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Open Thread – Weekend 29 April 2023
I see Rita Panahi is all over the AFL bullshit.
Rita Panahi gives the AFL a caning. Again: Thanks Black Ball @01:25pm for posting that article. The stupids from AFL…
Someone here (Tom?) mentioned the other day the ridiculous name changes for AFL clubs for ‘digenous round. I could figure…
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Land values and final sale prices usually stop too much social housing (aka housos) in the leafy suburbs. Developers usually wear a certain % as a price for getting development approval. Ditto public “art”.
If we are going to have lots more Chinese and Indian migrants then we are going to need lots more bronze coloured high rise apartments for the Chinese and lots more free standing new homes in the outer burbs for the Indians.
Get to it, planners.
Groogs still stuck in his Dream Time I see.
Bills St is a pre-existing public estate being redeveloped at taxpayer expense, for a shade under $100 million.
Just watched the Brahmins at the Sandilands wedding.
Oh, how these higher castes enjoy themselves! It is such an honour to watch them at their frolics!
If only they could scrape a few crumbs for their lush and lavish tables for the outcasts. Maybe next year.
shatterzzz:
Do you realise they would have ended up on the list of “Deaths in Custody” had the Salties decided on a snack? But if a white man who jumped in to save them had also been eaten, they would not appear on the list?
They ate all the food, then when there was none left for anyone, everyone died and Gaia was happy ever after.
Get to it, planners.
There are no planners.
Nearly as entertaining as a Sydney celebrity trial I would imagine. Hasn’t been a good one for a while.
Before administering a long overdue death blow and chowing down on the mighty meat until the second fleet arrived.
Eddles – your role as an obnoxious contrarian is much appreciated. Your unique brand of staggering z-grade stupidity and wrongology doesn’t grow on trees, thankfully.
Peta Credlin: More migrants without more infrastructure will be disastrous
If you’ve ever wondered why your wages are stagnant, your rent is going through the roof, and your commute is getting longer, Peta Credlin has the answer: It’s sustained high immigration.
The Sunday Telegraph
What do you call a country that’s ramping up immigration at the exact time it’s got a housing and health crisis? Wrong-headed would be the most polite way of putting it.
And what do you say about a government that is deliberately engineering an energy crisis at the same time that it’s presiding over record numbers of newcomers? Probably the most charitable description would be that it’s incapable of understanding that actions have consequences.
Australia might be the one country in the world to have successfully stopped a wave of illegal migration by boat but that certainly doesn’t mean that we’ve got legal migration right.
Since the end of the Howard era, where immigration ran at an average of 100,000 a year, it’s been ramped up to average close to 250,000 a year.
That means a city the size of Canberra is needed every two years just to accommodate the newcomers.
And if you think more than doubling our migrant intake since Howard was a big jump, then the news on Friday that it will likely clock 400,000 this year, in net terms, will make you scratch your head and ask, “Where is the proper planning from government to ensure we get this right and don’t make life harder for everyone here already?”
That’s because everyone who’s here other than as a tourist needs somewhere to live, a job, and a means of getting around.
If you’ve ever wondered why your wages are stagnant, your rent is going through the roof, and your commute is getting longer and harder, there’s an obvious explanation. It’s sustained high immigration, because more migrants mean downward pressure on wages, upward pressure on prices and more strain on infrastructure, especially housing and health services.
The Albanese government has raised the “official” permanent migration cap to 195,000 a year but that’s not the whole story.
This “permanent” group are the so-called skilled migrants (and their dependants) although we use the term “skilled” loosely because only about half of these are working in their area of supposed skill five years after arrival.
Then there’s almost as many again that come as temporary workers and students (many of whom are really here to work, not study, and are buying immigration rather than education). As the pandemic proved, the jobs migrants mostly fill are in cleaning, aged care, hospitality, driving and working in agriculture, not the high-end professions.
All up, Anthony Albanese expects 650,000 to arrive in the two years, even though the building industry, that will have to house them all, is in a crisis of its own.
New home sales are at their lowest level since 1996. Some 1500 building firms have gone bust since the middle of last year due to supply bottlenecks and fixed-price contracts.
The National Housing Corporation says we need at least 180,000 new homes a year, yet we’ll be lucky to build 140,000.
Is it any wonder that there are no rental vacancies and rents are going up at 10 per cent-plus a year?
Yet the big Australia ideology, like the climate ideology, that has completely captured officialdom, just grinds on, leading to needless daily difficulties in the lives of just about everyone.
That’s not just flat wages, high rents, and clogged roads and public transport, but no places in childcare, aged care or on health and hospital waiting lists.
Frankly, it was pathetic that Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil, when releasing the government’s immigration review this week, refused to answer a question from the media about the population size that the government’s rapid migrant intake would deliver.
That’s right — we’ve more than quadrupled Australia’s yearly migrant intake over the past 16 years since Howard and yet there is no population plan, and the minister in charge won’t tell us if she’s pitching for 40 million, 60 million or 80 million-plus.
As well, on Friday, the Liddell coal-fired power station (supplying 10 per cent of NSW’s electricity) closed down for good. In just two years, so will Eraring (that currently supplies 25 per cent).
