I’ve been of that opinion for a while now. However use the orange lifeboats. Would need to withdraw from the…
Open Thread – Mon 18 March 2024
Any worm that entered his skull would find nothing to eat.
Always appreciate your posting “Alex”, Johnny Rotten.
Two positive steps one can take: (1) support Campion College; (2) direct towards it any young people you know who…
Monty must have something much worse than a worm in his brain.
Such a serene painting, Thanks Dover
2nd yeah!
Crazy beach.
A fun two hours.
Back-To-Back Full Episodes Of Bondi Rescue Season 5 (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxMm65TWcnY
Go forth !!
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne.
Chip Bok.
Ben Garrison.
Johannes Leak.
Thanks Tom – Ha, ha, ha – Leak is good
Johnny Rotten
March 18, 2024 3:53 am
Go forth !!
No prizes for that.
Sometimes not even for coming third or second for that matter.
JR, I had to dig that Leak cartoon from the bowels of the interwebs as the Paywallian website is down this morning (for the first time since I have been posting cartoons).
Such a pity as The Australian is one of the few news websites in Australia not driven by political ideology and I’m frustrated I can’t read the day’s news stories.
Waging ceaseless war on Ireland’s own past is increasingly the means through which Ireland’s new rulers seek to demonstrate their moral fitness for membership of the globalist superclass.Ireland and the terrible truth about wokeness – spiked (spiked-online.com)
The above article which I linked to, which is excellent, applies to Oz as much to Ireland.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
WONG’S GIFT MEANS LOTS OF FREE CASH FOR HAMAS
TIM BLAIR
18 Mar 2024
Even by modern standards, Senator Penny Wong’s weekend wedding to longtime partner Sophie Allouache was a noteworthy event.
It isn’t every day that a gay marriage follows one of the partners donating $6 million of your money to the UN’s Relief and Works Agency – and therefore to viciously anti-gay Hamas, routine beneficiaries of UNRWA funding.
Hamas, of course, was responsible for the animalistic rape, slaughter and abduction atrocities committed against Israel on October 7.
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Or “happy justified resistance day”, as many in our degenerate governments, councils, universities and media prefer to remember it.
Before Labor last week returned to its anti-Israel factory settings, the Albanese government had put a stop to our UNRWA payments following revelations about the activities of certain UNRWA personnel.
It emerged in January that besides co-ordinating funding to Hamas – concealed as Palestinian refugee support – the UNRWA involved itself on October 7 in a rather more direct manner.
As The Wall Street Journal reported following UN admissions: “Six United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers were part of the wave of Palestinian militants who killed 1200 people in the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust …
“Two helped kidnap Israelis. Two others were tracked to sites where scores of Israeli civilians were shot and killed. Others co-ordinated logistics for the assault, including procuring weapons.”
Additionally, of the 12 UNRWA staffers linked to the attacks, “seven were primary or secondary school teachers, including two maths teachers, two Arabic language teachers and one primary school teacher”.
At which point it became clear why so many Hamas weapons stockpiles had previously been discovered hidden in UNRWA schools.
Anyway, Australia joined the international funding pause – until last Friday when Foreign Minister Wong announced an “unpausing” (her word).
Wong’s announcement made clear she’d been given various assurances.
“The best available current advice from agencies and the Australian government lawyers,” Wong declared, “is that UNRWA is not a terrorist organisation.”
Liberal Senator James Paterson’s witheringly dry response, delivered on Sunday’s Insiders: “That’s not exactly a high bar.”
It really isn’t, but declining to offer a formal declaration of one’s terrorist inclinations is obviously good enough for our current government despite the UNRWA’s obvious terrorist sympathies.
Well, let’s be kind. Perhaps the UNRWA is only terrorism adjacent. As in separated by the width of a Gaza tunnel wall, with Jewish civilians held captive on either side.
Further from Wong’s Friday announcement: “The Australian government will work with UNRWA on an ongoing basis to ensure its integrity and neutrality are beyond reproach.”
Seriously? Just a couple of months after the UN’s Palestinian refugee gang was busted for joining in on October 7’s murder, kidnapping, torture and sexual savagery spree, we’re already right back to talking about the same mob’s “integrity and neutrality”?
We’re actually using the phrase “beyond reproach” to discuss a crew that employed sadistic butchers.
Worst of all, we’re “unpausing” – which means Australia is again in the swamp with any number of Hamas supporters worldwide, be they direct contributors or otherwise.
Hamas is OnlyFans for people who prefer paying for murder instead of pornography.
“After consideration by the national security committee this week,” Wong said, “Australia is unpausing our contribution to UNRWA …
“The decision I am announcing today is the result of the Australian government working together with our partners to rebuild confidence, to establish ongoing diligence about the use of aid money generously given by the Australian people.”
All of that is garbage, especially the line about our taxes being supplied “generously”.
Many Australians will instead agree with Paterson’s words on Sunday: “I have no confidence that UNRWA has reformed itself, particularly because our closest allies, like the United States and the United Kingdom, have not restarted their aid.”
Many Australians, too, would have supported Wong if she’d publicly offered to provide millions in our taxes via the UNRWA, but only if the UNRWA combined with Hamas to free remaining Jewish prisoners.
Releasing those captives should be a prerequisite for humanitarian aid.
Then Israel and her allies can get on with their primary and overriding mission: the absolute obliteration of Hamas, hater of Israel and destroyer of Gaza and the West Bank.
‘Haughty’ is a great description of modern pollimuppetts from Dreyfus to Macaroon. They don’t even pretend now.
Paywallian website is down this morning
Curses Tom.
I was going to read the Paywallion when I finished reading the Tele.
Thanks for posting Beertruk
Tomorrow I escape from Lyon.
Have really done nothing of note, due to bronchitis and general loss of enthusiasm after my pickpocket experience.
This morning I toiled up the rue Monte De Petite Versailles’ to the very ugly modern Catholic church up the top of the hill. At least there were lots of people at mass. There used to be a nice stone chapel but for whatever reason it is gone. There was some info out the front about the former PP who was active in the resistance during the war, was arrested and escaped (at least I think he escaped, if my French is up to it).
I planned my route to the main station this afternoon when I crossed the Rhone to the Cite Internationale, which is a very big modern complex along the river with apartments, an amphitheatre, restaurants and the contemporary art museum. The art museum had an old railway cattle car out from with some rambling plaque about the vissitudes of history.
No mention of Jews for whom a cattle car would have very painful associations.
I didn’t bother going in.
The tram bus on the other side, an easy walk for the suitcase stroller, will take me directly to Part Dieu where I plan to be super cautious. Catching a regional train to the small town of Sens before my final couple of days in Paris.
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Makes you realize Rosie that Australia is the best
Unfortunately so many degenerate ideas from the northern hemisphere have been imported here in the last 50 years.
Until nothing moves.
Who is Don Lemon?
https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/media/don-lemon-demanded-tesla-cybertruck-5m-advance-equity-in-x-before-elon-musk-canned-him-sources/amp/
Just another poisonous meja mediocrity
It is indeed Milton.
This is what happens to aid being sent to Gaza. https://twitter.com/VerminusM/status/1769046049392386132?t=YELwfDItyr60kI7Y3cI8Aw&s=19
I visited France in 1995 nearly 30 years ago and I loved Paris. I thought it was very Parisian if you know what I mean. The Riviera was a big disappointment even then- crummy beaches and so built up. Alps maritime was spectacular though. I don’t think I’d like Paris now- no interest in going there anyway.
Hamas turning aid into cash (gratis of UNWRA)
I have some favourite places in Paris, around Place des Vosges and the 4th arrondissement, I shall enjoy walking around all those again.
