I was just watching Justin Jones, the Tennessee Angela Davis haired, lawmaker expelled from the legislature.
Sadly, he is a man with a future. He has obviously comitted an enormous amount of time studying and practicing MLK speech style and gestures combined with Obama style hate disguised by soaring rhetoric.
And, he is well presented, looking as he does like a Starsky and Hutch extra.
He will do well in Michelle’s cabinet.

The Trade Union Pardee taxing aspirational voters again AND bringing on an apartheid style Aboriginal nobility that even Palace Chook and Dreyfus find worrying.

Chalmers is the smartest guy in the room until Paul Keating visits the porta loo.

This link is the basis of ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.

whats aboriginal for “sovereignty”?? …. bueller……….bueller………. bueller?

The ‘respect my privacy’ Luigi is on Sky greasing up to sports teams and stars supporting The Voice.
Luigi reckons people waiting on a better model won’t be getting one and Dutton is just being decisive for asking for a different proposal.

Cassie

Hassan’s prejudices are well known. He’s been caught before making anti-Semitic and anti-Hindu statements. He’s a Muslim bigot.

Why am I not surprised to read this description of the “j’ismist” whom m0nty=fa was praising yesterday for supposedly destroying the basis for the Twatter Files? You know, those “nothingburger” files that were only about Hunter’s “nine-inch hog”?

Oddly, the apologist for everything bad had said nothing for weeks on around 20 separate issues of those files, before yesterday proclaiming their return to “nothingburger” status.

GreyRangasays:
April 9, 2023 at 8:30 am
BJ don’t go there, it’ll make you go blind.

I only go there for the pictures (Venn diagrams), not for the articles.

NBA star Patty Mills, Olympic sprinter Cathy Freeman, and footballers Johnathan Thurston and Adam Goodes.

The Government also hopes to deploy tennis legends Evonne Goolagong-Cawley and Ash Barty

‘Deploy’ a pile of multi-millionaire sporty types who’ve never been near a town camp. Snork.

I am unsure that this will have the intended effect, given that the Voice’s apparent intent is to further enrich this demographic while leaving the desert and saltwater countrymen untouched.

This has pony-tail PR consultant written all over it.

The Government also hopes to deploy tennis legends Evonne Goolagong-Cawley and Ash Barty.

Fair enough, both were relentlessly pilloried for the colour of their skin. Hounded off the court, thwarted by racists at ever turn.

I read this blog every day because it is peopled with wise men and women from all walks of life. I find I have learnt so much, been challenged in many areas and have received countless nuggets of wisdom. Most of all, I feel as if I am part of a conversation that ebbs and flows, goes in multiple directions, occasionally derails but always entertains and often edifies.

If this is what it is to be a bunch of cranks and losers in life, it doesn’t seem all that bad. Indeed, I would be honoured to be counted as one. From proud deplorable to proud crank and loser in life just like that! Thanks, Monty!

Counting flowers on the wall
That don’t bother me at all
Playing Solitaire till dawn
With a pack of fifty one
Smokin’ cigarettes and watchin’
Captain Kangaroo
Well, don’t tell me
I got nothin’ to do

Yep, we have all kinds here. I am quite a bit in the above category. Having busted my gut in the working world, I am unashamedly idle, and I love it. Not a shred of guilt.

Of course, there are people who want to work till they drop – good for them, but it’s not for me.

What brings us together is curiosity, healthy scepticism and often (but not always) a sense of humour. 🙂

Speaking at Qantas’s gala dinner in Sydney, Mr Albanese praised the airline for its decision nine years ago to put “R” on some planes in support of constitutional ­recognition of indigenous Australians.

Yes, because it filled up business class seats at inflated prices with feelgood government-funded troughers as a result.

Joyce may be an insufferable mincing light-on-his-loafers ponce, but he’s an astute businessman.

The Irish dwarf homo was lucky. Dixon paid for new planes which Idh didn’t have to. The cost of fuel was low also. The economy was going gangbusters. The only thing going for him/her was standing up to the arsehole unions.

Marcia Langton WTC article in the Oz now over 2500 comments.

Yet we have a government whose policies will exacerbate each of these three problems.

It’s a feature worldwide. And Govts will eventually win this battle, because punters will always support handouts of OPM either from benefits or spending. Inflation will remain very sticky to up , interest rates won’t come down and in fact will step jump higher over time- with long lags in between perhaps.

I told her parents that their generation (except grandson – who has a great “bullshit detector”) was brainwashed in their classrooms

Once again. This is merely uninterested parents.