The politicians insist that there’s no need to worry — even though wind and solar power only works 30 per cent of the time on average, and even though the new gas-fired power station in the Hunter and Snowy 2.0 are way behind schedule and way over budget.
Yet with 650,000 more people drawing down power, let alone the millions of electric vehicles that governments want on the roads, blackouts are inevitable.
Then there’s the fact that the Albanese government is making it almost impossible for new coal mines and gas fields to open, even though coal and gas provide $200bn worth of export income a year and tens of billions in tax revenue to help fund measures like the NDIS.
The coming train wreck is obvious, yet politically correct governments seem incapable of changing policy.
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that ministers and officials are simply drowning when they can’t see the absurdity of ramping up immigration, without also ramping up house and infrastructure construction. And if it’s not realistic to ramp up construction, then we must scale back immigration to a level where infrastructure and services can cope.
There’s a real opportunity for the Liberal Opposition here, to come up with a clear policy that will resonate with voters and create an alternative: to take immigration back to the average of the Howard years at least until we have more capacity to cope.
And say to business that you might just have to pay locals more and train more young Australians, rather than just take the soft option of importing cheap labour from abroad.
Peter Dutton, over to you!
If this is how they want to run the world then I’m sure they will be happy to know that we will believe nothing coming out of the government.
“Diane Abbott, who in 1987 became Britain’s first black female member of parliament, caused widespread outrage last weekend when she wrote in The Observer that Jews, Irish people and travellers don’t face racism but merely suffer the same level of prejudice as people with red hair. The only possible victims of racial prejudice, she suggested, are black people.”
Abbott has a history of making anti-Semitic remarks. Her words above are exactly what our Lidia thinks and says. It is so obscene, so despicably ignorant of history and so inciteful, and yet they get away with it because of woke identity politics.
Peta Credlin: More migrants without more infrastructure will be disastrous
If you’ve ever wondered why your wages are stagnant, your rent is going through the roof, and your commute is getting longer, Peta Credlin has the answer: It’s sustained high immigration.
The Sunday Telegraph
What do you call a country that’s ramping up immigration at the exact time it’s got a housing and health crisis? Wrong-headed would be the most polite way of putting it.
Well I will not be polite. It is Madness and it will not work. Well, it will work to bring the place to a grinding halt. FFS
err, Cats – given we’ve recently been blessed with the news that we’re about to experience a “ReBiden” is there anyone on this blogue who envisions that pathetic ol’ syphilitic geriatric still in the shite house in 2028?
Cackling nincompoops might just be figuring prominently in our fewcha.
Yikes!
I blame Trump.
Why?
Does he make you say stupid stuff, or is it all your own work?
Peter Dutton, over to you!
yes- actually do what anal promised to do. Of course he’ll be called racist, redneck, dog whistler, unejucated by the usual gaggle of marxist germalists. They didn’t call anal any of those things did they?
Lie back and the of the GDP.
If he should live so long.
Breaker Morant on SBS now.
Just readin’ about the 1936 Berlin Olympics, all I knew before was that Jesse Owens had smoked a coupla races and Hitler was butthurt about that, but,
it turns out that Germany won the Gold Medal Tally, it was a huge triumph.
Curses. Fooled by Autocorrect again. Come back Clippy, all is forgiven.
The big challenge for any remotely decent government that may take power in Canbra is taking on the canbra pubic parasites- the maliciously incompetent marxist wreckers that are the canbra abomination. Ask Tony Abbott.
Oh! noze..! sTan has a wardrobe malfunction .. LOL!
https://postimg.cc/5XwHnGkB
Great work of fiction – his name was actually Edwin Murrant, and his father, far from being an admiral in the Royal Navy, ran a village poorhouse.
Then they all donned some jackboots and a Hugo Boss uniform and mightily marched across Western and Eastern Yerp until they were ground down into the dust. But not after slaughtering many, many millions.
nayzeeism. Just be thankful you were not blessed with it.
Oh, they’re back, apparently, but without that timeless fashion sense. 😕
Every public service job shall have a term limit of 5 years.
JMHsays:
April 29, 2023 at 6:33 pm
Breaker Morant on SBS now.
Just watching it now on SBS World Movies. A great film.
Boambee John:
“Tax and Regulate anything that moves. And when it stops moving, Subsidise it. Then claim Market Failure so you can Tax and Regulate it some more.”
Winston Smiff, in reply to Ron Reagan President.
Today’s links to Twitter have had me chasing down the thread from the link, enjoying the clips enormously, even though it’s taking me ages to read the Cat due that. Pogria’s link provided some excellent extra clips, the one of the gun-toting horsewoman was a modern Valkyrie for sure, and a few further down was the one starting with a gearstick and moving into an extraordinary range of human movement showing how much we are creatures of rhythm. We spend nine months under a heartbeat as we develop and it never leaves us.
On which note – Mr. Motivator! Doing Day 9 today because it’s harder. Won’t link it because it induces Johanna’s dyspepsia and all the upticking idiots (you know who you are) but it’s easy to find online.
