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If the Houthis tried this on Israel , hundreds of planes would appear over Yemen inside 24 hours to carpet…
the do less damage that way
If only:
Did the 3 work cruises pay for the rest of the holiday ?
If I knew what Atlassian did I would be boycotting them.
First!
But, to report myself.
Doug Parkinson at his superb best.
The Hungry Years
The lyrics touch a nerve in my case. And delivered in that voice …
Repeat, bloody repeat!
Tird!
And second … total failure 🙁
or forth
of fifth
Late Eight-th…
Scrambled all weekend to get ready for grape harvest, scheduled for tonight. Which means major service on three tractors, the fourth is in bits at the dealership. And cleaning all cabs, all windows and doors, all glass, testing all work lights.
And now it’s been delayed until Tuesday night, which would be equal earliest start evah, or at least in my lifetime. Which is probably a good thing, I’m not mentally prepared for it yet.
Icon of the Sea
Hideous
Floating gin palace. 10 000 people on board (passengers and crew), that’s FOUR TIMES the entire population of Broome when I was posted there in 1975.
What a target!
Wally, are you down souf in WA? Heading down to Wilyabrup ourselves on Tuesday.
Ah well, it’s getting late.
Time for a bit of class before I go.
Indeed I am, Bruce- Carbunup.
Last week, I would have said “drop in”… are you on tour, or business?
Just going down to stay for a few days with friends. Purely fun. Don’t worry … we’ll catch up one day! 😀
Thanks Bruce in WA. A good kick to start the week.
I don’t think they do anything so there is nothing to boycott. I believe their money is all theoretical.
Here’s a helpful guide:
It’s a five minute read. At the end of it, if you understand what Atlassian is or what it’s used for, there’s something terribly, tragically wrong with you.
I think it may be a cult.
Insomnia for the win!
Who, what, where or why is an Atlassian? And how? So many questions.
I’m driving for a bloke in Wilyabrup on Friday, as a way of test-driving his Kubota 5111. The hills there are terrifying, I’m used to the river flats…
Pretty obvious that Atlassian is a money laundering scheme, and Cannon-Brookes is a bit like Hunter at Burisma.
Dr Faustus
Jan 22, 2024 1:13 AM
What is Atlassian and What Is It Used For? Let’s Answer That
I’ve read it and thank God I am normal.
Not a clue as to what Atlassian is or does.
NO Mark Bolt On tonight which must be a good thing.
They have a suite of software tools that make building software easier, iaccording toi the PR.
No need to boycott them, the second-rate quality of the tools and the confused attempts at integration already drive many users away, even those who are long-time fans of Jira etc.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
Peter Broelman #2.
Graeme Bandeira.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Lisa Benson.
Clare Armstrong reporting on the clown posse:
Such a good job you are doing Mr Butler. $23 billion spent but what is there to show for it?
Going to need a lot of butcher’s paper for the upcoming week Albo. Must be chewing him up inside that he hasn’t licked an ice cream in anger at the Australian Open tennis.
They’re incapable is thinking outside the square that is the smelly little marxist orthodoxies they learnt at the Uni.
They haven’t matured beyond the kindergarten of student politics either. That’s what happens when you’ve never had to work in a real job.
Thanks for posting BB and have a good day.
“We did a lot of work last year, including $23 billion in targeted cost of living relief for households,”
so they’re going to give certain people some of the money that was forcible taken by them from other people. Or maybe even the same people. Talk about having no idea. I know how awful Lay is but she actually sounds good.
Rafes Roundup has – for those with youngsters who are getting bombarded with Green Propaganda – some very good information videos and print articles. The information Pack has multiple links to good informative sites, and are well worth your time.
Thanks Tom.
Canadian reporter gets educated on free speech
A beautiful thing to watch. Let’s have more of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the thing I feared the FIFO mining boom was going to wipe from the face of the earth: the mind of a real Sandgroper.
(Back in the day the Roads Board ordered too many Steep Descent signs and anything beyond a gentle decline gets one.)
Susssssan believing government can solve the issues with more brain farts.
To be fair, she does appear to be voting against the net zero rubbish and supported Dutton against both Morrison and The Termite.
Antionette Lattosh is a waaace grifter, a waaaace hustler and an all round journalistic hack and mediocrity, and that’s before I even get to her sly putrid Jew hatred. Given her extreme attempts to question and raise doubts about the events in front of the Sydney Opera House on Monday night 9 October 2023, when leftists and Muslims screeched “gas the Jews’, Lattosh is no better than David Irving.
Once upon a time, in a now far away universe, such a mediocrity and all round hack like Lattosh would never ever have made it past first base but alas we live in a place and time of staggering stupidity, a place and time that raises hustlers, hacks and grifters like Lattosh far above their pay station.
Antoinette Lattouf takes flak on social media for ‘tone deaf’ joke
By JAMES MADDEN
Antoinette Lattouf hasn’t always got it right on social media, and we’re not talking about the controversial post in December about the Israel-Hamas conflict that effectively buried her three-day career at the ABC.
Earlier last year, Lattouf took to Twitter (since renamed X) and Instagram to observe the achievements of two Asian actors who had both won Oscars in prestigious categories at the 95th Academy Awards.
“As Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan’s Academy Awards win is being celebrated by Asians around the globe, just as many Asian mums’ reactions’ be like: ‘just one award each? Why not 3? Next year get three. Don’t be lazy,” Lattouf wrote.
Unsurprisingly, her attempt at humour badly misfired with some of her followers.
“Are you speaking from experience, or just trying to poke fun at Asian stereotypes to get some engagement on social media? Not cool,” wrote one user.
Lattouf, who is of Lebanese heritage, defended her “joke”, arguing on Twitter that she “uses the term ‘Asian’ broadly”, and explained that her own parents “hail from the continent of Asia”.
User kevincheng replied: “I would never even dream of cracking a joke about Lebanese people, even though we’re all from the same continent of Asia.
“It’s an off move to use the ‘term Asian broadly’ and perpetuate these stereotypes. Even more baffling to see the ‘joke’ from the co-founder of Media Diversity.”
Another of Lattouf’s followers, liew.es, posted: “Unfortunately, the trope of the ‘tiger parent’, who constantly diminishes the achievements of their children, is incredibly damaging to the Asian community and the East Asian community in particular.”
User edwinapickering observed: “It’s a very tone deaf ‘joke’ honey.” However, Lattouf’s post did receive hundreds of likes, with some of her followers offering comments such as “you made me laugh so hard”.
But in light of Lattouf claiming this month that she was sacked by the ABC because of her ethnicity, her dubious post about “Asian mums” raises questions about her own handling of the sensitive issue of ethnicity and how it is dealt with by the media, and indeed by the wider public on online platforms.
Lattouf’s expanded complaint to the Fair Work Commission last week also alleges the ABC systematically discriminates against people of colour.
Lattouf, 40, is the co-founder of the charity Media Diversity Australia, a not-for profit organisation working to “increase cultural and linguistic diversity in the media”.
When contacted by Diary for comment about her “Asian mums” post, Lattouf chose not to directly answer the question, saying: “Given The Australian has a sudden and keen interest in anti-racism, I can recommend my book How to Lose Friends and Influence White People, particularly the chapter outlining how tabloid newspapers lean on racism as part of their business model.”
