Also, unrelated, but likely the reason Bowen and Elbow flew in separate planes.
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Gotliebson article in the Oz documents a win for Senator Malcolm Roberts over miners being underpaid. He won against CFMMEU,…
Is Ozcan a Turkish name ?
The National Galley is getting stick this week, after hanging a portrait on their august walls. See if you can…
The further they dig, the more it’s gonna cost when they fill it all back in. Very Keynesian.
I do like how the Oz has a big photo of the magistrate who granted the suppression orders on the front page.
but her identity and cultural affiliations have been suppressed in a highly unusual move by Victorian magistrate Carolyn Howe.
All this MSM banging on about the two people murdered by and Copper.
Not much at all about the South Korean family. Mum and young son strangled to death with father stabbed to death. in Sydney
Straight people by all accounts.
The Elites Want War to Reduce the Population ASAP for Climate Change
“This entire conflict was manufactured by the American Neocons led by John McCain and Victoria Nuland. It was McCain who started the Climate Change agenda on Capital Hill, and it had nothing to do with the planet. He was arguing against fossil fuels to cut off Russia’s energy sales. It was never about the climate, but they tell a lie often enough; as Hitler’s head of propaganda asserted, it will soon become the truth.
That strategy is working well in every aspect. They used it against Trump as well. Victoria Nuland is using it against anyone who is against war. She is running around calling them “Putin’s wing of the Republican Party.” The Democrats always start the wars, and the Republicans have to end them. That was Nixon’s pledge to end Vietnam; he was elected with over 60%. The exception was when Dick Chaney ran the White House and put his company, Haliburton, in charge; he invaded Iraq on the lie that he had weapons of mass destruction when the object was to seize the oil wells. His daughter is so against Trump and pro-war it must be a family tradition.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-elites-want-war-to-reduce-the-population-asap-for-climate-change/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
There are significant differences in the cases, that might explain the different levels of interest.
You know; serving police officer using a police issued weapon, missing bodies, one victim a media ‘personality’ not to mention the questions around the alleged murderer’s suitability to have recruited in the police force.
I’m sure media outlets have a good idea of how many eyeballs have scanned each story.
Maybe you could make people take more interest in the triple homicide.
there’s plenty of international coverage of the triple South Korean murder story.
The Mystery women’s last instagram message is odd, she seems to be claiming to have been a long term victim of something.
DV?
Being muslim?
The suppression order is way too late.
love triangle
Maybe you could make people take more interest in the triple homicide.
LOL. Looks I have with one person.
Janet Albrechtsen destroys the WGEA and “wage inequality” for all time.
ASIO – late to the party now reality is biting – too focused on gaslighting garage n@zis
This reminds me of the “research” that showed female doctors earned less than their male colleagues. They didn’t compare hours worked. I do believe that there are women put into lousy positions in companies etc to try to stem the negative publicity. It helped the ALP in Queensland with Anna Bligh.
No, I love it people comment that the msm aren’t interested in x or y when a two second google search tells that there was extensive coverage.
It simply wasn’t a story with significant political implications which is why the soy boy murders got discussed at length here, and at CL’s, and the very sad triple murder was not.
Today or tomorrow I will swing past the murder site (assuming the memorial is still out the front otherwise I won’t know which one it is).
I’ll see if there is rear access to the property.
This will also disqualify me from any potential jury pool in the future.
There’s no sugar coating this, not are they suggesting Latin mass Catholics are the most dangerous group, like their American counterparts.
I wonder who this is
Don’t leave me hanging, Mike!
More
Rudd?
Bigger pool when you don’t specify federal politician.
The sudden release of ASIO’s Mike Burgess of information relating to a traitorous attempt by an Australian politician to work in the interests of China is curious. Why now?
Are our spooks under pressure in relation to the outrageous anti-Semitic behaviour of the Palestinian supporters in this country? Is this a way of diverting attention from this issue?
Or is China increasing its operations here & this old info is a way of pressuring the Labor government ?
California.
The state where you can buy indulgences.
New York Post
@nypost
Panera Bread exempt from California’s $20 minimum wage law after owner donated to Gov. Newsom: report https://trib.al/tACvPO6
https://x.com/nypost/status/1762931440109457526?s=20
Who does Newsom think he is?
A pope from 400 years ago?
I retract that comment re avoiding the local Pallie issue, having now read Burgess’ comments in full.
BTW I don’t think it’s hard to guess who the actors in relation to China are.
Sounds like China.
From Michael West ( http://www.michaelwest.com.au )
Sounds like China
Sounds like China.
My highly classified tip for public transport is: wait. It stops working, a lot.
VIcki
Perhaps Mike thinks some sort of attack is inevitable, and doesn’t want to be holding the can when the rooster starts bleating out a tune.
Also, by saying Islamic fundamentalism is extremely dangerous, he could be throwing a curve ball at the state police forces.
I wonder if a lover of American history learnt from cereal packs is an A Team target?
“A great reveal of intelligence”
From the OZ.
Says our Haysio head. Even the bad guys get ticks.
Three guesses, although I don’t expect most people would need three.
One country is trying to scan critical infrastructure in Australia, including water, transport and energy networks in a highly sophisticated and secretive manner to test for vulnerabilities,
If we haven’t done this ourselves and put in place plans to mitigate vulnerabilities, we are fools.