Olay skin cream – for when too many gullible young womanages are barely enough …
It is wrong – a classic example of a fool and his monkey soon being parted.
I have been buying Maybelline ever since I started suffering reactions to the heavily perfumed competition. (Prior to that, I used Lancome.)
Yes, it is cheap, especially when Woolies chucks it out on a half price special. This means that many women can budget to buy a reasonable quality product at a good price.
But also yes, I have sent them a massive spray, highlighting that, in order to meet their diversity, equity and inclusion requirements, they have myriad diverse, XX chromosome options to choose from and in selecting a man they have dealt a humiliating, never-to-be-forgotten attack on their prime customer base.
Help yourself to a Bud Light on the way out the back door.
The episode where the Boer prisoner Visser is discovered wearing Captain Hunt’s uniform, and shot as a consequence, verges on pure fiction. Morant/Murrant’s own batman testified to the Court martial that Morant himself had Hunt’s uniform, and was wearing it at the time Visser was shot.
Here you go Rabz.
A nice bit of Slovenian electro-industrial rock.
I should watch the movie again!
Here you go Rabz.
A nice bit of Slovenian electro-industrial rock.
I should watch the movie again! The band is Laibach, who did the soundtrack.
Oops, the reverb was turned up too high.
Maybe he’s born with it.
Maybe it’s Maybellene.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
April 29, 2023 at 6:54 pm
Just watching it now on SBS World Movies. A great film.
The episode where the Boer prisoner Visser is discovered wearing Captain Hunt’s uniform, and shot as a consequence, verges on pure fiction. Morant/Murrant’s own batman testified to the Court martial that Morant himself had Hunt’s uniform, and was wearing it at the time Visser was shot.
War is Hell don’t yer’ know. What do you think happened before films were made?
Not sure which is which, but this story I saw today was nice:
‘Peace and love Australia’: Ringo Starr pays tribute to Aussie rock icon at music awards (27 Apr)
Which gets this nice little track:
Colin Hay “Photograph” – Happy 80th Birthday, Ringo! (2021)
Glad to see them both doing ok after many swings and roundabouts.
How many unarmed Boers, obeying British injunctions to surrender, take the oath of loyalty to the Queen, go home, and take no further part in the fighting, do you have to shoot, to be considered a war criminal?
See you’ve linked to the Valkyrie at 5.33 pm, Pogria. She is certainly magnificent and deserves the full scope of the Wagnerian music.
Zipster:
Those percentages are quite surprising.
When I was pretty crook with a pericardial and pleural effusion, they decided to drain them in the ward and asked if I minded having some med and nursing students in to watch.
Of course I couldn’t help myself. “Sure – charge ’em all admission, the blokes can pay double, and the pretty girls get in with just a smile.”
The reason I bring this up is because it was considered rare enough that it was worthwhile as a teaching moment that interrupted normal lessons. Now it seems to be a run of the mill occurrence that will occur without comment.
I wonder why that would be?
Have to do another Colin Hay track in honour of his deserved APRA award this week.
Colin Hay playing Overkill a 1939 Gibson J-35 here at Norman’s Rare Guitars (2016)
Guitar Cats will be salivating at this vid…
moi
but that is a bit general
i am an aficionado of jug and washboard bands from the great smokey region of tennessee and north car’linah between the wars
but i can prolly wing it on other nearby regions and get away with it
Of course, it sounds even more stupendous with the singing also in the performance. This link to the NY Metropolitan Opera is well sung even though the stupid plank-horses staging is not a patch on the earie diaphanous cloud-world on a rocky sky cliff we saw in the Bendigo production, which was so impressive, as the Valkyries shrieked in terror at the immanent arrival of the furious war-father Wotan.
War brings out the best and worst in people. The collapse of our civilisation, which the powers that be are assiduously working on, will make war look like a picnic in the park.
The settlers raped the Harbour bare, if the 2nd Fleet hadn’t showed up just in time, they woulda starved.
Grandpa Ed Simpson
If you seriously think that the few people on the First Fleet could catch every fish in the harbour, then you are even more deluded than your posts here demonstrate.
Bob Brown: “I would have been into their eminently sensible hypotheses about saving the planet – and the uniforms were cool”
Rabz: “Err, um, these people are monsters, FFS.” 😕
Overkill is my favourite by Men at Work. My boys became fans when Colin Hay sang it in Scrubs, can’t recall which episiode.
Johnny Rottensays:
April 29, 2023 at 5:48 pm
Does anyone have info on where the 400K New Australians are coming from? And – how was this decided and by whom?
I suspect a tsunami from Shitholistan etc is on its way …
They are all new LayBore Voters……………………..
In order to get them used to the future lifestyle in Australia under the WEF plan, their accommodation should be pods, 20 to a floor in high rise, with communal kitchens, bathrooms and laundries.
Will offer a counter-view to the localised orthodoxy on trump/biden. I think Biden is a good, but not great, prez because he is a stupid old timeserver who waited decades to get the job. This makes him incapable of doing much, hence he will serve out his time achieving little and breaking less. Trump is a demagogue who could bring down the republic this time and spurred an insurrection last time.