After an outage earlier this morning, The Australian‘s website is now back up and running.
I like the new format and the return of up and downticks. However what’s going on with moderation? Yesterday I posted a comment that shouldn’t have been controversial and was surprised to find that it was in “moderation”. This morning I found an email, sent at midnight, to say my comment had been posted 13 hours after I wrote it. I’m used to my comments not appearing in the MSM but always valued this blog because this sort of thing very rarely happens. The only other time a comment of mine was rejected here was when I unknowingly used a forbidden rude word.
Cassie
Good article at Quadrant about the AHRC and Israe.
Apparently, many of the staff demonstrate their “impartiality” by wearing keffiyehs to work, and up to 20% of the 122 staff signed and anonymous letter demanding that the Commission essentially take sides with the Pallis.
No wonder that Jewish complaints have been ignored!
Enjoy. One trip I did in France which fascinated me was taking a train from Paris Est to Nancy- just going out of Paris into the suburbs and into the countryside was so interesting.
Your special word of the day is “famine”.
EU’s von der Leyen says Gaza facing famine, ceasefire needed rapidly (18 Mar)
UNRWA says people of Gaza are on verge of famine (17 Mar)
Germany’s Scholz Urges Netanyahu to Prevent Gaza Famine (17 Mar)
I haven’t bothered to include actual links. Isn’t it funny how these people all use the same talking points?
Sorry, but the F-35 is a dud.
AHRC- just another cultural marxist taxpayer funded bully outfit set up to restrict debate about the globalist agenda. Their treatment of those guys in Brisbane is beyond despicable. Last I heard that horrible wimmin was at the UN in Geneva.
I haven’t bothered to include actual links. Isn’t it funny how these people all use the same talking points?
Yes, Wong might vomit up the same talking points very soon.
There is Hope –
Pipeline of renewable energy projects falls 80pc, hurting the nation’s transition goals
The Australian
Colin Packham
13 March 2024
Spending on large scale renewable energy developments during 2023 fell nearly 80 per cent from the previous year, a hammer blow to federal Labor’s plan to rapidly accelerate the rollout of new zero emission energy sources.
Investment in big solar and wind projects plummeted to just $1.5bn in 2023 from $6.5bn in 2022, a 77 per cent fall, according to a new study by the Clean Energy Council. The sharp slowdown in financial commitments was blamed on a logjam in planning and environmental approvals, higher costs and tighter markets for equipment and labour.
An uncertain policy environment also contributed to the decline, with a long-term Renewable Energy Target set to wind up at the end of 2030.
Wind farms were the biggest drag on momentum, with no new financial commitments to big wind projects in 2023, compared with six in the previous year.
The Australian
Oh noes!
Swedish Wind Farms Facing Bankruptcy (17 Mar)
Maybe Monty could comment on how wind turbines in a socialist utopia like Sweden can’t make electricity profitably despite subsidies. Finland by contrast commissioned their nuclear power station last year and electricity prices immediately dropped by 75%.
Spending on large scale renewable energy developments during 2023 fell nearly 80 per cent from the previous year, a hammer blow to federal Labor’s plan to rapidly accelerate the rollout of new zero emission energy sources.
Sicktoria is broke.
Holly Valance ripping in. Herald Sun:
Former Aussie soap and pop star Holly Valance has fired off a scattergun attack on Australia and climate activist Greta Thunberg – before singing the praises of former US president Donald Trump.
Speaking to Chris Hope on the first episode of GB News’s new Chopper’s Political Podcast, Valance described 21-year-old Thunberg as “odd”.
“I don’t understand why you have this, like, demonic little gremlin high priestess of climatism as the goddess in classrooms, Greta (Thunberg),” Valance said.
“And the kids are all coming home with depression and anxiety. Why would you go to your music lesson or bother doing your homework or get out of bed if you think we’re all going to be dead in five years anyway? I mean they told me in class, Greta told me.
“Why would you bother, it doesn’t give anybody hope.”
Valance, who rose to fame when she joined the cast of Neighbours in 1999 playing Felicity Scully and then launched a pop career, has lived in the UK for more than a decade.
In 2012 the now 39-year-old married British billionaire property developer Nick Candy, with whom she shares two daughters.
The dual national (Australia and the UK) hit out at Australia in the GB News interview, saying the country was plagued with “problems” as a result of the increasing “woke stuff”.
“I’ll get a ticket within the first two hours of arriving, doing something, parking in the wrong place, going one K over the 30 or 25 K speed limit,” she said.
“The Australia I grew up in was unreal. It was so fun and we didn’t seem to have all these problems. The woke stuff’s really gone big in Australia.”
Asked for an example, Valance cited “the stuff they’re teaching in school”.
“I don’t think sexuality and children should be in the same sentence and I don’t think anyone’s sexuality is anyone’s business,” she said.
“You don’t know about mine. I don’t know about yours. Why would we? That stuff really icks (sic) me”
Victoria was branded a “nanny state” where they “fine you for breathing” by Valance, who revealed she was “still getting fines every few months for not voting”, even though she moved away from Australia “very very young” and had never voted in an Australian election.
?Hope and Valance also discussed the climate, politics, crime in Los Angeles and the UK, and the upcoming UK election.?
“The plan would be to stay and live where we love, which is here,” she said.
“I’m very patriotic to this place. My mother is from Southampton. My whole family is English.
“I don’t want to go anywhere. And Nick doesn’t want to go anywhere. We prefer to be in our country. I don’t think you should want to drive wealthy people out.”
Elsewhere in the wide-ranging interview, Valance was asked about the time she and her husband met former US President Donald Trump in 2022, describing him as “unreal” and “fabulous”.
“He was incredible, he gave us an hour of his time in the office,” she said.
“I couldn’t believe how much time and interest he gave us … it was not what I was expecting. I thought maybe somebody a bit more brash, a bit more cocky and loud, and he was extremely warm, extremely gentlemanly.”
And when asked whether Australia should ditch the monarchy, she said “no way”.
“It’s part of us, they’re what built us. Absolutely not, I’m all for them,” she said.
She also weighed into the controversy over the altered photograph Princess Catherine released last week to mark Mother’s Day, saying “everybody wants to neaten up their family picture … who cares”.
“I just think it’s funny for media to be finger pointing about inaccuracies because someone’s sleeve was changed. It’s laughable,” she said.
Which of the buttons allows the blockquote please?
Possibly the most patient people in the world.
Canadians also unhappy with country’s direction
I see people on Twiitter are losing their minds since exit polls are indicating a huge voter turnout and landslide win to Putin. Will be interested to see the results of those voting overseas.
The one showing quotes (“) , 7 buttons in from the left.
With New ‘Bloodbath’ Claim Against Trump, We’re Watching ‘Hoax-Making In Progress’
Trump critics would never use a term like “bloodbath”
Because of this website, the Bloodbath Hoax was dismantled within several hours. And as an added benefit, tens of millions of people have heard Trump’s proposal to protect the American auto industry.
Speech with full context [posted by Musk]
The Bee’s take
Biden’s Once-Acclaimed Nominee for US Attorney Suffers Brutal Fall from Grace, Ability to Practice Law Suspended
The Ozempic Pushers Some fat patients say doctors are pressuring them to take the miracle drug instead of listening to their immediate health concerns
Can someone with legal knowledge explain to me why Uber had to settle with the NSW taxi drivers for $270M?
World No.1 Scott Scheffler has become the first player in the 50-year history of golf’s unofficial fifth major, the Players Championship, to win the tournament back-to-back with a final round 64.
See where this is going.
