The dealer’s missus isn’t even bothering to get the sharpener out.

She knows he’s cooked

Disposable pencils, boxes of disposable pencils, what a joke.

Yes voters afraid of catching a terrible disease from wicked No voters?

When the “No” vote gets up , we hold out an olive branch to the”Yes” people and announce the new date for Australia Day ,October 14th.

ISRAELI STRATEGY AND PALESTINIAN DESPAIR
by Cole S. Aronson
10 . 13 . 23

Depriving Palestinians of their instruments of terror is the only way to persuade them that the century-old goal of driving Jews out of Israel is impossible.

Accurate scholarship can unearth whatever mishaps allowed armed men to breach the Gaza border fence, to conquer army bases and kibbutzim, to kill and rape attendees at a holiday music festival, to behead infants in front of their parents, to incinerate homes with their residents inside, and to take several dozen hostages.

Received an invitation for a conference on Dec 8,

CEDA and CSIRO’s National Artificial Intelligence Centre are partnering to present a flagship Summit, convening leading voices on how AI can be leveraged in a positive and inclusive way to transform industries and advance the Australian economy. Focused on leadership, the Summit will outline how leaders can position their organisations, and Australia more broadly to enable the take up of responsible AI at scale.
Join us to hear from a compelling line-up of Australian and international thought leaders. The Summit will inform, empower and connect business executives, board members, government officials, entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders looking to advance their knowledge of the global AI landscape.

Here we go. More government control from the so-called thought leaders. Amongst the speakers, Sam Nickless, Chief Executive Officer and Partner, Gilbert + Tobin. Didn’t someone just mention that Albo was spruiking at above law firm yesterday? And as expected there is the usual line-up of seakers from UN, Human Relations Commission etc. It is a closed circle we live in and these guys seem hell bent on determining our future.

Hopefully enough Australians have worked out that the nation he has in mind is purgatory for everyone except the chosen ones.

Lebanon is out future otherwise.

Mahogany everything and houses shaped like the Titanic?

Dot: No 62%, Yes 38%
States for Yes: Mainland
States for No: TAS

Voted in Ferntree Gully, outer East of Melburnistan. ‘Phone book’ to check you off and had to help the lady find my name. It starts with Ma but she was looking under Mc. Top people.
YES signs were qwerty and trans, no Alboriginal ones. A couple of No signs, one obviously Liberal. Freedom snags available on exit. I used a pen to write……….NO.

“Just like the Australian ISIS/Hamas savages publicly baying for Jewish blood”

Leads one to wonder exactly what sort of people we are importing in the ‘desperate rush’ to populate this country.

No more Utube vids for me, apparently

Shatterzzz – I just tried a YT vid and no probs with Brave. I have the adblock engaged, since YT doesn’t like righties. I let down the shield for friendlies.

You can change settings to allow ads if you click the shield icon on the RHS of the url bar.

Depriving Palestinians of their instruments of terror is the only way to persuade them that the century-old goal of driving Jews out of Israel is impossible.

It won’t work. There will always be some actors ready to use Palli anger and hate and get them weapons. This is generational hatred and loathing. It is deep , inbred and cannot be soothed. It is a biblical hatred, fed to Palli’s like the air they breathe 24/7/365. It’s so bad, no other Arab nation will take more of them in.

For want of a better solution, buy them off. So much money sloshed around the world. Spend $100 billion and build them a new self sufficient state in Gaza. Because what they want above all is “their land back”. The only solution then is an acceptable land swap. Until something approaching that kind of deal, little will change. An intractable situation.

Crossie
Oct 14, 2023 10:23 AM

An interesting observation, the school hall had their sport houses flags hung up from the ceiling. It was good to see they were actually named after sportspeople like Newcombe, Gasnier, Jackson.

Blacky Tech house names, back in the day:
– Red Devils
– Green Hornets
-Gold Scorpions
…and (mine)…
-Blue Swallows

Always felt that Swallows lacked the intent of the others, and that’s how it played out in my years there. 🙂

I’m with dotty;

Makka No 62%, Yes 38%
States for Yes: TAS
States for No: Mainland

Offer to set up one of your playlists on the screen, Rabz. Way more conducive to a convivial atmosphere.

Australian cricketers offered access to counselling

I gave up on this pack of precious soft c*cks when we were subjected to the Captain of our First XI blubbering like a baby on his return from being busted in SA. It’s only gone downhill from there.

Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

Maybe it was the laptops for early voting only.

A group of masked men and woman throwing banned Nazi salutes and carrying a banner reading ‘Expose Jewish Power’ have been captured on video terrifying other passengers on a Melbourne train.

