Emperor Xi: good dog, Elbow.
Open Thread – Thurs 9 May 2024
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Beijing has nominated Anthony Albanese as the leader other American allies should emulate That’s like being nominated as Jeffrey Dahmer’s…
AND social security has to be reformed. Social Security needs some minor adjustments. It is the medical spending that needs…
My guy says “Kevin, I’m going to Control, alt, delete your heart. Tried it three times – didn’t work. Last…
Beijing has nominated Anthony Albanese as the leader other American allies should emulate, ahead of a meeting between the PM…
I’m in Albury, forced to detour from the scenic route at Yea because of a fatality in Yarck.
Obviously much worse for someone else.
Usual road kill, foxes, roos and a wombat but coming into Yea a strange creature started to cross then turned back because of approaching vehicles.
Pretty certain it was a ferret which apparently have not successfully introduced themselves into the wild in Victoria.
ZK2A how many times do I have to tell you, shot first, trial later.
My model railway is soooo much more modest.
I was thrilled with my beloved’s recent op-shop find, 2 boxes of Brio trains and tracks! And even better, most of the rolling stock are Thomas the Tank characters.
Miss 3 was delighted.
In Japan, on account of lack of domestic space, most likely to be 1:150.
Although a public display might be 1:87, adopted from the Americans.
It is just gorgeous that cohenite still believes Vonshitzenpants didn’t cheat on his third wife with a porn star.
What a wonderful fantasy world cohenite lives in, untouched by the cold harshness of reality.
Had a friend in the 80’s who was an enthusiast. Had his setup in the basement, where he’d sit in the middle, Casey Jones cap on, controlling the array of Hornbys. Just like Gomez Addams, but without the crashes.
Perfectly normal.
Just like it’s perfectly normal for me to sit in the sewing room nearly buried in textiles, auditioning that perfect piece.
Nothing weird about it…nothing at all. 😀
What Energy Transition?
“The punchline here is obvious: We are not in the midst of a major energy transition. Instead, what we are seeing is the media echo chamber at work. Media outlets are giving undeserved credibility to the idea of the energy transition despite a metric ton of evidence that shows no such transition is happening, particularly in developing countries like Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Indeed, the surge in the use of the phrase by the Biden administration — and its many allies in big media outlets — shows that we’re being bombarded by a public relations campaign that’s designed to convince the public and policymakers that an energy transition is happening and that we should be spending staggering sums of money on it.
A decade ago, energy analyst and polymath Vaclav Smil wrote, “hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is fueled mostly by wishful thinking and a misunderstanding of recent history.” He explained that “for any new energy source to capture a large share of the market require[s] two to three generations: 50 to 75 years.” He concluded, “Energy transitions on a national or global scale are inherently protracted affairs.” That statement was true in 2014. And will be true for decades to come. Just don’t expect to read about it in major media outlets.”
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/what-media-wont-tell-you-about-energy-transition
The New Puritans are more worried about straying husbands than the actual “crime” as charged, ie. a bookkeeping misdemeanour.
Probably because the latter is obviously confected malice, the intention being to prevent a place on the ticket, and the former grabs the headlines.
The New Puritans are perfectly happy with mutilating children (when they can’t legally destroy them) and a thousand other ghastly and destructive behaviours. But a porn star prossie and a millionaire? Slobber.
“Never Go Anywhere Alone Again!” – Wife Of Vaccine Victim Tells Her Husband’s Heartbreaking Story
rosie
May 9, 2024 5:48 pm
Farck!
Buffett Issues A Truly Bizarre Warning
Did the pinchos crawl through the Old Town last night. The place was packed.
I suspect the lot was closed down during covid. Some shops are still boarded over. The vibe though is pretty upbeat, even at this time of year. The season hasn’t really started yet. There were a few bathers out on the beach, but there’s no way I’d be getting into that freezing water.
Something lovely that I missed last time – the great garden in front of the town hall. It is a formal arrangement of paths and grassed areas – so far so common. The uncommon feature is the tree selection. They are tamarisks, some very venerable. Twisted, seamed, iron hard trunks pollarded ruthlessly and now sprouting their grey-green wispy soft new growth. Many are in senescence, held together by wires and guyed to the ground (presumably against the storm winds from the Bay).
The original planting was in 1888, and some of them could easily be over 100 years old. Like the olive, they are long-lived. Broken ones have been replaced so the planting is constantly renewed.
I give it 10/10 for a public space.
Is Dot on holidays too? I haven’t seen him for an age.
It is just gorgeous that cohenite still believes Vonshitzenpants didn’t cheat on his third wife with a porn star.
Key word dickless: gorgeous. The slut, to quote Trump, has a horse face and rubber tits. Unlike the demorats’ stud, slick willy, Trump has taste.
Time to put the milko’s kiddies to bed.
Could it be more blatantly biased?
This is after the FBI confirmed that it’s restarting online censorship efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election.
@TomFitton
Leftist @WashingtonPost put out another censorship hit list today! Listed targets (for daring to “amplify” Trump):
Apparently, “amplifying Trump” is now a crime.
Some cretin was just pronounced not guilty for killing his parents as he was under the influence of drugs when he did it. Apparently he suffered a psychotic episode.
I thought that effects of self administered drugs, like alcohol, cannot be used as an excuse. That person should never be released as he could take the drugs again, suffer another episode and kill more people. It is harder and harder to trust our so-called justice system.
All Class – Annastacia Palaszczuk joins Max Markson’s PR agency. – Michael Smith News
Mutton dressed up as lamb
Hopefully Dot is hanging out with Slaanesh, not Nurgle.
DOVER
can you please remove my 6.43 pm post to Lysander? I’ve used my full name inadvertently. Ta.
Could it be that the expected sinecures have evaporated into thin air like the Gabba rebuild?