@MikeBenzCyber
Some CIA-backed paramilitary group funded by USAID grants told to use Twitter by State Dept handlers might be paying ? $8 a month and they’re goin after Elon for it
@MikeBenzCyber
The biggest free speech case in American history starts oral argument in the Supreme Court on Monday. Here’s a message from @SenEricSchmitt, who got the ball rolling when he was Missouri Attorney General.
Let’s try blockquote with Andrew Bolt:
Bruce of Newcastle
March 18, 2024 8:51 am
Oh noes!
Yes, thanks for that. Would be interesting to see what M0nty’s response is?
+1 uptick here as I can’t do it otherwise.
NRL decides not to sanction their Magic Abo (Latrell Mitchell) for his foul mouthed rant over the airwaves, after the Broncos ran rings around him last Thursday night.
How typical of Abdo and his gutless admin, can’t do anything that may remotely offend the indigenies. But if you happen to offend the noble savages, all hell rains down on you.
FMD.
Thanks for that Makka
From the 14th so apologies if posted already but the West is screwed:
FMD.
American Thinker nails it today – the government is not, and cannot, be, your daddy:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/the_government_is_not_your_daddy.html
You paste the piece in first then type your comment after , then do the block quoting the very last.
Professor Catharine Lumby from the University of Sydney, who specialises in sexual violence prevention, said she “applauded” the work.
Ah yes- was wondering what she was up to these days. Universities really do stink now. Cesspits of cultural marxism. Back in the day I remeber Lumby used to figure prominently in the Sydney Morning Vomit. Stuff about aging white males.
This latest Allen abomination should be taken as more proof that marxists took over arts, meja and ejucashun.
It looks like the Commonwealth debt is growing by 2.1 bn to 2.8 bn AUD per week. This is growing faster than real GDP (as a proportion of GDP).
It is incredible to see the government try to inflate this away whilst maintaining “we have low inflation”. They are praying for “fiscal drag”, that is industrial-scale bracket creep.
We certainly are not growing the real economy more quickly than the debt, that’s for sure.
I’m just saying, at 80% gross debt to GDP, at 5% interest, the debt servicing cost alone is going to be 4% of GDP.
How are meant to keep the music playing if the debt servicing cost for government debt alone exceeds economic growth? By definition, your living standards are deprecated, even before inflation.
At 100% debt to GDP at 6% interest, you are basically ensuring -3% GDP growth.
Trulicity is an amazing, multi-pathway drug and those with unqualified scepticism of it should outline why it is bad for people with insulin resistance.
To wit: it ameliorates “immediate health concerns”, particularly appetite.
I don’t understand why you have this, like, demonic little gremlin high priestess of climatism as the goddess in classrooms
A polite way to call her an ugly mongoloid.
Maybe Monty could comment on how wind turbines in a socialist utopia like Sweden can’t make electricity profitably despite subsidies. Finland by contrast commissioned their nuclear power station last year and electricity prices immediately dropped by 75%.
And as to that CSIRO Report on the cost of nuclear energy that Blackout Bowen is ‘parroting away’ on –
When did the CSIRO last build and operate a Nuclear Energy Electricity Plant? Were they even involved in the building and running of the Lucas Heights nuclear facility in Sydney? Where is there expertise?
What a Crock of Shite !!
But dotty, with the accompanying 4.5% inflation (1/2 the real rate) our scummy Govt will shout at us that “WE DELIVERED 1.5% GDP GROWTH!”.
The turdburger is like on anti-Virgin Mary. Yet another meja anti-hero/heroine too.
We certainly are not growing the real economy more quickly than the debt, that’s for sure.
They’re actually doing everything they can to wreck the real economy. It’s a tribute they those who work in it that it keeps functioning at all.
Dan Crenshaw be clowning. The US intel agencies have been proven to meddle in their own elections.
“I worked with those guys, they’re alright” is one of the better arguments you have for sortition.
Where is there expertise?
Whoops – Missed the edit function.
“their” it should be.
Michael Jackson is back in the spotlight, and accusers are still trying to prove he’s bad
At the end of the hit Broadway musical based on the life of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop hurtles up through the floorboards.
The sudden reappearance of Jackson on stage in MJ: the Musical recalls the “toaster” entrance the singer made during the Dangerous world tour three decades ago. It also serves as a metaphor for the remarkable comeback his estate has orchestrated since his death of an overdose aged 50 in 2009.
At the time, Jackson’s star had waned following years of damaging allegations that he was a child molester – vehemently denied and never proven in court – while the extraordinary details of his private life threatened to swamp his career achievements.
Yet today Jackson is arguably as popular as at any point in the past 30 years.
MJ has arrived in London, garlanded with Tony awards. A US tour is under way and German and Australian dates have been scheduled.
Music sales data suggests Jackson’s appeal is growing again as the streaming industry expands around the world.Last month, Sony agreed to acquire half of Jackson’s catalogue in a deal that valued his assets at dollars 1.2 billion – the largest transaction for a single musician’s work.
But there is controversy brewing around the Hollywood biopic Michael, due for release in April next year and subject to the approval of the singer’s estate.
While the musical carefully avoids having to mention the allegations that Jackson abused young boys, the film is expected to tackle them head-on.
Michael, which features a host of A-list talent in front of and behind the camera, as well as Jackson’s nephew, Jaafar, in the lead role, will reportedly portray the Peter Pan of pop as a victim preyed upon by opportunists seeking a slice of his fortune.
According to the Hollywood newsletter Puck, an early version of the script attempts to downplay the allegations.Dan Reed is the British film-maker who made the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, which featured claims from Wade Robson and James Safechuck that Jackson abused them as children.
Reed said he has been informed of the draft script and condemned what he described as a “complete whitewash”.
“It’s an out-and-out attempt to completely rewrite the allegations and dismiss them out of hand, and contains complete lies,” he said.
“You never even see him alone with any boys, when it is a matter of fact that he shared his bed with small children for many years.”
The Jackson estate sued HBO after it broadcast Leaving Neverland, arguing the network violated a non-disparagement clause from a 1992 contract. The case is still going through the courts.
Reed is making a follow-up documentary, After Neverland, which follows Robson and Safechuck’s decade-long quest for justice.
“They are very aggressively defending their commercial asset – and that’s their job,” Reed said of John Branca and John McClain, the Jackson estate managers.
“The Jackson machine has made probably going on a billion dollars since his death. They claim Wade and James are out to make money – yet the people trying to make the money is them.
“They are trying to make out that he was a saint, and yet he was a predatory pedophile who abused children.”
Michael Jackson testifies in Santa Maria Superior Court, on 13 November 2002, in a trial in which he is accused of cancelling concert appearances, costing the promoter several million dollars. Picture: AFP
Michael Jackson testifies in Santa Maria Superior Court, on 13 November 2002, in a trial in which he is accused of cancelling concert appearances, costing the promoter several million dollars. Picture: AFP
Robson and Safechuck have filed lawsuits against the estate and, in August, a judge in California agreed that the pair’s negligence case can proceed to trial and their allegations against the Jackson estate be heard.
The trial will probably begin early next year – which, awkwardly for the estate, could coincide with the biopic.
The estate did not respond to a request for comment.
The extent to which Jackson has been rehabilitated is indicated by the A-list talent connected to the film, which will be directed by Antoine Fuqua, who made Training Day, and written by Oscar nominee John Logan.
Oscar-nominated Colman Domingo is playing Jackson’s abusive father, Joe, while Miles Teller, one of the hottest young stars in Hollywood following his work in Whiplash and Top Gun: Maverick, will play Branca, Jackson’s manager.
While some have questioned why such bankable stars would want to be involved in a contentious project, Teller has already come out swinging.
