Rentacrowd in Strasbourg today. Police out, blocking off streets. Angry lesbians and their satellites. Apparently trans people are the frontline,…
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In Melbourne visiting the grandies. Son lives in Southbanks. We walked to the DFO via the river. The crowds remind…
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You have been visited by the Midnight Moose. https://www.all-about-moose.com/images/are-moose-more-dangerous-at-night-21828363.jpg
Smith as I quoted said that farmers were least likely to seek monopolies. As I stated, the butter mountains prove…
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Second due to sitting in Hawaii airport.
That story about the news presenter immediately reminded me of Crazy John.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ilhan
just in time for Tom’s ‘toons
Johannes Leak.
Nailed it!!
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Another Michael Ramirez derangement.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Thanks Tom.
Re FDR & tariffs.
When there are price controls & quotas (on production, exports, imports basically everything during periods of the New Deal), it mitigates the impact of any changes to tariffs.
Two videos on the lie that the New Deal was as good as what modern historians make it out to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6jYIOzm5Mg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li7gn71tH8Q
Michael West media (not Rex Patrick) on Binskin amongst other things.
https://michaelwest.com.au/mcbride-binskin-keystone-cops-zomi-frankcom-investigation/
It seems like even this column is now threading the needle to avoid the critical period of 2009-2010.
The real story isn’t BRS, Heston Russell, McBride or any of these bit players.
The real story is what Australian governments & shiny bums at the top of the defence greasy pole signed off on for 20 years.
And then hung the serviceman out to dry.
All while giving themselves many, many medals and providing almost zero transparency.
Saw Leak’s cartoon on Sky last night (Kenny).
Well done. That took courage, Dad would be proud. And I notice the rendering of both savages was reminiscent of Leak Snr also.
If Angus Campbell was a real soldier, he would have handed back his DSC he was awarded for sitting in air conditioned comfort during Afghanistan before recommending others be stripped of their commendations.
Idf have found some documentation of pre 7 October misfires that killed 4 Gazans including 9 and 15 year old children.
Of course this never again happened
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https://twitter.com/imshin/status/1778124221610094768?t=USeFLqNpa10FHCs6bz6YRQ&s=19
Eid shopping for the starving children https://twitter.com/imshin/status/1778134457708413274?t=NcdJAbOE71ROJc3ZsLQ4yQ&s=19
An illuminating graph on the presence of indigenous Christians in Bethlehem since 1948
https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1778014618037649810?t=0TFGlSWfIH7K_bg9-L70Dg&s=19
The entire tax system should be race based. No GST or income, no payroll tax for Aboriginal businesses.
Its only fair.
https://twitter.com/michaelobrienmp/status/1777942823020683667?t=cxaQwaUFJTwH5yhBhocx4w&s=19
Gantz didn’t obey mrs buden either.
Imshin has a video of anorher teen influencer leaving Gaza with her fanily, sans dad. Dad is hamas (plenty of money) he obviously expects trouble in Rafah.
https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1778125964762824800?t=TnRCOUR-3JoHSU1oJ4_FrA&s=19
Ismail Haniyeh loses three more children and grandchildren. I’m going out on a limb and saying the grandchildren were also adults and hamas terrorists.
It’s what he wanted.
https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1778118740699164921?t=x31vWMNR7jUZONDk0wyGvA&s=19
We keep hearing about people starving but despite all the mobile phones we never see any footage of people suffering from starvation.
https://twitter.com/Shunyaa00/status/1778119439835341295?t=3lukoUivxBh8Dl9_4roXog&s=19
I think it’s nice that the men do the shopping in Gaza. Or do they? Lots of milling about, but where are the shopping bags? What is actually going on there?
It’s a male social thing Calli – they’re compensating for the pubs being shut.
Apparently Mossad, again.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240409-seven-syrians-held-over-murder-of-lebanon-politician-judicial-official
Your psychopath is up early, Calli.
What impresses me most is the articulate argument they present. Very convincing. 😀
It might be that they don’t like money changing hands being caught on film.
The point though is that aid is routinely stolen and being sold, everyone knows but apparently they all have money to buy. Nor are there visible signs of starvation though I’m sure there is malnutrition, not new for the poor in Gaza.
And also most people are unemployed so hanging around the street market might be what people do.
I had thought of all of those things, Rosie. Been to ME markets before – where are the women? If they are “unsafe” on the streets of Gaza, it’s because of their own men.
Re the “starvation” in Gaza. I don’t know why people are so emotional and gullible that they can’t assess even the selected vision we get out of Gaza. There are men, children & women that appear well dressed and healthy. Of course there is footage of crying children and people searching in buildings for whatever – especially on AlJazeera. But there are vehicles ( so they have fuel) and other signs of a functioning society. Even the horses and donkeys pulling carts are relatively well conditioned – I notice such things!
Gaza is a war zone & there will be suffering. But it is clear that supplies are arriving & the reality, I feel, is quite different to the one portrayed.
On the starvin’ gazan’.
The few ” much baby is starving to death” appear to be disabled kids being deliberately allowed to die of neglect by fat Fatima’s.
Or am I being too cynical?
Particularly when the child looks skeletal but the mother is well padded.
No. You’ve pointed out a not very common Arab practice. The mothers do it because they’ve too many other kids to look after, the men look the other way because having a disabled child is a reflection on them.
Feelthebern – at a recent Sydney Institute function I raised with Richard Marles ( he was the speaker) the shocking statement of outgoing head of our defence forces Angus Campbell that “exceptionalism” has no place in our forces. Marles burbled on about the army being about “team” playing like a football game! I queried where that leaves our VCs who were nothing if not exceptional!
Then how do they determine whom to promote to higher ranks?
“exceptionalism” has no place in our forces
But plenty of room for mediocrity.
That’s the unspoken bit.
Europe faces death by decadence Respecting voters is now seen as a sign of weakness
No need to worry about current voters, they are replacing them with legal and illegal immigrants.
It’s very interesting point. Our Ruling Castes have painted themselves into several corners, and can’t work out why they are so unpopular. So they do nothing except carry on what they were doing before, and hope it doesn’t all fall to pieces before they collect their pensions.
House sinks Johnson-backed FISA renewal after Trump push
In Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid news:
Albanese says a change as big as the Industrial Revolution is coming — you could call it the ‘government intervention revolution’
Their David Speers
So, election stump politics.
But not everyone, however, is convinced:
But Albanese has a more advanced view:
Top Robots.
The New Industrial Revolution will be as effective and reliable as the weather. I’m sure Emperor Xi is shaking in his boots, laughing.
We should start The Great Replacement with politicians.
Nothing artificial about Elbows intelligence.
Worryingly free of any signs of performance enhancing drugs.
Hurr durrr we have land…. Which is why we are chucking bird mincers on farmland instead of unproductive land.
Exclusive: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army
Joe Biden courts hate against America with his agenda on the Israel-Hamas war
@RealJamesWoods
Camille Pissarro, maybe my favourite artist.
This is just unbelievable. It’s an out and out vendetta and abuse of power.
Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg gets five months in jail on Rikers Island for lying under oath about the size of the ex-president’s Manhattan penthouse
@ITGuy1959
Your quarterly reminder that yes, they really did this…https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f447.svg
They worshipped a flu shot with side effects like it was the golden calf.
I will never stop period posting this, lest we dare to forget.
And talking of side effects –
ONS Mortality Rates confirm COVID Vaccines are to blame for so many Young Adults and Children being diagnosed with Cancer
They’ve already done it once.
