I still enjoy watching Laura Ingram on Fox.
We will both miss Tucker.
Hairy occasionally enjoys watching Gutfeld, who leaves me cold.
We don’t get much else in news out of our Fox subscription, except for Sky, also in decline.
Still in there for the Foxtel History Channel and some movies and series.
I suspect we should move to more alternative TV, but suffering from inertia.

Tucker will be fine anyway I gather he is a trust fund recipient so is not in it for the dollars

“How many unarmed prisoners do you have to shoot, to be considered a war criminal?”

How many rifles must a “preacher” hand out to be considered an insurgent?

Let’s be clear. The British were just being greedy.

A tsunami warning was triggered after a powerful earthquake struck on Australia’s doorstep, west of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island.

That’s according to Indonesia’s geophysics agency, which measured it at a 7.1 magnitude at its strongest and 16km deep.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC)’s website says the tremor hit 199km west of Padang and 172km southwest of Pariaman, both in Indonesia.

This wasn’t predicted.

That’s no insult, either to myself or my Catholic friends here.

Of course not, you’re all in on Presbyterian theology. Not that Uniting rubbish though.

Teaching someone to fish vs. demanding other peoples’ fish with menace.

Be interesting to see if the court settlement with dominion had a confidential clause about Tuckers employment.

If it did then you can effectively kiss off any reporting outside “the narrative” as the threat of legal action might be enough to see you railroaded out.

Maybe she could do a guest post on what she saw in you. Some dot points to help:
– the importance of premarital assets to a relationship;
– the reverse pivot in golf; and
– the decline of attire on public courses.

She would be disgusted by the lot of you. Especially those who professed Catholic devotion while hating minorities, supporting fascism and failing to help the disadvantaged.

Anti-vaccination dating groups springing up online
Members refer to themselves as ‘pure bloods’

Set the parameters to ‘age range – 20-80’ and ‘within 50km of the Grampians’, and they’re on a red-hot winner.

Mind you, 50km travelling in your conveyance is quite a drive – dependent on what you’re after, of course.

why not Dana Perino?

GW Bush’s Press Secretary? No thanks.

Zulu.

1919: An aboriginal who has served as an Australian soldier is entitled to the benefits under the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act and nothing in the Aborigines Act denies the right to such aboriginal of the full use and enjoyment of any benefits granted to him by this Department.

[Source for more detail].

This doesn’t specifically mention service awards, and it cannot be ruled out that individuals may have not acted according to the official policy, but the policy itself seems to contradict what I understand has been claimed in the extract you provided. Happy researching!

Maggots hollowing out ANZAC day in preparation for their newest skin suit.

Calls grow for Australia’s frontier wars to be remembered on Anzac Day

Look at this slithering “stolen valour” turd.
Another reason for fire and slaughter to visit the capital.

Michael Ghillar Anderson, a Euahlayi activist from Goodooga, New South Wales, is the last surviving of the four original men who set up the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra in 1972.

Anderson has been marching on Anzac Day in the ACT to commemorate the frontier wars for the past 12 years.
…
For Neville Reys, a fellow Gimuy Walubara Yidinji traditional owner, the frontier wars share a lot in common with other conflicts remembered on 25 April.

“While we are walking towards this whole truth process, I think the frontier wars have to be recognised on Anzac Day.”

sounds like the 4Chan boys have spotted an opportunity to get laid

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

‘Yeah nah nah yeah nah nah pureblood nah yeah. Root me.’

Tucker Carlson’s exit from Fox News shakes up political, media terrain

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Fox News were fools for settling the lawsuit with Dominion, They didn’t want to be the corporation that provided the evidence of voter fraud and vote stealing. They are willing to pay $787 million to take the hit for progressives.

Hannity is OK but it is too much like his radio broadcast. I deleted my recording of the Tucker Carlson Tonight show. Nothing there to watch. Shame. Jesse Watters maybe the next big name.

‘Crazy’ that Russia and Ukraine still trade – Seymour Hersh

The veteran investigative journalist detailed his claims of corruption in Kiev in an interview aired by RT

Russia and Ukraine, despite being locked in an armed conflict, continue to trade products and services with each other, a situation that journalist Seymour Hersh described as “quite crazy” in an interview with the TV show ‘Going Underground.’

“Oil and money transcends any sort of rationality, I guess,” Hersh said in the interview aired by RT on Monday. He added that it wasn’t too hard to find tell-tale signs of Ukrainian corruption.

Hersh elaborated on his recent allegations of rampant graft in the Ukrainian government. He has claimed that the CIA has estimated that President Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage embezzled at least $400 million last year from money provided by the US to buy diesel for the Ukrainian army. Overpriced fuel bought by Kiev allegedly came via the black market from Russia.