There is no excuse – none whatsoever – for a parent to squeal about ‘kids being brainwashed by Marxist Fabian agrarian socialists in schools’ because parents are far more influential than some noncy noodle-armer with elbow patches* will ever be.

Long working hours are also no excuse. That just means you go without all the sleep you want, to ensure YOU raise your child rather than a mid-twenties twerp who went to uni for three years.

It is abject and utter parental failure. Nothing less.

Roger, I still don’t know what you see in tenth rate don like Horn. You seem to forget his disdain for politicians did not extent to Whitlam. He and fellow Marxist Elaine Thomson wrote Death of a Lucky Country in 1975. Horn wrote a lot muck praising Whitlam- ‘mr Whitlam will make Australia a republic. Good.’ ls one bit of muck I recall. I still haven’t found that mid 80s article about horn in Quadrant but will have another look. I don’t recall doing anything to make Australia better other than belly ache and draw a perfesser’s salary.

and now thinking if I should go fishing.

Just leave the tinny in the shed and walk.

Can someone explain today’s liberty quote for me?
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Savannan says:
April 9, 2023 at 9:37 am

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Phew.. at least I am not the only one.
MacIntyre’s “quotes” are impenetrable word salads devoid of any persuasive power.
If they are seen as beacons of conservative thought, conservatives are truly f@cked.

MAJOR: Nato Plans for Ukraine Leaked

Simplicius The Thinker
22 hr ago

As many of you have likely heard, a major leak from U.S. DOD headquarters has just occurred the day before yesterday.

Initially, I wasn’t going to cover it because there was a strong chance it could be fake, and it’s not worth the effort of a full deep-dive for a document of questionable origin/validity.

However, now the Pentagram has confirmed the validity of the documents, as they’re now panickedly trying to scrub the internet of them. From NYTimes:

I won’t post the leaks directly here because apparently the accounts of people who are posting the direct screenshots on other sites have been ‘disappearing’. In particular, the account who first posted it on Twitter is now shown as nonexistent and presumably banned.

As you know, we like to deep-dive into important leaks here, as I did for the big Delta Leaks which exposed U.S.’s C4ISR operations in Ukraine:

But before we dive in, a few contextualizing words. Firstly, despite the absolute authenticity of the documents at first glance, several things should be said as a precursor.

The initial copies which circulated all over Telegram were altered by [presumably] a Russian source who changed (photoshopped) the ‘Losses’ data, however original versions have now been found. (more on this later)

Particularly because the timing of the leaked release so ‘conveniently’ falls right on the eve of the big AFU offensive.

Reuters claims the following:

Russia or pro-Russian elements are likely behind the leak of several classified US military documents posted on social media, Reuters reported.

However, there are certain extenuating circumstances that heavily point to the leaks being real. Which are namely that: there is apparently a much larger trove of leaked data that is floating around, in fact most of it is not even related to Russia / Ukraine and is in fact much more serious and ‘sensitive’ as per U.S. sources, as it pertains to highly secretive internal transmissions regarding China, the Middle East, and more. You can read about it on this new NYTimes article.

And secondly, there are a lot of pieces of info in the leaks which wouldn’t make logical sense in revealing if it was simple disinfo.

For instance, revealing how many NATO/Western spy/intel assets are operating in Ukraine, etc. Such things only serve as evidence for Russia of U.S./West’s collusion an secret provocations/escalations, and serve as future legal proof of the West being the antagonist and initiator in the conflict, which gives Russia major legal and geopolitical advantages. That to me is too big of an oversight.

And lastly, very little in the leak is actually ‘surprising’ or unknown information

So, let’s begin with the breakdown. I will start with what I believe to be the most important, and ‘biggest’ stories of the leaks and work on down from there.

The biggest to me is the internal casualty count. As I said the first circulated document appeared to be doctored to show fewer Russian casualties and more Ukrainian ones. However the original document shows the internal losses as follows:

The CIA seems to have really stuffed up – yet again:

In a rare moment of agreement between Russian and Ukrainian state media organisations emerged over the authenticity of a cache of allegedly leaked U.S. intelligence documents.

Alleged U.S. Joint Staff briefing documents claiming to discuss casualty numbers and logistics including the provision of military materiel to Ukraine were published on Russian social media on Friday, as reported by Breitbart News, representing a major breach of U.S. security by Russian actors if true. Yet the 100-plus documents, which seemed to suggest that Ukraine was fielding fewer troops than thought and had sustained considerably more casualties than Russia, were instantly called into question, and nowhere more stridently than by Ukraine itself.