OK, we are fools.
Mitch McConnell is resigning at the end of his term, apparently.
China’s hooks are everywhere. Sorry, word wall here. The Biden corruption clan in action. This US Administration is run like a South American Banana Republic;
More constabularitorial discontent, this time in Quenthland (the Courier-Mail):
This bloke was already in the spotlight for writing a series of emails to the brass about their failed rostering system, lack of resources and an absence of support from the people supposed to support them.
Unbelievable.
Job done. No problem – or so you’d think.
A failed ‘gotcha’ from the brass, then.
I bet overtime would be approved if the van drivers wanted to go to a homo march.
Bern on the Hyphen-Soyboy murders.
Is this a gay euphemism?
And without help.
Which I suspect is at the heart of the Mardi Gras hurtiness.
I’ll bet mincing down Oxford St in uniform is ticked off as “promotional and public relations activities” and paid for.
Neil Pharoah is a Melbourne gay bloke failed Labor candidate and self-appointed homo spokesman. His view on the Hyphen Moidas (the CM again):
This was preceded by six paragraphs of whinging about police dogs sniffing out dodgy pills at rave parties restricted to gays.
Mr Pharoah – if in fact that’s your real name, which it almost certainly isn’t:
The. Killer. Was. One. Of. Your. Own.
But…but…burning people to a crisp is exactly what the Palestinians did to Jews on 7 October, with one large distinction being that this Air Force loon chose to do it, while the people in Israel didn’t want it.
It is difficult to attach any moral gravitas to the USAF guy when he himself was so indifferent to the Israeli dead-mutilated-immolated.
Surely they are not referring to the old Dastiyari case just to be able to say see, we are doing something?
I’ll believe it when they carry him out of Congress in a coffin, he is not leaving any other way.
This was once, ostensibly, an economics blog.
If you wanted to know just how economically ignorant some of the Teals are, I present to you Monique Ryan.
https://twitter.com/Mon4Kooyong/status/1762933300119945532
I wonder who this is
Mr Burgess said several years ago, the A-Team “successfully cultivated and recruited a former Australian politician (who) sold out their country, party and former colleagues to advance the interests of the foreign regime”
Could be any number of labore or greenfilth imbeciles. An initial shortlist:
Keating
Carr
Dastardlyari (remember him? What a wacky character)
Wendy Pong (current, but clearly a CCP asset, as is the allegedly aesthetically pleasing Thai rub ‘n’ tug aficionado, aka Albozo)
Any former labore politician who’s a member of the “Middle Kingdom and Oz Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere Friendship and Trust Society”
Oh fork it, the list writes itself.
KD at 8:22.
They didn’t initially call the Hyphen-Soyboy murders a “gay hate” crime but they are definitely trying to use them to play the pooftah bashing victim card.
Wait a few years.
This will be referred to as the “two gay men brutally murdered by a rogue cop”, when the real story is “deranged nut-job killed ex and took the target’s current partner out for good measure”.
Oops – forgot the most obvious candidate, Kevni “this f*cking language” Ruff.
Rabz – you forgot state players. Dan comes to mind.
Update on the emergency run to filth last week for the old lady with hours left to live…
The tough old duck held on for 5 more days while her eldest boy flew from the US to see her, he arrived Sunday, she died 0700 Monday after his visit.
Mum told me about a similar one she had seen as a nurse.
WW2 vet had his sweetheart marry another man while he was away. They remained in contact and he never married. When he was about 70 cancer got him and he asked her to visit. They spent the day together and he died the next day.
Funny how will can keep people going until they have ” finished”.
Bob Hawke ran the Shanghai Shuttle for Chinese big wigs & their families coming to Oz for medical treatment.
He also had family set up a consultancy in China, one of the first Australian WFOE’s to be approved.
I would look at that ecosystem.
Ryan is a mong.
No idea of basic supply and demand yet feels fully qualified to set the ship of state straight with her accumulated wisdom.
Which might have fooled various incurious idiots and narrative purveying numpties had the braindead lamestream meeja not so loudly and incessantly trumpeted that Hyphen-Soyboy is as (self admittedly) Q as F.
Ryan ” why are nickel miners doing so bad, there has never been as much product on the market”!!!
Richard Lewis brown bread.
His stand up wasn’t my cup of tea.
But he played very off Larry David in Curb though.
Dunc – you might as well include every current and former federal/ state/ territory/ council labore pollie on the list.
What a pack of loathsome quisling rodents*.
Possible exceptions, Dai Le, Latham and Danby.
*Gratuitous Kevni Ruff reference.
Turns out he was soy-rent-boy.
Oh dear.
An OD of BMW licorice, no doubt.
Muddy
Yet one of Duntroon’s Own, HCH (Red Robbie) Robertson chose to have his varicose veins treated rather than take the 19th Brigade to Greece.
Methinks he foresaw a disaster there, and didn’t want to spend the rest of the War in a PoW camp. Ironically, he was replaced by Vasey, who held a series of significant commands until his death in 1945. Red Robbie spent much of the rest of the War in WA, commanding the 1st Armoured Division, and saw little more action after 1941.
the ponzi bomb under the city walls
Probably Farrow, or something equally common.
