Great music. —- K-Pax Grand Central Track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WyOAqaTcOA
Open Thread – Mon 4 March 2024
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
- Bumtree #15
- Bumtree #14
- Open Thread – Thurs 16 May 2024
It still spins me out how close they fly together. Trust! — Blue Angels – Dancin on the Ceiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpV0lMconCA
Why, that’s Their ABC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmhGYB4NdYc For the benefit of you young fellows, that’s how to use a handgun!
Might be worth a few minutes read. Orban versus EU
Dover, I’ve really enjoyed the return of the last few guests posts from Bob, Rafe and Peter.
Anyone watch the rugby league American match?
Blob
Sinak to crack down on propallies
new rules for ramadan in Saudi Arabia
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Good Lord.
post article about the Yom Yippur war
The Greens dropped 4 percent to about 6 percent overall vote in Dunkley. At least that is some good news.
Not sure if it is paywalled or not.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
Chris Bowen’s assertions about Labor’s vehicle emission standards do not cancel out the observable reality
Whether you’re a one-man mistake machine or a Labor minister hell bent on costing us billions, absence of even basic research is always the problem, writes Tim Blair
Tim Blair
4 Mar 2024
Whether you’re a one-man mistake machine or a Labor minister hell bent on costing us billions, absence of even basic research is always the problem.
Take popular error generator Peter FitzSimons, for example.
The Sydney Morning Herald columnist probably doesn’t know it, but a significant number of his readers log in simply to enjoy and share the veteran hack’s characteristic blunders.
We’re quite a community. When Fitzy delivers – which is impressively often – phones and laptops light up across the land.
My favourite recent FitzSimons failure occurred during an interview last year with Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins, following Australia’s ODI World Cup victory.
“You’re going to be remembered for your captaincy in the final, for your aggressive tactics,” FitzSimons told hero Pat.
“Ian Chappell always said, ‘When you win the toss, nine times out of 10 you should choose immediately to bat first. On the 10th occasion, you should think about it, and then bat first’. But you decided to bowl first,” FitzSimons said.
Cummins was too polite to correct his interviewer, but Chappell’s bat-first imperative applies only to Test cricket. By contrast, the World Cup is a one-day contest.
The batting sequence in one-dayers isn’t nearly so important, as anyone with an elementary understanding of the game and access to the internet would be aware.
There have been 13 World Cup finals, including last year’s contest between Australia and India. Teams winning the toss have bowled first six times and batted first seven times.
In the very first World Cup final, in 1975, Australia won the toss and bowled. An intriguing historical point unknown to Pete: Australia’s captain in that final was Chappell.
That’s our fact-free Fitzy for you. Long may he entertain us all. Less amusing but likely far more expensive are the research faults committed by Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who is equally caveman-level Fitzian when it comes to information online.
Bowen seems to think that his assertions somehow cancel out not only observable reality, but also undisputed historical facts gleaned from the internet.
Recently he repeated his claim that Australians won’t be denied our big utes once Labor’s vehicle emission standards are introduced.
“Look at the United States. They’ve had these standards since the 1970s,” Bowen told an interviewer last month. “And you can get a pick-up truck, what they call – they call their utes pick-up trucks – you can get a pick-up truck in the US pretty easily. So the idea that if you have emissions standards and somehow you won’t have utes is just a fantasy.”
But under initial Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) rules, pick-ups were largely exempt. It’s all online.
The Washington Post reported in 2023: “To protect American commerce, work trucks and light trucks were subject to less-strict CAFE standards than family sedans.”
As recently as 2021, according to an analysis from The Australian, nearly half of Ford F-Series pick-up trucks were excluded from US fuel standards. Bowen’s US emissions defence is dead.
So is his argument that the rubbish Chinese-made electric LDV eT60 ute – which costs more than $90,000 in Australia, double the diesel version’s price – is cheaper in NZ thanks to Labor-like efficiency rules.
“The Honourable Member asked me about the LDV eT60 electric ute,” Bowen said last week in parliament.
“I’m going to refer him to an article in the Drive newspaper, which says: ‘LDV eT60 electric ute now cheaper than its diesel twin, but only in New Zealand’.
“Why is it cheaper in New Zealand but not in Australia? New Zealand has vehicle efficiency standards. Australia does not.”
Let’s check out that October 2023 article then. It says nothing about the price drop being to do with efficiency standards. Rather, the LDV eT60 simply scored a huge $NZ23,000 dealer discount on top of a $NZ7015 “Clean Car Rebate”.
Why the discount? Because the thing won’t sell. In a subsequent Stuff.co.nz piece, LDV confirmed that “the current inventory of heavily discounted eT60s in the country is the last we will see of the model, with no plans to renew supply.
“Between January and September of this year, just 53 eT60s were registered in New Zealand.”
Look it up, Chris. It’s all there.
A personal favourite Bowenism is his repeated claim that forcing car-makers to fill showrooms with EVs is about offering variety. “This is ultimately about choice,” he said in 2022. “Freedom of choice.”
Yep. You’ll have a huge choice of cars that you don’t like and won’t buy. Dealerships will be like supermarkets forced to stock 80 per cent vegan snacks. Take your choice, shoppers. Pick anything you want, so long as you don’t want it.
Anyway, I must be going. A text just lobbed saying Peter FitzSimons wrote a column last week about motor racing.
He knows very little about cricket, but Pete knows absolutely nothing about cars. This may take some time. See you in a few months.
Tim Blair
Journalist
And Bolta with a couple of good commentaries as well.
Today’s Tele:
Where’s the police apology to Pell, who died last year, his career and reputation destroyed?
Why did Victoria Police apologise to a Papuan sex offender for a couple of hours of embarrassment but not to an innocent Christian bishop wrongly jailed for 13 months?