Daily Mail Australia spotted the group staging a protest on the steps of the city’s iconic Flinders Street Station early on Saturday morning behind a banner which read ‘Expose Jewish Power’.

Daily Mail

Right up there with “We’re all in this together.”

And as frightening as “We’re here to help.”

Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

I really enjoy the latter.

hone book, where I voted early in Perth…

Hmm…odd.
Wonder why the difference.

The AEC asking if I voted before along with name and address initialed my ballot slip. Is this normal as I forget?

Yep

Why are our Political Class waiting for them to get the bomb?

Gazillions of million$$$ were made, careers and huge legacies built, huge corporations, think tanks, Universities flourished during the Cold War. Something has to substitute all that expenditure. The Political Class in the west are no less corrupt than elsewhere. Just a different system and different actors.

The AEC asking if I voted before along

Yes JC, that’s standard.
Clearly you needed a cigarillo & a short black to liven up the senses.

Given I’ll be among collectivists and the screeech is going down like the Hindenburg, who do I avoid going the gloat, especially as I will be “with champagne”?

With glass in hand I’d propose a toast to Luigi, congratulating him effusively on doing the right thing by Australians. (Tongue in cheek of course). Being lefties it will take them several minutes to work out your real meaning (if indeed they do) which will give you adequate time to escape.

Clearly you needed a cigarillo & a short black to liven up the senses.

We all do sometimes kid. You get any soda you choose.

And I dare say it’s well over 100 years since the Muruwari held initiation rites.

That’s a good point.
It’s Stolen Valour to say you are a proud such & such man or woman without being initiated.

Australian cricketers offered access to counselling should the Indigenous Voice to Parliament get voted down

I pondered a couple of months ago that a new category of PTSD might be created if the referendum went down (which I was not confident of at the time). I would not be surprised if certain private businesses, and perhaps the public service in several states, were to offer indig staff special (fully paid) ‘trauma leave.’ (Probably just a day or two; enough to get publicity, but not so much as to inhibit normal operations).

How is the booth looking this morning.
Frankly I don’t know. The Yes vibe is obvious, passive agressive, and occasionally agressive.
There is no No vibe.
Surprising number of people either challenging, or asking what is this all about or, surprisingly “what do you think”.
The Yesser volunteers are certainly more in the face of the voters than we are. One of our astute folks claimed that it was because their whole lives are political and assertive – unions, Government outfits, schools etc, while the Noers are just ordinary folks who believe that they need to contribute to this issue.
Not a bad analysis.
I know the head Yesser here. Since retiring from a council sinecure he has been an very active trougher, on the board of every grant harvesting lefty scam going. I didn’t nod back.

Farmer Gez
Oct 14, 2023 11:05 AM

I hate to poop the party but even if all states vote No they are planning to deliver every wish the Yes could hope for.

You saw the extent of powers vested in lunatic sate ministers during covid, nothing has changed would restrain a repeat now.

Vic Minister, Lily d’ ambrosio has vowed at a big energy conference in Sydney to compulsory acquire over four hundred kilometres of farmers land in Victoria for a totally unnecessary transmission line.
The celebration hangover is coming.

Farmer Gez The Labor Brickheads DiAmbrosio, Balckout Bowen, AlboSleezy & their Green Partners have No Brains – they would not be able to comprehend this

The Net Zero Ship Starting To Sink – Governments and business leaders are now changing their tune on net zero…

Are we observing the early stages of worldwide resistance against the constraints of net zero policies?

Investors are ditching renewable energy faster than any other funds on record.

Reuters reports that renewable energy funds suffered a net outflow of $1.4 billion in the July to September 2023 quarter.

LSEG Lipper data shows this to be the largest-ever quarterly outflow. There was also a 23 percent decline from the end of June of the total assets under management in the sector—now valued at $65.4 billion.

It is not just investors who are exiting net zero. Politicians are also raising concerns.

Australian Nationals Senator Matt Canavan said net zero has “absolutely carked it.”

“Almost everything we grow, we make, we do in our society relies on the use of fossil fuels,” he said.

Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace agrees.

He told Tucker Carlson, “If we banned fossil fuels, agricultural production would collapse in a very short period of time. People will begin to starve … and half the population will die in a very short period of time.”

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has delayed banning new petrol and diesel cars and residential gas heating until 2035. This has been previously delayed twice with deadlines moved from 2025 to 2030.

He said, “We’re not going to save the planet by bankrupting the British people.”

France’s President Macron has said that gas boilers will not be banned. He has also been shy about declaring a date for phasing out fossil fuels.

The polls are showing that New Zealand’s government is heading for opposition in this weekend’s election.

The taxing of livestock for methane emissions and transforming sheep and cattle farms into pine plantations has caused a revolt among rural voters.