LOL – couldn’t he get time off in lieu instead?!
Marc Benioff, who just happens to own Time Magazine.
A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why
Never mind paying $8 mn for an 80 sq ft concrete box.
Eighty or so of the damned things.
The corruption is bottomless.
Obama’s CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies To Spy on Trump Campaign
Shane Gillis was PERFECT on SNL.
His whole act was to skewer SNL.
Very meta, very Norm, the sacred and the propane.
If they’re not laughing at him, then he and everyone else got/gets a laff track dubbed over.
Just on the flow on from Mud Puncher Murders…..
If plod is going to march in the poof parade will they do it as a group, sans uniforms?
If so, best if they don’t have that balloon of lard wobbling out in front like last year.
They might take him out on a plinth – if he has another of those seizures.
What can you do when the supposed upholders of the law are totally corrupt?
RealRobert
@Real_RobN
BREAKING
FOIA CONFIRMS: The FBI and the DOJ uncovered a massive 2020 election ballot fraud in MI
+100,000 ballot applications falsified at Gov Whitmer’s election headquarters
And the DOJ the FBI covered it up by passing it to another criminal who happens to be running it
I thought you had to be much smarter than that to get into a medical degree course at uni.
What are the odds the un-nameable ex-politician traitor is Labor royalty?
Yep, Mike”where’s my arse”Burgess has given up on the Garage Nasties coz he couldn’t find any even when presented with self confesed ones, or plod progeny pretending in melbum. Hope you had plenty of video from the Opera house coz there were thousands of self confessed terrorists or were they “not the ones you were looking for” H/T Obi-Won Kenobi.
Obviously not worried about rising sea levels due to global warming.
The Otter is a champ.
Inspector, then Commissioner for that man.
Feudalism redux
Oxford County Council forges ahead with 15-minute prison plans by installing “bus gates”
It’s about conformity, not intelligence.
Hence the COVID shitstorm.
Today’s editorial in Courier Mail reveals the Editor still thinks it ok for the Government to mandate jabs.
I would say pretty short. As Rabz showed, the list of likely suspects is very long. It would be a gargantuan task to try and find a Labor politician who is NOT likely to sell us out.
Muslim misogyny?
Meanwhile, the question is being asked whether the recent doxxing of Jewish Australians facilitated the alleged offence.
If the plan is to exponentially increase crime then, yes, it is.
Joe Biden on Crime: ‘Our Plan Is Working’
Now they tell us. Not too surprising though. I’ve always looked on it as a form of self-mutilation.
Study: 83% Of Tattoo Inks Contain Ingredients Linked To Major Health Risks
It’s amazing how our world is starting to resemble the ones in a “galaxy far, far away”.
Shane Gillis was PERFECT on SNL.
His whole act was to skewer SNL.
Very meta, very Norm,
Yes.
Yes.
Dear lord, yes.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 77 The Cultural Revolution is here. Just ask Xi Van Fleet. She’s lived it twice.
Sure does.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Eithan Haim is one of the rare American physicians who’s refused to accept the sexual mutilation of children in his hospital. Doctors, he says, believe “they can create a new type of human.”
Looks like nutjob “Keffals” has done HIS arse with grooming.
https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/the-keffals-catboy-ranch-controversy-involving-twitch-streamer-keffals-explained
https://fandompulse.com/2024/02/21/transgender-streamer-keffals-accused-of-grooming-and-fraud-after-being-exposed-by-youtuber-mutahar/
…all of this could have been avoided if they didn’t try to force people to use “their” pronouns and if Keffals didn’t sue Nicky Reikata.
It’s a shame Gillis flies around on such a tragically named airline.
Wasn’t Paul Keating on the board of one of the big Chinese banks?
Weird how progressives who have decided they have charisma give themselves silly nicknames.
What was that guy yesterday who styled himself an arbiter elegantiarum. The original owner of that title was Gaius Petronius Arbiter (apparently originally Titus Petronius Niger) who was an intimate of Nero toward the wildly extravagant end of his reign, chosen for his sybaritism and driven to suicide through the intrigues of a rival within Nero’s circle.
Funny thing for an ‘activist’ to call themselves. He probably meant something more along the lines of bon vivant, but felt the expression did not sound special enough.
‘The economic case for mass migration has finally collapsed’
‘Rather than turbocharging growth, immigration is placing near-unbearable pressure on public services, housing and infrastructure’
– Sam Ashworth-Hayes, The Telegraph (UK) (paywalled)
‘Britain facing £100bn tax jump as immigration surge stretches public finances, IFS warns’
‘Tax burden to rise sharply while public spending per head will barely grow’
– Institute for Fiscal Studies
In short, the public spending that mass migration entails negates any economic benefit.
If only they’d heeded Milton Friedman’s warning.
A big part of his act was about having down’s syndrome family members and how they are constantly happy – which would have been a shock to an SNL audience who are accustomed to seeing down’s kids as an argument for abortion.
SNL was probably hoping he would do his Trump impressions, because mocking Trump releases endorphins in their brains.
