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That would require a government whose sole reason for existence is the country and not power and marxist ideology
Tofu Steel behind Thai building collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRUfXoRhj4A
Were they “fuel injected suicide machine, a rocker, a roller, an out of controller”?
I’ve found two reports involving aircraft over the last three years re Poland. Three involving Sweden and the same, Finland.…
Doc Beaugan:
Yes – a very good interview. In fact I’d say that Colonel MacGregor was spot on in everything he said.
Having your Chief Inquisitor run into some problems himself doesn’t help. This never happened when Rome was running the show.
This is going to explode lefty heads very nicely indeed.
Poles Overwhelmingly Oppose EU Migration Reforms (22 Aug)
Ouch, 81.4%? That surely is going smart. Albo would love those sort of numbers for his yes campaign. Maybe he should ask a precise and detailed question like the Polish Government is doing on 15 Oct?
Truth About NEW 2023 Covid Variant
aka bringing home the Bacon
Monash – ground zero for The Peoples Republic of Danistan.
Well, yes.
Hard to write the poison pen report with one hand and tickle the till with the other.
And Nazism.
At the ABC.
Now thinking that heritage archaeological works might take drag this out to the never never.
Mystery surrounds who has commissioned market research into landowner attitudes toward the controversial VNI West transmission line project.
Lock the date in.
Or maybe not lock it in.
Albo is the turkey setting Christmas Day. No wonder he’s not in a hurry.
Buyback so farming can dieback
Murray-Darling Basin plan revived with controversial water buybacks, but won’t include Victoria
Adam Cranston gets 15
Nanny says, leaves those sticks alone.
For those keen on pompeii
Yes – a very good interview. In fact I’d say that Colonel MacGregor was spot on in everything he said.
Colonel MacGregor has been commenting on this stuff since the Russian ‘Police Action’ began. Loads of his videos on ‘You Chube’. Top Man.
From the Gateway Pundit:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/climate-change-crusher-humanprogress-org-publishes-video-claiming/
Radio Free Europe
good song, but.
not sure if the propaganda works.
Question is whether Albo is going to cite the ongoing swirling of misinformation to claim that the referendum has been sabotaged and it will be pointless holding the referendum in this climate.
Compromised by the existence of differing opinion. The worst kind of compromised.
Under his benign dictatorship this proliferation of differing views would not have happened.
I do hope people use this to argue against Albo’s proposed sentinels against misinformation – if he had his way he would have outlawed contrary opinions.
And he will try again next time.
How did Plibbers end up with Environment? Da bruvvas must have had a laugh when they told Albo that was what was happening.
Colour me suspicious, but I’ll bet he claims Australians are just racist scum, who need firm leadership, and he’ll legislate the Voice.
Colour me suspicious, but I’ll bet he claims Australians are just racist scum, who need firm leadership, and he’ll legislate the Voice.
Def in private but the assorted prestitutes and marxist ideologues will say it for anal.
Is that Kliziger some kind of retard?
Thanks for the Pompei link Rosie.
It was very interesting to be there last week, and we are looking forward to a return trip, maybe staying the area for a week and visiting all of the other sites as well as Pompei in more detail.
Be nice to get a no on Oct 14 and no on Oct 15 also.
That’d be a salutary one fingered salute to the elites.
He can renege on his promise, blame the Murdochtopus (his tentacles everywhere) and accuse Dutton of being in cynical league with those malign forces for purely political gain.
Worlds oldest continuous culture!
Bolta getting stuck into Latham and using Latham’s accurate description of the poofta act to castigate Latham. Bolta exclaims that what Latham said is so vile that he can’t repeat it on air. He then has Ashby on and asks the question that since Ashby is also a poofta was this the reason Pauline took greenwich’s side in that gerfuffle. Ashby says Latham is not a homophile which is clever and diffuses that aspect.
The only media outlet Latham had was Thursday afternoon on 2SM with Brent Boltitude and I don’t know if that is going to continue now Latham is no longer head of NSW ON.
Pauline’s candidate selection issues continue hot on the heels of the Burston mess. Burston follows a long line of failed PHON candidates who fell out with Pauline. A strong personality like Latham was always going to have a similar ending; but I think the greenwich debacle exacerbated that.
Liz Storer is gorgeous. I love the way gorgeous chicks put on warpaint to come on TV.
Most of the blokes who come on TV to argue the non-left position are underwhelming.
Chicks are the primary supporters of socialism. They are also socialism’s best critics.
You might like to read The Medici Conspiracy TE, one of the looted sites was a villa in the Pompeii area.
Don’t know if they worked out where it was, it might even be the one in the linked article.
Doubt even the Liar Left would try that on.
It would be better to argue Australians are good people but have been duped than to right out call them racist.
That opinion will stay in the party room.
Is that his real name? As in Bolt on steroids?
The whole reason the Voice is going to a referendum is so it can’t get ATSICed and deals the High Court into proceedings beyond just declaring any legislation ultra vires.
My mistake it’s Bultitude not Boltitude. But it is pronounced Boltitude.
I’m very disappointed that Latho and Pauline see fit to fight each other rather than the uniparty.
Near enough is good enough for any top notch legal eagle.
“He then has Ashby on and asks the question that since Ashby is also a poofta was this the reason Pauline took greenwich’s side in that gerfuffle. Ashby says Latham is not a homophile which is clever and diffuses that aspect.”
Latham is not a homophobe, I strongly suspect he voted for SSM. No, Latham is a Greenwichphobe, as I am.
Alex Greenwich is a very unsavoury and sinister creep, who basically should not be in parliament. The despicable NSW Liberals, under Gladslag and Puppet Parrothead sold their souls to the sinister creep because of the fear that the Liberal government might fall into minority government, hence the evil abortion laws of 2019. Some of Greenwich’s power has been stalled by the Minns Labor government, which is no bad thing. In fact, I happen to think that the Minns government is a lot more conservative than the previous Liberal government, but nobody should be surprised by that.
Cassie, it always falls apart near the end with the Liars.
“Liz Storer is gorgeous. I love the way gorgeous chicks put on warpaint to come on TV.
Most of the blokes who come on TV to argue the non-left position are underwhelming.
Chicks are the primary supporters of socialism. They are also socialism’s best critics.
Agree Tom.
“Cassie, it always falls apart near the end with the Liars.”
