KRudd ascendancy. Yet, within three years, Labor was reduced to relying on Windbag and Okaesnott to stay in power.
Pride and Hubris go before a fall and Nemesis.
m0ntysays:
April 2, 2023 at 9:32 am
Pre judging is not a good look of an open mind!
I have heard and read enough of Piers Akerman over the years to know exactly what sort of person he is. I am sure he purrs like a kitten when he’s among friends who think the same way he does, that is unsurprising. In the presence of someone like me who think he’s a dickhead and would say so to his face, the bile would rise up quickly in him.
LOL, absolutely no self-awareness at all.
Piers eats soy for breakfast?
Relevant link.
cohenitesays:
April 2, 2023 at 9:35 am
More proof the US is fu.ked:
New Report on Motive of 2017 Las Vegas Shooter is Raising Eyebrows
The shooter was a disgruntled punter!
LOL, someone in the US is willing to buy my absolutely foolproof system to beat the casinos.
Oh god please stop with this utterly imbecilic bullshit!
Actually…
The problem is that the Libs of today all start in the same sausage factory as the Labs and Greens. They get the same indoctrination that ‘nice people think and say these things so they are trying to say ‘We are nice people too!! Let us into the nice people’s club. Pretty please?’
But the nice people’s club is the in-crowd of the whole educated CLASS. Being a class enemy of your own class is utterly demoralising. They try again and again chanting the formulas for acceptance but the door remains shut.
Our generation at least got taught a bit of classical liberalism (like the lefties did). We started from a very obvious set of shared values and the ‘educated people’s class’ had relatively unstupid people on both sides. (Monts, take a bow).
Then the feminists allowed the Marxists and rad-fem-seps to set doctrine and they privileged emotional identity-stories over truth and justice, and after twenty-odd years of purity spiralling, the Left has self-lobotomised (hi again, Monts).
So yes, the Libs are hopeless. They are the ‘gilded youths that line the barber’s wall; their eyes are dull, their heads are flat, they have no brains at all.’
Franksays:
April 2, 2023 at 9:35 am
In the presence of someone like me who think he’s a dickhead and would say so to his face, the bile would rise up quickly in him.
Rambo has spoken.
Next: Malmo, then the front lines in the Great War Against Wussian Imperialism. ROFLMAO!
She was/is a weirdo and he was/is a cuck.
So what? That’s normal. If you have a problem with it or equate it with the above mentioned example, *you* have the problem.
I wonder whether any of you might ponder for a moment whether it is possible that you are the problem. No, no, it’s the children who are wrong, you say. Let us continue to exhort Murdoch’s opinionist bullpen to drag the Liberal Party further and further to the right. Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed.
Electoral reality is here, and it is telling you that you are wrong and getting more wrong every year. You can choose to listen or not. The less you listen, the less relevant you become.
Trump Indictment Is a Perversion of Campaign-Finance Law
If a candidate has to pay for his own clothes, surely hush money is likewise a personal expense.
In choosing to convene a grand jury to pursue the Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels affair, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faced two big problems—one political, one legal. The indictment of Mr. Trump will address the first, likely at the expense of the second.
To recap how we got here: Ms. Daniels, a pornographic film performer, alleges she had a fling with Mr. Trump in 2006, nearly a decade before he entered the Republican primary for president. Once Mr. Trump became a candidate, Ms. Daniels began demanding money in exchange for her silence. Mr. Trump obliged, and his company, the Trump Organization, sent $130,000 to Ms. Daniels through Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. The expense was apparently recorded on the company books as “legal fees,” which the indictment is expected to allege was a falsification of business records.
Mr. Bragg’s political problem is that this charge is chump change, merely a misdemeanor under New York law. To ratchet it up to a felony indictment, the district attorney has to show, among other things, that the falsification was designed to conceal another crime. That crime is believed to be a campaign-finance violation—an illegal corporate contribution by the Trump Organization to the Trump presidential campaign—which the false business reporting was meant to conceal.
Here’s where Mr. Bragg’s legal problem comes in: Was the hush money a campaign contribution? The governing statute, the Federal Election Campaign Act, provides that a contribution is any donation made “for the purpose of influencing any campaign for federal office.” The Trump Organization, says Mr. Bragg, paid Ms. Daniels to prevent revelations that would have hurt Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.
Thus the payments were “for the purpose of influencing” a federal election—and, since corporate contributions to a campaign for federal office are illegal, the case is closed.
Not so fast.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that because campaign-finance laws infringe on core First Amendment activity, they can’t be dependent on vague, subjective interpretations. Accordingly, the clause “for the purpose of influencing any federal election” is an objective standard. As another section of the statute states, an obligation isn’t a campaign expenditure if it exists “irrespective” of the campaign. In other words, campaign funds pay for campaigning—the campaign manager’s salary, ads, campaign travel, venues for rallies, polling and so on. They don’t pay for personal expenses not created by the act of campaigning, even if the candidate intends for them to benefit the campaign.
The statute’s objective nature is demonstrated by a noninclusive list of things that campaign funds may not be spent on no matter how much they might benefit—or be intended to benefit—a campaign. For example, if a candidate wants to look good in a debate and purchases a $4,000 suit he would never have bought if he weren’t running for office—that is to say, he buys it with the subjective intent to influence an election—it still can’t be purchased with campaign funds, because he would have to buy clothing anyway. A country-club membership can’t be purchased with campaign funds, no matter how much the candidate intends for it to benefit his campaign by giving him a place to schmooze donors.
Candidates with substantial business interests, such as Mr. Trump, will frequently find themselves facing lawsuits—some merited, some not. If such a candidate were to instruct his company’s legal counsel to settle them, the settlement payments would, subjectively, be made “to influence an election.”
Legally, however, such payments couldn’t be made with campaign funds and would have to be made by the company or the candidate personally, because the underlying obligation wasn’t created by the act of campaigning.
These restrictions on converting campaign funds to “personal use” may be the one meritorious part of our complex, often destructive system of campaign-finance regulation. They define the difference between bribes—donations for the candidate’s personal benefit—and campaign contributions. Who really thinks that a candidate can—let alone must—use campaign funds to pay hush money for past affairs, and who knows what else? But that’s what Mr. Bragg’s theory would require.
In other words, the “crime” that Mr. Bragg claims is being covered up isn’t a crime at all. Worse still, one is left with the distinct impression that if Mr. Trump had used campaign funds to pay Ms. Daniels, Mr. Bragg would be alleging that the underlying crime the business records were intended to cover up was the illegal conversion of campaign funds to personal use.
This is a classic Catch-22 that undermines the rule of law.
Mr. Trump has a remarkable ability to make both his ardent supporters and his ardent critics abandon long-held principles for short-term satisfaction.
If Mr. Bragg is somehow able to make these charges stick, it will betray fundamental tenets of campaign-finance law and those who believe in the rule of law.
Mr. Smith is chairman of the Institute for Free Speech and a law professor at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He served as chairman of the Federal Election Commission in 2004.
I was sent off to Colesworth this morning to buy a carton of crème fraîche. Imagine my surprise at being required to pay $5 for an essential item that only weeks ago cost $3.75.
My rough calculation suggests that annualised inflation is running at around 350%. Productivity has collapsed and we are in a Zimbabwean whirlpool.
Time for Death Duties and CGT on the family home.
Brief change of tangent. There was media during the last week or so about apparently the biggest Australian arms export deal ever in the offing, being producing Rheinmetal Boxer AFV’s for the German army in the new Brisbane factory. ‘Hooray’, but surely this will just mean redirecting production to Germany instead of ourselves. I also don’t understand the relative economics of this, it can’t possibly be cheaper to build them here than Germany, surely? Speed and volume of supply perhaps, realising they need to rapidly replace older equipment donated to Ukraine?
https://open.substack.com/pub/mattiasdesmet/p/the-fear-of-the-coronavirus-is-more?r=j2j4d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
We have all witnessed the level of fear in the community generated by medical bureaucrats and pollies in relation to Covid. It is increasingly clear that this generalised fear has not abated. Indeed, it seems to have become endemic and more generalised as “climate change,” economic volatility and international crises grip society.
In this article Mattias Desmet (of “mass formation” theory) proposes that this fixation is fracturing western societies.
‘Also, please give me money. Socrates predicts that you will.’
Nah, that would be from taxpayers.
Easily fixed by increasing the police budget. Courtesy of taxpayers.
Every time this magical Nostradamus computer’s name pops up, I am reminded of the pronunciation used in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure:
‘Woooah. So – crates.’
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
Behold the man
One of the fundamental questions at the heart of contemporary Western culture concerns what it means to be a man.
Do men have a place in our culture anymore? How should men act? How can he love and protect those entrusted to his care? How can he air his concerns without them being immediately smacked down because they are different? How can he be faithful to his role as one of two parents—the sole primary educators of their kids? How can he share his anxieties and struggles without diminishing his manhood? How can he find profound happiness, freedom, and real interior peace?
In our first reading Isaiah turns our eyes to the contemplation of the complete and definitive answer to these questions: the co-eternal son of God become man, Jesus Christ. And the first thing we see is, quite simply, that Jesus is a man—that God became a male human being.
There is no nonsense here about concluding that men are superior to women. Given he received his male body from a woman, men and women are clearly equal in dignity. But it clearly proclaims the Creator’s unchangeable decision that men, just like women, have an unalterable place in society as well as in creation for all the rest of eternity.
Somebody above mentioned Ed Dowd saying Brooke Jackson case was important if could show Pfizer’s trial fraudulent as would negate the contracts.
Unfortunately the judge threw her case out as per her Twitter account yesterday. A lot was riding on that case which had a big team of lawyers.
I believe will appeal.
There was media during the last week or so about apparently the biggest Australian arms export deal ever in the offing, being producing Rheinmetal Boxer AFV’s for the German army in the new Brisbane factory.
