They are not in Cabinet, they were advisors to Cabinet, just like the secretaries to PM&C, DFAT, Defence, the CDF and others, depending on the subject under discussion.
It turns out the secretary of Elbow’s Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, former Melbourne University academic Glyn Davis, is a stooge for the Chinese Communist Party who helped Victorian premier Dan Andrews line up his Belt and Road deal with the CCP.
So Elbow’s top public servant shuts security chiefs out of Cabinet’s National Security Committee while helping silence anti-CCP sentiment inside the government as our activist foreign minister Penny Wong climbs into bed with Hamas by reinstating Australian funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency UNRWA whose staff participated in the mass slaughter of Jews last October.
Our federal government is more leftwing than the Whitlam regime.
Mike Tyson in his mid 50’s doing what 1-2% of the total male population of the US can do.
Rogan saying the most important thing someone can do is take control of their health is just so true.
Baba
March 19, 2024 6:34 am
Why should public servants be members of a cabinet committee?
Why not? .. seems so many of them get paid more than any of the “elected” gummint members they may as well be running the show, as well! ..
Bit of “value for money” type deal for the vote-herd .. LOL!
Albanese government removes ASIO and ASIS heads from National Security Committee of Cabinet
I thought the following bit was pretty interesting:
Mr Davis’ department announced a review last month into whether to cut funding to think-tanks.
This would include the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which receives funding from both Australia the United States.
Shutting down ASPI, a frequent China critic, was on China’s list of 14 demands issued under the Coalition Government.
The implication is that Albo, Wong and Davis are working their way through a list of demands from China, who are offering the quid pro quo of dropping tariffs on wine and unembargoing other stuff, like coal.
So maybe the ASIO and ASIS thing was another line item crossed off.
Given our vulnerable position defense-wise it sounds like the elites in this country are edging away from the US and towards China. Perhaps they think placating the dragon will work.
Given our vulnerable position defense-wise it sounds like the elites in this country are edging away from the US and towards China. Perhaps they think placating the dragon will work.
Republicans have defunded AUKUS, it’s their fault.
The front of GB News’s offices have been doused in paint by furious protestors who accuse the broadcaster of being an “extremist organisation”. It has demanded an “end to their torrent of climate lies and disinformation”.
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A string of protesters have also encircled the entrance holding placards depicting the faces of GB News presenters including Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees Mogg, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson, and station owner Paul Marshall. Beneath each of them is written the word ‘Extremist’.
Bit rich XR labeling people extremist. Since our stinkies are just as stinky as Pommy stinkies I suspect the local lot will have a go at similar media offices here, especially since they all coordinate with each other.
Big day today .. all the tests, scans dun and the results in so this afternoon I’ll find out whether I’m in for my 3rd round with the big C .. not a relapse but a totally different version if it’s there .. I feel great no pains or even feeling unwell or anything else so slightly concerned but not panicking .. hopefully, just my age (76) that prompts the C checks before the, obvious, “enlarged prostate” symptoms …. Anywayz lotza things crossed and, as Doris sang, “what will be will be ……..”
Can’t quite get why several of the cartoonists (Leake included) are over-dripping their brushes on the Russian election .. Given the state of USA politics I’m more inclined to believe the Ruskies voting system is, probably, a sight cleaner than the Yank version …..
Tho, the bar isn’t set too high given that these dayz most 3rd world voting set-ups look cleaner than the USA production …
Eyrie
March 19, 2024 7:57 am
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
Zafiro
March 19, 2024 8:05 am
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
Quite so. Would they prefer the globalist scum who are destroying/have destroyed the West to be running Russia? Ultimately they are both in the employ of Mudrock.
Police, politicians and senior bureaucrats are at loggerheads over the apparent appointment of a former TV producer to the role of beleaguered NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb’s fourth spin doctor in two years.
Former police officer and NSW MLC Rod Roberts told 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Tuesday his phone “lit up like a Christmas tree” after news broke of Steve Jackson’s appointment.
“I was getting phone calls from people I know in the media, senior police officers, all questioning this decision,” he said.
Fordham told listeners there was now a “blame-game going on about who appointed this man (Jackson) and whether he was actually appointed”.
“The bloke she has picked has raised a few eyebrows, people at NSW Police headquarters are wondering if he is even going to make it through the door on day one, I don’t think he is going to.
“I am hearing the commissioner is nervous, and it is my belief this morning that Karen Webb will change her mind… and be on the lookout for yet another spin doctor.”
On Monday, The Daily Telegraph reported the NSW Police Commissioner began the process of hiring a new spin doctor days after she was repeatedly criticised for her poor public performances and media handling of an alleged double murder.
The Telegraph has been told senior NSW Government officials, acting on behalf of Commissioner Webb, were approaching people for the role of NSW Police Director of Public Affairs around February 29, while Liz Deegan was in the job and unaware.
The timing marked the end of a shocking week for the Commissioner who was questioned why it took her three days to address the public after Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged with murdering Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies inside a Paddington terrace on February 19.
After a fiery press conference on Monday 26, Commissioner Webb went on to make repeated gaffes in multiple media interviews that week, including the now infamous Taylor Swift quote “haters gonna hate” in reference to her critics.
Liz Deegan, the media chief at time, was said to be ‘blindsided’ when she was sacked last Monday.
By then, it’s understood former television producer Steve Jackson had been interviewed for the role multiple times, and all but signed his contract.
NSW Police sources confirmed yesterday that Jackson, 43, will begin as Director of Media after Easter.
He will be the fourth spin doctor under Commissioner Webb in two years, following on from Grant Williams, Alex Hodgkinson and Ms Deegan.
Jackson resigned last week as supervising producer at Seven’s flagship program.
Prior to Seven, he has held roles of NSW editor at The Australian, chief-of-staff at Nine’s 60 Minutes and various senior roles at The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.
NSW Police did not respond to questions about why the position was not advertised.
So looks like this bloke was lined up before Keegan got the Khyber Pass.
Can have all the advisors in the world but how about just do your job Ms Webb?
I’m guessin’ “spin” doctors don’t come cheap but no real angst being heard about another PS mouth being fed …..
The question should be, “Why does the NSW plod commish need a “professional” excuse maker full-time or otherwise ……..?
The question should be, “Why does the NSW plod commish need a “professional” excuse maker full-time or otherwise ……..?
Exactly.
Farmer Gez
March 19, 2024 8:39 am
Sharri can smell the influence peddlers inside the tent.
Belt and Road through the back door from the Allan government in Vic through the autocratic pushing of mostly Chinese corporate interests colonising the land with renewables.
Chalmers supposedly inconsequential drop tariff reforms included Chinese solar and turbine blades. The benefits to the average consumer were tiny and it didn’t rate a big announcement but then again, we weren’t the audience.
MSM are tone deaf to the big game being played by senior bureaucrats and corporate bosses. AEMO stinks of influence.
Hamas is perhaps the first regime in recorded history to fight a war designed to maximize casualties among their own population.
Failing to swiftly destroy Hamas and directly punish Hamas’s backers in Iran and Qatar will teach sympathizers in other parts of the Muslim world that strategies of atrocity should be added to the playbook of regimes challenging U.S. allies around the world. Even worse would be for Hamas to actually achieve a strategic victory and gain a Palestinian statehood; such an outcome would ensure that atrocity becomes a standard and widely used strategy for at least a generation to come.
Indolent,
there’s a good chance that is a double.
No way would Obama walk across the quad on his own. Where are the dozen Secret Service agents?
Also, why no close up?
Also, the man loves the sound of his own voice. No way he would simply turn around and wave.
Putting the frighteners out I reckon.
The quality of that footage makes it very difficult to positively identify him as Obama. One thing I did note was the rounded (hunched forward) shoulders of the man as he was walking.
Megan
March 19, 2024 9:01 am
Sending you much sympathy, Mark, on the loss of your Mum. I second Rosie’s choice of Psalm 23 for your OT reading. I’m sure, whatever your choice, you’ll do her proud.
Probably to complain about some of Sunak’s recent decisions, like banning puberty blockers for kids, legislating for women’s spaces and sports to be free of trannies, building gas plants and defunding green councils who punish motorists.
Bruce of Newcastle
March 19, 2024 9:05 am
Great to see such openness on display from a government agency.
The CDC “released” a 148 page study on myocarditis after COVID-19 “vaccination” and every single page is completely redacted. This must be a new record.
It turns out the secretary of Elbow’s Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, former Melbourne University academic Glyn Davis, is a stooge for the Chinese Communist Party who helped Victorian premier Dan Andrews line up his Belt and Road deal with the CCP
And as Roy Bland said decades ago in Tinker Tailor;
“As a good socialist, I’m going where the money is; as a good capitalist, I’m sticking with the revolution, because if you can’t beat it, spy on it! Don’t look like that, George. It’s the name of the game these days. You scratch my conscience, I’ll drive your Jag, right?”
Here at Arky Labs we noticed our competitor’s AS (Artificial Stupidity) systems lacked the warmth and humanity of real human interactions.
So we added a layer to our neural network model to mimic the hormonal fluctuations of regular actual human persons. And the ability for you to pair ARKYGPTLGBGT++ with your devices. Whether it’s your car, your robot girlfriend or your fridge, you can now enjoy authentic artificial interactions with all the objects in and around the home.
Sid was bored with the same old predictable responses from his robot: “Once I paired Nancy with ARKYGPTLGBGT++ it was a whole new experience. She ditched the sad, predictably positive and responsive behaviour. Instead she sat on the couch drinking UDL cans and texting her new friends. Later that night she came into the bedroom and tried to stab me. It was just like a real relationship”.
It seems Brown (the DEI appointment on SCOTUS) is most concerned that the US Constitution limits the Govts right to censor public discourse in the media. Yes, she is quoted as saying that in arguments.
Similar to Australia where these leftwing swine will soon have similar powers. For our own good of course.
Salwan Momika is an Iraqi asylum seeker living in Sweden. He is known for his strong anti-Islam stance. The Swedish government wants to deport him to Iraq for burning the Quran, which will be a certain death sentence for him. Urban Scoop has launched an urgent petition to pressure the Swedish government into dropping its campaign to deport Salwan
Pity we don’t have genuine asylum seekers lie this guy. Here’s the petition.
Hi all. I’m back two days after brain surgery. Arrived to a very different format and has taken a bit to work it out. Thought I was on a different planet there for a bit. I have no idea what source code means or spoiler. Is there a guide to how this all works?
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions
Good Luck with trying to get the money back – Lol –
“Ethiopia’s biggest commercial bank is scrambling to recoup large sums of money withdrawn by customers after a “systems glitch”.
The customers discovered early on Saturday that they could take out more cash than they had in their accounts at the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE).
More than $40m (£31m) was withdrawn or transferred to other banks, local media reported.
It took several hours for the institution to freeze transactions.”
Steven Miles will spend billions of dollars upgrading the dilapidated Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre despite an independent review emphatically declaring it a waste of money.
The Premier said cabinet had endorsed spending $1.6bn to upgrade QSAC at Nathan, defying a $450,000 taxpayer-funded review he asked former Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk to lead.
Mr Quirk’s review indicated it would provide no “significant legacy benefit” to the region and should not be used for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Instead, Mr Miles pledged to bulldoze ahead to spend billions of dollars to upgrade the grandstands and facilities for athletics at QSAC and use the spare $1bn to upgrade Suncorp Stadium and the Gabba.
The details of what upgrades both stadiums would receive is not yet known
The premier – fresh from a brutal by-election bruising in Ipswich West – was on Monday grilled about why he ignored Mr Quirk’s recommendation to build a new $3.4bn stadium at Victoria Park and instead deliver QSAC upgrades.
“I thought it was a plan where we can have more certainty about its costs, where we can utilise our existing facilities and where we don’t displace any sports from the government,” he said.
“Queenslanders are struggling with housing and other costs.
“I cannot justify to them spending $3.4bn on a new stadium.
“I had heard from Queenslanders that $2.7bn at the Gabba was too much so I know that for Queenslanders $3.4bn at Victoria Park will be too much – so I’m ruling that out.”
Mr Quirk’s review clearly warned upgrading QSAC “does not represent value for money” and said it should not be used as a venue in the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It’s understood Mr Quirk’s recommendation for a new 55,000-seat stadium at Victoria Park surprised the government, but the idea was almost immediately dismissed.