I know JC, but least under Minns, Green Kean and Creepy Greenwich are no longer near the reins of power.
Uniparty is laughing its tits off over this.
Poor Andrew Bolt. He appears to think gay men just sit around in fancy cafés drinking soy lattes and discussing soft furnishings.
Please. No one tell him the truth. He might melt.
The burning question…is Latham telling the truth?
Whoops. The truth about the fraud, not gay men. Most sensible people are aware of the latter.
Bill passed away a few years back and now his brother James Buckley at 100.
There two were pretty large in the US conservative movement.
James in his younger days. Can you get more American looks wise?
They..
What fraud?
Has Chris Kenny taken leave of his senses — I just heard him say that the No campaign is becoming increasingly shrill — bzzt off — he is just getting worse
That question seems to have been lost in the fog of poove.
Where is the appropriate place to discuss soft furnishings?
The exchange between Bill Buckley and Gore Vidal, two Brahmins who loathed each other, remains a classic.
Milton, the story is in the Oz, paywalled. Apparently $270k.
“Has Chris Kenny taken leave of his senses — I just heard him say that the No campaign is becoming increasingly shrill — bzzt off — he is just getting worse”
Not watching him anymore Tinta, between his shrill shilling of da Voice and his hatred of dogs, I’ve switched off.
From the Oz
Let me go further.
His prospects of ever being a half-smart crook are close to nil.
Despite their ABC calling it a “sophisticated scam”, this was the clumsiest racket ever.
Areas for improvement:-
1. Using junkies as fronts for your bank account buckets;
2. Disclosing your real ID to said junkies;
3. Spending the money on bling, fast red cars, and pardee drux;
4. Employing a juice-head bikie to standover the aforementioned junkies. As bikies do, he decides that it might be more profitable to stand over these Eastern Suburbs wannabes than collect $2k a shot for scaring junkies witless;
5. Not considering the possibility that the ATO might notice an employer who was remitting $250k a month and suddenly drops to close to zero. Accordingly they go the full “bada-bing gangster” chatter on their phones. Their hot phones. Pro tip … if you’re running a Ponzi*, don’t say “Ponzi” on the phone.
3/10.
Improvement required.
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* It wasn’t a Ponzi. The dicks didn’t even know the correct name of their criminal enterprise. Which was “theft”.
Thanx Calli
“is Latham telling the truth?”
I don’t know, it’s just disappointing, it didn’t need to come to this. Mark Latham is a good politician with some good ideas. Pauline should have said, after Latham made those Twitter comments, that whilst she disagreed with them, it was Greenwich the slime ball who first made derogatory comments, she should have said that both need to apologise to each other.
One Nation’s success in NSW is due to Mark Latham.
But I guess Pauline has her own battles, she is being sued for “hate speech” by a Green Jew hater.
Look, I like Pauline, I know others here don’t and think she’s a grifter.
Anyway, Pauline was at CPAC and let me tell you, she dresses really well and looks fabulous considering she’s nearly 70.
Huge mistake he didn’t use Bunter Hiden’s lawyers to sort things out for him.
If they lose they will just sit it out.
Every subsequent cock-up in Blak Straya will be pointed to, with plaintive cries of, “if only we had da Voice!”.
Sancho> He mighta done better if he aksed his old man for a little advice. Or just done a search (“easy tax scam ATO”) on TikTok.
John Ray did my homework.
http://marxwords.blogspot.com/
The evidence is piling up, just like the victims of communism, communalism, whatever fake name you want to give it!
“…the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things… They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
– Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Books, 1985, originally published in 1848), p.120.
It gets worse!
“We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.”
– V.I. Lenin,” Lessons of the Moscow Uprising,” Proletary, No.2, August 1906 (as posted on Marxists.org).
As for violent antisemitism:
What truth is there in this argument? Marx’s essay, On the Jewish Question, originally published in 1844 contains the following:
What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.
Marx argues that, “In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.” Larry Ray explains, “Marx’s position is essentially an assimilationist one in which there is no room within emancipated humanity for Jews as a separate ethnic or cultural identity.” Dennis Fischman puts it, “Jews, Marx seems to be saying, can only become free when, as Jews, they no longer exist.”
Pauline has earned respect the hard way. I don’t know what the animus is between she and Latham, but I have to side with Pauline, reluctantly. Her great trek has been Trumpian. Mark has done well but Pauline has sailed through the fire of battleships and Mark has had only heavy cruisers. His description of gay sex was medically accurate. I wish they’d sort things out but both of them are alphas and are bristling at each other right now. Ah well.
Calli, how’s the Ken Done going?
The Prime Minister said the referendum question was “very clear,” and would lead to recognition of First Nations people with a committee through which they could offer advice to government.
“Every Australian will have the opportunity to vote yes for a practical, positive difference in people’s lives,” he said.
Jolly good.
Not what the authors of the Uluru Statement were asking for, but who could knock back the opportunity to make a “practical, positive difference in people’s lives”?
Now, what’s all this $9 million on a Makarrata Commission all about?
“Her great trek has been Trumpian. “
Yep.
WTF is all this from judges making calls whether accused are penitent and/or can be rehabilitated? How the hell do they know? Also, if this is so important why aren’t the accused weeping in court for the entire case?
Hmmmm.
Well, Cranston Major was charged with abusing his position as a public servant and was found not guilty.
Let’s just say it’s possible that Cranston Major let something slip – unwittingly – about holes in ATO systems within earshot of Cranston Minor.
Interesting points Dot.
Just wondering out loud. What hell happened to Tickler? Any moment now he’s going to go Roths-child on us. Don’t go full Roths-child, Tickler and you never come back from that rabbit hole.
Roths-child appears to be banned thanks to GB.
“Hmmmm.
Well, Cranston Major was charged with abusing his position as a public servant and was found not guilty.
Let’s just say it’s possible that Cranston Major let something slip – unwittingly – about holes in ATO systems within earshot of Cranston Minor.”
I think the Cranston daughter is now in prison too?
But hey, at least we can use the words Jew and Jewish here. Sinc bannrd them in case Bird flew in though an open window.
Judges are required to take this into account in sentencing, JC, since one of the chief purposes of a prison sentence (but not the only purpose) is to promote rehabilitation if at all possible/likely.
Simple.
Ego.
