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Surely he does not want to own “stolen land”?!
@roaming_rn Steven Kuhn explains the Ukraine proxy war better than anyone I’ve heard; and his wife is Ukranian. Well worth…
@BreannaMorello Wow!Mexico suddenly knows how to stop migrant caravans from coming to the United States.I wonder what’s changed…
made up word alert
wait
what the actual?
Howdy doo!
Australian Open 2024: PM Anthony Albanese booed during presentation ceremony as Sinner clinches title (WATCH)
Amidst the jubilation of Jannik Sinner’s Australian Open 2024 triumph, the unexpected reaction towards Prime Minister Anthony Albanese highlights the underlying discontent simmering within the Australian community.
Jannik Sinner made history at the Australian Open 2024 Men’s singles final, orchestrating a stunning comeback against Daniil Medvedev to claim the coveted trophy with a 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 win on Sunday.
However, amidst the celebratory atmosphere of the ceremony, a peculiar moment unfolded as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was greeted with a chorus of boos from the stadium crowd—an unprecedented reaction that underscored a broader sentiment echoing across the nation.
However, amidst the jubilation of Sinner’s triumph, the unexpected reaction towards Prime Minister Anthony Albanese highlights the underlying discontent simmering within the Australian community. The resounding chorus of boos serves as a poignant reminder of the prevailing social and political tensions gripping the nation—a stark contrast to the euphoria witnessed on the tennis courts.
“Useless man”- Australian Prime Minister brutally booed at the Australian Open as Jannik Sinner defeats Daniil Medvedev in the finals
Australian PM Anthony Albanese left red faced by the crowd during the trophy ceremony of the 2024 Australian Open finals won by Jannik Sinner.
By Sarthak Shitole
Updated January 28, 2024 / 13:13 GMT
As the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was announced in the list of dignitaries present, the crowd at Rod Laver Arena started a massive wave of booing.
The politician and tournament organizers were left red-faced as they were in no position to control the crowd. The presenter had no chance but to wait for the crowd to get silent before he could start speaking again and continue with the ceremony.
Lucia
@MyWildLove1
Love that our Prime Minister received an enormous prolonged “boo” from the crowd at Melbourne Park tonight!
Useless man!
Australian Prime Minister booed after Jannik Sinner defeats Daniil Medvedev in the final
Australia Prime Minster Anthony Albanese was jeered by the Grand Slam crowd after Jannik Sinner’s win.
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was roundly booed by the Australian Open crowd during the ceremony after Jannik Sinner dramatically defeated Daniil Medvedev. The Italian came from two sets down to claim a momentous victory, before Albanese was jeered.
Master of Ceremonies Todd Woodbridge read out a list of names of influential attendees the Major, including Albanese, though his name was the only one booed by the crowd.
Over 15,000 supporters were in attendance and created an awkward environment as Woodbridge was forced to pause his speech before handing over to Medvedev and Sinner.
An initial boo was raised when Albanese was mentioned by Woodbridge, before a chorus rained down and drowned out the ceremony’s host who waited to continue.
Albo should count himself lucky – I remember Gough Whitlam in Forrest Place, in the 1970’s, calling a meeting of farmers “Lazy bludgers, who had never had it so good” and copping the results…
Well done the tennis crowd.
Harlequin Decline posted link to NIAA grants.
Definitely worth an audit. I would target some of the tourist type ones to see if a viable business.
There were quite a few $1,000 for morning teas. You get a lot of tea bags and biscuits for that.
The two biggest grants I could find were for Native Title services in SE Qld and Broome at $39m and 34m. I think they might be for land claim work so basically to take away land from the majority. Am thinking the SE Qld might relate to Redlands land claims case.
It’s derivative and dialectic, Trans. Run with it and stop worrying.
Sydney Moaning Hemorrhoid.
JC,
stfu you stupid mole
Hegelian even.
Booing of PM top story at Daily Mail.
Today I found out a couple of things.
Livorno was the birthplace of the Italian communist party on 21 January 1921 and a couple of people here think that that is an anniversary worth commemorating, they laid wreaths at the site where a hammer and sickle flag still flies.
Also don’t walk all the way to the ferry ticket office to buy a ticket at that particular day’s departure time, that ship has sailed.
Did my cultural homework; a Da Vinci exhibition, in the dark, now it’s time to finish another paperback that doesn’t need to go home to Australia.
Check out this blokes skills with the gun.
Also, great pilots.
Shooting Northern Australia’s coastal plains- a conservation and land management initiative.
speaking of da Vinci
Some of the work by Da Vinci on display were drawings for citadels, the Duomo in Florence, the pope’s residence in Rome.
I suspect he was a secret Tartarian.
As were a large number of people living in Livorno; with so many magnificent churches, palazzos, canals, banks, harbours, fortifications etc how could have
mere people, and Italians at that, have built them?
I now understand why those Moira-Deeming-adjacent Victorian blokes were shouted a trip to Sydney.
It is sad to see and hear an Australian Prime Minister being booed at the tennis. Not!
At the tennis FFS! Just imagine the noise if he turned up at the G after Collingwood won.
The dealer’s missus has got the sharpening steel out of the cupboard.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight classic.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks again Tom. Leak is so good – Bill would be proud.
Speaking of the Wong chap. The $21.5M given to Hamas to buy weapons from Iran could have been gifted to Australian families – cost of living etc…..
Meanwhile, it scratches its nuts
Knuckle Dragger overnight:
Superb. Well done.
Reading the Hun, there was suggestion a sledge was used as motivation for the Windies magnificent win yesterday. Didn’t have it in the article so a quick search brings me this
Braithwaite in response:
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Andrew Bolt:
Peszzulo eh? another rancid bastard – this story about Steve Barrett has been percolating through the system — thanks Chris Mitchell – in the Oz:
To wake up and see that the lying grub from Graydler was booed heartily at the tennis last night, I have only one word……..nice.
Today’s Tele:
Tim Blair: How a Dr Matt Taylor’s loud shirt created momentum for woken swarms
Ten years ago, a loud shirt set a pattern in which it served as an instructive guide for woken swarms for years to follow, writes Tim Blair.
Tim Blair
29 Jan 2024
This year marks the 10th anniversary of a momentous scientific achievement. It also marks the 10th anniversary of a politically correct scolding so powerful that it set a pattern for years to follow.
In late 2014 a European Space Agency team 4. Given the comet in question was a mere four square kilometre speck hurtling through space at 135,000km/h this was something worth celebrating.
Just by-the-by, men are especially prone to rejoicing over target accomplishments. We also deeply despair if those accomplishments are not observed by others.
Men will desperately scan an office for impressed witnesses after, for example, casually tossing a scrunched-up ball of paper into a bin five metres away.
Dr Matt Taylor wearing the shirt in question.
Two rules of office life: there are never any witnesses and a triumphant throw is impossible to replicate if anyone is watching.
But the European Space Agency isn’t exactly your typical office environment so its comet probe bid had no shortage of onlookers. In terms of verification, an abundance of cameras was obviously a good thing.
In terms of the ESA’s mission project scientist Matt Taylor, however, it turned out to be a very bad thing indeed – despite his very best intentions.
Realising that international media attention would fall upon him as the comet landing was confirmed, Taylor decided to use the moment as a promotion for his friend’s little online shirt business.
Dr Matthew Taylor British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency in another loud shirt.
But the shirt he selected was covered in images of – gasp! – cartoonishly exaggerated images of scantily-clad women.
At this point the rules become unclear. In certain circumstances real-life women in such clothing are celebrated as exemplars of female empowerment. In Taylor’s case, though, he was immediately demonised as a sexist brute.
His friend who designed and sold the shirt, Elly Prizeman, happens to be female. This didn’t calm the critics, whose social media shrieking was even joined by some of Taylor’s fellow scientists.
Victory to the haters was declared when Taylor tearfully apologised for wearing his friend’s colourful gear.
“I made a big mistake,” the British space wizard told a media conference.
“I offended many people and I am very sorry about this.”
Artists impression shows The European Space Agency’s billion-euro Rosetta spacecraft caught up with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko more than 400m km from Earth as it streaked towards the sun at around 55,000km per hour.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of a momentous scientific achievement. It also marks the 10th anniversary of a politically correct scolding so powerful that it set a pattern for years to follow.