So far only the smart energy ambassador thing, which is at best a casual gig.
Too much Sumerian ale?
Some hangover.
Get a real job? Just joking- our aristocracy believes that is beneath them
Tara Reade on Being Exiled to Russia After Accusing Joe Biden
Believe or not, this is the BBC.
Neom: Saudi forces ‘told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city
Trump fraud trial judge Arthur Engoron ‘under investigation’ for allegedly receiving unsolicited advice from high-profile lawyer before fining former president $454 million
Biden is blasted as ‘clueless and out of touch’ for claiming Americans ‘have the money to spend’ when told grocery prices are up 30% in rare sit-down interview
calli
May 9, 2024 6:23 pm
One of the great eating experiences. We had some contacts who gave us some tips (will try to dig them out). One was one tiny bar which had a queue out the front at 6:00 p.m. (Spanish afternoon tea time). People shouting orders, tiny dishes being produced out of nowhere, everyone standing cheek by jowl. The bill arrived and amazingly it looked like it was all ours.
I felt a bit sorry for the Chinese girls who obviously had a recommended menu from the web and wanted to get everything exactly in that order.
Not how things work in Spain.
Not just for shareholders.
It pays yuuuge royalties which State governments in the future will look wistfully back upon, mentally calculating how many jerbs that would enable them to “create”.
Queensland is going to spend $62 billion (which we don’t have) on various pumped hydro/renewables schemes to “reduce emissions”.
We export 220 millions tonnes of coal which pretty much all ends up as CO2 whether thermal or metallurgical (news to my State member). To provide the roughly 5 GWe average we get by burning coal takes between 15 and 20 million tonnes a year. Given the dependence of the State budget on coal royalties we aren’t about to stop the exports.
How do you spell “hypocrisy”?
Chip Roy raises ‘strong concerns’ Sharia law will be ‘forced upon the American people’
Colour me surprised.
UN Relief and Works Agency Staff Stealing, Reselling Humanitarian Aid Meant for Gazans
llthe fuss and fake media claiming that Premiers are being blasted over the covid response.
Let’s spend ten seconds on this.
Why did the premiers run wild? Morrison’s unconstitutional National Cabinet.
How did mandates occur? WEF Hunt.
Can you sense just a hint of bias here?
‘Huge Problem’: Trial Expert Tells CNN Lack Of Evidence Could Lead To Trump Acquittal Even With Dem Jury
If we went back to San Sebastian again, we wouldn’t bother staying in the old town.
The whole place is quite compact and easy to get around, and you pay a premium for “old town”.
Also, we stayed in an AirBnB which was an absolute fire trap.
The demonstrators, MEs and their useful western idiots are out and proud Nazis. Forget garages in the Grampians.
Correct, and this is why I will call them Nazis, particularly the grub who appears here on occasion.
Remember this, for years this grub has popped up here and smeared those of us on the right whose opinions he doesn’t like as…..’Nazis’. And remember this recent history, how after a women’s ‘Let Women Speak’ rally in Melbourne in March 2023, when women of various ages, sexualities, hair colour, political opinions and so on appeared together in solidarity to object to fetishists, autogynephiles, perverts and pedos having access to women only spaces, all because they put on a wig, fishnet stockings, high heeled shoes and lipstick, call themselves women and then demand access to our private spaces and sport….what did this grub say? He called those women, Kellie-Jay Keen, Moira Deeming, Kath Deves, Angie Jones….Nazis…because, oddly, strangely, weirdly, a group of very clean cut Grampians mysteriously appeared, waved through by Victorian police (which was even odder) and…kaboom….that was manna from heaven for grubs like the one here and his fellow comrades on the left to smear Kellie-Jay Keen and women like me as Nazis, We all know what ensued a week later, in an Auckland Park, a woman was nearly lynched by a frenzied frothing mob…and what did the grub write on these pages? He laughed, he thought she deserved it…….because she’s a Nazi!
He himself has written how he wants to punch a Nazi….I suggest he do that when he looks at himself in the mirror every morning.
This same grub oddly disappeared after October 7, he hid in his basement, no doubt because he’s a coward. The butchery and savagery of October 7 probably blinded him, but he’s out now, either blaming Jews directly or perhaps he, like Baba, doesn’t believe it happened.
It was not ‘us’ on the right who’ve debased the use of the word, Nazi, it’s the left who’ve done this for years now. And I think it is now high time those on the left, like the grub here, had that word shoved down their own throats. Last night I watched footage of a young Jewish man sitting on the lawn of either Monash or the University of Melbourne, with an Israeli flag draped around him, being subjected to a tirade of vicious abuse by a group of so called peace loving leftist pro-Palestinian scum. The university security stood by gormlessly, they did nothing. I know what I saw, I saw Nazi Germany, I saw occupied Europe, he was being abused and threatened for being Jewish. This morning I read that a Jewish academic’s office in QLD was broken into and the intruder urinated in the academic’s office.
Just charming.
As for those leftist cockroaches who say…’oh but there are Jews who are supporting us’….LOL…Jewish history, something I happen to know a lot about, is replete with Jew hating Jews, the court Jews, the kapos, the Stella Goldschlags of the Jewish world, who desperately try and curry favour with our enemies, thinking that they will be saved, but in the end they are not, our enemies come for them too.
If the cap fits the scum then the scum need to be made to wear it, and in the case of the grub here and his leftist comrades squatting in tents on the lawns of Monash, Sydney Uni, Queensland Uni etc, threatening and intimidating Jews, urinating in the offices of Jewish academics, dunno about others but I believe the cap fits perfectly.
SWEDEN SHAKEN BY CRISIS OF VIOLENCE
Biden: ‘We’re Walking Away from Israel’s Ability to Wage War’ in Areas, Punishing Them Even if They Don’t Cross Line
Ari Hoffman
@thehoffather
“NO JEWS ALLOWED”
Biden Admin Releases Finalized Rules Expanding Title IX Protection To Transgender Students
Biden’s America. Obama must be ecstatic.