You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
By the way, I’ve never heard anyone from the Middle East describe themselves as “Asian” or “hailing from the continent of Asia”.
Roger “the Dodger” Rogerson has gone to his reward – such as it is.
“Founder of a charity” hmmm, love to see the books.
LOL
Meanwhile at Alice Springs…
The Paywallion:
Spinning platitudes as Alice Spring burns
NICK CATER
22 Jan 2024
It is ice skating month in Alice Springs, where the average daytime temperature hovers around 37 degrees in January.
A pop-up rink has been constructed in the Convention Centre courtesy of the National Indigenous Australians Agency. Free ice skating is part of the Territory government’s summer holiday program designed to flatten the curve of youth crime, which has turned a once-charming outback town into the juvenile delinquency capital of Australia.
Former chief minister Natasha Fyles announced the program in November, saying ice skating and other activities would serve “to keep kids engaged, to tire them out and to give them a feed so they go home and have a good night’s sleep, not causing trouble coming into town and running amok”.
Wednesday marks the first anniversary of Anthony Albanese’s heel-dragging day trip to Alice Springs, his only visit to the town since becoming Prime Minister.
He announced that the federal and territory governments would establish a Central Australian Regional Controller responsible for co-ordinating federal and state programs and ensuring “they provide for the best use of taxpayers’ dollars to make a substantial difference”.
It would be reassuring for taxpayers to know a review of the ice rink’s impact on school-age crime will eventually be undertaken. How many potential young hoodlums flop listlessly on the couch at the end of a hard day’s skating rather than go out to commit mayhem?
The audit might look at the relevance of a school holiday activities program in a jurisdiction where a third of Indigenous children don’t attend school. It might ask if the money could be better spent persuading Aboriginal kiddies to get their skates on in term time and get themselves to school.
Sadly, government programs are seldom scrutinised for effectiveness, particularly in Indigenous affairs. The challenge for bodies such as the NIAA is not saving money but spending it.
At the end of June, the body was sitting on a cool $1.5bn in cash allocated for various government programs but not yet dispersed.
In 2023, it handed out 4500 grants totalling $1.6bn. It dispersed $214m to the four NT Land Councils, mini-fiefdoms in their own right. NIAA handed over $687m to the Northern Territory Aboriginal Investment Corporation and $58m to the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation.
The voice was destined to become part of this blubbery, unaccountable and ineffective Aboriginal industrial complex, which is one of the reasons Australians chose to reject it at the October 14 referendum.
The Aboriginal establishment has grown exponentially in recent decades thanks to lazily allocated government funding, mining royalties and mission creep. It has fostered a sub-industry of grant harvesting and rent-seeking, laundering government funds through thousands of different channels.
The NIAA is a case study of how quickly a cashed-up quango forgets what it was put on Earth to do. It was an initiative of Scott Morrison’s government, part of a broader government shake-up to make the spending of taxpayers’ money more efficient and accountable.
Its purpose, outlined in the Government Gazette, was to co-ordinate commonwealth-funded programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It was to advise the prime minister on priorities and lead initiatives to close the gap. Crucially, it was tasked with analysing the effectiveness of Indigenous programs and services delivered by other government agencies to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
This is the NIAA’s mission as described on its website: “To ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are heard, recognised and empowered.”
The repurposing of the NIAA occurred without legislation and without debate. Last year, it worked tirelessly in support of the voice referendum. It was in the inner circle that shaped the proposal for constitutional change and ran an extensive “education campaign” online and in print, publishing two million brochures supporting the Yes vote.
The NIAA’s administrative budget in 2020 was $246m. In 2023, it was $364m, an increase of 66 per cent. Which prompted an eminently reasonable question from Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to the Finance Minister in October: “Can you give us a real, practical example of a policy that your government has initiated through the NIAA that is improving the lives of our most marginalised Indigenous Australians?”
Katy Gallagher spoke expansively about service delivery, outcomes and consultation but failed to address the question, implying that the answer was no; she couldn’t give a practical example of NIAA spending that has improved the lives of marginalised Indigenous Australians.
Three days after the collapse of the voice referendum, Price and Senate colleague Kerrynne Liddle introduced an urgency motion calling on the government to support a royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities and an audit of commonwealth spending on Indigenous programs.
The motion was defeated on the votes of Labor and Greens senators and independent ACT senator David Pocock. No one on the wokier side of politics is interested in opening that particular can of worms that would reveal the failure of Indigenous policy stretching back years.
They would rather talk about the voice, abolishing Australia Day or anything that detracts from the ugly reality on the ground.
If Mr Albanese were to return to Alice Springs, he would discover youth crime has not declined while government-funded programs have proliferated. They include a program encouraging budding young Aboriginal artists to decorate the shutters of boarded-up shops. Never let a crisis get in the way of a grant opportunity.
The crime spree continues in plain sight. Last Sunday night, an IGA supermarket was plundered of booze by thieves using an angle grinder to cut through a brick wall.
The previous evening, police charged two 13-year-olds who allegedly kicked down a woman’s door and stole her Ford Ranger, which was later intercepted by police deploying tyre deflation devices. Two youths, aged 12, were taken home to be placed in the custody of an allegedly responsible adult.
On Monday, three boys aged between 11 and 13 invaded a home after throwing rocks at the windows and threatening the occupant with a metal pole. In the early hours of last Thursday morning, a group of youths vandalised 18 cars along Gap Rd.
Southern Watch Commander Terry Simpson said police attended for “insurance purposes only”. “We didn’t want to wake up all the victims,” he said.
“Most often, the grog runners, drug dealers, thieves and abusers are not invisible,” Senator Liddle told me at the weekend.
“It’s often their victims who are. Distraction and denial do not make anything different.”
Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre.
NICK CATER COLUMNIST
One of the comments:
If we powered the Alice ice rink with renewables we could double the cost again!
I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi.”
Yeah, as if the senile old Sniffer wrote that Tweet.
LOL.
Lame, very lame. Try harder, pervert apologist.
Desantis desists.
Other than you, who do you cares about Nikki Haley Monty?
Trump endorsed
Milko must have stayed over last night.
Desantis
Rosie, according to Trump, Nikki Haley is a very important person, in charge of the Capitol Police.
Hey Monty, there was another protest of Jew haters in Melbourne on the weekend, chockers full of Nazis. These protests are a weekly occurrence. Now we know how much you want to “punch a Nazi” so, did you turn up to punch one of those Nazis on the weekend?
Or perhaps you were there, walking arm in arm with them?
Hilary won the popular vote and Donald is a Russian puppet!
Ah, good to see the only competent fascist withdraw from the GOP nomination race. Now there are only incompetent ones.
Nobody here gives a rat’s arse about Haley.
It’s a sad day for humanity when monty gets sexually aroused by a purported tweet from President Shitshispants. FMD
It’s school holidays Cranky, I am doing family stuff. You know, family that loves you? Or perhaps you don’t really understand that concept.
I see the pervert apologist is here, looking for attention.
The reason why he can’t “punch any Nazis” is because he’d have to start with himself. And that’s the truth.