Dr. Joseph Mercola advises on what you can do if weaponised bird flu is released
Russia’s Top Investigative Body Accuses U.S. Senior Officials and Hunter Biden-Linked Burisma of Terror Attacks
Tom at4:00 am – Leak absolutely nails Wrong and the Liars. I don’t think his artwork is as good as Bills but the content is right up there. A marvellous illustration of the power of political cartooning.
Different medium, HBB, but he’s still one of Australia’s best cartoonists.
If the bloke is hoping for sympathy he ain’t getting it via the comments section .. LOL!
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/10/idf-kills-3-sons-of-hamas-political-leader-ismail-haniyeh-in-gaza/
Hamas are accusing the Israelis of acting in the spirit of “revenge ” and “murder.”
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EXCLUSIVEBrittany Higgins was handed $2.4million over claims that have never been proven. Now an Albanese government minister has made a staggering admission: ‘Just incredible’
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You expect THAT payment is the next act in this farce.
Meme ..
@nikolas_dm
This was my speech at United Nations Headquarters, where I had the oportunity to tell to the world what is actually happening in Brazil. Since then, the “justice” has ordered an investigation against me, the most voted deputy of the country, only for saying that Lula is a corrupt who should be in jail.
Rosie, I love the Palis all look as if they are doing something when usually 2 or 3 are doing and the others are as calli said, milling about. Lets face it Gaza used to be nearly as good as Beirut until the muzzies got to both of them.
Radio check, over.
Click, click…
Some lag on this channel.
Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization
Atheism’s “Terrible New Gods”
Tina Norton’s good for a chuckle this morning, too.
If anyone hasn’t seen Musk’s response to advertisers who were trying to exert influence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_M_uvDChJQ
Parole hearing today for one of Janine Baldwin’s killers and it seems the media is showing no interest .. haven’t come across one mention today ….. not only chasing parole but a bit of OPM thru the NDIS to tide him over ..
I’m guessin’ Bull Shitten is OK with that .. after all, he has a lot in common with rapists ..
But Vicki, don’t believe your lying eyes, believe the narrative. Gaza wasn’t a shiitehole until those mean Israelis bombed the place. It was a perfectly functioning paradise, much like Alice Springs. Some parts of my comment may, and I mean many contain untruths. Not lies, coz politicians don’t lie. Didn’t I mention I’m a politician. That way I can lie with impunity.
They were combatants who committed acts of war against Israel.
More details: One of Haniyeh’s sons was involved in holding Israeli hostages (10 Apr)
Seems the Israeli’s provided medical treatment for Haniyeh, and members of his family..
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous, incoherent and utterly illogical sentence I’ve seen this year – from the Oz:
What a stinking crock of shite.
Alex is so much cleverer and wittier than Armstrong!
Outstanding. Comparing a Yuri Bezmenov lecture with the result today.
This “Soviet Defector’s” Predictions Have Never Been Wrong, AND THE WORST IS IN SIGHT
Gaza could’ve been a lot of things if the middle and upper classes hadn’t bolted in 1948, leaving the Pali future in the hands of demagogues.
If only the Israeli’s hadn’t launched a war in 1967 and kicked out the Egyptians. If only Israel hadn’t funded the nascent Hamas as a counterweight to Fatah. Oh, well.
If only Egypt hadn’t closed the Straits of Tiran and massed its military along the border.
Nothing to do with preparing for imminent war, nothing to see here.
And just in case you’re wondering, Baba…I don’t do “dislikes”. I do arguments even if they’re only a couple of sentences.
10/10 .. i never down tick anyone .. either scroll or argue the point …..!
How dare you!? The ex-generals, admirals and air marshals have a god-given right to be a State Governor or at least a Senator!
During my drinking career I knew an ex navy bloke who had been an admiral’s cook/chef (petty officer) .. he spouted it at every opportunity and made a fortune .. ended up on the boards (paying ones) of several companies .. no experience at anything but cooking just “who he once knew” connections ……
peta credlin Penny Wong’s Israel speech reveals Labor’s moral cowardice
The Albanese government’s sudden support for the recognition of Palestine, in the immediate aftermath of Israel’s accidental killing of an Australian aid worker, says more about Australia’s political morality than about Israel’s.
Israel has made a dreadful mistake that it has honestly admitted, even sacking the two senior officers concerned and considering war crimes charges against them.
By contrast, Australia is on the verge of breaking longstanding bipartisan policy in response to political pressure inside the Labor Party.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s support for the recognition of Palestine, revealed in a formal, scripted speech at the Australian National University and subsequently backed by Anthony Albanese, is based on dubious morality and incorrect facts.
Of course, everyone wants peace in the Middle East and regrets the civilian deaths entailed in Israel’s just war against a terrorist state that uses women and children as human shields. But the immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the recognition of Palestine that Wong now demands would reward the people who regard peace as the total expulsion of Jews “from the river to the sea”.
It’s telling that Wong’s speech was immediately welcomed by Palestinian groups here that added, in their next breath, that it didn’t go far enough.
Australia has long supported a two-state solution to the Palestine issue, but with this vital qualification: that any Palestinian state recognise Israel’s right to exist behind secure borders.
The reality is that Israel will never be secure as long as its neighbours have pledged its destruction. Giving Hamas or even the Palestinian Authority a seat at the UN would just give official recognition – and a further official platform – to Israel’s mortal enemies. Indeed, arguably the mortal enemies of Western civilisation itself.
In demanding Israel “comply with international humanitarian law” – claiming a million Palestinians “are at risk of starvation” and citing the “196 aid workers” who’ve been killed “including Australian Zomi Frankcom” – Wong was all but accusing Israel of genocide while clothing herself in sanctimony via rhetorical demands on Hamas that she knows it will never meet.
I’m not joking about these fools believing in a god-given right to command or rule, by birthright.
“Exceptionalism is bad ..” but the ADF and ALP (and LNP) have a nepotism problem.
It’s basically an attack on merit and we should accept nothing else but a rock-ribbed meritocratic democratic republic.
They hate self-made men. They hate Trump and they would have hated Sharpe if he was a real person. They would have accepted a gong from Nappy but secretly plotted his downfall.
Their ill will towards our current monarchy is unprincipled. It’s entirely based on envy.
The ADFA Old Boys and Girls Society makes the former Duntroon mob look like a model of meritocracy.
Restore the former principle from the Federation era (then applied only to the Army, essentially the militia then) of service in the ranks before selection for commissioning training.
Apply it universally in the Army, with at least one year in the ranks before acceptance for officer training. For Navy a year at sea as a midshipman. For Air Force aircrew, start as NCO aircrew, with only a limited number selected for commissions, those not selected spend most of their career in flying squadrons, or as training staff at flying schools.
Wacthed Sky last night. None of them missed Benny Wonk. Not Foreign Minister, minister for getting the Liars re-elected in Western Sydney more like.
The ‘massed’ military was a fabrication. No rebuttal of Hamas basically being an Israeli creation?
You are insane.
The Muslim Brotherhood is behind Hamas.
If you think creating a balance of power is the same as “supporting” certain factions then the UK has always supported everyone she has ever been at war with, because they have usually been at one time an ally or a rival of another enemy.
Please stop this totally childish, blank state thinking and filling in the blanks with Jewish conspiracy theories.
“The “massed military” was a fabrication.
I’ve read a dozen good military histories of Israel, and the “Six Day War,in particular and that’s the first time I’ve I’ve heard that claim. You have a reference?
Baba don’t need your steenking references, ZK2A. History is on his side.
It’s telling that Wong’s speech was immediately welcomed by Palestinian groups here that added, in their next breath, that it didn’t go far enough.
Nothing will ever be enough for them. They want Israel gone…but they’d like their stuff.