These vague “benefits” pale into insignificance when you also calculate the social damages- turning your community into a shithole , violent crime skyrocketing, rape and sexual assaults on your womenfolk. Then you have traitorous politicians caring more for the foreigners than their constituents.
Transnistria may be in the news soon.
On the subject yesterday of “cultural awareness” training for Army dog handlers, the training is directed at the wrong group.
Those who need such “cultural awareness” training are the senior officers and their political overlords. They need to be culturally aware enough to keep out of Mooslie sh1th0les, and just let them fight it out among themselves.
And don’t take in “refugees” from the resulting conflicts.
Yes, the social impact of mass migration also warrants questioning, Makka. Especially as declining economic prospects – rather than growing, the pie stays the same size or shrinks and everyone gets a smaller slice – will likely exacerbate the problems associated therewith.
That being said, the blame should not be directed to migrants as a cohort but rather to our political class.
Transnistria is not worth WWIII.
Best move I ever made was out of that place.
The mass migration now we’ve seen post-COVID I think is simply out of spite. In the US, it is just a way to punish the voters for ever thinking of voting for a non-establishment candidate.
The long-term rational reason is to pay for the welfare state, in particular pensions and non-market DBSs of public servants. Whether that was ever going to work or not is another question.
There is a refusal to increase labour productivity and make the working tax base more sustainable through other means. The establishment refuses to lower the tax burden to encourage higher rates of investment, a higher savings rate and lower the cost of housing construction, thus choosing to disincentivise family formation.
There was a refusal to consider a NIT which would decrease the welfare state, get people out of poverty and increase the tax base. I’m not up on how it works now with higher TFTs but also with higher inflation.
There is a refusal to consider opening up primary & secondary industries such as nuclear, forestry and so on. This stuff is always a mind-boggling thing to do and self-harming.
There’s a political choice to subsidise women to work during their childbearing years.
There have been unquestionably demonstrable benefits of immigration in the past. The best reference for that now is over 25 years old (Tian and Shan).
The costs and benefits ratio has never looked so bad.
If we had sane economic policies to begin with, we wouldn’t have “needed” cynical immigration policies.
Including tax policies that were pro-family.
Thanks for nothing, Liberals.
It is to Victoria Warpig.
I thought you had to be much smarter than that to get into a medical degree course at uni.
From memory, you do a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science. The course is probably called something else now to make it sound more impressive.
Most of being a GP – allegedly – is having a lot of memory capability to be able to recall past symptoms and say “ah yes, you have tinea. That will be $80 thank you and here’s your prescription.”
Makes you wonder how things will progress now Dr Google is on the scene.
Hazza hasna so much dosh any more:
The Duke of Sussex faces estimated £1 million (AUD$1,940,000) legal bill after losing his High Court case over his entitlement to taxpayer-funded security when in the UK.
He will probably have to pay his own lawyers as well as the legal costs of the Home Office unless his appeal is successful, The London Times reports.
The youngest son of King Charles III launched the legal action after the British government told him in February 2020 that he would no longer be given the “same degree” of publicly-funded protection when in the UK.
Harry, the Duke of Sussex, sensationally relocated to North America in 2020 with his wife Meghan, eventually settling in California in the United States, and is no longer classified as a working royal.
Going to appeal. Of course.
This is just camouflage, window dressing. These are imported vote herds and that is all that matters to the poliscum creating these horrific outcomes..
I see two more hearings. The sound of new BMW turbochargers spooling up.
In my midwinter Perth jaunt, I couldn’t understand if the WA Parliament was a modernist building or not. Was I looking at the library or staff offices? Or did they put a modernist shell over the Edwardian/Late Queen Vic era chambers?
I walked over 120 km that week and put on half a stone.
The food at the wedding wasn’t bad either.
I nearly had a heart attack, on the way back here, putting up with the Perth Airport staff.
I was so close to blurting out a banned four-letter word …B…!
Obvious NZ could do without 20% of their public servants.
Does Sgt Ottaway, the should be Commisioner of Plod in Queensland for doing what he paid to do sees a crime being committed on his day off, does he call in to ask if overtime is allowed or go WTF and walk on. Baring in mind plod are on duty all the time.
SNL was probably hoping he would do his Trump impressions
He did the Trump sneakers skit.
The difference mining royalties make…NSW has coal but…
In the NSW PS, TSSM staff (people on 220k+, basically) across education, the police and TfNSW are going to be boned.
1500 – 2000 all up I expect. 120 – police, 1200 – TfNSW, Health – 90.
Oops WA not NZ of course.
The people and culture consultants are engaging the turkeys for Thanksgiving in the NSW PS already.
My contact’s advice is to say nothing (like talking to the police without a lawyer); on the other hand, I have survived that jive by saying the minimum just outside the scope of what was asked.
Harry needs to reflect on the fate of the last Royal, who gave up his position as an Admiral of the Fleet, to become third mate to a Baltimore tramp.
Ah, bike riders who think they can do whatever they like:
Freeman James Henderson, 30, jailed for crashing bicycle into mum-of-three, leaving her brain injured
A “reckless” cyclist and ex-Qld Reds Academy rugby player has been jailed for running a red light at speed and hitting a pedestrian, leaving her with lifelong brain injuries.