Robert, I wouldn’t buy a 300C nor any of the lathe late model Chryslers. Lots of electrical problems. Waiting for parts also. That said, a car sales guy I know had a Grand Cherokee hemi V8 for sale that I was going to buy. His wife used it all the time and didn’t want to give it up. He reckoned it was one of the best cars he’d ever had. She pranged it not long after.
It’s school holidays Cranky, I am doing family stuff. You know, family that loves you? Or perhaps you don’t really understand that concept.
Then f*ck off and spend time with them, pervert apologist.
Projection much Monty.
Are Our Elites Crazy? | Power Line (20 Jan)
Lefties project like Linda Blair in that scene.
Rasmussen LOL.
Is Bib playing a reverse-UNO on Fatah ?
I see them being increasingly shrill, insisting on a two-state solution, and agreeing to borders.
Something they’ve avoided in the last 50 years or so.
they have a suite of software which does what all software development does – expands to fill the available schedule and absorb all the resources.
What’s “an allegedly responsible adult”. Is being responsible some sort of aberation in Alice Springs?
It is remarkable how comprehensively DeSantis has managed to disappoint absolutely everybody in a few short years. Most of all his wife.
Get a mirror Monty.
Lattouf might be a better “fit” at the BBC. “Asian” is a peculiarly British euphemism for Pakistanis, but it may serve for Lebanese at a pinch. Definitely not an Australian term.
The whole “Tiger Mum” trope is based on reality, and I’ve had Chinese friends who happily describe themselves as one. But that was years ago, perhaps things have changed. I do know Asian children are driven to succeed, sometimes at the expense of sports and other low value social pursuits. Not all of them but a fair whack. It seems to be cultural.
By the way, I’ve never heard anyone from the Middle East describe themselves as “Asian” or “hailing from the continent of Asia”.
Brits refer to India and Pakistan (and thereabouts) as Asian. Perhaps she is adding a little dishonesty to an affectation.
Pretentiouosness and lying – how very progressive.
In news on the wireless this morning, Islamic Imans accuse the government of bowing to the pro-Israel lobby in framing anti-hate speech. Well, yes, because general anti-hatred legislation will partly restrict the obvious hatred of Jews propagated by Muslims.
PS – I’m against it because I want to know who spreads hatred, and who contests that hatred.
Projection much?
Poor old Pudding Ron. He will be crying into his Yogo.
On the bright side, he can finally give all those high-heeled shoes back to Casey.
Doesn’t Asia extend from the Turkey (the Asian side of the Bosphorus Strait) in the East to at least Japan in the west.
At least, he can remember where is or what he is saying at any point in time?
Trump will put out a short Truth Social post thanking Ron for his long and distinguished service to the party as Republican Senate Majority leader.
It is remarkable how comprehensively DeSantis has managed to disappoint absolutely everybody in a few short years. Most of all his wife.
Speaking of “wives”, does your wife know that you’re a pervert apologist and you advocate violence against women?
Pudding Ron
The pervert apologist is engaging in a lot of projection this morning.
PS – I’m against it because I want to know who spreads hatred, and who contests that hatred.
Agree with you, Katz
<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/17/opinion/firing-back-at-hunter-bidens-bs-games-as-drama-over-his-congressional-subpoena-drags-on/”>Firing back at Hunter Biden’s BS games as drama over his congressional subpoena drags on
Miranda Devine
Published Jan. 17, 2024, 11:23 p.m. ET
Hunter Biden and his lawyers are still playing games about whether he will deign to comply with a congressional subpoena.
You would wish that Republicans were as ruthless about enforcing the rules as Democrats, but when faced with a 53-year-old man as entitled and spoiled as the president’s son, they are in new territory.
The contrast with the Trump family could not be more stark.
Unlike Hunter, who defied a House Oversight Committee subpoena to stage a press conference on Capitol Hill and later gate-crash a hearing, Don Trump Jr. testified five times for more than 40 hours to Democrat-led congressional committees without pulling any stupid stunts.
The then-first son complied with subpoenas from five committees, including the stacked J6 star chamber, and dishonest Adam Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee that was pushing the Russia hoax.
Stunts are all the Bidens and their defenders, like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), have left to try to distract from damaging evidence piling up about President Biden’s corrupt involvement in his family’s foreign-influence-peddling scheme, which reaped millions of dollars from China, Russia, Ukraine and other corrupt countries.
The latest ruse from Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, is to claim Biden’s sins are actually his predecessor’s, unveiling a mendacious “report” last week claiming that Trump corruptly raked in millions from foreign governments when he was president.
Merely rent payments
Eric Trump, the former president’s second son, who runs the family business with his brother, responded to Raskin’s claims with a scathing letter Wednesday, pointing out that most of the foreign money received by The Trump Organization during his father’s presidency was rent payments for a 20-year commercial-office lease that began in 2008 — “more than eight years prior to President Trump taking office.”
Apart from that, Eric says he signed a check every year to the US Treasury donating 100% of estimated profits from “foreign patronage” at their hotels.
“We donated every dollar of foreign profit,” he told The Post, adding that his father was “the first president to donate his salary while in office to various federal agencies.”
Eric contrasts his scrupulous accounting of foreign money with Biden family foreign enrichment for “providing no goods and services” and with the antics of “Gold Bar Menendez.” (Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has been indicted on federal bribery charges and for acting as a foreign agent of the Egyptian government.)
“Hunter is selling finger paintings for hundreds of thousands apiece while we’re donating [millions] to the US Treasury.”
House Democrats released their “sham report” to take the focus off a mountain of evidence that has exploded the self-created myth of “honest Joe” Biden, the one-time “poorest man in Congress.”
In reality, Biden and his family have lived lives of immense privilege, cashing in on his power at the expense of America’s national security.
The evidence comes not just from Republican-led congressional investigations, but from two federal cases against Hunter brought by Delaware US Attorney David Weiss.
Weiss was upgraded to special counsel last August after he and Attorney General Merrick Garland were embarrassed by two IRS agents who blew the whistle on favorable treatment the president’s son received from the DOJ during a five-year investigation into Hunter’s business activities. An outrageous sweetheart plea deal collapsed last year under the weight of the documentary evidence the IRS whistleblowers provided to Congress.
Thanks to them, Hunter now is finding the special privilege and protections his father has provided all his life may be running out, although his high-priced lawyer Abbe Lowell still has plenty of tricks up his sleeve.
But for now, the first son has been charged with felony tax-fraud and tax-evasion charges in California and a felony charge in Delaware for lying on a federal gun-purchase form that he was not on drugs at a time, 2018, when he was addicted to crack cocaine.
So much for “my son has done nothing wrong,” as Joe kept insisting, putting a chill on the DOJ’s investigations of Hunter.
Now the lies are being exposed in court.
Just this week, the DOJ confirmed in a new filing in Delaware on the gun charge that Hunter’s laptop is real, that he left it at a computer store, and that the contents matched what the feds obtained from a search warrant of his iCloud account.
“In August 2019, IRS and FBI investigators obtained a search warrant for tax violations for the defendant’s [Hunter’s] Apple iCloud account. In response to that warrant, in September 2019, Apple produced backups of data from various of the defendant’s electronic devices that he had backed up to his iCloud account.”
‘Slam dunk’ of evidence
“Investigators also later came into possession of the defendant’s Apple MacBook Pro, which he had left at a computer store. A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop and the results of the search were largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple.”