“All you have to do is look at the high life in Kiev today,” he said. “There is a really good high life: the fancy restaurants are going, you can find liquor stores with everything in it, there is a lot of money being pushed around.”

Ukrainian officials have a long history of skimming from procurement contracts, and the conflict with Russia has not changed that, Hersh alleged.

“Everybody is going to brokers. Everybody is now getting third parties involved, because it increases the chance for money on the side. And the corruption there is beyond belief,” he said.

The Ukrainian leader later fired 10 of the “most ostentatious” individuals, but others were “left untouched”, Hersh said, describing the crackdown on officials which the Ukrainian government conducted after Burns’ visit.

Meanwhile, Russia continues to pay Ukraine transit fees for oil and gas, pumped to Eastern Europe via pipelines through Ukrainian territory.

The infrastructure was built during the Soviet era to supply consumers in the Warsaw Pact. Washington has described such trade as Moscow “weaponizing” its abundance of energy, Hersh noted.

Gruinaid has its pick of the pictures for Anzac day..

Sundance at the Treehouse has more thoughts about Tucker Carlson’s firing.

First, Carlson was being paid about $20 million a year by Murdoch. He had about 3 years left on his contract and will be paid the full contract amount. Carlson found out about 10 minutes before Fox Corp made the announcement. They did not “part ways,” Tucker Carlson was fired.

Carlson will not be asked to sign an NDA, is not bound by a “non-compete” clause following the contract nullification by Fox Corp, and will be free to do anything he wants in any venture. Additionally, he will be free to say whatever he wants about the issues at Fox and speak freely, or not, without any legal or contractual constraints. Keep all of that in mind.

Digital is where the action is. Digital subscriber services is where the future of all content is focused. Understanding this reality gives you a scale of the darkness in the opposition elements facing our nation. Fox News digital is Fox Nation. Tucker Carlson and the show Tucker Carlson Today was the anchor of Fox Nation digital.

Fox Nation was struggling prior to Tucker Carlson’s long show broadcasts. The entire Fox Corp digital streaming service, Fox Nation, was anchored around the Tucker Carlson Today digital streaming service. Fox News has just torpedoed their anchor, shot their lead dog, destroyed the digital brand. That gives you some scale and scope to how the elements viewed the threat of influence that Tucker Carlson had become.

Plenty of action in the Grampians caravan park if you’re in a bit of a drought

Yep. Spot the pineapple symbols, and you’re on a winner.

thirty police and settlers, armed with muzzle-loading muskets, were supposed to have murdered eight hundred

On a number of levels, that’s an impressive claim.

How much powder and how many balls would the attackers have had to carry to achieve this, assuming it only took one (wad?) of powder and one musket ball to kill each victim?

How long a period did this alleged massacre take? (If each attacker killed 26.6 people: 1 minute per victim?).

Were all the victims restrained?

Was 800 a normal sized indigenous grouping?

The latest claim is that a party of thirty police and settlers, armed with muzzle-loading muskets, were supposed to have murdered eight hundred Indigenous – “the river ran red with their blood.”

Muzzle loading muskets?
They had the Martini-Henry, dickhead.
Here’s a description of it’s effectiveness, from the link:

It is clear from early medical field surgeons’ reports that at 200 yards the rifle really came into its own, and inflicted devastating and horrific wounds on the Zulus in the Anglo–Zulu War.

“‘You gutless cowards cancelled him for standing up for women’s rights. You don’t get to un-cancel now he’s dead,’ the UK media personality wrote.”

I agree with Piers one hundred percent on this.

I see that some fervid righties are demanding that Tucker Calrlson should run for President, as they do anytime a prominent conservative figure changes his/her career path.

Why? How desperate are you?

Anyone who has known journalists socially knows that they are totally unsuited to public office. Their temperament, work habits and overall mindset are incompatible with snipping ribbons and smiling for the camera.

Except, of course, for the most recent crop whose worldview is defined by social media.

Casualties at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift: Zulu casualties are thought to have been around 500.

Zulu warriors on the charge compared to families of Australian nomads sleeping round a campfire early in the morning?

My objection to you isn’t that you’re a lying piece of shit [though you are], but that you’re such a stupid piece of shit.

Australian nomads sleeping round a campfire

Bahahaaaaa.

Good one Ed October.

You can’t win if you don’t fight

The firing of the elitist woman marketer behind the Dylan Mulvaney can of Bud Light came on Friday night, a week too late to save the brand. Bud then fired the fellow who hired her.

Get woke, go broke struck again.

Rasmussen Reports found 54% of Americans support the Beer Barrel Boycott. That includes the 40% of beer drinkers who won’t buy Bud Light again.

The departure of the marketer comes after a week of liberals assuring us that those silly conservatives won’t hurt Bud Light.