I understand there is a particularly powerful new rifle being manufactured at a certain NSW facility as well. Who knew? It’s impressive.
LOL! The hot tears and hot takes are zinging in.
Leave the word ‘gibberish’ to Matrix’s friendly fire, M0nty Black Shirt. Find one of your own.
People vote Labor when they are committed to a two-Party electoral tradition; ‘I’ll give the other mob a go’ is what you often hear when times are tough. For some years now the Liberals have downplayed the energy issue whereas Abbott brought it to front of mind and explained it. Believe me, M0nts FS, the issue is still a simmering cauldron in much of the electorate and will become explosive soon enough. If the Libs can’t capitalise early on that, then they truly are done. And so are we as a nation.
You go ad hom onto Piers because you cannot sensibly reply to his viewpoints.
Have alternative motives been discussed?
ISIS claimed responsibility. Then there are the ground shots suggesting multiple shooters.
‘Electoral realty’ could mean that electorates with a significant ethnic Chinese population won’t vote for a south Asian candidate.
Mandarin is the second biggest language spoken in the home after English in Aston.
From the Oz What the fvck have the financial geniuses of the Labor Party got in store for us now?
TUCKER CARLSON: Leaders turned the American legal system against their political opponents
He calls this the new standard of justice
The defining principle of the American legal system, really of American life, the principle that has kept us free, is equal justice — and the principle is fairly simple. No matter what you look like or who your parents were or what your politics might be, the law treats you exactly the same way as it would any other American. In this country, justice is blind.
Now, that’s a lofty standard, but because Americans have long believed in fairness and because most of the people in charge of administering that system have behaved in good faith, this country has, for the most part, lived up to its core ideal for 250 years, making it the greatest country in the world, but the populist surge of 2016 changed everything.
Permanent Washington suddenly felt more threatened by its own voters, by American voters, than by any foreign adversary. Donald Trump, to them, seemed more dangerous than ISIS. They panicked, and in their panic, our leaders decided to turn the American legal system as well as the American intel agencies and if necessary the U.S. Army, against their political opponents.
They felt they had no choice. In doing this, they abandoned the ancient principle of equality under the law and they replaced it with what is effectively a loyalty oath. Opponents of the regime became enemies of the state. That’s a huge change and you’re seeing the results of that change tonight.
Just 24 hours after a Manhattan grand jury indicted Joe Biden’s rival in the next presidential race, another jury also in New York convicted a Republican social media influencer called Douglass Mackey.
What did Mackey do wrong?
Well, Douglass Mackey’s crime was mocking Hillary Clinton voters online. You’re seeing on your screen the meme that Mackey posted on Twitter during the 2016 election. In that meme, Mackey suggests it’s possible to vote for president by text message because only Hillary voters could be stupid enough to believe something so absurd, but of course, in real life, no one did believe that.
Mackey’s insult did not alter a single vote in the election and no one has proved otherwise. The government brought forth not a single victim of this crime. It couldn’t. Douglass Mackey was joking.
Nobody believed he was a federal election official and in fact, his social media profile picture had a Donald Trump hat. It was unmistakable.
This was mockery, but in the wake of the 2016 election and the rising hysteria about Donald Trump, mocking the Democratic Party became a crime. So as a result tonight, Douglass Mackey faces 10 years in prison. The case against Doug Mackey is the most shocking attack on freedom of speech in this country in our lifetimes.
It’s also a useful lesson in who will be allowed to speak going forward. As it turns out, a woman called Kristina Wong posted an almost identical meme the same year back during the 2016 election, but unlike Doug Mackey, Wong voted for Hillary Clinton. “Hey, Trump supporters,” she wrote. “Skip poll lines and text in your vote.” Same crime, but the Department of Justice under Joe Biden has shown no interest in prosecuting Kristina Wong.
Do you see how this works? Have you internalized our new partisan legal standards? That would be the point of the exercise. They want you to know the rules. We’ll have more on the Doug Mackey case and what it means for you and for America in just a moment and by the way, Douglass Mackey is not the only Trump supporter who’s now going to prison because of how he voted.
According to new reporting from Julie Kelly, the FBI’s counterterrorism division just arrested a grandmother in the state of Virginia on four misdemeanors this week.
What exactly did she do?
She entered the Capitol with her elderly mother for a total of 15 minutes on January 6. She hurt no one. She destroyed nothing. She just stood there and yet, at the very same time, during the very same week, none of the transgender thugs who invaded the Tennessee State House yesterday have been rounded up by the FBI counter-terror division and, of course, they won’t be. Joe Biden just honored them with a trans day of visibility.
So, what we’re watching here unmistakably is bigger than Donald Trump, but we’re going to begin tonight with the latest on his case, and we’re doing that because he is — and this is not at all incidental to his prosecution — he is the leading Republican candidate for president.
From the Comments
– Soviets used to sentence people to 3 years for anti-Soviet propaganda. Mr. Mackey supposed to be sentenced to 10 years for criticizing a Democrat politician. Looks like Dems are even better at this.
If a candidate has to pay for his own clothes, surely hush money is likewise a personal expense.
I repeat. This issue has been adjudicated.
Stormy and Avennati tried to overturn the confidentiality of the hush agreement and obtain a judgment the payment was illegal. They failed. Now Bragg has made up a new offence beyond his powers. Normally bragg would be in trouble for exceeding his powers but in NY and a left run US where the justice system has been corrupted who knows what will happen.
What is being overlooked is that Stormy tried to extort/blackmail Trump. The hush payment was a commercial decision. It’s done all the time.
Rise and shine, citizens of Minister-prasident Mark McGowan’s Far East Germany!
All rise for the Western Australian national anthem!
This is beautifully put, P.
However one explains it, the existence of two inter-dependent human sexes on this planet is both essential and unchangeable. That is Reality 101.
Utter drivel.
We aren’t “wrong”. We are different. Different from pervert loving freaks like you mOron. And, not speaking for anyone else, I’m very comfortable to remain that way. The truth of the matter is mOron, you are a disgusting little lemming. Never with any original ideas or thoughts, following the mindless herd, uttering the standard leftist lies and propaganda. Essentially just an idiot. And a universal trait of an idiot is that they rely on other idiots feeding them thoughts and ideas just to get by with the lemming herd. So at best, you are a useful idiot. Useful to the freaks and creeps you mindlessly give support to here, day in and out.
Loathed and ridiculed – that’s your your place in a sensible world.
That just happened, Lizzie. Except it happened exactly the opposite way to what you were hoping. The Libs lost their blue ribbon Federal seats to the Teals who are just small-l liberals plus climate change realism. The heart of the party’s base is now green-tinged. I’d call the Libs imploding so badly that they ended up losing Josh Frydenberg’s seat rather explosive, and the damage was all to the fossil fuel dead enders.
This Black Knight routine is funny for a while but then it just turns sad. No, you aren’t biting anyone’s kneecaps off. You are bleeding everywhere.
Mark McGowan is an authoritarian prick.
That is all.
De way we do bidness round heah, it’s “our thing”, capiche?
Capisce.
You putz.
Well said, Makka!
I will bow to your superior knowledge of mafia jargon, Dot. You are a lawyer, after all.
you will also be paying an hourly rate and cost-plus for recharges
We watched Tucker deliver that speech on Foxtel, as Hairy had deliberately recorded it.
We usually browse the Saturday paper over lunch on Saturday, but didn’t yesterday.
I think we should watch this today, said Hairy, because it’s going to be important.
Tucker’s delivery as well as his content was stunning, impressive.
America is well down the road to lawlessness now.
Our air-fried bacon and chopped boiled egg burgers were easy to eat in hand while watching. 🙂
Hey Makka, your thoughts on Mark Latham’s recent comments to Alex Greenwich? You know, the ones he was universally loathed and ridiculed for, even by Pauline Hanson?
As Effort To ‘Get Trump’ Ramps Up, Are Leaks From Bragg’s Grand Jury a Crime?
The protection of secrecy is as applicable to President Trump as it is to anyone else.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
It is likely that a serious felony has been committed right under District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s nose and he is not investigating it. Under New York law, it is a felony to leak confidential grand jury information, such as whether the jurors voted to indict. The protection of secrecy is as applicable to President Trump as it is to anyone else.
We know that the information was disclosed while the indictment itself remains sealed and before any official announcement was made or charges brought. It is unlikely that the leak came from the Trump team, which seemed genuinely surprised.
The most likely, though uncertain, scenario is that a person in Mr. Bragg’s office or a grand juror unlawfully leaked the sealed information. That would be a class E felony, subject to imprisonment.
It is possible of course that an investigation is underway, but it seems more likely that Mr. Bragg is too busy making up a crime against the man he promised in his campaign to get than investigating a real crime that took place on his watch.
Under Mr. Bragg’s likely theory, Mr. Trump should have disclosed in his public corporate records that he paid the hush money to avoid his adulterous affair from becoming public.
But no one in history has ever publicly disclosed the reason he paid money for a non-disclosure agreement.
Why would Mr. Trump pay the money in the first place if he had to publicly disclose the embarrassing reason? Furthermore, no one in history has ever been indicted for listing “legal expenses” for setting a potentially embarrassing payment of hush money.
Thus, even the misdemeanor allegation involving false entries is unprecedented and represents selective prosecution. It is also almost certainly barred by the two-year statute of limitations. In order to elevate this bookkeeping case into a felony, Mr. Bragg must also prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the reason Trump made the false entry — if he himself did it — was solely as a campaign contribution to help him win his election.
If Mr. Trump was motivated in part by his desire to protect his wife, children, and business interests from harmful disclosures, that would not constitute the crime of making an undisclosed campaign contribution. So this too is a stretch.
It is a fundamental tenet of American law that criminal law should not be stretched to fit targeted defendants. Criminal statutes must be clear and unambiguous. If there is any doubt, the age-old concept of “lenity” requires that these doubts be resolved in favor of the defendant.