Mr Quirk on Monday doubled down on the opportunity for Brisbane to develop a world-class stadium at Victoria Park and said splashing cash on QSAC would be a waste of money.
“As far as the QSAC site is concerned, again, we just don’t see, after spending around $1.5bn, any significant legacy benefit to the people of Queensland,” he said.
“There is great opportunity for additional events with a higher level of stadium which has got great facilities, top level facilities for people that would go there and enjoy it.”
Mr Miles also revealed the state government had already started looking for alternatives before Mr Quirk’s $450,000 review had been completed.
“We’ve been working on this plan in recent weeks,” he said.
“I asked when it was clear the direction the panel was taking it, I indicated to our public servants that we needed another option.
“We were aware that panel would consider those two options and I asked for more detail to be done on option two, because I knew that it was going to be very, very hard to accept a brand new $3.4bn stadium without any of that planning work effectively starting from scratch.”
High-performance athletes training at QSAC for future summer and winter Olympics and championships will be displaced due to the upgrade, but Mr Miles said that would be considered.
“Will have to determine how long the upgrade will take and then look at the options for them for that period,” he said.
“It’s possible that the staging of the warm up track and the athletics track can still allow for it to be used throughout but we need to do that work.”
It is the second time Mr Miles has ignored independent advice about how to progress planning for Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In November he spruiked advice which labelled a demolition and rebuild of the Gabba as “best value for money”, only to soften his position after becoming Premier exactly three weeks later.
Newly re-elected Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said he would meet with Mr Miles about the plan and the government’s proposed Independent Delivery Authority for Olympics infrastructure.
The state government has endorsed Mr Quirk’s proposal to relocate Brisbane Arena north of its planned site over the Roma Street railway station, which would have likely cost $4bn.
Federal Greens MP for Brisbane, Stephen Bates, welcomed the premier scrapping the Victoria Park stadium proposal but still held concerns about the effect the arena would have on the council’s compost facilities.
“It’s disappointing that building Brisbane Arena is going to come at the expense of Roma Street Parklands and Brisbane City Council’s composting and recycling facility,” he said.
“Upgrading our existing sports facilities and delivering more community venues delivers the best value for money and the best Olympics legacy for Queensland.”
ASM Global Asia Pacific executive chairman Harvey Lister welcomed Mr Quirk’s recommendation to proceed with the Brisbane Arena.
“The alternate location to the northern precinct of Roma Street Parklands was a very workable solution, given concerns about construction timelines and costs for building on the over-rail site,” he said.
How long before Miles does an Andrews and pulls the plug?
I’ll tell you what, if he did it would be welcomed by most Queenslanders, the exceptions being those who stood to benefit through the construction contracts.
We’ve got people in Brisbane sleeping in tent villages while the rate of housing construction is stalled.
Miles will take the fall. The Liars will look after him. Ask Bambi and Carmen Lawrence. They’re good like that.
Roger
March 19, 2024 9:38 am
World’s largest solar panel manufacturer to cut workforce by 30%.
Chinese company Longi’s revenue collapsed by 44% last year while its share price is down 70% from 2021.
The Guardian cites an ongoing trend of energy companies switching from renewables to higher margin oil and gas projects as a factor in the company’s decline.
BoN, the “unhappy Tesla driver”, is just like the majority of people doing just about anything. Only look at the positives. There are not many new mousetraps around. The left have perfected this approach by insisting 100% of an unproven idea instead of 5-10% improvement of an old idea. This is why people get caught up in scams. The internet is full of perpetual motion machines and sentient computers. I’m very rarely disappointed by looking at the downside of every shiny new thing that comes along. Some things are already as good as they get, e.g. mousetraps. I’ve been relatively successful by taking nibbles instead of a whole mouthful. There are very few J Robert Oppenheimer and Elon Reeve Musk that can see past the downside of a massive problem. What these two have achieved in a short space of time is incredible. I grew up with parents afraid to do anything. Always warned not to get out of the box. I suppose that’s why I’m a sceptic. I’m more a product of my relatives. My niece asked me recently why I’m not like my sister or parents. I said, “lucky”.
Makka
March 19, 2024 9:59 am
The Guardian cites an ongoing trend of energy companies switching from renewables to higher margin oil and gas projects as a factor in the company’s decline.
And that is with Billion$ in subsidies and tax breaks from retarded/corrupt Govts helping them out. Our hard earned pissed up against the wall on unreliable scam projects.
Just as water will always find the lowest level, so capital will seek the highest level of return. Subsidised projects can’t compete, as the QLD government belatedly realised last year. Tax payers will now have to fork out the capital cost; but don’t worry, when the loans are paid off we’ll own the diapidated, redundant, rusting plant!
Yes! As we own the mothballed desal plants. But, the silver lining is the great union cash cows that they are.
Wally Dalí
March 19, 2024 10:00 am
Yep the Leak is a bit weak. Plus, Herge got there a hundred years ago in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
Roger
March 19, 2024 10:09 am
The Guardian cites an ongoing trend of energy companies switching from renewables to higher margin oil and gas projects as a factor in the company’s decline.
Chris Bowen is increasingly looking like a reverse King Canute, assuring Australians he can command the tides of world markets.
Roger
March 19, 2024 10:25 am
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
The interesting thing about democracy in modern times: it resonates so much with ordinary people – even Russians, who’ve never really experienced it in their history – that even when it’s being subverted the subverters have to pretend they’re democrats lest they lose legitimacy.
Bear Necessities
March 19, 2024 10:26 am
Why do we need to spend billions on Olympic games infrastructure? We can do a cut price games with existing infrastructure. No one remembers stadiums etc after the games have gone.
Bruce of Newcastle
March 19, 2024 10:30 am
Mem – The comment box is now at the top not the bottom.
When you post a comment it first stays at the top, but when you refresh it goes to the bottom.
Bit of a work in progress so far. The commenting seems to work more like Disqus, if you are used to that.
You don’t need to login to comment, but I think you need to register if you want to do upticks. I haven’t tried that yet.
Chinese scientists are working on a giant electromagnetic launch track to launch a massive 50-ton spaceplane — longer than a Boeing 737 — into orbit.
As the South China Morning Post reports, the “giant rail gun” system is designed to accelerate a hypersonic aircraft to speeds of up to Mach 1.6. Once it reaches the end of the track, its engine then accelerates it to the edge of space at seven times the speed of sound.
If actually built, it could greatly cut down on the amount of fuel such a craft would need to get to space, allowing it to carry bigger payloads — and save a considerable amount of money as well.
So far the Chinese haven’t managed to get anywhere near what Elon does with reusable rockets. But they’re trying, and they seem to be more inclined to try risky stuff that other nations are. The innovation race is fun to watch.
I wouldn’t like to be an astronaut on one of those things, but if it’s just for freight, OK. Any electronics need to be very well shielded – perhaps inside structural members of a space station.
Roger
March 19, 2024 10:52 am
Mr Quirk’s review indicated it would provide no “significant legacy benefit” to the region and should not be used for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Quirk’s review seems to have been entirely uninformed of the Olympic Committee’s current advice that the games should utilise existing infrastructure to keep costs manageable, lest no city/country in future be willing to take them on.
The shiny bums in the ADF only care about a comfortable retirement.
Not about national security & certainly not about those in harms way.
Now let’s get back to bodgy procurement & getting a consultancy gig.
Tom
March 19, 2024 11:19 am
Sleazy rich pricks who pretend to be the worker’s friend news:
A first term Labor MP representing a key western Sydney marginal seat has snapped up a $12million mansion named ‘La Palma’ with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, adding to his impressive property portfolio.
Andrew Charlton, MP for the western Sydney seat of Parramatta, recently purchased the four-bedroom Palm Beach prestige property, located some 50km from the seat he represents, as an investment property.
It is Dr Charlton and his barrister wife Phoebe Arcus’s second mansion purchase since he bought a $16.1million mansion, Fintry, at Bellevue Hill in Sydney’s east, in November 2020.
Dr Charlton – whose party touts itself as representative of the working class – also owns a terrace in plush Woollahra, also in the city’s east. He now lives in a $2million penthouse apartment in Parramatta, in his new parliamentary seat out west.
He now lives in a $2million penthouse apartment in Parramatta, in his new parliamentary seat out west.
The horror.
Meanwhile, Albanese’s housing plan is already falling behind its targets in its first year and the prediction is this year’s migration intake will be higher than 2023’s record.
Personally, I’m looking forward to the day of reckoning.
Bourne1879
March 19, 2024 11:29 am
Via Gateway Pundit and good work of Libs of TikTok.
Seems Planet Fitness think it is a good idea to allow men in ladies changing room.
Cancellations and 7% drop in share price so far.
When will they learn better to cater to the majority than very small minority.
The Right: If you make an effort you can provide for yourself. You may not become rich, you may not make as much money as some others, but it will be yours, and yours in a way no government benefit or gift could ever be.
The Left: You deserve what rich people have. Vote for me and I will get it. I promise I won’t use my power and position to enrich myself. That is what those awful rich people do,
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Rufus T Firefly
March 19, 2024 11:39 am
“Failing to swiftly destroy Hamas and directly punish Hamas’s backers in Iran and Qatar will teach sympathizers in other parts of the Muslim world that strategies of atrocity should be added to the playbook of regimes challenging U.S. allies around the world.”
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
Or, more to the point, is that unachievable action even the goal?
No, is the answer to both.
The aim of the Israeli PM, Benjamin Pfizer, is to keep his sorry arse out of gaol.
Much like St Volodymyr the Pure, he is prepared to sacrifice his entire population, to achieve his goal.
Israel has never been weaker, in comparison to its neighbours, than it is now.
The catastrophe, (for both parties), that is occurring in Gaza, will be nothing, compared to what will happen, if Pfizer directs an attack against Lebanon, which, looks more and more likely.
Back in Dec/Jan, Israel evacuated more than 30,000 inhabitants of Northern Israel. Clearly, because Israel is so strong, ……, right?
If Lebanon is attacked, Israel will be on its own, because those US Carriers will be either withdrawn, or, more likely sunk. The loss of significant Israeli territory is not merely possible, but likely.
This is clearly a disastrous scenario, for Israel. Perhaps it is time to look for the best outcome for Israel, not the PM.
Nothing like a confidence booster before , possible, life/death consultation with a specialist .. Phoned me 15 minutes ago, to say, “We haven’t got your MRI results yet” .. answered by my, “The imagining people msg-ed me on Friday afternoon to say they had forwarded the results to you” ……… FFS!
The combined impact of climate change and human-generated noise are proving double trouble for wild urban-dwelling bird species, changing their behavior in ways that could threaten their survival.
That’s the finding of a new study from The University of Western Australia published in the journal Animal Behaviour, which looked at how hotter temperatures and loud man-made noises, such as those from airplanes, impacted West Australian magpies, both individually and when they co-occurred.
Magpies are thriving. Indeed more warmth is a good thing for them since they can start their season earlier, thereby avoiding cuckoos. And magpies in urban areas are as well fed as can be, especially in my suburb.
Ah well, the UWA PhD student will probably get an immediate lectureship and rise to professor even before you can say “climate crap”.
Magpies here in urban beachside Merewether are thriving and multiplying. We have many breeding families around here, they are happy alongside us in our yard and on our dawn walks. As many as we have seen in our 45yrs here. More peewits too.
GreyRanga
March 19, 2024 11:49 am
TE, sad indictment of the ADF which comes as no surprise to Cats. In peacetime they’re already a failure. Coupled with failed Brereton Report, years in the making, the Brass should be fired. Me thinks if the Brass have not been in a life endangering situation they have no idea, hence the gazing into the past for indiscretions not in line with pleasant company at dinner parties. Angry shots tend to focus the mind. Am I correct to say is Cosgrove the last to be put in a dangerous situation?
Wally Dalí
March 19, 2024 11:56 am
Went to a Masked Owl Crisis fillum the other night. There was a posse of Black Cockatoo Crisis shirts in the lobby. I might get ahead of the market and print off some ASMR/Hot Flush Maggie Crisis hoodies for the autumn apocalypse.
Knuckle Dragger
March 19, 2024 12:01 pm
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
You can destroy its infrastructure. Fill its tunnels, and demolish every school and hospital used as weapons storage depots, launch sites and food dumps.