Albanese, Wong and the entire Labor government have signalled to Australian muslims that they have taken a side. Theirs.
Be prepared for more than just menacing convoys into the ES. They know they can do what they like, say what they like. And like most avalanches, it starts with a few loose rocks and ends in destruction.
I have to admit that I’m not just angry and disgusted. I’m worried.
Sorry. The first para was from Credlin’s monologue which was published today and delivered last night on tv.
The ex-generals, admirals and air marshals have a god-given right to be a State Governor or at least a Senator!
The retired Air Marshall who took us out for dinner last Friday night wouldn’t have a bar of being a Senator or State Governor or GG.
That unfortunately probably means he is well suited to those positions!
Dot
The ADFA Old Boys and Girls Society makes the former Duntroon mob look like a model of meritocracy.
Restore the former principle from the Federation era (then applied only to the Army, essentially the militia then) of service in the ranks before selection for commissioning training.
Apply it universally in the Army, with at least one year in the ranks before acceptance for officer training. For Navy a year at sea as a midshipman. For Air Force aircrew, start as NCO aircrew, with only a limited number selected for commissions, those not selected spend most of their career in flying squadrons, or as training staff at flying schools.
Sounds good to me.
We are in the calm before the storm it appears.
Please explain.
Iran’s turn.
Iran IS the fly in the ointment. Ruled by a Theological Junta which preaches that the end of the world is a prerequisite for the return of 12th Imam and the destruction of “International Jewry” which it touts at every opportunity it gets, the ruling classes are hostage to their promises to the flock.
Iran is locked into a third world war – they literally have no alternative. If they refuse to carry it out, their people will be roused to a fury that will overthrow them and we end up with a lunatic Hamas style state.
I don’t know how many times I’ve sung this song but I wish everyone would apply it to the Middle East and forget their wishful thinking about peace.
I tend to think Iran is one of the more sober nations in the ME.
I’m sure, seeing alcohol consumption is forbidden in Islamic countries.
Very droll.
The ‘massed’ military was a fabrication.
Of course. Silly me.
Let’s keep it to the closure of the Straits then. Israel warned Egypt that the closure would be viewed as an act of war.
Anyway, from a practical viewpoint – how can a country destroy another’s military capability unless the means of waging war is not “massed”?
Six days and it was over.
Hint – there was no fighting around the base of the pyramids.
Lex Luthor where are you?
A bad idea from 1984 is being resurrected in San Francisco.
Um – what damages are they going to disgorge from an insolvent/bankrupt LLC, trust, partnership or sole trader?
Why wouldn’t you just perpetually give notice?
Albanese’s beer coaster moment:
By comparison, poxy China only has:
The burning strategic question then: will China wake up to Australia’s absolute dominance in the field of robotics and learn how to compete?
The saga of Molly the Magpie takes another twist:
So it’s not a simple matter of obtaining a permit; Miles either lied or was lied to by public servants.
For their part, Mortensen and Wells maintain they don’t “keep” the bird, which is free to come and go as it pleases. Or was…until it was confiscated by officers from QLD’s Environment department. Indeed, on the first occasion when officers called to collect the bird they couldn’t catch it because it was happily roosting in a tree on the property. Presumably it’s now kept in a caged enclosure.
With any luck the drama will continue until the October election, after which the next chapter in Molly’s story can be published:
Steven Miles: My Part in his Downfall
by Molly the Magpie
The thought of a government being brought down by a magpie is too delicious to contemplate. I guess the greyhounds did it.
I want to see Lethbridge depicting the Boy Premier in one of those bike helmets with the cable ties.
Chuckle.
And the magpie swooping on his helmet.
A sudden thought. What is our constitutional position if the monarchy collapses? Because, honestly, I think it’s teetering.
I’d have thought that we’d inherit one of the spares as King/Queen of Australia. But somehow I think it isn’t that simple.
Before Lizzie carked it I said “Conservatives better wrap their brains around the Republic, because after she is gone that will be a renewed push and you better start advocating for the version you want because the left will already be preparing”
No one ever fkn listens.
We’d probably define heirs and successors, be that King Mal of Point Piper or a republic. Pray that good people are elected.
Samantha Mostyn is ready to assume the crown of Australia.
I’ll get back to you when I finish my large soy latte.
Well he and Bowen believe in all sorts of mythical stuff, so believing this is just the same grade of silly greenery.
The grifters who suck up all the billions of taxpayer money will no doubt be grateful. And the unions building the white elephants. I doubt there will ever be many actual real batteries or panels made. Or at least not for long given how uneconomic they will be.
Ditto Twiggy’s magic hydrogen plant in Queensland. When the first hydrogen emerges from it it will be ridiculously expensive and uncompetitive.
Peter Dutton releases another squirrel:
It’s like the Abbott disappointment all over again, except this time the mental disease is not autism.
Well it sure did show that a substantial section of the Left are actual Nazis. Wong would look quite svelt in an SS uniform.
Monts, every so often one is disappointed. Or one disappoints someone.
mUnturd never fails to disappoint, he is completely incapable of independent thought.
Israel has made a dreadful mistake that it has honestly admitted, even sacking the two senior officers concerned and considering war crimes charges against them.
Rubbish..! they (at the coal face soldiers) acted on the side of caution .. faced with a, possible, terrorist incursion using non-combatant vehicles they acted accordingly ..
This story is a nuttin’ outside of Oz, with Israel showing a bit of diplomacy rather than outright rejection …….!
Aid workers have no need to travel at night ……..!
I’m beginning to see why The Great Man stuck Albo out in the hall where he could keep an eye on him. Beyond Gillardian.
Maybe Albo and Bowen can fly around in their separate executive jets using Minns’ unicorn flatus for fuel.
NSW injects $100m into a greener aviation industry (Tele, paywalled)
Nuther hundred mill down the gurgler, since this ain’t going to ever happen.
Dunno about robotics as the engine of the recovery of Australian industry. That might be a red herring.
The important thing to note about what Albo is doing is that he has the signature example to work off of Biden’s reinvestment in manufacturing, which has set off a domestic boom in America. If he can replicate that here, it will set this country up for decades of growth. And maybe consign the Libs to the rubbish bin of history, since it will finally kill off Howard’s vision of Australia as a nation of shareholding conservatives.
Jesus christ this is delulu.
mUnturd goes full National Socialist. Industry directed and funded by government is the future, and the future belongs to AnAl (and mUnturd, of course).
He wants a boom in private-sector manufacturing but is deeply offended by the increasing prevalence of being a shareholder with a stake in the future.
This is schizo posting we haven’t seen since Annie or SRR.
Howard’s vision, Dot, was to create a new class of Liberal voters holding shares in Telstra and other such public utilities which he had privatised en masse. These are the boomers who sit around golf clubs now discussing their franking credits until the cows come home.
Those crusties are now dying out, replaced by millennials and zoomers shut out of the housing market and forced into the gig economy after the Libs cheerily waved goodbye to our manufacturing base.
If you haven’t been paying attention, as evidently many of you lot haven’t because you are intellectually lazy to the extreme, the US has reversed the trend on outsourcing to China and is rebuilding its heavy industry, helped in large part by government incentives through the Inflation Reduction Act. This has been a major contributor to the current American boom.
Biden decided to compete with China’s controlled economy – which had been kicking Yankee butt, with global megacorps skimming the profits – by getting back to some old-fashioned primary industry subsidisation. It turns out to be the right time to do that, as it coincides with America’s increasing domestic energy output including (but not restricted to) oil. He is getting a lot of bang for public buck, gradually lowering debt-to-GDP after the COVID blowout.