Andrew Bolt
4 Mar 2024
Christians last week learnt how lowly they now rank after Victoria’s police issued a grovelling apology to a serial sex offender from West Papua.
They even learnt Labor is paying defenders of terrorism to promote Islam.
First, let me be clear: I have no problem with police saying they were “sincerely sorry” for arresting Alfons Pirimapun for something he did not do. This time.
But why haven’t they also said sorry for wrongly charging Catholic cardinal George Pell?
Pirimapun is an illegal immigrant jailed in Queensland for indecently assaulting women, and later convicted of raping a woman in Victoria.
He’s now one of 149 foreign criminals the Albanese government freed from immigration detention last year when the High Court ruled that illegal immigrants who wouldn’t or couldn’t go home could not be detained indefinitely.
Yet police have now apologised to him because they’d arrested, charged and held Pirimapun for a few hours last week when they wrongly thought he was the man – same appearance, same area – who’d allegedly sexually assaulted a Richmond woman.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attacked the Liberals for “pre-emptive political gameplay” over Pirimapun, initially exploiting news of his arrest: “Authorities should be allowed to do their job free of this.”
Now contrast. Unlike Pirimapun, Cardinal George Pell had no criminal record when Victoria Police charged him in 2017 with 26 child sex offences against nine boys.
What a farce. Those charges were so preposterous that every one was eventually dropped, dismissed or overturned on appeal.
Police even claimed Pell raped one boy during a screening in a busy cinema, apparently not caring that anyone could see him or hear the boy scream.
Even the charges that saw Pell jailed for 404 days – until the High Court unanimously overturned his conviction – were so ridiculously improbable that no impartial police force should have trusted them.
Police actually claimed Pell raped two teenage boys at once in an open sacristy right after Mass, even though one of them denied any abuse, witnesses swore they were with Pell at the time, and neither Pell nor his alleged victims could have reached the scene of the crime at the only time the sacristy could have been empty.
So where’s the police apology to Pell, who died last year, his career and reputation destroyed? Why do police apologise to a Papuan sex offender for a couple of hours of embarrassment, but not to an innocent Christian bishop wrongly jailed for 13 months?
That’s not the only hypocrisy. Albanese, outraged that the Liberals made Pirimapun a political issue for half a day, was silent when Labor persecuted Pell for years.
Labor premier Daniel Andrews had even shamed former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott for visiting his friend Pell in prison, and when the High Court ruled Pell was wrongly convicted, tweeted: “I have a message for every single victim and survivor of child sex abuse: I see you. I hear you. I believe you.”
Andrews also promoted Shane Patton, who oversaw the Pell investigation, to chief of his police.
If you haven’t yet got the message, note another scandal last week.
Adel Salman, head of the Islamic Council of Victoria, told the ABC the October 7 attack on Israel by the Hamas terrorist group was a “legitimate act of resistance”, even though Hamas slaughtered 1200 people, raped many women, shot children, beheaded victims and kidnapped more than 250 people.
Salman had not simply misspoken, even if he now says he’s against the killing of innocents. Last October he’d also said the Hamas slaughter eight days earlier was a “legitimate response to occupation and siege” and “shame” on journalists asking him to condemn Hamas.
Yet Victoria’s Labor government still invited him to its dinner this month to celebrate the Muslim Ramadan.
What’s more, it promised at the last election to “invest $500,000 to fund an exhibition to celebrate the life of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) and share the history of our Islamic communities”.
Some of that money was to go to Salman’s Islamic Council of Victoria, which would get another $400,000 for “Open Mosque Day” so “more Victorians can share in and learn about the faith”.
Does Labor pay Catholics to “celebrate the life of Christ” or lure Victorians into their churches? Does it throw dinners for bishops who’ve defended the mass murder of civilians?
Why does this Labor government shill for Islam, not Christianity? Why do its police apologise to a Papuan sex offender and not a martyred cardinal?
Originally published as Where’s the police apology to Pell, who died last year, his career and reputation destroyed?
Bolta:
Program notes for Melbourne Writers Festival session implies an obscene falsehood
The taxpayer-funded festival is parroting the propaganda of extremists – that Palestinians are as indigenous to Israel as Aborigines to Australia
Andrew Bolt
4 Mar 2024
Those stones don’t lie. I stood last week at the exact spot in Jerusalem that proves the activists who’ve hijacked the Melbourne Writers Festival are fools or frauds.
I’m talking about the pro-Palestinian activists who last week made their deputy chairman resign in protest by turning her festival into a hate-Israel circus.
These haters scheduled a session that comes with program notes implying an obscene falsehood: “Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity has a long history, a relationship that is more vital than ever in the movement to resist colonialism and speak out against atrocities.”
Colonialism? And so the taxpayer-funded writers’ festival now parrots the propaganda of Palestinian extremists – that Palestinians are as indigenous to Israel as Aborigines to Australia, and both face a common white enemy of settlers. Invaders. Colonialists.
In fact, the so-called Palestinian “embassy” in Canberra published a paper which couldn’t be clearer about that: “Israel and Australia were both founded on the destruction of the existing native population, replacing this population with a new, European one.”
But like I said, the stones don’t lie, even if activists do. And they say that linking the Aboriginal and Palestinian causes like that is a hoax, and anti-Semitic.
Where I stood last week was in front of the famous Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall.
It’s the last scrap that remains of the great Second Temple of the Jews, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD, nearly 2000 years ago. Jews have prayed there ever since – when they were allowed – because it’s the closest they can get to the Holy of Holies, the room that supposedly once held the Ark of the Covenant, containing the Ten Commandments.
That room was said to be in the First Temple, built at that site probably around 3000 years ago but torn down by Babylonians in 586BC.
But if you’re at the Western Wall, look up. You’ll see what Muslim conquerors from Saudi Arabia built on top of this Jewish site “just” 1300 years ago – the golden-domed al-Aqsa mosque.