In late 2014 a European Space Agency team 4. Given the comet in question was a mere four square kilometre speck hurtling through space at 135,000km/h this was something worth celebrating.
Just by-the-by, men are especially prone to rejoicing over target accomplishments. We also deeply despair if those accomplishments are not observed by others.
Men will desperately scan an office for impressed witnesses after, for example, casually tossing a scrunched-up ball of paper into a bin five metres away.
Dr Matt Taylor wearing the shirt in question.
Dr Matt Taylor wearing the shirt in question.
Two rules of office life: there are never any witnesses and a triumphant throw is impossible to replicate if anyone is watching.
But the European Space Agency isn’t exactly your typical office environment so its comet probe bid had no shortage of onlookers. In terms of verification, an abundance of cameras was obviously a good thing.
In terms of the ESA’s mission project scientist Matt Taylor, however, it turned out to be a very bad thing indeed – despite his very best intentions.
Realising that international media attention would fall upon him as the comet landing was confirmed, Taylor decided to use the moment as a promotion for his friend’s little online shirt business.
Dr Matthew Taylor British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency in another loud shirt.
Dr Matthew Taylor British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency in another loud shirt.
But the shirt he selected was covered in images of – gasp! – cartoonishly exaggerated images of scantily-clad women.
At this point the rules become unclear. In certain circumstances real-life women in such clothing are celebrated as exemplars of female empowerment. In Taylor’s case, though, he was immediately demonised as a sexist brute.
His friend who designed and sold the shirt, Elly Prizeman, happens to be female. This didn’t calm the critics, whose social media shrieking was even joined by some of Taylor’s fellow scientists.
Victory to the haters was declared when Taylor tearfully apologised for wearing his friend’s colourful gear.
“I made a big mistake,” the British space wizard told a media conference.
“I offended many people and I am very sorry about this.”
Artists impression shows The European Space Agency’s billion-euro Rosetta spacecraft caught up with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko more than 400m km from Earth as it streaked towards the sun at around 55,000km per hour.
Artists impression shows The European Space Agency’s billion-euro Rosetta spacecraft caught up with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko more than 400m km from Earth as it streaked towards the sun at around 55,000km per hour.
Then London mayor Boris Johnson, prior to becoming a pointlessly woke and green British Prime Minister, justifiably slammed Taylor’s tormentors.
“It was like something from the show trials of Stalin, or from the sobbing testimony of the enemies of Kim Il-sung before they were taken away and shot,” Johnson wrote of Taylor’s televised apology.
“It was like a scene from Mao’s cultural revolution when weeping intellectuals were forced to confess their crimes against the people.”
If only that Boris had occupied 10 Downing St instead of the soft, sooky version Britain copped in his place.
“He is a space scientist with a fine collection of tattoos,” better Boris continued, “and if you are an extroverted space scientist that is the kind of shirt that you are allowed to wear.”
Good call. The matter really should have ended there, with those who’d piled on against Taylor feeling more than slightly embarrassed for their pack-protected bullying.
Instead, as every year has since shown, the torment of Matt Taylor serves as an instructive guide for woken swarms.
They don’t merely aim to take down political or social enemies. They’ll happily take down some bloke of whom they’ve never previously heard merely for a fashion violation – merely, in Taylor’s telling example, for dressing like a 1980s hair metal album cover.
We’ve seen so many people since be smashed by online stormtroopers who in almost every case are only pretending to be upset.
This fakery became obvious following another 2014 pile-on featuring gentle, peaceful me.
Manners police from the ABC and the then-Fairfax papers joined forces with screaming social media misfits after I’d compiled a list of Australia’s top 10 feminist frightbats.
The sisters weren’t happy – or at least so they claimed. For a good few days their woke collective did everything they could to force an apology or get me fired.
They got nothing. And here’s the thing: exactly one year later I presented another top 10 frightbat list. If my first anti-woke violation was unforgivable, surely a second would see me out the door.
Instead there was total social media silence. Silence in the traditional media, too. Their pretend panic hadn’t worked the first time and they had no fight left for a follow-up.
The old fake it ’til you make it just didn’t kick in. Nice try, though.
The lesson here for anyone who finds themselves in a leftist-driven social media storm is that the storm isn’t real. Pay it no mind and it evaporates.
This also applies to the employers of those targeted by woke activists. Don’t surrender to dumb noise. Hold your ground and stand by your people. Dig in and defeat dishonesty.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got an important costume selection to make for this week’s Sky News appearance with Chris Kenny.
A certain colourful shirt beckons.
Tim Blair
Journalist
Dutton now calls for a ban on councils banning Australia Day citizenship ceremonies.
Good.
Put them all into administration until further notice.
Has to be done by a state government I think.
But how frightening for crowds here to be inspired by a terrorist-led war against a democracy like Israel, and to think it’s the same war here.
Violence is coming.
I agree with Bolt. We should all be very worried about the scenes from Friday, and I’m not engaging in hyperbole when I write that, nor is Bolt above.
Seeing protests filled with Palestinian flags is chilling. But one thing I’m sure of and it is this, Palestinian and leftist scum don’t give a rat’s arse about Aboriginals but they will use them as a front and as a conduit to push their pure Jew hatred and their hatred of everything Australia stands for.
How’s that ‘soshul’ cohesion going, Sleazy?
But don’t worry, Pretty Boy Premier Minns and his NSWaffen are onto it, swooping on a group of non-violent idiotic men clad in black wearing masks on a train at North Sydney. And did I miss something? I’m not aware those men had committed any crime? Meanwhile, no one has been charged over the ‘incident’ at the Sydney Opera House on Monday night 9 October 2023. Seemingly, it’s now okay to screech “gas the Jews” on Sydney’s streets and nothing will happen, as long as your Muslim and/or from the left. Oh and I note that Pretty Boy Premier Minns is adamant about naming and shaming those men from the train at North Sydney on Friday. Fair enough, but if their pictures are going to be plastered on the front page of the SMH and Daily Telegraph, I want the pictures of those from the Opera House incident plastered on the front page of the SMH and Daily Telegraph, two of whom, I will remind readers here, have close ties to the ALP, …one being a staffer of Plibersek named ‘Will Simmons’ and the other being a son of a Minns’ Minister.
LOL. Except it isn’t funny, is it?
Bolt is right, violence is coming, violence is inevitable.
Good morning Cassie! Funny – husband and I just saying the same thing. Why this panic about the idiots wearing black & masks on the train? What exactly did they do? People wear masks on NYE – has it now become a crime?
Re Bolt’s warning about violence: there is a clear darkness descending – you see it in the rise in violent home robberies & the rise in shootings. My view is that it is partly a consequence of the pandemic when the nation was deprived of its liberty and became virtually a police state for a considerable time. It was, I think, an indelible experience. When kids start refusing to attend school – as is currently happening – something is amiss. We reap what we sow.
I remember that “loud” shirt and the discussion here.
The cloth was from a range printed by one of the big fabric houses (Kaufman, from memory) in their pin up girl range. They also did a male one featuring muscly firemen or tradies. It was all in good fun, and many…many crafters made them in garments or domestic items like ironing board covers. Or amusing quilts for college boys and girls.
Then along came the frightbats and just about all designs were pulled. A company in Boulder Colorado used to carry an extensive range under its “Hunks and Pinups” section. No more.
Yet it sold well. This is how the austere and noisy minority influences perfectly harmless little pleasures, even down to what materials you’re “allowed” to sew with.
Didn’t he say he was looking at banning the Nazi salute?
This will have police salivating when they think about sitting at the side of the road and issuing fine after fine to people haling a taxi from the kerb.
Paywallion:
<a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/what-richard-iii-and-dan-andrews-have-in-common/news-story/5d07cddd9c4e0e809769514b29be5f8f”>What Richard III and Dan Andrews have in common
JOHN CARROLL
28 Jan 2024
One of the major political events of 2023 was the departure of Daniel Andrews as Victorian premier. He was a phenomenon the like of which has not been seen in Australian politics. Even his life after politics continues to gain national attention.