If Albo is indeed trying to emulate Biden, he will do it on the back of green jobs – but talk of robotics doesn’t really help there. Wonder if he ran that part of his spiel past the unions first.
What Albo says means fark all. He is a puppet of the unions and socialist left … better to ask Wong what Albo is allowed to do.
Is this a bit?
That would be Trump backed reinvestment in manufacturing.
When AnAl mentioned robots I think he thinks of the robot on Space Family Robinson not industrial robots. How are all those robots going to pay union fees and poke money into Super boondoggles?
No need for any of that any more, most former Labor politicians are either employed or are on the boards of super funds. That’s where the money is now.
It would appear Hamas or other organised groups filling the vacuum of authority are profiting from the sale of food aid packages to the Gazan population.
Michael Smith featured a video of a Gazan reviewing the contents of an American food aid package a couple of weeks ago in which the fellow implied as much.
Looks like I will have to watch Coppola’s “Megalopolis”, when it comes to the cinema.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/04/10/nolte-hollywood-establishment-still-rooting-against-francis-ford-coppola/
I wouldn’t. It’s another stupid green apocalypse movie. And the idea of rebuilding NY as a utopia is pure leftwing fever dream nuttiness. I put up an article about it a few weeks ago, but I can’t easily find it again.
Surprised Nolte is being charitable, but I think he is hoping on account of Coppola that it isn’t the stinker it sounds like.
Thanks for the head’s up Bruce.
It is a shame, I had thought going against swamp, he may have been making something worthwhile. sad.
It might be OK, you never know. I really liked WALL-E even though it had a green subtext. That isn’t overdone though.
See the Milko has finished his round and turfed mutley out of bed. Give him Farmer Gez’s number so he can give him hints on ploughing. I hear he has references.
How’s that EV revolution going Monty? Got yourself an electric moped yet?
Once the Left has pauperized the nation all this stupid rubbish will fizzle and die. You have to be rich enough as an economy to support so many green drones. I wonder when the people will eat all the Taronga Park zoo animals, like the hungry Venezuelans did?
Geez..! You live & learn .. 76 years old and I’ve never known that LYNX were native to GeordieLand & just yer average cuddly type pussies …
Gone my entire life believing that Lynx were part of the big cat, tiger type, mob and best viewed, safely, in zoos but, apparently, I wuz wrong ..!
sweet pusslims who only eat other wildlife and the odd sheep .. LOL!
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-kielder-lynx-reintroduction-proposals-28973157
Urban Lynx would be better. They could prey on the urban foxes then become the new feral Kings of London. lol
And some still say a degree in journalism has no value.
Reposted for excellence – Roger, earlier:
And:
Perfect, and accurate.
h/t to Spike Milligan for the title!
Biden’s “re-investment” strategy is transporting millions of cheap labour shitholers into the US. Not going down well with the faithful , m0ron.
Australia can compete with China on making batteries, solar panels, and other green technology.
Twiggy .. come on down …! .. Luigi has a deal for you .. LOL!
Howard is the instigator of the population ponzi and the father of modern Australia, which is hardly a conservative’s vision of paradise.
I’m Shocked! Deeply shocked!
Sky News reports that toxic male culture is keeping women from working in the construction industry.
“Apply it universally in the Army, with at least one year in the ranks before acceptance for officer training. For Navy a year at sea as a midshipman. For Air Force aircrew, start as NCO aircrew, with only a limited number selected for commissions, those not selected spend most of their career in flying squadrons, or as training staff at flying schools.” Boambee John
Did you write this sober?
So, you are seriously suggesting, that having passed an aptitude test for becoming a Pilot, (as an example only), the individual is then forced to spend a year, in a category that he they have no interest in, nor probably any competence.
How do you think that will end?
I will inform you. They will probably be kicked out of the service for incompetence, or simply resign, because they have became disillusioned.
One less recruit for the category they applied for.
Sheer genius.
Keeping up your vaccinations, I trust.
We have a shortage of good leaders, not hopeful pilots.
Currently, nearly all of them spend four years at ADFA before they’re let anywhere near a real plane with any capacity for wartime operations.
I don’t know if they get the shit test beforehand in the plastic parrots anymore.
Rufus, did you READ what was said?
Did you UNDERSTAND what was said?
I think your firefly arse has gone out. You need a Luciferase injection.
Rufus
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I clearly said start aircrew as NCOs. Straight into flying training, then NCO, then possibly officer.
Then select the lesser number required for officer positions, and let the rest stay in the function (flying) that is their primary interest.
One for Roger and Rabz.
‘With a Strat you can rule the world!’ Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything (10 Apr)
All those stone age Keith Richards memes need chipped-out flint Stratocasters in them.
We have an ex brigadier in our village. He started off as an apprentice, and when finished, was selected for Portsea, and rose through the ranks before becoming RAEME Head of Corps. He is not particularly flattering about ADFA graduates.
All you can do is shake your head at those two fools. We don’t have enough electricity now just for residential purposes yet they intend to shut down coal power and open new industries.
Just wondering whether it is the case of talk-talk to get elected and then keep kicking the plans down the road.
Who knows? We’re really in cloud cuckoo land here. All it needs is Twiggy.
Confidence in Government & Justice is Collapsing
This is why Gold is going up
“While COVID has set in motion the collapse in confidence of the government and the media, the prosecutions against Trump and anyone associated with him are demonstrating that the Department of Justice is now weaponized. We are staring into the eyes of a collapse of justice for all. No government can stand when the rule of law collapses. These people are merely confirming our computer’s forecast into 2032.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/confidence-in-government-justice-is-collapsing/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The ships aren’t built to carry supercargo.
Welcome to hammocks in a small compartment.
Two air compressors made of actual real gold, the metal.
Smugglers melted and spray painted $10 million in gold to look like machine parts (9 Apr, via Instapundit)
I’m sure Tom would agree that the opening sentence of the story, as journalism, is also complete gold.
Why not change it to Gold Oxide, and send it in as a paint pigment?
Because they had meticulously planned a strike and had taken out its air force while it was still at the air bases, captured or destroyed its land forces east of the Suez and taken control of the Suez crossings.
Quite so, Dover.
They did warn Egypt about the Strait closure.
All these forces in the Sinai. Whatever could they all be doing there? They weren’t playing tiddlywinks, that’s for sure.
It’s pretty much accepted that the Egyptian forces in the Sinai had a defensive posture, Calli. So once they were overwhelmed, and the crossings on the Suez were taken under control, it was effectively over for their forces east of the canal.
Do you think it was unfair of Israel to strike first?
I don’t think fair is the operative word but I can understand why capturing the Sinai is strategically significant to Israel. From all accounts, Israel had the upper hand in defense or offense, so Egypt on the offense would have been outmatched by the IDF in ’67. Blockading the Straits certainly gave Israel an opening which they rapidly took. That, plainly, is instructive.
No. They knew what Egypt intended to do and decided to land the first punch. Would you wait until an enemy 20 times your size punched you in the face before you defended yourself?
Of course not. The enemies first punch might be a knockout.
Wiki:
In other words, the Israelis held all the cards.
I’m not known for accepting what’s pretty much accepted, Dover.
In 1967 Israel was surrounded by sabre rattling neighbours, including Egypt.
Nothing much has changed.
Well, I’m not much for accepting the mainstream view either merely because it is that, but when the evidence points strongly in that direction, as well, I tend to accept it.
At present the “mainstream” view is that Israel is the source of all the ME’s troubles. Going back way further than the ‘67 war.
Israel was surrounded by enemies ready to pounce in ‘67.
But they weren’t ‘ready to pounce’; that is the point. It wasn’t the view of the IDF, or its Western counterparts in US, France, or UK.