New York magazine assured its readers, “Bud Light Is Going to Be Just Fine.”

Its Sarah Jones said, “Anheuser-Busch may suffer due to the quality of Bud Light, but a boycott is unlikely to harm it. If history is any guide, the right simply lacks the power to bend major American corporations to its will. Its tactics aren’t exactly helpful to its cause. It’s weird to shoot cases of Bud Light! It’s weird to go on TV and insist the company apologize to you. These are strange, angry people who have little in common with the average American consumer. Anheuser-Busch — and Disney — aren’t truly ‘woke.’ They’re interested in profits. At present, they believe they need young consumers, who are typically at odds with the right over LGBTQ+ rights. Conservatives can count on a martyr narrative to sell the occasional successful grift, but they’re too unpopular to do much else. The free market they love has spoken.”

A week later, the woman who went woke and the man who hired her are gone. The free market spoke and it did not say what the magazine said it would say.

The 30% drop had nothing to do with the boycott?

That’s like saying the bucket of water had nothing to do with the Wicked Witch of the West’s meltdown.

But experts say.

Experts also told us the vaccine would stop the spread of covid. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told Congress last week the vaccines don’t stop the transmission of covid.

Say, I’m beginning to believe everything in Washington is not on the up-and-up.

The title of Broome’s column recalled another corporate wokeness — Gillette’s toxic masculinity ads that tried to blame men for all the evils of the world.

Going woke cost the razor company $1.5 billion a year in sales.

Then there was the candy formerly known as M&M’s. It went woke and fell from the No. 1 candy for Halloween 2021 down to No. 5 the next year.

The brand had to change its name to Ma&Ya’s as it blew 81 years of marketing on some LGBT whim. The name change may be temporary, but what a waste of money.

Via Red State, here is the diversity, equity and inclusion team that did marketing for Bud Light. – As white as a snowstorm.

What corporate marketers have forgotten — or more likely, abandoned — is that their job is to sell the product, not the politics.

Over the years, though, black nationalists and the gay mafia in Hollywood have pushed companies to accept their agenda, or else! Plus, business schools have become woke as well.

The ATO is a Charity?

Who knew?

Mak Siccar:
Thanks for the article – it has gone straight to my nationally read Facebook page – 2 readers, one of whom is currently in W.A.
🙂

The financial crisis no one is fixing | Business Beyond
DW News
As our world grows older, governments can’t afford to pay for the retirement promises made to previous generations. Now, shortfalls in public finances are threatening to upend the way our societies are organized. Many worry that retirement could soon be a thing of the past.

gov pensions were always a lie

Ed Casesays:
April 25, 2023 at 11:45 am

Ed mong feculating* that 30 elite tacticool special forces police troopers killed 800 people with early rifles while those 100+ blundering Poms, faced with human wave attacks of Zulus managed a paltry 500.

*like speculating, but composed of crap.

I cancelled membership with the Wilderness Society when they took a position against GMOs. They’re also anti-nukular.
I’ve boycotted Little Creatures beer when they went rainbow-coloured. It was maybe before the full trannie wig-out got hold of the rainbow flag, but I’m confident I was on the right side of the slippery slope. Said to a bloke, why on earth would i want to be reminded of the bum botherers as i lift a stubbie to my mouth? (This boycott I’m reconsidering, esp as they are one of the few doing 375mL tins in 24 to a carton)
Funnily enough… I know a bloke who was once the GM of Little Creatures in Perth. Universally known among his mates as Gay S-. After the Lion Nathan buyout he was shifted to Singapore, where the original microbrewery-hotel model was hatched, and LN actually flew over and accommodated his flamin’ south-east aisian boyfriend as a full time live-in “partner”. After the SSM vote I told them that they’d have to expect separate bedrooms at our place, as they were now living in sin.
Nice guy, but parties too hard. Has split up with that malay catamite, citing the simple fact that as gay men they were both irredeemable horndogs.

Townsville RSL heaving today. Point brought up to me about the amphibious capability that I hadn’t thought of, the new IFV vehicles we are only buying 130 odd of now is what this capability was meant to be lifting. Rumour also Boxer is going to get shaved as well.

As for the review. Mostly empty bunch of buzzwords and vague language. In short an excuse to cut defence spending while appearing to not. Example A Res to fill gaps, tried and failed.

I posted the link to the article in the “West Australian” when they first ran the story. Nice try, though.

So, you pulled it outta your arse, it’s a Strawman.

As for the review. Mostly empty bunch of buzzwords and vague language. In short an excuse to cut defence spending while appearing to not. Example A Res to fill gaps, tried and failed.