You can kill its leaders, both within Gaza and without, as well as anyone publicly identifying themselves with it.
You can make it so unpalatable for any existing or prospective member that any incentive for being anywhere near Hamas is gonski.
You can also send a message to any potential group looking to fill that vacuum that it would be a less than stellar idea.
Unfortunately, it is their notoriety – what they achieved on the 7th of October – that is the most dangerous in the long term, but nothing can be done about that now.
Israel will have to step up their intelligence within the prison population, and also within the ‘re-imagined’ Gaza. (I posted a link to an article on here a few months ago regarding the Hasnobollocks-assisted pre-7 October purge of suspected Israeli agents or collaborators in Gaza which likely impacted contributed to the intel failure).
Boambee John
March 19, 2024 12:01 pm
Roger
March 19, 2024 10:09 am
The Guardian cites an ongoing trend of energy companies switching from renewables to higher margin oil and gas projects as a factor in the company’s decline.
Chris Bowen is increasingly looking like a reverse King Canute, assuring Australians he can command the tides of world markets.
Well, he certainly seems to be some kind of a Canute.
“I have launched a model for AS (artificial stupidity). I call it ARKYGPTLGBGT++. It has a language model that allows it to answer any question.”
Aside from the obligatory: “Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity” , I offer cats this example of AI: https://youtu.be/Sq1QZB5baNw
They swear this is “real” and not CGI or a “remote controlled by a human”.
Stunning.
And frightening.
Hold onto your hat, the future is coming… and it’s not happy! 🙂
Sleazy rich pricks who pretend to be the worker’s friend news:
A first term Labor MP representing a key western Sydney marginal seat has snapped up a $12million mansion named ‘La Palma’ with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, adding to his impressive property portfolio.
Andrew Charlton, MP for the western Sydney seat of Parramatta, recently purchased the four-bedroom Palm Beach prestige property, located some 50km from the seat he represents, as an investment property.
It is Dr Charlton and his barrister wife Phoebe Arcus’s second mansion purchase since he bought a $16.1million mansion, Fintry, at Bellevue Hill in Sydney’s east, in November 2020.
Dr Charlton – whose party touts itself as representative of the working class – also owns a terrace in plush Woollahra, also in the city’s east. He now lives in a $2million penthouse apartment in Parramatta, in his new parliamentary seat out west.
He and his ‘umble missus have spent $30 million on three residences, true representatives of the wukkas! mUnturd supports this kind of socialism.
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible? Or, more to the point, is that unachievable action even the goal? No, is the answer to both.
5 x 50 Kt nukes along the Gaza Strip. Add 1 x 100 Kt to the capitol of ANY Muslim nation refusing to give up the ring leaders.
Israel is under an existential threat by Islam. I doubt they really care what anyone thinks any more ever since the West appears to be abandoning them in favour of the muslim hordes.
I continue to watch bits of the Channel 9, Dr Al Muderis defamation case.
A few observations.
The whole system needs an over haul when it comes to any orthopaedic surgery.
There needs to be stricter criteria before you qualify for tax payer funded work.
And unless you can demonstrate a decent support network (family, friends, community) there is little chance of adhering to the ongoing re-hab after you get out of the surgical re-hab units.
It’s a congo line of people with depression (from well before their surgeries) who end up riddled with infections.
If Al Muderis didn’t come across as such an arrogant fellow, Channel 9 would not have run the story IMHO.
Sancho Panzer
March 19, 2024 12:19 pm
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
ISIS was here to stay a couple of short years ago. Couldn’t be defeated by orthodox means apparently.
I was expecting it to look at the plate to see if it was clean or not. It didn’t.
But yes, scary.
The issue is the social interaction. I went into a cafe this morning to get brekky – the carpeters are in charge at the moment. Not only did I get brekky, but I caught up with a young lady who I had counselled about joining the army as a medic on the way to getting her RN quals. We had a quick chat about her 7 month old son who is crawling well, and she showed me a quick video of the happy little bloke. Struggling but getting there.
Beat that Figure 1.
Roger
March 19, 2024 12:33 pm
ABS wage index Q4 23 shows public sector salaries surged while only 16% of private sector jobs saw a modest increase of 4.4% on average.
I thought they were paid less because they were unsackable. Guess that idea has gone out the window these days.
Mother Lode
March 19, 2024 12:40 pm
Oops, this is buried in someones reply, so reposting
This is why I am not using the reply function. I refresh and go to the bottom to see what comments are new. I am not going to go back over the whole thread to expand replies and then check if anything is…unfamiliar?
Mother Load:
I understand what you’re saying. I was a long time enthusiast of nested commenting and this is unlike the previous examples I had seen. For a forum with this many comments, it isn’t working.
Zafiro
March 19, 2024 12:42 pm
How long before Miles does an Andrews and pulls the plug?
Yes, knock it on the head. Olympics are a WOFTAM and a bloated joke*
Will probably be replaced by the Hunger Games by then anyway.
Nearly every state in Australia is run by Communists. So of course they are doing what Communists do – pilfer the petty cash, steal the stock before it gets to the shop floor, and bankrupt the company. Then blame Capitalism.
It wasn’t that long ago that we had NO debt.
Gold is $1 off $3,300. It’s going to get a lot worse.
Makka
March 19, 2024 1:02 pm
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
The objective of this exercise is to demonstrate so much death of Hamas operatives and violent destruction of Hamas’ supporting infrastructure so as to deter future aspirants. So while destroying Hamas may indeed not be possible, it will most certainly dramatically reduce Hamas to somewhat of a rump rabble.
I fail to see why Israel should be prevented from doing just that, given the horrors Hamas visited on innocent people , including babies, on Oct 7th last. In fact this retribution is thoroughly deserved.
Hamas relies on funding. Repeated failures by Hamas will stop the money flowing to them. It doesn’t matter if they have supporters because without money Hamas is useless.
H@m@s succeeded beyond their wildest, sickest fantasies on the 7th of October – everything else will take second place in their legacy.
As I commented elsewhere, there is nothing that can be done about this now, but I support the most effective degradation practical of their personnel (in or beyond Gaza) and infrastructure, though such – as you mentioned – will never be complete.
One vital lesson must be how to devise more effective tactics to limit the ability of similar herds of demented animals to propagandise. The ‘fact-checking’ by Israel has had limited effect, as might be imagined when one participant cedes the information space.
Baba
March 19, 2024 1:07 pm
Who was Genrikh Yagoda and why isn’t he as infamous as Hitler or Eichmann?
Re the article about “The Government is not your Daddy.”
Government is like the strange man at the pub who promises you great drugs. When you take them, he goes through your handbag, helps himself to your girlie bits, blows your credit card limit, and then blames you for getting pregnant because you weren’t on the pill.
GreyRanga
March 19, 2024 1:48 pm
Off the top of my headhe was once head of NKVD one of Stalins henchmen. Succeeded by Beria. Either that or he was in Star Wars. Will check on Wiki.
GreyRanga
March 19, 2024 1:50 pm
I see I was wrong about Beria.
Bruce of Newcastle
March 19, 2024 1:52 pm
Looks like he’ll have to sell one of his properties, LOL.
I suspect he’s angling to have the corrupt legal system order confiscation of his properties, especially Trump Tower.
That will utterly destroy New York City, the real estate rats will be fleeing down the anchor ropes at great pace.
Golly that’s just so terrible! Maybe woke snowflake peoples you should’ve made movies that people actually wanted to watch rather than shove endless qwerty propaganda down everyone’s throats.
Barking Toad
March 19, 2024 2:02 pm
Upthread Top Ender linked to the excellent piece in Quadrant Online by Professor Michael Evans about ADF education of officers.
This paragraph sums it up for me:
There is a popular saying among military educators that “chalk dust must support gun smoke”. One of the reasons for the poor state of Australian professional military education is that external academic providers allowed chalk dust to eclipse gun smoke. There is a constant, unresolved philosophical tension between academic imperatives and enhancing military effectiveness.
Johnny Rotten
March 19, 2024 2:02 pm
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GreyRanga
March 19, 2024 2:04 pm
Knuckles, I think it important for the destruction of Hamas is for the IDF to eliminate the foot soldiers as well as the leadership. The foot soldiers need to know they are targets, not just the top dogs. Advertise the fact. As we saw they were quite willing to surrender. Anyone identified in the massacre needs to be killed. The supporters that send money need two taps as well. I’m sure Mossad has the ability to identify them. Support terrorism and you’re a target. Benny Wonk comes to mind.
Imagine the anger as Israel hangs* the identified rapists. The Arabs will go ballistic, and all the muslims in the West will riot.
Not gonna be pretty, but Israel has no choice. It’s either let the rapists and murderers go free or Hamas & Co will do another raid to get captives for bargaining.
*Or puts them through a wood chipper with the occasional side of bacon. My preference. If we want to destroy the morale of terrorist organisations and stop the recruitment, then I’d go for the chipper.
Black Ball
March 19, 2024 2:08 pm
Australia’s answer to Harry and Sparkles:
Candice and David Warner never forget.
The star-studded couple remain embedded in the spotlight even after David’s Test career came to an end at this year’s Sydney Test.
The left-handed opener found himself at the centre of criticism constantly throughout his career and as the trolls piled up, Candice, 39, wasn’t going to let them just slink away into the shadows.
The former ironwoman read and heard every crude word delivered to her husband over the years and kept a list of those who had gone after the Aussie opener.
“There was always that level of someone wanting him to fail,” she said on the Backstage With ?Cooper and Matty Johns podcast.
“David didn’t care so much about what was written about him, but I did and I still do because I’m so protective of him.
“I’ve got a little list of all the people that have said some really horrible things and there’s been times where I can’t bite my tongue.
“It was just a massive pile-on because it was easy and you could get a headline.”
The couple appeared on the podcast together where they gave a glimpse into their family life ever since David walked away from the Test arena.
But it was Candice’s revelation that she keeps David on an allowance that captured the attention of listeners.
“I’m pretty conservative, but David definitely is the spender,” she said.
“David has an allowance. It’s a healthy allowance so don’t think I’ve got him by the balls and he can’t enjoy his life.
David chimed in as he joked: “I’ve had a decline once, I’ve had it once, and I said, ‘have I been paid?’”
The star cricketer however revealed one major downside to the arrangement.
“‘If I try to surprise Candice and buy her a present I can’t because she’ll see the transaction come up!” he said.
Candice found herself in the thick of a heated debate on Monday morning as she came to the defence of Latrell Mitchell and his expletive-laden interview following South’s 28-18 loss to the Broncos.
“Listen to these names. Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Patrick Mahomes,” she said on Triple M.
“These are just a couple of athletes, they have all sworn.
“Do our opinions of those incredible high achieving athletes change (because they swear)? Or is it because it’s Latrell Mitchell.”
Candice asked co-host Richard Freedman: “What would you like Latrell Mitchell to do. What is going to make you happy?
“Your saying you’d like him to be more of a role model?”
Freedman replied: “No, it’s because Latrell Mitchell swore repeatedly on air, when he knew he was on air, and then said ‘I don’t care’ and didn’t apologise for it.
“I think it’s highly inappropriate.”
According to News Corp, the NRL and South Sydney will not be taking any action and no breach of contract notice will be sent.
Wowee. Airheads doesn’t come close to describing these imbeciles. I foresee a book coming from Warner, except it will need to be written for him because he is about as bright as a wet sack of sawdust.
He says according to recent CSIRO research, the flies can also be blown more than 300km a day.
“That is normal,” he says.
Dr Evans says it is too cold for the flies in the southern half of the continent in winter.
“Flies can’t survive below 15 degrees.”
Dr (for a Doctor he is – h/t Gerald) should get out of the aircon and into the fresh air now and then.
Bushflies, and other flies, certainly can survive below 15C. Take it from someone who lives and has lived for decades in the Canberra region.
Bushflies do drop off quite quickly as it gets colder, but other types of flies around here even survive frosts. They do eventually disappear in the depths of winter.
TheirABC’s Rolodex of ‘experts’ contains as many duds as the Victorian Parliamentary Liberal Party.
PS – I still can’t vote up or down, because evil WordPress won’t accept my email address. It’s an encrypted one. The same thing happened when I tried to register for the SBS online service. Not acceptable – now, why would that be?
They’re harvesting your data, make no mistake.
