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Monty Hope you’re still obsessed with Russia Russia and US politics when the lights go off and the gas runs…
Monty Hope you’re still obsessed with Russia Russia and US politics when the lights go off and the gas runs…
This is the problem with even a “benevolent” dictatorship. No dictatorship would ever admit a mistake.Singapore’s Ministry of Health is…
That’s exactly what it was, an experiment on the whole population, both medical and level of control.IT WAS ALL A…
No word on whether Pool, Rubin, Southern et al will donate their blood money to charity. Fat man has an attack…
Just keep it going. Full stop. Get out of the way D’Ambrosio and Bowen, you complete imbeciles. This is what…
Brittany Higgins questions whether she ‘may have been drugged’ on night Bruce Lehrmann allegedly roped her
By ellie dudley
and stephen rice
Brittany Higgins has questioned whether she may have been drugged on the night she was allegedly roped by Bruce Lehrmann in Parliament House, and that she wishes the Federal Court had explored this possibility during Mr Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson, new court documents have revealed.
The former Liberal staffer also claims the circumstances in which her $2.4m commonwealth payment was “prepared, agreed and executed” had not been explored “in any meaningful way” during proceedings, saying there is “no proper basis” to make adverse findings against her in relation to the compensation package.
Mr Lehrmann’s lawyers had argued that Ms Higgins made 11 separate representations about her alleged rope in her settlement that were either false or contradicted by her own evidence in the defamation case.
All UK Airports will close by 2029 & Beef and Lamb will be banned for Human Consumption to meet Climate Scam Targets according to UK Gov. Report
The words gibbets and nooses come to mind.
Yep, Abbott should have knocked that wanker’s block off. Not sure I’d term him a “wimp”(bzzzt, yankee lingo alert!) for having the self-control required to not knock the sheethead into the next postcode.
It’s what self control looks like. It’s often misinterpreted.
I think he could have torn strips off the creep…verbally. But he clearly came to the interview unarmed.
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@BGatesIsaPyscho
Musk defies Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s demand to censor ‘X’ and secretly ban people he doesn’t like
DOJ Refuses to Hand Over Audio Recordings of Biden’s Special Counsel Interview After Transcript Proves Biden Lied
It wasn’t just the interview with the smarmy bastard from channel 7. Tone was a fizzer in every respect which is why I said turdball fuked him. This is not about being a nice guy: it’s about fighting for the values you espouse; tone didn’t fight. But then none of the LNP have . That’s the problem.
Letter to the editor: Biden betrays Israel
As for the thing leaving prison to a generous NDIS package…I struggled to get my frail 92 year old mother anything.
I can only assume the creature who tortured, raped and murdered the poor young lady is worth more to our government than a humble, fragile old lady.
They should hang their heads in shame. But Shorten won’t. For obvious reasons.
Antifa Battered In Coolock, Their Phones Seized By Nationalists Apparently Revealing Seedy Links Between Media, NGOs, and Far Left
From 2015. A window into the lunatic mind.
Yes, Diversity Is About Getting Rid Of White People (And That’s A Good Thing)
Brittany seems to have mistaken Federal Court for Australian Story.
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They have her in a museum?
I suppose it’s better than letting her roam the streets startling strangers.
I love Mike Rowe’s Dirty Jobs. Essential watching.
I met a lady last night who thought she was a wheelie bin!
Now I don’t know whether to take her out on Tuesday or Wednesday
Great skit with many truths.
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Garn:
Every Airport Ever…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcW-tpuVDgI
Shorten makes Albanese look respectable.
Shorten makes Albanese look respectable.
At the top of the repulsive stakes. All the appeal of a fart in a lift.
No mobile/cell coverage? No EV charging for you! | MGUY Australia
Testing
If there were any doubts, there’s none now. It’s over. Get a load of what’s on the feet of this dead man walking.
Bons
Bridget McKenzie had a huge painting of a bull in her office.
Not sure how to read that.
In my days as a Platinum Card poseur I was given a lesson on the incredible stupid of non industrial corporatism.
Sitting in my business class seat next to a pin stripe and a dolly in a pencil skirt and ruff who were both obviously on their way to Canberra to rent seek, I was stunned when the future leader in the pencil skirt turned up a newspaper page photo of Shorten and announced “he will be a prime minister – I mean, just look at him”.
@MikeBenzCyber
Why, you may ask, was the CIA’s most notorious front organization holding meetings about how to pre-censor the Brazilian internet to stop Brazilians from questioning the results of an election that was still a year away?
Best TV theme music ever: Bow River (Cold Chisel — Outback Truckers)..
Quadrant has a good article on the Musk v Brazil goings on. Plenty of smoke about for conspiracy theory nut jobs (who seem to be right about these things with greater frequency these days).
Well the social betters are on the case. Duck hunting starts tomorrow and no less than 3 divvy vans and 3 Game Management Authority vehicles were deployed to breath test and check out people heading out to shoot the ducks. Unnecessary I would have thought.
That chap wong is going to demand a palli state tonight. What a stupid, little bastard. Pallis are born and bred to hate Jews. Between Jews and pallis there can ever only be one state. And a palli state would be isis reborn.
After a lightning strike took out multiple kitchen appliances, I’ve been reduced to buying my bread for the last 4 months.
Bit the bullet and bought a Panasonic R2530 for a try out. Doing the first batch right now, and the baking smell is driving me nuts.
Only 15 more minutes…
Don’t forget to add a generous dash of baker’s iodine.
Backyard, hole, gidgee fire, coals, camp oven = bread. You softie.
My not very smartwatch tells me I’m celebrating Hari Raya Puasa all day tomorrow as it’s a regional holiday.
It’s apparently the end of Ramadan. Why I should give a damn my watch doesn’t tell me.
Jpost on the the aid worker attack
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-795514
Trying to Save the Future – Redesigning Government
It took the Roman Empire about 314 years (Pi) to realize that it was just too big and complicated for one man to rule. The Tetrarchy was the system instituted by Roman emperor Diocletian (284-305AD) in 293 AD to govern the Empire by dividing it between two emperors, the Augusti (presidents), and their junior colleagues and designated successors, the Caesars (Vice Presidents). We have reached a critical impasse where the remaining years into 2032 will get difficult. The country is divided, and the agencies are so corrupt that the government is no longer functioning.
The Gallup Poll reflects this, whereby confidence in combined government and institutions in 2022 collapsed to 28%. We are now approaching below 20%. When it comes to Congress, they are at the bottom of the list, next to TV news. People trust small businesses more than anyone—the sector Biden has been trying to destroy.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/regulation/we-need-a-tripartite-white-house-redesigning-government/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Surely it is April the 1st again for the story about UK Airports closing by 2029 and for the eating of beef and lamb to be banned.
Maybe the story is spam.
Check out this fusion / combination. You’ll obviously know the intro but then the switch occurs.
Very well done in my book … purists may think otherwise.
Check it out.
Go Home Productions: Californian Maneater (Hall & Oates vs The Eagles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3OjUex9DLw
gave me a good chuckle …
You Will Never Be Able To Change A Man
Abott was the last decent man we have had as Prime Minster.
Whatever his faults, (18C), he was streets ahead of the shite before him and after him.
Abott was the last decent man we have had as Prime Minster.