An Enormous Chunk Of The U.S. Population Is Either Homeless, Living In Poverty Or Considered To Be Among The Working Poor
Dover, I wanted to send a donation and can’t find the link to the support page. How do I get there?
Deception Is The Driving Force Behind The Division Crippling America
130 Jews are still being held hostage in Gaza. How many are alive?
Dover, did it by googling new catallaxy support. There doesn’t seem to be a link here.
Indolent
May 9, 2024 7:13 pm
Did Dutchsinse predict this?
From Beef Central newsletter – it’s Beef Week :
Su McCluskey, the Federal Government’s Special Representative for Australian Agriculture, told the gathering that every time she tried to speak to media, it had gotten to be what people in the city are listening to, and what they’re reading.
“I am trying to find a way to those people who understand that they need to eat, and making that connection to what we do as farmers.”
McCullough Robertson’s Duncan Bedford chaired the breakfast, saying his three small children brought home from school stories about farmers and what they did.
“They don’t talk about food and fibre, they talk about knocking trees down and killing koalas. And they know so much about methane. When I was their age we made jokes about methane.”
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mailbox:///C:/Users/bobse/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/wnhzw6hd.default-release/Mail/pop.gmail.com/Inbox?number=10&part=1.4&filename=Australia%E2%80%99s%20Defence_%20Fuel%20Supply%20_%20The%20Wentworth%20Report.pdf&type=application/pdf
Thanks Rafe…
Cats, who are connoisseurs of good single malt, may care to note that the new Bakery Hill Eldorado, is a very fine, sipping, single malt indeed.
Off the Books: how the Army privatised SAS elite to dark ops outfit Omni
https://michaelwest.com.au/army-privatised-sas-elite-to-dark-ops-outfit-omni/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-05-08&utm_campaign=Michael+West+Media+Weekly+Update
A great read from Stuart McCarthy via Michael West Media.
The Howard government is rightfully criticised for doing whatever the GWB administration wanted.
There has been no where near the scrutiny of the RGR governments doing whatever the Obama administration wanted.
Betty at 8:16.
What was that all about?
From the article.
Brereton Report found evidence of 39 murders of civilians and detainees by Australian special forces during the war in Afghanistan, but absolved all senior officers of any criminal culpability for their command failures. Retired Major General Paul Brereton is now the National Anti-Corruption Commissioner.
Hypothetical.
When (not if) the Brereton report finds it’s way into the public domain and the view is the conclusions regarding absolving all senior officers was bizarre and illogical, Brereton’s role at the NACC will be seen as a reward (and very ironic).
WTF? An Anti-Boeing rally at UQ?
What, the protestors have an issue with the 737?
Wooah! Years ago Su McCluskey came into the pub one day & bought something. If not the hottest piece who’d ever been in the pub, she was certainly in the top half-dozen.
I near couldn’t believe it. She was in the ATO at that time & I didn’t recognise her for a start, as I never expected to see a Canberra Mandarin out in the bush.
Ouch! @ 14:15. Big hit.
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Cleetus:
My Hardest Crash EVER In a Burnout Car… (Totaled)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd32tpOHu1Y
He never stops. The motor mouth is irrepressible.
When (not if) the Brereton report finds it’s way into the public domain and the view is the conclusions regarding absolving all senior officers was bizarre and illogical, Brereton’s role at the NACC will be seen as a reward (and very ironic).
Brereton, king of the cadets. That arm-chair generals like him should be judging the likes of BRS is Paths of Glory stuff.
Steve Albini dies from apparent heart attack
‘A more dangerous future’: Experts condemn Australia’s new gas strategy
The safer, fossil-free future bares its teeth.
AEMO imposes price cap on NSW electricity
[Unlinkable OZ]
No, really, it’s all good.
We’re in safe hands.
So in essence one single coal plant was out of action, ie half each of two of them, and we were in an energy crisis?
Oh.
That’s disturbing. Maybe our elite all-knowing political class should do something…?
Why Are People So Unkind news (the Tele):
Makes one wonder what sort of ‘business’ she was in then.
Oh dear.
That old chestnut.
The Absolute State of British Politics
Eight years to recoup. I admire his confidence.
I think its been posted but it’s worth repeating because the guy is seriously homely:
Man tells cop ‘your law doesn’t apply to me as an Aboriginal man’ after being pulled over | Daily Mail Online
This should get his mind off the Trump-hate anyway.
For those who may not pay a helluva lot of attention to Kamahl’s social media ramblings, his level Trump Derangement Syndrome is matched only by that of Robert De Niro.
Oh.
On first reading, Kamahl giving her a bit of “The Best Is Yet To Come!” sounded pretty lit.
reflexive woke backlash
Listened to this while we munched on pinchos last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNp6y7aYa-s
Ages since I heard it last.
*warning* peak hair and poor costume choices
(Late night reading- extract from a 1992 Viz.)
…
“Surely, if we are able to put a man on the moon, it is not beyond the chemical manufacturers’ abilities to come up with a simple tablet, pill or capsule that would turn water into petrol. They could be sold in shops or garages, and if they were small enough, they could be kept in little plastic dispensers, like the ones ‘Tic Tac’ mints come in,” Mr McGee explained.
As well as providing a limitless amount of free fuel, ‘Petromol’ tablets would also irradicate pollution. “As well as turning the water into petrol, another chemical could be included which gets rid of all the pollution.”
…
Like I was pondering last night, we’re living in an Emperor’s New Clothes world where the kidz, the footy dads and the Viz magazine all know that the green hydrogen- wind powered- quantum computing boondoggle is obvious bollocks, dreamt up by Lysenko and constructed by Potemkin, even though professional talking knobs like Albanese and Professor Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest OAM keep crowing about it. And trousering our cash.