Wally Dalí
March 19, 2024 2:13 pm
Candice asked co-host Richard Freedman: “What would you like Latrell Mitchell to do. What is going to make you happy? “Your saying you’d like him to be more of a role model?”
ROFL! Sometimes the AI is bang on point.
Knuckle Dragger
March 19, 2024 2:20 pm
Candice and David Warner never forget.
Australia won’t forget about you pair of dunderheads, either.
The parties in Sydney will have to go through the presence of these insufferable clowns.
Black Ball
March 19, 2024 2:25 pm
Test
Black Ball
March 19, 2024 2:44 pm
Mike O’Connor in the Courier Mail:
Those fluttering sounds you can hear are the political pigeons of the state government coming home to roost.
There was never a plan to stage the Olympics that no other city in the world was interested in holding. Into this void stepped then Premier Palaszczuk, driven by ego and the deeply flawed presumption that it would be politically popular.
When the confected cheering and gasps of surprise at the announcement our bid had been successful subsided, everyone went home and carried on as before.
There was no strategy. The Games? No worries, mate. They’re years away.
Premier Steven Miles in now wedged firmly between a rock and a very hard place for behind all the uproar about his rejection of some aspects of Graham Quirk’s report lies the unpalatable truth that the government never had a mandate to pursue the Games and that a sizable majority of Queenslanders simply do not want them.
Miles has copped a caning for ruling out a stadium in Victoria Park but it was the right decision.
It’s a park. A green oasis. It’s one of the lungs of the city. Would New Yorkers tolerate the construction of a sporting stadium in Central Park? You know the answer.
Developers have been casting longing glances at Victoria Park for decades but the Brisbane City Council knew that to succumb to their whispered entreaties to despoil it would be political suicide.
Come the Games and suddenly it’s seen as acceptable to send in the trucks and bulldozers as a motley collection of former politicians, entrepreneurs, architects, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers tell us what to do with our city and where to do it.
Legacy has become the most over-used word in the lexicon. We are constantly told that we need a legacy. Legacy for whom? For politicians, for the developers and business people who stand to profit from these projects when the circus that is the Games leaves town?
We need to step back and take a breath and be wary of those who would use the Games as a cover to override the regulations which are designed to give us a certain quality of life.
Former Labor state politician Kate Jones, who hasn’t been elected by anyone to anything but who has plenty to say, warned us in a speech last week that to stage the Olympic Games “we’re going to have some difficult decisions to make,” adding that we shouldn’t “politically protect” some suburbs and that there had to be “bravery” in political decision-making.
There are laws and regulations which are designed to stop big business and big government trashing citizens’ quality of life so they can do whatever they like such as flattening parklands to build sporting stadiums.
These restrictive planning regimes are well named because they restrict people from destroying our lifestyles but in so doing restrict governments from giving the nod to big corporations to make lots of money at our expense.
You would think that the protection of suburbs that Jones referenced and by inference, people’s property rights and quality of life would surely be a good thing but it seems they are an irritation when seen in the context of the Games and should be cast aside.
When you hear people talking about difficult decisions, bravery and those bothersome restrictive planning regulations that stop people who know what’s best for us having their way, you know that the bulldozers are coming in the name of the greater good.
No one has ever counted the number of sins that have been committed in the name of the greater good because there are just too many of them.
Those people who have the good fortune to live outside the urban sprawl are also hearing about those cursed restrictive planning regimes, the ones that stop companies building a wind farm outside their kitchen windows.
The Victorian government is considering changes to planning laws that will block appeals to the Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal, forcing objectors to take the matter to the Supreme Court which it knows will be prohibitively expensive.
In NSW renewable energy developers are pressuring the government to reduce the buffer zone between giant wind farms and nearby communities in the name of the holy grail of net zero.
Let’s have bravery by all means, the sort needed to stand up and say that when it comes to development for the Games or for anything else, people come first.
Let’s have bravery by all means, the sort needed to stand up and say that when it comes to development for the Games or for anything else, people come first.
Where did O’Connor stand on the jab, when Qld became a police state? I haven’t read the C@ck Mould for at least a decade.
I’m sick of the terms, ‘legacy’, ‘coming of age’ and ‘put us on the map’. The beautiful Brisbane I grew up in is now a crowded sh1thole. The cultural cringers here were envious of Sydney and Melbourne and wanted it to be like them. Well done, idiots.
When Brisbane was looked down upon for being a hick town, I chuckled because it was the best place. Now, I dream of moving away and leaving it to the neon lights and the wankerati.
Brisvegas, Brisneyland, Boganville, what ever it gets called, doesn’t need the Olympics. Qld doesn’t need another wasteful event. The regions need some cash. Services in Brisbane are struggling to keep up with the sprawl.
For crying out loud you polliemuppets. Do something productive and beneficial for the people you represent. Stop p1ssing our money up against a wall of vanity.
The Americans are not being serious, with their arsenal they could flatten the whole of Yemen in one afternoon as they did to Iraq 30 something years ago.
Don’t be ridiculous, Crossie. You and many others have an overly confident and inflated view of US capabilities. They can’t even stop the missiles attacks atm.
I don’t know if the U.S. has re-inserted assets into Yemen, but when they withdrew a substantial number (details Muddy?), they lost a vital on-the-ground intelligence conduit. While their aerial imagining capability is no doubt superb, humint can produce additional, corraborative, info.
rosie
March 19, 2024 3:02 pm
US Navy getting that Gun Smoke experience.
Johnny Rotten
March 19, 2024 3:04 pm
Blackout Bowen being interviewed this morning on Breakfast TV –
Warning, warning. This is a very difficult video to watch – An ‘R’ Rating at least –
“Candace and David Warner never forget”. What David Warner never forgets apart from being cheating midget houso ranga is SBW banging Candace in a pub dunny. Candace never forgets that night also.
BLiar hasn’t aged well. A real Epstein Island vibe there.
Top Ender
March 19, 2024 3:35 pm
Probably a first for a court-room? Male museum visitor lodges legal battle against Mona over its women-only ‘ladies’ lounge’
Mona could be ordered to close down its opulent, emerald-curtained “ladies lounge” following a discrimination battle waged by an interstate museum visitor.
New South Wales resident Jason Lau has lodged a complaint with Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner after he paid $35 for a ticket to Mona, but was excluded from the artwork designed by Mona’s “first lady” Kirsha Kaechele.
The stoush was played out in the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Tuesday, with Ms Kaechele speaking passionately about why she felt a women-only ladies’ lounge that excluded men was an essential statement in the male-dominated art world.
She was accompanied by about 25 women, mainly dressed in blue power suits, glasses and pearl necklaces, who synchronised their movements in the hearing room – leaning back, leaning forward, holding onto their spectacle frames as one.
As the hearing concluded, the women formed a type of conga line and left the building while performing a synchronised dance step to the music of Robert Palmer’s Simply Irresistible.
Mr Lau represented himself via video link during the hearing, which was presided over by tribunal deputy president Richard Grueber.
He said that during his trip to Mona, he had been “quite surprised” to be refused access to the ladies lounge “on the basis I was male”.
“Any lay person would expect that if you buy a ticket, you would expect the provision of goods and services in line with the law,” he said.
Mr Lau also argued that men weren’t told they weren’t permitted entry to the lounge until after the ticket was purchased.
He has sought relief by Mona either removing the lounge, ceasing the exclusion of men, or creating a two-tiered ticketing system.
Mona’s lawyer Catherine Scott said to stop men being excluded from the artwork would change the very nature of the work, and also said Mona couldn’t change the ticketing system.
She argued the ladies’ lounge was covered by section 26 of Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act, which allows for discrimination in any program, plan or arrangement designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people who are disadvantaged, or have a special need due to a particular attribute.
Ms Kaechele was called to the witness stand to give evidence about how and why she created the ladies’ lounge, giving a vivid description of the creative process.
“An artwork – my experience is they tend to emerge. They’re not borne out of a particular moment. They’re part of an emergent process that I’m completely enthralled by as an artist and have a sense of awe for,” she said.
“I feel that I’m a vessel and the artwork builds itself. I like to call it ‘God is the curator’, to irritate my atheist friends, but it really feels like this artwork is coming through me.”
Ms Kaechele said women were traditionally excluded from places of power, and that she designed the ladies’ lounge in response to Mona having an imbalance of works by male and female artists.
“This presented the opportunity to make a statement and make a place for the gathering of women, for the very special thing that happens when women come together – and I mean anyone who identities as a woman, you don’t have to be born a woman,” she said.
“It excludes men, and I would be lying if I were to say I didn’t find it titillating.
“I think women have a moment of excitement and glee. It’s naughty. But why can we have a sense of humour about it? It’s because as women, we don’t hold the power.”
In her closing submissions, Ms Scott said if the lounge was a club where entry was charged, “we wouldn’t be here today because clubs have an exemption” under discrimination laws.
She said the ladies’ lounge came about from Mona realising it had a lack of art by women.
“It’s potentially a really powerful piece, a really powerful medium,” she said.
“It also responds to the historical exclusion of women from spaces.”
Ms Scott also said Mr Leu did in fact experience the artwork of the ladies’ lounge, which was one of the “clever” aspects of the artwork in responding to female disadvantage.
“Mr Lau did get to experience the artwork, which was his exclusion,” she said.
“Part of the experience is being denied something that is desired.”
Mr Grueber will hand down his decision at a date to be determined.
Women have the power of taking a life, with few, if any, (external) repercussions. If that isn’t power, how is power defined now? Or is ‘power’ fluid too? One minute you have it – the next minute, you don’t. (Just like your car keys, really).
johanna
March 19, 2024 3:48 pm
Free speech lives!
WordPress won’t accept my registration, and Dover won’t accept my comments.
This version of the blog sucks big time, for the reasons mentioned in my unpublished comment above.
Ask Anthony Watts about the battles he had with WP regarding his huge and successful blog, including concerns about security, flexibility and independence. In the end, he ditched them, but it cost a lot of time and money.
I didn’t want to ‘register’ with WP, but after some consideration I tried to. Like SBS, TheirABC and other dataharvesters, they refused my email address because it is from an encrypted site.
Ms Scott also said Mr Leu did in fact experience the artwork of the ladies’ lounge, which was one of the “clever” aspects of the artwork in responding to female disadvantage.
“Mr Lau did get to experience the artwork, which was his exclusion,” she said. “Part of the experience is being denied something that is desired.”
I would have just said I am a woman and walked in.
JC
March 19, 2024 3:55 pm
Hey Cronkite,
if the story is true that Trump is unable to secure a bond, and the fat ugly slug begins to seize assets, could this lead to ineligibility as a result of potential bankruptcy proceedings?
if the story is true that Trump is unable to secure a bond, and the fat ugly slug begins to seize assets, could this lead to ineligibility as a result of potential bankruptcy proceedings?
That’s the plan
JC
March 19, 2024 4:07 pm
And the fat ugly slug taunts him everyday by posting the daily accrued interest. These people are truly evil. Unreal.
Of course they are evil, they are in the process of destroying a city and a whole state. Who with any money or a business would risk parking it in New York never knowing when they would fall foul of the fascists, more commonly known as the Democratic Party?
The exit of businesses will be a trickle at first and then the Niagara Falls.
Top Ender
March 19, 2024 4:11 pm
Should have added, MONA is worthy of a yearly award as being the silliest and most pretentious art gallery/museum in the country.
Fair Shake
March 19, 2024 4:13 pm
Flying to Sydney from Melburnistan this morning we were put in a holding pattern somewhere Sth West of Syd-a-nee. The view out the aircraft window was appalling. Ferkin bird choppers in clusters all around. We were a fair way up and they dominated the landscape. Those things were almost as big a Bowens ego.
Fair Shake
March 19, 2024 4:17 pm
Speaking to an auto industry colleague. Tells me their brands representative attempted to give Clown Bowen a report on the impact of his beloved NVES due to come in next year. Herr Ministers Response ‘don’t give that to me!’, ‘i dont intend to read it’ ‘yes we knew the price of your vehicles would go up by thousand of $. That is the point!’
what a drop kick.
Brislurker
March 19, 2024 4:19 pm
It just got very interesting in Florida with Judge Cannon just issuing her latest decision. Finally President Trump has a win.
The latest MONA schadenboner actually looks like a lot of fun. As long as the clowns don’t get handed any taxpayer munni, I say, play on.