Abbott was, and is, a politician. Decency is his schtick. How genuine it is we’ll never know for sure. He’s certainly a moral weakling, he’s proved that. Maybe he thinks that’s part of the decency thing, not asserting an unpopular truth.
Victorian Labor adopting the Rudd Fortress of Invincibility method (the Hun):
Unsurprising, really.
We need a leader who will bark, bite, and dig holes to bury bones (get things done). Being a politician is a job. The rest of don’t keep our jobs if we are consistently low achievers or incompetent.
“not asserting an unpopular truth”
Which would that be Dr?
Stevo is spot on.
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Steve Inman:
London Cultural Bridge Is Falling Down
https://rumble.com/v4oa76r-london-cultural-bridge-is-falling-down.html
not asserting an unpopular truth”
Which would that be Dr?
Any number of them, toad.i was thinking specifically of his going along with those who wouldn’t support the free speech reforms he promised. But he seems to me to be unable to confront disagreement with his claimed principles. He preferred to go along to get along. He went along with Julie Bishop to appoint that loony ambassador for women. No principled stand, just go along with it. He could stand up against the opposing party, but not his own party, even when they had the same crazy ideas as the opposition. Maybe he never had the numbers, but no man of any kind of principles would hang onto his job by capitulating on almost everything, even the most critical. If he’d gone down in flames for declaring an honest position he’d have got my respect. But he temporised shamefully.
“The Hamas Health Ministry admits it has “incomplete data” for 11,000+ of the 33,000+ fatalities it claims to have documented.
More than 15,000 fatality records stem from “reliable media sources,” not hospital records.”
https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1777735211347829084?t=ncKlI07lhduNZGjUqCbCiA&s=19
John Cleese. Really?
https://twitter.com/Joeinblack/status/1777678546967654792?t=7Hptp1LTU7y2qvOjHeFaIQ&s=19
Gotta be real smart to be a politician.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1777722602795962787?t=FgY7I5p4DaExORF60Bf1Lg&s=19
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Thanks, Tom.
I understand where you are coming from Dr. and accept his failings in trying to compromise too much. Especially with the Bishop skank. For me, 18C was the worst.
But he was always miles better than Rudd/Gillard/Rudd/Turncoat and ffs the sleazy waiter’s son.
Probably should rephrase that to “the sleazy son of the waiter”
Greater Sydney Dam levels now at 98% as of before yesterday’s rain. Warragamba Dam at 100%. Nice and how about that Mr. Tim Tam Flannery?
https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/nsw-storage-levels/greater-sydney-dam-levels
Low benchmark.
Be interesting to see how this goes – taunted older male attacked by five teenagers
?https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13289025/nicolas-miu-wisconsin-stabbing-apple-river-testimony.html
https://www.breitbart.com/news/parents-of-us-school-shooter-sentenced-to-10-15-years-in-prison/
About time. The parents, by refusing to deal with their sons erratic behaviour, then buying him a weapon actively encouraged his successful murder of 4 other kids.
They had a responsibility to him and to the people he murdered and refused to deal with it.
BBC went Full Climate Retard this morning while relating how a group of Swiss grannies has got a ruling from the Court of Human Rights that everyone needs to pushback harder against global warming. For warming it is, according to the beeb. 12 months of “record high temperatures”, the Earth’s temp has been at or above the magic 1.5 degrees for simply ages.
The left now pushes misinformation and disinformation on anything and everything while decrying those things, with crocodile tears.
CO2 and methane contribute eff all to climate.
A fart in a bottle.
Hamas says less than 70
https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1777714065210499239?t=KWjdOjx5NsE6sXurH4K3tw&s=19
Of course I went to the wonderful Tolkien exhibition in Rome.
Calli you would like it.
https://twitter.com/dytolkienwisdom/status/1777209585960378767?t=hnICZa_z57NWyirKdwq6TQ&s=19
Tony Heller:
The Methane Big Lie
In this video, I take on Potholer’s unsupportable claims about methane, and explain why the United Nations is trying to demonize this harmless trace gas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6LsoiyVTII
Knew this was being made, hopefully available somewhere online.
https://twitter.com/ChivalryGuild/status/1777325235638808975?t=_HFCFN6w1pf4bdfpPEVsOw&s=19
Re Abbott
Don’t forget the goat rodeo the Senate was after that election.
And the media hysteria around anything he did was approaching TDS levels.
And the scum of Turnbull and his cadre of sycophants white-anting in the background.
Blaring from Sky News – Wong Calls for Palestinian Statehood.
Thanks for rewarding the disgusting behaviour of our local splodeys following Oct 7 massacre, Penny. She’s simply confirming what we’ve known all along – the Albanese government has their backs.
Whether it’s due to deeply held convictions or simply political expediency in garnering support in swing seats, this government has proved itself to be the worst I’ve seen in a lifetime. Deeply parasitic and venal, prepared to force an unwilling electorate into financial and social ruin, inept in every sphere of management.
But, but…Morrison, you say. I’m reminded of a line in I, Claudius – that every successive Caesar was deliberately chosen to be worse than the one who went before.
This one is a doozey, and his malignant entourage of office bearers flanked by a ruthless and encouraged praetorian guard leaves him in the dust.
Chuckle. I see Albo’s fanperson doesn’t like me saying mean things about him.
Put up or shut up. A downtick isn’t an argument.
Followed another story to here about someone who invested $450,000 after receiving an unsolicited phone call.
In a similar scam to this one involving another bank an acquaintance had $400,000 stolen. 3/4 repaid by the bank in compensation because of the things they actively did that facilitated the fraud.
Simple solution. Hang up, ring your bank, just don’t wait four hours. And if the bank had rung you, they wouldn’t need team view to see your account.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-24/jenny-lost-300000-to-remote-access-scam-commonwealth-bank/102263542
Cali apart from Reuters & a couple of Israeli media, Pong is receiving zero coverage outside Australia.
Fitting I think for the dimwitted lightweight she is.
Wong is calling for hamas statehood which would give them control of their borders and an international airport.
She really is malignant.
Rosie, the film you seek is on Remnant TV.
The first story I read of the Vendee uprising was in Daphne du Maurier’s “The Glass Blowers”, a semi-biographical novel about the du Maurier family during the Revolution.
https://remnant-tv.com/?search=Vanquish+or+die
This drugged thing, not exactly an original claim, nothing on CCTV? And what about the happy coincidence of them sharing a taxi and then Higgins deciding to follow Lerhamm into the parliament and not wait in said taxi?
Did Lerhamm have some sort of Svengali hold over her to force her to follow him?
I’ll have a look Calli. Not sure when I’ll be in the mood for more death and destruction.
France’s destruction of its Catholic heritage always casts a shadow over my visits.
I gave the remnant of St Paul’s Church in the 4th a pat on my way through Paris.
Mentioned yesterday (I think), but still (the Hun):
Jacinta Allan will not rule out supporting a push to exempt Aboriginal people from land tax – including stamp duty – as part of coming treaty negotiations.
The Premier on Tuesday responded to comments by a prominent Aboriginal Elder who said Indigenous people should not be required to pay land taxes or council rates.
Aunty Jill Gallagher, the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation chief executive, was speaking at the Treaty Statewide Gathering in Geelong – hosted by the First Peoples Assembly – on the weekend.