From A Blot’s supporting page, true nevertheless.
Erin Molan has a good article up at Daily Telegraph about China helicopter incident and PM’s lack of action and impact on recruiting. She is is Dad’s daughter and knows what she is talking about.
Excellent piece by Erin Molan in the Tele.
Thanks for the heads up Bourne 1879.
The sycophantic approach by Albanese to the communists is pathetic.
Dan Andrews style.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Tina Norton.
And following the Erin Molan article, Leak absolutely nails it.
“If we went back to San Sebastian again, we wouldn’t bother staying in the old town”
Exactly, I stayed in a beautiful spacious modern apartment up above the railway station and got to enjoy the 24 hour of festivities celebrating the defeat of the French to boot.
The world leader. No not Joe.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1788564251931508966?t=mXOQZFvi-uhA4yioDJq58Q&s=19
Hamas, the nicest people.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h13py4vf0
Yep.
https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1788547966053044411?t=ysFZHEMGMi5f7-VOjhOOtw&s=19
The US united with President Biden.
https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1788530079301013828?t=H1iVTYMwF3eWGdLxxiImcw&s=19
Things go better with Coke!
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1788241859623731519?t=gs-70L_-PCelf1pkmNp4tw&s=19
Flew from Dubrovnik to Paris Orly airport. One hour late, boarding front and rear doors but no instructions regarding seat numbers so a traffic jam mid aircraft, stuffed to the gunwales with carry on luggage which delayed it even further, paid for a cup of English breakfast tea and got an Earl Grey teabag instead.
I can’t stand Earl Grey but fortunately the cup of ‘hot water’ was scarcely tepid so the flavour didn’t seep out much. On arrival the baggage was delayed and my suitcase was torn.
All in all not a bad flight.
From there stayed at Versailles for a visit to the Chateau. I was last there 43 years ago but apart from the increased hordes it was as I remembered it-an insane extravagance by Louis XIV given the poverty of the hoi polloi at the time.
Louis XIV was obviously a clever politician-he made sure the various Dukes,Barons,Counts and the like spent most of their time near him at Versailles so he could keep tabs on the treacherous bastards and they had less time to plan a revolt.
Possessed of a excellent memory and augmented by courtiers, informers and spies he knew who was up who and who was paying the rent at all times.
We studied the lead up to the French Revolution at high school but it was only later I read that in an age when people were a bit on the nose old Louis stood out from the crowd-he reeked so bad that windows had to opened for meetings to prevent attendees heaving.
The Russian ambassador broke protocol to write that he stunk like a wild animal.
Part of the reason was his rotting teeth and gums, other ailments and an anal fistula.
The latter was addressed by a 3 hour operation on the royal ringpiece performed by a barber surgeon without anaesthetic, using a small scythe like device and a special 3 pronged retractor It is said the only sounds Louis uttered during the ordeal were ‘My God!’
Well you would, wouldn’t you?
For the record I think whoever reported that wasn’t telling the whole truth.
Must be a bit of money around in Albury.
Staying near ‘Harris Farms’ which is a huge gourmet grocer’s with in house butcher’s, fishmonger’s, bar etc.
Have been deputised to take some of their sourdough to Canberra.
The French or Italian style?
Restaurant at the moderately priced motel where we are staying had 700g rib eye for $90 on the menu.
Only $9 less than the queen room.
The French nobility regarded the peasantry as less than fully human, it wasn’t just the display of wealth, it was taxes. The nobility didn’t pay them, starving peasants did.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/the-ancien-regime/#:~:text=The%20best%2Dknown%20system%20is%20a%20three%2Destate%20system%20of,commoners%20(the%20Third%20Estate).
Along with the millions being wasted in Victoria on Lies for Dollars.
https://twitter.com/Anthonywodillon/status/1788583384945742249?t=NlXw9f60OrcJNz0V3N9ySw&s=19
Malmo welcomes Eurovision contestant.
https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1788638082872295714?t=zXMPwI_t-DSYOC056jJ1Ow&s=19
Sky News continues to give almost equal weight to Teals. Airhead Steggal is on right now with Bridget McKenzie who is deputy leader of the Nationals!
Grandstanding Adam Bandt calling for the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador.
Loathsome little man.
They can stick TV especially pay TV right up their bum.
Erin Molan on Hanson Boy:
Her only mistake is to imagine that Albanese could get to speak to Xi’s personal secretary without months of prostration, head knocking, and obeisance.
And then there are the lobsters to think about…
KevinM
May 10, 2024 3:27 am
LOL. And you are no Cat. More like a Sour Pussy.
In every sense of the word. He and Albo do make a pigeon pair.
@charliekirk11
The Scarf Lady, Dr. Deborah Birx, now says that thousands of American could be vaccine injured from the mRNA shot and hints that some groups should not have been forced to get the jab.
The truth is slowly coming out and people are realizing we were right all along.
No need to worry about our lobster exports, the Greens are shutting down all fish farms in Tasmania, there will be nothing to export.
Yeah the Greens are now an actual Nazi Party in all but name.
Greens Senator Dorinda Cox admits to chanting anti-Israel slogans at pro-Palestine rallies while failing to condemn Hamas (Sky News, 9 May)
What a disgusting antisemite. Don’t they realise they are destroying their own credibility, what’s left of it? Eighty percent of Americans support Israel in this war, and we are likely to be fairly similar.
@catturd2
Praying for you bro
Heartburn medication causing some heartburn.
Pfizer agrees to settle over 10K lawsuits linking Zantac to cancer
The Greens are the Australian Nazi Party. Those who vote for the Greens are no different to those who voted for the German Nazi Party in 1933.
As I wrote last night, those who have screeched, screamed and shouted “Nazi” over the last decade ARE the Nazis..the real Nazis….and it is time we shoved that fact down their throats.