And if these 2 are best leadership options for a country of 300m people then something is wrong with democracy as a model.
Ed Casesays:
April 29, 2023 at 5:51 pm
All fifteen hundred of them?
Completely denuded the harbour of anything edible in less than 3 years.
Grandpa Ed Simpson
While you are reluctant to use your supposedly highly developed research skills, perhaps you could make an exception on this occasion, and provide evidence to support these assertions.
I think you just outed yourself as a moron.
Yah, with their yuge fishing boats and massive nets … you are a parody of what ignorant leftoid activists behave like.
Any links or docs or evidence of any kind to back up these anti-settler “feelz”?
it looks like you are trying to write a … actually i have no idea what the fk you are trying to do
Ed Casesays:
April 29, 2023 at 6:31 pm
I blame Trump.
Why?
Does he make you say stupid stuff, or is it all your own work?
Grandpa Ed Simpson (again) demonstrates his complete and utter lack of self-awareness.
This the same old pervert who has managed to create an alliance between 2 major nuclear powers and the biggest global oil producer as adversaries of the US. He has achieved quite a lot.
shatterzzzsays:
April 29, 2023 at 6:40 pm
Oh! noze..! sTan has a wardrobe malfunction .. LOL!
https://postimg.cc/5XwHnGkB
What a fraud, and not even smart enough to dress himself.
… exhibits so much brain damage as to be indescribable – another four years of this and we’ll all be trying to communicate in mandarin.
That’s if a fervent ignorant illiterate innumerate ahistorical anti-scientific yoof hasn’t fronted up outside our front door and sconed us with a frying pan. Before throwing the latter into a nearby bonfire.
Alamak!says:
April 29, 2023 at 7:42 pm
The settlers raped the Harbour bare
Yah, with their yuge fishing boats and massive nets … you are a parody of what ignorant leftoid activists behave like.
Any links or docs or evidence of any kind to back up these anti-settler “feelz”?
There will be NO links or any other evidence as it is all in the dream mind of Head Case and a Suitable Case for lots of Treatment…………………………..lol
Stories my nanna told me…
Huh? Huh? He’s slaughtered the economy and made a woke-fest of every institution in the nation.
Surely that’s enough? His strings are pulled by Rice (till just now) and Obama and a collection of dipshits and curiosities. And America is first and foremost a Republic with a carefully thought out set of checks and balances. Wise to keep that in mind re ‘the democracy’ who have done their best to conquer the rule of law. Trump doesn’t deserve being slated by someone who can’t see this.
Alamak!
Biden is a good, but not great, prez because he is a stupid old timeserver who waited decades to get the job. This makes him incapable of doing much, hence he will serve out his time achieving little and breaking less.
Unfortunately, there are string pullers behind the scenes, who are doing a lot and breaking everything they touch.
snap, Rabz
Alamak!
Any links or docs or evidence of any kind to back up these anti-settler “feelz”?
When everything that he posts is plucked from his arse, the available evidence is limited.
You conjure up a very grim image…
Miss Ellie being a hyperfemme, again … 🙂
I would prefer the first option simply because we know that politicians are stupid so corporate leaders are expected to be smarter, after all they are paid more. That they rolled over for the greens is unforgivable.
I know that shareholders will be shortchanged and will need to be compensated. If we had all those billions for renewables subsidies we can buy back the power stations.
The third option of course is for the government to build new gas, coal and nuclear power stations if the private enterprise will not.
They didn’t just steal all the food in Sydney Ed, they stole all the food all over the continent. That’s why they sent a ship to South Africa for more supplies.
This one is for Eva Green, who yesterday won a million dollars*.
Casino Royale • You Know My Name (2006)
(* In court, not at cards.)
The First Fleet brought provisions which were estimated to last two years. Those were flour, rice, salt, pork, salt beef, “pease” and buter. For two and a half years after the arrival of the First Fleet, not one ship arrived from England to bring further stores – the ship “Sirius” returned from the Cape of Good Hope in May, 1789, but only with flour, seed wheat and barley.
James Ruse had proved that agriculture was posssible in the Parramatta area, and in 1791 the Governor called together the Colony’s time epired convics and informed those chosen that “such of them as wished to become settlers should receive every encouragement.”
Those who wished to stay were granted modest areas of land to farm at Prospect Hill, North Parramatta and Field of Mars (Ryde).
Nearly 40 years before white people settled in Melbourne or Perth and nearly 50 years before the founding of Adelaide men and women were working their farms and going about their business in these little frontier settlements.
Our High School handyman/caretaker was a Witton, great nephew of George I think. Dad had a copy of Scapegoats of the Empire. Wish I could remember what he said about the Witton family’s point of view about the movie at the time.
Interesting post P, thank you.
Classics.
Saturday Night Fever (Opening Credits)
Right – so I get that people have bought into the mad frenzy of media telling us how bad Biden is. But thats just “feelz” and nothing more without actual proof.