In the Netherlands, the Farmer-Citizen movement is the dominant party in the Dutch Senate and every provincial assembly.

Germany is planning to resurrect its coal plants and some of Germany’s large corporations such as Volkswagen, Siemens, and BASF are leaving their homeland for better business climates after the increasing local cost of pushing for net zero.

U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes that real environmentalism is about protecting natural habitats, sustaining ecosystems, and reducing pollution and deforestation.

It’s not about net zero, he said.

Even Bill Gates now says that “no temperate country is going to become uninhabitable.”

This is quite different from his earlier statement on Fox News two years ago when he said, “The migration that we saw out of Syria for their civil war, which was somewhat weather dependent, we’re going to have 10 times as much migration because the equatorial areas will become unliveable.”

While Australia contributes just over one percent of global carbon dioxide emissions (a similar level to the UK), in 2022, China approved 106 gigawatts of new coal fired power capacity which gives it 243 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity under construction.

That is the equivalent of 243 coal power plants with China now accounting for around 30 percent of global CO2 emissions.

Meanwhile, in June, Swedish authorities abandoned its 100 percent renewable target to reach net zero by 2045, and Norway followed this announcement by approving investments exceeding over US$18 billion to develop 19 oil and gas fields.

Even in the European Union, there is a shift of voters turning away from Green parties and towards those with an anti-EU sentiment.

It’s quite amazing the mobilisation of reservists, in Israel & overseas.
They are dropping everything & flying to Israel.

The Australian version is:

Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and eat the lamingtons of their women.

The Australian version won’t offer lamingtons – unless they are government-funded to do so.

Investors are starting to abandon clean green energy as they realize it’s never going to be cheap

By Jo Nova

Kathryn Porter in The Telegraph, has compiled quite the list of failures as offshore wind projects get frozen around the world.

Decisions are being delayed, contracts abandoned, auctions left without bidders and almost no new projects started. The awful truth of inflation, the maintenance cost shocks and cable failures is all too much. Then there was the problem of needing a 100 years of copper, nickel and lithium production before Christmas.

After years of subsidies, wind power was meant to get cheap enough to be profitable and competitive all by itself, instead, 25 years later, it just needs bigger subsidies. When the great oil and coal price crunch came, wind power was supposed to rise through the ashes, instead we discovered that wind turbine and battery factories needed cheap coal and oil like the rest of the economy.

Turbine manufacturers have been losing money hand over fist in recent years.

Collectively over the past five years the top four turbine producers outside China have lost almost US$ 7 billion – and over US$ 5 billion in 2022 alone.

Overall, the EU saw only 9 gigawatts worth of new turbine orders in 2022, a 47 percent drop on 2021.

Right now Australia has no offshore wind turbines and is about to jump onto a burning ship: – Especially Victoria & NSW

damon
Oct 14, 2023 10:56 AM
“Just like the Australian ISIS/Hamas savages publicly baying for Jewish blood”

Leads one to wonder exactly what sort of people we are importing in the ‘desperate rush’ to populate this country.

A high proportion of rubbish types.

Jim Chalmers says dividing the country by race will bring it together.

Yes Voice vote ‘can bring the country together’: Jim Chalmers (Sky News, 14 Oct)

Um, Jim, “1984” is supposed to be a warning not a manual, although he’s got the ignorance is strength bit down pat.

Great material for a sequel to Don’s Party.

Rabz is workshopping the Blundell character tonight I believe.

The most terrifying Labor Party office-holder says ‘nothing to fear’.

She was on TV once in the pre gay marriage days suggesting that we should have teachers in kindergartens using empathy dolls to teach the tots the correct opinions on diversity. That was pretty terrifying, mostly because she felt comfortable saying it in public.

Perfect Description of Australia

The political class is in denial about the true crisis now afflicting Britain

The party conferences changed little because the two sides seemed to be offering too much of the same thing

We are not ideologically committed to limiting government in all circumstances.” So says the summary to a new report on the Future of Conservatism for the Onward think tank, with a foreword by Michael Gove.

No, really? In a way it’s a tribute to the strength of tax-cutting in the Tory brand that, having presided over the highest tax and spend burden since the Second World War and a state that spends a trillion pounds every year, some party figures still feel the need to rebut it.

The real question is whether anyone at all in British politics actually is committed to limiting government – not just taxation, but the whole panoply of the regulatory state, and the government-knows-best policies that encroach on every aspect of our lives and show no sign of shrinking.

Obviously Labour won’t do that.

In truth, Labour’s vision of social democracy, welfarism, and statism is lemming politics – go this way because we can’t think of anything else – and it will just as surely take us over the cliff.

But the Conservative vision as presented last week is not so different.