“Now is the winter of our discontent,” runs the famous opening line of Shakespeare’s King Richard III. In Victoria, we might parrot, now is the summer of our discontent.
My instinctive association, in searching round for precedents in order to make sense of the public man, was surprising even to myself – Shakespeare’s Richard III. On the surface, a most unlikely fit: a hunchback king who ruled for little over two years before being killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
Richard was a master political operator, towering over his peers in manipulative cunning. Outsmarting them all, he was a barefaced hypocrite, plotting and cheating his way to power, scheming with duplicitous promises and denials. A powerful authoritarian with no conscience until the end, he strongarms those who resist him, intimidating them into silence. His ferocity leaves listeners helpless. He has no compunction in having anyone who stands in his way, or crosses him, including child princes, murdered.
King Richard III is Shakespeare’s second-longest play, after Hamlet. Most striking is the fact that Richard is almost always on stage, and he speaks a third of the lines. This is singularly Richard’s play. He is a vile monster, yet, as critic Harold Bloom puts it, he converses with the audience, wooing it with outrageous charm. He almost makes the false more attractive than the true or the virtuous.
Richard strides the stage, a Machiavellian colossus who is, at the same time, solitary and alone. He reflects just before the end: What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Richard’s genius is for conniving his pathway to power. He has no talent for ruling – in fact, once in power he loses all practical sense and tactical nous. He leaves wall-to-wall disaster behind, crying out as his last words, the repeated refrain: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
King Richard III
Daniel Andrews spent nine years bending the state to his will, not to mention lording it menacingly over his cowering, intimidated underlings in the Labor Party. He was master of obsessive control over self and others, yet, on occasion, an arrogant swagger could be glimpsed, and a self-satisfied smirk. Like Richard, his was a virtuoso act in gaining power for himself, yet he showed a reckless lack of prudence in how he used it. The mock title “Dictator Dan” seems strangely apposite the more that is revealed about his rule.
King Henry VII had a much easier task of cleaning up after Richard’s chaotic reign than will be the case in Victoria. The state’s financial reputation is shot; its debt will take at least a generation to clear, soon rising to an incredible quarter of the whole economy, and equal to that of NSW, Queensland and Tasmania combined. The state’s roads, city and country, are riddled with potholes. Andrews’ favoured union, the thuggish CFMEU, dominates building sites across Melbourne – a decent Labor government, but a distant memory, that of John Cain, fought the building union’s predecessor, the corrupt BLF. CFMEU members were allowed to work during lockdown while schools and children’s playgrounds were closed, aggravating the spreading contagion of teenage mental distress.
Energy supply is in a shambles, after poor planning for medium-term electricity generation, and the premier having condemned citizens to double the price for gas, and more, that they should be paying – given vast untapped reserves in Gippsland, which he refuses to open up, for ideological reasons. Victorian households are atypically gas-dependent, having been encouraged in that direction by decades of cheap gas.
In politics, good fortune is a necessary accompaniment to individual will. The door was opened for Richard with the untimely death of King Edward IV. The times, likewise, suited Daniel Andrews. He came into office after a period of dithering, paralysed Coalition government, with him projecting the contrasting image of a strong, can-do leader. The issue at the time was railway level crossings, which he set about removing. He always exuded energy and determination.
The second ace Andrews was dealt by fortune was Covid. In the early days, horror imagery from hospitals in northern Italy and rows of coffins lining the streets in Brooklyn, New York, had the population in terror, and uniquely receptive to an authoritative premier, who addressed them eloquently day after day, for months on end, in clear, calm and decisive reports, with just the right amount of gravity.
The details of hospital quarantine bungling and excessive lockdowns were masked by the soothing sense that a strong leader was in control. A counter to rampaging anxiety is the masochistic defence, which the Victorian population slipped into, of seeking punishment in order to feel better.
Normal democratic practice was scorned. The premier’s ruthless control of messaging ranged from switching off the checks of cabinet, party room and parliament to refusing to be interviewed on radio – notably by Neil Mitchell on 3AW, the voice of commonsense, balanced and intelligent Victoria. In his fading days, the premier even extended his ban to usually sympathetic ABC radio. Thereby, he cavalierly shrugged off a sequence of corruption scandals. “I am I” caught the tone of this self-confessedly thick-skinned character.
What of the aftermath? My sense is that his rule has left a sour taste in the mouths of Victorians. In a cruel association with the crookback king, Andrews broke his back in a freak holiday accident that forced him to take 100 days off. The horse he might have traded for his kingdom was a portfolio of achievement – like the genuine one left by his successful, can-do predecessor, and true nemesis, Jeff Kennett. But praise in the history books, like Richard’s horse, will almost certainly elude Dan Andrews.
With civic unease about his legacy, he left the stage a dark, glowering figure, ranting foul-mouthed abuse at his party room, before sliding away into the shadows of oblivion. He may well be remembered as the worst Victorian premier since 1945.
John Carroll is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at La Trobe University.
I think I should have payed more attention to English in High School.
Cut of the money
Bother. I’ll have to stop wearing black blouses together with black pants.
I don’t want to infringe on the police force’s sartorial choices.
Seems they’re a bit sensitive about it.
Fog.
Fog in the Mongyang CBD this morning, and 18 degrees. This bastard global boiling will kill us all.
Yesterday evening and this morning – nowhere near the number of derros on city streets than in either Perth or Brisbane, although to be fair I haven’t yet had to go down to the Elizabeth and Flinders Street intersection.
I clearly remember the city being packed out and about 110 decibels at this time of day, especially on a Monday. Not so, and nowhere near it today – all that communism seems to be really kicking in.
Poor old Tennis Albo. He couldn’t have organised such an event if he’d tried where almost the entire crowd would be people he’d just dudded with his tax changes. Couldn’t keep away though, could he. I bet he battled the urge to have an ice cream this time too…
Mother Lode
Jan 29, 2024 7:31 AM
Didn’t he say he was looking at banning the Nazi salute?
This will have police salivating when they think about sitting at the side of the road and issuing fine after fine to people haling a taxi from the kerb.
Hailing a cab:
Allo Allo
The Tim Blair article seems to have a bit missing, and it’s an important one. Probably a cut and paste error.
The great achievement was that the Rosetta spacecraft caught, orbited and landed a module on a comet travelling at 55,000kms per hour, eventually landing the spacecraft on it as well. Per Wiki:
It was an awesome achievement, and trashing one of the main achievers was off the charts in terms of petty jealousy and spite.
It reminds me of the midgets who go around vandalising tributes to Captain James Cook, a giant among men of any era in human history. They are not fit to lick the boots of Cook’s bootblack.
well, John Carroll may be a Professor Emeritus of Sociology
but I beat him to the punchline with “my kingdom for a slug”
Steve trickler 28/1 @ 2:06
Thanks Steve – unreal shooting, amazing.
Interesting article on the left hand side, Russia could be loosing Kalingrad.
This would be amazing, the map of Europe could be retuning to what it was at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Prussia could exist or it may join Lithuania.
I can’t see it joining Poland.
Strap in and strap it on, ladies and gents.
The picture wireless informs me MAFS is back tonight.
Someone please provide updates, as doubtless I will be busy at whatever time that may be.
johanna
Jan 29, 2024 7:55 AM
The Tim Blair article seems to have a bit missing, and it’s an important one. Probably a cut and paste error.
Grrr…
Curses Johanna.
Thank you for picking that up.
I’m more and more convinced that Friday’s swooping on ‘Neo Nazis’ was a NSWaffen photo op.
Much, much easier to swoop on them than the REAL Nazis congregating down at Belmore Park near Central with their Palli Nazi flags.
Err
Reposted on current forum:
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This childish, anti civilisational idiocy makes me committed to fossil fuels.
If there was a consequence to this boorish vandalism (of the goddamned Mona Lisa, mind you), it would stop.
It also makes me want a wood stove, wood fire BBQ, pizza oven etc.
The shirt was celebrating the female form and so was he. And that is the genesis of his faux pas.