According to her speech, which was published online, Ms Gallagher said: “Aboriginal people must be exempt from land tax (including stamp duty) and council rates.
Good old Aunty Jill.
Hit the wrong button. Early in the morning.
Thanks to Aunty Jill Gallagher and Aunty Jacinta Allan, Victoria is about to become the first State populated entirely by indigenous people.
For those who can access it – there is a brilliant article in The Australian Spectator by James Allan on the Ponzi scheme that is immigration whereby the lazy belief is that it will “expand” the economy – totally ignoring the role of productivity & the cost of social services – especially when the immigrants are unskilled.
Quite appalled at the media lack of interest in the Janine Baldwin killer’s release & NDIS rort …..
Would appear that they (media) and both Federal & NSW gummints opposition parties don’t consider setting this piece of scum free a big deal …..
Even Bull Shitten pretending that State gummints can override NDIS requirements for eligibility where criminals are involved so his hands are tied …… absolute rubbish …….!
In keeping with no contribution to the country for the last 60 thousand years Aboriginals will continue not to contribute into the future. Hunter gathers are Future Eaters. Not in the manner of Flim Flannery’s book of the same name. Future Eaters do nothing to improve their lot. When the resources are stripped they move on to the next area.
From “The Worst” this morning…
All of a sudden the Victorian government will become very interested in genealogies and DNA.
Those free home ‘loans’, who will give them and what will happen if there is a default?
Any upper limits envisaged?
Two million, ten million?
The west continues down the path of tyranny.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/03/chicken-keepers-must-register-to-beat-bird-flu/
I’ve never been able under the premise that immigration expands the economy, unless those immigrants are self supporting. The voteherd of the last twenty years has only benefited a very small sector supplying services to the unproductive. Paid for by taxpayers. When if ever, is money paid by government via the taxpayer, going to be excluded from GDP. Never going to happen of course. This mutley level of economics has destroyed this country. Economically and socially this country is close to being a basket case.HOP time cannot come soon enough. How many politicians have run a successful business? Very few.
That’s going to go down really well with all the recent migrants who are expected to pay for other people’s bills while they save for the ever-inflating mortgages.
The rest of the citizenry will be mightily pissed off as well, welcome to country was insulting enough but having to continually shell out to the grifters will make it worse.
I expect there will be a fee attached to getting yourself certified as an indigenous person. It’s their culture, you see.
Expect a stampede of people identifying as aboriginal.
After a cool summer, and people still believe it was the hottest summer, evah.
Let’s sacrifice electrickery to appease the gods.
The Great COVID Cover-up: Shocking truth about Wuhan and 15 federal agencies
“Why haven’t Dutton and the Liberals already come out hard against Albanese’s massive immigration intake?”, Jim asks.
A cynic might suggest it’s because they’re personally benefitting from it.
Dr. Simon Goddek
@goddeketal
Who’s going to tell her?
@TPostMillennial
Former FBI and now contracting officer for the CIA reveals how there were FBI agents in the crowd on J6 and brags about how the agency helped others sue Alex Jones for defamation.
@ggreenwald
For the second straight major policy debate — first $60b for Ukraine, now reform to domestic spying powers of NSA/FBI — House GOP Speaker Mike Johnson has united with the Biden WH and the establishment bipartisan class.
He is the key figure blocking domestic spying reform:
@catturd2
The diary is real. The inappropriate showering is real. Thanks to the courts confirming.
@LangmanVince
Take 4 years apart, same gas station, different president
‘It’s theirs now’: Border agents concede N.M. mountain to Cartel control
Bruce Pascoe might be in a spot of bother.
EXCLUSIVE: The Biden Administration Just Admitted It Has Massively Undercounted Ukraine Aid
Britnee suggesting she may have been drugged? How about a dose of sodium pentothal. Right at the beginning she told the truth most likely. She didn’t know what happened. Everything after was to save her job when she panicked at the thought of losing it. There was only ever supposition, very few facts. Only two people knew what did and didn’t happen. One said nothing happened, the other confirmed id by saying they didn’t know. My take is and its as good as anyone else is, they got into the whiskey, brucie goosie saw britnee was looking a bit worse for wear and left. Britnee thought she’d spice up the scene for when she thought bg would return and let it all hang out. Chocolate and booze overtook the outcome. He left the building. Hey, this my vision, I wasn’t there, only two people were. Probability has nothing to do with it otherwise we’d all win lotto each week.
Not in the least baffling.
Biden DOJ Slow-Walks ‘Slam Dunk’ Case Against Man Who Allegedly Tried To Kill Justice Kavanaugh, Baffling Experts
Because the Libs are fully on board with Big Australia. Isn’t that obvious, Jim?
The rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the rotten tree.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry wade into politics: the Duke and Duchess launch a campaign in the fight against election misinformation
Border agents concede NM Mountain to Cartels. Walter White is not going to be happy.
CSIRO:
Australians do not want to pay more for “green” energy and will not tolerate blackouts.
They’re in for a nasty shock before the decade is out.
Haha it made Lefty heads explode. Superb
Shades of mabo…
Finding of pottery fragments on a Northern Island region is now proof Aboriginals had pottery.
And were master mariners.
However they seem very content to blend Melanesian and Aboriginal to achieve this outcome, ignoring the evidence against this in their own article.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/10/great-barrier-reef-discovery-overturns-belief-aboriginal-australians-did-not-make-pottery
The pieces are the oldest securely dated pottery discovered in Australia and weave Indigenous Australians into an ocean-going network of people in Papua New Guinea, the Torres Strait and Pacific Islands who formed a “community of cultures across the Coral Sea”, the paper finds. Fragments of pottery have also been found on the Torres Strait.
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the Lapita and their descendants settled vast swathes of the remote Oceania, taking pigs, dogs and chickens, taro and breadfruit, and their distinctive pottery to the Solomon Islands and eastwards across the Pacific into Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.
…
Yet somehow everything except dingoes avoided Australia..
The word “woven” hasnt had to carry that much hope and expectation since Lizzo took up pole dancing.
Allah be praised ..!
Yes, do ignore that elephant in the corner.
Cancer rates rising in young people due to ‘accelerated aging,’ according to ‘highly troubling’ new study
Simple answer – yes.
Is Barack Obama serving a third term by running a ‘shadow government’ in Biden’s White House?
Jo Nova has a nice article on the EV bust:
Ford backs away from electric vehicles: Americans just don’t want EV’s (10 Apr)
We’ve discussed the Ford pullback here at the Cat. Jo though adds an interesting bit of local news about strata title blocks. It looks like body corporates are bending over backwards to avoid EV charging points, due to cost and liability issues. And the red and green tape from government is making it hard also.
That’s fun given that the sort of people who might buy an EV are also the sort that would tend to live in an inner city dog box apartment. Ok yes immigrants would also, but progressive lefties are the natural species inside the goat cheese curtain of major cities.
Thanks, BB at 8.47am. First LOL of the day. Must watch for mine.