She simply can’t stand the thought of someone stealing the limelight.
That is why the suggestion of a PHON – Fat Cloive merger would never work.
Both massive egos.
Some good news for free speech, two drag queens have lost their landmark legal stoush against Lyle Shelton. They failed in their bid to claim that Lyle Shelton sexually vilified them by criticising their performance in libraries with children.
” words Jew and Jewish here”
Yes, thankfully.
“Both massive egos.”
Ummm……yes.
Roger, I know, but boy I’ve read this a lot lately. So why aren’t accused all drying their tears throughout their trials. I don’t get it. You could still plead not-guilty and not have a dry eye for the duration as well as huddled and hunched over
I agree Cassie, I’ve met her a couple of times, she is a really lovely lady and does look fabulous, classy and well put-together. It is a shame that these ructions keep happening, I remember the Pasquarelli phase, the Oldfield phase, the Burston phase, now the Ashby phase – it is true that it should never have come to this, it should’ve been handled with some political nous and not setting fire to bridges.
I like Mark Latham too, he is a good politician and the incredible work he has done in eduction has been stellar. There’s two out of three who’ve walked and Mark is the reason that One Nation has done well in NSW.
Yep, same same here, I have a 30yo pony mare who got an oesophageal obstruction a fortnight ago – had 3-4 days dribbling and not eating – vet pushed a tube through it but it remains to be see if there is a sinister cause, still, family is family no?
Watters today had a very good expose/summary of the biden/hunter criminality/treason. Nothing will happen.
He also succinctly summarised why the Maui fires were so bad: lack of hazard reduction, cultural equity in respect of water allocation and general all round leftie incompetence.
Leftism/wokism only exist in a mature society which has a practical basis yet they viciously and aggressively work to undermine and subvert that practicality through virtue signalling. The Maui fires are another example of this.
This Wokism and virtuism also allowed Letby to go on her murderous campaign; she was protected by woke administrators who actively protected her. I bet nothing happens to them.
You had planes talking photos or sighting movements of troops and equipment. You had interception of communications. And so on. It’s not easy to conceal the movement of tens of thousands of troops and their equipment. And air superiority wasn’t primitive. The Allies in ’44 made the Germans pay a terrible price moving troops around France. The point wasn’t whether it was a win, but that a power as well manned, equipped, and lead as the US was in Korea could still be worn down and fought to a stalemate.
Too much China porn.
Oh well. But you have to admit the hard choices here involved for the US given China’s trading position globally.
So where does that sit?
You get a discount for an early plea (say that is five years for a given offence).
You get full whack for pleading not guilty, running it the distance and taking a fck you attitude even after a guilty verdict (say, ten years).
What sentence do you get for having a “come to Jesus” moment only after the long trial and guilty verdict?
There was a judge in Victoria who blew up about it a few years ago.
He basically said that, if the crook was genuinely remorseful, they would have simply entered a guilty plea up front. You don’t get to play that card after a six week trial and after the jury cans you.
JC,
Many offenders are so hubristic they imagine, to the last moment, that they’ll get away with it. And even when convicted they’ll maintain their innocence. Prison is full of such types.
Human psychology can be perverse, particularly with criminal types.
Who left the window open?
A much older guy I knew twenty years ago (an unashamedly proud socialist) once dismissed Pauline as “just a fish and chip shop owner.”
So much for the left being on the side of the middle and lower classes.
Talking about trials and lawyers. I’ve been watching the two seasons of Lincoln Lawyer. As you guessed it’s the story about a criminal lawyer set in LA. The good thing about the series is that both seasons have centred around the main case for the entire 10 episodes and is both reasonably detailed but also interesting at the same time. The main character is Mexican, but he appears to have entered the US legitimately instead walking across the border like the rest. I can’t find anything new to watch, which is why I’ve been hanging around here of late.
The Hanson/Latham explosion leaves us like friends watching a nasty marriage breakup. Divided loyalties, doubt and head shaking. And is Ashby an Iago wannabe? He might think he’s the heir apparent.
On Ken Done, he is doing his work admirably. I’ll probably send him packing in a day or two. Down to only one crutch…again.
No, you don’t.
Despite common perceptions, and the occasional exception, most judges aren’t idiots.
Work out your salvation in prison, son.
James Morrow on the dog collar wearing mayor of Sydney:
Of course she is leading by example. Annnd I will see myself out.
Walk me through how capturing an airfield demonstrates this?
Indeed, having worked in the prison system representing the community, that is indeed correct. I recall several murders when interviewed showed no remorse at all would do no courses to address the offending behaviour which meant that there would be no parole and the full sentence served and would then walk back out to get on with life. I must say it was a very interesting task but a bit scary at times – dealing with the worst of the worst in the prison system.
Do you know, I don’t, but do you know if the US was surveilling across the Chinese border?
I said relatively primitive.
I recall the first Gulf War. The Americans were going to lose thousands upon thousands of troops because Iraq was armed to the teeth with soviet equipment and the Republican Guard were unbeatable. It was over before the fat chick sang the chorus. China isn’t Iraq, but I’d lay my bet with the US.
Look, you take out China and “globally” is basically the West. The rest of the world are just hangers on riff raff. The rest of the West isn’t going to go with China. They would be with the US.
Not saying Pauline Hanson wasn’t motivated by good intentions at first.
But 25 years on, I think we are a little bit wedded to the Canbra spotlight.
And James Ashby would also be very concerned to ensure the career of James Ashby continues unhindered by sudden electoral shocks.
See also, Joyce, Barnaby.
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So in the alternate reality that you apparently occupy, Russian paratroopers take Hostomel and secure the surrounds, and then DON’T land sufficient supplies and troops to take attempt on Kiev? Or they DO use the airport and march quickly on Kiev, take the Presidential residence and then… having taken the city sit down with Zelensky and negotiate.
You’re on fkn drugs mate.
that would be “murderers”
Dover, can I butt in for a second here. You were saying Russia was really only interested in the lands the Lord gifted them from heaven. So why did the heroic Soviet forces lob missiles are that airfield which wasn’t eggsactly in the heaven sent lands? It could have been a total miscalculation and the dude doing the pointing and aiming may have keyed in 700 k instead of 7 k. It’s possible it was a huge error.