A “reckless” leadfoot bike rider and ex-international rugby union player has been jailed for running a red light at speed and hitting a pedestrian, leaving her with lifelong brain injuries.
Freeman James Henderson, 30, of Kelvin Grove, was in the District Court in Brisbane on Wednesday where he pleaded guilty to a single charge of dangerously operating his bicycle causing grievous bodily harm to single mum Hayley Small.
In sentencing him to a head sentence of two years’ jail, suspended after he serves three months in custody, Judge Vicki Loury told Henderson he was speeding and ran a red light before he hit Ms Small throwing her 3.8m.
Ms Small, a mum of three visiting Brisbane from Townsville for a Football Queensland trip with her kids, was crossing William St near the intersection with the Victoria Bridge when Henderson struck her.
Judge Loury said that while she was hospitalised for Two-and-a-half months she had to “give up her home” because she could not pay the rent and her kids had to go and live with her parents.
Her separation from her children while in hospital caused her “much distress”, the court heard.
“I am not the same mother, daughter, sister, aunty or friend that I was before the accident,” Ms Small said in a victim impact statement read to the court.
“This traumatic brain injury changed my life, my children’s and my parents’ life,” she wrote.
“Her injuries were life threatening and there are some permanent impacts including her having to take medication to manage her sodium levels and she describes some speech impediment and memory issues,” Judge Loury said.
Judge Loury told Henderson that she did not consider his actions were a “lapse of judgement or an error of judgement” and said that closed circuit television footage played in court by the prosecution showed him peddling rapidly towards the intersection where Ms Small, 42, was waiting.
The court heard that Henderson was familiar with the intersection and was riding at 34km/h, which was 11km/h over the bike speed limit, and was not wearing a helmet when he struck Ms Small at 2pm on April 7, 2022.
The bicycle light was red for 27 seconds before he went through it and hit her, the court heard.
Judge Loury said that Ms Small had just stepped onto the road to cross it at the green pedestrian light when she was thrown into the air by the force of Henderson’s bike and she hit the ground and was immediately knocked unconscious.
She suffered a significant head injury including multiple skull fractures and paramedics intubated her at the scene.
“The manner of your riding on this day was, in my view, reckless,” Judge Loury told him.
Defence barrister Angus Edwards submitted that his client, who was working at Queens Wharf as plumber, made a mistake at a busy intersection and failed to keep a proper lookout for Ms Small.
“He simply made a mistake he thought he had the green light when he didn’t,” Mr Edwards submitted
Courier-Mail
Good luck with those commercial leases in NSW.
The whole state is in a pecuniary death spiral.
We are us, we are the Central Coast Local Council!
WW3 Watch: Eastern European Breakaway Republic Transnistria Asks Russia for ‘Protection’ (28 Feb)
Sounds like posturing since they already have three Russian BTGs garrisoning the place. They’ve been there a long time. I haven’t heard that they’ve been withdrawn, but then I haven’t bothered to keep track of that for a while. Russia would find it hard to get them out since both the Black Sea and the air route are subject to enemy action.
I have a feeling this is not going to work out for them as planned.
+1000
🙂
Yes. They are famous for delivering unintended consequences.
In sentencing him to a head sentence of two years’ jail, suspended after he serves three months in custody, Judge Vicki Loury told Henderson he was speeding and ran a red light before he hit Ms Small throwing her 3.8m.
This is good.
Giving offenders a taste of the animal factory, then letting them serve the balance under a community protection order (or whatever they call them in WA) is a good mix.
Shane Gillis full bit on down syndrome boys is that like nothing more than John Cena & tits.
Obviously not allowed on network TV.
Looks like Mike Johnson is toast.
Congress Strikes Deal to Avert Partial Government Shutdown (28 Feb)
One of the stipulations from the Freedom Caucus in electing the Speaker has been that he had to stop doing continuing resolutions and instead prepare and pass actual annual budgets like we do. McCarthy was booted when he welshed on that agreement, and that’s why Gaetz pulled the trigger.
So we’ll see what happens. If the Freedom Caucus does it again Johnson is gone…unless the Dems support him, whereupon he’ll be a lame duck.
Google the “Willy Wonka Immersive Experience”
It’s so bad it’s good.
In this instance, where the offender was reckless in a traffic accident rather than engaged in a violent criminal offence, I’d suggest justice would be better served by him paying paying substantial restitution to the victim (over time via instalments if necessary) plus community service for the associated traffic offences.
Don’t limit yourself. Darwin Harbour anyone?
The Elites Who Want to Change The World | Victor Davis Hanson
We’re already seeing cracks appearing, both for good and ill, as ethnic minorities in western Sydney reject the uniparty, Labor in particular.
More EV success:
1) Apple kills its electric car after 10 years development
The New York Times, 27 February 2024
2) Mercedes Benz ditches plan to sell only EVs by 2030
Business Insider, 23 February 2024
3) How EVs became such a massive disappointment
CNN, 26 February 2024
I attended our local government candidates event last night. It was exceptional.
The last election campaign was infested with secret Greens and blow-in Lefties pretending to display interest in what the community actually wants from their council.
This year not a hint of their cancer.