The stones tell us Muslim Arabs colonised a Jewish sacred site that was thousands of years older than their imported new religion.
So what came first? The Jewish foundations or the Muslim mosque built on top of them?
A question, then: if Australia’s chic writers really want to support the indigenous people of Israel, why don’t they support the Jews? The answer seems ugly.
Originally published as Program notes for Melbourne Writers Festival session implies an obscene falsehood.
Andrew Bolt
Columnist
Rosie
Mar 4, 2024 4:52 AM
Interesting read.
I was nearly 13 when that war broke out.
Ta Rosie.
Plod imposing their own statute of limitations on unauthorised access by their own to their database. Appalling.
Gotta feel for the frugality of the Oz trougher(s) .. no personal sacrifice is too great, 3000 kms for 40 minutes and a bit of (free) cake,
when your reliant on the mug taxpayer footing the bill, life is tuff .. LOL!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13151429/Gina-Rineharts-70th-birthday-Perth.html
I have no objection to any pollie flying in to celebrate Gins’s birthday. She is a great Australian & puts other magnates to shame.
Perhaps Gina paid for his flights?
Day one of my new lifestyle regime, as dictated by quacks, following my hospital stint ..
NO swimming, NO biking for at least 3 weeks .. gonna be some looooooooong dayz coming up ….. duuuuuh!
Watch Resident Alien on Netflix shatterzzz, it’s quite fun funny.
Thanks Tom.
I have no objection to any pollie flying in to celebrate Gins’s birthday. She is a great Australian & puts other magnates to shame.
Perhaps Gina paid for his flights?
1st up it’s the troughers doing all the whinge-ing about “carbon footprinting” but, apparently it doesn’t include them …. FFS!
2ndly .. Why is a pollie accepting “freebies” if, supposing, Gina paid for the flight(s) .. no one gives without wanting something in return .. eventually! ..
It’s no wonder these troughers do as the like when there are taxpayers who are happy to make excuses for them …….
Sooooooo we’ll have no more whinge-ing about Luigi’s OS jaunts or his luv of “live music”? ……….. can’t have it both wayz ……… FFS!
Perhaps Swift paid for the PMs ticket?
I should hit up Gina for some money to help us fight Bowen and his Chinese corporate wind mates.
It’s a joke that an ex-pollie influence peddler is causing tut tuts in the media when Bowen and AEMO are only courting Chinese industry to build and supply the majority of hardware for the renewable plan.
I can’t see a problem here. Lucky for Chris that he’s never grown barley or hay, he might then see a slight flaw in his dance partner.
🙂
A few hours later, Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokesperson, said that Austin was citing an estimate from the Gaza health ministry and was referring to total Palestinians killed, not just women and children.
So the media has no problem believing only 51 000 killed (I’m assuming no civilian figures included cos it’s only in Gaza where civvy figures matter ..FFS) in 2 years of conflict but the 25 000 “civilian” deaths over 4 months in Gaza are, obviously, accurate cos they are issued by, that thoroughly reputable organization, the Gaza Ministry of Health which we are assured by the media is always correct cos they (MoH) are backed up by another,totally, trustworthy operation UNWRA …….
Wonder what the Gaza figures would be like if they included “terrorist” deaths ..?
Pretty dumb take by Tim Pool: Advocating for genocide is free speech.
He’s a controlled opp.
Perhaps Swift paid for the PMs ticket?
get my email address from Dover .. I’ve got a bridge for sale .. verrry cheap .. LOL!
Beertruk, thanks for the Tele transcripts.
Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson
How To Destroy the American Legal System
By either listening to testimonies or reading transcripts of the various 2024 Trump election-related court cases and testimonies, what we are left with is an epidemic of lies.
Long list of examples.
They would be the details provided by you, about failing Economics 1 and marrying into the upper middle class, would they? Are you admitting that your entire persona is a lie, even the support (but not at a physical level) for Ante-fa?
We already know that you lied about the dates you were in India. Were you also lying about your rental (slum lord) houses and the fantasy football business?
Curious minds wish to hear the truth.
Thanks, Beery. Tim Blair on nation-wrecker Chris Bowen’s new vehicle emission standards:
The problem is that Labor no longer represents the working class, just union bosses skimming off management fees from compulsory superannuation accounts.
The Uniparty Is Only a Few Steps Away From Gutting the U.S. Dollar
In Horrible Optics news:
The Daily Mail has a bit of a kick at Dutton (per shatterzzz link).
So, the best 40-minute night of Dutton’s life?
Nope. The quote was actually from a Rinehart employee invited to the bash.
Subeditor’s revenge.
New documents reveal Chinese espionage at Canadian biolab and Trudeau tried to cover it up
DogeDesigner
@cb_doge
Media will never report their own decline
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The massive flood of illegal immigration is due to 94 executive actions by the Biden administration.
Until those executive actions are revoked, claims by Biden that he wants to address illegal immigration are a bold-faced lie.
Wow, Dr Faustas at 8.38am. I’ve never seen anything as brazen as that — a subeditor putting someone else’s words in Dutton’s mouth to make him look bad.
Dutton Derangement is only a junior cousin of Trump Derangement, but it’s a thing among the activists coming out of Australian J-schools.
The Australian left fears Peter Dutton. I hope someone on his staff has told him.
Multiple States Prepare for Vaccines to Be Added to Food Supply: Doctor Warns About ‘Genetically Adulterated’ Food with No Long Term Safety Data
U.S. began adding $1 trillion in debt every three months last June
New York Opens a Back Door to Communism
As the Country Divides – so do Families
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, My son voted for Biden because he said Trump he thought was an asshole. We hardly talk any more for he is among the brainwashed. He will not change his mind, for he then has to admit he has been wrong. It has gotten to the point I am changing my will and he gets nothing. A few of my friends are in the same boat. This has divided the nation, but it is also destroying families.