…I’m still not visiting tho. Confirms that the whole circus is about as weighty as a gossip mag.
You’re ignoring the commentary in your own link. It says the particular carrier group is stretched, but it also also says attacks are eroding the Tootsies’ arsenal. Your interpretation is lopsided.
Normally, the Red Sea carries around 20% of the world’s maritime trade. It’s the key route to Europe through the Suez Canal. It’s less vital to America, but they’re the ones doing the most to try to restore freedom of navigation.
Rear Admiral Marc Miguez, the Carrier Strike Group commander, sees the signs of continuing sea trade as evidence their presence has had some success.
He believes strikes led by the US, with the help of Britain, have already degraded some of the Houthis’ military capabilities. But it certainly hasn’t deterred or stopped them.
Do you think the above describes your interpretation of the BBC piece?
Pt 1 is neither here nor there.
Pts 2 and 3 are putting lipstick on a pig. ‘Some trade continues’ and ‘degraded’ but not deterred or stopped is putting the most favourable light on their present failure.
They’re losing. Nowhere does it say that ‘shipping is increasing’; the best they suggest is that ‘some trade continues’.
feelthebern
March 19, 2024 4:58 pm
A day out at MONA is fun. The catamaran, the outdoor bbq thingy, you might be lucky enough to see a band.
Plus some decent art. Also some shit art. But name a gallery where that isn’t the case.
Vicki
March 19, 2024 4:58 pm
Wow – there are some weeks you want to forget.
We get our mail redirected to farm & just arrived after city sojourn to be greeted by all that is going crazy in this country.
The worst was a fine for a parking offence in QLD – now, we havnt been in QLD in a few years & our Landcruiser has not been stolen or borrowed. The fine was for a number plate that was NOT ours, yet a call to the QLD department which sent the fine would not budge & said the photo was of a Landcruiser! Australia is becoming a joke! Trouble is – it’s not funny.
The next envelope was from Meat & Livestock Aust. seeking our re-registration through the most convoluted digital process you could devise . At this time, I doubt if I can navigate it!
Backwards, sideways, upside down – irrelevant. The most important outcome is the perception of movement. It’s progress! We’re progressing! At least we’re not giving the fungus an opportunity to take hold! Bend over forwards and look between your legs to the cobwebs we used to be covered in – isn’t this posture an improvement?
feelthebern
March 19, 2024 5:01 pm
Last Oct, a kilo of blueberries was 18 bucks at Costco.
A month ago, 24 bucks.
Today, 32 bucks.
Dunno what’s going on there.
I’d supposed to be happy I’m a shareholder.
Very intensive for water, fert and labour, and then transport and storage. All comes down to cost of energy and labour. Had a neighbour growing them for a while, in elevated individual pots under bird nets- he made a very quick decision to let them go when the batflu scam locked out backpackers and he was in the vise of contract labour. I was never a big fan of them, couldn’t work out what the fuss was all about, but fresh and unchilled off the bush they were alright.
And we have damn blueberries every morning in our NutriBullet – very good for cardio vascular, I believe.
Dunny Brush
March 19, 2024 5:10 pm
In I’m-already-voting -for-you-so-you-don’t-have-to-convince-me news: Trump is apparently open to deporting Harold Windsor.
Johnny Rotten
March 19, 2024 5:14 pm
Democrats Are Dancing in the Streets Over Bankrupting Trump & Family
You had better get the HELL out of NYC and not do business with ANY company in New York City, for the courts are no longer reliable. The novel action against Trump is that they claimed your house is worth one million for a loan even though the bank independently values it at $800k and lends you $500k. Despite you paying back the loan and the banks even testifying that they did not rely on that number, the NY court arbitrarily called that FRAUD. There is ABSOLUTELY no company that cannot now be utterly destroyed in NYC using this theory. They could even target individuals they do not like and take their homes as well.
The roots of this bullshit lie in Soros and Obama filling the DA’s offices with ideologues and it is working. Obama and Soros both hate the US and all the people who live in it and they intend to destroy the nation, believing it will not affect them.
So I’m heading back to Sydney on Sunday and have organised a 3 week rental commencing Monday due to renovations that are meant to be in progress on my property. For this rental I have had to pay the full amount in advance.
With 24 hours notice I receive an email saying the rental has been cancelled due to ‘maintenance issues’, no further details , no alternative offered , nothing other than a refund of just what I have paid.
It seems odd that I have to pay the full amount in advance but the other party can cancel without penalty 24 hours before occupation. I’m considering my options but if anyone has any similar experience I would be interested in their views.
Very rude in view of lack of explanation – at the very least!
Simon Morgan
March 19, 2024 5:21 pm
The Dumbocrats have jumped for joy on many, many occasions, only to be bested again by the Don.
I’m pretty sure this will be the next notch on his belt.
Barking Toad
March 19, 2024 5:31 pm
Never even ‘eard of ;im…..
A Marvel actor has reportedly been “officially offered” the role of James Bond. British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been formally offered the chance to take over from current Bond star Daniel Craig, according to The Sun.
I’m pretty sure their plan for Trump is to get him in prison or jail long enough to murder him.
mareeS
March 19, 2024 5:32 pm
I can do comments and upticks, but I’m not sure how I managed it. The site always just says “You are logged in as mareeS.” I think I ticked the “remember me” box when I first did the log-in when it all changed the other day.
Crossie
March 19, 2024 5:36 pm
Simon Morgan
March 19, 2024 5:21 pm
The Dumbocrats have jumped for joy on many, many occasions, only to be bested again by the Don.
I’m pretty sure this will be the next notch on his belt.
The utter Democrat fools in NY think that nobody is paying attention to what they are doing. Not only are all Republicans taking note of what would happen to them in NY if they displeased the fascists but the whole business world is looking and thinking if they need to set up in US they will go to Florida. I expect NYC to become a regional centre in the near future.
I’m still pretty optimistic on cities but this doesn’t help. A mate pulling the plug on London after 30 years. Street crime out of control. Can’t get comprehensive insurance on a big BMW bike. Had enough.
Peter Broelman.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco #1.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Another scoop on Sharri Markson’s Sky News show last night:
Albanese government removes ASIO and ASIS heads from National Security Committee of Cabinet
They are not in Cabinet, they were advisors to Cabinet, just like the secretaries to PM&C, DFAT, Defence, the CDF and others, depending on the subject under discussion.
Thanks Tom. Putin wins a One Horse Race – Lol.
It turns out the secretary of Elbow’s Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, former Melbourne University academic Glyn Davis, is a stooge for the Chinese Communist Party who helped Victorian premier Dan Andrews line up his Belt and Road deal with the CCP.
So Elbow’s top public servant shuts security chiefs out of Cabinet’s National Security Committee while helping silence anti-CCP sentiment inside the government as our activist foreign minister Penny Wong climbs into bed with Hamas by reinstating Australian funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency UNRWA whose staff participated in the mass slaughter of Jews last October.
Our federal government is more leftwing than the Whitlam regime.
And the status of the Secretary to PM&C is the real issue.
Trump won’t rule out 16-week abortion ban, but won’t commit either
TYSON TO PAUL
”I WILL HURT YOU”
Don’t say he hasn’t been warned.
Tyson is one of the greatest boxers and indeed martial artists of all time.
https://youtu.be/KaV8HiWKyug?feature=shared
Mike Tyson in his mid 50’s doing what 1-2% of the total male population of the US can do.
Rogan saying the most important thing someone can do is take control of their health is just so true.
Why should public servants be members of a cabinet committee?
Why not? .. seems so many of them get paid more than any of the “elected” gummint members they may as well be running the show, as well! ..
Bit of “value for money” type deal for the vote-herd .. LOL!
to provide fearless independent advise /s
I thought the following bit was pretty interesting:
The implication is that Albo, Wong and Davis are working their way through a list of demands from China, who are offering the quid pro quo of dropping tariffs on wine and unembargoing other stuff, like coal.
So maybe the ASIO and ASIS thing was another line item crossed off.
Given our vulnerable position defense-wise it sounds like the elites in this country are edging away from the US and towards China. Perhaps they think placating the dragon will work.
Can we defund the US Studies Centre at the same time? Load of leftard hacks.
Republicans have defunded AUKUS, it’s their fault.
Um, Monty, isn’t Biden the President?
Isn’t he the one who cut the USN construction budget for nuclear subs?
Do tell son, I’m all ears.
Sky News may need to get in some security:
Extinction Rebellion target GB News as offices covered in paint (18 Mar)
Bit rich XR labeling people extremist. Since our stinkies are just as stinky as Pommy stinkies I suspect the local lot will have a go at similar media offices here, especially since they all coordinate with each other.
Extinction Rebellion?
Excrement Retention.
By the way, those who threw paint are vandals, NOT protestors. They should be charged with the offence of vandalism.
Big day today .. all the tests, scans dun and the results in so this afternoon I’ll find out whether I’m in for my 3rd round with the big C .. not a relapse but a totally different version if it’s there .. I feel great no pains or even feeling unwell or anything else so slightly concerned but not panicking .. hopefully, just my age (76) that prompts the C checks before the, obvious, “enlarged prostate” symptoms ….
Anywayz lotza things crossed and, as Doris sang, “what will be will be ……..”
Good luck and hope you get good news and can go back to riding your bike.
Thanx …
And swimming, of course.
All the best shatterzzz. We need Cats like you here for variety.
ASPI, an ‘independent’ think tank funded by the US and Australian governments is frequently critical of China?
Well tickle my arse with a feather.
Particularly nasty weather?
Can’t quite get why several of the cartoonists (Leake included) are over-dripping their brushes on the Russian election .. Given the state of USA politics I’m more inclined to believe the Ruskies voting system is, probably, a sight cleaner than the Yank version …..
Tho, the bar isn’t set too high given that these dayz most 3rd world voting set-ups look cleaner than the USA production …
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
Quite so. Would they prefer the globalist scum who are destroying/have destroyed the West to be running Russia? Ultimately they are both in the employ of Mudrock.
Epic tale of woe, and fascinating too.
Unhappy Tesla Owner! (18 Mar)
Quite a read .. thanx .. luvved it ..LOL!
Eyrie
March 19, 2024 7:57 am
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
+1
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Good luck with your results shatterzzz
Thanx ……
4th in 2 years. Rightio. Daily Telegraph:
So looks like this bloke was lined up before Keegan got the Khyber Pass.
Can have all the advisors in the world but how about just do your job Ms Webb?
I’m guessin’ “spin” doctors don’t come cheap but no real angst being heard about another PS mouth being fed …..
The question should be, “Why does the NSW plod commish need a “professional” excuse maker full-time or otherwise ……..?
Sharri can smell the influence peddlers inside the tent.
Belt and Road through the back door from the Allan government in Vic through the autocratic pushing of mostly Chinese corporate interests colonising the land with renewables.
Chalmers supposedly inconsequential drop tariff reforms included Chinese solar and turbine blades. The benefits to the average consumer were tiny and it didn’t rate a big announcement but then again, we weren’t the audience.
MSM are tone deaf to the big game being played by senior bureaucrats and corporate bosses. AEMO stinks of influence.
The Strategy of Atrocity in the Gaza War
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Remember you’re dealing with hypocrites and professional liars. Legacy news media is the enemy of the people.
HOW EUROPE’S PALM OIL BAN WILL DESTROY THEIR OWN ECONOMY
JUST IN: US Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Just Defended The US Government Violating the 1st Amendment During Arguments in Case Sen Rand Paul Calls “the most consequential free speech case in U.S. history”
Just In: Barack Obama Caught on Video Entering Home of UK Prime Minister—Why?
Indolent,
there’s a good chance that is a double.
No way would Obama walk across the quad on his own. Where are the dozen Secret Service agents?
Also, why no close up?
Also, the man loves the sound of his own voice. No way he would simply turn around and wave.
Putting the frighteners out I reckon.
The quality of that footage makes it very difficult to positively identify him as Obama. One thing I did note was the rounded (hunched forward) shoulders of the man as he was walking.
Sending you much sympathy, Mark, on the loss of your Mum. I second Rosie’s choice of Psalm 23 for your OT reading. I’m sure, whatever your choice, you’ll do her proud.
@ImMeme0
A truth bomb explodes as a man reveals who’s truly to blame for the migrant crisis in Chicago!