Which by no means indicates that all is well. The Council bureaucracy is out of control as indicated by the pervert and blackfella flags flying over all council facilities. Three Shire Clerks in three years (all poached by Victoria) has made it impossible for the elected councillors to retain control.
Business focused candidates demanded tough contracts and exclusion of any candidate CEO with political affiliations. The audience cheered and some existing councillors turned pale.
And Aston Martin has pushed back development of their EV to 2026, citing a lack of interest from potential buyers.
I’ll be somewhat surprised if it goes ahead at all.
Alarmist is a cancer and its advocates are a virus:
The Albanese government, under the Svengali and serial ministerial failure of Chris Bowen, has turbocharged carbon abatement programs crippling energy. It has:
Vastly increased direct and regulatory-enforced expansion of the transmission lines in an attempt to allow wind and solar to work.
Introduced a requirement for the top 215 businesses to reduce their emission levels by 30 per cent over and above reductions made necessary by the subsidies generally.
Put in place measures to combat objections to intrusive wind farms and transmission lines.
Refused to introduce requirements for the rectification of land and safe disposal of the materials used in wind and solar facilities.
Vastly expanded the budgetary assistance to wind, solar, and hydrogen.
Introduced costly requirements on firms to identify the emissions of their own activities and of those of their suppliers and customers.
The measures have been put in place by politicians, hardly any of whom have any knowledge of the energy sector, how it works, and what its costs are. Politicians have been pressed in this direction by the so-called experts, a professional elite supported by and bankrolled by subsidy-seekers, who see the global warming con as a means by which they can get paid for promoting particular forms of energy.
You’ve got to see the “Based Dad v Maddi”. What it comes down to, is that she is a lying, disgusting gaslighting anti Trumper.
Via Asmongold
He basically gave the ex-wife and mother 5 mn USD in 2005, or equivalent to 7.8 mn USD in 2023 – plus extra alimony/child support payments, 18 k per month, plus 12 k per month for medical etc, plus 600k in 2005 for their four children’s College tuition/living expenses.
“Your father never paid for anything! Not even your medical bills!”
In the end, he brings receipts.
Straight fire.
So she went full attack with two more viral videos.
I had no choice but to put up this detailed response.
The bottom line is: I asked her to take her first video down and correct the damaging inaccuracies. She declined because she said her video had gone viral, had 7 Million views.
I said, then at least put my response video up on her feed — which is very mild, just corrects the few inaccuracies. She declined.
I even suggested I fly to LA to do a collaboration video, where we hash out these issues. So far, she has not taken me up on my offer.
It would be great for her channel and would likely put the relationship back together, which seemed to be going great before this — even though we disagree on politics for the most part.
Did someone mention “pikes”?
Chuckle.
This is so weird. It’s almost like they never meant to stick to the promises they made.
China built 47GW of coal power last year and is “way off track” to meet emissions targets (28 Feb)
Unlike the West the Chinese have actual scientists, and there’ve been plenty of papers from them on climate science. It’s clear as crystal that neither they nor the Indians believe in climate fairies.
Johnny Rotten:
From the DHS site:
I don’t know how many times I have to point this out.
One of the few truths about the Iraq war is that Saddam did have – by definition – weapons of mass destruction, and he used them on his own people.
It may not fit the agenda, but it is one of very few truths about that evil bastard and his spawn.
Describing serial failure Bowen as Svengali gives him too much credit. He is more in the Stephen Conroy useful idiot with Ministerial powers camp.
Describing serial failure Bowen as Svengali gives him too much credit. He is more in the Stephen Conroy useful idiot with Ministerial powers camp.
I haven’t seen conroy on Sky lately; maybe they haven’t renewed his contract. He is a smug bastard.
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger, my one guess = Fraser.
Brown Street Paddington is a very busy street.
When you come out of the Cross City Tunnel.
Parking is a bugger.
Unless there was rear lane access.
Bern, are you trying to send coded messages? :;
‘Useful idiot’ fits the bill.
Former politician. I wouldn’t rule out Billy Snedden either.
Rabz:
Speculation appears to be zooming in on Boob Carr.
thefrollickingmole
I read that, put my head in my hand – assuming the classic position – then realised what I’d done. And laughed.
Spy agencies pose real problems for democracies and the courts. I have no doubt Burgess is correct when he says foreign State agencies have attempted (and in all likelihood succeeded) in penetrating Australian parliamentary political systems. Based on the success of most other government agencies in fulfilling their stated objectives, I’m less confident ASIO gets all (some or any) of them. Most spy stories come out decades after all the relevant parties have died, defected or retired.
The horse has already bolted lady.
Extraordinary secrecy decree over accused activist (Paywallian)
Absolutely everyone knows who it is she’s trying to hide from the MSM. This silly decision says lots and lots about the Victorian justice system, the person of no name, appearance or other identifiable features, and the lady beak. Some people are just too special to be subjected to scrutiny.
Flattery would certainly go a long way there. “.You’re so clever Mr Carr, tell me more …”.
‘As I Ready Myself For A Prison Cell…’: Peter Navarro Speaks At CPAC Before Heading To Prison
Bern, are you trying to send coded messages?
Ha!
Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414
Article seems uninterested in why Transnistria is requesting assistance. Is Moldova doing anything that might be pressuring them?
