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m0nty would be permanently g0rn I reck0n. Especially after getting d0xxed the 0ther night.(h/t whoever that was, the pool reporter?)…
Damm. One of the official guests stood in front of Bezos’ squeeze who has the most delightful décolletage.
Haha. Trumpy just gave Melania an air kiss so he didn’t have to disturb her perfectly coiffured getup. She is…
Annelise Nielson on the Sky coverage of the inauguration has said “Jan 6th riots about a gazillion times. Get over…
🙂
Iran is using the Houthis in the shipping channel like the economic oil war against Israel after the ’73 war, but they’re doing it as part of the war strategy. It’s another front – Gaza, Hezbolla, international press, the UN, and this economic front.
It’s the “Gotta_show_the_world_Israel_ruins_everything war”.
disposing of bodies is best done using pigs, according to bricktop
Spotlight movie on FTA.
Has got the totally crushworthy Rachael McAdams being earnest and crinkling her lil forehead…. but the plot has just gone full Da Vinci Code.
Never go full Da Vinci Code.
Plucky bunch of journalists fight the good fight and hold their nerve over the long game v the voracious establishment protecting its own. Events portrayed in 2001/2002, oblivious to Cl George Pell tackling the augean stables from 1996.
Will a Hollywood fillum ever be made about 2000 Mules, the Wuhan WHO, or Epstein Island? Yeah nah I don’t think so.
Now it’s Girl With A Pearl Earring. Gawd bless Hollywood, they’ve made an entire feature by shoehorning proto-Freudian fanny worship into Girl In A Turban, and made a heartthrob out of a notoriously sketchy Vermeer, who was essentially a studiomaster for a production house, in the vein of Warhol’s Factory. Or the APY Arts Centre Collective, come to think of it.
I might get to bed before midnight, if I console myself to missing Johanssen’s inevitable nude scene. I notice she’s taken a leaf out of the Angelina Jolie book of Becoming A Silver Screen Sex Siren- ie, mouthbreathing.
…thanks in advance, Tom.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Christian Adams.
A.F. Branco.
Michael Ramirez.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
Wow! Even the Mythology gets it right.
“”Chance Of Rain – 100%”
Somebody looked out the window.
Heaps of Flannery.
21…Bewdy
Now XXII hehehe…
Today’s Tele:
Left’s latest loss points to a woke reckoning:
Tim Blair opinion
Not only has a leading woke warrior been toppled, but the woke movement’s extraordinary shallowness and wicked hypocrisy stand exposed in delicious detail, writes Tim Blair
Tim Blair
8 Jan 2021
It’s been a brilliant past month or so in the war against woke.
Not only has a leading woke warrior been toppled, but the woke movement’s extraordinary shallowness and wicked hypocrisy stand exposed in delicious detail.
The fact that this occurred in the US is great news for us in Australia, where the left’s destructive US-derived indulgences invariably metastasise.
Any curing of wokeness at its point of origin is a tremendous victory for potential victims downstream.
In terms of woke, points of origin don’t come much pointier than among the leftist cultural elites infesting US universities.
And the pointiest of them all may be found at Harvard University, a formerly august educational institution that any sensible person would now rank below a mid-level Western
(Claudine Gay couldn’t believe it when she was appointed Harvard University’s president last year. Considering her shallow and dishonest academic record, it likely neither could anyone else. Picture: Steven Senne/AAP)
While Gay – an underqualified diversity hire as president and therefore a huge fan of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) values in general – was struggling to recover from her self-generated genocide shame, an investigation into her academic history had quietly been making progress.
It seems that Gay, possibly the most prominent and powerful education official in the land, was a repeat-offending copycat.
Early probes turned up examples of plagiarism running to the high single figures. Those breaches alone should’ve ended Gay’s career, but many further examples followed.
By the time conservative journalist Christopher Rufo, the Washington Free Beacon and the New York Post were done examining Gay’s academic record nearly 50 cases of plagiarism were revealed.
Harvard initially stood by its embattled boss, dismissing some examples as merely “duplicative language without appropriate attribution” – which is pretty much a perfect plagiarism definition.
But Harvard and Gay soon realised the caper was up. She resigned last week, still refusing to concede that she was either a serial plagiarist or utterly unqualified as a senior academic.
“The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader,” Gay wrote, claiming the DEI high ground.
“This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society.
“Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on education and expertise, because these are the tools that best equip communities to see through propaganda.”
Oh, please. My Texan mate Dave Burge nailed the left’s fake anguish about “public faith in pillars of American society” in 2015 when he precisely outlined woke tactics.
“Step one: Identify a respected institution. Step two: Kill it. Step three: Gut it. Step four: Wear its carcass as a skin suit while demanding respect.”
That’s exactly what Gay and her DEI comrades have done with higher education in the US.
Gay, incidentally, will stay on as a $900,000 a year Harvard professor, which some on her team believe is a victory against white oppression.
It isn’t. It means Harvard is wasting 900 grand of woke ammo on a failed mission.
Keep it up, wokesters.
Tim Blair
Journalist
Meanwhile in Salvatore’s department:
Today’s Tele:
BREW MUST BE KIDDING!
EXCLUSIVE – LACHLAN LEEMING
8 Jan 2024
Sydneysiders keen for a beer are paying a dollar more than they were just a year ago for the most popular drops, with the cost-of-living crunch extending to the bar.
New research shows the days of getting much change from a $10 note for a schooner of humble, nofrills beer is done and dusted, especially around the tourist hotspots dotting the inner-city.
Price tracking across 150 Sydney venues by me&u ordering app reveals a schooner of Carlton Draught is nearly $1 dearer than a year ago, at $9.20 – an increase of nearly 12 per cent in 12 months.
Likewise, the cost of the once-humble VB comes in at an average of $8.94 a schooner – a jump of 18 per cent from $7.55 a year ago.
Boutique beverages such as Asahi Super Dry have remained steady at $13.10 a schooner, while a schooner of Hahn Super Dry costs $9.48 compared to $9.11 a year ago.