Just In: Barack Obama Caught on Video Entering Home of UK Prime Minister—Why?
Maybe just a gay hook-up while he was in town.
Probably to complain about some of Sunak’s recent decisions, like banning puberty blockers for kids, legislating for women’s spaces and sports to be free of trannies, building gas plants and defunding green councils who punish motorists.
Great to see such openness on display from a government agency.
CDC Finally Releases 148 Page Study on Myocarditis Following COVID Vaccine – And EVERY SINGLE WORD is Redacted! (17 Mar)
Mushrooming by the elites is becoming an artform.
This should raise a few eyebrows, surely?
And as Roy Bland said decades ago in Tinker Tailor;
I see Trump has gone begging to thirty different companies to cover his bond, and none of them want a bar of him.
Looks like he’ll have to sell one of his properties, LOL.
Here at Arky Labs we noticed our competitor’s AS (Artificial Stupidity) systems lacked the warmth and humanity of real human interactions.
So we added a layer to our neural network model to mimic the hormonal fluctuations of regular actual human persons. And the ability for you to pair ARKYGPTLGBGT++ with your devices. Whether it’s your car, your robot girlfriend or your fridge, you can now enjoy authentic artificial interactions with all the objects in and around the home.
Sid was bored with the same old predictable responses from his robot: “Once I paired Nancy with ARKYGPTLGBGT++ it was a whole new experience. She ditched the sad, predictably positive and responsive behaviour. Instead she sat on the couch drinking UDL cans and texting her new friends. Later that night she came into the bedroom and tried to stab me. It was just like a real relationship”.
Good work, very funny!
Love it, Arky.
Good stuff, Arky.
Indolent
March 19, 2024 8:52 am
JUST IN: US Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Just Defended The US Government Violating the 1st Amendment During Arguments in Case Sen Rand Paul Calls “the most consequential free speech case in U.S. history”
So many black kunts: this commie cow, letitia, fany, cackles and the completely grotesque creatures in the demorats like maxine waters.
“You can vote yourself into Communism… But you can only shoot your way out.”
JUST IN: US Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Just Defended The US Government Violating the 1st Amendment
It seems Brown (the DEI appointment on SCOTUS) is most concerned that the US Constitution limits the Govts right to censor public discourse in the media. Yes, she is quoted as saying that in arguments.
Similar to Australia where these leftwing swine will soon have similar powers. For our own good of course.
Salwan Momika is an Iraqi asylum seeker living in Sweden.
He is known for his strong anti-Islam stance.
The Swedish government wants to deport him to Iraq for burning the Quran, which will be a certain death sentence for him.
Urban Scoop has launched an urgent petition to pressure the Swedish government into dropping its campaign to deport Salwan
Pity we don’t have genuine asylum seekers lie this guy. Here’s the petition.
Hi all. I’m back two days after brain surgery. Arrived to a very different format and has taken a bit to work it out. Thought I was on a different planet there for a bit. I have no idea what source code means or spoiler. Is there a guide to how this all works?
Fuk! Petition
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions
Good Luck with trying to get the money back – Lol –
“Ethiopia’s biggest commercial bank is scrambling to recoup large sums of money withdrawn by customers after a “systems glitch”.
The customers discovered early on Saturday that they could take out more cash than they had in their accounts at the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE).
More than $40m (£31m) was withdrawn or transferred to other banks, local media reported.
It took several hours for the institution to freeze transactions.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68599027
The grinning idiot being an idiot. Courier Mail:
How long before Miles does an Andrews and pulls the plug?
I’ll tell you what, if he did it would be welcomed by most Queenslanders, the exceptions being those who stood to benefit through the construction contracts.
We’ve got people in Brisbane sleeping in tent villages while the rate of housing construction is stalled.
Miles will take the fall. The Liars will look after him. Ask Bambi and Carmen Lawrence. They’re good like that.
World’s largest solar panel manufacturer to cut workforce by 30%.
Chinese company Longi’s revenue collapsed by 44% last year while its share price is down 70% from 2021.
The Guardian cites an ongoing trend of energy companies switching from renewables to higher margin oil and gas projects as a factor in the company’s decline.
Longi to change their name to Shorti?
BoN, the “unhappy Tesla driver”, is just like the majority of people doing just about anything. Only look at the positives. There are not many new mousetraps around. The left have perfected this approach by insisting 100% of an unproven idea instead of 5-10% improvement of an old idea. This is why people get caught up in scams. The internet is full of perpetual motion machines and sentient computers. I’m very rarely disappointed by looking at the downside of every shiny new thing that comes along. Some things are already as good as they get, e.g. mousetraps. I’ve been relatively successful by taking nibbles instead of a whole mouthful. There are very few J Robert Oppenheimer and Elon Reeve Musk that can see past the downside of a massive problem. What these two have achieved in a short space of time is incredible. I grew up with parents afraid to do anything. Always warned not to get out of the box. I suppose that’s why I’m a sceptic. I’m more a product of my relatives. My niece asked me recently why I’m not like my sister or parents. I said, “lucky”.
And that is with Billion$ in subsidies and tax breaks from retarded/corrupt Govts helping them out. Our hard earned pissed up against the wall on unreliable scam projects.
Just as water will always find the lowest level, so capital will seek the highest level of return. Subsidised projects can’t compete, as the QLD government belatedly realised last year. Tax payers will now have to fork out the capital cost; but don’t worry, when the loans are paid off we’ll own the diapidated, redundant, rusting plant!
Yes! As we own the mothballed desal plants. But, the silver lining is the great union cash cows that they are.
Yep the Leak is a bit weak. Plus, Herge got there a hundred years ago in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
Chris Bowen is increasingly looking like a reverse King Canute, assuring Australians he can command the tides of world markets.
The interesting thing about democracy in modern times: it resonates so much with ordinary people – even Russians, who’ve never really experienced it in their history – that even when it’s being subverted the subverters have to pretend they’re democrats lest they lose legitimacy.
Why do we need to spend billions on Olympic games infrastructure? We can do a cut price games with existing infrastructure. No one remembers stadiums etc after the games have gone.
Mem – The comment box is now at the top not the bottom.
When you post a comment it first stays at the top, but when you refresh it goes to the bottom.
Bit of a work in progress so far. The commenting seems to work more like Disqus, if you are used to that.
You don’t need to login to comment, but I think you need to register if you want to do upticks. I haven’t tried that yet.
Register with “wordpress’ seperate to Cat ……..
Many thanks Bruce.
Heinlein keeps coming true, in this case the Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
China Working on Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Astronauts Into Space (16 Mar, via instapundit)
So far the Chinese haven’t managed to get anywhere near what Elon does with reusable rockets. But they’re trying, and they seem to be more inclined to try risky stuff that other nations are. The innovation race is fun to watch.
I wouldn’t like to be an astronaut on one of those things, but if it’s just for freight, OK. Any electronics need to be very well shielded – perhaps inside structural members of a space station.
Quirk’s review seems to have been entirely uninformed of the Olympic Committee’s current advice that the games should utilise existing infrastructure to keep costs manageable, lest no city/country in future be willing to take them on.
Top man.
Worth a read, sadly:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/03/why-the-adf-risks-failure-in-the-next-war/
The shiny bums in the ADF only care about a comfortable retirement.
Not about national security & certainly not about those in harms way.
Now let’s get back to bodgy procurement & getting a consultancy gig.
Sleazy rich pricks who pretend to be the worker’s friend news:
The horror.
Meanwhile, Albanese’s housing plan is already falling behind its targets in its first year and the prediction is this year’s migration intake will be higher than 2023’s record.
Personally, I’m looking forward to the day of reckoning.
Via Gateway Pundit and good work of Libs of TikTok.
Seems Planet Fitness think it is a good idea to allow men in ladies changing room.
Cancellations and 7% drop in share price so far.
When will they learn better to cater to the majority than very small minority.
Grate – health insurance premium has gone up 8.5% from next month.
Thanks, dickheads!
You’re welcome.
The Right: If you make an effort you can provide for yourself. You may not become rich, you may not make as much money as some others, but it will be yours, and yours in a way no government benefit or gift could ever be.
The Left: You deserve what rich people have. Vote for me and I will get it. I promise I won’t use my power and position to enrich myself. That is what those awful rich people do,
“Failing to swiftly destroy Hamas and directly punish Hamas’s backers in Iran and Qatar will teach sympathizers in other parts of the Muslim world that strategies of atrocity should be added to the playbook of regimes challenging U.S. allies around the world.”
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
Or, more to the point, is that unachievable action even the goal?
No, is the answer to both.
The aim of the Israeli PM, Benjamin Pfizer, is to keep his sorry arse out of gaol.
Much like St Volodymyr the Pure, he is prepared to sacrifice his entire population, to achieve his goal.
Israel has never been weaker, in comparison to its neighbours, than it is now.
The catastrophe, (for both parties), that is occurring in Gaza, will be nothing, compared to what will happen, if Pfizer directs an attack against Lebanon, which, looks more and more likely.
Back in Dec/Jan, Israel evacuated more than 30,000 inhabitants of Northern Israel. Clearly, because Israel is so strong, ……, right?
If Lebanon is attacked, Israel will be on its own, because those US Carriers will be either withdrawn, or, more likely sunk. The loss of significant Israeli territory is not merely possible, but likely.
This is clearly a disastrous scenario, for Israel. Perhaps it is time to look for the best outcome for Israel, not the PM.
I’d say it’s more possible than Putin occupying Ukraine successfully.
Nothing like a confidence booster before , possible, life/death consultation with a specialist .. Phoned me 15 minutes ago, to say, “We haven’t got your MRI results yet” .. answered by my, “The imagining people msg-ed me on Friday afternoon to say they had forwarded the results to you” ……… FFS!
Keep calm and carry on!
Crap science report of the day.
Magpies under siege from climate and man-made noise (Phys.org, 18 Mar)
Magpies are thriving. Indeed more warmth is a good thing for them since they can start their season earlier, thereby avoiding cuckoos. And magpies in urban areas are as well fed as can be, especially in my suburb.
Ah well, the UWA PhD student will probably get an immediate lectureship and rise to professor even before you can say “climate crap”.
Magpies here in urban beachside Merewether are thriving and multiplying. We have many breeding families around here, they are happy alongside us in our yard and on our dawn walks. As many as we have seen in our 45yrs here. More peewits too.
TE, sad indictment of the ADF which comes as no surprise to Cats. In peacetime they’re already a failure. Coupled with failed Brereton Report, years in the making, the Brass should be fired. Me thinks if the Brass have not been in a life endangering situation they have no idea, hence the gazing into the past for indiscretions not in line with pleasant company at dinner parties. Angry shots tend to focus the mind. Am I correct to say is Cosgrove the last to be put in a dangerous situation?
Went to a Masked Owl Crisis fillum the other night. There was a posse of Black Cockatoo Crisis shirts in the lobby. I might get ahead of the market and print off some ASMR/Hot Flush Maggie Crisis hoodies for the autumn apocalypse.
You can destroy its infrastructure. Fill its tunnels, and demolish every school and hospital used as weapons storage depots, launch sites and food dumps.
You can kill its leaders, both within Gaza and without, as well as anyone publicly identifying themselves with it.
You can make it so unpalatable for any existing or prospective member that any incentive for being anywhere near Hamas is gonski.
You can also send a message to any potential group looking to fill that vacuum that it would be a less than stellar idea.
So yes. Yes Hamas can be destroyed.
Thumbs Up from me
And from me.
Unfortunately, it is their notoriety – what they achieved on the 7th of October – that is the most dangerous in the long term, but nothing can be done about that now.
Israel will have to step up their intelligence within the prison population, and also within the ‘re-imagined’ Gaza. (I posted a link to an article on here a few months ago regarding the Hasnobollocks-assisted pre-7 October purge of suspected Israeli agents or collaborators in Gaza which likely impacted contributed to the intel failure).
Well, he certainly seems to be some kind of a Canute.
“I have launched a model for AS (artificial stupidity). I call it ARKYGPTLGBGT++. It has a language model that allows it to answer any question.”
Aside from the obligatory: “Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity” , I offer cats this example of AI:
https://youtu.be/Sq1QZB5baNw
They swear this is “real” and not CGI or a “remote controlled by a human”.
Stunning.
And frightening.