That’s what you call a slam dunk.
But don’t hold your breath for a retraction from the president, who lied during the 2020 campaign that the laptop was a “Russian plant,” nor from the “Dirty 51” former intelligence officials or myriad dishonest Democrats who also blamed Russia when the Bidens knew all along it was Hunter’s laptop — and so did the FBI, which had taken possession of the MacBook and quietly authenticated it in December 2019.
None of this would have come to light or been prosecuted if it were not for the integrity and tenacity of the IRS agents, Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who exposed the two-tiered justice system protecting the Bidens that has helped undermine the public’s faith in the justice system.
Now the Republicans in Congress need to match the whistleblowers’ courage.
Damn! The deep state’s ‘intelligence’ apparatus.has it in for The Cat.
This is exactly what I have been saying for many years!
Heavens, are we still talking about Lattouf?
Her proverbial 15 minutes of fame, I suppose.
I’d suggest all you need to know about her is summed up by the fact that she refers to herself as a “race influencer” online and has written a book titled ‘How to Lose Friends and Influence White People.’
I suspect she sees this whole episode with the ABC as an exercise in self-promotion.
Klaus! KLAUS!
Get yer filthy little rat claws off this august journal of record!
Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri La’s has died.
Sob, there goes another chunk of my childhood.
Examples America Is Going Down and Russia Is Going Up
I just got back from Ukraine, where I was visiting some friends.
Everything we have heard about what’s happening in Ukraine is a lie.
The reality is darker, bleaker, and unequivocally hopeless. There is no such thing as Ukraine “winning” this war.
– By their estimates, they have lost over one million of their sons, fathers and husbands; an entire generation is gone.
– Even in the Southwest, where the anti-Russian sentiment is long-standing, citizens are reluctant or straight-up scared to publicly criticize Zelensky; they will go to jail.
– In every village and town, the streets, shops, and restaurants are mostly absent of men.
– The few men who remain are terrified of leaving their homes for fear of being kidnapped into conscription. Some have resorted to begging friends to break their legs to avoid service.
– Army search parties take place early in the morning, when men leave their homes to go to work. They ambush and kidnap them off the streets and within 3-4 hours they get listed in the army and taken away straight to the front lines with minimal or no training at all; it is “a death sentence.”
– It’s getting worse every day. Where I was staying, a dentist had just been taken by security forces on his way to work, leaving behind two small children. Every day, 3-5 dead bodies keep arriving from the front lines.
– Mothers and wives fight tooth and nail with the armed forces, beg and plead not to have their men taken away. They try bribing, which sometimes works, but most of the time they are met with physical violence and death threats.
– The territory celebrated as having been “won back” from Russia has been reduced to rubble and is uninhabitable. Regardless, there is no one left to live there and displaced families will likely never return.
– They see the way the war has been reported, at home and abroad. It’s a “joke” and “propaganda.” They say: “Look around: is this winning?”.
– Worse, some have been hoaxed into believing that once Ukrainians forces are exhausted, American soldiers will come in to replace them and “win the war”.
There is no ambiguity in these people. The war was for nothing – a travesty. The outcome always was, and is, clear. The people are hopeless, utterly destroyed, and living in an unending nightmare.
They are pleading for an end, any end – most likely the same “peace” that could have been achieved two years ago. In their minds, they have already lost, for their sons, fathers and husbands are gone, and their country has been destroyed. There is no “victory” that can change that.
Make no mistake, they are angry with Putin. But they are also angry with Zelensky and the West. They have lost everything, worst of all, hope and faith, and cannot comprehend why Zelenky wishes to continue the current trajectory, the one of human devastation.
I didn’t witness the war; but what I saw was absolutely heart-breaking.
Shame on the people, regardless of their intentions, who have supported this war. And shame on the media for continuing to lie about it.
Interesting (2:21) :
Was Hitler far-right or far-left?
PragerU
Ukraine Must Cede Territory to Russia for Peace Deal, Slovakian Prime Minister Fico Declares
JP Morgan boss agreeing that Trump had some good policies. Hey – they must be looking at Iowa & predictions of the extent of MAGA revival
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/17/cnbc-transcript-jpmorgan-chase-chairman-ceo-jamie-dimon-speaks-with-cnbcs-squawk-box-from-the-world-economic-forum-in-davos-switzerland-today.html
He’s extremely popular in Florida, mOron. So not “absolutely everybody” is disappointed. In fact far from it.
There is much more disappointment on your team of freaks and deviants. The doddering Pervert in Chief is looking more adle brained by the day. He now needs his wife to find the exit from the stage. Old Sniffer’s popularity on his own side stinks;
Documenting the Enablers of Hamas War Crimes: UN Agencies, Government Aid Programs and NGOs
By Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg – January 21, 2024
“Everyone in Gaza including UN staff knows about the dual use of these facilities.” – Journalist Jan Franke
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: UN agencies, government aid programs and NGOs have consistently and willfully aided and abetted Hamas as it built its vast terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. They diverted aid money to Hamas to fund its terrorist activities, provided propaganda and disinformation support to Hamas in its efforts to tarnish and discredit Israel, and indoctrinated Gazan schoolchildren to hate Jews. Systematic documentation of the roles played by UN and government officials, as well as NGOs operating under the vast framework of international humanitarian aid, in enabling and cooperating with Hamas, both tacitly and actively, is vital to prevent a repetition of this abdication of responsibility and accountability.
A third layer is also required:
the systematic documentation of the complicity of Hamas enablers and allies. This category includes numerous UN agencies and officials operating in Gaza, governmental aid organizations and diplomats, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) claiming to promote human rights and humanitarian aid.
Evidence of their involvement and behavior – specifically with respect to the large-scale theft (“diversion”) of aid for construction of the massive terror infrastructure beneath Gaza and tens of thousands of lethal rockets – is available in numerous photographs and videos from the IDF.
This and other information needs to be consolidated and systematically organized and made available in different forms to the general public.
The third category concerns leaders and employees of NGOs that operated in Gaza. NGO Monitor has compiled a list, based on UN financial information, of 70 NGOs that were active in recent years, and the total is likely to be higher. The largest, as measured by budgets and extent of involvement, include the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and Islamic Relief. Many major donor countries, including the US, maintain a list of “trusted partners” whose activities and personnel are exempt from detailed oversight and review.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is another important case study pointing to silent cooperation with Hamas. MSF has had a major presence in Gaza for many years. Yet throughout this period, and particularly during the current conflict, MSF officials have remained silent or denied any knowledge of terror activity, while condemning the IDF for military operations near and in hospitals. In a few cases, individual doctors (not affiliated with MSF) broke the code of silence, admitting that access to the lower floors of Shifa Hospital was off-limits. A senior American aid official acknowledged that this information was well known, and a Dutch journalist posted: “I have been to the Al Shifa Hospital several times as a reporter during the Israel-Gaza war in 2014 and also afterward. .. It is a vast complex. I have personally seen Hamas fighters there. Everyone in Gaza including UN staff knows about the dual use of these facilities.” The same journalist posted photographs taken secretly of “uniformed Hamas fighters (in blue) sitting cautiously next to the entrance where ambulances arrive.”