Russia’s intelligence agents are now so ineffective, said President Zelensky advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, they have been reduced to “photoshop & ‘virtual fake leaks’,” which he insisted is what the documents were. These papers were an effort to “disrupt the Ukrainian counteroffensive” but would not be effective, he said. Publishing these papers was a “bluff” because it would be counterproductive for a real intelligence officer to burn a source by making a potentially rich seam of information exposed to discovery by going public.

Making the point explicitly, the Ukrainian state news service Ukrinform explained: “The documents published by Russian sources may have been partially doctored to cover up the real situation of Russia’s losses and exaggerate Ukrainian casualties.”

West Must Prepare for Total ‘Collapse’ and Fragmentation of Russia, Warns Ukrainian Security Chief https://t.co/CXbjQzOyST

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 5, 2023

The Ukrainians aren’t the only people who suspect the alleged Pentagon leaks might be fakes, though. Pro-Russian front organisation organiser Vladimir Rogov warned, in comments elevated by Russian state media group TASS, that the documents could be forgeries intended to lull Russian forces into a sense of false security. He said: “I think this is a classical disinformation operation, being conducted to mislead us, to make us think [the Ukrainian counter-offensive] is not ready yet and we can relax… Part of what is said there may be true, but as far as the timing is concerned, it’s definitely not so.”

It’s not just the FBI that needs a cleanout.

I do notice that Easter Bilbys are becomng more popular – a sign that being Australian still means something.

One wonders, has the crucial Cate Blanchett celebrity endorsement for the voice been secured yet.

123andbush, so glad you could make it for lunch yesterday and nice of you to say here that you enjoyed yourself. We did too, very much indeed. Such a pleasure to meet you and Mater and his family and to enjoy the hospitality of the Bendigo Rifle Range hostelry, which offered atmospheric surrounds for good pub grub. Hairy amazed that you two guys were prepared to travel such distances just to welcome us to Bendigo, but that’s country life for you. We were impressed. And get Mater started on turbines and there’s a whole new world of knowledge opens up! We all said he should come back in here and keep everyone updated on the coming Vic Electricky crisis but he’s flat out at work right now. We tendered the regards that were offered from all his friends here.

Every time we have met anyone from the Cat IRL we always find such likeable like-minded friends. Sadly, Black Ball couldn’t make it even though he wanted to, a total good guy so Bushie and Mater told us. Easter is like that. Hiya from here, BB.

Have We Reached the End of America? | Opinion

Frank Sinatra famously sang a song that asks “What is America to me?” The son of immigrants, born into working-class poverty in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra is an exemplar of the American Dream brought to life.

Like the rest of us, Sinatra had an answer of his own to that most musical of questions. He did it his way. That’s what the Founders intended for us all, and that’s the genius of America. Everyone is supposed to be free to take an individual approach to life, provided it doesn’t materially disrupt their neighbors’ ability to pursue theirs.

President Joe Biden, who used his inaugural address to preach the virtues of consensus and unity, is instead trying to create a popular front to isolate those he refers to as “MAGA Republicans” and whom Hillary Rodham Clinton called “deplorables.”

They have it in mind to write those people out of the American story. When you consider it, that is an awful lot of people on which to slap a label equivalent to “undesirable.”

We have reached a point where each side of every debate is dominated by powerful forces that want to tell those who dissent “it’s our way or the highway for you.”

For the moment, that ideal appears to be on hold, largely because those who dominate the political and cultural life of the nation—and that includes the news—find more of what they perceive as success in the politics of division than in offering and building support for consensus solutions to real problems.

Bar Beach Swimmer:

As to the relationship between business and customers; the HR dept is running everything and it’s only when the customer base as a whole arks up that there is back tracking.

I’ve said this before but it does bear repeating – Millenials have this odd notion that when they become employed in an organisation, they become able to set policy, even if they’re just the tea lady. I have had multiple arguments over the primacy of hospital policy over State, and even Federal law.
Perhaps they are that used to being in charge of their parents and not having to follow home rules that they carry this attitude into employment.
This becomes obvious when you look at the incomprehensible blunders coming from our State and Federal Parliaments where they have millennials with no life experience running roughshod over their bosses who don’t have the wit or courage to stand up to them.
The entire Higgins affair is an example of the children in adult bodies that has been fatally mismanaged by all. Honestly, I don’t understand why anyone in a position as demanding of life skills as a Ministerial advisor would employ any one younger than fifty. Unless it’s for the eye candy. And if that’s the case, I’d question the Ministers fitness for the job.

Washington and Ike’s Warning On Foreign Policy Greed

Two of our greatest military leaders were also two of our greatest presidents. George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower each issued a compelling Farewell Address that attempted to warn the American people about the dangers of going to war over values instead of interests, of basing foreign policy decisions on sentiment instead of security, and of allowing ideals rather than realities to shape policy choices.