The US is becoming a banana republic. Look at the smug turd in the vid;
Sound Investigations
@SoundInvestig
BREAKING: CIA Officer/Former FBI Boasts “Can Put Anyone in Jail…Set ’Em Up!” “We Call It a Nudge”
FBI “Did What We Wanted” with Alex Jones @RealAlexJones
“Took His Money Away” “Chop His Legs Off”
Estimates 20 Undercover FBI Agents at J6, Works with Some of Them Now at CIA
FBI Uses “Embellished” News, “Fake Social Media” to “Really Get People Mad”
https://twitter.com/SoundInvestig/status/1777697750764658927
True, but what did people expect – that the z-grade dregs of the ruff/slapper goat rodeo would be anything other than utterly malicious and staggeringly incompetent?
There isn’t a labore government (local state or federal) I’ve been aware of in my lifetime that has been anything other than utterly malicious and staggeringly incompetent.
If you don’t want to eat shit sandwiches, stop queueing up to buy them.
but what did people expect
Well I expected exactly what we’ve got.
Last night, lots of argument about the Horrors of Abbott. Before that, the Horrors of Morrison, Turnbull, Gillard, Rudd.
The situation I find myself in…
?
This, is the problem. A very large part of the Australian electorate are politically, historically and economically brain dead. Totally ignorant of what they are really voting for or what is best for the country. The major parties have for years fallen over themselves chasing this entrenched ignorant vote. So the political spectrum now spans from Socialist Green left Commos (Greens) to Labour Light (Libs).
There is now no genuine right wing major party here. The Libs only conviction is to gain power – and we know if they do they will do NOTHING, out of fear and cowardice.
Heard the lead archaeologist on ABC RN AM this morning.
He said it proves aboriginals were engaged in “international trade.”
I fully expected him to use the word “sophisticated.”
There must be a big research grant in the offing.
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 91 How does the government of Israel treat Christians? In the West, Christian leaders don’t seem interested in knowing the answer. They should be. Here’s the view of a pastor from Bethlehem.
Breaking News:
Modern politicians are horrible people.
😀
On strata issues, the unit next to me sold without even appearing on the market. Backward engineering the numbers I bought my place on around 4x gross in about 2000 odd. It sold at 8x. The next time some Boomer starts talking about 17% interest rates don’t even be polite, just tell them to fuk off they don’t know what they are talking about.
By the way, I’m not saying Abbott didn’t try to do a good job when he has PM. He was treated despicably by the meja, pubic ‘service’ and wet liebborals. So why just take it? Fluffing around making nice speeches at nice functions doesn’t cut it.
Supplements his parliamentary pension.
He’s not likely to get any juicy sinecure offers.
The woman being given a platform on ABC news just now to spruik climate Armageddon reinforces the stereotype of what you can expect these people to look like.
How many politicians have run a successful business? Very few.
Possibly Pauline at the fish’n chip shop.
but what did people expect
Well I expected exactly what we’ve got.
Last night, lots of argument about the Horrors of Abbott. Before that, the Horrors of Morrison, Turnbull, Gillard, Rudd.
The situation I find myself in…
The only interest politicians have in the vote-herd is their, actual, vote! .. from the morning after the election to three weeks out from the next it is all about their troughin’and their self promotion ………!
Again on ABC News (I’m waiting for a haircut at my barber and he’s got it on, just to clarify)
A report on the end of Ramadan. Much footage of people praying, embracing, etc etc and a Muslim talking head.
Not a woman to be seen.
Bear, what has 17% interest rates got to do with the price of real estate when comparing it to 2000 and now.
The womenfolk are at home in the kitchen preparing the Eid feast.
“World’s most feminist religion.”
Abbott was not PM material, too weak. Trying to please everyone but the mugs, like myself that voted for him. The biggest disappointment I’ve ever voted for. It started on day one not sacking Martin Parkinson the same morning he was sworn in.
Spooner. His best ever.
The SFL need to start pitching to union super fund members about the risk that Blackout represents to their nest eggs.
They also need to assert that the subsidies will not be affordable; not just for climate scam toys, but the whole panoply of Labor superfund scams – Govt buildings leased from union superfunds, non-functioning desal plants, roads etc.
It is infuriating that there is an ocean of inappropriate and criminal activity associated with these gangs but the SFL won’t utter a word. Over the top subsidies, massive salaries to dud labor pollies ’employed’ by the funds, illegal donations, advertising campaigns for issues not connected with the super fund’s charter, disguised funding to Labor entities.
With my last feeble donation to Advance I asked whether this racket could be placed on the agenda. The problem of course is resources and lawfare. The whole Labor criminal enterprise melts down as soon as anyone even hints that their trough needs to be examined.
The problem for conservatives of course is that the current crop of LNP kingmakers are in on the scam. Littleproud is showing at least some feeble signs of resistance following his damascene conversion to a being an actual Nat – between him and Canavan there may be some green shoots.
Coal currently churning out 62% of Australia’s electricity needs, according to energy expert m0nty this could be shut down tomorrow and we wouldn’t notice.
Where is all the gas going to come from to power the country when the wind isn’t blown and the sun isn’t shining and our benevolent rulers have blown up all the coal plants? m0nty’s fat arse is not going to provide sufficient amounts.
Michaelia Cash does seem to be MIA recently, as indeed is Dutton’s shadow Cabinet generally, hardly laying a glove on the most incompetent Cabinet since Whitlam’s.
The only ones dominating their Labor counterparts are Jacinta Price and – somewhat surprisingly – Simon Birmingham.
While Angus Taylor is the invisible man.
I saw someone complaining on twitter that the latest feed in tariff $0.06 made the cost of replacing his solar panels uneconomic.
Was being told to buy a battery as well.
No mention that the provider could drain that if it suited them too.
“Where is John Galt’
Haha, a magpie has inserted himself in the Qld election.
Molly the Magpie to be returned to former carers (10 Apr)
Yep. It’s fun that this silly story has shone a light onto the Qld public service, which seems chock full of obnoxious Karens. Remember when Campbell Newman got rid of 14,000 of them only for Palacechook to immediately reemploy them all?
502 retail businesses have entered administration thus far this financial year, compared to 193 businesses during the same period in 2022.
ASIC
No comment required.
Meanwhile, across the ditch, NZ’s economy continues to shrink as it suffers a post-Ardern hangover.
On Abbott – you can tell where they are in the pecking order by the jobs they pick up post-office.
James Allan, “More people does not mean more wealth, Australian Spectator
There was an absolutely brilliant take-down of one of the core assumptions underlying the Keynesian economic worldview the other day. It was in the pages of the Daily Sceptic, the creation of Toby Young who is the deputy editor of our parent Spectator publication in London. Along with our very own editor of the Australian version, Rowan Dean here in this country, Young was one of just a handful of brave anti-lockdown journalists in the democratic world during those woeful two-and-a-half years. (By the way, Dean and The Spectator Australia were in my view clearly the most anti-lockdown hard copy publication in the democratic world, orders of magnitude more than the Australian for instance, and that took an accumulated abundance of courage even though they were right on virtually everything.) Anyway, at the start of the lockdowns Young created the online publication the Lockdown Sceptic which, post-lockdowns, has broadened its sceptical focus and changed its name to the above Daily Sceptic. Last week there was an excellent article by one David Craig that pointed out the idiocies of relying on GDP as the sole measure of anything sensible in terms of how individual citizens are faring economically.