Excellent Article – 7 Page PDF here
Make no mistake, they are angry with Putin. But they are also angry with Zelensky and the West. They have lost everything, worst of all, hope and faith, and cannot comprehend why Zelenky wishes to continue the current trajectory, the one of human devastation.
Thanks for that info, Ozzie. I have thought from the beginning that, even with huge armament supplies from the West, Ukraine would not “win” this war. The facts were never straightforward & the war was always presented by western media as the democratic West versus Communism. It was never that simple.
Again, where was the United Nations in brokering a peaceful settlement while it may have been possible? Or even supervising elections in the disputed territory. What a shocking waste of money the UN is!
Blinken is using blackmail to achieve goal of Palestinian statehood – opinion
Israel has no obligation to restore the lives and homes of those who tried to destroy ours because we don’t owe them that consideration.
In his need to be clever and come up with new creative ways to achieve the goal of Palestinian statehood, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has now resorted to the threat that “Arabs won’t pay to rebuild Gaza without a path to Palestinian statehood” (The Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2024).
In short, Blinken is making it clear that unless we want to absorb the full cost of rebuilding Gaza, we are going to have to offer to make nice with the Palestinians by incentivizing their willingness to take on the massive restoration project. And under what framework would that incentive come? Being agreeable to the acceptance of a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish one.
While some might call that a fair exchange, I would call it financial blackmail, knowing full well that Israel cannot afford to take on such an expense when it has its own immense burden of rebuilding all of the southern communities that were destroyed by Hamas terrorists, necessitating the evacuation of those residents.
Since that time, Israel has had to pick up the tab for housing tens of thousands of kibbutz members as well as residents of northern and southern communities where it remains too risky for citizens to live.
Add to that are the staggering costs of war. Dubbed Israel’s most expensive war ever, billions of dollars have already been spent in the fight against Hamas.
Of course, cool-hand Blinken tries to explain the rationale by stating that Arab countries would not be amenable to invest in rebuilding, only to end up taking the risk that, at some point, the IDF will return to level it again.
And while that makes sense, he never addresses the real “elephant in the room.”
Palestinian state is dangerous for Israel
Avi and Ezra:
CEO of WEF’s ‘epidemic preparedness’ organization refuses to answer Rebel News questions
Over on the Oz, regarding the choice of an indigenous Governor General – those with twisted minds are suggesting Linda Burney will be Albo’s “captains pick.”
Sydney house prices to climb 16pc in three years
Nila Sweeney – Reporter
Sydney house prices will increase by about 16 per cent over the next three years, bolstered by the expected interest rate cuts and ballooning underlying shortage of stock, Oxford Economics Australia predicts.
Units are poised to outperform detached homes in the NSW capital, with values expected to climb by more than 23 per cent over the same period as buyers seek cheaper housing options, the consultancy says.
“With the context of a growing dwelling stock deficiency, the return of interest rate cuts will drive the next acceleration of price growth from late-2024 onwards,” said Maree Kilroy, senior economist at Oxford Economics Australia.
“However, the pace of growth is slowing as a result of the additional interest rate lift in November and rising total listing volumes, so this year would be softer in terms of price growth.”
That was clear in the consultancy’s national predictions for housing prices to gain just 2.7 per cent in the 2024 financial year before rising by 6.3 per cent each year in 2025 and 2026.
After a sharp rebound last year when the median house price jumped 10.3 per cent, Sydney house prices are forecast to rise by 3.3 per cent and units by 5.2 per cent during the 2024 financial year.
Over the next two years from 2025 and 2026, house prices are expected to increase by 5.9 per cent annually, while units are set to lift by 8.3 per cent each year, the consultancy said.
Perth is set to outperform, with prices forecast to jump by 10.4 per cent over FY 2024, increasing by another 9.8 per cent in 2025 and 6.4 per cent in 2026. Over the next three years, house prices are set to increase by 29 per cent and units by 34.4 per cent.
“Perth has underperformed for years, even as the other capitals were rebounding sharply, so it has so much to catch up on to maintain that relativity with those other capital cities,” Ms Kilroy said.
“Perth has a significant stock deficiency and WA has greatest supply chain and capacity constraints of all states. It has the strongest population growth, which we expect it to maintain over the next three years.”
Home values in Melbourne would also rebound in the next couple of years, boosted by the resurgence in overseas migration and normalising net interstate migration, the consultancy said.
However, prices were likely to hold flat this financial year as listings surged faster than demand, Ms Kilroy said.
“Rising total listings have provided greater options for buyers in Melbourne, reducing urgency to purchase, in turn leading to easing conditions,” she said.
Over the two years to June 2026, both the median house and unit price are forecast to increase 5.5 per cent and 6.5 per cent annually respectively. Over three years, house prices are set to increase by 11.3 per cent and units by 13.4 per cent.
Brisbane’s house prices are forecast to lift by 5.9 per cent in FY2024, and units by 8.2 per cent, helped by low listings and lower priced points compared to Sydney and Melbourne.
“The return of interest rate cuts from late-2024 should facilitate even stronger price growth over the two years to FY2026,” Ms Kilroy said.
“Demand fundamentals are expected to remain strong, with Queensland positioned at the front of the pack in terms of population growth.
“Adding to this, the 2032 Olympics should provide a sustained boost to developer and buyer optimism from mid-decade.”
Over the next three years, Brisbane house prices are expected to climb by 19.8 per cent and units by 23.3 per cent.
Adelaide’s strong run last year has further to go, albeit at a slower pace as affordability starts to bite, Ms Kilroy said.
House prices are set to increase by 7.7 per cent this financial year, but will slow to 2.5 per cent by June 2025 before adding another 5.6 per cent by 2026. Over the next three years, house prices are expected to climb by 16.6 per cent while units are set to rise by 19.3 per cent.
“We’re a bit wary of the longevity of the Adelaide performance because net interstate migration has come back to a more balanced market so the impulse to demand from that internal migration has weakened,” she said.
“During the pandemic there was an excess of returning young households or not leaving Adelaide so that helped a little price growth a bit.
“We’re also going to see the pipeline of home builder and house completions reaching the market this year so that additional stock could dampen prices to some extent.”
Noel Pearson, or Marcia Langton for GG, anyone?
Heavens, are we still talking about Lattouf?
Gotta give her full marks for manipulating the we-luvs-lefties/minorities media into turning a 3 dayz stint in a 5 dayz job into a 3, and still ongoing, weeks poor-me saga …FFS!
The Ukraine war is a money laundering exercise. The average Ukrainian knows it too. Joe and Beau are up to their necks in Ukraine corruption which is why the lofty ideals of freedom, Wussia!!, Whatever it takes! have been invoked to provide the cover.
If Biden’s Govt was so concerned about borders and invasion, why be concerned about an invasion a world away while the US southern border is KEPT OPEN for all of South and Central America to walk through? Biden and the left hate the US.
DeSantis’ mistake was to cosy up to the grandees of the RNC and their elite donors. That immediately lost him the base vote, who detest McConnell and the RNC for what they did to Trump.
Nikki Haley is even worse since she believes in climate fairies, which the base emphatically does not.
Globalist Shill Nikki Haley Scolds Crowd for Booing Climate Protesters Disrupting Campaign Event (21 Jan)
Give the base what they want or fail abjectly is the message the GOP elites are desperately trying not to hear.
Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri La’s has died.