“Regardless of what you know or what your opinion may be, Michael is one of the greatest to ever do it, if not the greatest,” he told Variety at an Oscars party this month. “He deserves a movie, and I’m excited to be a part of it.”
Michael Niederman, professor in cinema and television arts at Columbia College Chicago, said a “well-done biopic can rewrite history, to some degree”.
However, he does not believe there is “much wiggle room” for producers of the Jackson film, given the subject matter of the allegations, with a public backlash possible.
“That’s what I find astonishing,” Niederman said of reports that the film will address the allegations directly.
“And if they think they can retcon [retrospectively revise] his story, that will be a problem in today’s world.”
Niederman believes the actors who have signed up to the biopic risk damaging their reputations, if, as the early script suggests, the project attempts to dismiss the allegations.
“I think it will get very, very uncomfortable,” he said.
Reed, meanwhile, has condemned those taking part in the film.
“You have some of the really top minds and top talent in Hollywood working on this, and I don’t know how they are not ashamed. In one scene Jackson tucks kids into their sleeping bags – how do they not throw up when they do these scenes?”
The Times
Oz
Um ok. Nurofen has an ad on the back page of the Hun, reads thusly:
How Nurofen goes about this task remains unexplained. But you can QR code for the full Gender Pain Gap Index report. FMD
I’m logged in but can’t tick
Well Rosie at least in today’s Paris you can have a coffee with three semi military guards standing near to you on watch with their G36s. These are not the Vigipirate – they come in tens now. Keep an eye out for how they maneuver. There is always a forth standing a way off, assessing behavior and ready for action. But even the extra military and police don’t keep the beggars and street gypsies away from you. As a plus the Vigi mob are fit and solid. Not probie plump, female/soyboy and fresh out of Goulburn .
Music sales data suggests Jackson’s appeal is growing again as the streaming industry expands around the world.Last month, Sony agreed to acquire half of Jackson’s catalogue in a deal that valued his assets at dollars 1.2 billion – the largest transaction for a single musician’s work.
There is a theory doing the rounds that Sony swung its considerable PR might around to amplify the accusations at the time they were made so they could force Jackson to sell his catalogue to them.
Thanks for that, BB.
Holly Valance is wonderfully sensible, outspoken, and blunt.
And Greta the gremlin – I laughed.
You have to change/create your password, cohenite.
Nurofen is committed to help close the gender pain gap for women in Australia
I wish their product wouldn’t have the effect on my gender bits that it does.
It is more than painful as I suffer from one of what the Mayo clinic describes as ‘rare’ side effects.
Moree, there’s something about that town which is on the tippy tip of my tongue. I wonder what it is?
Riot squad move into NSW town to tackle youth crime wave (Tele, 18 Mar, paywalled)
It’s a mystery.
NYC neighborhood in AOC’s district blasted as ‘third world’ conditions with illegal vendors, prostitution on streets
We will achieve gender equality in Australia when women live as long as men.
Currently 81 for men & 85 for women.
A way to go then.
[sarc]
SV40, a DNA Altering, Carcinogenic Contaminant, found in Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccines
AOC supports illegals (for they are the vendors) and prostitution.
The people finally getting what they voted for.
Tim Blair is on the case today:
Monday Noticeboard (Tele, not paywalled)
Nice dessert to go with BB’s rather yummy Hun article!
Biden Communications Director Tyler: Trump’s Bloodbath Comments ‘Endorsement of Political Violence’
I posted a comment with 5 links debunking this earlier this morning which went into moderation. Obviously, 5 links are too many.
Trump was talking about the car industry when he made that comment. Elon Musk posted –
Speech with full context
Thankfully, there’s a bit of the Streisand effect going on here. Far more people are hearing about the danger to the car industry than otherwise would have.
I don’t think I have seen it commented on here yet, so here goes.
Apparently the next MSM hoax about Trump is that he said (threatened?) that with all these immigrants there will be a blood bath if he is elected.
In fact he talked about the trouble with the illegals flooding over the border, and separately about how the Chinese are building car factories in Mexico which cars they will then sell in America – gutting the American auto industry (or so he sees it), and that if he is elected he will impose 100% tariffs on those cars – and that will be the blood bath.
Comments in full context given here.
Joe Lieberman slams Schumer for anti-Netanyahu speech: ‘Can’t ever remember anything like it’
‘Woke’ people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests
The Scottish National Party’s hijabed poster girl for new hate crime laws has been revealed as belonging to an Islamist organisation that the UK government is seeking to ban from government funding because it “engages in hate speech and antisemitic conspiracy theories”.
RTWT
I have a feeling it won’t be long before we’re being told that Muslims can’t be antisemitic because they are the victims of Zionist colonialism.
Just as people of colour apparently can’t be racist because they are the victims of white colonialism – reference the Kerr-fuffle.
The question is do they start out that way or does Woke make them so?
Hmmm.
‘Fought tooth and nail’: Aussie taxi drivers set for whopping $272m Uber payout in world first (News.com.au, 18 Mar)
So the try on failed in three states but got up in NSW. Uber’s only crime seems to be that they had a competitive business model. If such things required compo then car companies would be up for billions for the horse cart industry.
I’ve no legal experience or training though. On the other hand someone once said the law is a long-eared beast of burden.
Rishi Sunak has announced a crackdown on local councils implementing low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) and 20mph zones.
Councils will lose their powers to fine offenders and could even forego government funding if the measures are deemed to be unreasonable and an attempt to punish motorists.
Getting married is racist.
Marriage promotes ‘white supremacy’: George Mason professor (15 Mar, via Instapundit)
That must mean Penny Wong is racist, since she got married yesterday.
Resilient people of Be’eri plan to restore life to their stricken street
By alan howe
The Hamas terrorists that arrived at the famous Be’eri kibbutz on the morning of October 7 last year appeared to know the village and its people well. Many Gazans were employed in Be’eri – about 5km from the border – and had for years worked in its fields and factories. Witnesses remember that the young Arabs sent to kill them went to certain houses to execute everyone there, knowing, it appeared, exactly who should be present. In at least one house they counted the dead and reckoned another young man was not among them. They searched each room and found him hiding upstairs where they murdered him.
One of those slaughtered that day was a Canadian-born Israeli Vivian Silver, perhaps the best known of the local volunteers working for the Road to Recovery charity in which mostly retired Israelis using their own cars pick up unwell young Gazans, usually with their mothers, to drive to a hospital in Jerusalem. And home again later. It’s a three-hour round trip for which they buy their own petrol that costs more than $3 a litre.
Silver was killed and her house burned to the ground. When they could not find her it was hoped that she had been kidnapped, but her remains were identified weeks later.
Those who lived in or who know Be’rei have been shocked by the savagery of the young Gazans who turned up that day. The locals are confident farmers who have conquered the area’s granite and sand and turned them green with years of backbreaking work and water management technology they shared with their Arab neighbours. Silver co-founded an organisation called Women Wage Peace that involved Arabs friends over the border.
Be’eri is an old and successful and while most kibbutzniks are socialist by definition, those in Be’eri are also the ultimate pacifists. Its occupants – but for one man with a pistol – were unarmed. Their attackers would surely have known this.
It is a few kilometres north of Re’im, the village at the northern end of the Negev desert outside which the Supernova music festival – billed as a time for “friends, love and infinite freedom” – took place. It coincided with the end of what is known as the festival of Sukkot.
It was well-advertised and the lure of 4000 young, unarmed Israelis dancing at dawn proved irresistible to the Hamas bosses in Gaza. The evidence of surviving witnesses, paramedics, and forensic professionals is that the savage sexual assaults were systematic and planned. Many young women and a few men were raped by the attackers, sometimes repeatedly, and often shot dead by their final assailant. There is evidence some were mutilated posthumously. Film has emerged of the young Gazans rifling through the pockets of their victims. Ironically, Gaza’s official currency is the Israeli shekel.