The average price of a Stone & Wood Pacific Ale recorded the biggest increase, with a schooner now costing an average of $11.91, nearly $2 more than a year ago – with one setting you back $12 at Pontoon Bar at Darling Harbour.
Australian Hotels Association NSW director of liquor and policing John Green said the blowout in prices could be attributed to inflationary pressures hitting pub operators from all angles.
“The cost for a schooner in your local pub is based on a range of factors in both metropolitan and regional NSW,” he said. “These include costs that have been rising over the past few years such as electricity, freight, insurance, rental/leasing, not to mention the twice-yearly excise tax.”
While the price of a schooner of VB and Carlton Draught hovers around $9 when averaged out among venues across Sydney, the price jumps even further at certain pubs centred around tourist hotspots like The Rocks.
At popular pubs like The Australian Heritage Hotel, The Ship Inn and The Orient, customers won’t get a cent of change out of a $10 note when buying a schooner of Carlton Draught or VB, while The Fortune of War sells Tooheys New schooners for $8.20, compared to the average Sydney price of $7.46.
Wollongong locals Ben Halligan and Adam Dekleva were “shocked” after they travelled to Sydney to meet mate Tom Gaudiosi for a beer and saw the prices.
“It’s grim,” Mr Halligan said.
“I had a beer for about $7 in Wollongong. “Today I just paid $29.90 for two pints.
Mr Halligan makes the trek north to Sydney for work multiple times a week.
“It (the price of beer in Sydney) has killed after-work drinks, especially for those a bit more junior,” he said.
Friend Mr Dekleva agreed, saying it appeared “double-digit” prices were consistent for beers across Sydney.
Eastern suburbs resident Mr Gaudiosi was not particularly stung by the round he shouted.
“It stops me from having too many but it wouldn’t stop me from going out,” he said.
Travellers from England Dan Goldsworthy and Katie Newlands were among the tourists flocking to The Rocks.
“Anything at about $10 is what we’d expect to pay for a pint,” Mr Goldsworthy said. “If you’re paying $10 for smaller than a pint, that’s a bit much.”
editorial page 18
Editorial:
STANDARD BEER NOW A TOP-CLASS TIPPLE
The cost of living does not bear thinking about.
But what befalls the common working person who may wish for a few moments to push aside their cost of living worries?
They then collide with the cost of drinking. Price tracking across 150 Sydney venues now reveals a schooner of Carlton Draught is almost $1 more expensive than it was a year ago.
As it happens, that relatively standard schooner now sets drinkers back the best part of $10.
Beer prices at the bar have reached a level where change is more likely to be deposited in charity collections than in pockets.
Ben Halligan, who travels to Sydney from Wollongong multiple times per week for work, says rapidly escalating pub costs are cancelling a long-held and beloved tradition of city life.
Massive per-schooner beer prices, he says, have “killed after-work drinks, especially for those a bit more junior”.
This is a very important point. Socialising over a few drinks is still a very important element of Sydney’s business life.
If youngsters are priced out of our business culture, they will miss out on opportunities to learn and advance. They will also miss out on substantial rites of adult passage.
Our drinkers deserve a break.
From The Australian:
You would think that investments in large scale renewables will collapse now given that government favourability is the only reason any of them exist.
As I said, the only solution is load shedding in Green and Teal electorates and to make undermining energy security a form of treason – with life in prison. That way investments in actual electricity generation can begin again.
A long time resident of Huntley (old town but now part of greater Bendigo) on rural ABC reporting on the flooding in the area from the two big rain events of Christmas and yesterday.
She pointed to the new housing subdivisions that are not properly drained and all the water ends up flowing to her property.
She blamed council and planners not climate change.
The Baptism of the Lord
Gospel at Mass today Mark 1:7-11
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in the Jordan.
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
And there came a voice from heaven, saying,
Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
“I had a beer for about $7 in Wollongong. “Today I just paid $29.90 for two pints.
Mr Halligan makes the trek north to Sydney for work multiple times a week.
Luxury! Melbourne. $16–18 for a pint of beer. (Stone and Wood). interstaters visiting the Aust Open tennis be warned.
Fair Shake
Jan 8, 2024 7:15 AM
Thanks for the warning.
Not that I was going to Melbourne, but that is insane, who can afford it?
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s green energy plan centres on a terminal at the Port of Hastings, where wind turbines will be assembled together
I visited Mt Bunninyong over the weekend for the National Cycling event. MB is South East of Ballarat Victoria. I rarely visit this part of the country. The vistas used to be spectacular. Now…FMD, i was gobsmacked at the number and size of wind turbines. I guess Wedgie Lives dont matter. Just appalling.
disposing of bodies is best done using pigs, according to bricktop
The world is a better place because Guy Ritchie & Matthew Vaughan collaborated.
She pointed to the new housing subdivisions that are not properly drained and all the water ends up flowing to her property.
She blamed council and planners not climate change.
I believe people in Townsville call this the Lancini manoeuvre.
Fair shake the malicious incompetence of our political class is intolerable.
We switched to homebrew about six months ago. Cheaper than buying ready-made beer and provides the opportunity to tweak recipes to suit our tastes. Less recycling too.
My ‘ angry summer’ in the Grampians (#dontcallmeanazi) has given me 75mm rain this week… no doubt all due to the hotter and dryer conditions brought about by earlier carbon based sinning….
I visited Mt Bunninyong over the weekend for the National Cycling event. MB is South East of Ballarat Victoria.
I was in Canberra over the past month.
Canberra cyclists are a pack of arseholes.
They should be issued with a brownshirt when they purchase their bike.
And in more ‘colour me shocked/trust the experts’ news:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-01-06/fat-propaganda-roundup-sadistic-american-diabetes-association-recommends-processed
The executive summary:
1) The sadistic biomedical profiteers over at the American Diabetes Association, who benefit greatly (in fact, base their entire career on it) from increasing diabetes rather than solving it, have a recipe for “sweet and sour cucumbers” that contain 60 (!) grams of added processed sugar.
2) this recipe was sponsored by the DaVita corp, which runs dialysis centres
3) the leading cause of kidney failure is ….. diabetes…..
And yet muslims are telling the world that about 500 years after that God changed his mind.