Thomas Jefferson once quipped that for a criminal statute to be valid, it must be so clear that a reasonable person could understand it if he read it “while running.” A nice image!
I intend to read the text of the indictment, while sitting, with 60 years of experience behind me. I doubt I will find that it meets the constitutional criteria for “fair warning,” although I maintain an open mind until I have studied it carefully.
The important point is that when a district attorney ran for office as a Democrat pledging to get Mr. Trump, who is a candidate for president against the incumbent Democrat, that district attorney must have an airtight case.
A weak, questionable, unprecedented, and novel stitching together of two inapplicable statutes, will not, and should not, satisfy the American public that this is not a partisan targeting of a political opponent.
Mr. Dershowitz is professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. He has written 52 books, more than 1,000 articles & has successfully litigated hundreds of cases, half of them Pro Bono
Old Ozzie:
I read the part you put up and I’m currently printing out the entire paper.
It’s quite interesting and perhaps worthwhile pointing you toward a paper I no longer have a copy of – just the short article. It’s called “Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht” by Janowitz and Shils.
After WW2, the US army tried to find out how many German formations had suffered 90% casualties and yet remained coherent units capable of carrying out their missions. In short, it identified many of the problems in your Report. I suspect the creeping politicisation and social engineering that is now flowing into the US Armed and infecting soldiering at the squad level is having a disastrous effect on retention rates and the ability of soldiers to openly relate to each other.
One way around collapsing retention rates is conscription and I think the politico/military class will go for this solution rather than address the issues causing the problems.
Anyway, it’s a fascinating study and has effects and insights well beyond the military and into society at large.
Unfortunately I am unable to get a copy of the full document as I no longer have access through the army. Perhaps someone may be able to assist with access.
“The Libs lost their blue ribbon Federal seats to the Teals who are just small-l liberals plus climate change realism. “
LOL, the pervert apologist is once again lying. He’s quite “unseemly”. He doesn’t have a grasp on reality. It’s like him saying last Sunday that there was no violence at the Auckland rally and that the women who attended to hear Kellie-Kay speak and to stand up and speak for themselves were asking to be punched, to be assaulted and to be silenced by the tranny perverts.
The teals are not small-l liberals plus climate change realism, THEY ARE GREENS.
But carry on pervert apologist, you give us a good laugh.
Oh and let us know how your manifesto is going.
That’s a start. A less than useful idiot.
BillboardChris; the trannies sure do seem to be an angry bunch for some reason. Wonder why.
Hey pervert apologist, what are you thoughts on Alex Greenwich’s original remarks, which started the melee, where he described Mark Latham as a “disgusting human being”?
And no, Latham hasn’t been “universally loathed and ridiculed for it”, not by ordinary people, who can see right through the manufactured spin of the MSM.
m0nty=fa
I’d call the Libs imploding so badly that they ended up losing Josh Frydenberg’s seat rather explosive, and the damage was all to the fossil fuel dead enders.
Speaking of fossil fuel “dead enders”, have you gone fully renewable in your home, and your slum, sorry, rental properties? Solar panels on the roof, battery in the yard, EV in the garage? Are your computer and server fully renewable? Have you cut a deal with a renewable provider that all of your users can receive fully renewable power when playing fantasy football?
It’s for the planet, and if you have not done so, you are even more hypocritical (that’s not praise) than the usual fascist leftard.
Zatara:
That was exactly my thought as I started to read. I don’t know the background of the civilians, but would have thought some detail of military service would have been appropriate.
I live and vote in Wentworth, M0nty Black Shirt, and I know a thing or two about why Teals romped it home here and in other wealthy electorates. Money, money, and more money, to put it bluntly. Lotsa luverley climate change money for wealthy investors and people hoodwinked by woman-good stuff.
That’s ‘realism’ for you.
“Makkasays:
April 2, 2023 at 10:06 am”
Well said, comment of the day.
International EMF Scientist Appeal calls for greater health protection
I like this line –
That’ll work.
“I live and vote in Wentworth, M0nty Black Shirt, and I know a thing or two about why Teals romped it home here and in other wealthy electorates. Money, money, and more money, to put it bluntly. Lotsa luverley climate change money for wealthy investors and people hoodwinked by woman-good stuff.”
This resident of Wentworth concurs.
m0ntysays:
April 2, 2023 at 10:15 am
Loathed and ridiculed – that’s your your place in a sensible world.
Hey Makka, your thoughts on Mark Latham’s recent comments to Alex Greenwich? You know, the ones he was universally loathed and ridiculed for, even by Pauline Hanson?
I do not think that the word “universally” means what you think it means. If you did not suffer from a bad case of short-term memory loss, you would recall comments here that prove you wrong.
careful you dont ‘fall’ off that balcony mUnty
LOL. That’s Majo Malmo mUntgomery talk.
m0nty says:
April 2, 2023 at 10:15 am
Loathed and ridiculed – that’s your your place in a sensible world.
Hey Makka, your thoughts on Mark Latham’s recent comments to Alex Greenwich? You know, the ones he was universally loathed and ridiculed for, even by Pauline Hanson?
Mark Latham doubles down after homophobic tweet to gay MP
The NSW One Nation leader has doubled down on his extreme opinions in a series of new tweets, including one which references the Nashville school shooter.
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham has doubled-down on his decision to tweet about a gay MP, claiming his extreme opinions match those of the masses.
Mr Latham wrote the tweets on Thursday in response to comments from openly gay MP Alex Greenwich blasting him for his involvement in an event where LGBTQIA+ protesters were targeted.
Mr Latham continued his efforts on Twitter on Saturday claiming his extreme views are not that uncommon.
“I’m only saying what normal people know to be the truth,” he said.
“The elites deny this because they are caught up in a weird identity politics cult. In which alphabet people are accorded automatic sainthood.”
Mr Latham went on to reference Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender and killed six people in the horror tragedy this week.
“How many other homicidal maniacs get a leave pass, like this trans shooter in Nashville?” he wrote.
“Alphabet Ideology is a direct threat to the fairness of the rule of law, a pillar of Western civilisation
Summed up quite well by Comment in Daily Mail
That’s the trouble these days . Someone can call you names , but if you respond in a colourful or unacceptable way then you are in the dog box . It doesn’t mean I condone what he said , but I commend Mark for saying what others also think , but are to afraid to say it .
I was sent off to Colesworth this morning to buy a carton of crème fraîche. Imagine my surprise at being required to pay $5 for an essential item that only weeks ago cost $3.75.
Going into Colesworth any time and buying something at the same price as last week is akin to winning Lotto these dayz .. last week .. “homebrand” ginger snap biscuits (250g) $1.10 .. this week $1.70 ..
All of this stuff about mobile phones is mostly garbage. Does electricity flow in wires? No. Do you know what a Poynting vector is? There is EMF everywhere. It’s your choice to live with technology or not.
How does 2000 MW get distributed to homes By electrons on a chain being pushed and pulled?
No, not really.
The whole grid is an array for masses of different strands of Poynting vectors.
I’ve seen some of the stuff about wifi and young plants, but that’s the thing, you’re not a plant. Nor are you meant to being glued to any EMF emitting device. No one ever slept on the back of an old CRT TV did they?
Luckily people stare at their phones these days, rather than hold them up to their ears all day.
actually I do have a question for mUnty …
mUnty … when you wank all day
… how do you manage to stay tumescent?
Yet impervious to nuclear energy as a concept, ignorant of the environmental unsustainability of solar panels and lacking competence in statistical analysis or honesty in presenting data.
Victoriastanis have voted themselves right back to Cain/Kirner. Democracy isn’t a one way street.
Hey mOron, Latham says it all.
Try to understand that because you aren’t normal is your problem and nobody else’s. So you can give up trying to convince us normies you don’t have a problem and get back to celebrating the perverted human dross you are obsessed with.
MatrixTransform says:
April 2, 2023 at 10:28 am
mUnty … when you wank all day
… how do you manage to stay tumescent?
Matrix do you think Monty enjoys
‘Disgusting? How does that compare with sticking your d*** up a bloke’s a*** and covering it with s***?’
In the presence of someone like me who think he’s a dickhead and would say so to his face, the bile would rise up quickly in him.
Well, if and when you do do that when wearing your fat maternity dress, then why wouldn’t he react to your theatrics/histrionics/pouting?
MontyPox Virus, just get jabbed (if not already) with the so called ‘vaccine’ and have 11 boosters. There, that should do it nicely. Hopefully, you will soon appear in the Excess Deaths statistics under the heading of ‘surplus to requirements’.
Always wondered what sort of person could be relied upon
to participate in what Lenin called revolutionary terror.
Monty approves. FMD, the Hun:
Meet the Stags & Vixens.
You may be surprised to know that ‘cuckold porn’ was the second most searched porn term after ‘youth’, according to the authors of the book A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships. While wife sharing may be a commonly held fantasy, in reality, it’s a sexual scenario that is a step too far for most men.
Not for Stags though. These guys get their rocks off watching their wife or girlfriend having sex with other dudes. The Stag either joins in, or watches as a voyeur. The Vixen, or, as they are known in some circles, Hotwife, has sex with the encouragement of her husband or boyfriend with the Bull (that’s the guy who is servicing her).
Another scenario is that the Vixen has sex with a Bull outside of the couple’s shared abode, then comes home and recounts all the details in a blow-by-blow description to turn the Stag on.
So, are we talking cuckolds?
No. However you could be mistaken for thinking that as the definition of a cuckold is a man who enjoys the act of his wife being pleasured by another male. You may have heard the term ‘cuck’ being bandied about of late. In political circles, it’s a barb that the alt-right throw at lefty men as in, “You snowflake cuck,” before the left cluck back and call them “Cuckservatives.”
These insults allude to the fact that in some cuckhold scenarios, there’s an element of ritualised humiliation, submissiveness, jealousy, or denial that comes into play. The Bull, the wife or both dominate the encounter and the cuckhold gets his sexual thrill from the masochistic shame and humiliation.