Yes, there was pro-growth excitement on the fringe, but with little purchase on the leadership.

So not surprisingly the party conference season has not changed much. Neither party has shifted perceptions or commands much enthusiasm.

I think there’s a reason for that. I suspect that people see both parties as skating over the surface of Britain’s problems and not engaging in the country’s real difficulties.

This week’s events have brought some of this to the surface.

Nobody can look at the pro-Hamas demonstrations in Britain, or the equivocation of so many of our intellectuals and commentators when faced with mass murder, and not think that some deeply troubling habits of thought have got embedded in our society.

Let’s sketch out some of them.

The first I have already alluded to

– the generally accepted belief that the state can solve all problems and is the fount of all wisdom.

The second is the gradual growth of the view that a strong society is not made up of individuals and families, as we have always understood, but of identity groups;

that the important thing about society is which group oppressed another;

We have seen some of the consequences of all this on our streets this week.

And the third is the belief that the nation state itself is outmoded.

In fact, the nation state is the best way humanity has found for nations to manage their politics, control their territory and settle their differences within an ordered set of rules.

Such beliefs are at the root of our problems.

Their advocates say that they are “progressive”, but in fact they are more accurately described as “regressive”, because in all cases they are a reversion, a step back to pre-modern forms of thinking.

JC @ 1134

I meant initialing the ballot slip.

If the ballot isn’t initialed by an AEC staffer it is an invalid vote. It nearly happened to me at the Eden-Monaro by-election, I filled out the ballot and then realised that it hadn’t been initialed. I took the ballot back to the table and said that the ballot hadn’t been initialed. The polling booth supervisor said “lucky you noticed, the vote would have been invalid.” Rather than getting a new ballot paper I got the supervisor to initial the ballot after I had folded it to cover my vote.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban Outlines Why Samantha Power, USAID and CIA Hates Him

October 13, 2023 – Sundance

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stands the gap. This is going to drive the USAID leftists bananas.

In early April 2022, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was overwhelmingly reelected, despite the massive efforts against him by the European Union, western and euro-centric multinational globalists.

This put Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the crosshairs of the western alliance, specifically the EU and U.S. bureaucrats who use their power, position and intelligence apparatus to manipulate foreign nations. A year later we saw USAID Administrator Samantha Power in Hungary openly discussing her seeding of the NGO’s and political activist systems in order to generate yet another color revolution. {Direct Rumble Link} – WATCH:

Samantha Power, the wife of Cass Sunstein, is well known as the Obama/Biden administration’s advance operative who uses her position in U.S. government to influence activism in targeted nations. Hungary is now her target.

Why is eliminating Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban now a goal of the Biden administration. Well, a reminder:

Allowing a point of contrast that would showcase the weakness of globalism and multiculturalism is something the western control system just cannot permit.

As a result, Samantha Power, the U.S. State Dept (USAID) and the CIA, are collectively running an operation in Hungary, seeding the groundwork for the next color revolution.

They don’t even try to hide this stuff anymore.

He’s a cretin’s cretin

Aussiemongdius- look upon his works and despair.

Brave Hamas Men of Palestine and this is what their Supporters here in Australia Cheer

Hamas terrorists were ordered to target Israeli schools, ‘kill as many people as possible’ in sneak attack plans: report

Hamas terrorists were directed by their leaders to target elementary schools and youth centers in Israel to “kill as many people as possible” during their bloody sneak attack over the weekend, according to a report.

The disturbing plot was mapped out in “top secret” documents recovered by Israeli first responders from the bodies of Hamas fighters, according to NBC News, which obtained photos of the plans.

The terrorist group released a disturbing video Friday in which men in fatigues are holding and playing with abducted Israeli babies and children.

Final poll shows a late swing towards YES.

The fix is in.

Live channel: Sky News The Voice Debate

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/voice-to-parliament/live-channel-sky-news-the-voice-debate/news-story/687d640a30e3b2f21bfc31a90fee88ea

Fun to have going in background

To drown my sorrows tonight, I have a tough choice: Glen Moray 12 or Glen Rothes 12.
There is also some Glengoyne in the cupboard.

The fix is in.

The (possible) Voice topped with (possible) “land rent” to Uncle Noel, Auntie Lydia and tribesmen living in tin shacks means I’m out, Australia.

😐

Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin’ in the breeze

o7

To drown my sorrows tonight, I have a tough choice: Glen Moray 12 or Glen Rothes 12.

I’ll stick with the ever honest drop- Russian Standardt. And once the Qld vote is announced I’ll move to the great Bundy.

Snap, Bruce.
Not the daughter stuff- but I’m also deeply p*ssed off with the unnecessary Rubicon that a midwit with delusions of gravity thought he’d carry the nation over.