Labor’s renewable energy target has been thrown into jeopardy after Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek vetoed its lynchpin, Victoria’s offshore wind strategy, over a “clearly unacceptable” risk to local wetlands.
They know it wont work, thats the point…. pods, bugs, 15 minute gaza etc etc etc
Have any Cats seen the Banksy exhibition in Sydney?
I’m looking at tickets & am confused.
It looks like they give you an hour to get in & out.
Surely they don’t expect punters to pay 50 bucks then push you out in an hour?
Every college and university in the world is going to have to do the same for themselves. They will do so because they will need to validate all plagiarism accusations, or someone else will do it for them.
Good morning from Tartaria.
BOM predictions for all of the coming week – very, very moist indeed.
Time will tell whether it was a good idea spending yesterday afternoon watching golf and Archer reruns on the picture wireless, suitably refreshed, rather than mowing the lawns when I had the chance.
I rarely need to dispose of a body, but when I do, I always use crocodiles.
Leave it for your son to do, KD.
And yet muslims are telling the world that about 500 years after that God changed his mind.
Not only that, but whenever ‘The Prophet‘ was caught doing something he shouldn’t have been doing, he always ‘managed’ to have a ‘vision that absolved him and legitimised what he was doing.’
Canadians turning against mass immigration after population rises 1 million in a year.
We knew that EV charging is inefficient but it is interesting to see that quantified.
Green Inefficiency: Up To One Third Of Power Needed To Charge Up E-Car Battery Gets Lost! (7 Jan)
Using EVs for grid support would be interesting, as you’d lose energy going both ways. It’d be interesting to see how pumped-storage compares to this.
You’re not in Blighty anymore, Dan.
Ok this will be awesome.
Bill Ackman has also noticed (after being a lifelong leftie) the media working in lockstep with the unis to smear him and his wife.
The war may escalate.
Another long post, so Ive only chopped the first bit, another RTWT.
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1744001185445482774
Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
It has been the case since as far as I can remember in business and in media that family was off limits, unless of course the family is directly involved in the business.
The code of the road was that you can attack the protagonist as much as you want, but not his wife and not his kids.
The same is true in business dealings. You never go after someone’s family to get at a business person. This is a sacred code that I have never seen violated.
Business Insider broke this sacred code on Thursday and again on Friday when they went after my wife,
@NeriOxman
. And they are working on another story about her. They are calling her former students as we speak.
Inspired by the code being broken, a journalist from Bloomberg reached out to my kids on their cell phones this weekend for a story she is working on. The reporter’s name is Kathy Burton. I had respected her until now.
Do we want to live in a world where journalists go after your life partner and your kids?
In that world, one would respond to an attack on one’s wife and family by going after the owner of the media company and his wife and family.
Yikes!
I hope they find it.
New research shows the days of getting much change from a $10 note for a schooner of humble, nofrills beer is done and dusted, especially around the tourist hotspots dotting the inner-city.
My drinking career was cut short by Cirrhosis of the Liver in 1980 .. but at 63 cents a schooner (public bar) and a, daily, average intake of 20+ methinx I got lucky .. LOL!
Houseplants are killing the planet.
Indoor houseplants come with a cost to the planet. Here’s how to minimize it. (7 Jan)
Very dangerous things, houseplants.
Roger
Jan 8, 2024 8:03 AM
Canadians turning against mass immigration after population rises 1 million in a year.
That stands to reason, Canadian culture and values have changes so much over the years, that it is nothing like it was times past.
People have grown up with it, old people died nobody to remember.
Boiling frog.
I see that the new leftard talking points have arrived.
PS, using “squid”, a creature close in appearance to the octopus used by the Nazis to attack Jews, might not have been a smart choice by the DemonRats. While stupid lickspittles like Fat Boy miss the connection, others can now see the open embrace of anti-Semitism by the left.
Excellent.
Beer prices….
the local still has happy hour 10:00am ’til 11:00am $5.00 for a schooner. Cash.
After that its $8. Plus a surcharge if you use a card.
The drunks and ferals are at the door at 10:00am 🙂
Some might suggest it was always rather bland.
Housing and the ability of the economy to absorb so many migrants are the bigger concerns now.
Good. I’ve been waiting for this. And shame on Chris Minns, whose premiership will forever be stained by this.
Ackman is being red pilled, in fact he’s overdosing!
In that world, one would respond to an attack on one’s wife and family by going after the owner of the media company and his wife and family.
Quite so Mr Ackman. And why not? This is precisely what must be done, I’ve been saying similar for years. Turn the other cheek to this? Nah, all that’s done is embolden the scum.
Media and ‘journalist’ (cough) scum have been targeting conservatives and others on the right for nearly a decade. Everyone on the right, including wives, boyfriends, husbands and children have been considered fair game (no different here in Oz).
Still, it’s good to have Ackman at the party. I get the sense he is going to use a blow torch.
She Wasn’t THERE: AOC’s Weepy J6 Retelling Does NOT FAIL to Entertain and Annoy TF Out of Twitter (Watch)
US scientists held secret talks with Covid ‘Batwoman’ amid drive to make coronaviruses more deadly… just before pandemic
‘Dr Ralph Baric, a coronavirus expert at the centre of concerns over gain-of-function studies, acknowledged that US researchers would ‘freak out’ if they knew novel coronavirus engineering and testing was being done in low-security Chinese laboratories, but disguised it to make the US government more ‘comfortable’ with the plan, which was intended to help with pandemic prevention.’
– Daily Mail
mystery in Iran
Were the sailors’ shoes stolen first? 😀
We finished watching the four-part dramatisation Mr Bates versus the Post Office last night. It covers the 20 years of corporate monstering of the mum-and-dad small post offices that are scattered across Britain.
The PO took away the paper bookkeeping and installed terminals and software from Horizon, a Fujitsu sector. The system played up, insisting that the till wasn’t balanced at the end of the day. The sub-postmasters had signed contracts saying they were responsible for any shortfalls. In some cases it led to homes being re-mortgaged; people being prosecuted, and in some cases suicides.