Their little secret
Meet Stag & Vixen couple Susie*, 36, and Shane*, 38, who are based in the USA and go under the Twitter handle, @Ourlittlesecret. So called, because apart from indulging in extra circular bedroom activities, they’re otherwise a long term straight married couple with kids and regular jobs, whose friends have no idea what they get up to. Although their 72K Twitter followers do.
For Susie and Shane, the term Stag & Vixen was a better fit than cuckhold. “It’s a description that suites us perfectly as there is no humiliation or denial involved,” explains Shane. “I prefer to be a voyeur, but occasionally, I’ll join in. Watching my wife with another man is a big turn on for me. It’s like foreplay. As much as I love watching, I can’t wait for the Bull to leave so I can ravish Susie myself”.
In Stag & Vixen circles, this is known as “reclaiming” and the focus of the couple returning back to each.
It was Shane’s long held fantasy for Susie have sex with another man. “We’d often role play it in a fantasy situation,” explains Susie. “However, I was too insecure about my body to entertain the thought of having sex with anyone else. Then we started the Twitter account and started posting naked pictures (Susie never shows her face, so there’s an anonymity). I enjoyed the exhibitionism and the compliments. I got talking to a guy who lived in our city and he asked me out for coffee. Shane was all for it.”
After the date, the Bull came home with Susie and they had sex. “Sex with another man was appealing because Shane and I have been together since I was 18” she says. “I felt like a teenager who was dating again.”
However Susie found being watched by Shane awkward at first. “Initially, I found it hard to have sex in front of Shane,” she says. “He knows my comfort levels, so now he leaves us to it, until I get into it. Once I’m warmed up, then he’ll come into the room and I feel okay.”
“Once I walked in on them and she was on top; it’s your bed, your wife and another man. It’s crazy, but it’s a big turn on,” says Shane. “However, it’s not like in the movies, with the guy directing the scene, I just sit there quietly.”
“Every now and then, I’ll look over, smile and giggle Shane’s way,” adds Susie. “Or Shane will come over and give me long hot horny kisses.”
The Rules (are there any? Gawd almighty)
Interestingly, many stags have no interest in sexual encounters with other women. “I’ve got a hall pass to sleep with other women but that wasn’t original intention. It was always about Susie’s pleasure and the pleasure I get from her experiencing it.”
However, the couple say there are rules in place. “The rules are Shane has to know about everything and we can’t have any secrets,” says Susie. “If I happen to go out by myself, he has to hear all the details.”
Shane says there definitely was a learning curve when the couple first started living the Stag & Vixen lifestyle. “Susie would get lost in the moment on dates and forget to keep in touch,” said Shane. “Once she had sex in the car before she got home, which was a sore subject as I wanted to be her to be here when she was having sex.”
The obvious question that has be asked is whether Susie ever felt coerced in anyway? “No, I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t want to,” she asserts. “I like being able to experience pleasure with other men. However sex anyone other than Shane is purely sexual. Our relationship is my prime focus.”
The couple say they have more sex together now. “Susie tends to be more horny before, during and then after, if she has a date. It has brought us closer together more,” says Shane.
The decadent West is gone. FMD again
Sure it is. Dan Andrews is a speeding, drunk, filthy garbo driver going the wrong way at 4.30 AM and the soyjaks on the Vespas delivering foie gras and soy lattes to SES band Vicco PS psychopaths don’t have time to turn around or cut and run.
Black Ball:
Well, old mate Behyad is wrong. The big factor is political. It depends on how much the government is willing to throw at the problem they’ve created, to hide their culpability.
I really hope I live until 2030 – just to watch an enraged citizenry put heads on pikes, or watch the useless bastards do the piano wire mazurka after the whole damn stupid AGW/EV bullshit goes tits up.
Political left is undermining faith in our government
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times
On the day House Democrats voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mr. Trump tweeted a photo of himself — an homage to the Uncle Sam “I want you” poster — with the words “In reality they’re not after me they’re after you I’m just in the way.”
The left’s pursuit of Mr. Trump has been unrelenting. They continue to shatter norms, hoping to guarantee Mr. Trump never returns to power, and thus, his voters never have a voice.
Mr. Trump was the first president to be impeached twice. His presidential campaign was the first to be wiretapped by the Department of Justice. He’s the first former president whose home was raided by the FBI. He was the first president to be banned from social media. He was the first private individual that Congress decided was OK to publicly release his tax returns.
Now, he’s the first ex-president to ever be indicted on charges even many of his critics agree are flimsy.
But the left’s weaponization of the entire federal government against its critics has gone beyond Mr. Trump.
As he foretold in his 2019 tweet, Democrats will stop at nothing to delegitimize, destroy and suppress anyone who doesn’t completely subscribe to their ideology.
It was revealed last week the Department of Justice instructed the U.S. marshals who were assigned to protect Supreme Court justices’ homes after the reversal of Roe v. Wade last year not to arrest abortion rights protesters “unless absolutely necessary.”
In 2022 and the first couple of months of 2023, there have been more than 81 reported attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and 130 on Catholic churches. However, only two individuals have been charged.
Over the same period, DOJ announced charges against 34 people for blocking access to or vandalizing abortion clinics.
Visitors to the National Archives had been told to remove or cover articles of clothing with pro-life messages, as the political apparel “disturbs the peace” and could “incite others.” The security officer responsible was fired, but only after a lawsuit was filed.
Lastly, Christians who stand against the mutilation of young children in the name of “gender-affirming care” are now being targeted. Six people, including three children, were killed last week in a school in Tennessee by a gender-confused attacker.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said it was too early to say if the shooting was a hate crime, as the police are still investigating the assailant’s motive.
On Thursday, on the White House podium, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now.” Later that day, the White House said transgender people “shape our nation’s soul” in an official proclamation and declared March 31, 2023, to be Transgender Day of Visibility.
The left doesn’t care about norms or unifying this country. It’s clear they’ll use every tool at their disposal to crush their opponents. It’s bigger than Donald Trump. You could be next.
It’s a fair cop Gov.
But it isn’t moida, no.
Its a job application to the Gaystapo.
As I said about MontyPox Virus the other day.
Mother Nature designed the Human Bum for EXPORT and not IMPORT.
Despite, like mUnty, being a member of the upper Middle Class I would struggle -though applaud crème fraîche described as an essential item. I used to put a small tub in my pumpkin soup, which frankly needs all the help it can get.
I reckon mUnty would root anything for a biscuit
Victorian voting.
The equivalent of the wife telling hubby, stepping out the door to work, that the car is dead empty after her yoga class trip.
I really hope I live until 2030 – just to watch an enraged citizenry put heads on pikes, or watch the useless bastards do the piano wire mazurka after the whole damn stupid AGW/EV bullshit goes tits up.
With respect Robert Sewell, it will go ‘base over apex’ well before then. Just around 2024/2025 just before the time of the next Australian Federal Election. Liberals/Conservatives – You have a lovely 2 years to get your Act together. Get on with it NOW……………………
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
From Stanford to Israel, Mobocracy Triumphs Over Deliberation
The tyranny of an emotive mob is winning.
The very notion of republican self-governance, which has been a core tenet of Western civilization since the demise of the great monarchs of Europe, depends upon the willingness of citizens to debate and deliberate the most pressing issues of society.
Sadly, high-profile recent examples, from the tony terrain of Stanford University all the way to the raucous streets of Tel Aviv, Israel, underscore the extent to which Western societies have given up on reasoned deliberation and capitulated to mobocracy.
Where this civilizational decline ultimately ends is anyone’s guess.
Earlier this month, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan was relentlessly heckled and successfully shouted down by a frothing mob of mini-Robespierre jackals who call themselves Stanford Law School students. The mob was simultaneously juvenile and outright vile, with one student unconscionably yelling to the esteemed jurist, “We hope your daughters get raped!” Even more galling, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach finally rose up upon the judge’s plea to restore order … and, in prepared remarks, sided with the protesters and ludicrously asked whether the “juice” (of Judge Duncan’s planned remarks) was worth the “squeeze” of the alleged “harm” to the pampered brat students that Duncan’s mere presence caused. (Steinbach has since been placed on administrative leave by Dean Jenny Martinez, although the culpable students have tragically escaped thus far with impunity.)
Earlier this week in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose conservative governing coalition has for months been pushing a set of anodyne, sorely needed, and long-overdue reforms to the unaccountable and almighty Israeli Supreme Court, agreed to pause his legislative push amidst unprecedented pushback and widespread societal meltdown.
The at-times hundreds of thousands of rioters in the streets, who blocked highways and tracked down and physically intimidated leading pro-reform legislators and even Netanyahu’s wife, had reached a debilitating fever pitch. A disturbing number of Israel Defense Forces reservists had reneged upon their military duties. Powerful unions had successfully temporarily grounded all departing flights from Ben Gurion International Airport. Venture capitalists had pulled billions of U.S. dollars’ worth of investment out of Israel’s thriving high-tech sector. All this, despite the left-wing opposition categorically refusing to sit down and negotiate in good faith on the judicial reform legislation.
At Stanford Law School, Judge Duncan’s struggle session resulted in a heckler’s veto outright precluding civil colloquy and the legitimate contestation of ideas. The tyranny of an emotive mob, in short, won the day.
In Israel, foes of the judicial reform rebuffed direct political engagement, preferring instead to shriek “authoritarianism!” at the top of their lungs and gin up international incitement — indeed, an attempted color revolution — against the Netanyahu government.
The tyranny of an emotive mob, in short, yet again won the day (at least for now).