Where is the POTUS?
America needs a strong leader to restore law and order in our society. Our leadership has chosen to create division and cause neighbors to turn on neighbors. We are facing the highest national debt in US history, lower purchasing power, inflation that will not wane, a sharp wave in crime, a housing crisis, two proxy wars with a third on the way, and no one has taken a stand to calm the fear of uncertainty that has caused the people to lose all trust in government.
Where is the POTUS, the commander-in-chief? Not only do the American people need the president, but all of Washington needs a centralized authority figure to connect each branch and cabinet. One of the president’s primary roles is to ensure that all of Washington is working collectively, but our current president is nowhere to be found. Joe Biden has addressed the public on fewer occasions than any other president in the past four decades. The Times wrote, “For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/where-is-the-potus/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The UN naval blockade of North Korea is effectively toothless after Russia vetoed and China abstained from the annual vote on the renewal of the UN Panel of Experts which was monitoring UN member states’ enforcement.
With rail lines between NK and Russia and China there is no point in the RAN being there.
Please delete
Decent Netflix mini series .. MAN IN FULL .. the battle between a bank and a corporate entrepreneur who owes them almost a$US billion …. except spoilt by , what I consider, a very average ending but, still, well worth a look ..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15845610/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_a%2520man%2520in%2520full
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Pitch Reveals Plot By Former Vivek Staffer To Use MAGA Influencers Against Trump, For RFK
According to Alex Bruesewitz, Vivek has fired this staffer. (Two links in one post went into moderation.)
WTF? An Anti-Boeing rally at UQ?
Boeing is seriously embedded in our military, supporting our aircraft and other systems. Many of the Army helicopter instructors at Oakey are civilians working for Boeing at about twice the pay they used to get in the Army. At Amberley the best gig for technicians is to leave the RAAF and work under contract for Boeing at around 3 times the pay.
$2.3 Billion Tax-Funded Grant to Renovate JFK International Airport Awarded Exclusively to Minority and Women-Owned Enterprises
@Cernovich
Trump needs a VP that will make him assassination proof. Anyone saying otherwise has no understanding of the time we are in. Tim Scott as VP? Trump’s survivability will drop to zero. It’s incredible to me that more don’t understand this.
At least today.
“Grotesque Globalist Contract” UK Rejects Signing WHO Global Vaccine Treaty
Grape growers calling for government subsidies to pull out vines and switch to other ventures as a world-wide glut of wine sees prices plummet.
What happened to the money they were making when the price was $800 a tonne just a few years ago?
Seems everybody in this country now wants a handout from the public purse.
I think Senator JD Vance and Ron DeSantis are Trump’s best insurance policies. Both would carry on with Trump’s agenda.
Dr. Kate Coleman works to keep prisons safe for women.
There’s NO Such Thing As Trans Women – Dr. Kate Coleman
Donald Trump’s lawyer accuses Stormy Daniels of making up story of sexual encounter
Tom Minear in New YorkUS Correspondent
2 min read
May 10, 2024 – 8:19AM
News Corp Australia Network
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Donald Trump’s lawyer has accused porn star Stormy Daniels of making up her claim of a sexual encounter with the former president in a fiery cross-examination designed to shred her credibility.
But Ms Daniels stuck to her story – which is at the centre of Mr Trump’s unprecedented trial – during more than six hours on the witness stand in the Manhattan Criminal Court.
Having earlier given a graphic account of the alleged one-night tryst in 2006, the porn star was grilled by Susan Necheles on behalf of Mr Trump, who sought to force her to admit that she “never had an affair with President Trump but realised you could earn money”.
Ms Daniels was paid $US130,000 by Mr Trump’s lawyer on the eve of the 2016 US election, a hush money deal that prompted criminal charges against the former president for falsifying business records to cover it up.
In one exchange, Ms Necheles said to Ms Daniels: “You have a lot of experience in making phoney stories about sex appear to be real.”
“That’s not how I would put it … The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room,” the porn star replied, adding that if her allegation was not true, she would have “written it to be a lot better”.
Mr Trump – the presumptive Republican nominee for this year’s US election – had earlier suggested the cross-examination of Ms Daniels would be “very revealing” in a trial he complained was “political persecution”.
Ms Necheles prodded Ms Daniels to acknowledge she earned $US800,000 from a book deal and $US100,000 from a documentary, as well as more money from a strip club tour called Make America Horny Again – a title Ms Daniels said she hated.
The lawyer accused her of “threatening to hurt” Mr Trump if he “didn’t give you money”, a claim Ms Daniels denied, saying she wanted to tell her story and accepted the hush money agreement because she was “running out of time” before the election.
Ms Daniels said the saga had also cost her money through paying for security and moving house to ensure the safety of her daughter – amid threats she received online – along with legal fees she owed Mr Trump after separate legal battles.
She also rejected Ms Necheles’s suggestion that the details of her story about sleeping with Mr Trump had “changed a lot over the years”, with the former president’s lawyer particularly focusing on the porn star’s suggestion that she “blacked out” and felt overpowered.
“My own insecurities made me feel that way,” Ms Daniels said.
“You’re trying to make me say it’s changed, but it hasn’t changed.”
Interesting court where you’re not allowed to defend yourself.
COMPLETE LAWLESSNESS: Judge Merchan REFUSES to Allow President Trump to Refute Stormy Daniels’ Incredulous Attacks – Maintains Illegal Gag Order – WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/australian-unions-demands-of-israel.html
This is a compilation of the lies we were told and the pressure were put under. “Screw your freedom”.
They Are Deleting Evidence, But We Kept The Receipt’s
Bruce Lehrmann to learn legal bill for doomed defamation case against Ten and Lisa Wilkinson
Daily Mail.