The Post Office insisted a) the sub-postmaster in each case was “the only one complaining” and b) there was no way the system could be entered by anyone else and things changed. In both cases that was wrong.
It ended up in court, but the resultant payout wasn’t nearly enough to cover the losses from the little blokes. Some of the criminal convictions have been overturned but not all.
The dramatisation is well done and gives a good overview. It’s accompanied by a doco which gives the overall facts as well.
Here’s a free-to-air account of the shambles, which still hasn’t ended.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67905194
In Yeah, But No, But Yeah news:
Minister Tony Burke says Gaza, Holocaust comparison ‘re-engineered’, ‘defamatory’
[Unlinkable OZ]
What Burke said, when asked in a Q&A at Woodford Festival to label Israel’s operations in Gaza a “genocide”:
So, clear as creosote.
Technical Notes:
1) The Woodford Festival is the annual epicentre of Green Woke in Queensland (with added terrible music and yartz). Politicians only ever go there to polish their student activist credentials.
2) A ‘Burke’ is a contraction of the 19th c. London rhyming slang couple, ‘Berkeley Hunt’/cant.
Who would trust the universities to do their own plagiarism investigations? That’s how we got into this situation in the first place. I would not trust any outside agencies either, it should be an open system where anyone can check. It’s the only thing that would keep the bastards honest.
Journalists should be fair game as well, after all they are the ones actually doing the dirty deeds.
Maybe because they’ve been told to stand down.
REPORT: Biden Justice Dept ordered stop investigating po-Hamas/antisemitic activities
Hamas ‘using massive stockpile of Chinese weaponry’ in Gaza
George Stephanopoulos Stunned After Pelosi Suggests States Can Overrule Constitution and Ban Trump From Presidential Ballot
Think of it as Garma for superannuated white folk.
DEI efforts are under siege. Here’s what experts say is at stake
When Founding Fathers Are Psychopaths And Cowards
2 big cans of Asahi S/D for $10 at the 7-11 here in Singapore now.
Well, blow me down [sarc].
‘Beijing’s reluctance to support Israel’s right to defend itself in the wake of Hamas’s cross-border assault, which saw some 1,140 people murdered and hundreds of others taken hostage, has irked the Jewish state…’
Greece Unveils Palace Where Alexander the Great was Crowned King After 16-Year Restoration
CTIL FILES #1: US AND UK MILITARY CONTRACTORS CREATED SWEEPING PLAN FOR GLOBAL CENSORSHIP IN 2018, NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW
He will soon find out, like Trump and Musk did, that even with all his billions when the establishment goes after him none of it matters. They have the swamp to back them up.
‘The mood is heating up’: Germany fears strikes will play into hands of far right
You mean they paid for it when public servants would have done it for nothing and revelled in it.
DC US Attorney Matthew Graves Says DOJ is Now Going to Target THOUSANDS of Americans Who Were Around the Capitol on Jan 6 – But Did Not Enter the Building
Excess Deaths – Thank you Pfizer
https://youtu.be/2P9SWQuJgIg
Another conspiracy “theory” slowly being proven true – that contact sport is bad for females:
Australia’s captain and star striker Sam Kerr has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury during Chelsea’s warm weather training camp in Morocco, the English Women’s Super League club has said.
The injury will almost certainly rule the 30-year-old out of the Paris Olympics should Australia qualify as expected.
Kerr is the latest leading women’s player to suffer the injury, which seems more prevalent in the women’s game and is belatedly the subject of research into why this is.
Ellie Carpenter, Kyah Simon, Chloe Logarzo and Elise Kellond-Knight are among Australian players to have suffered ACL injuries in recent years.
England’s Beth Mead and Leah Williamson, Vivianne Miedema of the Netherlands and France’s Marie-Antoinette Katoto were among a string of stars to miss the World Cup while Spain’s Alexia Putellas had only just returned to playing and is still to regain her former level.
Crossie
Jan 8, 2024 8:52 AM
Reminds me of the fall of the Knights Templar.
Go against the state/swamp and be destroyed.
A mystery;
https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1744086171263627504
Then why don’t they do what the population wants so that the far right will not have that appeal? Could it be that they don’t like their own people? That seems to be the characteristic of elites all over the world, they certainly don’t believe in the wisdom of crowds.
I remember in my youth it was often asked what would the man in the street think. The present day attitude seems to be that the man in the street is not only sexist but what would he know? Does he have a PhD* in blah blah blah? Well then no need to consider him even as sentient.
*I hope the average man in the street is having a good guffaw about academia’s scholarship as seen in the august halls of Ivy League.
Andrew Bolt:
Why don’t they just cut to the chase and announce that all Republican voters will be jailed? You know, to save democracy.
Note how a sub-editor frames the story to reinforce readers’ prejudices.
‘Germany’ here means the members of the left-leaning coalition government (including the Greens) from which German voters are increasingly turning.
The over-reach is getting desperate now. Soon they will be chasing everyone who watched it on TV.
WHO & Its Tyranny to Dominate the World
“Let me Clarify this WHO agenda. They were supposed to get the amendments finished by January 27th, 2024, for the May conference, which is supposed to be on the 27th of that month. They admit that they will not meet the January deadline, and in the process, they will most likely pass this in May, violating the very basic principle of law – fair notice, which is embodied in Due Process of Law.
Since they are pushing this agenda that really has nothing to do with world health but world tyranny, it is my understanding that it will NOT require every country to sign. By extending this deadline until May, they will most likely assume that the entire world has surrendered to this authority.
This will be used for tyranny, and the WHO will declare pandemics, and the world is supposed to bend the knee to their awesome tyrannical power. They will criticize countries that do not follow, and they intend to use the United Nations to impose sanctions against countries that do not bend their knee.
This only increases the tensions for world conflict. With COVID-19, they got a taste of power and cannot simply let that go. They not only created the sharp decline in GDP worldwide with their lockdowns and fake news over a lab-grown virus but pushed a gene therapy calling it a vaccine, which never prevented you from getting it nor spreading it.
The World Economic Forum thought lockdowns were a wonderful idea. They invited everyone to rejoice and to tell them how wonderful it was to lose all liberty. Economically, they broke the supply chain and set in motion inflation that is not going to be subdued because of shortages or raising interest rates.