An old lawyer maxim goes:
“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”
Left-wing activists increasingly find neither the facts nor the law on their side, but they have certainly become proficient at pounding the table.
yep … the battery’s full of empty electrons
Normal people find it repulsive but they don’t use it as an opportunity to express contempt and hatred towards a group of people. When Dawkins wrote The God Delusion, the very title suggesting religious people were psychotic, it didn’t help his arguments. When the philosopher Dennett suggested atheists should be described as brights, with a clear implication that theists were dulls, that didn’t go over well either. Hurling insults at people who do not fit into the normal category is not normal behavior. From a PR perspective it is stupid.
The sheep have been so thoroughly demoralized by the left that they will obey their every command. Now we know how Hitler and the Nazis happened.
Worst default wave since global financial crisis
Rating agency Standard & Poor’s is forecasting that the US rate of business failures will double by the end of this year.
Christopher JoyeColumnist
Our long-projected global default cycle has arrived.
Standard & Poor’s reports that global corporate defaults in the year to date were the highest since the global financial crisis in 2009. The rating agency finds that nearly three-quarters of these defaults originated from the US. In fact, US corporate defaults are running at 2.5 times their level 12 months ago.
The sectors driving defaults include media and entertainment, retail, consumer products, telecoms, healthcare and weaker financial institutions. And S&P is forecasting that the US corporate default rate will double by the end of this year.
The pain is likely to be particularly acute in the sub-investment grade (or “junk”) high-yield debt market dominated by zombie companies that cannot get finance from conventional banks.
In Australia, we are seeing cracks emerging everywhere.
Recently, this newspaper has covered the collapse of Tribe Brewing, Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics, coal miner Genuity Group, mining services company Rivet and property developers.
Anecdotally, there are reports of commercial property deals falling over weekly as investors come to understand it is nuts to buy a commercial property unless it pays you a 4 per cent to 5 per cent risk premium above 4.5 per cent term deposit rates. That in turn implies many commercial properties will suffer price declines of 20 to 40 per cent.
Business closures, loan arrears rise
Our economists carefully analysed Australia’s corporate insolvency data published by ASIC, and it shows a dramatic increase in businesses going bust. During the pandemic, as few as 250 companies would fold each month.
This has climbed to more than 700 insolvencies in February alone, based on our seasonal adjustment.
While that does put the rate of insolvencies back to pre-pandemic levels, the concern is the upwards trend, which shows no signs of slowing.
Whereas lenders can and do often hide defaults by extending and pretending (restructuring borrowers’ loans so that no formal defaults show up in the official data), the insolvency time-series does not lie.
Another data source that does not lie and which we study closely is the monthly arrears reported on the circa $90 billion home loan-backed bonds, known as residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).
We compute our own compositionally adjusted arrears indices for all Aussie RMBS, which reveals a striking recent increase in the 30 days-plus arrears rate.
This has climbed from historically very low levels to what looks like a more normal pace. The fear is that the proportion of borrowers missing their repayments will lift a lot further.
A specific pressure point is evident in the non-bank lending market, which is not subject to oversight by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.
APRA requires banks to apply a minimum interest rate buffer of 3 per cent when assessing a residential borrower’s capacity to repay a loan. Yet non-bank lenders are not subject to any of these rules. And with much higher funding costs than the banks, and a constrained ability to compete for market share, non-banks may be relaxing their lending standards to capture new clients.
There have indeed been reports of non-banks reducing their interest rate buffers to as little as 1 per cent, which might be especially imprudent if central banks are required to embark on a second rate-rising cycle after the widely anticipated pause that should materialise over the next few months.
When we dive into the arrears rates reported in non-bank lenders’ RMBS deals, there is a very sharp increase in the share of borrowers falling one month or more behind on their repayments. This 30 days arrears rate looks to have appreciated by some 50 to 100 per cent from 2022 levels.
A long way to go
Here it is important to note that bond and equity markets are assuming that global central banks stop lifting rates in the coming months, then initiate cuts later this year. This presupposes, therefore, that core inflation rates around the world will straight-line down to these central banks’ legislated, circa 2 per cent targets.
But with the advanced economies’ inflation data this year running at an annualised pace of about 5 to 6 per cent, we have a long way to go before one could be confident that the central banks’ 2 per cent targets are assured.
This is particularly true given most of the current inflation is being driven by demand-side rather than supply-side factors, as evidenced by excessively tight labour markets powering robust wages growth and correlated services inflation (goods inflation has peaked).
With this in mind, some media latched on to an interview I gave to the Equity Mates podcast during the week, which discussed the Reserve Bank of Australia’s analysis of consumer vulnerabilities.
While this will not be news to readers of this column, I highlighted the RBA’s finding that about 15 per cent of all Aussie borrowers could face the spectre of negative free cash flows at the current cash rate of 3.6 per cent. The RBA defines free cash flows as incomes less mortgage repayments and essential living expenses.
This obviously puts these borrowers at risk of defaulting on their debts.
The mitigant, of course, is that households have built up large excess cash buffers after huge hand-outs from governments during the pandemic. For as long as they have these buffers to burn through, they can buy themselves time.
Household spending … and mortgage servicing may be more resilient to interest rate increases than they have been in the past.
Our chief macro strategist, Kieran Davies, harnesses an approached developed by the US Federal Reserve to estimate the excess savings built up during the pandemic by comparing the components of household cash flows with their pre-COVID trends.
On this basis, Aussie excess savings total $0.3 trillion (or 21 per cent of annual household incomes). And these buffers have been pretty steady of late, suggesting that households have yet to exhaust them.
More than half the excess savings appear to have been parked in bank deposits. And while higher-income and older Australians hold a lot of the excess savings in dollar terms, relative to incomes these buffers are consistent across both poorer and richer households.
This means household spending, which accounts for about half of all economic growth, and mortgage servicing may be more resilient to interest rate increases than they have been in the past.
That argues in favour of the RBA and other central banks holding interest rates higher for longer given tighter monetary policy will be required to crush core inflation back to their targets. It also raises the risk that after pausing for a period, central banks may have to increase rates even further to get these price pressures under control.
Blue Stilton and a small amount of nutmeg is pretty good too. Disguises the flavour just enough.
The AFR View
Labor’s two-faced approach to the gas industry
Amid a drift into resource protectionism and anti-gas climate wars, Australia risks threatening the resource security of our closest ally in Asia.
The geopolitical dangers of the Albanese government’s two-faced gas policies have been exposed by one of Japan’s leading energy business figures.
In a global energy crisis, Australia arguably should increase its LNG exports to shore up energy-importing Europe and Asia against the aggression of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Instead, the gas industry faces multiple blows. Labor is threatening to force LNG exporters to divert gas to the domestic market. It has imposed price caps on local gas producers. It has submitted to demands from the Greens to new penalties on gas extraction and generally has done too little to resist the assault of climate activists on the essential transition fuel to a low carbon world.
And on top of it, as The Australian Financial Review reported this week, the government now proposes a much bigger overhaul of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax in the May Budget than previously flagged.
The telling words about the real importance of Australia’s gas were spoken in Parliament House on Thursday by Takayuki Ueda, chief executive of Inpex, which runs Japan’s biggest foreign investment project out of Darwin. Ceremonially opened by Julia Gillard, Inpex’s $60 billion Ichthys project has helped make Australia one of the world’s top gas exporters, with a record $93 billion in sales in 2022. It is a more recent example of how Australia integrated its economy into east Asia’s economic miracle by supplying the raw materials for its blast furnaces and power plants, a saga the The Australian Financial Review has covered closely for the past six decades.
Japan has been central to this since the signing of the Australia-Japan Commerce Agreement in 1957. China is the latest and the largest of those symbiotic relationships in east Asia, but Japan remains a cornerstone of Australia’s prosperity and geopolitical security even amid the disruption that China’s emergence as a superpower has brought.
Mr Ueda’s words to a high-level gathering in Parliament House strike directly at Australia’s role as a critical supplier of energy to Western-aligned democracies amid the Russia-China challenge to the rules-based international order.
“On the geopolitical front, Australia’s ‘quiet quitting’ of the LNG business has potentially very sinister consequences,” Mr Ueda said. “The question of who will replace Australian supply into the market is front and centre. Alarmingly, the ‘inconvenient truth’ is most likely that Russia, China and Iran will fill the void.”
“I hope this point is obvious to all of you and that you appreciate that this outcome would represent a direct threat to the rules-based international order essential to the peace, stability and prosperity of the region, if not the world.”
Anthony Albanese personally assured Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Perth in October that Australia would remain a reliable supplier of exports amid concerns in Tokyo of rising “energy nationalism” in Australia. Resources Minister Madeleine King this week strongly argued that Japan and Korea would need gas for decades, and they transition to net-zero carbon emissions.
Yet, Labor’s deal with the Greens this week to get its carbon trading scheme through Parliament further threatens developments such as Inpex’s plans to tap more gas for Ichthys, backed by carbon capture and storage.
With its drift into resource protectionism and anti-gas climate wars, Australia risks threatening the resource security of our closest ally in Asia. And it is impossible to overstate Japan’s historic sensitivities about the security of its resources supply chains, which now of course applies to South Korea and China too.
Now, to finance its out-of-control budget spending, the government is mulling an increase in the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax on gas producers.
There may be a case for a PRRT adjustment as part of a genuine overall tax reform package.
But given the government’s uneven approach to the gas industry, it will just add extra sovereign risk to one of the export industries that are actually holding up Australia’s national income and its tax revenue.
This new world of energy volatility demands a much more unified Australian policy approach to national security, economic prosperity and decarbonisation.
The Coalition parties should focus on this, too, and not push Labor toward the Green left as it has done through their misjudged opposition to the government’s limited carbon trading scheme, the so-called safeguard mechanism, it pushed through the Senate this week.
You have it wrong. And rolling over simply encourages others sick fks.
I’m making observations of abnormal sick behavior. Behavior that insults the values and people I respect. You do what you want but my suggestion is to shove your preaching John H. Bowing to “PR” is what has gotten this world into the horrible mess that it is. That’s stupid.