On the subject of drug induced delusions, I’d go with
1. We’re purchasing imports at below cost.
2. Duarte’s anti-drug policy was a workable, conservative attempt to reduce illicit drug use in the country with the least amount of disturbance and loss of life.
Neville Bartos would be truly proud:
There’s no cash here. Here – there’s no cash. All right?
No cash. Robbo?
Robbo: No cash.
No cash.
Bless her cotton socks.
Commenter on Michael Smith, raising the story of Stan Grant, telling his children about the poisoned waterholes. Words fail me…
Which, from my understanding, is her entire work uniform.
Pauline on PML: it’s all those dirty dick men’s fault.
Yes. They wouldn’t have imposed strict rules on movement, like travelling only at night, etc. if they weren’t being surveilled.
The point re globally is what they do with China outside of global trade.
Salivating material, but not marriage material.
Let’s hop nothing ‘popped out’ unexpectedly.
*hope*
Ah geez. Ruined it.
Mrs Speedbox has been talking to some friends who live in Kislovodsk. They decided to go on a holiday so they drove the 1000 kms from Kislovodsk to Sevastopol in the Crimea. Travelled via the Kursk Bridge. Reported that bridge traffic was medium to heavy with many cars/trucks travelling in both directions.
They are staying with their friends outside Sevastopol who live not far from the Belbek military air base. Reported that no internet or mobile phones work in the area. All ‘common’ radio frequencies are jammed (and probably more than a few uncommon ones).
The local Crimeans report that every now and then, at night, they hear a loud bang which they understand is a Ukrainian drone or missile being shot down.
Life in Sevastopol is undeterred. People going about their business, shops busy, lots of (Russian) tourists. Mobile phones/internet work in Sevastopol.
KD, you didn’t link, but I’m guessing there are tatts?
Female tatts and Trump derangement.
Dunno about this one though, although the bull dyke haircut shows potential.
And then there’s this sweetheart.
PICTURED: Tracy Fiorenza, 41, arrested by secret service after threatening to shoot Donald Trump and son Barron in the face
With the requisite tats.
I think James Ashby is the catalyst for Pauline’s and Latham’s current woes. Your allusion to Iago is very apt.
I’m not sure you can make that assumption.
Just went back and had another look. To be properly informed, of course.
Only one, actually. That I can see. On the hip. Not terrible.
Certainly not a cute owl, so reasonably attractive.
This type of comment triggers a Cassie-style rant from me.
Points raised/rammed in this rant:
Pauline created 14 jobs in that fish & chip shop, how many have you created?
No, sitting on a corporate/public service interview panel is not job creation.
How many jobs have you created with your own money?
Pauline got herself off the wages market & into mercantile services (fish & chip shop)
This is not an easy thing to do, very few people ever manage to get themselves off wages (i.e. being paid by a boss for results, this includes “consulting”.)
It takes a very special person to do ever get off wages. Most shit themselves just thinking about it.
Have you ever considered growing a dick & balls and having a go yourself?
[long piece about the dignity of labour & how fish & chip shops are not leeching from anybody]
There’s more, but y’all have got the picture.
etc. etc. etc.
This guy says we’re both incorrect, Dover. The Chinese did not keep the Americans from seeing the forces massing on the border. The reason was because the Americans believed the Chinese were playing a bluff and wouldn’t dare join the conflict.
The Chinese were amassing troops on the border, according to information the Americans possessed.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/chinese-and-american-misjudgment-and-making-and-prolonging-korean-war
Yeah, obviously.
Wut?
Read more at the link.
She uses the handle “Roths-child”, complains about pedo rings and prattles on about some ray machine.
Spooky.
Nice mini rant, Sal.
Uptick from me.
Drop a few hundred paras to hold the airfield and then fly in 10k more to take the city. All over in 72 hours, according to the cunning Russky plan for taking Kiev.
Like the failed Fallschirmjäger in WW2(Hollnd, Crete) – airborne invasions without tank and artillery support don’t work too well against committed opponents
There is no way they can do that and get to Zelensky even if he’s in Kiev to capture him, etc. for the fait accompli before he’s gone to ground or fled given the forces they had in the area.
Yes, Dover. Agree that the Russian attack was badly planned (if it was even planned) and badly executed. Check the method of getting tanks to battle by trains … leaving extended supply lines and vast gaps for counter-attack by mobile forces.
A clusterf**k bigger than Afghanistan.
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Exactly.
They were going to kill or exile him, and replace him with their guy.
Matt Wallace
@MattWallace888
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And he’s gone off on holiday again.
There’s no doubt they’re going to try it on again.
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Why does the government collapse and surrender without Zelensky? Hard to imagine the same person that folded to Azov in 2019/20 is the keystone here. No, the only way that happens is if not only the government (executive and legislature) as well as the military believe that there is no hope of prevailing. Sure, a captured President may have hastened this impression, but so do military columns converging on your capital and advancing and/ or capturing other major cities in the south and east, or at the very least, force you to the negotiating table.
Morning Consult is a trash poll favorable to Dems
Good pollsters. Very bad numbers for DeSantis.
Gee, Emerson has DeSantis at 10 , equal with Vivek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(2003)
Within hours of a palace seizure and with television coverage of this spreading through Iraq, US forces ordered Iraqi forces within Baghdad to surrender, or the city would face a full-scale assault. Iraqi government officials had either disappeared or had conceded defeat.
Not sure the Ukrainian government in Feb ’22 was in the same position as the Iraqi government in 2003.
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Can you try any harder to miss the point?
Watching you turn a fine brain into a pretzel over this shite has been infuriating.
No, I see you’re point.
Paywalled at the OZ.
Picture tells the story.
Coles and retailers at centre of organised crime spree
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Arky
Aug 22, 2023 11:35 PM
Well I’m a bit perplexed here myself, if not comparing the two situations then what was your point?
History lesson?
Trump is winning every age group against Biden bar 55+. He is winning Independents 36 to 19 vs DeSantis.
This is a post-Georgia indictment survey.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Peter Broelman #2.
Steve Bright.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
41 year old Fiorenza also taught ‘Social Studies’ in the Chicago school system.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
They did indeed line the roads to do so. And yet Maui voted 66.6% Biden in 2020…
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Thanks Tom and with Michael Ramirez it’s the same for Australia. No dams having been built.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
– Ronald Reagan
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
– Sam Ewing
PNG looks like its going well.