Any evidence that Biden is encouraging his fans to mob up and take over Congress any time soon? Any solid evidence that the election was not won by Democrats? Note that conspiracies are not proof and objective evidence ought to be available for any great claims of crime or corruption. Not trying to fire up anything contentious for the sake of it, just asking for proof behind claims …
Sydney. The Jewel in the Ozzie Crown. 🙂
I see that Grandpa Ed Simpson is in his Aborigines were “noble savages, early environmentalists” phase today. It makes an interesting change from his usual “low IQ morons” line.
Ta. It’s my own work. I spent three and a half years researching and writing a book printed over 40yrs ago and a lot of that time was spent on those very early years at the State Library and the Mitchell Library.
From Citizens to Serfs: How the Middle Class is Eroding in America | Victor Davis Hanson
Sacré bleu! 🙂
Bragg tries to hide evidence from Trump
ASPCA gives only 2% of its budget to pet shelters, while promoting ‘radical and elitist’ anti-farmer policies, bombshell report finds
Justice Alito Has ‘Good Idea’ Of Who Leaked Dobbs Opinion; Suggests Motive Was Assassination
Satanists Present a Chilling View of Religious Liberty
la Femme Magnifique …
From transgendered to ‘transabled’: Now people are ‘choosing’ to identify as handicapped
Celebrated BLM activist ruthlessly destroyed white student’s life by accusing her of saying racial justice protesters would ‘make good speed bumps’ – only to later admit she may have MISHEARD
Bill Maher and Elon Musk slam ENGLAND for its anti-free speech laws as Tesla tycoon turned Twitter owner shares his dedication to preserving First Amendment
Zipster:
For that, we have been told we violated Australian law.
They left the article up. Excellent.
Another Crypto Fascist masquerading as a friend. Piss off, Julie. With friends like you, who needs enemas?
Either Tucker Carlson Was A Monotonous Racist Or He Was Everything The Media Hate — Independent, Honest And Compelling
Can Trump Win Without Getting Right on the Vaccines?
WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON?: THE REAL PURPOSE OF FOX NEWS IS TO GET GRASSROOTS CONSERVATIVES BEHIND PRO- BIG BANK, PRO- BIG BUSINESS MODERATE REPUBLICANS TUCKER CARLSON DIDN’T PLAY ALONG
Calli:
I vaguely remember the windscreen from photos at the time and it looked like a smashed in area in line with the drivers view. A area that would have corresponded to a helmet impact.
Here’s the photo ++.
2
Alarming SIDE EFFECTS and the Mainstream Media
The Fox News Feud With Tucker Carlson Is About to Get Ugly
Indolent at 8.45pm;
“Celebrated BLM activist.
Eva Green, 50,000,000 upticks. Sophie Marceau 60,000,000. Both French. Yum.
Pedro is that one of CL’s cute owls gone to seed.
Words fail me.
“It’s a War!” – Text Reveled Why Murdoch Fired Tucker
Curse you, Pedro, that’s a double single malt, and a new keyboard, you owe me.
karma
@karma44921039
Sad
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
He knows.
He knows this is approaching the end.
He knows all these men’s lives will be thrown away for nothing.
He knows he better have his escape plan ready.
‘Fox News can’t replace him’ Victor Davis Hanson on Tucker Carlson’s firing
Psays:
April 29, 2023 at 8:33 pm
P, did you have a preferred reference source? Do you mind sharing those?
LOL. From what I can gather, CL appreciates womanages that have “classic” figures.
The owl purveyor is Cronks.
Hi Delta A. I don’t understand.
So was the “preacher” who “didn’t give the Boers any firearms”.
Is it true that Vice News is done for, just as Buzz Feed is dead along with Gawker?
Only HuffPost to go!
I’m sorry, who are you referring to?
Ah, just “Vice News Tonight”.
“Will offer a counter-view to the localised orthodoxy on trump/biden. I think Biden is a good, but not great, prez because he is a stupid old timeserver who waited decades to get the job. This makes him incapable of doing much, hence he will serve out his time achieving little and breaking less. Trump is a demagogue who could bring down the republic this time and spurred an insurrection last time.”
I think the only appropriate response to this is to laugh and laugh and laugh.
from 1788 to 1801
not much to speak of since
Ontario Nurse Fights for Informed Consent—Pays with Her Economic Livelihood
This is insane. Biden is senile and can order the start of a thermonuclear WWIII.
Just emailed Dover the Lindsay transcript.
One of the statements made:
(Marxism) just evolved into different species, to attack the West at its weakest points, through our tolerance, through our acceptance, through our openness, through our generosity through our best traits…
He forgot to mention the massive oversupply of complacency, apathy and stupidity in the West.
In this talks, as well as in New Discourses podcasts, Lindsay also advocates against the use of violence to woketards’ provocations…
How a pacifist, Christian, turn-the-other-cheek strategy could possibly succeed against the overt violence of the activists, Antifas and other assorted scum still escapes me.
But a brilliant synthesist of a complex, inter-connected and overtly evil set of philosophies.
Your excellent post:
I just wondered who was your main source of information to assist in writing this book.
Many years ago I wrote a novel set in early Australia and drawing from events of the time, particularly the lead up to Federation. Although he is pooh-poohed by many here, I found Manning Clark informative and very readable.
Back from the big smoke.