The UN is pushing to reduce the food supply, attacking farmers, and that risks starvation and the rise in disease. All the great plagues have festered because of malnutrition. Is this what they are deliberately trying to create again?
How quickly we forget the horror of what they did for a manufactured disease that was no more lethal than the annual flu, which also kills people as a respiratory disease.
They then pushed for censorship and stripped people of their fundamental rights to free speech and assembly, all to maintain their tyrannical power over the entire world.
Anything that Bill Gates touches and the World Economic Forum, I believe, cannot be trusted. Gate’s father was concerned about overpopulation. It makes no sense to me that Gates is concerned about expanding the world population by curing all diseases. This will increase world tension, undermine the world economy, and promote international war. Trump cut the funding for the WHO because he saw the rising tyranny. Biden reversed that, and this is why they are out to stop Trump by any means possible, which I fear will end up as assassination or another manufactured suicide.
This is what we face going into 2032. This thirst for raw, unbridled tyrannical power is coming to a head. With this WHO aligning with our ECM, this will probably become a major issue that tears society apart at the seams, for they will use this like New York State is proposing. They can burst into your home and even take your children away. I wish Gates’ Ex-Wife would wake up and expose the truth.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/who-its-tyranny-to-dominate-the-world/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
https://korybko.substack.com/p/is-biden-about-to-put-10-million
Bolt – good effort, but like most conservative commentators you missed the essential driver of Labor’s radical incompetence.
Wong.
I can’t remember the last time the Right was referred to as the Right. It is always Far-Right.
Crossie
Sort of Snap. The over-reach will cause a backlash.
Mark Studdock of the N.I.C.E.* has thousands of successors.
* Lewis, That Hideous Strength
calli only one shoe was taken from each sailor. Oh Oh, we know who does that. I don’t go on looney toon sites apart from this one, at least we’re the right sort of looney but how long would it take to be fact if that “you know who” was responsible for taking only one shoe just to drove muzzies crazier than they already are.
Personally, I’d have shifted Bowen to Minister-in-Residence Antarctica.
May have been posted yesterday but I was reading this in the dead tree version and still stunned:
Methinks Mayo is an opportunistic dickhead.
BB
Methinks that you are far too kind to Mayo.
This is a thread showing the extent of Biden’s treachery. Funneling in the vote herds from LatAm. mOron’s lot in action determined to turn the USA into a shithole;
https://twitter.com/fentasyl/status/1744057518253367401
ABCcess celebrating a chap who coarsened Australian life.
Next up will be another “why dont people play sport on the weekends/fat kids/neighbours as strangers” stories.
Melbourne hardware store owner Frank Penhalluriack changed your work, your weekends and your life
Im of the firm opinion removing Sunday as the traditional “everything is closed except delis” has been a monumental mistake.
Add in the spreading of “sport” to try and cover every day of the week for telecasting reasons and when, exactly, is the community supposed to mingle?
It’s a classic projection: those calling their ideological enemies “far right” — especially media activists — are far-left communist agitators.
They’re no longer even pretending they represent the public. It’s now about misusing their media megaphones to tell normies what to think using subtle indoctrination tricks like “far right”.
If you’re on the Far Left – which surveys reveal many journalists are – anyone centre-Right looks a loooong way away.
Mayo thanked the Australian Communist Party for their support in developing and executing the Voice campaign and is a virulent Pallie/Hamas supporter.
Why doesn’t The Australian include that in it’s description of this grub?
This is an absolute butchering of our language.
Biden’s going to f**k all of the illegal immigrants?
Another attempt at framing a narrative to suit a political agenda.
And, of course, it’s exactly what the Communist sympathiser Mayo has been doing for the last three years since he took the Uluru Statement from the Heart on the road around Australia – using indigenous people for his political purposes.
I’d also have shifted Chris Bowen from Climate Change and Energy to where he’d do less damage.
Personally, I’d have shifted Bowen to Minister-in-Residence Antarctica.
“I’d redecorate the Reichstag in a theme of purple and gold…”
h/t Monty Python
As a former Labor staffer Bolt knows that in a Labor government it’s the factional leaders who allocate the ministries, not the PM.
Still, nice wedge.
Heard Island.
I’ve been saying this for a while now. The ruination of the WD landscape can only be appreciated if seen in person.
Well, maybe.
But this wasn’t about qualifications per se.
It was about standards of behaviour which go to what the core of the organisation should be about. When an educational institution purports to be about independent thought and reasoning from an original and unique perspective, it probably helps if the president isn’t a serial copy-cat*.
If I am setting up a Home for Wayward Girls, I don’t think Jeffrey Epstein is my man for CEO. If I am looking for a Chief Surgeon of St Vincent’s Hospital I probably want someone who hasn’t taken the wrong kidney more than half a dozen times, max. And I don’t think we should appoint Ronnie Biggs to the Supreme Court.
Gay at Harvard wasn’t just an isolated case of Gold Braid cut ‘n paste. She is emblematic of where DEI in any enterprise leads you. It inevitably results in DEI beneficiaries cutting corners because no-one will dare challenge them simply because of their DEI-ness.
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* Copy-cat. I see Tim Blair used that term. It is a far better term than “plagiarist” as it conveys the crude and childish nature of the act.
Its a conspiracy,,,,, dont you see, everyone is in on it.
Montynomics 101/
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It is not just the major supermarkets that are jacking up prices then falsely blaming Labor: doctors, power companies and big industry are doing the same thing in the hope that they can turn people against Labor and get the LNP back into government. #auspol
Jeez. Talk about knowing your market.
Trust open borders types to miss the point entirely.
Good lord.
I think this is too much cute owl even for the keenest of birdwatchers.
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He may be a leftie by nature but Bill Ackman is doing good work
And decide who will be PM.
If you are in doubt about this, give Palace-chook a call.
What happens if the Democrats accede to Republican concerns about the southern US border?
Indeedy.
While the Albotross has Don Farrell’s support, he’s good.
mole
You are a monster.
Unless Trump is POTUS, it matters little one way or another what concerns the GOP.