Sob, there goes another chunk of my childhood.
And alwayz remembered … Leader of the Pack …….
https://youtu.be/Q8UKf65NOzM
Ron DeSantis approval ratings.
About even in April, now -15 in netsat.
He’s term-limited so his future is a cushy job in the wingnut wurlitzer, and the obscurity he deserves.
Look at DP World to see the damage new IR laws will do
EBAs are no longer an ordinary negotiation between two parties. They are set up to make intractable disputes inevitable.
Brad Popple and Brendan Milne
The ports dispute can teach us a lot about what is wrong with our industrial relations system.
DP World is locked in bitter negotiations with the Maritime Union of Australia for a new enterprise agreement. Employees are reported as wanting a 27.5 per cent pay boost over two years to catch up to their compatriots at rival operator Patrick. DP World says that is unsustainable, given Patrick’s employees are more productive as it has introduced greater levels of automation.
Employees are engaged in industrial action to harm DP World’s business and force it to capitulate – as is their right. Meanwhile, the economic consequences for the rest of us are enormous.
Many have heaped criticism on DP World for deciding to not pay employees engaged in industrial action, and called on DP World to simply end the dispute by negotiating a deal. In doing so, they display an alarming lack of understanding of our industrial relations system.
Enterprise bargaining is not an ordinary negotiation, and has been made progressively more difficult over time. It is set up to make situations like this increasingly inevitable.
To understand the conundrum, the first thing to know is that enterprise agreements can live forever.
While they have a “nominal expiry date”, this concept is relevant to the timing of their renegotiation.
Until they are terminated or replaced, they operate in perpetuity.
The second thing is that the termination of enterprise agreements is now effectively impossible, since the government’s Secure Jobs, Better Pay laws took effect a little over a year ago.
Few options exist for employers faced with this industrial action.
Previously, employers could ask the Fair Work Commission to terminate an enterprise agreement – but only if they could convince the independent umpire that this was not contrary to the public interest.
This almost never happened, and only in relatively extraordinary circumstances and where the employer committed to maintaining existing pay rates, at least for a period.
This is off the table entirely.
When an agreement nominally expires (after a maximum period of four years), employees can engage in various forms of lawful industrial action, carefully designed to cause maximum harm and force a deal.
It’s worth pausing here to think about the peculiarity of this system.
Where else do we expect negotiations to occur in those circumstances?
Can you imagine entering into a lease agreement with a landlord permitted to progressively shut off access to parts of the property every four years until you agreed to pay whatever new rent they required – forever?
Few options exist for employers faced with this industrial action.
Of course, they can simply accede to whatever demands they face or otherwise just tolerate the business harm.
But what if the claims are unacceptable, or the employer needs to negotiate some changes of its own?
The employer can refuse to pay employees who impose partial bans on their work (but then they do not need to perform any work at all) or engage in their own responsive action by locking out employees without pay.
Neither option is available until employees fire the first shot.
Personal criticisms
That’s why criticising an employer like DP World for taking these options doesn’t make any sense.
What else is it to do?
The system is designed to make this type of disputation inevitable.
The same can be said of the personal criticisms levelled by Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke at DP World’s executive vice president for Oceania Nicolaj Noes’ handling of Svitzer ports dispute, when that business needed to change decades-old restrictive work practices.
At the end of 2022, after three years of bargaining, and hundreds of instances of industrial action by employees, Svitzer decided to lock them out.
One upshot of the government’s previous law reforms is to enable the commission to more easily determine the outcomes of intractable bargaining disputes through arbitration – a process affording both sides an opportunity to persuade the commission of the merits of their position.
But the government’s next round of reform now looks set to close this as an avenue for workplace change too, by imposing an edict on the commission that each individual term of an arbitrated outcome be no less favourable than what it replaces.
That is, the commission will have no power to wind back unsustainable terms, no matter how strong the case for change and even if the commission considers it appropriate.
It’s not difficult to see that this will embolden union claims and entrench disputation. What is left to lose? And how can an employer respond?
Even Victoria’s Labor Treasurer Tim Pallas appears to acknowledge that this will create a disincentive for unions to reach agreement at the bargaining table.
Of course, he is right.
“Class warfare industrial practices remain institutionalised on the wharves.”
Historians: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Was Overreaction
Trump criticised de Santis for asking the welfare state to be cut. The fact is, social security is insolvent and Trump talked a good game about cuts but signed on spending and gave a nod to money printer go brrrr.
de Santis is a lot better than Trump supporters recognise.
He should have stayed in until Haley threw in the towel. The Democrats are openly supporting her.
Trump will put out a short Truth Social post thanking Ron for his long and distinguished service to the party as Republican Senate Majority leader.
One of, worldwide, politics most hypocritical & disgusting standards (and they have lotz of ’em) ..
the, feigned & false, adulation of fallen/bereaved contemporaries …..
Haha, always fun to educate Monty just before he posts some inanity.
Thomas Shaughnessy
@ThomasShaughn13
A special kind of stupid
WHO calls for world pandemic treaty to prepare for deadly ‘Disease X’
Man Convicted of Starting 14 Canadian Forest Fires Media Blamed on ‘Climate Change’
Legally perhaps, but it is not a moral right.
Central Bank Digital Currencies are Spycoins
And that is about the only reason not to ban Fat Boy Fascist mUnty from this blog.
LOL, DeSantis in his concession speech committed one of the gravest sins in conservatism: misquoting Churchill.
Uh no old mate, that was said by Robert Schuller, a Yankee televangelist.
CEO Larry Fink speaking at the WEF forum. “You have to FORCE behaviours, at Blackrock we are FORCING behaviours”
…but not BitCoin.
Save your time & energy, Bruce.
He is unteachable.
She’s a real piece of work.
Nikki Haley Scolds Crowd For Booing Climate Protesters Disrupting Campaign Event
No he isn’t. He’s like John Howard, thinking that the normal state of politics can continue. It cannot. The Libs and the GOP have to stop chasing the mythical centre, and go full Milei. And the wets in charge of both parties have to be evicted with prejudice.
Inside Biden’s secret surveillance court
Dr F at 1:13
I think I understand it.
But not in a good way.
This is a hint.
About 7-8 years ago I was working for a global engineering firm. A board member or senior exec was sold into this idea of “company wide collaboration” and the PM software had some sort of “suggestion box” module bolted on (not Jira) to enable collaboration. Project Managers had KPIs (and bonuses) linked to responding to suggestions.
Young and naive types like me just assumed that the suggestions would revolve around engineering and project execution problems.
But no.
93.1% of “helpful suggestions” contained the phrases “carbon footprint” or “gender pay gap” or “equity”.
An intern in HR in Sydney could ask a PM in Kazakhstan a question and he had to respond, or lose a chunk of his bonus.
After about six months of this a PM who had been head-hunted for a mega project told them to ditch this bullshit or he would walk.
Word got around and others followed suit.
Sadly I think that, in 2024, they would let the guy go for fear of upsetting the DEI putsch.
Well, Cannon-Brooks does cultivate that Jesus look.
Tour Golf
@PGATUOR
John Daly commented on the transgender playing on the LPGA Tour saying “I would’ve won 100 tournaments if I threw on a skirt and called myself a tranny. That dude is as feminine as a Ford F-150.”