Craig reminded readers that GDP measures overall economic activity or output. Government spending counts as economic activity. So when government spends money that increases GDP. Then Craig let the British Tories under the woefully pusillanimous Rishi Sunak have it with both barrels. You see Sunak and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt had both been gloating that Britain’s GDP had risen by 0.2 per cent in January of this year. Craig did the maths. UK GDP is about 2.274 trillion pounds per year. Craig wanted to be generous so he implausibly assumed that the Tories, by election time later this year, would get to GDP growth of 0.4 per cent. That works out to an economy running at about 9.1 billion pounds more than the year before. Got that? That’s the core of why Sunak is gloating. But Craig is devastating. He points out that the Tories are now spending about 50,000 pounds per year to support each illegal immigrant (for accommodation, phones, pocket money, it goes on). There will be some 50,000 illegal immigrants come to the UK in 2024 so that’s about 2.4 billion pounds. And it all has to be borrowed because the UK is running a deficit. All of that spending counts towards ‘an increased GDP for Britain’.
Then Craig throws in the 19,260 added or new civil servants who are over and above the numbers employed in 2023. Leave aside the flat-out scam that myriad more of them now ‘work from home’ – and it is patently plain that so-called ‘working from home’ is less productive and verging on a rort for most all employees, leave aside a few self-motivated authors or entrepreneurs. These public sector employees now make as much, or more, than their private sector equivalents and with basically no chance of being fired, etc. Craig is again incredibly kind to the Tories and assumes the average cost of these newly hired extra civil servants is just 100,000 pounds each, to cover salaries, pensions, office space (apparently they don’t need much of that because they’re at home picking up their kids from school or whatever counts as ‘working from home’), travel allowances, other allowances (do I hear anything super-woke like ‘transitioning leave’?) and the rest. So these extra civil servants will cost at least another 2 billion pounds in 2024. That too will have to be borrowed by the indebted Tory government. Then there is the 5.5 per cent pay increase just granted that will go to existing civil servants this year. Craig conservatively puts the cost of that at one billion more pounds.
Can you remember what Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt were gloating about? It was a GDP increase of 0.4 per cent which worked out to about 9.1 billion pounds more activity/output (including government spending remember) than the year before. But just by looking at the billions wasted on illegal immigrants, the unnecessary new civil servants hired and the pay rise to all civil servants Craig already comes up with 5.5 billion pounds of the supposed 9.1 billion pounds of the yearly economic growth. And all of it, don’t forget, has to be borrowed. It’s an illegal immigrant- and civil servant-led recovery! Or, more plausibly, it’s total bollocks to think about individual economic well-being just by using national GDP as a measure. Craig then delivers the coup de grâce by reminding readers of all those extra people who no longer want to work and are on benefits. Remember how during lockdowns and all that government thuggery and brutal infringements on civil liberties, combined with plucking out of thin air which businesses were essential, the government also had to pay out huge sums to the myriad people they’d put out of work. Loads of money to do nothing. And not surprisingly, except perhaps to the geniuses who did this to us, some of those people paid to do nothing got a taste for it. Which is why there are record job vacancies in the UK and at the same time a record number claiming benefits. To be precise, there are 355,000 more benefits claimants than a year ago. Some have just got a taste for the life and some were brutalised by the government’s lockdown thuggery. Either way, the benefits bill will rise (from the 2023 total to the 2024 total) by 14.53 billion pounds. That, alone, is more than the supposed yearly increase in GDP!
Now it’s true that government spending is in turn spent by recipients and Keynesians guess at what the ‘multiplier’ effect is. And there are economies of scale loved by big businesses, not so much small ones. But at the end of the day productivity is what counts and none of this does anything for that. In fact, Craig delivers a devastating critique of the limits of using GDP growth by itself as an indicator of economic well-being. In Britain this year the GDP growth turns out to be far less than the new government spending on illegal immigrants, civil servants and benefits payments. Zero productivity growth there. So if you want to know why Australia had one of the biggest drops in individuals’ standards of living last year then just apply this same sort of analysis to Australia.
If you focus on GDP then it should always be per person GDP growth. And on that measure Australia has had two GDP per person recessions in the last decade or so. The legacy press barely mentions that. Meanwhile the problem in Australia is in some ways worse because we are letting in world’s highest per capita numbers of legal immigrants. What this does is increase GDP almost by definition while doing nothing for GDP per person. In fact, our record in Australia on the GDP per person front is no better than Japan’s, a country with zero immigration – which is in keeping with the fact no study has ever found mass immigration does anything to per capita income either way, beyond the margin of error. Meanwhile the Japanese aren’t suffering the side effects of house prices going up beyond the reach of the young, and clogged up traffic.
Why haven’t Dutton and the Liberals already come out hard against Albanese’s massive immigration intake? And taken on the make-believe world of GDP as the be all and end all? Promise massively to rein in immigration and Dutton will romp to victory. And if that sinks the Ponzi scheme that is keeping our universities afloat, well, I’m pretty sure we could all manage to live with that too. I know I could.
“A report on the end of Ramadan”
Last night that was sufficient for my mother to turn off the ABC
Me, I watched a youtuber gutting a run down cabininthewoods.
‘It’s WORSE than you think’ French official says video of migrant attacks on police BANNED in France
“Silly I know .. but ..if they didn’t have a wheel how did they ‘spin” the end product …”
Not required for very primitive pottery, just pinch into shape, then you need a decent fire, next along was coiled pottery.
It was only traded in to northernAustralia, in the last few hundred years I’m guessing.
Incidentally in other parts of the world Palaeolithic man was making crude pottery since around 14,500 BC
The moon’s a balloon. David Niven was obviously a prophet.
You can see why the Left has fallen for the climate fraud. Their heads are obviously full of the same stuff Ms Jackson Lee says the Moon is made out of.
Space cadet: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee tells schoolkids that moon is a ‘planet’ and ‘made up mostly of gases’ (9 Apr)
Lmao.
Roger
April 10, 2024 9:13 am
Heard the lead archaeologist on ABC RN AM this morning.
He said it proves aboriginals were engaged in “international trade.”
I fully expected him to use the word “sophisticated.”
What they neglect to mention is that the only ‘international trade’ (a complete misnomer, but I digress) happened because people from more developed cultures such as Torres Strait Islanders and inhabitants of now Indonesia and Timor travelled here. Aboriginal culture never developed seafaring skills beyond the odd paddle to within visibility of the shore.
It highlights the desperation and shame underlying a lot of the propaganda campaign we endure daily, Pascoe being a particularly egregious example.
Why can’t they just be honest? It is what it is, and Australians by and large don’t judge people by their distant ancestors.
Trepang fishermen from Sulawesi used to visit north QLD.
I suspect they are the source of the potsherds.
From this a narrative of “international trade” and “technological innovation” (the terms used by the lead archaeologist) has already been constructed.