GF
REPLY: I have friend who no longer talk to their children and they are European and that is over climate change and COVID. This is the hated that is a deliberate psychological war tactic that they have used against our own people. Who cares if Trump is arrogant as long as he keeps the world at peace, protects our privacy, and stands up against the Deep State? This is becoming a vote for Trump or Victoria Nuland – because Biden is not there. Families are being broken up, and there is no going back.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/ecm-armstrongeconomics101/as-the-country-divides-so-do-families/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Lurch is at it again.
‘Climate Breakdown’: John Kerry Tries Out A New Climate Catchphrase To Ratchet Up The Fear (3 Mar)
Trying to wring the last drops of terror out of perfectly normal weather. I think they’re getting increasingly desperate since the population has stopped listening.
One little note on the Asio “spying politician we wont name”.
Sure took the “fit up a retarded kid for terrorism offences” off the news cycle didnt it?
That was the AFP though.
This is what happens when there is no limit on power. Upsetting.
Inside China’s Disturbing Death Vans – They’re Real, Common, and Very Scary (Unseen Footage)
wouldn’t be the first time.
or even the second
Speccie commentator Terry Barnes on the Dunkley result…
I’d disagree with his last point. All the result shows is that Albanese is not “on the nose” in Dunkley and possibly in Victoria. Come to Queensland and you’ll get a different opinion.
Thanks, Indolent.
Christ that’s unnerving.
I have theoretical arguments for extreme cases that justify the death penalty.
I can’t just stomach the state having that much power, particularly when Leviathan is unshackled.
Using Wikipedia as a reliable leading indicator of climate hysteria, the answer is “Climate Apocalypse”.
Before even getting to the second line I actually read that as “Pogrom notes for Melbourne Writers Festival…”
’tis hoped some clueless journo might ask Melbourne’s Muslim community what they think of pork barrelling.
Not quite there yet Roger. That old Sydney v Melbourne rivalry again.
Indolent:
I’m sure Xi will lend them billions of dollars in exchange for some lucrative deals on ports, airports, water supply etc.
…and will be happy to lend policing help if asked nicely.
That was the AFP though.
2 cheeks of the same arse.
ASIO would have been up to its guts in that one as well.
Roger, the first time I laid eyes and ears on Hansomeboy* he was on my nose. Never said or done anything to change my mind. That was also in the days when I was apolitical, though somewhat conservative.
*correct spelling. Think about it.
D day for Drumgold. Overdue for a win but I doubt today is the day. Like Australian taxpayers, another loser from the Brittany Blob.
My old mate Patricia K sinks the slipper into the Aussie Trumpist strategy.
Lot of talk about Libs’ strength in Mt Eliza, which has less than 5% renters. Does the LNP and the right in general have any policy solutions at all for the housing crisis? No? Then they will continue to lose.
Given that they are beholden to their mega-rich donors, they can’t even promise turning off the immigration spigot. They can put out token racist dog-whistles to fool some of the most stupid (see: Cats), but anyone with a clue knows that they are not going to threaten the profit margins of their maaaaates.
Grim reading for the right in Australia.
The communities of tent dwellers up here are called Albovilles for a reason.
Demorats panicking because blacks are walking off their plantation;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/merrick-garland-speaking-alabama-church-voter-id-requirements/
Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil have new competition.
Maybe the numb slunt should’ve given that cold, lumpy porridge
to the rickets and scurvy blighted denizens of the Gorbals,
instead of wasting it on some performative art.
*Sorcha Ni Mhairtin’s likes include Celtic FC and hamarse.
Probably.
LOL, the delusion continues. Where is the recovery? Their entire swing was all PHON and UAP voters. Barnes is an upper-class twit.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say Dutton is toxic, but he just doesn’t connect with regular people. He’s a cop, and always will be.
Given that they are beholden to their mega-rich donors, they can’t even promise turning off the immigration spigot.
But enough about Albo…
The Voice, Tay Tay, the Australian Open. Handsome Boy is really connecting with regular people, isn’t he?
Dunkley after the redistribution is a solid Labour seat. Frankston being it’s Labor heart. And still , a 4% swing against the Lefturds. You’re over egging it again, as usual m0ron.
“I’ve got no decent arguments…go the ad hom.”
Chuckle.
Danland is now a perpetual ALP win.
The result doesn’t mean much at all.
mUnty
Reduce immigration to the minimum practicable until the housing shortage is overcome.
Get the sticky fingers of local gummint greenies off the approval processes for new housing.
Reduce Commonwealth, state and local gummint taxes and financial imposts on new housing.
Would the Liars or the Slime even consider such actions? Of course not, and you know it. Their reactions would be to screech “waycisssm”, “environmental vandalism”, and “handouts to the rich”.
And you would be there, screeching in the chorus.
Or the Liars and the Slime could confiscate the properties of slumlords like you, except that most of them are also slumlords, so they won’t..
mUnty
LOL, the Liars and the Slime are dedicated to importing a new vote herd, the chances of them reducing immigration are far, far, lower than the chances of the LNP doing so.
No wonder you failed Economics 1.
Says all I need to say about gubbernment in the west.
Still no response from mUnty to this post at 0834, to correct the record.
I was reliably informed that Dutton was targeting Labor heartland with appeals to the working class.
If all that achieves is lowering the margin of Labor victory by a few points, I don’t see the logic. Perhaps you can explain, because it seems to me to be the opposite of what he should be doing.
mUnty making a solid effort with his organ grinders monkey routine. Quoting PK won’t get you too far anywhere, least of all here.
New York Times:
Trump support among black voters grows 500%
Humphrey, it’s obvious Mr Potato Head’s mistake in Dunkley was not pursuing the ABC lesbian communist vote.