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Hamas gunmen blocked all roads to the festival and killed anyone who tried to flee. Some festivalgoers drove off across the plantations, but they were gunned down too. But five of the Supernova youngsters escaped the festival site and ran the seven kilometres through the semi-arid scrub to Be’eri, not knowing that it also was under attack. As they jogged into the settlement, Hamas gunmen, probably about their age, shot them all dead.
Today, Be’eri is mostly silent – although distantly you can hear the echoes of war as Israel seeks to exterminate Hamas. Outside the houses in which entire families were wiped out is an unusual sight: sets of blackened patches on the road. As Hamas fighters revelled in the carnage inside, others set fire to the modest cars locals parked outside their homes. They have been towed away, but as the tyres burned and melted they left indelible reminders of what happened.
Melbourne businessman Albert Dadon chairs the Leadership Dialogue Institute which promotes discussions on issues of mutual interest between Australia, the UK and Israel to which he is a regular visitor. But his recent trip to the villages Foreign Minister Penny Wong would not visit, was different. With a small group, including Sky News presenter Andrew Bolt, he visited Be’eri and was shown around by Eyan Ben-Zvi, the director of the local printing works.
Ben-Zvi has lived in Be’eri his whole life and knew every one of its 1047 residents, 100 of whom were massacred or kidnapped last October. He walked the streets with Dadon describing each family and their losses and occasional stories of remarkable survival – even if most of these are tinged with tragedy. A third of the houses in Be’eri were destroyed and many residents incinerated with them, but mostly they were shot. Families hid in the safe rooms that are a feature of houses in the area, but these are designed for rocket and bomb attacks. The Hamas gunmen just shot them through the doors until the families fell silent.
The 70-year-old woman living next door to Ben-Zvi’s family was found shot dead in a bed in her safe room. He heard men speaking Arabic as gunmen approached his home. His family were in their “safe” room, but Ben-Zvi understood their vulnerability; he placed his kids, including a baby in a nappy, on each side of the room’s door and sat them down with iPads. They watched movies with earphones while the killers roamed around their home. Ben-Zvi held the safe room door handle shut for about 10 hours. At one stage his large dog, in the room with them, barked which panicked the Arabs who fled.
When the IDF arrived they found two young Gazan boys – unarmed, not soldiers – robbing the house. “The kids are fine,” Ben-Zvi tells Dadon of his family in a documentary Dadon has edited and that you can watch on YouTube. “(My children) have a quite a story. They kept cool. I don’t know how. God bless Netflix.”
Posters showing the faces of those killed in their homes are draped across their doorways. Many were killed as they shielded their young children. Those orphans of Be’eri are safe now, but must learn to cope – alone – with pointlessly upended lives.
Dadon spoke to a recent mayor of the village about the policy of being unarmed and asked if that would change. “We’re not doing that,” he said. “We do not have arms in his kibbutz. Full stop.”
Those who survived have shown extraordinary resilience – it’s an Israeli trait – and returned to work, in Ben-Zvi’s printworks and in the fields and factories. But no one can live there yet. They commute an average of three hours to their devastated village, and three hours home again.
And now Be’eri must decide on its future. Kibbutz boss Tomer Golan has already drawn up plans for 200 news houses, but will anyone return to those in which family members were brutally murdered? Should the devastation be preserved as a memorial so the world can witness it and say “never again”.
‘Tories plan to amend Labour’s Equality Act to protect single-sex spaces & women’s sport’
It really is amazing what can happen when a disgruntled electorate lights a fire under lazy ‘conservative’ politicians.
Australians, take note.
That’s a beautiful line: “The Australia I grew up in was unreal.” And she’s only talking about 30 years ago. Our country can be reclaimed.
I’ve never made light about the fact I’m a recovering alcoholic (now into my 44th year) .. Those 10 years (1970 thru 1980) I spent, mostly, in an alcoholic daze .. sleeping rough, park benches, railway stations, under the Harbour Bridge ect, as well, as drinking in “early openers” which were often referred to as “bloodbaths”, in the press, pubs that “normal” folk avoided … yet for all that I alwayz felt safe ..
Not once in 10 years was I mugged or seriously threatened, admittedly, I was a loner, by nature, and a quiet drunk so very rarely annoyed other folk .. other than a few occasions when “meths” & orange juice blanked me out my memories of those 10 years are still pretty vivid, but now I doubt I would survive in that lifestyle given the uncaring attitude and “no reason” violence that frequents the media reports regarding daily life in today’s Sydney …..
I guess, I’m grateful I imbibed during a much more laidback Sydney outlook to those who fall between the cracks …….
A side effect of the “war on drugs”: punishing the sick.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenylephrine
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. It will reply explaining why it can’t answer your question because your premise is racist, homophobic, transphobic or because it doesn’t know you well enough yet and it isn’t that type of girl anyway.
it is also incredibly efficient at writing buggy programs.
It’s graphic capabilities are mind blowing. It has been trained on every 1970’s tea towel print, museum shop souvenir, seaside nudie post card and every single 1973 issue of Australian Post. It can render any image in response to an input in blinding headache- inducing and race swapped idiocy.
Its video functions can produce an entire video or narrate an existing work using “Maurice Fields”, “Pee Wee Herman” or “Chopper Reid” voice overs and post these vids to social media where viewers will watch the first five seconds before realising they are seeing a completely artificial load of bollocks cobbled together by an electronic moron.
It can also create an army of bots to “watch” above mentioned videos thereby artificially inflating the viewer numbers.
The future is here people. The productivity gains will be incredible.
Pretty clear what is going on here. US is looking for a scapegoat given the domestic and international blowback they are getting re their support for Israel.
Black Ball
March 18, 2024 9:29 am
My Lord. Just when I think society cannot degenerate any further, something else comes along.
I’m no shrinking violet but this is just perverse. What kind of mind thinks of this stuff.
Black Ball at 9:29.
I for one will always pay to see a gyno exam live on stage.
Who wouldn’t?
Why is the taxpayer funding it?
Because no-one else will.
Fashion shows are killing the planet.
Opinion: Ultra-fast fashion is a disturbing trend undermining efforts to make the whole industry more sustainable (Phys.org, 17 Mar)
Barbiecore sounds pretty hardcore. Militantly pink! And mermaidcore sounds quite kinky. Here’s who this person is:
Our academics really do overachieve on climate silliness.
Impromptu Skydiving news (the Hun):
And:
Evidently the bloke landed on a footpath outside somebody’s house.
Splat.
If you’re going to go, go big.
Hmmmmmmmm
Maybe Tropical Cyclone Megan should now be changed slightly to Meghan –
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/03/ungrateful-prick.html
Feel free to go hungry, Mohammed.
“Over-prepared”, eh?
Pensioned out at Captain, American troops are probably happy about that.
Europe Illegally Confiscating Russian Assets Because they NEED Cash
in this Proxy War the West has organized against Russia from the outset, Ukraine is on the verge of collapsing. Instead of peace, even after more than 500,000 Ukrainians are dead, the West is out for more blood. The Ukrainian people have always been just cannon fodder as they have been played for fools by the Neocons.
The West will NOT allow Ukraine to enter any peace negotiations with Russia. The tensions are rising even in Ukraine against the West as people are beginning to see that the world cares nothing about them or their nation. The peace deal that Boris Johnson jumped on a plane to ensure they would not stop the war has opened the eyes of a rising voice of discontent inside Ukraine. Many are starting to see that Zelensky is a puppet of the Neocons and NATO and that the Ukrainian people are expendable.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/sovereign-debt-crisis/europe-illegally-confiscating-russian-assets-because-they-need-cash/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
As predicted…
Brisbane’s $2.7bn+ Gabba Olympic stadium redevelopment cancelled.