Dot:
It’s fairly obvious that the “Urals” unit is a Blocking Detachment.
An old lawyer maxim goes:
“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”
And if you are a long suffering Taxpayer and Voter – Of with their Farking Heads.
So said Attila the Hun
The main problem with pumpkin soup (or any cooking really) is the volume when you live by yourself. A useful example of diminishing marginal utility for those failing Econs 101.
It would depend on context. Potentially it is simply a case of defining boundaries in a robust way, some people need that sort of thing.
Oh my goodness.
Translated: ‘I am totally fine with watching my missus cram as much stray pipe into her as she can.’
‘I can’t wait to see if the big dog’s left any scraps in the bowl, which I will investigate – but after he’s gone, lest I be barked at.’
Juan! Get in here!
Razeysays:
April 2, 2023 at 11:05 am
The sheep have been so thoroughly demoralized by the left that they will obey their every command. Now we know how Hitler and the Nazis happened.
m0nty=fa as Himmler (he’s too fat to be Heydrich)?
Juan, Eduardo, Chad, Huang, Tyrone, Vlad, Thad…Dad? Dad! Dad, how could you!
“MatrixTransformsays:
April 2, 2023 at 10:49 am
do you think Monty enjoys
I reckon mUnty would root anything for a biscuit”
I reckon mUnty would let HIMSELF BE ROOTED by anything for a biscuit.
There, fixed it for ya.
CB’s and Govt’s are at opposing poles in this shitmess. While CB’s move to crush economies and increase UE (aka lowering demand), Govts of idiots are restricting supply with stupid green policies while handing out OPM to the masses and spending like drunken sailors(aka funding demand).
Prices are NOT coming down. Ever. We are in a step jump inflation spiral at least until the end of the decade.
Monty Python – “Loretta” Life of Brian were ahead Society today – 1 Min 54 Secs
From the Comments
– It’s official — American politics has become a Monty Python sketch
– This didn’t age well, it aged even better and better.
– You know you’re in trouble when reality is even more ridiculous than a Monty Python movie …
– The last line says it all…”it is symbolic of his struggle against reality”
– “Where’s the foetus going to gestate? Are you going to keep it in a box?” One of my favourite lines in all cinema.
– Seriously, Life Of Brian belongs with 1984 and Brave New World in a list of the most accurate predictions of politics in the 21st Century.
From the members only forum of some fantasy football site?
Prices can’t stay up with insolvencies, bankruptcies, failed loans and imploding, illiquid banks.
The price of credit however can go upwards after that.
Victoriastanis have voted themselves right back to Cain/Kirner. Democracy isn’t a one way street.
I have always remembered that 1990/1991 joke about Sicktoria and it is so appropriate again now.
Question: What is the Capital of Victoria?
Answer: 1 Dollar.
LoL
Bill Maher and J.K. Rowling Are Asking Questions About Transgenderism That Many on the Left Won’t
A Gallup poll from lasted year found that the percentage of Americans identifying as LGBT increases with each generation, with less than 1% of those born before 1946, 2.6% of Baby Boomers, 4.2% of Generation X, 10.5% of millennials, and 20.8% of Gen Z.
Does that look organic? Of course, it doesn’t; it’s a social contagion.
Even left-wing comedian Bill Maher recognizes what’s happening: that being LGBT, particularly transgender, is trendy.
Transgenderism was once extremely rare and limited to middle-aged men.
However, it has become increasingly prevalent among children in recent years, with a surge in young girls expressing a desire to transition.
“I think most who do it, you know I’ve talked to parents about this, a lot of times you just know that kid is not gay, you know, there was just, the factory installed equipment didn’t match, ok, that’s a real thing, it happens, it’s rare but it happens. But, and you’re talking about, there are other ones now because it is also somewhat trendy, I know people hate to hear that but it’s obviously true, there is an element of social contagion, or else it wouldn’t be so prevalent in here [California] and not in Indiana, it wouldn’t be regional,” Maher said.
This is not the first time that Maher acknowledged the transgender social contagion.
“If we can’t admit that, in certain enclaves, there is some level of trendiness to the idea of being anything other than straight, then this is not a serious, science-based discussion. It’s a blow being struck in the culture wars using children as cannon fodder,” he said last year.
Maher’s recent remarks come on the heels of Harry Potter J.K. Rowling called transitioning children “one of the worst medical scandals in a century.”
“We are watching one of the worst medical scandals in a century,” she said on The Free Press’ podcast The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. “Those that should have known better — the medics and those who have unquestionably cheered this on — are creating a climate in which those trying to raise red flags have been intimidated and silenced.”
“We’re dealing with children, in my view, being persuaded that a solution for all distress is lifelong medicalization. That is real-world harm. There’s no closing the book and walking away. There’s no playing with this, experimenting with this, and not suffering harm, in my view… I certainly hope that for adults who have found no other way to resolve their gender dysphoria, transition may be the answer,” she added.
Both Maher and Rowling are leftists, but they get it. They see what’s going on and are asking questions that too many on the left are not because they’re too scared.
Prices can’t stay up with insolvencies, bankruptcies, failed loans and imploding, illiquid banks.
As long as folk keep eating Colesworths will keep on upping .. !
dotty, remember that CPI only measures the rate of change- not the price level.
Let me know when your packet of fags or a schooner return to pre-2020 levels.
OldOzziesays:
April 2, 2023 at 11:29 am
Monty Python – “Loretta” Life of Brian were ahead Society today – 1 Min 54 Secs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chnlQQCsTVw
LOL. It is symbolic of his/her struggle against reality. And there you have it. QED.
You can shove your preaching Makka. How hypocritical of you to make that a pejorative as you stand on your soapbox. How has it worked out for Latham? Big waves of support for him now? Has there been a huge surge of people tweeting in like fashion? Does conservatism want to die on a hill over this issue? If conservatives go down the Latham road it will lose support. The only air time Latham gets is on Sky News and now that will take a hit. In politics exposure is critical and he has seriously damaged his PR opportunities. He wants to be a martyr fine but he and you need to remember that nearly all martyrs die in vain.
The musical equivalent of trying to make the MG42 better, and triumphantly waving aloft an M60 (the Hun):
This monstrosity was apparently promoted as a ‘banger’ by the AFL.
Leave. It. Alone.
Question: What is the difference between a Victorian merchant banker and a pigeon?
Answer: A pigeon can still make a deposit on a Lamborghini.
Like Tasmanian opium poppy farming industry
New Jersey factory imports cocaine plant that flavors Coca-Cola thanks to DEA arrangement
Guess you really can’t beat the real thing.
Coca-Cola gets its iconic taste thanks in part to a chemical processing factory in a sleepy New Jersey neighborhood that has the country’s only license to import the plant used to make cocaine.
The Maywood-based facility, now managed by the Stepan Company, has been processing coca leaves for the soft-drink giant for more than a century and had its license to import them renewed by the Drug Enforcement Agency earlier this year.
The coca leaves are used to create a “decocainized” ingredient for the soda and the leftover byproduct is sold to the opioid manufacturing company Mallinckrodt, which uses the powder to make a numbing agent for dentists, DailyMail reported.
It is unclear how much coca leaves the Stepan Company imports annually, although the New York Times reported in 1988 that it brought in between 56 and 588 metric tons of coca leaves from Peru and Bolivia each year, citing DEA figures.
One ton of coca leaf costs over $5,500 in Peru, so the Stepan Company would be paying between $308,000 and $3.2 million for the shipment of the illicit leaves if the amount it imports has remained constant over the decades, according to data from agricultural company Selina Wamucii.
Ricardo Cortés, author of 2012’s “A Secret History of Coffee, Coca and Cola,” wrote that he obtained records from the National Company of the Coca, a Peruvian state-owned company, which showed that up to 104 tons of coca leaves were exported to Maywood each year between 2007 and 2010.
Importing coca leaves was banned in 1921, but the legislation left an exemption for Maywood Chemical Works, which ran the factory before Stepan Company bought the site in 1959.
*Dan Sultan, a (naturally) fave of the ABC has multiple convictions for smacking various girlfriends around the kitchen. Potentially, he was discussing the openings of flower shops.
Makkasays:
April 2, 2023 at 11:39 am
dotty, remember that CPI only measures the rate of change- not the price level.
Let me know when your packet of fags or a schooner return to pre-2020 levels.
And that the CPI stands for the Corrupted Price Index. Lol
I don’t know if you can get them in Aust, but they do make 1.5 litre crock ports as opposed to the normal 5 litre, perfect for singletons or as a present when the kids fly the nest.
Also the CPI components and their respective weightings within the computation are doctored on a regular basis by Govts and their statistic agencies to ensure the most downward pressure is applied on the finally excreted number coming out the end- that gets blasted in breathless headlines across the nation.
So you can be absolutely certain that for eg; 6.8% inflation rate in reality affects your pocket by at east 12+%.
O_0 pots not ports
that’s what tupperware and freezers are for.
So what? If I know the price level and CPI…can you chew gum and walk at the same time.
???
They’re taxed with automatic indexation (so they’re never, ever going backwards) and you are talking about nominal prices too.
Likewise I was talking about asset prices and capital goods.
It depends on how bad things get. Reading national accounts during the early years of the great depression is sobering.
800,000 interest only mortgages will reset this year, taken out at 3% or less, now they’re going to pay at least 6.5% on the principal as well and more likely 8.5%.
It typically means their mortgage servicing will literally quadruple. This is not something to be taken lightly. After a typically bad depression, you can get lower nominal prices but higher real prices.
This isn’t all inflation either. It is negative economic growth in some sectors hurting the general economy.
Yes.
The process should be automated and completely transparent.
Carpe Jugulumsays:
April 2, 2023 at 11:48 am
O_0 pots not ports
Hey, and I just like the ports especially the bottles of them……………….Cheers
Post-Indictment Poll Has Trump Surging to Biggest Lead Ever Over DeSantis
I wrote on Thursday about a Fox poll that came out just before former President Donald Trump was indicted, but after the reports about it possibly happening had come out.