All Liars are happy to sing from this song sheet – until they aren’t. See Latham, M.
Yassmin Axel Magpie has written another book – seems she fantasies about giving up her Australian passport….Two dollars in the remainder bin by Easter…
Mind you, as a rightie, Farrell will also be weighing up the consequences of initiating a March mutiny against the leader endorsed by the party’s left membership in what is tantamount to a campaign year.
If he lasts until the budget in May you’d have to think they’re stuck with him.
I suggest city folk should make an effort to personally see the damage being inflicted on the country Australian landscape by giant wind turbines — for example, in western Victoria, which has these primitive monstrosities on every second hilltop, thanks to the underhanded tactics being used by Chris Bowen’s renewables zombies to divide landowners and communities against each other.
The panorama of country Australia is being destroyed in the name of the fake climate crisis.
Had a drink with an old work colleague yesterday arvo.
The conversation turned to Lehrrman v Ten and Others and I mentioned that the “political cover up” angle was dropped in court (at least as far as the pivotal character Fiona Brown is concerned).
He says, “What about the Libs ordering the cleaning of the office to remove evidence?”
I then explained the sequence of events. That is, that the cleaning was done on Saturday or Sunday, and Britnah only made vague references to some sort of “on top of me” thingy some days later. Furthermore, the cleaning was organised by PH management without reference to the minister, on the basis that there had been some sort of party in the office, and they didn’t want to cop it if the minister found unsavoury items in her office on Monday.
He seemed genuinely surprised.
Interesting that he, like others, thinks a coke party took place.
I think that was a key driver for the cleaning. Remove any traces of drug residue.
Luigi is a placeholder for now.
They realise their mistake, but won’t do anything until closer to the election.
To be fair to China, when you’re in the process of displacing the US, setting up a ME hegemony, and engaging in a deep and meaningful relationship with
Iranian oilIran – you can’t get too flustered about a little primitive savagery.As I said, the only solution is load shedding in Green and Teal electorates and to make undermining energy security a form of treason – with life in prison. That way investments in actual electricity generation can begin again.
I agree. But the green bastards have the perfect riposte: they’re saving the planet. Until that bullshit is revealed to the sheeple for the bullshit it is the renewables will continue. The evidence is plain but 2 sectors need to be on board: the msm and the mainstream pollies. The liars have gone and on this issue are merely an adjunct to the filth and the lnp are full of lukewarmers and gutless mongrels. I don’t know what you are going to do with the msm. I have been trying to spread the word on talkback for years and it’s one step forwards and 2 back.
Mmmyes a former Premier weighs in:
A cursory glance suggests it’s the Left accelerating the decay of Western life.
And to evoke Keating, who is quite a nasty piece of work, could well suggest Baird was in the wrong party.
Its pissing down atm.
But, of course, the dams won’t be filled and the rivers won’t flow. Because the earth is too dry because of global warming,
Where are the stocks and rotten tomatoes?
Looking for you up the river Flaps.
He means funding has increaced for Indig policy manipulators.
No more bullshit about underpaid teachers.
A new 7-step scale makes NSW public school teachers the highest paid in the nation at the entry/graduate and top bands. A new graduate can earn a salary package of $95,490 straight out of university, rising to $145,985 annually for an experienced teacher.
https://education.nsw.gov.au/teach-nsw/explore-teaching/salary-of-a-teacher
Despite all those ugly bird killing blades installed in Victoria, brown coal has been providing over 70% of electricity in Victoria since late yesterday. Only an idiot like Bowen and those making money out of RE would think that its possible to replace coal with more renewables, let alone batteries. It is a pipe dream bound for the dustbin of history.
Yep. I suspect their only hope is to drop Plibbers in as a “Bait and Switch” much like the Lieborals did with SloMo and Turnbull. Can’t leave Tanya on the levers for too long before the election though. Will need plenty of assistance from media friends.
Here’s a surprise:
Hamas sent over 170 children to the front lines while jihad leaders hide in shelters
The next Australian federal election must be held on or before September 27, 2025.
A government in trouble will leave it as late as possible.
The conventional wisdom is that a new leader would need 12 months of clear air, so the Liars caucus wouldn’t need to move on Elbow for another 8-9 months.
Mike Baird.
What a joke of a man. Do we laugh or do we cry? Who could forget his greyhound ban, an executive decision, like some Peronist dictator, where he bent over backwards to heed the demands of inner-city vegan activists, the very people who’d never vote Liberal in a heartbeat, showed just how out of touch he was. He clearly remains out of touch, as I see he references Keating.
Remember how this cockroach, when the electoral blowback from the greyhound ban got too much, did a runner for a NAB job that was paying over two million bucks a year?
Mike Baird should STFU, but there’s a reason why he’s speaking up. He’s gonna run, I reckon in either Wentworth or Warringah.
Black Ball, perhaps I read your post incorrectly but I don’t think Baird is a closet lefty.
He seems to possess many conservative qualities – became a qualified Anglican minister, resigned from a prestigious job to care for a dying mother (and kept doing that for 5 years), disagrees with euthanasia, opposes VAD, and ran an independent Christian charity.
IMHO, those are not the actions of someone most at home in the labor party.
Great crop of toons today, thanks Tom. Very cheering.
Spearing Chalmers at some point will help. Remember Treasurer Bowen?
OK, not all were cheering. Some were visually terrifying.
Ramirez’s two, for instance.
All the rats closing in. And the Iran tap running blood.
Let’s check-in on the US economy:
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
– Winston Churchill
How long did the Liars give Gillard? As PM she shed the sheep’s clothing and govered as a true Fabian until it became apparent this was heading for electoral oblivion in the time honoured fashion.
Harvard President’s plagiarism allegations expose ‘CORRUPTION in higher education’
Have any Cats seen the Banksy exhibition in Sydney?
Saw that exhibition in Brisbane. I can’t remember what we paid but it was not cheap. I don’t recall any time limits, but an hour would be adequate, unless there are big crowds, in which case probably not worth $50.
Just wow:
“Harvard President’s plagiarism allegations expose ‘CORRUPTION in higher education’”
Indeed, Lizzie.