They also tried to warn their countrymen about the insidious nature of foreign influences and the powerful and self-serving influence of the “military-industrial complex,” a phrase made famous in Eisenhower’s 1961 speech.

From politics, business, media, and beyond, these modern voices speak up in favor of deepening America’s engagement in Ukraine. Though we cannot measure their impact, history shows they can influence the perceptions of America’s military and civilian leaders.

Unless it’s for the eye candy. And if that’s the case, I’d question the Ministers fitness for the job.

In the case of Higgins one would also question the ministers eyesight.

Strategy and Weaknesses in Hypersonic Missiles – Friedman, Geopolitical Futures

The Technology of Taming Weapons

The massive spring offensive against Ukraine that Russia threatened has not materialized. This does not mean it won’t happen, but it raises serious questions. A major offensive should not be telegraphed for obvious reasons, and if the secret leaks, it should be launched rapidly. The Russians have not crippled the Ukrainians, nor have they forced the United States to stop sending weapons to support Ukraine on the battlefield. The Russians see themselves as incapable of capitulating or winning a decisive victory.

An alternative strategy is needed. The frequent Russian references to the possible use of nuclear weapons, or breaking with the U.S. on arms controls, make sense in this context.

From the Russian point of view, a nuclear strike creates more problems than solutions. From the American point of view, the defensive posture is inherently dangerous. At the same time, both the Russian and American positions have vulnerabilities built in. Therefore, both sides must create alternatives.

This means that a guidance system maneuvers the missile to a highly specific target, limiting the need for high explosives with large kill zones and implying hyper accuracy on a strike, allowing precision utilization of intelligence.

Maneuverability indicates the ability to evade enemy defenses.

The rise of hypersonics, coupled with precision and other values, puts nuclear weapons at great risk. Accumulating target intelligence, programming target guidance and maintaining the integrity of the attack vehicle create room for error on a stable platform.

But that is not yet here.

Bar Beach Swimmer:

Nobody was given the fine print for Covid. Nobody’s getting the fine print for the Voice. When feeling warm and fuzzy starts costing a shit tin of people’s own cash, it’s never going to end well.

Passing the Voice in a Referendum won’t be the end of the Aboriginal claims – it will be the starting point of the next round of demands.
The Voice will be like a House of Lords based on Race, and staffed with people whiter than the average Australian – like Professor Marcia Langdon. The people living in Wilcannia, Blackstone, and Laverton will still be living in violent and poverty stricken backwaters while the Big Men live in unearned splendour in Canberra and the capital cities.

Japan and the U.S. Are Considering Joint Development of a Hypersonic Weapon Killer

The two countries both need defenses that can counter Mach 5+ missiles.

The United States and Japan are eyeing joint development of a defense system that can shoot down hypersonic weapons—specifically those that glide through the atmosphere in flight. The two countries, which already cooperate on ballistic-missile interceptors, could extend that partnership using some of the same equipment. Both countries are concerned that Chinese, Russian, or North Korean hypersonic weapons, with blistering fast flight speeds, could overmatch existing defenses.

Hypersonic weapons are different. The most difficult hypersonic weapons to defend against are so-called “boost-glide” hypersonic weapons. Boost-glide weapons launch like ballistic missiles, but stop short of temporarily entering low-Earth orbit. Instead, the weapons tack sharply downward, remaining in the atmosphere and gliding back down to their targets at hypersonic speeds. This flight profile presents defenders with a unique challenge, flying higher and faster than traditional air-defense systems can engage, but lower than the engagement envelope of ballistic-missile interceptors. To top it off, boost-glide weapons can execute sudden, high-speed turns that can complicate a defender’s ability to intercept them.

The sheer speed of hypersonics, coupled with the crowded neighborhood of East Asia, further complicates a defender’s job. China, Russia, and now North Korea all operate—or are working to field—hypersonic weapons.

Japan’s capital of Tokyo is only 1,200 miles from the Chinese capital Beijing, a distance a Mach-10 hypersonic weapon can cross in just over 12 minutes. North Korea’s capital city of Pyongyang and the regional Russian city of Khabarovsk are half as far away; this leaves little time for defenders to intercept hypersonic weapons before they begin raining on their targets.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
April 9, 2023 at 10:38 am
123andbush, so glad you could make it for lunch yesterday and nice of you to say here that you enjoyed yourself. We did too, very much indeed. Such a pleasure to meet you and Mater and his family and to enjoy the hospitality of the Bendigo Rifle Range hostelry, which …

Presumably that was the Rifle Brigade Hotel in View St. Nice old pub right in the heart of the Arts Precinct. Sounds like you have had a great time in Benders, Lizzie? Had I still lived there, I would have asked if I could have joined you all for lunch.