Richard Dawkins gets a serve…
Admit it, Dawkins, you totally screwed up (8 Apr, via Instapundit)
Nice nice nice rant. 😀
It must be hard for those Aboriginals that have given life a go and succeeded much like most of us here to see the grifters take over playing the victim drum. I’ve never once heard BB or other Aboriginals here beat the drum. My sons mate is Aboriginal and has made a very successful career for himself without the drum. His mother, who has had struggles raised him and his brother well. Sad to say she has now turned to the grift after telling me she was the ” token boong”. But now after several years her nose is in the trough. I can hardly blame her as the place she works its a requirement. The infiltration of the left is despicable, all talk no action except for furthering the hive. I grew up with the victim mentality of my mother who for life never realised the great expectations while waiting for the boat to pull in. I’m extremely lucky not to have turned out like her. Apart from the self inflicted injuries my life is fantastic and I never wanted anyone else’s yet the left want us to be just like them. Useless oxygen thieves. Grifters of any kind make my blood boil.
I don’t have much time for Twiggy Forrest’s sometimes idiotic ideas, but he’s been doing good trying to locate his Uncle’s crashed Beaufort bomber in Papua New Guinea.
His team has discovered another bomber from the same squadron.
What I found most touching (and prescient) was the letter from one of the crew (Russell Henry Grigg) to his family, should he not return.
Apropos of yesterday’s post, The coping must stop, that this article from 2020 should pop-in my Twitter feed, The Rebirth of the Left-Conservative Tradition:
RTWT.
And a free case of venereal disease with every pretty gift…
The Epidemics That Ravaged Post-Contact Aborigines (Quadrant, 2022)
Smallpox too.
James Allan, “More people does not mean more wealth, Australian Spectator
Thanks for posting that Vicki.
In a newish suburb where I now live at least 2/3 of the occupants are Indian/Pakis/Asians. Mostly Indian.
A lot don’t get up to go to work in the morning.A lot of 4WDs but none are tradie utes.
The SFLs need to hammer this illegal & legal immigration rort.
Smallpox too.
And currently, tuberculosis is Chicago.
And currently, tuberculosis is Chicago.
IN Chicago (oops)
Solar eclipses are racist.
Even the Moon Is Racist Now (9 Apr, via Lucianne)
We should ban all eclipses.
Keep dreaming. As I said before, the SFL’s are fully on board with Big Australia.
A nation defining policy we have never voted for.
Bobtheboozer
April 10, 2024 5:18 am
https://www.breitbart.com/news/parents-of-us-school-shooter-sentenced-to-10-15-years-in-prison/
About time. The parents, by refusing to deal with their sons erratic behaviour, then buying him a weapon actively encouraged his successful murder of 4 other kids.
They had a responsibility to him and to the people he murdered and refused to deal with it.
I think this principle has application. But why stop with parents; what about the judiciary which lets crims out to recommit. And pollies who bring in laws which cause hardship. By this standard blackout should be burnt at the stake.
Keep dreaming.
One can only hope Makka
The problem is most SFL politicians are economically illiterate and believe in Labor’s Big Australia, where government spending is part of GDP calculation and, as a result, Australians get poorer as legal and illegal immigration floods the country without the housing and other infrastructure required to accommodate it.
In other words, SFL politicians are part of the problem and, in the end, despise their own supporters. No wonder their primary vote is in the 30s.
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Bruce of N
The trick is not to sack them, but to implement a hiring freeze, except for genuine front line staff, like ward nurses, classroom teachers, and probationary constables.
Wastage will solve the problem.
From the Molonglo Pravda. More insanity from the Commonwealth Department of Health.The building has motifs on the outside ground level of ships of the First Fleet
Government plans to rename a big departmental headquarters because its current name is associated with the First Fleet.
And changing the name of the huge Sirius Building may need approval by the ACT government because of the lease.
The Department of Health is giving staff at the Sirius Building a vote on what the new name should be.
The building is named after HMS Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet which brought convicts to Botany Bay in 1788. Its arrival was the start of European colonisation (and so the start of the demise of Indigenous ways of life).
Some public servants have objected to the association with colonisation via the arrival of the First Fleet.
But the architect of the building said he was “disappointed” at the attempt to rename his creation. “We cannot deny our history,” architect Peter Russell said.
How editorial staff let that bolded comment in is disgusting. But, not nicknamed the Molonglo Pravda for nothing.
One for Dot.
Cash-strapped Argentines queue for eyeball scans (TechXplore, 9 Apr)
A bit of a worry: some crook might extract your eyeball in order to steal your BitCoin wallet.
I’ve got matches cohenite.
They should be named and shamed.
Some public servants have objected to the association with colonisation via the arrival of the First Fleet.
(and so the start of the demise of Indigenous ways of life).
O.K., sirius question:
Hypothetically, say that The Great Southern Paradise (TM) was NEVER discovered by any individual or nation. For whatever reason, no European, Asian, Melanesian, etc. knew of its existence.
In the absence of any external influence (including small-scale trade), what might now, in 2024, be the state of the disparate indigenous groups?
I pose this quite seriously. Are they likely to have developed a formal (internal) trade system without external influence? A recorded language (even pictographic)? Will their artistic and other cultural means of expression have developed in a more sophisticated manner? Is their social order likely to have maintained the ‘elder’ system?
What I’m hinting at is: Is a completely geographically, socially, and economically, etc, isolated and scattered collection of kinship-based groups likely to have continued in the same state of existence indefinitely?
The following from duncanm’s 11:13 a.m. post deserves repetition:
… most of us have failed to appreciate its beauty and freedom and have just wanted to bleed and destroy it for our own petty gains.
I often wonder what my grandparents’ generation is thinking now, looking down upon us in disappointed, shocked, silence, I suspect; heads dropped and turning away.
Post the 1940s, there should be a void in all the history books. (As would be fitting, given we’ve permitted history to be erased or fabricated).
The building is named after HMS Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet which brought convicts to Botany Bay in 1788. Its arrival was the start of European colonisation (and so the start of the demise of Indigenous ways of life).
Some public servants have objected to the association with colonisation via the arrival of the First Fleet.
Well, the locals didn’t have an idyllic lifestyle in these parts. The public servants in their heated and airconditioned building don’t have to cope with a temperature range from -7C to 44C, for a start. I don’t see any of the local Aborigines lining up to go ‘back to country’ in winter, unless a taxpayer funded house with heating – if only a fireplace – is involved. There’s not a lot to eat around here in winter, either – the odd kangaroo (there were no golf courses back then) and maybe a hibernating lizard or snake.
While the locals were resourceful and tough – the weak ones died – it is absurd to suggest that their lives were incapable of improvement.
BTW, I was amused to see the references to rabbits being ‘traditional food’ mentioned above. It says it all about how facts and history are being routinely distorted to support The Narrative.
Maaaaates!
?Best job in Qld? Staggering pay, perks showered on union workers
Double time when it rains, a month of RDOs each year, and an extra $1000 a week when working away from home are just some of the sweetheart conditions the state government has struck with the construction unions. VOTE IN OUR POLL
Stephanie Bennett
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Madura McCormack
Double time when it rains, a full month of rostered days off each year, and an extra $1000 a week when working away from home are just some of the sweetheart conditions the state government has struck with the construction unions under its controversial Best Practice Industry Conditions policy.
The Courier-Mail can for the first time reveal the detail of the extraordinary deals the state government has gifted the unions and locked in on taxpayer projects worth over $100m – a policy the industry says has crippled productivity and made private housing developments uneconomic.
Premier Steven Miles on Tuesday defended the policy and said he made no apologies for looking after workers, but the BPIC agreement guarantees those in the construction industry a range of conditions that teachers, nurses and police officers can only dream of.