First, the women were attractive, but strong empopwered women as selected to be showcased in the media rarely are. Their unpleasant bitter characters begin to leave their stamp their bodies. Look at what they put in movies where they can start by choosing the woman and then add a multi-million dollar wardrobe department and CGI unit. The latest from the MCU is called ‘Echo’, and it has already flopped.
Second, men are not meant to be pleased by or enjoy the female form. The proper response from a man is humiliation and despair that such a woman is beyond them, hates them, and there is nothing they can do about it. There must be no hope. What men are meant to do is spend their energy in a state of eternal penitence, atoning for their very existance by being utterly subservient to women, immediately giving up their place in a profession if a woman comes along and wants it instead, and unprotestingly accept being the butt of countless jibes and jokes as bereft of wit as their authors.
If he had worn the shirt and looked miserable, and the back of the shirt showed exposed skin that had been repeatedly lacerated by self-flagellation.
That would not make him a hero, but would establish the standard for other men.
I wonder how long before the lying grub from Graydler and his comrades spruik the line that those booing him at the tennis last night were “far-right”?
To you all you Italians out there, don’t get too excited, Sinner is a Cherman:
He is over 6 foot
He has long clean legs, not those stumpy legs with big pores and knarly black hairs growing out of them
He’s a wrannga
That gap in between his teeth
He speaks English like a Cherman
He is disciplined
Just like Eric Schwatzer, the gold medalist in walking – he is one of ours.
MAFS
A brilliantly subtle critique of progressive feminism.
There’s actually some AI “porn” besmirching Taylor Swift and Oscar the Grouch.
Now, why would the US regime care? They actually do care, as completely as memes like this are.
As silly as it is, it is being described as “non consensual acts” (it isn’t, silly as it is to analyse), but they care because it trivialises her.
She’s a regime ally and an asset – a biological propaganda missile to be precise.
Normally, it’s just slander, out of the purview of the White House.
Tim Blair at his brilliant best:
Many thanks for liberating it from the paywall, Beertruk.
My married friends showed me MAFS and it broke me. They nearly had to get me on the change table TBH.
Albo being booed at the tennis (ha ha ha)
I’ll bet some marketing types in the PM’s office are hard at work today.
Wasn’t the tax cut misdirection hand waving thing meant to have the opposite effect?
Do they think the voters are that stupid?
(A rhetorical question, one that requires no answer)
Jihad Dib’s son?
Watched Oz – Indonesia fitba last night .. 4-nil win to Oz but .. oh dear! .. they do not inspire confidence! .. never really looked in control, very little in attack ( coupla very late goals makes the scoreline look a lot better than the performance) and a so-so defensive effort .. a win’s a win but next up is either South Korea or Saudi Arabia .. both several skill set levels above Indonesia ………
I can understand why the Israelis are loathe to use poison gas in these tunnels but I think if these terrorists wish to locate within them then constant blasts of at least CO2 should be regularly used to foul the air and foul terrorist ambitions.
Chose to stay in tunnels and fight rather than above ground, take the consequences, in my book.
‘Sinner is a Cherman’
Germany should have become Western Poland in 1945.
I doubt they could have made it back to Melbourne so quickly after their performance in North Sydney on Australia Day. It takes a while to perfect a choreography.
Notice how the neo-Nazis are not from the tradie professions, not a single tattoo in sight when they take off their all-over-black uniform.
Not using gas because biological weapons are banned?
That would only have given even more of Europe to Stalin though the other side effect would have hit the elites much harder, no Mercedes or Porches for them.
Perils of retirement – forget that it’s Monday, so the weekend thread’s ended.
Thus JMH’s lamentable attempt at condescension has been suitably dismissed at the end of the auld fred. What was raised there is best replied there as a warning not to mess with me in future. This is such a nice new thread.
Roger Franklin at Quadrant has a go at the local MSM for the way they “filter”, omit and slant their reporting of Trump in this election year – and it has been going on for years.
It could have been a much longer article and he wouldn’t run out of material, ever.
Every day the front page of MSNBC’s internet roundup has some egregious examples from some mob called Raw Story. Nothing from Gateway Pundit, American Thinker, Instapundit or even the rather weaker Powerline.
Sky News during the day is similarly anti-Trump.
Possibly. Also because of the industrial killing of Jews with gas in the camps.
Sealing off tunnels has been used to good effect though.
I think the strategy of going for the leadership and letting the thought of being sealed in sink in to the leaderless is the right one. Quite a few seem to have come out of tunnels hands up at the thought of entombing.
Eventually, perhaps, someonre elsemay notice that all these dictates from the usual suspects, churnalists, pollie-muppets, pubic serpents, slabs of the judiciary, wankerdemics are designed as PROVOCATION.
It is a none-too-subtle riff on the old Mao strategt:
“Let a million flowers bloom”.
Once the “flowers bloomed” they were ruthlessly scythed down.
The local (actually global 21st Century twist is to PROVOKE outrage to the point of: “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore>”
Then the usual suspects will get professionally outraged and unleash the “full majesty” of the LAW on mostly bewildered folk.
Rinse (the blood) and repeat, ad nauseum.
Yet, none dare call such actions, TREASON?
Once again: The men (and womwn) who just wanted to be left alone:
The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of “Men who wanted to be left Alone”.
They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know, that the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the “Men who wanted to be left Alone” are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. . . .
Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these “Men who wanted to be left Alone”, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy . . . . but it will fall upon deaf ears.
Actual origin: uncertain.
The entire point of the provocations is to drive REAL people to seemingly irrational behaviour. Then the “show boaters” will strike down the aggrieved as if they were the vilest demons; even though that title belongs exclusively to those wielding the provocations.
One final point:
“Experience and cunning usually beats “youth” and enthusiasm.. Ultimately, population “right-sizing” is a major goal. Work it out, SOON.
Jacqui Lambie on Sky confirming she is a dribbling idiot.
Many thanks for liberating it from the paywall, Beertruk.
No worries Tom.
Tim Blair is the main reason I have the subscription to the Tele.
James Morrow and Peta Credlin write a lot of good stuff as well.
Over at the Paywallion, it’s The Mocker, Gerald Henderson, Janet Albrechtsen, Nick Cater and one or two others.
Word walls appear to be back in fashion.
They tried TrEason! on Tim Blair and his frightbat column, and TheY! were ignored.
That’s how to do it.
Funny how the police are so ready to, as their PR loves to put it, swoop down upon neo-Nazis for what they are going to do.
The did not swoop on what the weird-beard anti-semites calling for blood and violence on 8th October, nor spoken of applying the same strategies to manage them, or dealing with the incendiary sermons being sprayed over congregations in mosques.
The neo-Nazis may be the real deal – but I personally doubt it. Perhaps they are a group of unhappy people trying to create the illusion of meaning in their lives and all the good stuff has already been claimed by people who really have meaning. Or, perhaps, they are a troupe of actors playing street theatre at the behest of the government.
But it seems clear now that the NSW police will focus on this little group whom they seem to perceive as controllable and use them to create scenes of effective management of anti-social elements. This will be all the more important as their is a vastly larger group whom the police cannot (or refuses to even try to) control. They are the actual risk to society but the police are hoping to manage the optics.
We have had marauding muzzies outing themselves for decades desperate to be seen (and to intimidate), we have had the Invasion Day comic opera for decades marching, screeching, grafitting, more marching, accusing the rest of us of genocide and rape and whatnot. The more they can crowd the papers and TV screens the more they pleased – well, what passes for being pleased in their dank little heats.
But the neo-Nazis seem to have materialised out of thin air. Muslims and Black Nationalists should draw neo-Nazis in like flies to honey, yet they have been absent all this time.
Timing really does seem the key.
It may not be inevitable, but what’s certain is the exterminationists
wouldn’t be the ones ending up smooth-gummed
in the back of a Divvy van or receiving an exemplary sentence
for threatening soshul cohesion.
Launched in 2004, Raw Story bills itself as a progressive website, which now means it exists solely as an attack dog for the Democratic Party. The zombies at Microsoft use it to serve up a constant stream of invective against Donald Trump and the GOP.
It’s one gotcha after another and quite comical in its single-mindedness as one the DNC’s media ferals.