Not predicted…
$3.4bn+ stadium to be built in Victoria Park instead.
It would seem the public’s message on the exorbitant amount of money involved got lost in translation to bureaucratese. And the loss of inner-city green space will go down a treat with local high-rise residents. What next…a velodrome in the Botanical Gardens?…an equestrian facility in New Farm Park?
Not to worry…this Olympics will be the first in modern history to not experience a 170% cost overrun and will actually return a profit. John Coates did the numbers on a napkin while having lunch with Anna Palaszczuk.
Mate!
Hmmm…
Still not quite the number and frequency of comments as we enjoyed previously. Are there some still balking at wading into the new format?
Have no fear, you rattle-kneed coves.
The page is warm, the pixels tingle, and formats are low deceptively unobtrusive gates that open to golden bounteous vistas of textual possibility.
Come one, come all, good fellows!
Except Numbers.
Oh, and Septigregoyle.
Too late with Monty, sadly. But even Eden had its serpent – mind you our serpent does not tempt with knowledge. More of a worm in a discarded snakeskin trying to flog a plastic apple.
But he’s mostly…’armless.
Well – I have reregistered. Now I will see if I can uptick!
Ooh! Tick me! Tick me!
I crave affirmation!
As predicted…
Brisbane’s $2.7bn+ Gabba Olympic stadium redevelopment cancelled.
Not predicted…
$3.4bn+ stadium to be built in Victoria Park instead.
Why not just revamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Sport_and_Athletics_Centre this joint?
It won’t be truly worthy of being a Labor cancellation unless there is a $billion penalty for cancelling.
Just saw the boy Qld premier explaining about the flogging in local elections.
Typical dumb grinning union stooge.
Labor will get a pasting in Qld at the next Federal election despite the votes of the gays and hippies in inner city Brisbane seats.
Send Albo and Loony Bowen up to North/Far North Qld to drum up support and see what happens – especially when the lunatic talks about ruinables..
in which an artist will be drugged and then penetrated in front of an audience as she lies unconscious.
X (formerly twitter) does much better than that, and some even have decent production values. The females are fully conscious and participate in all manner of poses.
Loony Bowen – some call him Casanova.
GB News Under Attack – Nigel Farage –
Video – 4 mins 41 secs
https://youtu.be/dT5qeH161Rc
Ok, that worked. The lying msm is spreading BS about Trump saying it will be a bloodbath if he is not elected. What Trump actually said is:
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday night forecast a financial “bloodbath” awaits the U.S. motor industry if he is not elected and China is enabled to swamp the country with their products.
The comments came at an Ohio rally hosted by the Buckeye Values PAC where he discussed the possibility of an increasing trade war with China over auto manufacturing in general and electric vehicle types in particular. Trump said:
Critics in the political arena and the general media were quick to wilfully manipulate Trump’s words and infer intentions on his behalf even after Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung made clear Trump had clearly been talking about the impact of offshoring on the country’s auto industry and his own plans to increase tariffs on foreign-made cars.
The cat says go!
Roger
March 18, 2024 1:52 pm
As predicted…
Brisbane’s $2.7bn+ Gabba Olympic stadium redevelopment cancelled.
Not predicted…
$3.4bn+ stadium to be built in Victoria Park instead.
Every person involved with procurement, project management and contract management knows that the build program for the Qld Olympics is a gigantic clusterf*ck. It is already too late for a ‘paced’ program that will deliver the required facilities on time and on budget.
Therefore, all builds will be done on a ‘prioritised’ basis meaning higher cost (every contractor I know is salivating at the daily rates they will enjoy), and corners will have to be cut in process.
Now, with the recent election result where the govt received a well-deserved kicking, they are now terrified of annoying the locals any further given a general election is only 6 months away. Then of course, the Liberal Mayor was re-elected on Saturday and although this is a State issue and not a Local govt matter, the Lord Mayor can make life difficult for the State govt.
By the way, the new stadium is a greenfields site – meaning earthworks and civils such as power, water in, stormwater out etc all have to be designed and undertaken before stadium works actually start.
Meanwhile the clock is ticking and with each passing week/month, the cost to complete the Olympic infrastructure swells. This is going to cost a fortune.
Melbourne cancelled the Commonwealth Games. Let’s cancel the Olympics and the corrupt bunch of troughers that run it.
Hopefully by this time tomorrow John Prosciutto will be the ex Liberal leader in Danistan.
If the blessed event comes to pass he will suddenly become tumescent (can’t say moist, right?) at the thought of backgrounding against his own party.
And if he is true to form he will be targeting the audience that hates the Liberals (through the progressive sources that will give him air time) – so he will regale with tales about being prevented from advancing progressive causes such as his thwarted efforts to support ruinables, his campaign against free speech, and his commitment to QWERTY causes as evinced by his decision to be an utterly neutered gelding. “As soon as I heard of the plight of transsexual 5 year-olds I called at once for the castrating shears!”
Interesting conversation with my kid living in NY today. She went out for dinner with three old school friends. One is Jewish, and two aren’t. The three girls are in their early 30s, and they all said that even though they have voted demonrat in the past, this time they are voting for Trump. The Jewish girl, because of Israel, agreed with the other two that Trump would make them better off financially. It’s obviously anecdotal, but it’s interesting to see people change their minds in the biggest bubble in the world.
I bet they all hate Trump too:
Beware the latest wave of feminism
Bettina Arndt Politicom March 18, 2024
It was a riveting moment. Here was Tasha Smithies, a lawyer for Channel 10, appearing as a witness in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation action. This is the lawyer who advised television celebrity Lisa Wilkinson to go ahead with the disastrous Logie Speech praising Brittany Higgins for her “unwavering courage”, which ended up delaying the criminal trial for four months. It was advice that clearly left Justice Michael Lee unimpressed.
“It is inconceivable to me that any legally qualified person could have given [such] advice,” he told the court, describing the advice as “inadvisable and inappropriate” and suggesting this was something that “someone who did a first-year criminal law course” should have known.
So, what was it that inspired this bizarre action from Ms Smithies, the senior litigation counsel for one of Australia’s largest media organisations?
She told the court that she greenlit the speech because she felt it was important for Ms Wilkinson to show she was not “wavering” in her support for Ms Higgins.
“It was my view that from the time after the broadcast of the story, Ms Wilkinson was inextricably intertwined with Ms Higgins,” she said.
Even when she was grilled about the damage caused by that advice, she was unapologetic.
“I am not professionally or personally embarrassed by the advice I gave Ms Wilkinson,” she said.
It was astonishing watching this woman, eyes shining as she proudly proclaimed that it was more important to support the celebrity journalist in her believe-the-victim crusade than to give appropriate, lawyerly advice that would not prejudice the fair trial of an accused person.
Bruce Lehrmann has made a complaint to the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, stating that Ms Smithies has “displayed legal conduct that is wholly inadequate, deceptive, unacceptable and that breaches her obligations as an officer of the court to uphold the fundamental principles of the rule of law.”
This appears to be the latest in a new breed of female lawyers.
Women who make no effort to disguise their feminist goals, from blatantly discriminating against men in the workplace, to flagrantly ignoring important principles in our criminal justice.
Thank goodness they are a small minority. But with women comprising the bulk of law graduates for the last 30 years, there’s been a huge wave of female lawyers flooding into every sector of the legal system.