UK refusing to sign the WHO’s pandemic treaty while it requires them to give away 20% of their PPE, therapeutic medicines & vaccines during a pandemic, arguing it impinges on their sovereignty.
Tesla to cut 14 000 jobs as EV demand plunges.
UK Telegraph
Grape growers calling for government subsidies to pull out vines and switch to other ventures as a world-wide glut of wine sees prices plummet.
Was it Zulu who equated farming an al fresco gambling addiction?
…these growers are like the gamblers who sue the pokies, who demand a room at the casino after a three day binge.
…plus, I’m starting to think that any producer who relies so heavily on export either has brass balls, or rocks in their head.
Yeah, car executives right now are like bugs just before hitting a windscreen.
Mercedes-Benz Backs Away from Electric Vehicles amid Weak Sales (8 May)
It will go down as the dumbest idea by a car boss in history. Only thing to be determined is whether Mercedes-Benz hits the windscreen along with Källenius.
Johnny Rotten
May 10, 2024 8:08 am
Probably, It’s up to others to decide, I can’t judge myself objectively.
(“Look” or “So” warning!)
Look, I don’t care about your links to the convicted fellow, I just scroll, but I do object to your almost maniacal obsession about correcting perfectly valid expressions to your preferred form.
Grape growers calling for government subsidies to pull out vines and switch to other ventures as a world-wide glut of wine sees prices plummet.
How many vine pull schemes will that make it? I remember them in South Australia.
Ten not receiving a cent from Lehrmann is an excellent result.
Anyway, now for the next stages of the Bratneh blobathon, Linda “House Sized Bottomage” Reynolds’ defamation action against Hoggins and Shiraz and the ACT keystone cops’ defamation action against Dumbgeld.
Any others in the pipeline? A hearing in the National Anti-Corruption body given the cum conjuror’s findings that there was no cover up by the gliberals of the alleged rape?
Re the grape growers, they can’t blame the tariff war because Chinese consumption declined while that was in effect on account of their stalled economic growth and other woes.
Back to the future!
Bruce Lehrmann to learn legal bill for doomed defamation case against Ten and Lisa Wilkinson
Daily Mail.
The Mail online main claim to fame is “flogging dead horses” .. this story has been dun to death for the past week .. Lehrmann is broke and his lawyers were on a no win no pay deal so whatever Lee comes out with (short of producing Knickerless’ panties) meanz very little sensation-wize ….
Besides the Mail has moved on to episode 76 in the who & why of the Baja guessing game puzzle .. Lehrmann is soooooo yesterday’s fish & chip wrapper-uppa …….Duuuh!
Not sure if this has already been posted.
“Joe Biden’s supporters are effectively supporting terrorism and effectively celebrating what happened on October 7th”
Massive Support for Protests Reveals Not Just Soros
Back to the future!
Never mind grapes .. what about apples? .. saw a pix on “reddit” yesterday of 1 000s of tonnes of apples being left to rot in paddocks cos no buyer interest ……….
I’ve been trying to work out why the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky is so authentic.
It’s the colour of the water as the waves churn the surface, mixing air and water together – I think.
Whatever, it’s my screen saver.
Anyone suggested to these thorny handed sons of the soil that they learn to code?
Flashback: RFK Jr. praised China’s ‘organ harvesting’ threats to meet climate goals
blob:https://newcatallaxy.blog/ca6fb7df-7062-4069-a89b-9d75e8eaf7b8
Some may have missed the address correction…
https://wentworthreport.com/australias-defence-fuel-supply/
Grape growers calling for government subsidies
Here’s the advice wheat farmers were given, the last time they called for subsidies to compete with the heavily subsidized U.S. growers.
“Get more efficient, cut your costs, learn to compete for markets, or get out of the industry and make room for someone who can compete.
Yeah, he’s outing himself as a bog standard far-lefty.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Unrestricted Abortion ‘Even if it’s Full Term’ (9 May)
Interesting quote from General Zhukov* some years ago, on Victory Day in Russia.
“We saved Europe from the Nazi’s and they will never forgive us.”
Bowen is a uniquely ugly man. Yes, both physically and spiritually.
I have often wondered what that bizarre face reminds me of.
A goldfish. One of those instances where physical characteristics and intellect match.
A rare occurrence in Oz .. The HIgh Court getz one right .. at last ..!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/high-court-dismisses-asf17-migration-case/ar-BB1m7HKm?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=b7503461a1bc4706bab93cd6a04b247f&ei=14
Rufus T Firefly
May 10, 2024 10:25 am
Interesting quote from General Zhukov* some years ago, on Victory Day in Russia.
“We saved Europe from the Nazi’s and they will never forgive us.”
The other Allies did help a lot as well and the USA was fighting in two theatres at the time. Europe and the Pacific. The Brits and the British Commonwealth Nations did their bit too. Australians/NZ/Canada/Sarf Efrica/India…………….
Curtis & Leroy bought a mule for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day. The next morning the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night.”
Curtis & Leroy replied,”Well, then just give us our money back.” The farmer said,”Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.” They said, “OK then, just bring us the dead mule.” The farmer asked, “What in the world ya’ll gonna do with a dead mule?” Curtis said, “We gonna raffle him off.”
The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead mule!” Leroy said, “We shore can! We don’t hafta tell nobody he’s dead!” A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked. “What’d you fellers ever do with that dead mule?”
They said,”We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do.” Leroy said,”We sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898.” The farmer said, “Didn’t anyone complain?” Curtis said, “Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back.”
Curtis and Leroy now work for the government. They’re overseeing the Bailout & Stimulus Programs.
Never mind grapes .. what about apples? .. saw a pix on “reddit” yesterday of 1 000s of tonnes of apples being left to rot in paddocks cos no buyer interest ……….
Pigs love apples. Get some pigs for the Orchard.