Road in is officially a goat track.
30kph or less on some sections and more people are driving out past the white posts than inside on the road.
Sneakers actually reduced the shire roadworks grant last year just so he could add a porcelain filigree around the hogs on the rotating golden codpiece.
I don’t have a problem with Manning Clark as a historian. As a political theorist…
Lizzie:
I had need to get valuations on some stuff I brought back from Saudi Arabia years ago because the Exwife said they were worth thousands.
I’d had them tested before and they were ‘Desert Diamonds” – just crystalline silica or something. The value was in the cutting. Some were quite nicely done, but essentially worthless. So I took them to a Jewellers and got a valuation certificate. Worth – $500. Cost of valuation – $500
I keep them in an ostentatious jewellery box that thieves would just love to grab and run with.
Is it just me or are those Jawzercise contraptions effen’ ridiculous?
As a kid we visited Diamond Head once. It’s mid north coast NSW.
The diamonds were real…ish. Beautiful quartz crystals a couple cm long.
Hundreds of them, everywhere. I love geology.
Cassie of Sydney:
Just like they did with Hitler, with Stalin, and with Mao.
They have not since the Second World War stood against the Marxist tide lapping on our beaches, flowing into our universities and schools, or the Courts and the Judiciary, made a meaningful stand to defend the Conservative ideals they claim to have a monopoly of.
Scoundrels of the meanest and lowest sort.
After watching the Lindsay speech and sharing it with my daughter I’m left pondering what can be done.
One thing is to call it out just as Lindsay does.
Expect to be met with guffaws and ridicule but push on. I like the words ‘communist’ and ‘Commo’ and use them when talking of the Greens. You can use ‘Marxist’ if of more delicate sensibility. The thing is that university types like to mock this kind of language but it is accurate and it provokes them and as Lindsay shows it’s not just empty rhetoric. Its meaty and substantial and cuts through the soft, wordy, virtue signaling that the left deploy and hide behind.
Were they Herkimer diamonds?
Gilas says, Referencing the Lindsay Speech to the European Parliament:
“Middle level violence”
“The violence is coming”
“They are coming for you”
Rabz: “Bring it on”. 🙂
It seems the build up to Federation was the time of a great deal of wheeling, dealing, and deal making. At one stage, New Zealand was going to become a State, and John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia drove a very hard bargain, indeed, before he consented to a referendum as to whether or not Western Australia would join Federation.
Anyone have an opinion on those bluetooth tracker thingies?
I’m curious about the use of those Amazon ones – they beep and alert after 24 hours, then tell the nearest Apple device how to turn them off. What a stroke of genius!
Anyone else seen the Killiecrankie Diamonds (Topaz) from Flinders Island?
My memory isn’t faulty!
How about that.
Diamond Head – Crowdy Bay National Park
Make it 1802 and 1803 when convicts who were involved in the 1798 rebellion in Ireland arrived here.
Muddy!
Young? I’m an old fart somewhat like your good self, sport.
In fact my 71th birthday is coming up and you will all be reminded to serve obeisance on that day or I will post multiple old fart music – The Beatles will do for a start.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
April 29, 2023 at 9:27 pm
So was the “preacher” who “didn’t give the Boers any firearms”.
I’m sorry, who are you referring to?
The German missionary who witnessed one of the shooting parties, and was later shot by Handcock.
Lindsay’s speech is a surgical dissection of marxism applied to the twentieth century as mutated* to “take on the West”.
*collectivism does not evolve – it mutates.
Dot, I don’t know about the Flinders Island topaz, but when I was a kid we found lots of topaz at Mitchell River near Guyra in NSW. And some nice sapphires, which was why we were there. I liked the topaz especially, it almost glows. Luminescent. That place also had lots of smoky quartz, which is pretty yummy too. All were very worn and rounded, which means eons of erosion. Topaz especially, it’s not far off diamond on the Moh’s scale.
Vagabond:
What do I think the effect will be?
Easy, the intended one. Crashed property prices, increased crime, the usual.
You won’t see these apartments in solid Labor seats – until they switch to Liberal seats.
Do not underestimate Labor Party use of the rules to punish people they don’t like.
Sorry CL, I knew it started with a C. I’m sure CL has better taste.
The German missionary, Daniel Heese, was actually a British subject at the time of his murder, having being born in the Cape Colony. When it was suggested to his father that the matter of his murder could be raised in the Reichstag, Heese senior refused, saying his son should rest in peace.
It’s also interesting that, at the negotiations that ended the Boer War, the Brits raised the issue of further “War crimes trials.” The Boers declined, and expressed regret that two men had already been shot.
Fascinating posts P re early days of Sydney. Thank you.
The Furedi’s speech is inspirational as well.
“If we can adopt a more robust fighting attitude, then we can get the people on our side, the people will support us against the elites, against the corporations, against those people on top who are promoting this idiotology – and we will win I’m sure, but I would rather it was sooner rather than later”
Plasmamortar:
It was a joke, right?