Do you think Qld’s construction union worker perks are fair?
Yes 7 %
No 88 %
Yes, but not compared to teachers and nurses 5 %
535 votes
The 269-page BPIC agreement for construction projects dated March 27 promises that work must stop when the temperature exceeds 29C and the humidity 75 per cent, or anytime when it spikes above 35C.
Any employee required to work in the rain will be paid double “for all work performed in the rain and such payment will continue until they cease work”.
Nice work if you can get it
When it reaches 35C, or 29C and 75 per cent humidity, in South East Queensland, work should cease
Any employee required to work in the rain will be paid double time
Workers on commercial construction works site will be paid a scaled site allowance of up to $11 per hour for projects worth more than $1bn
A worker using their own mobile phone or can be paid an allowance of $100 per week
A worker using an 8m ladder will be paid an additional amount per hour
Workers employed at Mt Isa, except those at Mt Isa Mines, will be paid an additional amount
There will be an Annual Picnic Day for metal and engineering workers, and anyone who has to work will be paid double time and a half
Those workers already in the sheds due to rain – or because it is raining at starting time, morning tea, or lunch time – “will not be required to go to work in a dry area or to be transferred to another site unless the rain stops, a covered walkway has been provided, or the sheds are under cover and the employees can get to the dry area without going through the rain”.
The policy locks in 5 per cent annual pay rises through to 2027 – with some electricians getting a base rate of just under $3000 per week this year, crane operators $2394, carpenters $1948, painters and glaziers $1855, and roof tilers $1908.
But those base wages – based on a standard 36-hr week – are before a multitude of penalties, overtime rates and allowances spelled out in great detail.
These include double-time pay for any hours worked over 36 in any week, and a 300 per cent loading for working any day between and inclusive of Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday and Easter Monday.
There is also a “distant construction site allowance” of $1000 a week for working on a project located 50km or more from the address of the employer. A scaled “site allowance” also applies to commercial construction work sites, ranging from $3.50 per hour on $100m projects to $11 per hour on $1bn projects – almost $400 on a 36-hour week.
An RDO calendar also specifies the 26 days-off in addition to their four weeks of annual leave that must be given to all workers covered by the agreement.
Premier Miles said yesterday: “Government should be an employer of choice, and working on our projects should be one of the best jobs you can get.
“We are not afraid to take steps to ensure workers are properly paid on government projects.
“We are paying what it costs to get the workers to deliver the projects that Queensland needs.”
But the past year industry whistleblowers have urged the government to reconsider the policy, which has already been applied to major transport projects including the Gold Coast’s light rail and Coomera Connector and Brisbane’s Centenary Bridge – all which have suffered significant cost blowouts.
Industry insiders have also accused the government of “interfering in the free market” by lifting wages outside of major government projects, impacting the private sector’s ability to make other developments stack up.
Master Builders Queensland chief executive Paul Bidwell said the criticism of the BPICs was not about shortcutting safety and undermining workers’ rights.
“It’s about ‘can we get on and build?’ ” he said.
“Because if we don’t, we are not going to deliver all these houses plus the other projects that are needed.”
Within the 269-page document – which also applies to “declared projects” at the government’s request – is a myriad of union delegate conditions baked in as mandatory for any employer seeking to take on a relevant government project.
It includes providing a facility for a union delegate with “a telephone, an iPad equipped with mobile internet access, a table and chairs, a filing cabinet, airconditioning/heating, access to stationery and other administrative facilities including use of facsimile (and) use of e-mail, and a private lockable area”.
The policy also states the company must invite the union delegate to attend every company induction for new employees and to address employees for at least half an hour per attendance.
Asked about the specific conditions and who was involved in designing the deals within the policy. a spokeswoman from the Department of Housing, Local Government, Planning and Public Works said: “BPICs are informed by existing enterprise agreements reached between employers and unions and ratified by the independent Fair Work Commission.”
Courier-Mail
Look at these creatures: muzzies preying: the future: head down, arse up.
Screaming ‘Death to America’ in Dearborn | Frontpage Mag
Viva, if you’re about, try commenting again.
Muddy
April 10, 2024 12:37 pm
The answer is obvious, if however so many thousands of years didn’t produce any of that why would a mere 200 years make any difference?
And they had some outside influence as well, without any impact.
mizaris @ 8:01am
Yeah no thanks to para-“cops”. The chaos caused from over reach would be illuminating… It would be a honey-pot for wannabe’s, remember COVID and emergency powers given to protective services, shudder.
I’ve already seen enough in my life from actual rent-a-cops straying outside their remit than to have some semi-cop bailing me up for breaching some obscure regulation or bylaw passed in 1880.
Tucker is beginning to lose me. I **get** his anti-Ukraine stance but on Israel, I think he’d dead wrong. If “Gaza” won, imagine the upcoming conquest. If Russia won, (parts of Ukraine) wouldn’t exist. That’s it.
I know that the Israeli government gave the Vatican a site for Notre Dame University, been there and is literally a thousand paces from the Holy Sepulchre. Israel has declared the land “sovereign Vatican land” so it has actually ceded land to a foreign sovereign.
Obviously, Israel has no interest in taking back the Christian Quarter in Jerusalem either.
Further north, I know the Israeli government gave the Catholic Church a huge swathe of land overlooking Galilee.
Had this in an open tab since the weekend, very good read,
How the Israeli Generals Prepared The Conquest Long Before 1967:
RTWT.
Japanese are not stupid like us, Europeans and Americans and will probably survive the coming financial apocalypse much better than we will.
Our universities did very well before the permanent residency visas scam and will be able to do so again though they will have to make a lot of DEI-based staff redundant.
Seems to me that Israel did take the Sinai but, a real pity, then gave it back.
What does it matter that in 1949 or 1950 Israel considered what it could or couldn’t do.
Nor did they annexe the west bank after the 67 war, they’ve left it as a thorn in the side in perpetuity.
They could have bought it all by now, if Palestinians were allowed to sell it to them.
But we all know what would happen to any Palestinian who did that.
ABC star Annabel Crabb leaps to the defence of new Governor-General Sam Mostyn – and declares that the outrage over her appointment was unwarranted
Daily Mail. With friends like Annabel Crabb, you wouldn’t really need enemies.
The problem with annexing the Sinai, Gaza or West Bank post-’67 is that it would have meant needing to grant citizenship to the populations of those territories.
?Best job in Qld? Staggering pay, perks showered on union workers
Double time when it rains, a month of RDOs each year, and an extra $1000 a week when working away from home are just some of the sweetheart conditions the state government has struck with the construction unions.
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It is reminiscent of the deals struck between the unions and Detroit automakers, just before the whole rotten setup collapsed in a heap.
Since market discipline does not apply to public works in Queensland, taxpayers will have to suck it up or sack the government in the hope that something will be done.
I remind those who think that selling off electricity generators was a bad idea that, in NSW at least, Labor governments did similar deals with the relevant unions.
Cronyism is not just about deals with companies.
now do Mohammed…
Catholics ‘outraged’ at TV ad that swaps Holy Communion for crisps (watoday.com.au)
I assume I have to start here to join.
Re drugs and Party nights .