Sheesh bloody May and the wet won’t leave.
Central Queensland clouded over and Mackay got nearly 2″ last night. A good half inch of that made it inland.
The latest exemplar of failure has a phenotype. An angler fish would be my bet.
The latest exemplar of failure has a phenotype. An angler fish would be my bet.
“Plenty Wrong” showing her true colours ..
No vote-herd consultation/referendum required …!
“It’s not a question of if we will recognise a Palestinian state, it is a question of when,”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-10/wong-says-australia-still-considering-palestine-un-vote/103829356
There was no Pandemic in 2020 –
The Video is just under 9 minutes long –
https://twitter.com/davidkurten/status/1787730082754150437
Courtesy of MP at Jo Nova
How long will the Iranian man who fronted the High Court decides he isn’t gay any more?
“We saved Europe from the Nazi’s and they will never forgive us.”
Before or after there was an alliance between the Soviet Union, and the self same Nazi’s?
Muslim community wants ASIO boss Burgess sackedJoanna Panagopoulos
Representatives of the Australian Muslim community have called for the dismissal of the ASIO director Mike Burgess for comments that Sunni Islamic violent extremism poses the “greatest religiously motivated threat in Australia”.
In his annual threat assessment in Canberra in February, Mr Burgess said: “We have also observed an increase in rhetoric encouraging violence in response to the conflict. Hateful rhetoric has targeted Israel and the Jewish community, as well as Muslim and Palestinian communities. Sunni violent extremism poses the greatest religiously motivated violent extremist threat in Australia.”
The community representatives, headed by His Eminence the Grand Mufti of Australia, also demanded an inquiry into what led to the arrests of the seven teenagers on terrorism charges, including what led to the decision and who was involved.
“The definition of terrorism includes elements that require an assessment by law enforcement individuals in determination processes. These appraisals should be impartial and objective but these recent arrests demonstrate that these decisions have been influenced by religious affiliations alone,” Sheikh Wesam Charkawi said.
“It is unacceptable for senior government officials, including law renforcement to make inflammatory comments that further stigmatise and marginalise the muslim community. Such rhetoric only seeks to deepen existing divisions that perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
“It is absolutely imperative that the government and police law enforcement agencies enforce their prejudice approach towards the Muslim community.”
I can’t see that Burgess has done anything other then tell the truth.
It’s the Economy, Stooopid.
CNN interviews the Stunned Mullet from the White House – A not very long video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edz6JqIMGh4
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 10, 2024 11:04 am
“We saved Europe from the Nazi’s and they will never forgive us.”
?Before or after there was an alliance between the Soviet Union, and the self same Nazi’s?
Yes and they carved up Poland between them. What nice peoples (the Poles I mean). Not the other two.
Yuuuge win for Albo! Hun:
Now what of the others that are roaming free? Piss them off too.
“Muslim community wants ASIO boss Burgess sacked”.
Bit by bit as their numbers increase in Western countries, so do their demands. Until one day your country is unrecognisable and the oblivious brigade ask, how on earth did it happen?
Well on our way in Oz as Councils and electorates have islamic reps and Labor kowtow to their demands and more and more pour in to the country.
Fun fact.
Less than half the Muslims in Australia recognise the “The Grand Mufti”.
At least that was the case a couple of years back.
It would be like saying the head of the Uniting Church was the “top” Christian in Australia.
Demonstrates how poorly read most the corporate media are.
Top of the page, next to ‘Contact’. And thank you.
Must be the first time I’ve heard Burgess say something that’s right. Amazing
We sure can breed ’em here.
Should we fight climate change by re-engineering life itself? (Phys.org, 9 May)
We’re in a full-on hot mess zone here. A nothingburger pandemic, a bunch of toxic vaccines which didn’t fix the not-pandemic, plus oodles and oodles of climate fairies. Here’s who they are:
Whoa there are just so many drones in our university system. Rabz Macquarie Uni now! But please bulldoze my old uni, UniSyd, first. Not only are they off the planet climate zombies but full-on antisemites too.
Censored by eSafety
13 minutes ago
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT a Palestinian State……….
Ceres
May 10, 2024 11:36 am
The answer to that is complex, those who make the decisions to import them are, IMHO under orders. We, the punters never had a say in it.
Another is apathy, if a suburb is taken over by a mob not interested in integration then the original inhabitants move out, giving way for more of the same to move in.
Of course I can’t blame them, what can you do?
Those in power don’t live near or get in contact with them apart from some festivity or celebration for photo opportunity.
In short we are stuffed.
Western Standard
@WSOnlineNews
No bodies found after spending $8 million searching for bodies at Kamloops Residential School https://westernstandard.news/news/no-bodies-found-after-spending-8-million-searching-for-bodies-at-kamloops-residential-school/54429
dover0beach
May 10, 2024 12:02 pm
LOL. You are the boss, you are entitled to shout down at us serfs.
Ceres
May 10, 2024 11:36 am
“Muslim community wants ASIO boss Burgess sacked”.
Bit by bit as their numbers increase in Western countries, so do their demands. Until one day your country is unrecognisable and the oblivious brigade ask, how on earth did it happen?
Well on our way in Oz as Councils and electorates have islamic reps and Labor kowtow to their demands and more and more pour in to the country.
Many Western nations show this; Sweden is a textbook example:
Sweden Shaken by Crisis of Violence | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
A good article which does not even mention the word islam. Peter Hammond showed how islam infiltrates and progressively suborns its host as its numbers increase:
How Islam progressively takes over countries | God Reports
The alp is introducing muslims into Australia for politic purposes since muslims potentially determine victory in 20 federal seats held by the alp.
Muslim Votes Matter
“Muslim community wants ASIO boss Burgess sacked”.
Well, they’re directing our ME foreign policy; I suppose they thought it worth trying.