As to the mainstream view then, I think the opposite was the case. I think, in the West, the predominant view was the view you’re putting forward; at least it was as I grew up in the 80s and later in the 90s.
Don’t you worry about “first hydrogen”.
Tucked away at the very back of the draft 2023/24 GenCost Report, the ‘Real Scientists’ at CSIRO/AEMO tell us, through gritted teeth, that magic hydrogen will still be ridiculously expensive and uneconomic in 2050. Even after renewable electrolysers fall to 10% (yes, ten pussent) of their current cost because the Twiggy/CSIRO technology curve [fig. 4.19].
The heroic projection [Appendix B9] shows 2050 hydrogen fuel priced at A$22.7/GJ (in todays dollars) – compared with natural gas at A$15.2/GJ and black coal at $3.80/GJ.
The report also shows that renewable hydrogen will be producing electricity in the same price range as nuclear – based on the projected economics of the scrapped NuScale SMR traincrash.
I expect the world is waiting with bated breath for Australia to emerge as the Green Hydrogen Superpower it shirley is.
Current NG price in the US is about A$2.75/GJ…
There is no need whatsoever to worry about the Muslims/Islam.
China and India will not allow it.
The West/Australia/NZ can now relax. /sarc
You might well be onto something there.
Well-paying, Clean, Green jerbs – being stolen by machines!!!
Onward brother Ludd – only the Albanese Government, shoulder to shoulder with the ACTU, can save you from being thrown out of your tied cottage by a mustache-twirling, monocle-wearing capitalist-in-a-top hat…
shatterzzz
April 11, 2024 10:33 am
Geez..! You live & learn .. 76 years old and I’ve never known that LYNX were native to GeordieLand & just yer average cuddly type pussies …
And in Scotland.
In fact, go back 10,000 years and Bears and wolves were native as well. Along with beavers and many others. No grey squirrels as they hadn’t made it yet.
I know what a mask-wearer makes me think about a person.
Does wearing a face mask make you seem more or less trustworthy?
by Swinburne University of Technology (Phys.org, 10 Apr)
What a mask tells me is the person wearing it is a gullible ignoramus.
That was the case during the virus outbreak, based on simple science of pore size of masks, and it’s even more obvious now. I said in 2020 that you’d have as much success wearing a magic amulet as a mask with pore size 100 times larger than the virus.
Bruce,
during our imprisonment, I was constantly letting mask wearers know that, if they can smell a fart, the mask cannot stop the virus.
I wish I had one of those cans of fart spray at the time so I could have given them a faceful. 😀
I wonder if the good Dr Oldmeadow shaved his beard before donning a mask?
Dr Faustus
April 11, 2024 11:58 am
Don’t you worry about “first hydrogen”.
Tucked away at the very back of the draft 2023/24 GenCost Report, the ‘Real Scientists’ at CSIRO/AEMO tell us, through gritted teeth, that magic hydrogen will still be ridiculously expensive and uneconomic in 2050. Even after renewable electrolysers fall to 10% (yes, ten pussent) of their current cost because the Twiggy/CSIRO technology curve [fig. 4.19].
More modelling? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
These are the only models that I agree with –
https://www.ibtimes.com/100-most-beautiful-women-world-2021-3082980
I’m sorry, but with one or two notable exceptions, I wouldn’t give most of them one even using yours! Ugly as a hat full of bums, as Prince Philip (RIP) was wont to say.
Violent Crime in Germany Hits 15-Year High
Germany was once a safe nation. Violent crime has reached a 15-year high, with homicides, knife assaults, and rapes drastically increasing. Crime rose by 5.5% last year alone, with 6.6 million incidences reported. Other nations like the UK, US, Canada, France, Sweden, Finland, and everywhere else that permitted, if not encouraged, open border policies have also seen an uptick in crime but no one wants to point out the obvious.
Migrants were responsible for around 40% of violent crimes in Germany last year, but the non-German national population only composes 15% of the population. Angela Merkel sold off Germany in 2015 when she urged all refugees to come to Europe to seek a better life. The migrants never stopped showing up. Germany handled over 350,000 asylum applications in 2023, and that only accounts for those who went through the judicial process.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/violent-crime-in-germany-hits-15-year-high/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
They’re obviously doing what they were allowed in to do – brutalise and destroy their host nations.
Oh, and one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works.
JR,
that was a crap list
Where were Monica Belluci and Melania Trump?
Sarah Silverman, Adele?
Bella Hadid at No 1. FFS!
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2024 12:16 pm
I know what a mask-wearer makes me think about a person.
Does wearing a face mask make you seem more or less trustworthy?
by Swinburne University of Technology (Phys.org, 10 Apr)
Yes Bruce, and she looks very untrustworthy.
I bet that she is after your moneeeeeeeee –
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.2jYRFvP9EKHxJ9g4nIdHtwHaLH&pid=Api&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=69&h=104
She breathes through her eyes?
Pogria
April 11, 2024 12:42 pm
JR,
that was a crap list
Where were Monica Belluci and Melania Trump?
Sarah Silverman, Adele?
Bella Hadid at No 1. FFS!
I went along to Specsavers and that’s what they recommended !!!!!!!
LOL
I will let you off, this time. 😀
Quite ironic , wodney. Marty, the Leavenworth guest reports crime stats. Same convict who violently threatened the blogger raising issues about Marty’s lies.
You’re such a stupid crook.
Former Rugby player, James Graham, has given an awesome serve to Pirate Pete regarding concussion in players. Comments also have been unkind, but funny, about the Pirate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nrl/article-13294993/James-Graham-Peter-FitzSimons-James-Tedesco-concussion-NRL-feud.html
JC
April 11, 2024 12:48 pm
Once again, the self appointed Blog milk monitor provides NO evidence.
This Woodentop would make a great prosecutor at a Kangaroo Court.
https://youtu.be/uEgg0h2FvFY?t=109
JR some of the most beautiful woman in the world are definitely not. Some are the oddest looking. I’ve heard of some of them but didn’t recognise them.
Molly the Maggie Gate.
What fun to see the ‘rsoles caught in the headlights for once. Miles must be really be on the nose if he hasn’t succeeded in having the Govt funded QLD media shut down this hilarious foot shooting saga.
Maggie attack and it is not even August. Labor need to arm themselves with those helmets with the anti-maggie spikes.
BoN – Keef’s preferred axes are Gibbos and Teles (see for example the pic in the link below). He rarely ever plays a Strat, although he is on record with a legendary quote from a documentary released on the Strat’s 50th anniversary* “Damage one of these – I’d rather kill someone!”.
Yet he wasn’t averse to damaging other types of guitars, apparently.
*Presumably referencing Hendrix
Not a muso but I like Gibsons also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMZz1r5C10s
calli
April 11, 2024 7:38 am
Quite so.
The recruiting adverts tell you all you need to know.
I saw one the other night featuring ten or a dozen “service personnel” play acting various roles.
Every single one of the actors were ladees.
And the various roles being portrayed were either helping little urchins in some shithole or other, or pointing earnestly at a whiteboard in front of an enthralled audience of other ladees.
The theme was that the ADF was something of a paid social club which would enable ladees to “pursue your passion”.
But you just get the feeling that if your passion was “turning the enemies of our nation into red mist” you wouldn’t make the cut.
I’m remembering the recruiting slogan that said “My Army gives me all the time I want with my children….”
Like a tampion add. Men not wanted. The Canbra lezzo covern way.
The Zombie Vax and (politically) Dead Liberals.