That article in the Fin last week by the blokes beaten by the Teals in former blue ribbon Lib seats was a massive red flag for the right, not just in this country but in the US and UK where the “centre right” parties are on this quixotic quest for the mythical working class libertarian demographic.
Australia has already rejected that strategy and shown it to be about as big a loser as you can get in a two-party system. Republicans keep losing elections bigly, and have done so ever since getting lucky in 2016. The Tories are a complete rabble in Old Blighty, almost worse than Labour now.
The right in Western countries is spending too much time deluding itself inside its media echo chambers.
The deputy leader of George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain is being investigated by UK police for declaring to his 149K followers on X that Israel “has forfeited any right to exist”.
Rosie, you’ve been in Italy for a while now, is this true? 😀
The swing against the ALPBC is more than 4%.
Just don’t dare claim that ASIO is incompetent, or you’ll upset a waffling ol’ windbag from Canberra.
As for Dunkley, how did it vote in the screech referendumb again? Oh, that’s right, 56% no.
I would need to be convinced that the Voice vote carries any weight in a compulsory preferential vote.
Achieving a 4% swing against Labor in it’s heartland within the Peoples Republic of Sicktoria is no small achievement. Hardly a glowing victory for the Left. Which is why you have been assigned on here now, talking it up for your team, putting glitter on the turd.
This one’s for agricultural Cats. Clearing sales might start getting rather interesting…
I’m amused by all the screeching in the media about Facechook refusing to pay for Australian news. Maybe they’ve decided they shouldn’t spend money on something that’s worthless.
I wonder how much the ABC was getting? Some redundancies would be a fine April Fools Day gift.
Yet more staggering incompetence – from the Oz:
This is what happens when you believe in climate lunacy as opposed to objectively trying to do your bloody job.
Mike burgess will not name spy because his offences occurred before new espionage laws introduced in 2018 were not in place. This is BS.
Australia introduced its first national espionage offence in 1914 with the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) (‘Crimes Act’). This offence was repealed in 2002 and replaced with four new offences found in the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) (‘Criminal Code’). These new offences increased the maximum penalty from seven years’ imprisonment to 25 years’ imprisonment for all offences.
Section 91.1(1) of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison is instructive. This section states:
To establish the offence, the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that:
1. You dealt with information or an article
2. The information or article had a security classification, or concerned Australia’s national security
3. You intended by your conduct to prejudice Australia’s national security, or to advantage the national security of a foreign country, and
4. Your conduct resulted in, or will result in, the information or article being communicated or made available to a foreign principal, or a person acting on behalf of a foreign principal.
If any of those variables are present that Act, despite being superseded by the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Act 2018 (Cth) (‘Espionage Act’) , can apply to the spy. So, what game is Burgess playing.
It was also an excellent result for the LNP in 2022 when they achieved a 7.2% swing in the federal seat of Calwell, covering Broadmeadows, Craigieburn and sundry satellite suburbs which are the target of the party’s new Trumpen lumpen strategy.
Which left the margin in that seat at a measly 24.8% to Labor.
I just don’t see the logic in changing your electoral focus such that you run a close second in every kind of seat.
An old Aussie expression comes to mind…
They’ve got tickets on themselves.
It was a 4% swing away from the Greens.
Econazis seem to be on the nose lately.
Labor actually got a 1% swing to them on primary vote.
Could this mark the turning point in the WA strippers sector which has never really recovered from the Pam Beggs hits during the 80s? An entire generation of Uni footballers have been denied exploits of those wishing to follow Baby Doll into a rewarding, cash based entertainment sector.
I bet Debbie is an old minger. I knew a roustabout who dressed like that.
The 2PP swing to the LNP in Dunkley is currently 3.56% with all booths reporting and preferences distributed, I think they’re all done as of about half an hour ago.
https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-29778-210.htm
0.9%
It seems a number of people value the aggregate contribution of Australian j’ismists at zero.
Value is what people will pay you for something.
Death of Mitch McConnell sister in law being reported in Daily Mail as suspicious.
Head of family shipping company and also on board of Bank of China.
Haha, that’s taking home ground advantage a bit far.
Australia’s under-20s forced to play on snow-covered pitch in Uzbekistan (4 Mar)
Looks intentional too, since they’ve swept the snow away from the sidelines and goals, but left it in the centre. Maybe they wanted to slow the Matilda midfield down or something. Weird visuals. Didn’t work: the Uzbek wymminses still lost 2-1.
If, as Keating reportedly opined, Australia is the arse end of the world, then journalists are our haemorrhoids.
Dunkley is brave face territory for both major parties – and a harbinger of trouble for Australia.
Stroking the Dunkley numbers, ALP backroomers will be turtling. The Dunkley 2PP swing repeated Nationally (or, I think, just in Victoria) has Team Albanese in minority government backed up by a Teal or two and Adam Bandt*.
All of which is not helped by the fact that Handsome Boy is performing like a deer in the headlights. Or by his economic front benchers playing the Titanic’s greatest hits.
And while Dutton didn’t crash and burn with a 6% first preference swing, he obviously has a way to go to demonstrate a coherent alternative plan for government.
* The National impact of the otherwise attractive 4% swing against the Greens is distorted by the small size of the Green first preference vote in Dunkley.
Cernovich
@Cernovich
World War 3 has already begun.
British troops are directing air strikes in Ukraine.
Germany intends to bomb Crimea.
AEC taking a leaf from the Democrats…
The swing has fallen a bit since I last looked, which was just before my earlier comment.
The real world has finally affected MPs – June Slater (UK Politics Uncovered)
Further to this inane comment earlier by mUnty:
clearly mUnty is suffering from early-onset dementia. He has forgotten that soon after becoming PM in 2010, the Droner from Altona expressed the opinion that there was no need to build a “Big Australia”. Within a couple of weeks she had walked back from that position, and spoke in favour of large scale immigration.