I see dickless is on schoolies. Sounds perverted. But par for the course. Upthread the slimy mong said re: DeSantis withdrawing that only incompetent fascists are left in the GOP POTUS race. Trump is the opposite of fascist/communist. He is a true supporter of human rights and individualism. Of course these are conditions which require a dick (and true women have mental dicks) which means the likes of dickless, that is all lefties, will never understand them.
Let’s hope dickless gets together with other like minded scum and are nuked. And to be clear when I say nuked I mean subject to the wrath of God. In the true biblical sense.
The Libs and the GOP have to stop chasing the mythical centre, and go full Milei. And the wets in charge of both parties have to be evicted with prejudice.
I am with you in heart and spirit, BoN. But I am fearful that the current generation of Aussies would not follow the Milei vision. They have become very self serving in many ways. In any case, the education system in this country has incapacitated many from understanding anything about the global situation.
de Santis is a lot better than Trump supporters recognise.
Agree.
‘Millennial Socialism’: 100 Years After Lenin’s Death, Communism Wages War on Souls
NCR – January 21, 2024
No he isn’t. He’s like John Howard, thinking that the normal state of politics can continue. It cannot. The Libs and the GOP have to stop chasing the mythical centre, and go full Milei. And the wets in charge of both parties have to be evicted with prejudice.
Correct.
Vicki
This seems to be almost the only significant conflict in decades which did not have the UN pushing daily for a cease-fire, talks, and trying for a solution.
I wonder why?
Sure, everyone in a company should be working towards the same objective (preferably profitability).
But there are different way to get there, right?
I mean…isn’t diversity our strength?
Sunrise host Nat Barr calls out Anthony Albanese over Australia Day: ‘Most Australians are getting sick of this’
. Nat Barr challenged Labor minister over Australia Day
. Attacked PM’s hands-off lack of leadership over row
POLL
Is Anthony Albanese showing leadership over Australia Day?
Currently 96% NO
The Paywallian Media Diary reporting that Andwew Pwobyn is once again enjoying the warm embrace of Aunty’s ample bosom courtesy of the “talent” dumping ground that is RN Breakfast, currently brought to us by PK and home to much loved broadcaster Frank Elly. Thus the Pwobe’s Redundancy joins the Quentin Dumpster Long Goodbye. I guess we will have to wait till Senate Estimates to find out whether they actually got around to deactivating his swipe card. Nice to see all those afternoons on his knees in the ALPBC Perth studios with Nana Hutchison didn’t go to waste.
Interesting debate with a slow-witted, polite and senile “scientist” on REEEE!ddit yesterday.
Insisted the median voter model does not work. Showed an irrelevant paper and an interesting one which says the middle is disenfranchised, the choice is polarised now in the US. Voting modelled as being bimodel, and having a disenfranchised centre, tends to “not” conform to a median voter (the fact is 50%+ of Americans are disenfranchised).
Trump needs to go full Milei because he can’t get the middle by going for the middle.
They should have complied. Keep the bonus & punish the shareholders!
Malicious compliance and administrative violence are tools the common man should get an 8th-degree black belt in.
Atlassian is a work ticket system for computer programmers. User finds bug, raises ticket in Atlassian, programmer fixes bug, closes ticket in Atlassian.
But you are correct that an entire cult has been built around this.
A few days ago Senator Rennick posted on his Twitter about recent Federal Health purchase of shingles treatments.
$826 million for treatments for 5m people.
Seems shingles has recently become a major issue. Wonder why ?!
I love the way Branco draws his donkeys.
You can almost hear them speak.
Genius.
Hi monty!
So long as Lattouf angles for a payout of public money for exactly zero, “discrimination”, I’m prepared to talk about her.
Netanyahu Rejects Biden Surrender Plan
Wind & Solar Generators Couldn’t Care Less When You’re Freezing In The Dark
I got to thinking about this after Iowa.
One or two more crushing wins in Primaries and it will be done.
Is this a good thing?
In a strange way, does Trump lose momentum when he becomes the presumptive nominee 4-5 months out from the convention?
Sure, he can run rallies (which will probably keep the flame alight) but he thrives on the competitive nature of the head-to-head primaries.
With no RINOs to beat up on will he lose a bit of oomph?
DeSantis Out
January 21, 2024 | Sundance
Zelensky Lashes Out At Trump Over ‘Very Dangerous’ Plan To End Billions For His Family And Friends
EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Introduce Legislation To Defund World Economic Forum
Also, it amused me that her asian “followers” were hopping from one foot to the other over her reference to Tiger Mums. As if it wasn’t true.
Sensitive lot. When did that all start? 😀
Will de Santis go in as a running mate? Is this possible?
Vicki – The current strategy the Libs use is to chase the centre and the Teal vote and expect the base to hold their nose and vote for the Libs as being better than Labor and the Greens.
Increasingly that model is failing, since the Libs in effect are almost identical to Teals and Labor these days in policy terms. So instead the base has spalled off to PHON, SFF and anyone who do what we want. Hence a Lib primary vote that is falling below 30%.
The way the Libs should be doing it is exactly opposite, which is embrace the alienated base and only then persuade and bring in the centrists by good policy. Trump is doing that for example. (That’s why the Dems stole the election – what he was doing was working.)
The conservative/libertarian base will not compromise on moral questions, but centrists can and do, if the equation is sufficiently positive for them. They can be persuaded. But the Libs will never ever convince their lost base voters to accept climate crap, for example.
But that reverse approach can’t work whilst guys like Photios and Kean are running the Liberal Party. They must be sent packing.
Gosh. Am I on someone’s speed dial? Obsessive much?
Wait until Social Security becomes insolvent, men under 30 don’t work because women offer them nothing, half are NEETS and have a mental illness, the young women are worse etc.
The Future of Social Security (and US Welfare).
Sitting back and giggling at the pain caused for the ABC by the Lattouf insanity is great sport.
Except, it is not. It is terrifying. The ABC does not consider any of this circus to be abnormal.
I think people need to get a grip. Ron DeSantis stood alone in standing up against the Covid hysteria, much more so than Donald Trump. Do I blame Trump for that?
No, during that disastrous year of 2020 there were three issues used to nuke Trump, the first was Covid, the second was that it was an election year, and finally, of course, there was the Democrat induced violence triggered by the death of that pimp and lowlife Georgina Floydina, that ‘summer of love’ Trump had to contend with. It was a perfect storm orchestrated to bring down Trump. However, when it came to Covid, like too many other politicians on the right across the West, Trump ignored his better instincts and went along with lockdowns and mandates. He buckled.
Ron DeSantis did not buckle. When almost all other states across the union were locked down, Florida remained open. DeSantis fights and wins culture wars.
I’m sorry but Ron DeSantis is not like John Howard. I think also it is a testament to his character that he’s retired from the race and like Vivek he hasn’t wasted anytime endorsing Donald Trump.
I think people here need some perspective. I’m glad Trump is running and winning but I’d be equally happy if the leading contender was Ron DeSantis.
is mUnty is a forward scout for the NWO ?
… they really aren’t sending their best
He actually stood tall amongst world leaders. Trump might be the best candidate overall but let’s not think de Santis is some kind of would-be Hillary Clinton.