Give yesterday’s Week in Pictures a re-view. Some are lighthearted and gorgeous…
‘Cast it into the fryer!’
‘He’s probably thinking about…’
‘Shoot to turn off’
‘Signs your household had a great Christmas’
And just sweet
‘Xmas…’
Rice University has a course called “Afrochemistry” where students will “apply chemical tools and analysis to understand Black life in the U.S.”
Memes come to life!
I see, overnight, that Haifa port is now being targeted from Iraq. It looks like Hezbollah’s attack on the Meron radar facility is very consequential.
OSC,
read Cassie’s comment regarding Baird.
She beat me to it.
I’ve been to plenty of time limited exhibitions. Always been their much longer. Its really only to get people to move on a bit quicker which lots of people do anyway. Not a problem.
Silly stuff. It’s complete BS and in no way the banks’ fault.
Banks are forced at a point of a gun to hold government bonds for Tier 1 capital under Basel III. If you want them to invest in something less prone to mark-to-market variability then remove this government strong-arming.
In any case the banks sit on the bonds to maturity, therefore they never suffer real losses.
737 MAX-9 fleet grounded pending inspections.
It appears the “9” variant is the only one with the extra pair of evacuation doors aft of the dual wing egress points midway to the rear doors. Further it is only the ones which are configured for lower than maximum seating with “blanked off” doors which are grounded.
It is clear now that the word “plug” was used in reporting, but it wasn’t a “plug door” which blew out. Without failure of the surrounding structure it would be near impossible for a closed door to pop off a pressurised aircraft. And the Bing-Bongs in the cockpit would be going nuts if you tried to take off with a door not properly closed.
It seems this was a panel fitted over the opening where the door would be.
Why bother?
Well, two plug doors and all the associated mechanisms probably weigh 75-100 kgs more than a piece of external skin and an internal plastic panel.
Meth lab in other words.
I have mixed thoughts on Baird. Some who know him personally tell me he’s a nice guy. Too nice.
He should not go anywhere near politics again. The world has moved on and brutal types are now the only survivors.
Yep, Bruce, Catalina is at Rose Bay, and daughters do favour it for special occasions – it is one of the places for those, like Icebergs at Bondi. During lockdown Catalina had a lunch service that was take-away, and far less expensive and fussy but with interesting food items. Last time our daughter went to Catalina though she complained about the length of time for service. You’ll get a far less expensive and very satisfying meal at the Rose Bay pub just up the road, where they have redone the dining room. The Boathouse on the waterfront at the other end of the Rose Bay promenade is another place to eat and be seen.
We were home for lunch, but out for the afternoon after that. We’re up the hill at the end of the peninsula about 2km further on, overlooking the harbour and Watson’s Bay, ten minutes walk to the beach and the ferry. You can spot our place from the ferry on the right as it pulls in if you know where to look although trees are now hogging some of our view. My son and grandson were coming by ferry to visit us on the 2nd Jan but found the queue for the ferry had an hour’s wait – it’s a popular tourist spot around here on holidays. I told them to get the train to Bondi Junction and we’d have lunch in a restaurant there, which was a much better option than trying for Doyles seafood sit-down kiosk or the beer garden at the pub, both cheapish local favorites of ours when the crowds are fewer. Doyles main restaurant, where it’s wise to book, is the one for memorable times, ‘tho food there is basically a seafood fry up.
Hope you enjoyed your brief Sydney stay in the harbour city.
KRudd 1.0 speared June 2010. Gillard appointed August 2010 ( thanks Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, cowards).
Waffleworth speared August 2018. SloMo elected as PM May 2019.
The stench of hypocrisy doesn’t rise to the noses of these b@astards.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/toronto-police-defend-delivering-hot-coffee-hamas-supporters/
Dhimmis and toadies.
That’s cracker science, the duskier types are more interested in baking crack in the microwave.
Wasn’t it Australia’s chief climate change prognosticator, Professor Tim Flannery, that predicted that even the rain that falls will never fill our dams. Well blow me down with a feather, the eastern states’ dams are looking pretty healthy today:
Sydney. 91.8%. 2,440,371 ML ; Melbourne. 95%. 1,722,196 ML ; Brisbane. 70.2%. 1,547,317 ML ; Perth. 46%. 284,079 ML ; Adelaide. 68.4%. 131,594 ML.
The bigger risk is WFH.
That has led to a collapse in the value of commercial CBD real estate. Which isn’t helped by the white anting of lefty cities due to BLM and police defunding.
The problem with this is a lot of that commercial real estate is debt funded. If the owners go insolvent the banks will end up owning those foreclosed devalued commercial assets, and have to mark the value loss against their balance sheets. It could be quite a hit.
Less so here of course since the big four are leary of anything not residential mortgageish, and commercial real estate types have the ability to access cheaper capital from OS rather than pay the rates the big four charge.
Who waffles on too much.
Lizzie,
thank you for your kind words last evening. JC’s brain farts are like marbles on a polished floor. They skid across the page and under the lounge, never to be seen again.
What I find mildly amusing is that he grabs hold of something someone has said, no matter how long ago, and believes he is really clever by bringing it up over and over, ad nauseum. Also embellishing over time as earlier insults fail to sting. Ages ago, some Kittehs were discussing extra kilos and I joined in saying I was, can’t remember exact word, should ask JC, he probably has it on a spreadsheet, chubby or chunky.
I hope to meet him in the flesh one day. I have found that, without exception, those who can hide whilst spraying their vitriol, quail when asked what’s up? face to face. 😀
Just completed a radio interview with a 102 year old WWII aircrew gunner who flew in bombers. I wanted to ask him about the differences between the Hudson and the Beaufort, two twin-engine machines the Air Force flew.
He had a whinge as “they” – being the Tasmanian government – have taken his licence off him. So he has got a mobility scooter. He also has a helper who comes in three times a week, and she carts him around if he needs it.
We shall not see their kind again.
That’s how the protesters would have seen it – the dhimmies, recognizing their duty to serve Mooslimes.
“Pint” indeed. * snort *
This is a standard “Twenty” (i.e. 20 fluid oz) beer glass. Every pub had one somewhere, even in the days of the standard 200ml beer glass.