Hold onto your hat, the future is coming… and it’s not happy! 🙂
Mmmm yes, higher margins aren’t usually a good sign. Very Grauniad.*sounds of the Internationale wafting in the background*
Well played, BJ!
He and his ‘umble missus have spent $30 million on three residences, true representatives of the wukkas! mUnturd supports this kind of socialism.
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
Or, more to the point, is that unachievable action even the goal?
No, is the answer to both.
Then what should Israel do.
Rufus thinks they should line up quietly outside the new shower blocks.
As Jean-Luc Picard would say : Engage.
5 x 50 Kt nukes along the Gaza Strip. Add 1 x 100 Kt to the capitol of ANY Muslim nation refusing to give up the ring leaders.
Israel is under an existential threat by Islam. I doubt they really care what anyone thinks any more ever since the West appears to be abandoning them in favour of the muslim hordes.
Don’t stop until nothing moves.
I continue to watch bits of the Channel 9, Dr Al Muderis defamation case.
A few observations.
The whole system needs an over haul when it comes to any orthopaedic surgery.
There needs to be stricter criteria before you qualify for tax payer funded work.
And unless you can demonstrate a decent support network (family, friends, community) there is little chance of adhering to the ongoing re-hab after you get out of the surgical re-hab units.
It’s a congo line of people with depression (from well before their surgeries) who end up riddled with infections.
If Al Muderis didn’t come across as such an arrogant fellow, Channel 9 would not have run the story IMHO.
ISIS was here to stay a couple of short years ago.
Couldn’t be defeated by orthodox means apparently.
I wonder what happened?
Something magical no doubt.
Oops, this is buried in someones reply, so reposting:
AI is going to take all your jobs:
https://youtu.be/Sq1QZB5baNw
Supposed to be real, and I believe it.
Fascinating.
Amazing.
Scary.
I was expecting it to look at the plate to see if it was clean or not. It didn’t.
But yes, scary.
The issue is the social interaction. I went into a cafe this morning to get brekky – the carpeters are in charge at the moment. Not only did I get brekky, but I caught up with a young lady who I had counselled about joining the army as a medic on the way to getting her RN quals. We had a quick chat about her 7 month old son who is crawling well, and she showed me a quick video of the happy little bloke. Struggling but getting there.
Beat that Figure 1.
ABS wage index Q4 23 shows public sector salaries surged while only 16% of private sector jobs saw a modest increase of 4.4% on average.
It’s now a two tier workforce.
I thought they were paid less because they were unsackable. Guess that idea has gone out the window these days.
This is why I am not using the reply function. I refresh and go to the bottom to see what comments are new. I am not going to go back over the whole thread to expand replies and then check if anything is…unfamiliar?
That is just me though.
Perhaps.
Mother Load:
I understand what you’re saying. I was a long time enthusiast of nested commenting and this is unlike the previous examples I had seen. For a forum with this many comments, it isn’t working.
How long before Miles does an Andrews and pulls the plug?
Yes, knock it on the head. Olympics are a WOFTAM and a bloated joke*
Will probably be replaced by the Hunger Games by then anyway.
https://www.paris2024.org/en/sport/breaking/
*breaking as in break dancing FFS. Rabz doctrine required
Nearly every state in Australia is run by Communists. So of course they are doing what Communists do – pilfer the petty cash, steal the stock before it gets to the shop floor, and bankrupt the company. Then blame Capitalism.
It wasn’t that long ago that we had NO debt.
Gold is $1 off $3,300. It’s going to get a lot worse.
The objective of this exercise is to demonstrate so much death of Hamas operatives and violent destruction of Hamas’ supporting infrastructure so as to deter future aspirants. So while destroying Hamas may indeed not be possible, it will most certainly dramatically reduce Hamas to somewhat of a rump rabble.
I fail to see why Israel should be prevented from doing just that, given the horrors Hamas visited on innocent people , including babies, on Oct 7th last. In fact this retribution is thoroughly deserved.
Hamas relies on funding. Repeated failures by Hamas will stop the money flowing to them. It doesn’t matter if they have supporters because without money Hamas is useless.
I guess Hamas haven’t reached ALP levels of failure yet, to stop the Wong Chap and Albo from giving them our dosh.
H@m@s succeeded beyond their wildest, sickest fantasies on the 7th of October – everything else will take second place in their legacy.
As I commented elsewhere, there is nothing that can be done about this now, but I support the most effective degradation practical of their personnel (in or beyond Gaza) and infrastructure, though such – as you mentioned – will never be complete.
One vital lesson must be how to devise more effective tactics to limit the ability of similar herds of demented animals to propagandise. The ‘fact-checking’ by Israel has had limited effect, as might be imagined when one participant cedes the information space.
Who was Genrikh Yagoda and why isn’t he as infamous as Hitler or Eichmann?
Because he was a communist, therefore wonderful? //sarc//
Nope. Not the reason.
“In fact this retribution is thoroughly deserved.”
I fail to see why we do not support it to the hilt, yet apparently support the Ukes.
Looks like he’ll have to sell one of his properties, LOL.
Any normally sensible blog that has Monty on it has sold out.
Re the article about “The Government is not your Daddy.”
Government is like the strange man at the pub who promises you great drugs. When you take them, he goes through your handbag, helps himself to your girlie bits, blows your credit card limit, and then blames you for getting pregnant because you weren’t on the pill.
Off the top of my headhe was once head of NKVD one of Stalins henchmen. Succeeded by Beria. Either that or he was in Star Wars. Will check on Wiki.
I see I was wrong about Beria.
I suspect he’s angling to have the corrupt legal system order confiscation of his properties, especially Trump Tower.
That will utterly destroy New York City, the real estate rats will be fleeing down the anchor ropes at great pace.
‘Escape From New York,’ Starring Donald Trump… and Every Other Developer (18 Mar)
Then the appellate court will overturn the judgement, reinstate his properties and award costs and actual and punitive damages to Trump.
It’ll be entertaining to see the gnashing of teeth from the usual suspects!
It’s certainly going to turn Hollywood into a landscape of AIs and melting snowflakes.
Report: Laid-off Hollywood Executives Panic as Jobs Vanish — ‘This Is a Full-Scale Depression’ (18 Mar)
Golly that’s just so terrible! Maybe woke snowflake peoples you should’ve made movies that people actually wanted to watch rather than shove endless qwerty propaganda down everyone’s throats.
Upthread Top Ender linked to the excellent piece in Quadrant Online by Professor Michael Evans about ADF education of officers.
This paragraph sums it up for me:
There is a popular saying among military educators that “chalk dust must support gun smoke”. One of the reasons for the poor state of Australian professional military education is that external academic providers allowed chalk dust to eclipse gun smoke. There is a constant, unresolved philosophical tension between academic imperatives and enhancing military effectiveness.
Knuckles, I think it important for the destruction of Hamas is for the IDF to eliminate the foot soldiers as well as the leadership. The foot soldiers need to know they are targets, not just the top dogs. Advertise the fact. As we saw they were quite willing to surrender. Anyone identified in the massacre needs to be killed. The supporters that send money need two taps as well. I’m sure Mossad has the ability to identify them. Support terrorism and you’re a target. Benny Wonk comes to mind.
Imagine the anger as Israel hangs* the identified rapists. The Arabs will go ballistic, and all the muslims in the West will riot.
Not gonna be pretty, but Israel has no choice. It’s either let the rapists and murderers go free or Hamas & Co will do another raid to get captives for bargaining.
*Or puts them through a wood chipper with the occasional side of bacon. My preference. If we want to destroy the morale of terrorist organisations and stop the recruitment, then I’d go for the chipper.
Australia’s answer to Harry and Sparkles:
Wowee. Airheads doesn’t come close to describing these imbeciles. I foresee a book coming from Warner, except it will need to be written for him because he is about as bright as a wet sack of sawdust.
TheirABC’s ‘experts’ proved to be idiots – again.
“That is normal,” he says.
Dr Evans says it is too cold for the flies in the southern half of the continent in winter.
Dr (for a Doctor he is – h/t Gerald) should get out of the aircon and into the fresh air now and then.
Bushflies, and other flies, certainly can survive below 15C. Take it from someone who lives and has lived for decades in the Canberra region.
Bushflies do drop off quite quickly as it gets colder, but other types of flies around here even survive frosts. They do eventually disappear in the depths of winter.
TheirABC’s Rolodex of ‘experts’ contains as many duds as the Victorian Parliamentary Liberal Party.
PS – I still can’t vote up or down, because evil WordPress won’t accept my email address. It’s an encrypted one. The same thing happened when I tried to register for the SBS online service. Not acceptable – now, why would that be?
They’re harvesting your data, make no mistake.
Candice asked co-host Richard Freedman: “What would you like Latrell Mitchell to do. What is going to make you happy?
“Your saying you’d like him to be more of a role model?”
ROFL! Sometimes the AI is bang on point.
Australia won’t forget about you pair of dunderheads, either.
The parties in Sydney will have to go through the presence of these insufferable clowns.
Test
Mike O’Connor in the Courier Mail:
Let’s have bravery by all means, the sort needed to stand up and say that when it comes to development for the Games or for anything else, people come first.
Where did O’Connor stand on the jab, when Qld became a police state? I haven’t read the C@ck Mould for at least a decade.
I’m sick of the terms, ‘legacy’, ‘coming of age’ and ‘put us on the map’. The beautiful Brisbane I grew up in is now a crowded sh1thole. The cultural cringers here were envious of Sydney and Melbourne and wanted it to be like them. Well done, idiots.
When Brisbane was looked down upon for being a hick town, I chuckled because it was the best place. Now, I dream of moving away and leaving it to the neon lights and the wankerati.
Brisvegas, Brisneyland, Boganville, what ever it gets called, doesn’t need the Olympics. Qld doesn’t need another wasteful event. The regions need some cash. Services in Brisbane are struggling to keep up with the sprawl.
For crying out loud you polliemuppets. Do something productive and beneficial for the people you represent. Stop p1ssing our money up against a wall of vanity.
Andrew Lawrence
Out of his mind…
Out of his mind…
Righto, you’ve got my attention
Perhaps they could try shooting back.
They are ‘shooting back’. They aren’t simply defending, they are also attacking. but it isn’t making a difference.
The Americans are not being serious, with their arsenal they could flatten the whole of Yemen in one afternoon as they did to Iraq 30 something years ago.
Don’t be ridiculous, Crossie. You and many others have an overly confident and inflated view of US capabilities. They can’t even stop the missiles attacks atm.
I don’t know if the U.S. has re-inserted assets into Yemen, but when they withdrew a substantial number (details Muddy?), they lost a vital on-the-ground intelligence conduit. While their aerial imagining capability is no doubt superb, humint can produce additional, corraborative, info.
US Navy getting that Gun Smoke experience.
Blackout Bowen being interviewed this morning on Breakfast TV –
Warning, warning. This is a very difficult video to watch – An ‘R’ Rating at least –
Do you believe him?
https://youtu.be/MqrswdotqFE
“Candace and David Warner never forget”. What David Warner never forgets apart from being cheating midget houso ranga is SBW banging Candace in a pub dunny. Candace never forgets that night also.
Indolent
March 19, 2024 2:54 pm
Andrew Lawrence
Out of his mind…
https://youtu.be/DqPiUOvs2X8?t=123
BLiar hasn’t aged well. A real Epstein Island vibe there.
Probably a first for a court-room?
Male museum visitor lodges legal battle against Mona over its women-only ‘ladies’ lounge’
Mona could be ordered to close down its opulent, emerald-curtained “ladies lounge” following a discrimination battle waged by an interstate museum visitor.
New South Wales resident Jason Lau has lodged a complaint with Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner after he paid $35 for a ticket to Mona, but was excluded from the artwork designed by Mona’s “first lady” Kirsha Kaechele.
The stoush was played out in the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Tuesday, with Ms Kaechele speaking passionately about why she felt a women-only ladies’ lounge that excluded men was an essential statement in the male-dominated art world.
She was accompanied by about 25 women, mainly dressed in blue power suits, glasses and pearl necklaces, who synchronised their movements in the hearing room – leaning back, leaning forward, holding onto their spectacle frames as one.
As the hearing concluded, the women formed a type of conga line and left the building while performing a synchronised dance step to the music of Robert Palmer’s Simply Irresistible.
Mr Lau represented himself via video link during the hearing, which was presided over by tribunal deputy president Richard Grueber.