Furedi speech
How do we best deal with the woke progressive left and their incessant lies, deceptions, dissimulations, fictions, propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, myths, half-truths and exaggeration? Well, our first response should be verbal. A few days before he was sacked by Fox, Tucker Carlson gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation. In his speech Tucker said something we should all do when we deal with the progressive left and woke ideology. Tucker said….
“the more you tell the truth, the stronger you become”
Indeed. Instead of silence, instead of running for cover, instead of cowering in the corner, we need to stand up and tell the truth.
Never mind Albo and the Sandilands wedding. Another day, another educational report on the Hunchback’s Victoria:
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/gatto-linked-firm-a-winner-in-andrews-building-boom-20230425-p5d2zv
A deceased “heavily medicated” dinobore among some English Roses – the brunette chick in the puce (?) slip from 1:49 on is about as magnifique as it gets … 🙂
Alamak?
WTF?
Agreed, Cass. But it is an increasingly dangerous activity nowadays. Some pronouns:
Us: The people
Them: Those people
See the Furedi quote above should you require any further clarification.
Well yes, except for the identical twins…
Winston> I want to evaluate the counter proposition to what appears to be a common view here about Biden & Trump. What if Trump is a crazy lunatic who could draw us into nuclear war whereas Biden is too senile to achieve anything major?
I don’t really have a dog in USA politics i.e. don’t care either way. Still, its good to check why Biden is the devil and why Trump is a saviour for the USA when it could be the other way around.
LOL – nothing gets past our beloved Prefessor Scientist and his bevy of boidees … 🙂
Celebrated BLM activist ruthlessly destroyed white student’s life by accusing her of saying racial justice protesters would ‘make good speed bumps’ – only to later admit she may have MISHEARD
What a fat lying pig.
The whacky world of islam: Jihad Watch
So we keep getting told. Clover Moore and 5m others couldn’t be wrong?
JC
Were you posting:
FRC is new focus…very good bank!
Jim Cramer is a pro. Down 97% in six weeks.
World class per capita sales of Village People downloads.
Biden is senile and has nuclear launch codes.
the power of “no”
just say no
and to twist an old sales idea … just have one more ‘no’ that they have yes
next time somebody proto-Mao tells you why they think you should ‘xyz’
… just tell em that you don’t give a shit the about the crap in their head
and if they get their threat generator going?
do what I did once when getting lectured by a multi-national supplier
ignoring his gibber, I stood up and looked over his shoulder while he was talking.
looked behind him
made a show of looking under the desk too
I shit him to the point where he gushed, “wtf are you doing?” and I calmly replied, “I’m looking for the stick, mate”
and when he said, ‘what stick, you idiot?”
I looked him in the eye and said “don’t threaten me you clown, either hit me or F-off”
have I mentioned before, that you should never negotiate with terrorists?
Apropos of nothing – Miss planet disporting herself in her leopard print bikini – guaranteed to put a smile on the most jaded face 🙂
Same same for trump, a loose canon if there ever was one. And both are surrounded by more capable, rational peoples who’d like to keep living … so I’d say that point is a draw.
Hey, Miss Personage – we’re all just baybees in my view …
But just a little is enough …
No.
You are full of shit.
And I moved …
Biden touching girls compilation (RAW CSPAN FOOTAGE)
Compilation of Vice President Joe Biden touching girls inappropriately live on CSPAN (RAW VIDEO & AUDIO) on January 6, 2015. Imagine what he does off camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4PLSPvJ9BY
Sound and Vision
Let’s engage in some Frontier Psychiatry, Cats!
For when you’re crazy in the coconut …
Week In Pictures.
Ha, ha, ha. Lots of ‘Fox Gnus’ and ‘Bud Light on and now off’ in the ‘Week in Pictures’. Thanks Tom.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12027981/220million-Toowoomba-Wellcamp-quarantine-centre-given-Queensland-Premier-Annastacia-Palaszczuk.html?ico=related-replace-2
Winston Smith says:
April 30, 2023 at 5:24 am
That group must have the Midas touch.
Dot:
No, those look quite different. These are just clear crystalline rock that have been cut to resemble diamonds. But they ain’t.
Any geologist will be able to say what they are, I’m just having a mental block on the name which is quite common. (The rock – not the mental block.)
Alamak*^!11:
Well you could go by past achievements – Trump is the only President in the last thirty odd years who didn’t start a new conflict, and brokered multiple peace deals that held until the Obama/Biden/Harris regime got back in.
Alamak!, I don’t know what you are smoking/injecting/ingesting but it must be good stuff.
Even CNN is roasting Randi Weingarten of the US Teachers Union for her role in keeping schools closed “because covid”.
But we had school closures as well. Where is the roasting?
It looks like there’s no backlash at all here. Neither the pollies or the “health authorities” have copped it. In fact our Labor federal government is running ads encouraging booster shots of the very vaccines that Naomi Wolf, the former lefty feminist, says have caused a lot of damage to women’s reproductive capacity.
Some rag called the Daily Digest is telling readers who never heard of Tucker Carlson that he’s a controversial right wing conspiracy theorist fan boy of Trump. While we might lament how far gone the US media is, pause for a moment to reflect just how bad our own media crew is.