Several weeks prior to the recent Qld Supreme Court decision that mandatory Covidiot waxing for the Qld Ambulance Service was unlawful, my employer (Qld Health – I had been stood down, without pay, for 2.5 years at that point) sent me a terse letter ordering me back to my usual place of work. While they stated no disciplinary action would be taken against me, they also emphasised that I had not been forgiven for my ‘behaviour’ and I would be watched very closely (that’s my paraphrasing).
For several reasons, I chose to resign. (Too long a story for here, now). During the separation process, I was reminded that I owed the health service $10,000+ for an ‘overpayment.’ This was for a period during which I had been directed NOT to attend work, but had not been charged with a formal disciplinary offense (refusing the zombie wax). I believe that others were also slapped with this ‘overpayment’ which served as a handy intimidation tool.
Several weeks ago, I sent an email to my local state M.P., a senior Liberal with many years of experience, and who will likely be a Minister if the Libs overthrow the Labor tumour in the next Qld state election. My email outlined (in more detail than this concise post) how senior members of my large regional health service had fabricated a charge of pay fraud (see above) against me, in order to justify suspending me WITHOUT remuneration. I explained that I could very easily and quickly disprove this allegation, but that all attempts to do so had been ignored by my (now former) employer, and they were persisting in demanding the payment of a substantial sum of money.
I received a response from this state M.P. today. If I may paraphrase: Too bad, so sad.
Despite offering a potential tool with which to question the integrity of the present government, and their handling of the health system, I was informed that I could either find a union to represent me (tried – didn’t work), or seek legal representation and fight a large state entity on my own, in court.
Let’s pause for a moment…
The only reason I have made the above information public (you’re hardly a success in life Muddy, huh?), is because I STILL, after all that has happened in the last decade, sense that some Cats pine and purr for the desiccated political corpse that is the Liberal Party.
Yes, I know there’s a difference between the various state parties and the federal, but … is there really?
Yes, I know there is no alternative party with substantial infrastructure to fight the fiends of primitivism, but the Libs HAVE the infrastructure, the resources, and what have they done with it? When have they actually FOUGHT for something?
I’m beginning to think that the attachment to the shadow of what once was (or so history tells us) is more than simple nostalgia. I fear it is a lack of self respect. Conservatives feel that they don’t DESERVE better anymore. That they should ‘be happy with the (regurgitated) crumbs.’
Yeah, but nah.
I’d rather be politically alone, and wait for … I don’t know what. But at least I’m not a political ‘settler.’ I deserve better than this cowardly, insincere, self-centred partner.
We need to wake up to the reality and acknowledge that ‘something is better than nothing.’ Because all we have now, is nothing anyway. ‘Is nothing better than nothing?’ However you look at it, that’s what we have: Nothing.
I’m so hyped up I forget how to edit this bloody thing. Obviously there’s a few words missing from the first line in the last paragraph: ‘something is better than nothing’ isn’t working for us.
Muddy – this is devastating. I am so sorry for what has happened to you. Can I suggest you get in contact with the AMPS (Australian Medical Professionals Society) through:
https://amps.redunion.com.au/services
They have had terrific experience in helping those in medical and associated medical professions who have been disadvantaged by the Covid horrors.
If they can’t help they may suggest other avenues. Lovely people.
Thanks, Vicki. Yes, it certainly has been very stressful, and has taken a measurable toll on both my mental and physical health. On the other hand, I count myself as somewhat lucky, because I didn’t lose a business due to the covidiocy, nor any significant personal relationship.
I have been a member of the NPAQ (a Red Union association) for several years, as they have been the only organisation to have done something practical, in the sense of taking our cases through the various legal avenues.
Unfortunately, those legal avenues have reached an end, and there is no chance of being reimbursed the almost $100,000 I am owed, or receiving an apology (and Heads On Pikes) for the years of intimidation, and in my case, the blatant dishonesty of those in positions of authority.
My local state member is a senior Liberal, and she demonstrated that we cannot expect the Coalition (in Qld) to suddenly reverse course and initiate a formal inquiry if they win government, let alone offer compensation. The ridiculous thing is that those several thousand (in Qld) who were treated as I was, would otherwise have been productive taxpayers.
I don’t think I’ll ever wrap my head around the surreality of the past few years.
Muds – do not go to court.
Take the matter the the Fair Work Ombudsman.
P.S. This may be an entirely pointless course of action as well, but you won’t be bankrupted by legal bills.
Thanks, Rabz. I couldn’t afford to even if I DID want to. I’m quite aware of all the failed legal actions of the last three years. I’m not sure what to do about it at the moment, but I wanted to express my disgust/revulsion at the Lieboral Party, and my utter amazement and confusion that ANYONE might still consider them a political option.
In this case it is likely that the Fair Work Ombudsman is irrelevant.
Qld public is under the umbrella of the Qld Industrial Relations Commission.
The Fair Work Act, & thus the Fair Work Ombudsman, have zero jurisdiction.
I’d expect the Qld Industrial Relations Commission to be as unhelpful as any large Qld union.
Qld Public Service
Havent really been following the IR aspects of Covid but I would have expected there would be a few of these on foot around the place. WA coppers didn’t get too far against the Comm of Police in the WA Supreme Court but there are a number of particular features of police employment that could be distinguished from other forms of employment. Sal’s point around jurisdiction is well made.
Zero jurisdiction. Grate, makes protecting the incompetence and unaccountability of these bureaucratic behemoths much easier.
Yep, you’re pretty much spot-on, Sal.
I’ve been through the QIRC – a test case was run prior to launching others, including mine – and it went nowhere.
While the Red Union group have certainly put their money where their mouth is, their efforts were predominantly placed on procedural issues. I’m unaware of the efficacy of the vaccines, or the integrity of the official covid statistics having been questioned. It has generally been accepted by the various courts that the ‘vaccines’ are all ‘safe and effective’ and that the abrogation of human rights has been ‘reasonable’ given the highly propagandised gravity of the pandemic.
Yes, the traditional unions totally screwed their members, but that comes as no surprise.
Perf Cats – one for the diary
https://www.mannkal.org/event/australia-the-road-ahead/
I did not read the whole article but notice how many people refer to Fitzsimmon as ‘Pirate Pete’. Was that in the article? Or is he just so widely known as that?
It was a Tim Blairism, wasn’t it.
Blairs other great nickname for Pete arose after the disgraceful event where a fan of Adam Goodes called called him an ape at a game and it was decreed by our moral betters that referring to Aborigines as apes can only possibly be a racist slur – and could only be used to instead suggest an excess of brawn and paucity of smarts when targeted at white men.
There is in fact no word to suggest the same thing about an Aboriginal player.
And just as well, because having a special word for Aborigines would be racist.
Anyway, in an interview shortly after denouncing the poor girl as being part Hitler (with Goebbels and Himmler making up the balance of her being), Pete described the bouncers of the bar in one of his self-aggrandising anecdotes as ‘Gorillas’. Once alerted to the problem that if the bouncers were Aboriginal (or Maori, or Islander etc) then he will have done the same thing as the girl, and if they were not then he had just proven that ‘ape’ epithets are not necessarily racial slurs.
So he concocted some idea that ‘gorilla’ was a commonplace slang for a bouncer. (The resulting mockery came as a great surprise to him since he had been fabricating all sorts of nonsense in his ‘non-fiction’ books for decades and no one had called him out – but of course no one had read those).
In signature Blair fashion, Tim coined for him the new name ‘Fitzsimian’. Blair’s columns about Pete afterwards would sport the head of a gorilla with a red bandanna on it.
Sublime.
And I will bet that Pirate Pete still does not understand what the joke is.
In my (brief) mining career production workers were always known as Rock Apes if that helps.
Vagiclean?