Many are excellent, extremely competent, and appropriately focussed simply on doing their job in the best possible way. But examples keep popping up of feminist lawyers exploiting the legal system with all sorts of antics which show where their real commitment lies.
These are just the ones we hear about – heaven only knows what chaos such women are creating behind the scenes.
Remember Annette Kimmitt, CEO of Australia’s largest law firm Minter Ellison, who was fired after sending out an email to staff saying she felt “triggered” by the company’s decision to act for then Attorney-General Christian Porter after he was subject to a historic rape allegation?
Ms Kimmitt emailed 2500 staff expressing her displeasure that a senior partner was acting for Mr Porter.
In her email, Ms Kimmitt said the matter “has certainly triggered hurt for me. I know that for many of you it may be a tough day and I want to apologise for the pain you may be experiencing.”
She claimed the decision to act for Mr Porter should have been considered “through the lens of our Purposes and Values”.
Ms Kimmitt apparently had substantial support from young members of the firm, who obviously also support these “values”; values which happily ditch the principles that everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence and legal representation.
Then there was Emma Covacevich, Clayton Utz’s first female chief executive partner, who announced when first appointed that she had firm views about how to achieve gender parity.
“It’s about more women coming in and more men going out,” she explained.
What about the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling SC, who had a melt-down when District Court judge Robert Newlinds claimed her office was taking a “lazy and perhaps politically expedient” approach to rape cases by failing to interrogate complainants’ allegations and sometimes putting hopeless cases before the court.
(His comments occurred in relation to a case where a man had spent eight months on remand in jail – and the jury took one hour to throw the case out. Then it turned out the woman had made similar allegations against about eight other men.)
Three other judges had made similar comments last year about unmeritorious cases being pushed through into court.
Then, a few weeks ago, another District Court judge, Peter Whitford really went to town, pointing out that pushing through such cases risks “drawing the criminal justice system into disrepute”.
Ms Dowling’s response was once again an emotional attack on Mr Whitford, before she finally backed down and announced an audit of all NSW sexual assault cases committed for trial.
Female lawyers have been out in force publicly celebrating the demolition job Labor inflicted on our Family Law Act.
Canberra family lawyer Debra Parker was quoted in a local online paper praising the “overdue” and “transformative” overhaul of family law.
She proudly proclaims that the move takes the law back to 1976 – when the “best interests of the child principle” was central.
Oh yes, those were the glory days of uniform maternal custody, before parliament was convinced into thinking dads actually matter.
The only time fathers rate a mention in Ms Parker’s comments is through posing a risk of exposing children to family violence, as she justifies the new laws that toss out the assumption of shared parental responsibility, let alone equal shared time.
Perhaps ironically, given the historical underpinnings of feminism, what most of these women have in common is a disdain for the principle of equality before the law.
Their goals appear to be primarily about promoting and protecting women’s rights at the expense of men’s rights. Their priorities are to do everything they can to protect and cosset women, believing their every story.
Too often, the effect of their actions is to undermine long-standing and legitimate legal safeguards. Safeguards that are designed to ensure that innocent men are not convicted.
There are very good reasons for men to be nervous about the increasing power of feminist lawyers.
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Walking past an LED billboard just now advertising the ABC’s ‘iListen’.
Two things struck me. First was, why is it not called ‘iObey’, or ‘iNputRequired’ for the inert dunderheads who need it to decide what to think or do?
Second – they had a normal white family accompanying image. Mother, father, daughter, and son. Does anyone the ABC gives a floating flocculated piece of faeces for people like that? When was the last time they ever spoke up for that obstinately common demographic? They hate them!
his decision to be an utterly neutered gelding.
Tautology alert!
How embarrassment for Handsome Boy and Greatest FM ever Mr. Wong.
Xi’s top foreign policy envoy Wang Yi will reportedly meet with Paul Keating during this week’s rare visit to our shores.
Or, as he’s now being dubbed, Paul Xiting.
Perhaps Wang is dropping off an antique French clock as a token of thanks.
Roger
March 18, 2024 4:49 pm
How embarrassment for Handsome Boy and Greatest FM ever Mr. Wong.
Xi’s top foreign policy envoy Wang Yi will reportedly meet with Paul Keating during this week’s rare visit to our shores.
The chunks are playing the liars like pet rats.
What should our disposition be towards China?
Why am i getting asked to login all the time
I’m pretty sure the military presence in Paris isn’t for the purpose of protecting the public from nuisances such as beggars. I try to avoid make eye contact or verbally acknowledge street hustlers, in Rome Paris or even Cefalu. Not the obvious ones anyhow haha. The only place I had a problem last year in Paris was around St Paul, and the proprietor shooed away the beggar.
Now that Dan Andrews has gone, Paul Keating is communist China’s chief political influencer in Australia.
Unlike the rest of the leftist tribe, Keating’s primary loyalty isn’t to the ALP, but to his new paymasters in Beijing.
Keating is now the chief promoter of emperor Xi’s latest foreign adventure Down Under, supported by the CCP’s punitive tariffs against Australian primary produce.
Keating is actually the traitor that Labor’s ASIO stooge Mike Burgess couldn’t name, instead opting to slander another no-name Labor nonentity.
Keating is just another line-and-length Australian traitor who has escaped censure only because there are so many of them currently selling out our country.
Great name for a chinaman, “Wang”, bet the seppo’s have a laugh over that. He’s probably giving Paul Xiting a chines knock off as Paul likes all things chinese. Look like real ting,Xiting
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GI38qfnW4AAm90E?format=jpg&name=medium
You are a very shady person.
There is a checkbox at the bottom of the login that asks if you want it to remember you. I clicked it because I imagine it meant that after I die the Catallaxy site would raise a glass and recall my exploits like I got a shopping trolley without putting 20 cents in the little lock, or beating the old woman to a seat on the bus (“Suffer in your Depends!!!”) but now I am not so sure.
Ha!
Bruised and battered from the weekend’s byelections, the Boy Premier has kiboshed the proposed $3.2bn Victoria Park Olympic Stadium in favour of existing venues Suncorp & QEII.
The timing makes you wonder if it wasn’t all a political stunt designed to make Miles look decisive and responsive to public concerns.
“I’m sorry. I’m listening. And I feel your pain.”
Yes, Yes i am.
Sadly, our blogmaster can’t do anything about WordPress’s dumb, upside-down software that requires new comments to be lodged at the top of a comment stream before being immediately relegated to the bottom — where it should have been to begin with.
This is happening only because WordPress’s software coding nerds don’t think like ordinary people and love stuffing up software to suit the nerds.
Needless to say, 99% of Silicon Valley’s coding nerds are political radicals in favour of violent revolution and the destruction of society and families.
So we have to put up with dumb HTML software because the nerds are too stupid to write user-friendly code
“got a shopping trolley without putting 20 cents in the little lock,
Bargain!”
$1 or $2 in Victoria
Further to my comments about the emerging debacle of Olympic infrastructure for the Brisbane 2032, I forgot to mention the Athlete’s Village. Where are we placing the 10-12,000 athletes plus coaches and sundry support staff such as physios, specialist support etc?
On a riverside area known as Hamilton Northshore. The promo says that this area will be “transformed”. Well yes, because there isn’t anything there at the moment. Just old wharves.
Despite the toing and froing about the assorted venues, the one constant seems to be the athlete’s village – yet nothing has happened. We are to build a small(ish) new town accommodating 10,000+ people complete with roads, footpaths, eateries and services such as water, electricity, sewerage must all be created – nothing exists at present. The Village will accommodate the disabled athletes after the main Games and consequently will be available for low-cost housing. Great. But not a single sod of earth has been moved for the Village although its location has never been questioned. We should have started building (earthworks and initial civils) at least a year ago.