Tomorrow Michael Malice is speaking with Gabriel Shipton (Julian Assange’s brother).
It will be good to get the latest on this.
The Australian media has been lying about any progress being made on this over the past 12 months.
Meanwhile in the Top End:
Rowan Dean: Government doesn’t work and can’t close ‘the gap’
Rowan Dean
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may not have had time to read the fine print of the Uluru Statement from the Heart on what his precious Voice to Parliament is supposed to achieve, such as an unspecified percentage of GDP going to pay reparations. He’s happy to make do with the A4 intro. But perhaps he could find time to read some of the back issues of local newspapers up in the top end?
This story in the Tennant and District Times from August 27 will be two years old next week. Titled, Youth centre to be complete by the end of year, it reads:
‘The Tennant Creek Youth Centre has had its first slab laid and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Barkly Regional Council Director of Infrastructure Santosh Niraula (pictured) said it is just one of many major projects in the Barkly region underway or completed this year.’
Sounds interesting… The story goes on:
‘…the Change Rooms in Elliott are almost finished, along with the women’s art centre in Wutunugurra and the Basketball Court in Alpurrurulam – all part of the Barkly Regional Deal. The Youth Centre is also part of the Barkly Regional Deal, and funded by the federal government’s Building Better Region Funds.’
That’d be taxpayer funds, then.
What exactly is the Barkly Regional Deal? Well, that’s easy. It even has its own website which you and I helped pay for.
This website looks lovely, with a beautiful landscape painting by Susie Peterson of the Wutunugurra community in the background.
If we scroll a little, we learn that the Barkly Regional Deal is, ‘The first regional deal in Australia – a 10-year $84.7 million commitment between the Australian Government, the Northern Territory Government, and Barkly Regional Council to improve the productivity and livability of the Barkly region by stimulating economic growth, improving social outcomes and supporting local Aboriginal leadership.’
This ‘deal’ includes 28 initiatives to respond to three priority areas identified by the Barkly community during consultations.
Hang on! I know exactly what you’re thinking. This sounds just like the Voice!
In fact, the website spells it out. The Barkly Regional Deal is ‘a community governance framework to drive the implementation of the Barkly Regional Deal, including a Governance Table’. It also promises ‘long-term reform to government-funded and delivered services in collaboration with the community’.
It’s all very ‘Voice-y’.
Giving Indigenous communities at the grassroots a ‘voice’ directly into all levels of government? Let me remind you what the Uluru Statement says. To be fair, I’m going to use the one-page intro bit that even Albanese has read:
‘We seek Constitutional reforms to empower our people… When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.’
If you scrape off the flowery embellishments, this translates as ‘let’s spend some money on infrastructure and other things to keep bored Indigenous kids off the street’.
There is no doubt that the Barkly community has a ‘voice’ and it is already being listened to … to the tune of a whopping $84.7 million a year.
Below you can see the Barkly Instagram where some of this grassroots decision-making is already hard at work.
During the last Census in 2021, 896 Indigenous households were identified in the Barkly region. This means we, the taxpayer, are spending roughly $95,000 per household so these kids can ‘walk in both worlds’.
Out of curiosity, I kept digging through the website to see how this money is being spent and, presumably, how these communities are benefiting from the program.
Minister Marino, who is responsible for the management of the deal, gave an update on its progress. She said: ‘Since signing the 10-year deal in April 2019 with all levels of government, we’ve seen good progress with some of the projects already completed such as the upgrade to the Alpurrurulam airstrip.’
All of this sounds promising.
‘The Deal’s success to date is due to strong local leadership and positive working relationships between the community and all levels of government.’
But hang on… That is the latest update on the Barkly Regional Deal website, but isn’t this Nola Marino – the Liberal MP who was the Minister for Regional Development in the Morrison government? That’s yonks ago.
Surely the latest update should be coming from Labor’s Senator Anthony Chisholm? He has been in the job for nearly 15 months. There is around $85 million being poured into the Barkly Regional Deal, so why can’t he be bothered giving us an update? What happened to it? How’s it working? Who knows…
He might be too busy to update the Barkly Regional Deal website, but he does have plenty to say about the Voice.
On a recent edition of Afternoon Agenda, he said:
‘So many Australians want to do the “right” thing. They want to see advancement for Indigenous people in this country. They want us to be able to “close the gap”. I have no doubt that if we actually have a Voice that we are listening to it will enable us to do that better and more efficiently.’
Right-o, Chisholm. The Voice will enable you to do your job better and more efficiently even though you already have a local community talking to you at a grassroots level and demanding practical outcomes on the ground – a community that has ample funding to do what it wants.
The only problem seems to be that you can’t even be bothered going on a website to give us an update on how the Barkly Regional Deal is going on the ground. Or isn’t this particular deal to your ideological liking?
On AM Agenda Chisholm said:
‘I have responsibilities in government for delivering on the Barkly Regional Deal which was born out of traumatic circumstances in 2016 when the federal government at the time combined with the Northern Territory government, and the council stepped in and said they were going to provide infrastructure across those communities. They had no consultation with First Nations communities in those places.’
Really? Let us fact-check that claim.
Over on the Barkly Regional Deal website there is a lengthy Aboriginal Community Statement. It doesn’t say whether it’s ‘from the heart’ or not, but it definitely appears to be from the local community.
It states:
We, the Aboriginal people from the Barkly region, have a connection to our traditional lands and waters, passed on through our ancestors, which continues today through our unique languages, cultures and histories.
We acknowledge our Elders; those who have gone before us; those with us today; those who are emerging and will lay down the foundation for our future.
We acknowledge those who have settled on our land, introducing other languages, cultures and having their own histories; developing our lands to accommodate the demands of Australian society; providing the benefits that this development has to offer. Past developments have been undertaken without our involvement and consultation, or understanding of our needs.
We invite all levels of government, business, service providers and the communities throughout the Barkly region to work with and involve us in the planning and delivery of social, cultural and economic activities to ensure the opportunities which arise are for the benefit of us all.
We commit to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to strengthen our relationships, identify opportunities and deliver sustainable outcomes through a process based on mutual respect, understanding and acceptance of our differences.
That sounds like First Nations people to me. The website adds that ‘past developments have been undertaken without our involvement and consultation, or understanding of our needs’.