I have to put up with Raw Story as I use the Microsoft Edge browser. It’s a fascination for me that internet coders are almost uniformly autistic, anti-social and therefore leftwing. It’s a strange little bubble.
Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit
@drawandstrike
I keep telling you some popular talking heads out there have no idea at all what’s happening.
They’re in denial. Trapped in a bubble of their own making.
They’ve spent months exhorting the base to abandon Trump, that his supposed wide popular support is a media mirage.
And that this idea blacks are moving to Trump is not just wrong, it’s stupid.
They literally can’t see what’s coming.
BUT ITS OK.
Since these are the same people who insist Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square to Joe Biden because he ran a lousy campaign and Kari Lake is a delusional loser who got legitimately wiped out by Katie Hobbs.
Perhaps…just a thought!…some should stop listening to these people?
Biden is planning to throttle Israel’s arms supply as fury grows against Netanyahu’s bombing campaign in Gaza
Carpe Donktum
@CarpeDonktum
Nike Haley believes that Trump raped a woman, whom he never met, while she was wearing a dress that hadn’t been designed yet, in a public dressing room, without anyone noticing. And she said this on national television.
Holy cr*p.
Nikki Haley: ‘I Absolutely Trust the Jury’ in E. Jean Carroll’s Defamation Case Against Trump
WITH CAPITALS!
Humiliation: Not a Single SNL Writer Knows What ‘De-Banking’ Is — Weekend Update Mocks Trump’s Vow to Fight It
Good
‘Fake News’: Trump Campaign Bashes Fox News for False Report About RFK Jr. as Running Mate, Says Never Will Happen
My really bad mood swings turned out to be early-onset dementia
Trump says he should be held responsible if the bipartisan border security deal fails: ‘Please blame it on me’
… autistic, anti-social and therefore leftwing
For a moment there, I thought I finally won a trifecta.
Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
The illusion of concensus in science is created by institutions and governments threatening the livelihood of dissident scientists. Compared to contemporary American science, Lysenko and the Soviet Union were amateurs at this tactic. We don’t even need a gulag.
TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2
NBC Four years apart
They did it the playground, they do it on social media. We occasionally see it here as a form of trolling. It’s learned behaviour.
KASSAM: The Trump-Carroll Case is Blatantly the Greatest Miscarriage of Justice in Modern American History.
The awarding of nearly $90 million to the second-rate advice columnist E. Jean Carroll will doubtless be remembered for generations as the greatest miscarriage of justice in contemporary American history.
Jean Carroll’s case was not just ludicrous on the face of it, but between the judge, the “experts” who testified, and the mechanisms by which the case even came to be, it’s impossible for any ordinary person in the West to see this as anything more than the continuation of a series of hoaxes perpetrated on former President Donald J. Trump with the desire to keep him from re-entering the Oval Office in January 2025.
THE ‘RAPE’.
During the latest episode of this trial, Carroll admitted she wasn’t doing very well financially and needed to find a way to sell more books.
The testimony appears to be the basis for the very first claim she ever made, in New York magazine’s The Cut, in the summer of 2019.Far from a compelling claim, the 80-year-old writer initially laid out the story that her supposed rape occurred either in 1994, before altering the day to be “in the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996.”
She couldn’t remember the specifics.
What she did remember was that she was wearing a “Donna Karan coatdress and high heels but not a coat.” She later refused to produce said coat for DNA testing despite admitting to still owning it, describing it as “unworn and unlaundered since that evening.”
It later came to light that the coatdress was not made in 1994 or 1995.
It didn’t matter to Carroll, who has accused multiple men of sexually assaulting or raping her throughout her life, including a babysitter’s boyfriend, a dentist, a camp counselor, an unnamed college date, an unnamed boss, and CBS chief executive Les Moonves.
Carroll also appeared to remember specifics such as the emptiness of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the early evening – a detail she called “inconceivable” – as well as admitting that it was her who wanted to sexually harrass Trump originally because she wanted a “funny story to tell” about getting the then-infamous New York City developer to put on women’s lingerie.
Upon voluntarily entering a dressing room which she claims would “usually [be] locked until a client wants to try something on,” she claims Trump “unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.
”After apparently struggling free, she says, “I don’t remember if any person or attendant is now in the lingerie department.
I don’t remember if I run for the elevator or if I take the slow ride down on the escalator.
As soon as I land on the main floor, I run through the store and out the door — I don’t recall which door — and find myself outside on Fifth Avenue.”The story itself beggars belief.
If a celebrity had tried to rape me in a public place, I think the first thing I might have done was tell someone.
In the words of her own friends, E. Jean Carroll is an “attention-seeker.”
It is already difficult to imagine such a scenario unfolding without immediate consequences for the assailant, let alone when the victim is a nationally published attention-seeker.
LAW & ORDER.
But even if your sympathies still lay with Carroll, consider this. Carroll – a self-declared Law and Order TV show fan – first made her allegations against Trump in a 2019 book, just a few years after an episode of the show saw characters discuss a role-played rape in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.
– ‘RAPE IS SEXY’.
– CONWAY, JONG-FAST, EPSTEIN, HALEY, HOFFMAN.
– THE EXPERT.
I’ll add a rider to that. Some of the “real” people that are being provoked may be perilous in other ways. They may have deep seated psychological problems that are brought out in unhinged ways.
Something we see from time to time.
The government declared me (and many of us here) to be second class citizens this last few years, and more than 90% of my friends, relatives, work colleagues and ‘fellow Australians’ went along with it. I now know what it feels like to not feel part of Australia. I have not been to an Anzac ceremony since, and certainly won’t be celebrating Australia Day. I now know, in some small way, how some of our aboriginal citizens feel.
Love that our Prime Minister received an enormous prolonged “boo” from the crowd at Melbourne Park tonight!
It was beautiful to behold…
flyingduk
Jan 29, 2024 9:29 AM
I agree that you have every right to be resentful for the treatment you received, but I’m afraid you are wrong about the aboriginal resentment.
They are a pampered lot in the main and bathing in our largess bestowed on them.
If they feel like living the traditional life, well, nothing to stop them., they control 60% of the mainland, at least.
Can’t see too many takers, wonder why that is?
She did serve in the Military Police..
Re Mother Lode’s post
A common tactic is to goad the hapless male ‘ work colleague’ into shutting a door firmly as he exits the scene. Then follows an immediate complaint to HR that the woman felt threatened with violence, etc.
Or, more simply just to fabricate such a shortly.
Heat pump tsar Lord Callanan sparks row after admitting he uses gas boiler in London home
EXCLUSIVE: Energy minister Lord Callanan was criticised for admitting he does not have a heat pump in his London home despite pushing for Brits to install one.
As predicted.
Pay attention to how they define “hateful ideology.”
Biden administration plows forward with electric buses even as cities stuck with inoperable vehicles
Despite multiple cities with inoperable electric buses, the Biden administration announced it had selected 67 applicants to receive nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money to purchase over 2,700 “clean” school buses in 280 school districts across 37 states.
What about enforcing the laws you already have on the statute books?
Biden’s re-election year crisis can be described in 4 words: It’s the border, stupid
By Michael Goodwin
Sounds like the kids-in-short-pants should have said, “No tennis for you Albo”. I don’t hold a hose mate.
Just when you think youve seen the most mendacious shit ever, along comes Hairy Festeringpenis to lower the bar.
?Mary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
On cancelling aid to UNRWA:
In any other circumstances, Australia would insist on not preempting the results of an investigation.
The
@UNRWA
sacked employees and launched an investigation. We don’t know if they are guilty of what they’re accused of, but UNRWA’s immediate action removing the individuals seems to me a desperate effort to preempt & prevent precisely what happened – the cancellation of desperately needed aid.
In any other circumstances, Australia would argue the importance of waiting for the results of an investigation.
A separate point altogether is the prism through which we view the world: under occupation in WW11, those who collaborated with Resistance fighters, were also heroic. I am not advocating aid workers should be excused for this, but consider Australia pulled all stops out to save Pratt and Wallace from a life in prison to bring them home when as Care Australia aid workers were also secretly on the payroll of a NATO country in a war zone. They were not in the position of Palestinian UNRWA workers, impacted directly by occupation.