Labor defence policy in the 1920’s and 30’s was to not have all these soldier types and expensive ships. Instead it was to have planes and submarines providing long range defense of our shores, despite aeroplanes in the interwar period not being very effective.

It is interesting that we now effectively have the same Labor defence policy in the 2020’s that we had in the 1920’s.

Didn’t work then either: the CMF/AAR were the guys who turned back the Japs in the Owen Stanleys. Lest we forget their pain and misery in doing so, this ANZAC Day.

Dover Beach:

A misdemeanor for killing a child. The absolute state of the US.

I was thinking of doing a bit of a tour of the US this year or the next, The Smithsonian Museum, etc.
But it’s starting to look a bit too risky in the cities, where any one with a grudge can kill you with little consequence to themselves.

How much powder and how many balls would the attackers have had to carry to achieve this, assuming it only took one (wad?) of powder and one musket ball to kill each victim?

Graham Wilson did a good job of correcting the myth “Simpson and the donkey” using such analysis:

Dust, Donkeys and Delusion examines and clinically debunks the myth that has grown up around Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the so-called Man with the Donkey, the quintessential Australian hero of Gallipoli.

At one stage, he calculated how many trips Simpson would have had to do, to rescue the hundreds of wounded soldiers he was supposed to have brought in. Even if Simpson worked non-stop, replacing the donkey regularly, he could not have rescued the soldiers he was said to.

Pioneer of the allowing-blokes-in-women’s-toilets movement Candice Warner is now reduced to defending her poorly-chosen husband on the picture wireless, and specifically Focks’ The Back Page (the Hun):

Appearing as a regular panellist on Fox Sports’ The Back Page last week, Candice said she was surprised David had been “singled out” in speculation surrounding the team.

She then politely bristled when it was put to her by Fox League commentator Dan Ginnane that he needed to start the campaign well.

“Absolutely he does. But so does the whole team,” she said. “If Dave doesn’t perform in that first Test, who do they bring in that’s better?”

At this point, Joe Burns is a better bet – which is saying something. Someone who actually knows about this stuff is Mitchell Johnson, who put one right down the pipe in return:

“We’ve all appreciated Warner’s tremendous career as an opener and what he’s achieved. But that’s not what it’s about,” Johnson wrote in a column for The West Australian. “His form has not been up to scratch for a while now.”

“Warner even had his wife Candice defending him in her panel role on the TV show The Back Page this week.

“Her loyalty might be admirable but it was all a bit weird and cringey when she said if Dave doesn’t perform in that first Test, who do they bring in that’s better?

“I hate that argument. If players were only judged on their previous achievements then Dennis Lillee would still be opening the bowling for Australia and Ricky Ponting would be batting at No. 3.”

Boom.

Warner can now be legitimately compared to mUntler. Both rely on their wives.

But I’m curious, do these progressives really think that once they shut down Fox and Sky and GB News, then we will all watching free to air and their ABC again? Because I’ve got news for them, we’ll find other stuff to watch and if that’s taken away, I’ll read a book.

Ooh, a book! We’re quivering.

RFK Jr.
Former [?] Heroin addict, married 4 times, wrote a book defending Michael Skakel, never worked a day in his life, book about vaccines likely ghost written, onboard with JFK’s legacy of unrestricted Immigration, Affirmative Action and Overseas Wars, plus he’s another Plastic Paddy.
If Biden jettisons the Neocons, what’s he gonna challenge him on in the Primaries?
Escalating the Ukraine War?
Going back to Afghanistan?

The Odd Angry Shot. Many years ago but from memory it seemed to regard our involvement as a bit of a joke?

Mine used to get pulled out at every Channel 7 Christmas party.

Exclusive footage of Percy Penguin Vs H(unmongous) B(alls) Bear 1980 – colorized.

Ed Casesays:
April 25, 2023 at 12:29 pm

You didnt watch the speech I take it?

“what other Australian military experiences has our film, television & entertainment (incl. theatre) industry produced?”

“The Odd Angry Shot”?

“Beneath Hill Sixty”

“The Overlanders” (More of a wartime / consequences thereof of movie).

A list of sorts, here:

https://www.weekendnotes.com/australian-war-films/

Asking the important questions.

Is sex in space being taken seriously by the emerging space tourism sector? (Phys.org, 24 Apr)

What would a human conception in space mean for the sector? That’s the situation posed by an international group of scientists, clinicians and other interested parties, who have authored a consultative green paper led by David Cullen, Professor of Astrobiology & Space Biotechnology at Cranfield University.

It highlights that the emerging space tourism sector has not openly considered or discussed the risks of sex in space or prepared suitable mitigation approaches.

Mitigation?? Space nooky would be one of the biggest drawcards for orbital tourism. I suspect some people have already joined the 100 mile high club, but if so no one has fessed to it yet.