‘Past’ developments were undertaken without community involvement. Not this project – which was clearly and explicitly undertaken with Indigenous consultation and understanding.
This means, unless the people who made the website are liars, the Minister’s statement ‘they had no consultation with First Nations communities in those places’ is not true.
Perhaps the Minister should read the website again?
‘Aboriginal leadership is critical to the success of the Barkly Regional Deal.’
There is also a section titled, Listening to Regional Voices, while Instagram features one of those voices, Aboriginal Alliance Coordinator Cyril Franey. In another progress report, the Independent Chair of the Governance Table, Mr Sean Gordon, thanked the Elliott community for ‘the chance to meet on country to hear firsthand their concerns and aspirations’.
So, either the people who have written that entire website are misleading us or the Labor Minister himself misled Sky News Australia. Take your pick. It’s one or the other.
In summary, we have an $84.7 million deal – that’s $84.7 million you and I donated out of our tax dollars to help Indigenous Australians, at their behest, after listening to their voices, in remote communities, in order to help close the gap and give Indigenous kids a future… But the Labor Minister Senator Anthony Chisholm can’t be bothered to update the website to let Australians know what is happening with the Barkly Regional Deal. But the Minister does have time to tell us that we need a Voice to Parliament to make things happen ‘on the ground, at a practical level’.
Let’s get a proper appraisal and update about the project. According to regional ABC, in a report that showed a town that looks virtually uninhabitable with a gigantic, shiny new UNOPENED Youth Centre in the middle sitting derelict, with two bored Aussie Indigenous kids wondering why it’s not open:
‘It’s being described as a war zone. Boarded up, empty shops. The town’s poorest live in tin shacks with no power or water. One building, the Tennant Creek Youth Centre, stands out shiny and new, but it has never opened its doors. Built as a safe space with a computer room, pool tables, and a Ninja Warrior obstacle course, the kids say it would fill a void in a town with little else to do.
‘Completely built but locked up for almost two years, this community leader had hoped it would be a silver bullet to a growing problem – crime.
‘…over the past years, house break-ins are up almost 50 per cent. Break-ins to businesses are up more than 66 per cent. A fact the mayor knows all too well.
‘It’s the council’s responsibility to staff and run this facility, but so far funding has only been secured for the next 5 years. Attracting workers and finding them somewhere to live in this town is a big problem.’
Speaking with the ABC, the mayor said:
‘I went to Canberra and while I’m talking to the Prime Minister of Australia, my wife is messaging saying they are breaking into our house.’
There you have it. Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party want billions of dollars, a blank cheque, as The Spectator Australia put it this week, signed by Australian taxpayers in perpetuity, along with a complete upheaval of our Constitution and restructuring all our democratic rights, which could mean treaty, reparations you – literally – could end up paying for the rest of your lives and your children too – along with a whole bunch of other stuff necessary to give Indigenous Australians a Voice in their own future. They say this is necessary because what we’ve tried in the past ‘doesn’t work’.
No. What doesn’t work is government. There are any number of multi-million dollar projects across regional Australia designed to help close the gap. Some work, but far too many have simply been junked or abandoned. Like the Aboriginal student hostel in Kununurra built in 2010 at a cost of $12 million so that remote Indigenous children could have a place to stay while attending secondary school. A 40-bed hostel that was closed during Covid when only one student attended and is now abandoned. $12 million bucks.
The reality is this. Labor are running around trying to sell you a Voice to change the world but they can’t even get a youth centre opened on time. What a disgrace. And if they do get the Voice up, just wait for not one, not two, not a herd, but a stampede of white elephants.
The Spectator
Reporting in from the Med:
We visited two ports in Croatia: Split and Dubrovnik. Have to say the second was the more attractive, with its fjord-like harbour and its modern cable-stayed bridge. In Split we went off about an hour’s journey from the city and did a walk through the Krka National Park of seven waterfalls. Once was the first hydro scheme in the area, and influenced by Nicolas Tesla’s ideas and patents. Very picturesque and gorgeous coloured water. The city had some Roman ruins worth exploring.
In Dubrovnik we did a four-stage journey on the Dalmatian coast, first cruising the bay and visiting oyster beds via a 1953 boat, which linked up with a local workboat. The skipper rapidly shucked (without gloves) about 50 oysters and we ate them. Then they served up a lot of local mussels.
Afterwards we inspected five kilometres of ancient walls protecting the local town of Ston – looked much like Great Wall of China. It was built to protect the salt pans where it has collected since Roman times. We then dropped in on a winery where we sampled more local produce (very strong liquors, cheese and wines), and then finished up with an olive pressing family-concern.
A horse and its owner were waiting for us inside a 240-year-old stone building. The horse did circuits around a stone press – usually for 45 minutes and 200 kilos of olives being pressed into paste – but on this occasion only five minutes. The olive paste then goes into collapsible baskets and is crushed to oil along with a bucket of hot water. We learnt the difference between black and green olives, and Virgin and Extra-Virgin. The finale to this was late-lunch platters on the back terrace of the family house, mostly produce from their extensive garden. Very interesting day overall – all small family businesses operating out of their homes.
Footage of VicPol trying to stop people crossing the Murray river during the 2020 & 2021 lockdowns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWEh2mcdsg
Like the failed Fallschirmjäger in WW2(Hollnd, Crete)
If only the Kiwi Infantry didn’t move off the Maleme Airfield and leave it undefended.
Not enough.
Trump should consistently be 5+ in front but he’s not.
Great comment until here, now it’s just retarded shit.
Thanks Tom. Love the Steve Kelly pinata.
I’d suggest there’s more, dot.
It’s not really that enormously complex to operate a small business with all of 14 employees.it’s just drama queen nonsense that because our Pauline ran a fast food joint she deserves respect. Yeah. It’s Oppenheimer redux. The new film will be tiled “ ‘Hanson”
Why, Dot? Talking to one of my kids the other day…she has a massive business that she created and grew herself…neither of us could ever go back to “wages” regardless of the relative ease.
Nothing like being your own boss.
“They did indeed line the roads to do so. And yet Maui voted 66.6% Biden in 2020…”
And they’ll do it again in 2024.
The covid lockdowns were such a wonderful tool for repression and control. So let’s do it again!