Ninety percent of them are supportive of Labor, Greens, and Teals.
This is why we have wall to wall Labor governments now, and why things will go from bad to worse here.
Bruce of Newcastle
Not Laibach’s best work, but not bad.
They have been doing some excellent work lately, for example, Medea Material is absolutely top shelf.
Shame they are filthy commies though.
We’ll know America is totally stuffed when Powerline Blog writers panic. So far no sign of it.
When the law makers and law enforcers are all on the side of the Marxists/Maoists, you have a problem with this strategy. You are back to 30’s Germany or, for Christians, Nero’s Rome. There aren’t a lot of options left.
“Medium level violence” works when the law is behind it (see BLM and Antifa in 2020). Low level cultural violence against inanimate objects like artworks and statues is permissible and has been for a long time, provided there’s an acceptable reason for it and the target is a class enemy.
I would also count the environmental vandalism of the so-called Green and renewable movement a form of violence. It makes no sense, either scientifically or aesthetically, yet it’s not only permissible, it’s stridently defended through all levels of the community and polity.
Anchor What:
The government immigration policy, the refusal to increase the power, road and water infrastructure policy, and the immunisation policy that damages womens reproductive capacity – all these policies only make sense in a replacement of the population policy.
Sounds crazy?
Sounds very 2030 -2050 Net Zero to me. Australia being populated with Indian and Chinese immigrants who will replace us.
It’s about time we started thinking the unthinkable – that our elites want us gone and replaced by a more malleable voteherd and that they are working toward this.
The Bee also, Anchor.
Cassie reminded us last night that telling the truth makes you stronger and Matrix has a story about dealing with bullies.
You just have to speak up while you can, whenever the rubbish is spruiked. It’s the only way. Like Puddleglum, speaking the truth isn’t enough – you also have to put your foot into the fire and mash it out. And that takes courage and involves risk. Many here are much braver than me – I realised that during the Covid restrictions.
Biden’s handlers and media prostitutes are wheeling out the “Old, but reliable” line.
Some good news:
Brave Search Engine Ditches Bing, Achieves Self Reliance (29 Apr)
Tried it just now on Tony Heller’s site. MUCH better! Hitherto no search engine would give unforced results from his site, he was anathemized by both Bing and Goolag for climate wrongthink. Now I’m seeing relevant results, although not perfect since it didn’t return a recent blog post he put up – but it did put up a similar one from some days earlier.
Alamak!says:
April 29, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Winston> I want to evaluate the counter proposition to what appears to be a common view here about Biden & Trump. What if Trump is a crazy lunatic who could draw us into nuclear war whereas Biden is too senile to achieve anything major?
Then compare their actual performance while in office.
WOW
https://www.boomershub.com/blog/top-6-reasons-why-std-rates-are-rising-in-nursing-homes
Hospital food isn’t great, but can lead to excellent entertainment.
XR Founder Moans About His Carrots (29 Apr)
“Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam has taken to Twitter to share his frustration in an 11-point thread after he was served carrots and a handful of potatoes for dinner as the ‘vegan option’ in hospital.
Mr Hallam posted a photo of an almost empty plate from his bed which had just a portion of carrots on it, writing 391 words on the environmental benefits of going vegan – but did admit he had already eaten the ‘six’ potatoes that were served on the side.
The controversial environmentalist, 56, who also helped form eco mobs Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil, has been in hospital after ‘crushing’ his leg during an accident while riding his bike.”
Maybe a nice nurse will help him glue himself to the bed to protest more effectively.
JUST STOP POTATOES!
calli says:
April 30, 2023 at 7:25 am
speaking the truth isn’t enough – you also have to put your foot into the fire and mash it out.
Yes.
How has passive “resistance” worked out for the Tibetans, or the European Jews, among others, in the past?
As Mao famously said in 1927: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
In this climate, anything that doesn’t include an element of organised, tangible, kinetic-energy-laden “push back” that leads the evil woke to think twice about “trying it on” is a waste of time.
And thus, here we are…
Put it down great grandpa.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11969897/Frisky-seniors-Experts-warn-STI-epidemic-RETIREMENT-HOMES.html
These seniors are getting buck wild on the PBS. These little whores are partying on my dime. I demand a right to slap them around and take a 25% vig of their medical bills.
Clown world is the real pimp playa:
(Yes, I know it’s America, but likely the trend is replicated here with a similar culture).
You mean the only president in at least half a century not to start a war?
Yes that’s true Gilas and the left use both (illegal) violence and intimidation as well as gaining control of the apparatus of government aka the rule of law. Voting your way out of the technocratic globalist hell hasn’t worked yet either- the Trumble putsch in 2015, the neutering of Brexit and the theft of the 2020 election are recent examples. The truth is the only language some people understand is a knuckle sandwich.
The Global Warming Fraud
These people truly, truly hate us.
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
CDC renews Covid vaccine requirement for travelers entering the US.
0% science. 100% cult.
Meme
Biden Camp Called Mike Morell After Debate with Trump to Thank Him for Creating Bogus Letter on Hunter Laptop Signed by 51 Intel Operatives and Lying to American Public
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
asches to ashes, all fall down