And by the way, where are all these builders/tradespeople and a host of other service/professional people coming from to design and build this Olympic dream? Very little recruitment has happened to date in the white-collar fields, never mind the hundreds of contracts that need to be let, managed and the consequent employment of many thousands of builders and trades.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-Olympics at all, but from an infrastructure perspective (my field), this is a very bad joke and industry colleagues and myself are equally laughing at the chaos and also scared of the inevitable demands to finish on time.
Can we do it? Sure, once we get the green light, but the proposed deficit of $7Bn is absurdly optimistic.
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How to prevent long-haul COVID symptoms (PACS)
Nigel Farage
GB News Is Under ATTACK
Flexing?
Carpe Jugulum
March 18, 2024 5:20 pm
Why am i getting asked to login all the time
Because like me you are very handsome and the AI jiggers can’t help themselves.
A “woman” causes Jetstar to turn back to Melbourne.
Looks like a truckie from hell.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/jetstar-flight-from-melbourne-to-bali-forced-to-turn-back/news-story/957dbd3e85718781594adf9589511a4f
French judge bans windmill farms: Defeat for extreme greens
We need to hear more from Women like this awesome Lady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCCw-uFBfnA&t=256s
These Race Zealots Hate Britain & the West. Racist Countryside? This is an Attack on Britain’s Soul
Indolent
March 18, 2024 5:47 pm
Nigel Farage
GB News Is Under ATTACK
Posted Up Thread –
Johnny Rotten
March 18, 2024 2:45 pm
GB News Under Attack – Nigel Farage –
Video – 4 mins 41 secs
https://youtu.be/dT5qeH161Rc
China
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Chickens coming home to roost:
In its most recent SEC (US Securities Commission) filing, Blackrock concedes its ESG commitments may impact its bottom line.
The Clown Show that is the federal government:
Trade Minister Don Farrell says the US is not Australia’s “most trusted ally”, singling out New Zealand as the country’s closest international partner.
When asked by the Coalition why Labor had resumed its funding to Gazan aid body UNRWA before the US – which Liberal Senator Claire Chandler said was Australia’s closest ally – Senator Farrell offered a defence of the government’s position by saying Australia was independent and that the US was not its most trusted ally.
“I take issue with your.. first statement. I’m not sure that the United States is our most trusted ally,” Senator Farrell, who was acting for government Senate Leader and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, said with a wry smile in Senate Question Time.
“I would have said New Zealand, in the whole history of time. I would have said our closest international ally is New Zealand.”
Anthony Albanese said last year “the United States is of course our closest ally, our principal strategic partner and our largest two-way investment partner, and our alliance with the United States is a central pillar of our foreign policy”.
In the Oz
My poor ex- copper mate is the chap who was attacked.
https://www.geraldtonguardian.com.au/news/geraldton-guardian/geraldton-man-attacked-with-axe-hammer-after-disturbing-juveniles-during-burglary-attempt-in-wandina-c-13988843
If it was raining supermodels he’d be washed down the drain with a Qantas flight attendant
He’s sent me the pics, lots of back hits from the cowardly little shits.
Trying an experiment.
The brothers just arrived and were hungry. I took the camera, but one of them decided to leap onto my hand and eat my finger, so I didn’t get a photo of both of them together. I’m only leaking slightly…
Paul Keating isn’t saying all-in with China.
He’s just saying Australia’s foreign policy shouldn’t be dictated by the US security state.
Coming soon to a super fund near you.
Coming soon to a super fund near you.
Already done with the idiotic enquiry into supermarkets, prevention of gas exploration etc etc etc.
In NSW über users get dinged $1 per ride to pay into a fund to compensate the poor investment decisions of taxi plate owners.
It was meant to end in 2023 after raising $250mill.
It was extended to 2030 at $1.20 per ride that will end up pulling in $900mill.
On top of that, they’ll get a piece of the $275mill settlement announced today.
Keep in mind, whenever you see the poor suffering cabbie they wheel out, that over 90% of taxi plate owners do not drive the things.
They are investors.
So their investment in a taxi plate should be viewed along the lines of investing in a company that had a competitor eat their lunch.
As much as I give Mike Burgess a hard time not being able to find his own arse I find it reprehensible that he and the head of ASIS are booted of the National Security Committee. We now have the the Terrorist and China Love Committee running it. Can’t have ASIO and ASIS saying bad things about the Liars favorite scumbags.
Uber exploited a grey area to compete with taxis.
Fortunately for uber, Reg Kermode was dead & the Libs were in power who didn’t much care about the monopolistic network old Reg had built.
Ol’ Reg would stomp around Sussex Street when Labor was in power telling them he knew where the bodies were buried.
Ol’ Reg was thick as thieves with Neville Wran.
So forgive me if I don’t cry any tears for poor suffering cabbies.
What is effectively a duopoly should be subject to scrutiny.
If they’ve got nothing to hide, etc.
The super wars are over BJ.
We lost.
With super wars over, wealth boss plans for peace (Paywallian today)
Got mine out as soon as I could. Cost a fair bit to do so but I don’t regret it at all.
Taxi plates were the government creating a barrier to entry based entirely on how much they could charge in fees for plates.
They provided nothing more than the threat of a fine/ imprisonment if you didn’t have their permission.
And when uber called their bluff they socialised the losses via a new charge.
Grifting scumbags.
As I was saying to Roger above, that ship in the current situation has likely sailed.
Mum passed away on Saturday morning. A Blessing… she was 93 and looking at a drawn out death but a small fall hastened matters.
My Old Testament is pretty rusty (some might even say non-existent!) so I’m struggling with a Reading… any suggestions would be most appreciated.
The NT reading is easy… I spent 30 minutes or so reciting (badly) 2 Timothy from memory as she died, so I’m giving that a proper outing come the funeral.
But the OT has me a bit stumped…
From the Courier Mail. I mean it’s not as if they might know stuff and have good advice.
“Two of Australia’s leading intelligence bosses have been dumped from the Albanese government’s top security body.
The head of ASIO, Director-General Mike Burgess, and the head of ASIS, Director-General Kerri Hartland, have been removed from the Albanese government’s National Security Meeting of Cabinet, according to Sky News”
Can’t tell you reason due to National security!
Oh this is a bit different. Testing
Good evening Cats
Deepest sympathy Mark. 93 is a very good innings.
Dover,
The new format seems to take you back to a previous placeholder spot on refresh or returning from a link?
My two bobs worth. We are about to witness the taking down of the central bank corrupt and criminal system to be replaced by a new decentralised system quite likely with bitcoin at its heart. The bit stands for digital and the coin stands for counter insurgency.
My sympathies on the loss of your mother Matk what about Ecclesiastes 3?
Or The Lord is my Shepherd?
Fuel for the conspiracy theorists
https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1769676958911095121?
Now that’s green…
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/LcVbgDCoWk9KtX31/?mibextid=0VwfS7
Just home from a 14-day cruise on P&O SIN –> Syd.
Some observations:
Never seen so many obese people in one place … America included! Fat, flaccid wobbling bits, very badly-drawn tats, dental misadventures … and the men were just as bad!
Why MUST people wander the ship sucking on a stubby?
If you’re going to wear thongs … have a bloody pedicure! And thongs, even black ones, do NOT constitute “formal wear”.
“Fuck” is NOT acceptable in front of strangers/women/children.
“Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie” is NOT acceptable bellowed across the dining room.
Sound like some sort of snob, yes? No, not at all. But for heaven’s sake, is it so hard to act civilised … at least?
Mark Dice:
Media Completely Humiliated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otXlwvq3r9E
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.