Fani Willis fights disqualification appeal in Trump’s Georgia case (msnbc.com)
Good batch of Tom’s toons today. These bear repeating:
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Seriously:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: The Moon is “Made Up Mostly of Gases” | Frontpage Mag
This skank now holds the medal for sheer idiocy after this ratbag held it for a long time:
Hank Johnson Worries Guam Could “Capsize” After Marine Buildup – CBS News
She has form.
Says all you need about the Left’s understanding of science that she was the senior Democrat member of the Congressional space subcommittee.
Just read the article Michael West media on culture of cover up.
The SAS Cpl referenced there who cut the hands off. Happens to be someone my ex Army mate knows. What the legal o’s left out was apparently was worse than space on the helicopter the Talib’s were massing for an attack and they had to get out fast but needed the hands for biometrics. That comes from the horses mouth. Same bloke was also shot in another contact bullet followed the boundary of his baseball cap and skull leaving a long line shaped wound over his head exiting out the back. His words lucky to be here apparently.
The other one I know of through my mate is the Commandos grenading a room with women and children in they were receiving fire from. Some chick tried prosecuting them for that and fortunately it was thrown out. Mate has been on patrol in the area it happened prior to that incident. He said the one of those places where you received passive aggressive hostility from the adults till shots rang out. His section had rocks thrown at them by kids from behind walls. His words locals were untrustworthy but again ABC entertained the story that turned out not be someone from the family but a neighbour.
Not saying bad stuff didn’t happen but would say it was probably not very common.
Shit happens in wars. As long as our lads come through unscathed, I’m comfortable with whatever has/has not occurred. They were sent there to kill. It’s their job.
The thing is, if we can’t stomach what happens in a war zone where we have sent our troops in harms way, don’t send them!
Another thing; ONLY officers and others who have served in combat IMO should have the right to sit in judgement of other troops who have fought. All others, including yours truly, just have no real understanding of the prevailing conditions or situation.
Seconded, a thousand times.
I’ll go with that!
Afgan’s are notorious for their truthfulness, reliability and loyalty. I’m sure the ALPBC would have investigated everything thoroughly. They probably put their BBQed refugee correspondent on the case.
My understanding is that our special forces were supplied with specific targeted bad guys. When the latter were found and killed in battle in difficult terrain there had to be a means of absolute identification. This resulted in the severing of fingers (and/or hands) for identification purposes when bodies could not be returned to base. This is “behind enemy lines” stuff that the pontificators back home don’t comprehend.
For the second time today –
I’m Shocked! Deeply shocked, I tells ya. Da Independant says that one of RFK Jr.’s aides was at the January 6th gathering at Congress in 2021.
I’m sure it was just a coincidence.
Teh Paywallian’s The Mocker picks some low hanging fish in a barrel with some cheap laughs at the expense of Albo’s pick for GG. Actually it’s good as usual. Laughs are probably all this government are good for at this point.
Gotta luv the NSW legal system .. bad news..! .. duuuh! .. mind your own business ..!
Result of Wayne Wilmott & his parole hearing .. outrage in the media .. zilch, zero … F**k ’em ..
The exact date of his release and the location of his accommodation cannot be reported due to an order of the court.
Back in court late June as they (prosecution)try to keep him locked up, except he’ll be out & about long before that, anyway .. His defence folk complaining cos he’ll be “expected’ to, actually, put in a physical appearance for that hearing .. FFS! ..
“Storms lash NZ South Island”. The kids running the media these days have all grown up in air-conditioned comfort and have been mentally massaged for several decades that it’s climate change that makes bad weather happen.
Ole Bruce is partying so hard the neighbours are complaining.
Bulk Brittany is stuck in Cheese country with a bottle of Sharaz and no friends. To wit, remember the Christmas photo they shared with their so-called Christmas lunch. Two sad little crackers on the table showed a very lonely lifestyle.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13295489/Bruce-Lehrmann-party-house.html
You’d think after last week that Bruce would grasp the meaning of “low profile” but, apparently, not .. Can’t believe Channel 7 shelling out $2000 a week for his digs and, I’m guessin’, his “companions” don’t come cheap either ..
Gotta be a decent tax lurk in there somewhere, shirley ..? ..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13295489/Bruce-Lehrmann-party-house.html
SNAP! 😀
Brittany meets MAFS. It was probably always going to come to this. Expect Bruce’s next appearance in the Federal Court Registry to declare bankruptcy.
Competition from an ally. Right. Uhuh.
Is this ABC-original spin or is it straight from the songsheet?
Seems to tie in with the story above about “Future Made In Australia”.
Didn’t anyone tell Albo you can’t have advanced manufacturing without reliable cheap energy? The clean is optional. The reliability isn’t.
Literally a race to the bottom.
A new Rank Arena television. About time.
A Solar cell Industrial Revolution.
Albo’s gone full Whitlam.
Never go full Whitlam.
Muddy – I have posted a suggestion for you to follow. Just reposting in case you miss it.
Best of luck.
Suggestion is posted in reply to your original post.
Thanks, Vicki. I appreciate the thought. As posted above in response to yours – the options have pretty much expended themselves.
Albanese is virtually guaranteeing inflation will remain higher than it should be by throwing even more public money at the economy.
Say goodbye to your rate cuts for 2024 mortgage holders and your rent relief renters.
What a dead set idiot.
Is it too much to ask that the national trade union government (elected with one-third of the primary vote) could have an industry minister who understands what’s left of the Australian free market still works?
It’s back to the future, Tom.
But instead of tariffs we have direct government assistance to businesses in the form of grants and subsidies.
On This Day:
Which is timely, because I am watching a Hitler Channel doco about how Mossad kidnapped Eichmann from Argentina and dragged his carcass to Israel to be tried and then executed.
It would also be timely for the Pali-lovers (looking at you, Baba) to realise that these dudes were prepared to literally go to the other end of the world to redress ‘legitimate grievances’ (looking at you, mUnter) that occurred 15-20 years beforehand.
Therefore, it is extremely likely that they will not resile from putting the entirety of Gaza, if necessary, into the woodchipper for atrocities committed against them a mere six months back.
Anybody interested in Australia should read Albanese’s election manifesto delivered today in Brisbane. It is at once deeply political and empty and a terrifying vision of what government intends to do to entrench itself in the economy.
The moneyshot – Albanese’s Australia joins the manufacturing competition, presently re-industrialising the US, Japan, Korea, and the EU, while shouting ‘You didn’t build that’:
It’s not immediately clear how and in what areas Team Albanese will be lifting heavily and competing against the industrialised world; but it does involve hydrogen, Queensland, and the Net Zero Economy Authority.
Luckily, economic history is brim-filled with examples of governments picking winners and beating market forces and the invisible hand to deliver wealth and excess returns.
So plenty of guide rails and signposts. And plenty of OPM to rub on the wounds.
In good hands.
Did this ever have popular support, given peak Greens voting was about 15%?
Does anyone remember Albo announcing this, because that supposedly happened a year ago?
Can a new parliament repeal this statutory authority before it wrecks anything?
Answers on a net-zero postcard, please.
Can a cup of tea keep COVID away? Study demonstrates that certain teas inactivate SARS-CoV-2 in saliva
I hope Paul Keating is having conniptions.
When he recovers he might take pen to paper to eviscerate Albanese’s “plan.”
Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time
The next federal election can’t come soon enough. This is an amazingly incompetent government – even for Labor.
Equally amazing is the proposition that the 18-30 years voters are turning conservative! So, inspite of years of indoctrination at school re the Climate farce, they are more concerned about eventually being able to purchase a house (or not). They are also not enraptured by the multitude of internationals taking places ay universities and potentially competing for housing.