In Clearly, Something’s Gone Wrong news:
Policing advice from Vikpol:
how to cover upno more embarrassing Glock leakages.Be comforted, NSW citizenry.
Indolent
Feb 29, 2024 8:53 AM
the ponzi bomb under the city walls
The ponzi bomb is closer to detonating than it looks.
And it will be like bankruptcy – slow at first, then all at once.
I would not be surprised if it exploded when Trump wins the Presidency as part of the Democrat game plan.
I expect to see this type of subtle threat being made in the middle part of the year.
It’s a squirrel to help Putin get elected this month. It’s obvious.
Timing in politics is everything. Why else would it suddenly happen now after two years of nothing much?
Indolent
Didn’t Hawaii and the dead from the fires vanish suddenly?
I wonder what’s happening now?
The councillors/ mayor have no control over the Shire Clerk. They are only meat shields who get the blame for actions taken by the shire Clerk at the behest of the state government.
Winston S
I was expecting to see some reaction from you to my comment at 2149 yesterday, about “encouraging” senior officers to retire by promoting their juniors over their heads, all the way down to relatively junior levels.
Keating is a clock collecting chicom shill
“The Transnistrians claim Moldova is attempting to use financial pressure to force it to reunite…”
Moldovan customs duties that Transnistria claims are driving up the cost of living.
The war next door closing off a quarter of their trade having nothing to do with that, obviously.
Oh, yes – twice.
Bowen is often portrayed as some sort of renewables evangelist; author of Labor’s policy; keeper of the flame; a visionary, passionately pushing through the slings and arrows, reconstructing the Australian energy sector.
The reality is that Labor’s Powering Australia Plan was bought ‘off the shelf’ from renewable energy spruiker, Reputex, and polished like a glistening turd by Hawker Britton.
Given its origin, it chimes with the renewables kleptocracy and segues neatly into the works of the letterocracy AEMO/AEMC/AER/CSIRO/ETC.
All Mr Most Punchable Face has to do is manage the politics of destroying Australia’s First World economy and keeping the Greens at arms length. To the amazement of many observers (and delight of some, particularly those known to Mr Burgess).
Top Man.
I commented on this at C.L.’s blog. The lease went through on Turnbull and Morrison’s watch and when Albo had a chance to review it he said it was fine. So there we are, three prime ministers who sold out our defence interests.
Unnamed politician who was the Chinese patsy wouldn’t have the nickname Sneakers by any chance?
Isn’t Brown Street a back alley of Paddington. In and out the same way?
It’s a very big lie, that’s for sure.
Herr Goebbels would be impressed.
I doubt there are few politicians that haven’t had fortune cookies after dessert.
New ATH in BTCAUD. Not bad at all.
Science news.
Police pullback linked to increases in crime (Phys.org, 28 Feb)
That’s amazing! Who coulda thunk less policing would lead to more crime? Science is so perspicacious these days.
Because facts don’t care about your fantasies. You can hide the technical faults with floods of subsidy cash just so long.
Argentina’s President Javier Milei Issues Epic Takedown Of Socialism In CPAC Speech
Roger
In this instance, both would be a good idea – custodial sentence to drive home the fact that he deliberately rode through a red light – “I’m riding a bike and saving the planet, so I’m untouchable.” then hit the idiot with restitution costs, and continue the punishment to all the arrogant arseholes of whatever type until they get the bloody message.
I think the un-nameable ex-politician is Dastyari.
That they’re not naming him may go back to deals made at the time of his exit from the senate.
As a member of the political class and not a public servant or member of the defence forces, he got a get out of gaol free card.
Bons:
We’ve got Council elections coming up too, and not one – that I’ve seen – have declared political affiliations.
Henry Ford didn’t have any such dilemma, he built what people wanted and at a price they could afford.
Isn’t there a saying that what can’t go on doesn’t?
Engineers are amazing. They’re just about to do what Magellan did five hundred years ago!
Zero-emission ship nears finish of round-the-world voyage (TechXplore, 28 Feb)
There you go, what Magellan’s guys did in three years this mob has been going at for four years and they still haven’t finished their circumnavigation.
Ex-captain Sooky McCheat and his twitching partner Labbashagnee both gorn.
Significantly, both gorn nicking off into the cordon.
Tick, tick, tick, you pair of flogs.
This post for the benefit of RacerX.
A warning about “trad con” women online.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/brittany-venti-brittany-dier.9831/page-235
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/brittany-venti-brittany-dier.9831/page-236
So on top of the latter, Moldova raises customs duties. Yep, nothing to see here.
Fords are basically quality second, budget first.
They’re not a Lexus and they’re good for the price, with exceptions like that awful gearbox they installed on the LW Focus (PowerShift) for example.
And they will win the future because our scientists are more concerned about DEI and transgender rights. I wonder if that is how Atlantis became extinct.
Nah, Conroy is still there and usually paired up on a panel with Kroger.
Why would Putin be worried about being re-elected when there are no other candidates?
Ok, yes, let’s start WW3 because Russia’s awesomely corrupt microvassal doesn’t like the paying customs duty.
This stuff is black comedy gold.
According to Konstatin Kisin last night capitalism is what gives the west the advantage to progress as it encourages innovation He said even Russia borrowsfrom the west . Who would bother coming up with ideas if the State just took them over .