Does that mean that the ALP “are [so] beholden to their mega-rich donors [unions via superannuation industry funds], they can’t even promise turning off the immigration spigot“, even if that would relieve the pressure on housing availability?
4% is the average swing against the government in an Australian byelection. Complete chalk result.
Also, what’s with you lot giving Albo a nickname like Handsome Boy? Are you trying to make him sound cool? I preferred Luigi the Unbelievable, that was nicely catty.
Albanese has done the same…campaigned with promise to cut immigration and upskill locals, in office presided over the largest annual intake ever.
Cynical is too kind a description for the ALP’s immigration policy, or lack thereof.
Evidence?
Dutton won’t get there while he continues fighting on leftist ground. If the LNP want to win, they must abandon their Labor-Lite focus and shift their policies to areas that will help put money back into taxpayer households; energy, taxes, smaller Govt, green tape. Take on leftist money black holes like the indigenous industry, welfare and NDIS. If Dutton doesn’t stop with the fighting in the Left’s back yard, the SFL’s have no hope.
Not me, but he does seem to’ve had a few enhancements, let’s say. It’s amusing.
Going by this and other comments by Fat Boy this morning, the Liars are dead scared of this tactic.
Yeah well, that’s just because the Greenscum vote is counted separately when it ought to be tabulated together. The Greenscum are just the climate hysteria and communist and anti-sem wing of the Liars Party.
Dutton needs to abandon all pandering to the leftoids and show the nation there is an alternative to the deliberate destruction of the country.
I believe he may just be capable of that, however the real question is how many of the Linos will follow him. I suspect very few.
It took me some time to work out what this was about. At first I assumed it was referring to some new farm implements called skimpies.
Way to keep up with current events monotesticle.The Chinese gave “Handsome Boy” that handle.
Actually JC, I undershot it. From a recent Albo interview:
I think that Luigi should be named using the same system as recent PMs.
Boris Johnson became BoJo.
Scott Morrison became ScoMo.
Anthony Albanese should become AnAl.
Thanks for the suggestion, mUnty.
The swing away from greens may be 4% of all votes but isn’t it a 50% swing away from their earlier share of the vote?
Premier Li’s somewhat condescending description of Albanese.
If the cap fits.
A more in-depth look at by-elections.
tl:dr; it depends on how you look at the data, par score for Dunkley could have been 5% or 1.7%.
Yes Crossie, the scum lost 50% of their previous support.
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If the swing is uniform at the next election, the only way the Liars could hold power is through the support of the scum and a couple of lunatic indeps.
This is a potentially a repeat of the last abortion.
The fact Albo wasn’t even there on election night was a tell. Neither was Spud though. Piss weak from both. UniParty move.
I always thought the Chinese were being sarcastic.
ROFLMAO. mUnty thinks that a Dorothy Dixer from the MSM to AnAl just as voting started in Dunkley would produce an honest answer.
Or he is deluded enough to think that we will believe him.
What did he call Wong? Awesome Chick?
Youtube is near unwatchable – ads every 4 minutes on the dot..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U0wQPMwvVc&t=140s
RTWT.
Imagine, Adam Bandt holding the balance of power. Australia’s defacto PM past the next election. That would be fun.
Brave is good for that, I never get YT ads.
For righty sites I allow ads, but Goolag hates me so I return the favour.
Dover
Why would you assume, that the available aircraft stocks would be the same in peace time as it is in wartime?
You don’t think there would be massive manpower requisitions from civilian to military to crank up availability?
Not sure what to make of the Dunkley result.
Like others, I got the catastrophic dumping of the Morrison government right. I always thought it was a no-brainer, but the rusted-on Libs couldn’t see it. Similarly, I couldn’t see the Voice getting up after the mob’s representatives kept shooting themselves in the foot – & scaring off most voters.
But I thought that the combination of Albo’s failure to deliver on energy prices & the cost-of-living would be reflected more in the Dunkley result. So, I feel I got that wrong.
I still feel that the Albo mob will be a one term government. But there are many variables to affect that prophecy in the meantime. Eg I think that there will be a global economic collapse in the West towards the end of this year, and many scurrilous factors are bringing us all closer to global conflict some time later. Such serious developments will often save bad government due to the “comfort” factor of stability. Who knows?
Fair chance such an arrangement wouldn’t last a term.
But if it did it would see Labor unelectable for a decade or more.
Interesting. Companies are now drilling for helium.
From the OOT:
There was no error.
Officer Sicknick being bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by Trump supporters was also ‘widely reported’. The false reports, here, were a means of assuaging the hurt feelings of UKR supporters following the loses in Avdeevka.
No fan of the Morrison government, but I don’t think “catastrophic” is an apt descriptor of the result.
The LNP got more primary votes than Labor and Albanese was only able to form government with a slim majority of seats (77).
It’s the next election that is likely to be catastrophic if Labor loses their majority.
It would be the Oakeshott-Windsor era on steroids. But instead of having two “independents” calling the shots, it would by a full-on communist in charge, attempting to deconstruct the nation’s economy and move even more of it to China.
That is a blatant lie and Albansleazey knows it. Of course the j’ismist was too stupid to call him on it.
Top Ender, if you are here.
Below is from the ASPI “The Strategist” site. Interested in your comments.
Some questions.
What types of anti-shipping missiles are these ships likely to carry, and what are their likely effective ranges?
What types of anti-aircraft missiles are these ships likely to carry, and what are their likely effective ranges?
What does “optimally crewed” mean? I thought all warships would be “optimally crewed”. Or is this code for minimally crewed merchant standard ships armed with large numbers of vertically launched missiles of both the above types, intended to be fired en masse from outside the range of opposing missiles (and, hopefully, aircraft)?