Ukraine will ‘disappear’ – Medvedev

Nobody in the world, even its own citizens, really cares about “country 404,” the former Russian president claims

The EU doesn’t need Ukraine because supporting the country amid the conflict with Russia “on the order of their American mentor, plunged the Europeans into a real financial and political hell,” he insisted. Detrimental anti-Russia sanctions, spiking inflation, high energy prices and the “decay” of businesses have already led to protests in various parts of the continent, the official pointed out.

Kiev’s prime backer, the US, doesn’t need Ukraine either, because most ordinary Americans have no idea where it’s located and consider it “some abstract part of Russia,” the post read. They wonder “why the establishment in the US isn’t trying to deal with inflation and [the lack of] jobs or emergencies in their home states, but is instead occupied with this 404 country,” the former president wrote, referring to the “404 error” protocol in network communications.

Only “political demagogues” in Washington, “who have long conceded their impotence and dementia, are trying to make PR gains from military and sanctions campaigns,” he added.

Africa and Latin America reject Ukraine because the “billions that the US is wasting on senseless battles somewhere in Ukraine would’ve been enough to fund many social-development programs” in those regions, Medvedev wrote.

Besides, Russia is much closer to such nations as China and India in a geopolitical sense and has historically proven to be their reliable partner, he added.

Transgenderism is the most dangerous extremist movement in the US

No, no, that must be wrong. Our resident Black Shirt says that TERFs are a Tory plot, and that transgenders simply want to be left in peace to do their own thang.

Tory plot? Shows where that Black Shirt’s head is located, deep in the Albanese universe of fools.
This is in the US. A hideous ideology there, here and also in the UK.

Isn’t Luigi supposed to be on a 1 week “do not disturb” holiday?

Zinc tablets associated with 40% less death, half the ICU admission, and a quicker release from hospital

By Jo Nova

Two weeks treatment costs $3.75*

In Tunisia from February to May last year 470 people with Covid were randomly either given 50mg of zinc each day for two weeks or given a placebo. In the zinc group, after 30 days, 6% had died, and 5% had been admitted to intensive care. Meanwhile in the placebo group 9% had died and 11% had gone to the ICU. People taking zinc got out of hospital a few days before the people who didn’t.

Since there were no serious adverse effects in anyone from taking zinc, it’s obvious that good governments were handing out zinc tablets in carparks, schools and shopping malls, thus saving lives, millions of dollars, and keeping hospitals half empty. The rich world looks to healthcare systems like El Salvador. Shame about the other sclerotic swamps and backwaters of crony medicine. Sometimes countries have too much money to get good treatment.

In Australia, the government spent billions on experimental barely-tested vaccines with hidden results and secret contracts.

Our TGA told everyone the vaccines were safe and useful but fined someone $8,000 for advertising on their website that ivermectin and zinc lozenges were effective against Covid.

But who fines the TGA?

Pity we don’t have Capital punishment for the pollies, health elite and general grifters that have killed countless old people. Never forget, never forgive.

G7 likely to back nuclear power amid energy security concerns

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/04/08/national/politics-diplomacy/g7-nuclear-energy-promotion/

Huge classified document leak could boost Putin’s war effort by revealing exactly how US is spying on Russia – as officials say it may be impossible to trace leak ‘originally shared on Thug Shaker Central group’

. Classified documents leaked on social media in recent days indicate the Pentagon has been keeping close tabs on allied leaders and officials
. Officials say it could be impossible to track the original source of the leak
. Leak could potentially help Putin’s war effort in Ukraine because it allegedly reveals what U.S. knows, giving Russia a heads up on where to cut sources of info

A massive leak of classified Pentagon documents that revealed how the U.S. is infiltrating Russian intelligence could give Putin’s war effort in Ukraine a huge boost.

The intelligence breach could do damage to Ukraine’s war effort, by exposing what the U.S. knows about the Russia war machine, giving the Kremlin a potential opportunity to cut off the sources of information.

US intelligence on Russia is said to have been so good that Ukraine was given two days notice of a strike on a drone depot. American spies are also said to have deeply-infiltrated Russia’s GRU intelligence agency – the successor to the KGB – and discovered how poorly Putin’s war effort is going.

He Is Risen! Happy Easter.

with

Royal Choral Society: ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Handel’s Messiah

HBB

and shitty McJobs after Uni.

At what point will it dawn on them that they could have had “shitty McJobs” without incurring a HECS (or whatever the current name is) debt and wasting three or four years of their youth?