It showed that Trump was racing to a big lead. He had already been gaining in the numbers since January, but the news of the possibility of the indictment may have added even more to his lead, with Republicans likely coalescing behind him in the face of political targeting. The Fox poll found he was leading Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 30 points, 54 to 24 percent. DeSantis has not formally declared a run yet, although he has been making remarks like a guy who would be running.
So, what about polls after the election? What has been the effect of the announcement that the indictment is real?
A new Yahoo/YouGov poll shows that he’s now increased his lead over their prior poll numbers, surging to his largest-ever lead over DeSantis in their poll. They note that in February, DeSantis was leading in the poll, 45 to 41 percent. Then in a poll conducted two weeks ago, in a head-to-head matchup with DeSantis among registered Republicans or Republican-leaning independents, Yahoo had it at 47 to 39 percent, with Trump up by 18.
But now, after the news of the indictment became official, Trump is up in their poll by 26 points, 57 to 39 percent, in a one-on-one race. Adding in 10 others who are declared or likely to run, Trump has the majority support 52 percent, up from 44 percent, with DeSantis is only at 21 percent, dropping from 28 percent.
Everyone else isn’t even close and is just in single digits.
Trump’s favorable rating has also gone up with Republicans by 5 points, from 74 to 79 percent.
The Chinese EV car (fire) revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOA7qKMcjcE
What am I preaching on my soapbox JohnH? That by his posts,mOron is proclaiming he is a freak? That I observe he ridicules normal people because we don’t celebrate his fawning over creeps? While you hurl insults because you don’t agree with my challenging the blog pervert’s sick ideology? Because PR?
Cry me a fkn river , petal.
Carpe, ours is the size of a fairly small bath.
Very handy for fortnightly family dinners when they bring their catch home to the old nest.
Must look for a cute little one. Probably near the student-size rice cookers?
The freezer is your friend, Bear. Make up a batch, split into serves, eat one and freeze the rest. There are many one pot dishes this applies to. Plastic takeaway containers are ideal receptacles.
Johnny Rotten says:
April 2, 2023 at 11:54 am
Carpe Jugulumsays:
April 2, 2023 at 11:48 am
O_0 pots not ports
Hey, and I just like the ports especially the bottles of them……………….Cheers
Just reminded me – will finish off Penfolds 1945 Grandfather Port this afternoon watching Melbourne F1 GP on Foxtel, starting at 1230 – as well as usual F1 Bundy & Pepsi Max
This isn’t all inflation either. It is negative economic growth in some sectors hurting the general economy.
If you really believe in negative economic growth then how about a positive economic decline. What stupid words.
I like the saying that that Economists were invented to make Astrologists ‘appear’ Professional……….lol
If he beats the charges he’s a lock.
Joe Biden struggling to walk 5 metres down a ramp without constant geriatric care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82LI1pTtOsc
America would be in the very best of hands if Biden wasn’t shaking hands with ghosts.
I wonder how many MSM influenced / brainwashed retards will offer up their bodies to be injected with this muck?
Any doctor who recommends it should be told to f-off….to their face. If your doctor does, find another one. Not all have been corrupted. When I told my GP that I’ve had none of them, he just gave me a smile and said nothing more. A wise move on his part.
Check out this garbage from the ABC. It will suck people into getting it.
A new COVID-19 vaccine targeting Omicron BA.4/5 has been recommended by ATAGI
Australian adults who haven’t had a COVID-19 vaccine or infection in the past six months are eligible for a 2023 booster
The new Pfizer bivalent vaccine will be available from March 6
A new bivalent COVID-19 booster rolls out next month. Here’s what you need to know about the vaccine
Yes, that’s a thing. It’s a loss of production. Stop whining and get back to the fraudster’s sentient AI supercomputer with its predictions that always come five minutes after the news.
Just reminded me – will finish off Penfolds 1945 Grandfather Port this afternoon watching Melbourne F1 GP on Foxtel, starting at 1230 – as well as usual F1 Bundy & Pepsi Max
Well done Old Ozzie from an Old Pommy.
Monty is doing here what he successfully did to the Old Cat – making the Open Thread all about him.
The old excuse about “Our silence only encourages him.” doesn’t hold. It’s more a case of contributors with no self discipline can’t hold back, and are using their lack of self discipline as a shield of virtue to hide behind.
This is not the first time that Maher acknowledged the transgender social contagion.
“If we can’t admit that, in certain enclaves, there is some level of trendiness to the idea of being anything other than straight, then this is not a serious, science-based discussion. It’s a blow being struck in the culture wars using children as cannon fodder,” he said last year.
Maher’s recent remarks come on the heels of Harry Potter J.K. Rowling called transitioning children “one of the worst medical scandals in a century.”
“We are watching one of the worst medical scandals in a century,” she said on The Free Press’ podcast The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. “Those that should have known better — the medics and those who have unquestionably cheered this on — are creating a climate in which those trying to raise red flags have been intimidated and silenced.”
“We’re dealing with children, in my view, being persuaded that a solution for all distress is lifelong medicalization. That is real-world harm. There’s no closing the book and walking away. There’s no playing with this, experimenting with this, and not suffering harm, in my view… I certainly hope that for adults who have found no other way to resolve their gender dysphoria, transition may be the answer,” she added.
Both Maher and Rowling are leftists, but they get it. They see what’s going on and are asking questions that too many on the left are not because they’re too scared.
Far too many on the left will not ask questions because they are frightened of the reaction they will get form the very many fascists on the left. Others don’t care, they simply see mutilation of children as a useful weapon in m0nty=fa’s Culture Wars.
I can sort of understand the cowards, breaking with the consensus can be difficult for committed collectivists. Those who use children as a weapon in a culture war are beneath contempt. They have forgotten, if they ever cared, the Biblical reference to a millstone around the neck. In the end they are likely to meet a well deserved but less pleasant fate at the hands of those whose mutilation they supported.
Yes.
Take me now, Lord.
Robert Sewellsays:
April 2, 2023 at 12:03 pm
Monty is doing here what he successfully did to the Old Cat – making the Open Thread all about him.
The old excuse about “Our silence only encourages him.” doesn’t hold. It’s more a case of contributors with no self discipline can’t hold back, and are using their lack of self discipline as a shield of virtue to hide behind.
I disagree. I have used plenty of self restraint. In fact, I do think that that I have been mild with my comments and his/her/its replies have been ineffectual and insipid. Big words I know but that’s how it goes with small people like him/her/its/whatever……………………
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/partner-from-law-firm-that-represents-dnc-and-is-suing-trump-over-jan-6-on-behalf-of-democrats-in-congress-arrested-for-possessing-child-porn/
Scratch a Democrat, uncover a pervert.
Otherwise we are wandering, lost, with our compass pulling towards each passing lamppost.
As the worldwide Covid response has shown us so very clearly, in government, data and statistics is for entertainment, not guidance.
Scratch a leftist, uncover a pervert. Or one of their admirers.
I don’t think we will ever know the true amount of deaths and injury caused by this toxic muck.
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The HighWire with Del Bigtree – Jaxen report:
Despite the CDC preparing for the COVID shot rollout in 2020, newly released internal documents reveal that VAERS, the system for tracking vaccine adverse events, was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of submissions despite expecting record reports. Even after planning for a ‘worse case scenario’ of 1,000 reports per day, an untenable deluge swamped the system and its contractors in just 6 days after going live. But it didn’t stop there. Jeffery Jaxen reports.
THE VAERS EXPOSÉ
m0ntysays:
April 2, 2023 at 9:44 am
Piers would eat you for breakfast and still be hungry, Black Shirt Soy Boy.
Piers eats soy for breakfast?
LOL, nearly missed this. m0nty=fa confirms that he is a soy boi.
Robert Sewellsays:
April 2, 2023 at 12:03 pm
Monty is doing here what he successfully did to the Old Cat – making the Open Thread all about him.
The old excuse about “Our silence only encourages him.” doesn’t hold. It’s more a case of contributors with no self discipline can’t hold back, and are using their lack of self discipline as a shield of virtue to hide behind.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. If you want to see what happens when trolls are allowed even a slightly free rein, go to CL’s blog and see how Dick Ed Case is polluting most threads, particularly the Aston one.
Thought for the Day before I head off to Watch Melbourne F1 GP
French Ad Durex Bullet Proof Condom
Steve tricklersays:
April 2, 2023 at 12:14 pm
I don’t think we will ever know the true amount of deaths and injury caused by this toxic muck.
Well. I am 70 years old and never had the jab(s) and never will. And I never got this covid bs virus anyway. BUT, I would still like to find out a bit more about this so called Pandemic. I think I will as time goes on and the interest builds up and I can’t wait.
Rosie, where are you?
OldOzziesays:
April 2, 2023 at 12:20 pm
Thought for the Day before I head off to Watch Melbourne F1 GP
French Ad Durex Bullet Proof Condom
Ha, ha, ha…………..No need for a Silencer.
A history of droughts and flooding rains from 1782 – 1865 in Australia
https://joannenova.com.au/2020/03/a-history-of-droughts-and-flooding-rains-from-1782-1865-in-australia/
Here’s one for all the history-deniers from 1885
Mr N Bartley understood Australias climate 134 years ago better than some climate scientists appear to now.
Rain, rainfall, Australia percentage of average, Feb 2020.
After the fire came the floods, Feb 2020.
Even then Australia already had a century-long rolling cycle of floods, fires and droughts. One natural disaster after another back when CO2 levels were perfect.
These go back to the earliest dates of European settlement. Wherever Captain Flinders landed in 1782 — 1792 he found “found traces of drought and bush fires invariably”.
In 1839, the drought was so bad that fish “putrefied” in the big Murrumbidgee River even though there was not one coal fired power plant on Earth.