After which they would suffer the fate of HMS Jervis Bay and Captain Fegen in 1940.
Greens were the big loser in Dunkley. Don’t expect much media coverage though.
Towering infernos news.
More NYC fires caused by lithium-ion batteries from e-bikes in 2 months than in all of 2019: FDNY chief (3 Mar)
Nice wedge issue: lefties lurve Gaia-conveyances, and also lurve tiny dog box apartments, but lefties also run New York. Too many burny e-bikes and this equation might change overnight, since people tend to dislike their neighbours burning down their apartment.
Helloooo Lover Boy?
Byelections for dead people are a bit different.
Also, what’s with you lot giving Albo a nickname like Handsome Boy?
Respect.
Best to use the admiring soubriquet given him by his peers rather than taking a cheap crack at the man.
As Roger has noted, the next General Election isn’t going to be decided in Victoriastan. Qld, as usual, and you expect would post-Sneakers WA to return to the mean.
mUnty is waaaaay off the pace for a political tragic of the leftard variety.
Linda Reynolds receives $90,000 defamation settlement over former ACT DPP’s Lehrmann trial comments
Has there ever been a more meteoric fall from the dizzying heights of the legal profession than Dumbgeld?
“We accept that allegations about senator Reynolds made by the former Director of Public Prosecutions were found by the Board of Inquiry to be defamatory,” a spokesperson for the Justice and Community Safety Directorate said.
“The settlement includes a formal apology from the ACT and retraction of the allegations contained in the letter from the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold SC.
“We also agreed to an undertaking from the acting Director of Public Prosecutions that he will direct his staff not to further publish the allegations made against senator Reynolds.”
I have brazenly stolen the piece below from JoNova, another example of our courts in action:
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BREAKING: Australian Federal Court throws out Covid mRNA vaccine challenge
The Australian Courts have blocked a legal challenge over Moderna’s and Pfizer’s mRNA Covid vaccines on a technicality, stalling efforts to raise the alarm over alleged unregulated genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including high levels of DNA contamination, in the vials.
The Federal Court rejected Dr Julian Fidge’s application to seek an injunction preventing Moderna and Pfizer from distributing their products in Australia, in a decision handed down today, Friday 1 March, almost nine months after the application was filed. Dr Fidge has been ordered to pay costs.
Dr Fidge alleges that the mRNA Covid vaccines contain GMOs in two forms – the LNP-mod-RNA complexes, and plasmid DNA contamination – for which Pfizer and Moderna never obtained the proper approvals from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR).
It is a serious criminal offence under the Gene Technology Act (2000) to “deal with” unapproved GMOs in Australia.
The OGTR denies that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are or contain GMOs, or that the products required a licence from the OGTR before being distributed in Australia, characterising such claims as “misinformation” in a statement released in December of last year.
However, the case will not be heard in the Courts. Justice Helen Rofe dismissed Dr Fidge’s application on the basis that he lacks standing due to not being considered an “aggrieved person” under the Act, and therefore “has no reasonable prospect of successfully prosecuting the proceeding.”
This begs the question – if Dr Fidge is not an aggrieved person, who is?
Instructing solicitor Katie Ashby-Koppens, of Sydney law firm PJ O’Brien & Associates, said that the decision overturns legal tradition by introducing ‘standing’ to dismiss a general civil action brought against a company for wrongdoing.
“This is the latest decision in a pattern where the courts are simply refusing to hear evidence by throwing actions out at the earliest preliminary phase possible,” said Ashby-Koppens in a statement responding to Justice Rofe’s decision.
“It is concerning that where cases have been brought in respect to large pharmaceutical interests that the courts are not allowing the cases to get beyond first base.”
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/breaking-australian-federal-court
Bought and paid for court system and judges, just like the USA.
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Liar minority government was the G phase of R-G-R. Not pretty.
Keep an eye on The Greens in Brisbane’s leafy suburbs but…
From the OOT:
LOL, you’re criticizing me for providing the link to the tweet within which the above link is found? That is rather curious since you often provide links to The Military Show Youtube channel, which produces some of the dumbest clickbait, that almost always provides no links or references or ‘primary sources’. Dear oh dear.
Quaintarse wants to rebuild trust…
Qantas and Jetstar undergo brand revamp to rebuild trust (Sky News, 4 Mar)
Weird how they feel a need to do something like this. Maybe they should get in that guy in the dress Bud Light paid big bucks to. And paint all their planes with lots of dots and rainbow serpents. Sure to work.
Monty’s thesis blown up with one image.
https://images.app.goo.gl/NRy1e41E92LB52dr5
New uniforms for the crew.
That’ll swing public opinion.
Minns says Nazis marching the streets of Sydney is “pretty standard”.
‘Pretty standard’: Chris Minns plays down pro-Palestine protest at Mardi Gras parade, says incident caused little disruption (Sky News, 4 Mar)
Mardi Gras goers will get a rude shock if these people ever get power. There’re a lot of tall buildings in Sydney.
Marcus Einfeld would go close. More than a few have gone from the Bench to the cells. The various DPP roles require a comfortable relationship with the government of the day and are never too far from controversy, as the current travails of the Victoriastan DPP illustrate.
Do you read the comments on your link? So many errors, so many mistakes. Armchair warlord needs to get off DCS and read people like Bronk and Hollings.
Stephen Barber, APH Statistics and Mapping Section, gives us a pointer on average swings in the modern (1947-2017) era:
So, government seat + dead incumbent and all things being equal, Dunkley should have swung ~2.5% against Labor.
The main takeaway is that Honest Boy is characteristically torturing the bounds of the normal distribution – something often unkindly described as far king lying.
1.7% decline in business inventories for Q4 2023 as consumer demand falls further.
Albanese is presiding over a per capita recession.