Senate strikes down Biden administration’s climate regulations targeting car emissions
Islam: The Religion of Terror :: By Todd Strandberg
Anyone who claims Israel is hellbent on genocide in Gaza is a stinking Pali lover.
Yep.
If only they had a conservative party to vote for.
@MikeBenzCyber
When the US House of Representatives sees the absolutely shocking extent of the Biden State Department’s NGO Swarm Army role in Brazil’s current censorship schemes & its pushing Brazilian authorities to censor X, there had better be subpoenas flying, hearings held, & hell to pay.
@Elation70
Mike Benz says the true force behind the “Censorship Industrial Complex” is the foreign policy establishment – our State Department, our Pentagon, our intelligence services.
How do we stop these free speech haters?
I’m surprised the Paywallian’s armchair revolutionaries appear to have accepted a comment from me about a story on the Quarterly Essay’s attempted hit job on Mr Potato Head:
I wrote:
It’s too soon to say the Paywallian’s kiddies are developing any respect for those paying their salaries, but I like to dream they’re not blind tribal followers of this week’s political fashion.
Indolent
April 11, 2024 5:40 pm
Islam: The Religion of Terror :: By Todd Strandberg
I’ve said it before, islam is an alien infestation. Some aliens with a black sense of humour, infected humanity with islam and then set back on their pincers with some drinks and watched it fuk everything it touches. It is a simple ideology masked by the verbiage in the koran and hadith which has one dominant principle: join or die or be subjugated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4
Farmer Gez
April 11, 2024 4:45 pm
This is Rex Connor’s transcontinental pipeline with finance brokered by a Pakistani fraudster x 10.
Yeah, what is worse and scary for the future is that this time Labor might actually get the loan and spend it.
The best thing a kid can do is get a job like all my kids did, after school. Then they start to realise the tax they are paying is being wasted. Just like mine did. The very first pay.
Very interesting. I’m not sure when this was recorded.
The Ones We Call “ILLUMINATI” Insider Reveals a TERRIFYING Secret
Back in Oz, and was unfortunate enough to arrive in rush hour in Melbourne town. 40 minutes in an Uber to do 8 kilometres!
Doing a paper on RAN submarines in the Cold War – interesting stuff – at the Game of Dominoes conference of the Military History & Heritage Victoria Association.
Better just go to the pub for a couple of hours. Total time will be about the same but you should be in a better mood.
I’m remembering an article in the Oz a few years ago, about R.A.N. submarines sitting off the Soviet bases in Vietnam,back in the day, and how, if that had come out, at the time, the Government would have been severely embarrassed…
Was there last week for first time in years. Its full.
First party to announce a stop to immigration and free-passport-with-any-crap-oz-degree wins the next election.
Nigel you should have listened to Tommy Robinson!
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 92 The FISA bill is dead but, like herpes, it’ll be back. It’s important to punish the people that pushed it.
Nigel Farage SHOCKED by Eid RIOTS in West London as youths throw RUBBISH and bottles at police
Who the buggery is Lech Blaine?
Can always rely on the Jewish vanity press.
I don’t know, but photos indicate a lot of product.
Oh, and he appears to be a “writer in residence” at the Charles Perkins Centre.
Thanks Calli
‘Writer’ is another dirty word now, like ‘professor’ and ‘doctor’. Words like ‘electrician’, ‘plumber’, ‘engineer’, ‘farmer’ and ‘carpenter’ are much better.
4 Dead, Many Missing After Explosion Hits Italian Hydroelectric Power Plant | Watch
Indolent thanks for that article from Unheard re modern Europe- very interesting and depressing.
Curse you, Direct Energy Weapons!
Dr Kevin Rudd and Professor Catherine Lumby. Need I say more.
Watch Host’s Face as Democrat Abandons Idiotic Talking Points
Fetterman, you idiot, the hostages are NOT in custody!
Just another university radical afforded unchallengeable political power.
Revolutionary radicals are now running our governments.
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I’ve referred to constructive torture before. This would be a classic justification for doing so. The bastard has not revealed where he hid the poor woman’s dead body:
Schoolmate of Patrick Stephenson reveals why Samantha Murphy’s alleged killer was described as the ‘next Elon Musk’ | Sky News Australia
You’re dead wrong on this. The police have no evidence. He’s not helping because he didn’t do it. Even Charlie Bezzina thinks and has said the investigation was bizarre and incompetent.
They have had his car for a month and don’t have any evidence, read the article you posted. The samples for this investigation would be at the head of the queue. The samples for homebreaking and theft get shoved back towards the back of the line.
The new searches today were much nearer Clunes. Why might that be?
If Stephenson was “obviously” the murderer and the police have a theory about the crime (that whizzed past a half-asleep magistrate for bail) then why have they searched so many different locations?
…and you reckon he then got up at 7 AM (still during summer, hungover) to randomly murder a woman, because he hates women, despite having a live-in girlfriend? How many of these locations searched do the police believe the accused drove to?
He is being targeted by Victoria Police because he and his family are the antichrist to that evil regime.
They’re working-class Catholics who became successful and famous through good old-fashioned hard work – his parents met in high school. The accused is a young, tall, athletic white male with good looks and competence; quite academic and is a tradie.
Yet if a black thug murders a grandmother in NSW, which is less woke, all attempts are made to hide the accused’s/offender’s background and identity at any cost.
And this is where the total ignorance of History and economics of the majority of Australians will cause them to embrace the warm welcoming arms of the Socialist nanny state, rather than see this for what it is; the hapless, corrupt and nation destroying State Central Planning.
The very same magnificent achievements delivered for the nation by the USSR, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Communist Eastern Europe etc.
where the total ignorance of History and economics of the majority of Australians
Have you assessed them all? If not how can you make such a statement? I think the result in October suggests otherwise.
Covid Through a Pathologists Eye: Ryan Cole on DarkHorse
This issue has nothing whatsoever to do with the Voice. And I did say majority. Because the majority voted in leftist Labour and they will do it again. You can carry on having a Walter Mitty view of the economic and political IQ of our electorate, I prefer dealing with the reality.
This issue has nothing whatsoever to do with the Voice.
That’s your opinion.
Because the majority voted in leftist Labour and they will do it again.
The majority elected nominally conservative gubmint 2013-2022.
I prefer dealing with the reality.
So do I. You sad old sack.
voted in leftist Labour and they will do it again.
You seem to think you can predict the future.
You might have a case if there is a referendum on this wonderful centrist policy,milt. There won’t be and therefore, nothing to stop Albo implementing.
And if you think we had even a nominally Conservative govt 2013-2022 then you have rocks in your head.
Why? Abbot got elected in 2013 on such a platform. Funny thing is, 40 years ago when the government ran banks, the telephones, insurance organizations, airlines- we were actually freer than we are now.
No, but on this issue and with the Australian electorate, it’s not too hard. Let’s see how this ends up after the GE. I’m pretty confident.
nominally Conservative
Yes nominally conservative- the lieboral party claims to be the party of free enterprise, small government and individual responsibility.
The LNP actually got more votes than the Anal LP last election. Anyway, wallow in your misery, gloom and contempt if you want.
The fruits of Socialist Education. Our freedom has been handed to the State by the electorate’s need to be nanny’d.
You need to take a look at the maths. This electorate you are so enamored with stayed hard left when you get real and calculate the numbers going to the Greens, Teals and Labor. With the COL as it is , you seem to be in some fantasy land where punters are going to eject the party that will be handing out OPM left right and centre.
you seem to be in some fantasy land
and you wallow in gloom and contempt BIRM