It’s Really Happening: Mask Mandates, Contact-Tracing Re-Implemented At Colleges, Offices (22 Aug)
Just two weeks to flatten the curve. I wonder if anyone really believes this rubbish any more? One wonders if they’re trying to push towards combined climate covid perpetual emergency. There’s been a lot of softening up going on in that space.
Surely his handlers will be flipping coins by now to see which of the pre-planned ‘exit scenarios’ to use.
Sounds wonderful, TE, and very similar to what we did this time last year. A beautiful part of the world and well worth visiting.
I bought a little limestone reproduction of Saint Dominus in Split – he’s carved into many of the walls there. Very cute and unsophisticated. Have you gorged on truffles yet? Mmmmmmm…
Janet Albrechtsen is certainly doing the heavy lifting on all aspects of the Lehrmann miscarriage of justice matter. Her article today shines a light on the behaviour of the Chief Justice during the proceedings. The Sunbather was very critical of her behaviour from the outset, particularly with respect to the date set for trial — only that the Amphibian from Mosman disgraced herself at the Logies did the trial become delayed.
Article is long but well worth the time:
Bullshit!
It is obvious you have never operated a fish and chippery.
You come and tell Mrs D and her sister that its not that hard, and they will tell you otherwise, and use percussive reinforcement while doing so .
Amen to that calli, the long hours, the worry to ensure the wages can be paid, the excitement of new custom, training staff that excellence is key — well worth it and young people do it all the time, especially those plying a trade.
The other fun thing about Split – those lions at the cathedral.
Imagine the conversation with the masons…
Builder – We want lions at the doors. You do lions, don’t you?
Mason – yeah. Sure. No worries.
😀
Reports like the Tennant Creek/Barkly region failed indigenous projects & huge crime/break in crimes confirms my belief that it is becoming increasingly dangerous to tour such areas. Over many years we have toured most of outback Australia – including towns like Yuendemu on the Tanami. Back then the most we encountered were naughty indig kids putting a nail in our tyre when stopping for provisions in Oodnadatta. We were warned about the kids weeing in the camper trailers water tank but hoped that never happened!
Reports now are coming through of campers having gear regularly stolen – including actual vehicles. We have re-examined a planned 4 WD drive to Cape York -a place my husband – but not me – has visited. What a damn disgrace.
It’s not really that enormously complex to operate a small business with all of 14 employees
I think there are a couple of parts to this.
It is not complex if you outsource a lot of it.
Which is expensive.
Which not all business owners can afford.
Long ago I decided that outsourcing a lot of things (external CFO, external HR etc) was the way to go.
Obviously, we paid a lot for that but it allowed us to allocate our time better.
We could have done the lot internally (poorly) but that would have sucked the life out of me & my team.
I have no idea how some small businesses cope with all the regulatory shite they have to adhere to.
Janet A is doing some great work.
BTW even years ago Tennant Creek was one of my least liked places. Local tourist place had lots of info about “stolen” land even then.
Test.
Hope your knees are on the mend calli. Remember the frozen peas to reduce swelling and pain. Exercise as often as possible. Soon as Ken kicks in do more exercise. Bend, hold, relax and bend a bit more. Easy to say but the quality of the exercise is more important than the duration. The last one I had done a young guy, 40 ish, had both done and because he was fit recovered twice as quick as myself who had put up with the pain for too long. Another lady spent a motza on physio’s but didn’t do the exercises properly and kept stopping coz it hurt was not much better after 6 weeks. A word of warning, if morning FTA looks ok you’re having too much Ken.
With reference to Norman Fenton, is he more right that wrong?
Or just wrong?
I meant to ask the question when a Cat posted that there were issues with his work.
I have understood some of his basic work but other parts are way over my head.
Guidance would be appreciated.
From the WSJ if you have a sub (sorry, too long to post).
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/hunter-bidens-foreign-dealings-spell-more-trouble-ahead-19e3a465?mod=hp_lead_pos4
Hunter Biden’s Foreign Dealings Spell More Trouble Ahead
Justice Department opens prospect of pursuing lobbying violations as it presses on with criminal tax probe, while Republicans push to implicate President Biden in his son’s activities
PNG was mentioned up thread. A back story here.
They may be asking, “what has the white man ever done for us?”, but the answer lies in the reversion back to the law of the jungle.
They’ve had their “voice” since 1975. Hasn’t got them far.
Thanks Ranga. I’m a tough old bat, and doing everything they told me to do, regardless of discomfort. No gain without pain.
So instead of “Justice” being blindfolded in order to adjudicate without fear or favour the public must be blindfolded so we don’t see how the law is perverted against us? We get it even when blindfolded.
As Brandi’s cartoon showed this morning, the outcome will be more Trump indictments. I don’t know how it will end but the Bidens will never be accountable, only Republicans can be culpable. It’s in the constitution.
It has long been obvious to me that McCallum was part of the problem.
They’ve had their “voice” since 1975. Hasn’t got them far.
They needed the ‘white man’s assistance’ with Iroquois helicopters to help keep the peace in Bougainville after the civil war.
Norman Fenton is a flamer.
Anthony Albanese’s outhouse blows over
Joe AstonColumnist
Finally, on Monday, Anthony Albanese was asked to explain his procurement (and non-disclosure) of two favours for his adult son: membership of Qantas’ exclusive Chairman’s Lounge and a custom internship at PwC.
“My son is not a public figure. He’s a young person trying to make his way in the world … I completely comply with all the requirements of the [parliamentary interests] register.”
Who ever said his son is a public figure? Nobody has even suggested that. That’s a classic deflection. It’s the prime minister using his adult child as a human shield to thwart legitimate questions about his own judgment and his own conduct.
This is about Albanese’s son not making his own way in the world. It’s about Albanese laying the yellow brick road for his son using the highest public office in the land, providing his son with advantages that no one else gets by soliciting favours from two vendors doing hundreds of millions of dollars of business each year with the Albanese government. One of those vendors, Qantas, run by Albo’s “great mate” Alan Joyce, has benefited commercially from the Albanese government’s incredibly suspicious interventions in aviation policy.
Can we agree that Anthony Albanese is a public figure? If so, did he solicit a Chairman’s Lounge membership for his son and why won’t he declare it? They’re simple questions with simple answers. They are questions for a man who only 15 months ago promised to “change the way politics operates in this country” by “actually answering questions”.