The Australian govt is very confused about ‘occupation’ of the Occupied Territories, as if, rather than the cruel apartheid regime Israel has been, the Occupied Territories have been occupied by some sort of benign, civilised democracy. No reality check.
#Gaza
Is that a painting or JC’s lounge room rug?
I’ve felt like that for most of my life. I’m a freak, I don’t belong here. As an ongoing experience that alienation wears me out, drives me down, decades ago made me realise that no amount of complaining about that will make any difference. The only way forward is to stop giving a damn about the broader public.
Downtickers ad nauseum.
Mouthbreathers all.
We, meantime, are off to the country for the weekend.
Take care.
oops, the perils of retirement again.
It’s not the weekend! It’s Monday!
Se ya Wednesday maybe.
Palestine wouldn’t be occupied if they stopped shooting at Israelis.
You’re not a freak, John H.
And this is just a blog. Don’t take it to heart.
Good friends are here and elsewhere too. IRL.
Leak captures kd wrong’s nature beautifully.
Former UNRWA spokesperson on ABC RN AM:
Has it not dawned on him that the donor governments have a reasonable suspicion that the complicity of UNRWA workers with Hamas is more widespread than just 12 workers?
Bloggie, Bee, thank you, I have your email now in my inbox.
Will be in touch later when we have some meet ups arranged.
Cassie may put up the URL for the anti-Semitic vigil, where we will probably go to the pub afterwards. We will let you know. Be lovely to meet you after all of these years.
I’m not sure the UN deserves the benefit of the doubt. Least of all in that part of the world.
This woman is a dangerous nut. There’s seven openly accused people with no police report, whilst admitting a financial incentive to accuse the most famous.
It’s strange how so many of we ‘square pegs’ believe that no other square peg exists.
Caleb Bond: Toyota chairman’s startling admission about future electric vehicle sales exposes the fallacy of green ideology
The idea that electric vehicles will save the planet looks more ludicrous by the day.
Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda now predicts that they’ll only ever make up 30 per cent of car sales.
His company is the second biggest car manufacturer in the world by revenue. If anyone should know the state of the market, it’s Mr Toyoda.
It’s all good and well in the west where we have free-flowing electricity (still mostly powered by fossil fuels mind you).
“However, one billion people around the world live in areas without electricity,” Mr Toyoda said this month.
“In the case of Toyota, we also supply vehicles to these regions, so a single (electric) option cannot provide transportation for everyone.
“Toyota believes that freedom of movement should never be taken away from people in any region, country, or income group.
“No matter how much progress (electric vehicles) make, I think they will still only have a 30 per cent market share.
Then, the remaining 70 per cent will be (hyrbids), (fuel cell electric vehicles), and hydrogen engines.”
Toyota has long been one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world. It wants to stay that way. And it is making decisions about the cars it produces on that basis.
If Mr Toyoda thought electric cars were the future – the product that will keep his company at the top of the tree – he’d be rushing to build them.
His ultimate goal is to line his own pockets. It doesn’t much matter to him what form they take – he just wants to build cars people want to buy.
If he doesn’t see long-term success in EVs, then we should take notice.
“I think this is something that customers and the market will decide, not regulatory values or political power,” he said.
Governments are working overtime to induce people to buy EVs but consumers have seen through the hype.
The Albanese government predicted that EVs would constitute 89 per cent of new car sales by 2030 in pre-election modelling and used that to bolster its 43 per cent emissions reduction target.
But the federal transport department now believes they’ll only make up 27 per cent – similar to the prediction of Mr Toyoda.
It puts a huge dent in the fallacy of reducing emissions. But it proves the consumer interest in EVs is nowhere near what the green lobby would have us believe.
No wonder.
In massive countries like Australia and the United States they are completely impractical.
I can drive from Sydney to Melbourne in nine hours with a five minute petrol stop.
In an electric car I could read the newspaper from cover to cover while I waited for it to charge halfway.
Most consumers aren’t buying cars on the basis of what’s best for the planet.
They’re choosing what’s best for their needs and their hip pocket.
Unless you only drive around the city, EVs lose on every front.
And data out of the UK has now revealed that EV owners are paying twice as much to insure their cars as combustion engine-owners because the cost of repair is so high.
It doesn’t matter how many tax breaks or rebates are given – people don’t want to buy EVs on a large scale.
Toyota knows it. We know it. It’s time to give up the charade.
What part of the words “Get stuffed” do this mob have difficulty in understanding?
What cost of living crisis? The tennis is free!
Monday, 29 January 2024
Thank you Old Soldier for the line!
How cheap postage from China is another UN bureaucratic scam
By Jo Nova
As Winston Sterzel says: Seriously? Why does it cost more to send a postcard to my neighbor than it does for a Company in China to send a package right across the world?
He explains how an old intergovernmental committee — the Universal Postal Union (UPU) — sets the rules so that rich nations subsidize the poor ones.
Like all government committees it clings to a good idea for so many years it kills it. It was set up in 1874, and now in 2024, a nation with a space station is draining money from our postal systems and from our local jobs. What a rort…
Everyone paying for postage in the West is also paying the post for businesses in China to send cheap things which undermine local sellers. It is very difficult for a business using postal delivery to compete in the West — even in its own domestic market.
The UPU is — naturally — another subsidiary of the United Nations. What else do we need to know?
It works as well as we’d expect any 150 year old unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy to work — like napalm on a free market.
One clears one’s diary for MAFS.
Cassie of Sydney
Twelve years ago I said that the West would be involved in the “Mother Of All Ethnic Cleansings”. It won’t be a matter of choice on our behalf – it will be forced on us as a matter of survival of our culture.
I don’t back down from that – the issue remains however as to who will win.
The odds are shortening every day we listen to those of our leaders who whisper in our ears “There is nothing wrong. This is normal. You are in no danger.”
Two Young Boys Stabbed to Death, UK Police Urging Public Not to Identify Suspects
The British authorities are fearful that the brutal killing of two teenagers could trigger another wave of public unrest.
A 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, who are yet to be publicly identified by police, were stabbed by a “group of men” on Saturday night.
The fatal stabbing incident took place in Knowles West in South Bristol, which is the most populous city in Southwest England.
The police, as has become customary in Britain, refused to identify the suspects as anything other than a “group of men,” despite apprehending a 44-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy in connection to the heinous crime.
“Police arrived at the scene within minutes of the first call and did what they could to provide first aid. The victims sustained stab wounds and were taken to two hospitals – Southmead hospital and Bristol Royal hospital for Children – by ambulance, where they sadly died in the early hours of this morning,” an official statement said.
[Leads one to believe a protected class is involved, also leading one to again question who is really the victim here. ~ Beege]
Trying to simplify life. Turns out you can’t delete a Haute Crapper account.
~Labor Australian Prime Minister AlboSleezy is in Good Company – Nancy Pelosi gets booed as she shows up to the Chiefs v Ravens game in Baltimore
Let’s go Brandon!
How about, “eff off albo”?
Poll: Should Nikki Haley drop out of the presidential race?
Yes, it’s over – 465 (73%)
No, there’s a long way to go – 175 (27%)
We’ve already done that, to our great shame, 78 – 82 years ago.
Some people are afraid we’re heading towards violence – I’m afraid we aren’t (because it means the West went down without a fight) – I fear the last 50 years of domesticating and neutering us with welfare, soy, wokeism and propaganda has worked only too well….
Re Albanese & his girlfriend at the tennis, I believe courtside tickets were $5999 a seat.
Who paid?
You don’t know me. I am a freak. Those who know me acknowledge that. I am not just an unusual person, I am off the freakin’ planet strange. I’m so freakish on public transport people avoid sitting next to me.
Daughter has just flown in from Sydney.
Flight was delayed by three hours (!) due to a maintenance issue.
QANTAS.
Albo was there with Hardlicker from Virgin and wearing some tennis hat. It would have been comped. In truth, he could not really not go. Albo’s first wedge for 2024. There will be others.
Just did a bit of googling of Charles Perkins’ kidney transplant recipient and came up with this:
https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/original/00007693.pdf
This is a review conducted into Perkins and Aboriginal affairs in 1989 which found that Charlie Perkins was not involved in nepotism or favouring his family in his role.