It was like the Cruz bashing. Funny stuff, but Cruz really was quite good.
Trump was nuked by the election steal. It’s the only issue that counts, and still does.
And in the event he won, it would be unlikely that the entire public sector would go to war against their country – unlike a Trump win.
He actually stood tall amongst world leaders. Trump might be the best candidate overall but let’s not think de Santis is some kind of would-be Hillary Clinton.
It was like the Cruz bashing. Funny stuff, but Cruz really was quite good.
Yes.
Sure, it’s newsworthy…for now
But creating controversy is also her shtick.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is turning out just as she planned. Even if she loses her case qat FWA, she wins in terms of publicity and income generated from her other ventures.
Roger, I’m sure she’s quaking in her boots that an old bat from Port Stephens doesn’t approve of her. It wouldn’t surprise me if ABC folds and slips her some cash, and that will be the bigger scandal.
Perhaps he did, but Churchill said it first.
Nice try.
Geez, what an easily avoidable rake.
By the way, I’ve never heard anyone from the Middle East describe themselves as “Asian” or “hailing from the continent of Asia”.
It doesn’t matter what they call themselves. They cannot escape the fact that they are Asian…
#illuptickcalli
The UN are enablers of the Hamas terror attacks.
Australia should designate the UN a terrorism funding agency.
Of course Penny Wrong should get 20 years in chokey for that offense.
Oh, I think she’d delight in that!
A glance at her book suggests pissing off people she disagrees with is one of her main goals in life. Clem Ford with a pretty face.
The Elites are defined as those having a postgraduate degree, a household income of more than $150,000 annually, and living in a zip code with more than 10,000 people per square mile. Approximately 1% of the total U.S. population meets these criteria.
I would also like to see the age spread. I suspect that this is the high earners of GenX. These spoiled children of Boomers were the first of the Woke. Unfortunately, many of their offspring are presently going the same way – though history would suggest that there will be a volte-face.
As not requested. The free PDF on David D Freidman’s treatise on anarcho-capitalism.
(It’s a good read even if you’re not on board).
https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/monographs/2/
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
David D. Friedman, Santa Clara University School of Law
Description
This book argues the case for a society organized by private property, individual rights, and voluntary co-operation, with little or no government. David Friedman’s standpoint, known as ‘anarcho-capitalism’, has attracted a growing following as a desirable social ideal since the first edition of The Machinery of Freedom appeared in 1971. This new edition is thoroughly revised and includes much new material, exploring fresh applications of the author’s libertarian principles.
Among topics covered: how the U.S. would benefit from unrestricted immigration; why prohibition of drugs is inconsistent with a free society; why the welfare state mainly takes from the poor to help the not-so-poor; how police protection, law courts, and new laws could all be provided privately; what life was really like under the anarchist legal system of medieval Iceland; why non-intervention is the best foreign policy; why no simple moral rules can generate acceptable social policies — and why these policies must be derived in part from the new discipline of economic analysis of law.
ISBN
0812690699
Publication Date
4-19-1989
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Company
Keywords
Capitalism, Anarcho-Capitalism
Automated Citation
Friedman, David D., “The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism” (1989). Legal Monographs and Treatises. 2.
https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/monographs/2
Haley is a RINO
DeSantis is not a RINO
Trump opposed lockdowns, I remember him arguing against them at the debates, saying it was terrible and inhumane to be locking people in their homes. As President I’m not sure there was much he could do to stop states locking down.
those with twisted minds are suggesting Linda Burney will be Albo’s “captains pick.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA now that’s comedy!
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Trump has been the presumptive nominee for 3+ years now.
His momentum seems to be doing just fine.
Indeed. But Ita goes in March (iirc) and I have a feeling she’s personally invested in this one (in a good way).
DeSantis struggled to be taller than Mickey Rooney when he was (frequently) wearing high heels.
You’re citing a random bot site Zatara, you nincompoop.
How about referring back to the International Churchill Society:
Oh dear. Stick to lurking, old cock.
Ultimo lyf.
Oh dear. Stick to lurking, old cock.
Well at least he has one, you don’t.
Now f*ck off pervert apologist. You’re a stinking, Jew hating, Nazi loving disgrace
Nothing like having your Road to Damascus moment before you start packing up the office. File under “Better Late than Never”. Ita was a terrible (though in keeping with the SloMo years) appointment. The ALPBC is beyond reform.
I don’t see a multi-billion dollar company in that.
Haley is currently trying to appeal to the Right in the worst possible way.
Well, it’s restating an old proverb, but this one is a wise Churchillianism.
Doesn’t hurt to heed it.
Read that one more time numbnutz. This time for comprehension.
mUnty is very chipper today. Must have picked up some extra income filling out Biden ballots ahead of the election. It will be a global job this time around.
Maurice Newman & Janet Albrechtsen certainly couldn’t make headway in that regard.
In the meantime, the only consolation is that fewer and fewer people watch or listen to it. As a result, the ABC’s grand strategy for survival is to become a digital platform, which I predict will fail miserably. The End.
Completely staff captured. A deliberate process that commenced in the 1970s.
ALPBC radio is shedding listeners like a sinking ship’s rats. Entirely personnel and content driven. Radio operating environment hasn’t changed since the introduction of FM.
More likely that AnAl has not yet given up on the Republic as an election winner?
A bit like Bob Hawke, who when he was wearing his was still shorter than John Howard?
It was never Ita’s job to turn the ABC into a mountain of skulls. If they merely returned to professionalism as journalists that would have been an enormous improvement.
A CEO’s job (unless Jack Welch) includes an internal and an external role. The external role is to represent the organisation for its good. Whether promoting, getting funding, getting feedback to improve its mission…
Even if trying to turn the culture around, showing the outside world what she was trying to do internally might trigger the worst of the staff to go scorched earth against that cultural improvement.
Judging by what I see of the ABC’s semi-print articles, it is not worse than it was 20 years ago.
But only Rabz has the key to proper reform of the ABC.
The Liars love their mythology.
Amusing to see Fat Boy Fascist squawking about de Santis’ height. Rich coming from someone who seems to be wider than he is high.
Or doing the software for the voting machines. He’s good at coding.
Breaking: Professor and Election Expert J. Halderman Hacks into Dominion Voting Machine Tabulator in Court on Friday in Georgia in front of Judge Totenberg Using Only A Pen To Change Vote Totals (21 Jan)
I wonder whether that opinion would be widely held. Most people would put the real decline from the 70s and 80s I suspect.
You’re not seeing enough then.
Not that I would recommend it.
The newer generation of “journalists” not only come pre-programmed with woke bias but they are profoundly ignorant on account of 15 years of miseducation.
It was interesting at the time when Jonathan Shier was given the Trump treatment ‘way back in 2000. It wasn’t so apparent back then how captured the ABC was, but in hindsight it clearly already was a Stalinist hellhole.
On the subject of an indigenous GG, AnAl’s priority will be the same as Keating’s when he appointed Sir William Deane. To have a GG who will restrain any non-Liars government after the next election.
Anecdotal for sure, I have a friend who worked for ALPBC legal in the 1990s. She is possibly even more anti the place than me. I try not to get her started.
This newer generation are actually activists. Not journalists. Activist scribes pushing out propaganda for the Woke Leftist Agenda (WLA).