Nationals leader David Littleproud intervened for a second time on Tuesday to defend the prime minister. “I have a real issue about us and the media trying to bring in family members,” he told Patricia Karvelas on Radio National, “because sometimes there are even more roadblocks than … actual advantages [in] having a surname like Albanese or Littleproud.”
Littleproud has described his own father, a former minister in the Queensland government, as like an “invisible hand” in his life. Yet nobody – repeat, nobody – is suggesting the surname Littleproud would offer any advantage. Far from it.
“When it comes to someone’s son or daughter … trying to make their way in the workforce, they need to be respected to be able to do that on their own merits,” he continued. “I’m sure that whatever he’s elevated to, whatever position he gets, he gets that on his own volition.”
Independently verified
With such powers of reasoning, you can readily see why he’s barely clinging onto his leadership. Is Littleproud seriously suggesting that the prime minister’s son was elevated to Chairman’s Lounge membership of his own volition and on his own merits? It has already been established that Albanese secured his son’s bespoke PwC internship with the firm’s chief economist by raising the matter directly with PwC’s chief lobbyist. That was independently verified by the Financial Times, the world’s pre-eminent business newspaper, which ran the story on its front page on Tuesday.
Albanese, of course, is relying on the fact that only the financial press has really been interested in this story to date. If it was running on Kyle & Jackie O, he’d be taking it seriously. It’s not, and maybe that’s because he went to Kyle Sandilands’ wedding and lent the legitimacy of his office to that numbnut. There’s another favour traded. It’s all part of Albo’s calculus.
In the political game of mates, favours are the currency. It’s no different to the stock market in that you win by providing favours when they’re cheap and easy, then collect them later at their highest value. That’s how you rise. But in that game, you blur the lines between the political and corporate worlds at your own risk.
What would it take for the prime minister to say “Yep, I did that. I was striving for my son, but I shouldn’t have, I’ve had his membership cancelled, let’s move on”. You’d have respect for him. You really would.
Yet he can’t bring himself to do that, to acknowledge this wasn’t the crime of the century, just a lapse of judgment. The cover-up is always worse than the crime and it also affords us real insight into his character.
Albanese says he’s complied with the requirements of the parliament’s register of interests. That may be true but then what farce of a register is the parliament really running? Surely there is a place for a genuine debate about that?
What public interest could there possibly be in the kind of benefits Albanese has solicited not being declared publicly? Someone please explain that to me. Are we seriously OK with MPs bowling up and extracting undeclared favours from companies the Australian government hands our taxpayer money to? Give my daughter a job, give my boy a Chairman’s Lounge membership, give my au pair a visa, fly my mistress to Italy. The itch turns into a scratch and before you know it, it’s a full-body rash.
Remember, no government vendor, no regulated business, ever trades a favour without expecting something in return and when those favours aren’t declared, they own you. If Alan Joyce came out today and said “Yep, Albo asked me for that extra Chairman’s Lounge membership and he asked me to keep it on the down-low”, the prime minister would be on his knees at the Lodge, dry-retching. Secret favours make him susceptible and that’s not what the Australian public elected him or anyone else to be.
What Albanese is asking us to believe is that none of this matters. I grew up in public housing, swallow my origin myth, I’m not as bad as ScoMo, I’m a DJ, I’m a single dad, whatever. Just pick your favourites from my smorgasbord of image management. Nobody reads the AFR, so I’ll say nothing. It’s all incorrect, my office won’t return calls, and somewhere out there a bag of hammers calling itself David Littleproud will leap to my defence.
Albo is nowhere on this, because there’s nowhere to go. The outhouse has fallen over and he’s exposed without any prospect of redeeming his modesty.
I agree with you.
Imam Sal would disparage a business he does not approve of.
Apparently winning work and getting paid at project rates intermittently, paying yourself a salary from the corporation you own isn’t a real business.
It’s almost the exact same snobbery Hanson has put up with.
171 Operational Support Squadron during Operation Bel Isi Bougainville Island 1999
Bern, tribal violence in PNG used to be routine. Ask Calli: she used to live in the PNG Western Highlands. The difference now is that a provincial governor has managed to get a story about it on the front page of Australia’s national daily:
As much as Australia’s communist foreign minister, the Wong chap, loves the People’s Republic, I think Elbow will be desperate for a distraction after the Voice referendum goes down so I’m punting he’ll jump in our 737 bizjet around November and burn a few more million to personally deliver a truckload of cash from PNG’s former colonial master.
‘bern at 8:07.
I think we can safely assume the Littleproud has been drinking from the backdoor favours trough as well.
Either that or he is an Olympic standard dickhead.
Bern
My cousin and I inherited a business that has 20 people on the payroll . Our parents ran it for 40 odd years at about half that number of employees and we took it up a few notches.
Running this business is really not that much different to running a trading desk. It’s the same old crap problems. Employee demands more money, some dude is sick and who is going to cover for him. The new one though is can a get an advance to pay the rent. I never met that before. 🙂
The hardest thing is choosing good workers. You really can’t know from the interview. But here’s the secret I’ve always followed. Hold onto good staff and get rid of the mistake quickly.
It’s not splitting the atom.
And, Sancho…and.
I think we can safely assume the Littleproud has been drinking from the backdoor favours trough as well.
Either that or he is an Olympic standard dickhead.
What about both?
There it is, all summarised for them, yet our media are incapable or unwilling to do their job to hold the powerful to account. By their inaction the media have demonstrated that they are now irrelevant and unnecessary. People do rely and trust more the social media who at least will give it a shot. No wonder Albo would ban them were he a dictator.
Hold onto good staff and get rid of the mistake quickly.
Amen brother.
Recolonise. I don’t see the point of subsidising “independent” client states.
Just declare the PU as territories and get some nukes so China pulls its head in.
That or cut them off (but still get the nukes).
Big Men have done well, but.
Littleproud committed two sins in the one paragraph.
After doing so well for a while he does a Stoker and goes into battle to defend the enemy. How naive, if circumstances were reversed they would never even give him the benefit of the doubt let alone defend him.
His second blunder is talking to Karvelas, or anyone at the ABC for that matter.
Speaking of which, his window of opportunity for setting a date is closing, given he’ll be out of the country quite a few times in October/November.
He’s making Bananarby look good.