Given the lengh of time being out like a light Friends and I discussed that there was more than grog Consumed that night . Perhaps the reason a doctor or police not involved the next day Blood tests a give away
One of the ways to dissuade residents of the West Bank in the area that Israel control from being the arseholes that they usually are is to destroy the house they live in if engaged in terrorism and not allow it to be rebuilt.
Salty: fat bitch letitia is refusing to accept Trump’s bond of $175 mill because the company guaranteeing it is not based in NY; the fat kunt and the bastard judge banned Trump from having any dealings with NY finance companies:
New York Criminals Reject Trump’s Bond & Move to Steal His Home (youtube.com)
Test.
So I have been impressed with the AI LLM Claude – it’s great for summarising large documents (which ChatGPT sucks at), and it is not disgustingly PC like ChatGPT or Gemini. It doesn’t have the features of ChatGPT or Gemini (it can’t make music, generate images etc) but I don’t care – don’t need that crap.
A test I like to use on these LLMs is how they deal with the fact that a key portion of the Uluru Statement from the Heart was plagiarised from the Mabo decision. They will all ultimately condemn the Statement and its authors, although ChatGPT kept trying to equivocate and minimise the issue and it took a LOT of prompting to condemn it and concede that the plagiarism fatally undermines the document and the credibility of its authors…but after a few more questions, it would revert back to ‘maybes’ and ‘this could mean’ etc. However, Claude didn’t take long at all to cut sick on the Statement. I’ll reproduce my prompt and its conclusion first, then the discussion that led up to the conclusion:
lol savage! The ‘hoist by its own petard’ flourish at the end was impressive – and this is Sonnet, which isn’t even Claude’s most powerful model (ie. Opus is its gruntiest, the ChatGPT4 equivalent).
Okay, so here’s the lead-up if anyone’s interested. I’ve omitted the part where I provide the Statement from the Heart and the relevant paragraph in Mabo v Qld [No 2], and Skynet concedes a key passage of the Statement was plagiarised:
And then I got it to conclude, as posted at the top. See – it is very reasonable and doesn’t beat around the bush like ChatGPT.
Look at these creatures: muzzies preying: the future: head down, arse up.
Presenting for the goats revenge
For those of you who swap opinions on the Ukraine fiasco, this is from Jim Rickards’ newsletter:
Wonder Weapons of the West Continue to Fail in Ukraine. That Won’t Change.
Remember back in 2022, when the collective West (NATO and the US) promised plenty of weapons to Ukraine to win the war against the Russians? Ukraine was promised HIMARS precision guided artillery, Storm Shadow cruise missiles, Patriot anti-missile batteries, Leopard tanks from Germany, Challenger tanks from the UK, Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles from the US, plenty of 155mm artillery shells, drones, satellite intelligence, logistical support and much more.
Guess what? All the military equipment and more was delivered to Ukraine at a cost of over $200 billion dollars, mostly provided by the US. And it all failed.Seven Patriot anti-missile batteries were destroyed by Russian hypersonic missiles at a cost of $1 billion each. The HIMARS artillery proved worthless when the Russians learned how to jam the GPS systems so that the shells landed harmlessly away from their targets. Storm Shadows and drones were shot down by Russian ground-to-air anti-missile batteries.
The armour (Leopards, Challengers, Abrams and Bradleys) was blown up on the battlefield by Russian mines, drones, helicopters and aircraft. The Ukrainian artillery barrels melted down or wore out and could not be replaced. Ukraine is almost out of 155mm shells and cannot replace them because the Western arsenals are empty also and replacements cannot be made fast enough.
Meanwhile, the Russian economy is on a war footing and is producing all of the drones, fighter jets, artillery, shells, tanks and more that are needed. The Russia economy is booming even as Germany, the UK and EU as a whole are in recession.
This article from the Kyiv Post takes a close look at the tank fiasco from the Ukrainian perspective. US, German and UK tanks are being blown up by Russian FPV drones and crews are running for their lives from the burning vehicles. Ukraine has taken to keeping the tanks far from the battlefield and using them as mobile artillery instead of front-line attack weapons.
The US is preparing to spend another $60 billion in weapons deliveries for Ukraine. It’s not clear why. There’s nothing left to buy and none of the prior wonder weapons delivered have made the slightest difference in the outcome of the war.
Jim Rickards,
There were up to 50,000 Arabs and Bedouin in the Sinai in 1967 so giving them Israeli citizenship would have no biggie. Jewish settlers also moved in 67 and were forcibly removed by the Israeli government in 1982.
In fact it sounds like life for the Bedouin was much better during the Israeli occupation.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/settling-down-bedouin-sinai
I also like to test LLMs on what conventional wisdom would regard as a ‘conspiracy theory’. When you provide Claude with reasons to doubt the official narrative, it is refreshingly ‘open-minded’ about it and will quite readily concede the official narrative is doubtful. ChatGPT is frickin hopeless in this regard. It will always end on something like ‘While it is interesting to consider alternative explanations of controversial events, it is important to rely on established, authoritative sources of information’ etc.
I did this with the Hunter Biden laptop story. ChatGPT just would not concede that the laptop belonged to Hunter and it kept saying the crap above about the need to refer to established, authoritative sources. Even when you demonstrate that the “established, authoritative sources” lied (ie. the 50 intelligence community hacks that claimed the laptop had all the earmarks[sic] of Russian disinformation) and aren’t trustworthy at all, it will still say we must rely on established, authoritative sources.
The exchange becomes becomes completely circular, with you demonstrating that the established, authoritative sources are full of shit on whatever issue. ChatGPT will agree, but then conclude with how it’s important to rely on established, authoritative sources.
When it comes to the official narrative on anything controversial, ChatGPT follows 2 rules:
Rule 1: the official narrative is always right.
Rule 2: if the official narrative is wrong, see Rule 1.
Dot, you work with court decisions, right? Claude is awesome with these. You can get it to consider up to 5 documents. It summarises well and you can interrogate it to extract exactly what you are looking for in judgments. Definitely worth the monthly subscription.
Surely there were this many alone on the east bank of Port Said.
It’s the vax, I am certain 🙂
Sitting in Nambour Hospital, blood clot in my foot, big toe turning blue. Getting blood thinners.
Can’t complain about the service. Having a shitty run at the moment, gout, then shingles and now this!
OCO, I really like the possibilities of AI used as your very own research assistant. It’s interesting that Nvidia and Radeon are now providing native support via their hardware to desktop users.
Australias most mongoloid mong mongs a mongdom in public.
Adam Bandt
@AdamBandt
The Labor government should immediately recognise Palestine.
Labor must also end military exports & stop military contracts with Israel, and stop backing the invasion.
No need to wait. There’s no barrier to this happening right now.
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One can only hope someone whispers to the NSW north coast plod about what happened with Ricky Slater, this guy is a tad more vulnerable:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13290721/Kingscliff-breakin-axe-Allan-Kerr-Trae-Laurie.html
One can come to the conclusion Zammer is looking to jam up an old man up for standing his ground otherwise he would have left it at investigations are continuing, what a pig:
‘We will also be examining the circumstances surrounding the actions of the occupant, and if his actions were lawful and reasonable in relation to the threat that was posed against him,’
This is precisely why I agree with Castle doctrine. We all make choices, Laurie made a poor one and Mr Kerr shouldn’t be held account for this.