What a whitewash!!
In the mid 70s Perkins was the chairman of Aboriginal Hostels Ltd along with his senior administrative role in the Dept of Aboriginal Affairs.
At that time the company was a haven for Perkins family members particularly in Alice Springs. The regional office there was run by his nephew and employed another family member as a field officer. The office ran 3 Aged persons Houses at nominal rent – $16 pw – and were occupied by Perkins mother and Aunts all the while Aboriginal people were living in appalling conditions in the dry bed of the Todd River.
Maintenance contracts were let to family members.
I actually reported on those findings to the General Manager in my role as an internal auditor in 1975-76 but they were quietly brushed under the carpet.
He was given a state funeral.
John H.
Jan 29, 2024 8:23 AM:
Nitrogen is a gas. If you MUST classify it as an illegal weapon, try it under Chemical Weapons, but then you will have to classify air as a chemical weapon as well.
I see the US is finally admitting their losses now.
Do you play a Chaos army and actually use Slaaneshi daemons and warriors?
No doubt it will turn up in the parliamentary register as such.
But nothing is ever free.
I can’t see Dutton ever going, but he’d have the fight of his life preventing Sussssan Ley from making off with the tickets.
Yeah well don’t mess with women unless you want the benefit?
Interesting all the new calls for conscription.
Australia must consider bringing back conscription as ‘all-out war’ with Russia looms, expert says (28 Jan)
Not only us, but the US, UK, Germany and some other countries have been making noises about this. It’s ironic that the governments wokified the services to the point that no one is joining up anymore, and now they’re panicking that no one is joining up anymore.
Indolent
And if Israel is attacked by united Arab forces again, they just may be forced into the nuclear option.
Is this what the Obama/Biden administration wants?
Some people are afraid we’re heading towards violence – I’m afraid we aren’t (because it means the West went down without a fight) – I fear the last 50 years of domesticating and neutering us with welfare, soy, wokeism and propaganda has worked only too well….
It is past time for us to clean the closet… bring it on.
The cleansing needs to start in the education system because that is where the infection has its roots. The intruders, racial activists, climate lunatics and adherents to the NWO are secondary and easily handled once the root cause is eradicated and the rot stopped.
It is of little merit, except for feel good reasons, to tackle the other visible threats while evil bastards are breeding, educating, fomenting hate and steering their replacements into the battle behind the front…
I don’t get Paul sometimes. Rants about men being feminized then promotes face moisturizer.
As much fun as it was to watch the creepy Trot being rissoled by the crowd, we will pay a price.
Revenge has been a key element of his slither to the top. He is never going to forgive rich pricks for embarrassing him when he was acting like a rich prick.
Expect more stern faced intonements.
Given what’s publicly reported and relayed privately to me by family members involved, I’m developing the suspicion that if Defence bureaucrats aren’t working for our prospective enemies they may as well be.
Interesting all the new calls for conscription.
The powers that be are determined to have WW3 if it kills them – and us.
Anyway I thought of a way to effectively protest this and it isn’t even illegal. Would bring the country to a halt.
Maaaaates!
‘Perfect appointment’: Treasurer announces Greg Combet as chair of Future Fund board (Sky News, 29 Jan)
Watch all that money now disappear down green rabbitholes. The public serpents whose pensions it’s supposed to pay for don’t care since Canberra will bail it out once all the money has been frittered away on Labor and Green rubbish.
I’m developing the suspicion that if Defence bureaucrats aren’t working for our prospective enemies they may as well be.
Isn’t that what Robert Conquest said? Best to think of an organisation as run by a cabal of its enemies.
Jacqui Lambie on Sky confirming she is a dribbling idiot.
The Army had her pegged about right. After 12 years she rose to the dizzy heights of corporal…
A few Tasmanian voters are the suckers who put her on the big stage… and keep her there.
If we’re starting an ‘I’m a bigger freak than you’ contest, this could become interesting (and difficult to adjudicate).
He did indeed.
Victoriastan taxpayers would see that as they take their seats in Rod Laver arena – or better still John Cain arena.
Anal already wants to get us for voting the wrong way in October. Really nasty piece of work.
Revenge is a two-way street. Elbow’s reception at the tennis tells me middle Australia regards him as a one-term prime minister — hardly surprising when the Liars and their lunatics like Bowen have abandoned the working class for the rich pricks’ economy-killing green dream.
I’m not sure she needed to go on Sky to do that. Lambie is Tasmania personified.
I beleive it is an axiom of evolutionary biology that a species occupies a niche in its environment, adapts to fit in seamlessly with it taking on specialised traits that allow it to exploit its position to the utmost. Eventually the environment changes and the specialist species is less able to exploit the new conditions than the less specialised generalist and is outcompeted. The generalist now settles in and begins to adapt more fully to the its current envonment and…rinse and repeat.
Legacy media is like that. They have had their days of glory. For over a century they evolved to fit into a very lucrative niche. Only big companies had the resources to gather information from around the world and to either print all the copies that would be read or maintain the technical equipment to broadcast it through the ether. They also discovered there was an advantage in abandoning objectivity (although they would maintain the pretense) and addicting their customers to fear.
Then the internet came and suddenly all the legacy media’s advantages were not so unassailable any more. Predictably (in hindsight) their specialisations hampered them. They no longer had exclusive access to information – source documents were available to any and everyone. Ordinary people did not need printing presses to let others see what they had learned and what they thought. People did not need great rivers of revenue because they did not have to provide staff for fashion, society, world events, sport, etc – just what they were interested in and what they knew well. However many writers an old newspaper might employ the chances of having people with depth of knowledge on all topics simply were not there. Instead of buying one newspaper you could follow a dozen sights with far more insight than the newspaper could provide – as well as the opportunity for engaging in conversation in the same forum.
The biggest upset for the legacy media would have to be that they cannot peddle misinformation so easily any more. They are no longer the lone voices and the solitary window upon the world and it has become a commonplace now when you hear the ABC or MSNBC say something that looks suspicious to look up the internet to find someone better informed and providing background and details that had been left out.
These new sources of information are what is to be targeted by the various ‘misinformation’ bills. It is the last attempt to try to turn back the clock return solitary custodianship of ‘The’ truth to the dying legacies.
Their putrefaction is a perfume!
Can’t even recall what prompted that word wall.
Oh well. Too late to take it down now.
Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 29, 2024 11:03 AM
Maaaaates!
‘Perfect appointment’: Treasurer announces Greg Combet as chair of Future Fund board (Sky News, 29 Jan)
Watch all that money now disappear down green rabbitholes. The public serpents whose pensions it’s supposed to pay for don’t care since Canberra will bail it out once all the money has been frittered away on Labor and Green rubbish.
BON,
Well That Explains This – Anthony Albanese sits next to Peter Costello at the tennis
Tennis, or at least front row seats at a grand slam, brought two old political rivals together – and left-wing Twitter users are seeing red.
A photo of Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sitting next to former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello at the Australian Open women’s final on Saturday night in Melbourne sparked anger from the PM’s supporters on the social media platform.
Mr Albanese and Mr Costello looked very relaxed in each other’s company as they watched Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka win her first major against Elena Rybakina.
Digger
Jan 29, 2024 11:04 AM
Jacqui Lambie on Sky confirming she is a dribbling idiot.
Aren’t all MPs promoted to Corporal when they finish their course so they outrank Privates? Or is that Lance Corporal?
The cleansing needs to start in the education system because that is where the infection has its roots. The intruders, racial activists, climate lunatics and adherents to the NWO are secondary and easily handled once the root cause is eradicated and the rot stopped.
Digger, that needs Aussie parents to take control of their P&C. Agitation from the parents – particularly in Labor seats – will have an effect.
But, believe me, it is a long way back as Teachers Federation (dominated by the Left) will fight it tooth and nail. They are a nasty lot.
Poor Elbow can’t take a trick atm.
If he’s booed at the first Rabbitoh’s game of the season I’d say it’s over.
That gives him just over a month.
Beware the Ides of March!
Humphrey, don’t blame Tasmania for Jacqui Lambie; blame the Senate gerrymander.