The author laments that the droughts “become forgotten in the flood intervals.”
In the modern Wifi era humans can forget even faster.
Below is my summary list of the events described in the story.
Below that, the full letter. From The Queenslander, Sept 19th, 1885.
*Since Captain Flinders was born in 1774, I assume those dates were wrong and he wasn’t commanding a ship when he was 8 years old. Any other suggestions welcome.(thanks Gee Aye, SteveD, James West and Peter Fitzroy)
When society rewards deviancy and punishes the just, said society is on its last legs.
*Since Captain Flinders was born in 1774, I assume those dates were wrong and he wasn’t commanding a ship when he was 8 years old.
British Navy, not impossible! 🙂
Dot:
So what will happen when The Amazing Luigi brings in his Capital Gains Tax on housing, that will be levied each year on unrealised capital gains? And that will be payable as part of rates?
Oh. Wait. That’s only a rumour.
Boambee John – you cannot possible be telling us that people do not engage with Googlery.
But he’s a bad example. His intent is to have the blogs shut down.
Rotten- lol @ you claiming self-restraint.
Cry me a fkn river , petal.
Concise. Accurate. Well done makka (golf clap)
Ha! Imagining himself invincible in imaginary situations.
Doubtless he also dreams of himself, upon the field where so many gallant but ultimately unworthy knights lie scattered where they fell, slaying the dragon and winning the carnal favours of a maiden wearing a wimple.
Perhaps he sees himself in the pilot’s seat of an airliner, with one remaining engine, one wing missing, no wheels, and no coffee. All are silent but gaze upon him like a swaying lifeline they can almost grasp. Then, as the belly of the plane gently kisses the runway and smoothly comes to a halt, the roar of cheering and applauding – and he wins the Carmel favours of a buxom ex-maiden flight attendant.
Or even in an enormous cage fight – him against the gargantuan but evil Donald Trump. No dirty trick is left untried by the villainous Trump – sand in the eyes, scratching, knee to the groin, mean tweets – but each one deftly avoided. Finally Trump leaves himself open, only for a fraction of a fragment of a moment, but it is enough. Then POW! Monty’s fist makes contact with the Orange Nazi who is propelled up from the ground, bursts through the bars of the cage, and sails on without showing any sign of falling earthward again when he finally disappears from sight. And Monty wins the carnal favours of a noodle-armed tranny man in a dress with stubble and a tube of gel mixed with sand.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.The Broadcast Life of Walter Monty.
Greenwich called Latham a disgusting human being. Two decades previously, Savage mocked and degraded a conservative politician by associating his family name with the effluent created by sodomy. Court is routinely harassed and mocked as a relic of a bygone ‘bigoted’ past. I could go on. Where was the PR damage resulting from that for LGBT?
rickwsays:
April 2, 2023 at 12:34 pm
*Since Captain Flinders was born in 1774, I assume those dates were wrong and he wasn’t commanding a ship when he was 8 years old.
British Navy, not impossible! ?
Whether or not, the history is there for all to see. And he was in a ship that cicumnavigated the Australian land mass in those old days. And he mapped it as well as he could without SatNav and that technology and only the stars and the sextant.
There is a plaque acknowledging him in front of the Sydney Opera House on the forecourse. So easy to walk by without noticing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Flinders
Isn’t much better for a household of two (occasionally three, but not as per KD’s previous post).
Our fridge/freezer usually has 3-4 leftover options.
I blame Big Supermarket and Big Grocery generally. They publish recipes tagged as “serves four” which could comfortably feed 6-8.
If only Shooter McGavin had thought to retort, “Well… you are!”
Johnny Rottensays:
April 2, 2023 at 12:26 pm
Cheers to good health.
Sodding Auto-corrupt.
I’ve just been catching up over at C.L.s. Was struth banned here?
Listened to the old Mark Steyn and Douglas Murray interview about the death of Europe.
Got me to thinking that The Voice is far less of a concern than 900,000 new migrants arriving here in the next couple of years thanks to Luigi and big business.
If you want to change Australia without a vote then this is precisely the method you’d use.
TaliDan no doubt putting up a vendors bid on his secret trip to China.
A few weirdo’s, perverts and freaks on show here. It’s not all bad though. Karri Lake @ 14:30 was gold! as was the parrot prior.
I’m still trying to figure out if those wedding vows from that bloke were real or just taking the piss?
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE 142
Are they going to snap up all the distressed sales due to high interest rates?
Are people going to live in shanty towns on public land?
Depravity knows no limits.
Sancho Panzersays:
April 2, 2023 at 1:01 pm
For some reason Mrs Stencho, you have a 0 tick. As A Doubting Tom Arse, I wonder why?
Watch the Purple Party fall over themselves to freeze Latham out:
Latham iced out as NSW Labor heads to minority govt (2 Apr)
Betcha the Libs follow like nice little sheep. After all they don’t have to associated with those smelly disgusting conservative voters for another four whole years.
You being the Doubting Tom Arse of course Mrs Stencho Pantyhose…………………………
Sitting here, procrastinating over paperwork, my thoughts go back 40 years to Ronal Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The SDI was Reagan’s way for the US to leverage its technical superiority to take nuclear destruction off the table. A world-shaping challenge, a massive investment only one nation was capable of making, big outcomes if it worked.
My, how the intelligentsia larfed at the silly old goat.
One for the Gipper (it’s the world, not a movie, right? Right?)
Star Wars (Darth Vader breathing noises)
Ronnie Raygun (snork).
Then, after the fall of the Soviet Union (hello, President Reagan), it was all a fantasy creature of the Pentagon “a hoax”, applause as Bill Clinton canned SDI.
Roll forward 40 years: the militarization of space and Reagan’s ‘fantasy weapons’ have become a game for all to play, with the US in catchup mode chasing Russia and China.
Roll forward 40 years from where we are today…
Roll forward 40 years from where we are today…
Agreed. The West does not have the Industry to back up the threat. The West is weak. And that goes for Australia. Piss weak in fact.
Zelenskyy Sends “New Democracy” Jackboots to Shut Down Orthodox Christian Religion in Ukraine
April 1, 2023 | Sundance
Boambee John:
Predicted by Kurt Schlicter in “Inferno”.
Thoughts of sowing the wind, whirlwind reaping abound.
Johnny Rotten:
I’ve said my bit on this issue, JR.
I’m not going to belabour the point.
Very clever work albeit a bit unsettling.
Klaus and man boobs Billy would be smiling at this. Thankfully the narrative is collapsing….
( starting to ) but it still remains a threat.
2 Mar 2023
A 3D animated short film about not too distant but a dystopian future. It speculates on the potential consequences of the infamous Great Reset, medical tyranny, woke culture, and green agenda. Everything, that World Economic Forum (WEF) is planning for humanity.
Spoiler: you will get to see an animated Klaus Schwab.
BEYOND THE RESET – Animated Short Film
Star Wars was never meant as a total shield although it was sold as such or misinterpreted as such. The idea was to sufficiently blunt a Soviet first strike that the Sovs would suffer massive retaliation. The Sovs also thought it would make an American first strike more likely as the Americans could strike first and wipe out much of the Soviet missile inventory and then deal with a good fraction of what was left and launched against them. The USSR realised it simply could not afford to compete and fortunately Gorby was at the helm and folded. Either way, Reagan was a great warrior who won without firing a shot.
Calli:
There’s a fair chance that while high interest rates will push these house prices down, the very same interest rates will have no bearing on the new buyers who will be wanting to pay cash as a means of getting rid of their currency which can be taken by their governments very easily.
It is raining cats and dogs……………….lol
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR713.loop.shtml#skip
How long before the blackouts start?Millennials already anxious and depressed at increased rents and cost of living . i don’t think they are goinng to cope with the lifestyle they voted for.
My age group are complaining about energy prices $170 $180 a month for one person apartment, energy prices predicted to go up 125%.
Eyrie:
Sun Tzu.
He beat them at their own game, which is why they hate him so much.
Eyriesays:
April 2, 2023 at 1:32 pm
Star Wars was never meant as a total shield although it was sold as such or misinterpreted as such. The idea was to sufficiently blunt a Soviet first strike that the Sovs would suffer massive retaliation. The Sovs also thought it would make an American first strike more likely as the Americans could strike first and wipe out much of the Soviet missile inventory and then deal with a good fraction of what was left and launched against them. The USSR realised it simply could not afford to compete and fortunately Gorby was at the helm and folded. Either way, Reagan was a great warrior who won without firing a shot.
I do so agree. The USA’ns outspent the Soviets who had a 5 year plan that didn’t work like the previous 5 year plan didn’t work. Just follow the money.
Those attacks are against specific individuals. That is very different from attacking categories of people. If LGBT people stated all heterosexuals are( insert insult here), that would put them in a very difficult position. I don’t celebrate their behavior, I find it viscerally revolting, but feelings are not a good guide for social policy. (BTW, funny how lesbians get a free pass.) The current trend towards excessively celebrating their lifestyle may in part be a backlash against the intolerance that was expressed against them. Cursed from the pulpit, sentenced in the courts, beaten up on the street, ridiculed in the media. Expressing contempt and ridicule against a whole category, there are a few history lessons in that regard.
There are categories of behavior I find laughable. For example, people who won’t eat certain types of food. But I don’t laugh in their face nor do I think it is worth an argument, even though I think some diets are dangerous and have long term risks. I think celibacy is against human nature but I admire those who make that choice; although I question their wisdom. I don’t think parents should allow their children to play sports that may induce brain damage, especially as a 2019 study argued that contacts sports are a leading cause of non-fatal brain damage in teenagers. Another study found that 20% of teenagers playing contact sports had experienced concussion. A sports medicine specialist told me: every concussion is brain damage. This is not news, it was obvious 20 years ago. I am mystified why so many encourage a leading cause of brain injury in teenagers. I don’t demonise parents who allow their children to play those sports but I wish they wouldn’t.