No way I’d ever serve one. Every now & then one or two turn up in the coolroom (where the beer glasses are kept) I remove ’em asap, lest somebody try to order a beer in one.
Largest I’ll offer is the feral pest that snuck across the border several years ago, the “Schooner” (i.e. 15 oz)
For that I charge $9.50 for full-strength beer, $8.50 for midstrength beer.
Recent & alarming increases in the cost of freight + a CPI rise in the next few weeks, means my price will go up, noticeably.
Freight is now approx $14 per beer carton & approx $80 per keg. (Subject to significant variation in fuel levy)
The current national shame in Canada is the number of attacks on churches (destruction by arson) particularly Catholic Churches, after the Kamloops hoax.
These people are unhinged terrorists. They should be in gaol for life or better still, hanged.
Almost a 100 up in flames since the hoax was reported.
Pints belong in the land of the knotted hanky. Especially in our summer. A pint of Guinness midwinter is the notable exception.
Pure evil. We should point that out to anyone wearing a Hamas flag.
When I watch the official reports from the IDF, I am acutely aware of how painful the international media response is for Israel. The spokesmen and women deliverying these reports do a great job of sticking to the facts of Israel’s war, noting the care taken to protect genuine civilians, but the disdain you can sense in their voices is quite palpable about their need to constantly reiterate the truth against the massive Hamas propaganda believed in the West.
In performing a helpful act today, our officer’s motivation was to help keep tensions low
Somewhere in hell Pierre Lavals tormented soul gives a cynical guffaw as it turns on the rotisserie.
Pleeeeeease let this be true.
Makka, looks like a psyop to me.
Baird was and is a Photios arse licker who stood for precisely nothing when he was premier. Wasted years of opportunity to roll back the liars insanity, just entrenched it further.
If you want to see delusion, look at the Canberra group on Reddit.
Some dudes have taken umbrage to my kind suggestion that the troublemakers at ‘nats ARE NOT overpaid uneducated bogan coal miner scum, and that teachers are not overpaid heroes.
The CBR Redditors also take theirselves way too seriously. They need an Al Czervik in their lives.
In Goin’ Noocular on Reptiles news:
At the risk of breaching blog standards, Neri Oxman, now flung into the US pit of vipers, appears to be not only smart, but also a smoking hot babe.
Yep.
Salt of the earth flannel-shirt blokes driving pickups, oilfield service wagons, semi-trailers, including first nations trucking companies (some in full Chief Sitting Bull headdress) who just wanted to go to work, had their bank accounts frozen & cops got the truncheons out. Some went to jail.
Hamas supporters blockading a road? Cops act as their valet, bringing them food & drink.
It should be noted, the blockade in question is not at parliament house, or the CBD or the like.
The Hamas supporters are blockading a residential suburb, because it has a lot of Jewish residents.
So the cops do what they can to help them maintain the blockade.
Many of us share the same fantasy. If only ….
Some fascinating data about the death of television.
How Bad Has Broadcast TV Become? Stats Show Nobody Is Watching Anything Besides the NFL (6 Jan, via Lucianne)
Only three not football out of the top one hundred. No drama, no movies, no comedy, no game shows, nothing. People have given up on TV, there’s nothing worth watching. Except football.
Roger
It was last seen pushing a shopping trolley with a dodgy left front wheel down at the local supermarket, going through bins looking for discarded batteries.
Until leaders are prepared to actually lead, rather than following the latest trends on social media, nothing will change. Australia has had only three PMs who even tried to lead in the last 40 years.
Things move quickly in the land of identity politics…
Late last week the prog-left was accusing conservatives of weaponising plagiarism.
Here we are a few days later & the prog-left is….weaponising plagiarism.
Barking Toad
Jan 8, 2024 8:21 AM
I honestly couldn’t tell you how much I pay for a schooner.
I put money on the bar, and if it runs out, I put up more.
Those stark Satanic (wind)mills.
It’s a fairly underwhelming article. The substance of the claim is kids used as messengers and transporters, not as fighters. Typical of regular and irregular forces since time immemorial. See American Revolutionary and Civil Wars, for instance.
I would put Howard (primarily 1st term) and Keating in that category. Then I’m out. I can only really go back to Hawke from memory. In my view much of the Hawke/Keating stuff would have been done regardless of who was in office. Arguably the Liars were better placed to do it with the Lieboral’s help from Opposition.
The dealer’s missus has got the sharpening steel out.
And the bruvvers are bolting off as far as they can from the one-time “I finally got there” trot.
Suspect ole “mates” will be leaking therapeutic snaps soon.
We are all battery experts now. I was left stranded over the weekend trying to power up Forest St from Cott Beach on 25% charge in the wheelchair. The computer decided that was not going to fly. I expect I might have made it at less than full speed – but where is the fun in that? Just got a taxi home.
Seems we haven’t moved on in nearly 250 years.
Except we have, in the West.
Golda Meir’s words, about loving your children, come to mind.
I submitted my PhD in the last year of hard copy-only submissions. Three bound volumes with gold lettering. I guess that means if its readership grows from three (the examiners) to a fourth who wants to check it for plagiarism, he’ll have to do it the old-fashioned way. 🙂
One of the examiners – and American of considerable repute – gave it his tick of approval, however, and is the living master of the subject. I’m safe.
I was amazed when I read Douglas Murray’s column on Claudine Gay wherein he pointed out that the former president of Harvard University has never published a book. Peter FitzSimons has published, like, a dozen.
I very much doubt that.
President Herzog reveals: This is how Hamas trains children in terror camps (7 Jan)
They are training children to be fighters from a very young age. I suspect a very substantial number of the Gazan combatants are children. The IDF would have to kill them whatever their ages since a human with a rifle is deadly at age 10 or age 20. But once dead those murderous kids would not be subject to reporting for the obvious reasons.
The dries in the Liberal Party would have had to have gotten rid of Fraser.
A useless politician can be a decent person. They just shouldn’t be in politics.
Indolent
You watch – Handsome Boy is watching this and wondering if he can get away with it.