He said that during his trip to Mona, he had been “quite surprised” to be refused access to the ladies lounge “on the basis I was male”.
“Any lay person would expect that if you buy a ticket, you would expect the provision of goods and services in line with the law,” he said.
Mr Lau also argued that men weren’t told they weren’t permitted entry to the lounge until after the ticket was purchased.
He has sought relief by Mona either removing the lounge, ceasing the exclusion of men, or creating a two-tiered ticketing system.
Mona’s lawyer Catherine Scott said to stop men being excluded from the artwork would change the very nature of the work, and also said Mona couldn’t change the ticketing system.
She argued the ladies’ lounge was covered by section 26 of Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act, which allows for discrimination in any program, plan or arrangement designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people who are disadvantaged, or have a special need due to a particular attribute.
Ms Kaechele was called to the witness stand to give evidence about how and why she created the ladies’ lounge, giving a vivid description of the creative process.
“An artwork – my experience is they tend to emerge. They’re not borne out of a particular moment. They’re part of an emergent process that I’m completely enthralled by as an artist and have a sense of awe for,” she said.
“I feel that I’m a vessel and the artwork builds itself. I like to call it ‘God is the curator’, to irritate my atheist friends, but it really feels like this artwork is coming through me.”
Ms Kaechele said women were traditionally excluded from places of power, and that she designed the ladies’ lounge in response to Mona having an imbalance of works by male and female artists.
“This presented the opportunity to make a statement and make a place for the gathering of women, for the very special thing that happens when women come together – and I mean anyone who identities as a woman, you don’t have to be born a woman,” she said.
“It excludes men, and I would be lying if I were to say I didn’t find it titillating.
“I think women have a moment of excitement and glee. It’s naughty. But why can we have a sense of humour about it? It’s because as women, we don’t hold the power.”
In her closing submissions, Ms Scott said if the lounge was a club where entry was charged, “we wouldn’t be here today because clubs have an exemption” under discrimination laws.
She said the ladies’ lounge came about from Mona realising it had a lack of art by women.
“It’s potentially a really powerful piece, a really powerful medium,” she said.
“It also responds to the historical exclusion of women from spaces.”
Ms Scott also said Mr Leu did in fact experience the artwork of the ladies’ lounge, which was one of the “clever” aspects of the artwork in responding to female disadvantage.
“Mr Lau did get to experience the artwork, which was his exclusion,” she said.
“Part of the experience is being denied something that is desired.”
Mr Grueber will hand down his decision at a date to be determined.
It’s because as women, we don’t hold the power.”
Women have the power of taking a life, with few, if any, (external) repercussions. If that isn’t power, how is power defined now? Or is ‘power’ fluid too? One minute you have it – the next minute, you don’t. (Just like your car keys, really).
Free speech lives!
WordPress won’t accept my registration, and Dover won’t accept my comments.
This version of the blog sucks big time, for the reasons mentioned in my unpublished comment above.
Ask Anthony Watts about the battles he had with WP regarding his huge and successful blog, including concerns about security, flexibility and independence. In the end, he ditched them, but it cost a lot of time and money.
I didn’t want to ‘register’ with WP, but after some consideration I tried to. Like SBS, TheirABC and other dataharvesters, they refused my email address because it is from an encrypted site.
What more do you need to know?
Ms Scott also said Mr Leu did in fact experience the artwork of the ladies’ lounge, which was one of the “clever” aspects of the artwork in responding to female disadvantage.
“Mr Lau did get to experience the artwork, which was his exclusion,” she said.
“Part of the experience is being denied something that is desired.”
So, it’s like being married.
Chuckle, snort!
I would have just said I am a woman and walked in.
Hey Cronkite,
if the story is true that Trump is unable to secure a bond, and the fat ugly slug begins to seize assets, could this lead to ineligibility as a result of potential bankruptcy proceedings?
if the story is true that Trump is unable to secure a bond, and the fat ugly slug begins to seize assets, could this lead to ineligibility as a result of potential bankruptcy proceedings?
That’s the plan
And the fat ugly slug taunts him everyday by posting the daily accrued interest. These people are truly evil. Unreal.
Of course they are evil, they are in the process of destroying a city and a whole state. Who with any money or a business would risk parking it in New York never knowing when they would fall foul of the fascists, more commonly known as the Democratic Party?
The exit of businesses will be a trickle at first and then the Niagara Falls.
Should have added, MONA is worthy of a yearly award as being the silliest and most pretentious art gallery/museum in the country.
Flying to Sydney from Melburnistan this morning we were put in a holding pattern somewhere Sth West of Syd-a-nee. The view out the aircraft window was appalling. Ferkin bird choppers in clusters all around. We were a fair way up and they dominated the landscape. Those things were almost as big a Bowens ego.
Speaking to an auto industry colleague. Tells me their brands representative attempted to give Clown Bowen a report on the impact of his beloved NVES due to come in next year. Herr Ministers Response ‘don’t give that to me!’, ‘i dont intend to read it’ ‘yes we knew the price of your vehicles would go up by thousand of $. That is the point!’
what a drop kick.
It just got very interesting in Florida with Judge Cannon just issuing her latest decision. Finally President Trump has a win.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mar-lago-judge-stark-ruling-022208652.html
Kate spotted in public. Isn’t she supposed to be dead? Clearly Liz isn’t in charge anymore.
Charles not Kate is supposed to be dead, if you read the Russian press… 😀
Candice certainly was star studded. Then she married David Warner.
Chuckle, snort!
Candice certainly was star studded. Then she married David Warner.
She knows what she is doing. Controls his finances. Probably pegs him.
Add Beta to cheat, houso and ranga.
Worse than Michael Clarke.
I hear he’s a cuck and candy goes all in for midget pron
One can only hope the tsunami reaches our shores! Regrettably, it means clogging our courts and more $ for the lawyerly scum.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/tsunami-of-indigenous-identity-fraud-cases-heading-to-courts-warns-bc-judge-5608191?ea_src=au-frontpage&ea_med=undefined-title-1
The latest MONA schadenboner actually looks like a lot of fun. As long as the clowns don’t get handed any taxpayer munni, I say, play on.
…I’m still not visiting tho. Confirms that the whole circus is about as weighty as a gossip mag.
Your own link says the tootsies’ arsenal is being degraded. How is that not making a difference?
Because the attacks continue and they are stretching the US Navy. That carrier group can’t continue operations at the current tempo indefinitely.
You’re ignoring the commentary in your own link. It says the particular carrier group is stretched, but it also also says attacks are eroding the Tootsies’ arsenal. Your interpretation is lopsided.
No, you are trying to put a positive spin on what is effectively a story about the US Navy’s inability to neutralize the blockade by Yemen.
From your own link.
Do you think the above describes your interpretation of the BBC piece?
Pt 1 is neither here nor there.
Pts 2 and 3 are putting lipstick on a pig. ‘Some trade continues’ and ‘degraded’ but not deterred or stopped is putting the most favourable light on their present failure.
Really? It actually sounded like a fair assessment (the story you linked) but you found a way to suggest.. what.. the US is losing?
Yes, JC, the US is losing in the Red Sea.
No they’re not. Your link said shipping is increasing as a result of their actions. Did you even read what you linked to?
They’re losing. Nowhere does it say that ‘shipping is increasing’; the best they suggest is that ‘some trade continues’.
A day out at MONA is fun. The catamaran, the outdoor bbq thingy, you might be lucky enough to see a band.
Plus some decent art. Also some shit art. But name a gallery where that isn’t the case.
Wow – there are some weeks you want to forget.
We get our mail redirected to farm & just arrived after city sojourn to be greeted by all that is going crazy in this country.
The worst was a fine for a parking offence in QLD – now, we havnt been in QLD in a few years & our Landcruiser has not been stolen or borrowed. The fine was for a number plate that was NOT ours, yet a call to the QLD department which sent the fine would not budge & said the photo was of a Landcruiser! Australia is becoming a joke! Trouble is – it’s not funny.
The next envelope was from Meat & Livestock Aust. seeking our re-registration through the most convoluted digital process you could devise . At this time, I doubt if I can navigate it!
This is a country going backwards in a hurry.
Just ignore the fine. The Qld courts process will slowly work out it’s not you.
Welcome to AI.
This is a country going backwards in a hurry.
Backwards, sideways, upside down – irrelevant. The most important outcome is the perception of movement. It’s progress! We’re progressing! At least we’re not giving the fungus an opportunity to take hold! Bend over forwards and look between your legs to the cobwebs we used to be covered in – isn’t this posture an improvement?
Last Oct, a kilo of blueberries was 18 bucks at Costco.
A month ago, 24 bucks.
Today, 32 bucks.
Dunno what’s going on there.
I’d supposed to be happy I’m a shareholder.
Weather related shortages, blueberries and eggs were mentioned as being affected.
Very intensive for water, fert and labour, and then transport and storage. All comes down to cost of energy and labour. Had a neighbour growing them for a while, in elevated individual pots under bird nets- he made a very quick decision to let them go when the batflu scam locked out backpackers and he was in the vise of contract labour. I was never a big fan of them, couldn’t work out what the fuss was all about, but fresh and unchilled off the bush they were alright.
*and bell flowers vulnerable to pollen washout, so a bit like hazelnuts. Too wet for too long, and no fruit sets.
And we have damn blueberries every morning in our NutriBullet – very good for cardio vascular, I believe.
In I’m-already-voting -for-you-so-you-don’t-have-to-convince-me news: Trump is apparently open to deporting Harold Windsor.
Democrats Are Dancing in the Streets Over Bankrupting Trump & Family
You had better get the HELL out of NYC and not do business with ANY company in New York City, for the courts are no longer reliable. The novel action against Trump is that they claimed your house is worth one million for a loan even though the bank independently values it at $800k and lends you $500k. Despite you paying back the loan and the banks even testifying that they did not rely on that number, the NY court arbitrarily called that FRAUD. There is ABSOLUTELY no company that cannot now be utterly destroyed in NYC using this theory. They could even target individuals they do not like and take their homes as well.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/democrats-are-dancing-in-the-streets-over-bankrupting-trump-family/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The roots of this bullshit lie in Soros and Obama filling the DA’s offices with ideologues and it is working. Obama and Soros both hate the US and all the people who live in it and they intend to destroy the nation, believing it will not affect them.
So I’m heading back to Sydney on Sunday and have organised a 3 week rental commencing Monday due to renovations that are meant to be in progress on my property. For this rental I have had to pay the full amount in advance.
With 24 hours notice I receive an email saying the rental has been cancelled due to ‘maintenance issues’, no further details , no alternative offered , nothing other than a refund of just what I have paid.
It seems odd that I have to pay the full amount in advance but the other party can cancel without penalty 24 hours before occupation. I’m considering my options but if anyone has any similar experience I would be interested in their views.
AirBnB?
If so, you can search for super hosts only can’t you?
Or have they changed that since I last used it.
It still sucks when they do that.
Very rude in view of lack of explanation – at the very least!
The Dumbocrats have jumped for joy on many, many occasions, only to be bested again by the Don.
I’m pretty sure this will be the next notch on his belt.
Never even ‘eard of ;im…..
A Marvel actor has reportedly been “officially offered” the role of James Bond.
British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been formally offered the chance to take over from current Bond star Daniel Craig, according to The Sun.
Related to Noah Taylor?
…Aaron was very entertaining in Bullet Train
Maybe he’s cheap because of lack of work…?
Disney Reportedly Cancels 3 Marvel MCU Movies (16 Mar)
All three bombed like MOABs, maybe Disney is starting to comprehend the GWGB thing.
I’m pretty sure their plan for Trump is to get him in prison or jail long enough to murder him.
I can do comments and upticks, but I’m not sure how I managed it. The site always just says “You are logged in as mareeS.” I think I ticked the “remember me” box when I first did the log-in when it all changed the other day.
The utter Democrat fools in NY think that nobody is paying attention to what they are doing. Not only are all Republicans taking note of what would happen to them in NY if they displeased the fascists but the whole business world is looking and thinking if they need to set up in US they will go to Florida. I expect NYC to become a regional centre in the near future.
I’m still pretty optimistic on cities but this doesn’t help. A mate pulling the plug on London after 30 years. Street crime out of control. Can’t get comprehensive insurance on a big BMW bike. Had enough.
Testing …