They didn’t raise duties, they re-imposed duties that had previously been waived as an act of good will. Transnistria claims to be a separate country, after all. Absent a “free trade” deal, countries impose customs duties on other countries’ imports. Transnistria is playing tit for tat, btw.
I have no idea Crossie, but the Navalny thing, the very costly Avdiivka assault and this, plus various other bits and pieces suggest the election is seen by the Kremlin as a significant risk. Risk of what I don’t know. There are actually four candidates on the ballot, including Vlad himself.
Is there a transcript of this speech?
Boambee John
Feb 29, 2024 12:16 PM
Winston S
I was so tempted, BJ.
And then just put the whole thing into the forgettery because the whole organisation is so rift with political intrigue, careerism, and pathetic personality dominance issues that it’s only fixable by losing a war.
However, your idea of promoting people up sounds like the technique used in Germany during WW2 – pull a Regiment from the parent Division after weeks of fighting, promote everyone up a rank, and create an entirely new Division but with the important positions made up of combat capable officers and NCO’s. Top up with recruits who have already done their infantry/artillery/armour training.
Our problem in Australia is that we have no cadre of experienced soldiers/officers for step one. Instead we’ve abused our special forces and driven them into the ground instead of sending a combat formation – I’d suggest a Brigade – and importantly all its supporting units like medical/supply/admin etc. They need on the job training as well.
That’s my view, anyway. No ‘observers’, no dribs and drabs, either a Brigade or nothing. That philosophy of course also applies to RAAF and RAN.
Even when they have their party affiliation listed you have to check out their descriptions of themselves for tell-tale phrases that they are just using the party membership to get elected and afterwards vote as Labor, Greens etc.
There were two things objectionable about Milei’s speech. It was long and it assumed his audience had a minimum IQ of 130. Otherwise it was excellent.
A ship powered by renewable energy, including hydrogen produced onboard, is docked in the southeastern US state of Florida this week as it prepares to finish the last leg of a voyage around the world. … This particular trip around the world started in 2020.
There you go, what Magellan’s guys did in three years this mob has been going at for four years and they still haven’t finished their circumnavigation.
Super comment BoN!
What’s more, Magellan made discoveries along the way.
Just curious, did it go through Panama Canal or around the Horn? (Too lazy to click through.)
Naming Labore MPs that aren’t Chinese patsies is probably a more apt exercise.
Describing serial failure Bowen as Svengali gives him too much credit.
‘Useful idiot’ fits the bill.
I prefer the naughty 2GB epithet – “Casanova”.
It refers to the fact he “f—s up” a lot!
I will believe seacraft like these make sense when Jeff Bezos sells his super yacht and buys one.
Well Google thinks George Washington was African, so there is that.
Tourists say they got stranded in the Australian wilderness after following faulty Google Maps route: The two men reportedly hiked for days past crocodiles, snakes, and deadly spiders after their car got stuck on a muddy road. (28 Feb)
I suspect Google maybe trying to evolve the human race in Darwinian fashion by selecting for intelligence, since the morons that believe anything Google says are being killed off, or aren’t breeding because of the CO2 their progeny might emit.
Re: the not-so-surprising revelations of prominent public identities on the payroll (or wanting to be) of China:
If you really want to be shocked, read a book written by Clive Hamilton a few years ago – “Hidden Hand”. This book NAMES prominent public figures from various western nations who have entered into compromising relationships with leading Chinese communists.
When I read it I honestly couldn’t believe how Hamilton got it published.
We should also start dedicating to him Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni.
Why are we surprised at this when China owns America’s very own president, Joe Biden?
A fundamental assumption of freedom lovers is that if you have facts and reason on your side, you don’t need to censor speech.
This in turn presupposes that the general populace is susceptible to facts and reason.
I have grave doubts about this.
He had the truth defence to fall back on.
On a brighter note, he’s since been uninvited to many many inner city dinner parties.
Hamilton’s had an “interesting” ideological trajectory, when you think about.
He’s gone from advocating Kangaroo shooting tourism adventures, to the suspension of democracy to denouncing chinese influence peddling among our political class. Along the way he may have advocated Australia utilising nookular energy as well.
He was also on the receiving end of some “colourful” correspondence from a certain G. Bird, Esq.
No wonder none of his collectivist confreres now want anything to do with him.
Media Conspiracy news (the Hun):
Baby meat in Maccas burgers. Finally, a theory that should grow legs.
Yet another Independent Internet Media / Trusted Blogger.
Trust them. Trust them all, I say!
A shallow dive into lefty Twitter reveals they’re quite stirred up about the former politician who spied for a foreign country.
Quite some speculation about who it may be.
Their most common guesses are: Tony Abbott, Peter Dutton, Joe Hockey or John Howard. (On the basis none of those are remotely patriotic & all are “for sale” to the highest bidder)
They’ve categorically ruled out any possibility it could be an ALP politician, on the ground that it is preposterous that any ALP member could possibly be remotely aligned with a foreign power, or be “for sale”
The malignant foreign nation is automatically assumed to be USA – with a minority stating that is “has to be” Israel.
They’re serious.
If it does, do I have to keep it?