Yep, though “dead” byelections behaved differently. Still the Lieborals won’t be too happy given where the general economic position is. Wasn’t a baseball bat vote like Gillard and arguably SloMo.
Job ads down 2.8% in February as labour ranks swell.
Albanese is immigrating Australians into unemployment.
Bureau’s dry summer prediction drowned out
Rainfall percentages for the past three months across eastern and northern Australia show a stunningly different scenario to what the Bureau of Mediocrity forecast in its summer outlook.
They couldn’t have got it more right at my place. Since the beginning of Feb we have had 41mm over one 24 hour period and there is nothing left but scorched earth and a few dead stubbles of grass.
Give yourself a clip over the ear, monty.
Trump Wins Michigan, Missouri, and Idaho – Big Time!
“Donald Trump won the Republican caucuses on Saturday in Michigan, Missouri, and Idaho. Overall, Trump won with nearly 98 percent support against Haley. Back in December 2022, Gallup Poll had reported that 45% of Americans believed Trump has “a lot” of responsibility for the January 6th event. But with the passage of time, even the Washington Post reported that More than “one-third of Americans, or 36 percent, do not accept Biden’s victory as legitimate.” Discussions that the January 6th event was important have suggested that the numbers, nobody wants to publish, have dropped to at best 15%. The attempts to kick Trump off the ballot have backfired BIG TIME on the Democrats.
Gallup Poll back in 1984 found that 61% of Americans were satisfied with U.S. democracy. It was nearly as high, at 60%, in 1991. Now, in 2024, it is down to just 28%. This is confirming what I am hearing that all of these criminal actions against Trump are just political. This is reflected in his overwhelming support.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/ecm-armstrongeconomics101/trump-wins-michigan-missouri-and-idaho-big-time/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
No fan of the Morrison government, but I don’t think “catastrophic” is an apt descriptor of the result.
What I meant by the term, Roger, is that it was a savaging that was not expected by the Libs. At least that was what I gleaned at the time – particularly from Frydenburg.
Now that result was catastrophic.
For him.
They couldn’t have got it more right at my place. Since the beginning of Feb we have had 41mm over one 24 hour period and there is nothing left but scorched earth and a few dead stubbles of grass.
Sorry to hear that, Digger. In central tablelands of NSW it is the opposite. We had waist high grass in some paddocks & husband has been busy slashing because when it dries out – it will be a tinderbox.
Download the videos and watch them offline
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Indeed.
The Brisbane City Council elections next Saturday week will be interesting. The Greens are pouring resources in behind the appalling Jonathon Sri and a chorus-line of bland smiling faces that know exactly what’s best for us.
And watch the Palacechook (Inala)and Madden (Ipswich West) by-election results. Both very safe traditional ALP seats and well outside the Greens public-service/university/two-fussy-boys-with-a-deep-commitment-and-French-Bulldog catchment areas.
That’s why we label the the SFL’s.
2 things that turned votes away from the LNP.
The Hawaii holiday while Victoria burned and Scummo’s subsequent flippant attitude to that criticism.
The smug pr*cks smirking at his National Cabinet during the covid disaster.
Both of these events gifted to the Marxist press. They ruined enough goodwill for the LNP to toss them out with disdain. It was a punishment- which the LNP thought they could avoid with what ended up being a dumb, shallow election campaign. Stupid is and stupid does.
Blockquote fail…
Didn’t really hit the (G)-Spot?
Not to worry as they do tick all the right boxes to complete Diversity Equity and Inclusion missions.
“By the service’s own definition, there isn’t a squadron in the Air Force that could be considered mission-ready”
mUnty supports this. Welfare recipients (especially unemployment and disability beneficiaries) are the Liars’ go to demographic as the aspirational workers look elsewhere.
Interesting… yes; as in the putative Chinese curse.
The fact that around 8% of votes were in play because PHON and fat boy didn’t run candidates meant that it is very difficult to compare with the last federal election.
All of them? No. But I’ve just, again gone through a number of ‘more replies’ clicks and I’m not getting ‘so many errors, so many mistakes’ out of it.
LOL.
Keep an eye on The Greens in Brisbane’s leafy suburbs but…
Look at Walter Taylor. Federally Green, State Green and presently LNP. Likely to turn Green.
People who will largely avoid the consequences of their vote.
“H B Bear
Mar 4, 2024 12:18 PM
Has there ever been a more meteoric fall from the dizzying heights of the legal profession than Dumbgeld?
Marcus Einfeld would go close. More than a few have gone from the Bench to the cells. The various DPP roles require a comfortable relationship with the government of the day and are never too far from controversy, as the current travails of the Victoriastan DPP illustrate.”
At least Yeldham did us all a favour.
Important graph. Global South now largest recipient of Chinese exports. About 2.5x that with US and larger than US+Europe+Japan.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1764470340846031115
From the comments;
The G-forces almost had me pass out – curiously by a lack of blood flowing to her brain.
I wouldn’t boast about a friendship like that.
Boambee John
This curious mind doesn’t really give a shit about Munted who is on my scroll by list and only gets read on the very, very, rare occasion my scrolling reflex is a bit dull and I manage to get the gist of the first couple of lines.
I’ve mentioned and quoted Adrian Vermeule quite a bit on this blog. Sadly:
Roger
Mar 4, 2024 10:13 AM
New York Times:
It looks like they’ve finally worked out they’d rather a job – not a handout.
Cohenite:
My nasty, suspicious mind is toying with the concept that one of our political white ant class has been caught with it’s grubby fingers in the bikky jar, and they’re trying to make their actions not illegal. Probably because too many of them are guilty.
The haste is a bit of a giveaway, comrades.
Everyone, Nikki Haley has finally broken through in a primary. Come on down, Washington D.C. She has locked-in the Beltway. Who knew?