In 2019, Lambie was elected to the Senate with 31,383 votes.
In the same election it took Pauline Hanson 788,203 votes to get a Senate seat in Queensland.
All to make sure big Australian states don’t dominate the little ones — re-interpreted by loony fringe parties like the Greenfilth and the Jacqui Lambie Network as a way of getting into office with a few tens of thousands of votes via a massive gerrymander.
It’s all for our own good, donchaknow.
Caberra does that to you. Hopefully Combet will be paying for his own cycling holidays in France with ALPBC luvvies at this point. Costello has certainly filled his boots at the Future Fund. Hopefully he did better on the timing than quitting the RBA gold reserves.
Mother Lode
Jan 29, 2024 11:16 AM
Not a word wall, Motherload.
A word wall* is defined as something that requires two “page down’ clicks and is boring.
Yours fitted neither definitions.
* My definition. Others can argue. Meh.
Frankly, we’d be better off with an upper house composed of landed gentry.
I see Pocock is in the press today whining that Australia’s fossil fuel extraction is an existential threat to Pacific island nations.
Tom, I would get rid of most Tasmanian administrative structures and run it from Melbournibad. Which probably helps no one.
Lode @ 11:14 a.m.
Spot on.
Unfortunately, they also have nostalgia on their side (which Their ABC in particular, relies on). Ritual and routine is perceived as comfortable, safe, and non-threatening to our ego.
Never been able to get into FPS.
Vicki:
The “Long March Through The Institutions” starts with the Education System. Communists will never give up the control of it. To relinquish control would be the greatest defeat they could ever imagine.
Might work now Fraser is dead. You’re not including Tony Windsor though are you? Actually there may be a few problems.
I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis
The Sackler family should be thrown down a mine with the FDA officials following closely behind, then several thousand doctors piled on top of them.
The USA has the strictest drug laws, by far the most widespread legal and illicit psychotropic drug use, and the highest rate of talkie therapy in the OECD, yet are still falling over dead from despair driven deaths. WTF!?
We’ve already done that, to our great shame, 78 – 82 years ago.
Prussia intensifies..
https://youtu.be/_xtVUsTgK-g?si=wfsWwmJr6xWu4ft2
Waiting at the docs, sunrise on the box, liars are squeaking about ” reforms” to negative gearing.
“And if Israel is attacked by united Arab forces again, they just may be forced into the nuclear option.
Is this what the Obama/Biden administration wants?”
Yes, I believe so. The US is already fighting a ‘warm’ war with Russia that is depleting its weapons stockpile, and a nuclear conflict anywhere would be a win for the military/industrial complex. Bodies are irrelevant.
I dare say the only people nostalgic for ABC TV are now sitting in the shared lounge areas of nursing homes frustrated that the staff have left the TV on channel 10 and hidden the remote.
It’s a demographic that is not long for this world.
Kieran Gilbert on Sky going strong against Simon Birmingham – is Kieran really having a problem with the cessation of funding to UNRWA? Is he auditioning to join Speers at ABC? Does he really agree with the UN court decision, an anti-Israel piece of misinformation?
Today’s Korean Series Mr Queen Ep 1
https://www.viki.com/videos/1174424v
BB
Remember every journo has now had 3+ years of uni re-education before they are allowed to unleash themselves on the general public.
Groupthink won’t manage itself
I saw a tweet with some woman lamenting that the cutting of funding to UNWRA meant less money for Palestinian women and children victims.
Perhaps she should ask Hamas if there is anything within their power they could do – perhaps not looting the aid trucks and using civilians as shields?
Nah, it is other countries’ fault.
No, no, BB. With journalists, it’s tribal: they vote for the Liars or the Filth and the LNP and its MPs are tribal enemies. Gilbert can’t help showing his ideological hatred of anyone from a party that has some members who believe in small government.
Therefore, Simon Birmingham is an ideological enemy — even though he’s a leftwing wet.
BTW, have you noticed what a cruel mouth Kieran Gilbert has?
The AFL has been run by landed gentry for years now and it seems to be going OK.
I read the ICJ made an order that Hamas release all hostages immediately and unconditionally. Trying to find any mention of this on ABC reports. No luck so far. Certainly not by John Lyons.
From thea rticle “Australia would be f’d if the Chinese built a base on the Solomon’s”. FMD , what a revelation , except that’s why the yanks went for Guadalcanal.
John H.
Governments banning behaviours is the greatest contributor to building illegal cartels.
It happened with alcohol.
It happened with opioids.
It happened with heroin.
It happened with marijuana.
…and it’s happening with fentanyl.
When it continues to happen, it’s not a mistake by governments – it’s deliberate.
Declaration of Interest: at one point I understand the family was landed gentry (in South Australia of all places). A great aunt spent her dotage living at the Dorchester. Which even in those days required a certain means. Alas the fortune was dissipated before I was allowed to do my bit.
Murpharoo to take on a new role in Anthony Albanese’s office.
Of course it is deliberate. The USA is a peculiar case. This isn’t just about governance, it is pointing to something pathological about the USA culture. I don’t know what that is, the citizens I have known were perfectly OK in every respect, but within the USA there is a demographic very vulnerable to drug addiction. It reminds me of what 30 years ago an economist noted about the USA: it is unique in being a first world country with a third world living inside it.
An Econtalk podcast did an episode on the US and opioids. Apparently a change in meth manufacture away from pseudo ephedrine made it much more addictive and widespread.
The interesting aspect of this, is that it wasn’t part of any claim the ICJ was asked to consider.
OldOzzie
Jan 29, 2024 9:54 AM
One of the comments on the illegal immigration across the southern USA border says:
January 1892: Ellis Island, the United States’ first immigration station, opens in New York Harbor. The first immigrant processed is Annie Moore, a teenager from County Cork in Ireland. More than 12 million immigrants would enter the United States through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.
So, in 62 years 12 million came to this country. They were vetted, and some were sent back if they were sick or didn’t meet requirements. There were no safety nets (food, housing, health care, travel expenses, etc.). Biden in 3 years has allowed over 10 million from all over the world to just walk in!!!
John H.
Jan 29, 2024 11:41 AM
I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis
The Sackler family should be thrown down a mine with the FDA officials following closely behind, then several thousand doctors piled on top of them.
The USA has the strictest drug laws, by far the most widespread legal and illicit psychotropic drug use, and the highest rate of talkie therapy in the OECD, yet are still falling over dead from despair driven deaths. WTF!?
John H.,
worth listening to
The Dollop #280 – Opium in the US – Part 1
&
The Dollop #281 – Opium in the US – Part 2
Will anybody notice?
I read the ICJ made an order that Hamas release all hostages immediately and unconditionally.
The interesting aspect of this, is that it wasn’t part of any claim the ICJ was asked to consider.
I don’t know how it happened, but it is the least they could do….finally.
Someone I’ve known for a long time did an audit into a government agency, cannot say who but you would nod your head if you knew. The audit took over a year. Financial mismanagement on a grand scale. Report buried. Not a mention anywhere. From a different person who repaired the same agency’s coffee machines told me they have 16 cups of coffee a day on average. coz the machines have inbuilt counters. Those coffee’s dont make nor drink themselves. That’s 2:40 hrs minimum per day for coffee, that’s allowing 10 minutes to make, drink and wash the cup. We are being taken for such a ride.
The Chinese Military had a permanent neurosurgical team there when I was in Pt Moresby more than 10y ago. The Chinese are already heavily involved in ‘soft power’ projection – aka ‘the US builds military bases overseas, the Chinese build roads, ports and bridges’
I was told on the weekend that a lot of Adelaide’s old money was derived from compensation paid by the British government to slave holders after abolition.
Can anyone confirm?
I’ll bet good money Linda Burney will be the next G.G…..
Dirty Tricks Done Dirt Cheap? Well, not so cheap this time, but it illustrated the depth of corruption, the depth of the swamp.
Maria Bartiromo had Kari Lake on to talk about the RECORDED conversation she had with Arizona Republican bigwig Jeff DeWitt. He had to resign as a result.
She refused point blank to step out of politics despite being offered huge money.
She said “it’s about the country”.
When was the last time and motion study done in a Commonwealth PS office?