Looks like the Mufti is just obeying the command to “Shoot the messenger, wherever ye may find them”.
Can any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? If the United Nations does recognise a Palestinian State, does this mean the Israelis can invade the place, and dictate the terms of the surrender?
It would appear the focus groups are being frank in their views.
Oh, goody. The Queensland cops have approved the Permission to Acquire for my new rifle.
Eyrie
May 10, 2024 12:25 pm
Oh, goody. The Queensland cops have approved the Permission to Acquire for my new rifle.
Is it this which is only available in QLD:
Ruger® PC Charger™ Centerfire Pistol Models
This is Jared Bernstein.
He sets economic policy for the Biden Administration.
Sounds like the US’ very own Wallet Wizard.
https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1786624408863355110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1786624408863355110%7Ctwgr%5E5a2935faf7735fc64d90fa6564417fd6d4ea62d9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Mmmm tasty.
Rita Panahi:
Good luck with the Royal Commission.
Scum against scum. The new Arena.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/08/29/aus-man-jailed-for-raping-masked-intruder-in-home/
To ensure bureaucrats and politicians don’t repeat the mistakes of the Covid era we need a Royal Commission into the country’s Covid response.
I’d prefer HoP time for them.
Let’s not forget the role of the academic “experts” (principally the epidemiologists) in this. To a significant extent they drove the panic with misinformation about the way the virus spread and then the efficacy and safety of the vaccines. And then there were the GPs…
re, Black Ball’s Rita Panahi post.
There was a Cat commenter who’s wife refused his advice and went ahead with stabbing the kids.
I can’t remember who it was but, if you are still around, how are they?
I sincerely hope everyone is okay.
In regard to the epidemiologists, a subject for inquiry would be how many of them were acting outside their scope of expertise with their advice?
The fact checkers fact check the slut’s letter admitting she did have sex with Trump and say even though the letter is real stormy now says she lied when she signed it therefore she did have sex with Trump;
Stormy Daniels Said 2018 Letter Denying She Had Sex With Trump Is a ‘Lie’ – FactCheck.org
It’s a big call but this case, of all the corrupt cases against Trump, takes the cake for sheer unadulterated bullshit.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 10, 2024 12:21 pm
Can any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? If the United Nations does recognise a Palestinian State, does this mean the Israelis can invade the place, and dictate the terms of the surrender?
The UN General Assembly voted on the Partition Plan in 1947. Israel and Palestine.
Is the UN now going to recognise again what it did in 1947?
“Well on our way in Oz as Councils and electorates have islamic reps and Labor kowtow to their demands and more and more pour in to the country”
I reckon contraceptive sales in the Muslim community is basically zero. They’re fighting the same war that has been fought forever. Our idiots think we live in a post conflict world.
Another is apathy, if a suburb is taken over by a mob not interested in integration then the original inhabitants move out, giving way for more of the same to move in.
Way back in the early 1980s one of my ex wife’s sister’s & hubby bought a new 3 bedroom unit in Cabramatta, they’d not long been married and their car repair business was just starting to show potential ..
Anywayz this coincided with the Vietcong “invasion” of the suburb and they were offered twice what they’d payed .. took it, packed up and bought a McMansion in Cranebrook .. Their Cranebrook place is now worth $2/3 million .. the unit is now in a neglected looking block in a decaying street …..
“Let’s not forget the role of the academic “experts” (principally the epidemiologists) in this. To a significant extent they drove the panic with misinformation about the way the virus spread and then the efficacy and safety of the vaccines. And then there were the GPs…”
Everything about the COVID debacle was done wrong:
Yes Cats, your (and mine) human rights – as explicitly signed up to by Australia – were violated. Cruelly and repeatedly. For, as it turns out, no significant benefit (except to big pharma and big retail).
The perpetrators knew, or should have reasonably been expected to know, that none of the above was ever a good idea, but they did it anyway. And worst of all, the MSM, that self-appointed guardian of political over-reach, not only failed to hold them to account for each and every one of those failures, they cheered the bastards on and said what good chaps they were, saving all your lives.
Dastardly cruel and immoral bastards, or rabidly stupid and incompetent fools – and either way, they deserve to be put in stocks and have rotten fruit and veg thrown at them at the very least.
The Gospel According to Javier Milei
?THE WEST is in danger. It is in danger because its leaders long ago moved away from the ideas of freedom. Ideas that made the West the most important civilizational achievement in the history of mankind. And instead of defending the ideas that generated the prosperity that everyone here enjoys, they listen to siren songs that lead inexorably to socialism, and consequently to poverty.
In some sense, we Argentines are prophets of an apocalyptic future, which we have already lived. All those discussions of today, based on supposedly well thought out desires of wanting to help our fellow man, based on an erroneous idea about the nature and function of the State, sustained by economic theories that have been long refuted by data and empirical evidence, we Argentines lived them 100 years ago, and unfortunately applying those ideas have led us to ruin.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2024/05/the-gospel-according-to-javier-milei/
feelthebern
May 10, 2024 11:39 am
Fun fact.
Less than half the Muslims in Australia recognise the “The Grand Mufti”.
Yep, they should ask the Shia what they think of Sunni extremism.
79 Percent of US Biotech Firms Contract With Chinese Firms
More evidence demorat women look like horse’s arses:
Judge Aileen Cannon is preparing to unseal motions filed by Trump related to the Mar-a-Lago raid and Obama judge Beryl Howell’s unlawful order that pieced Trump’s attorney-client privilege.
Compare the photos of the 2 judges:
Incoming… Judge Cannon to Unseal Documents Related to Mar-a-Lago Raid | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
shatterzzz
May 10, 2024 1:20 pm
Appreciate your response but can’t see the relevance.
Are you saying that your relatives benefited from the influx of migrants?
Good for them.
Or that in the end the migrants lost out because the value in that suburb has gone to shyte?
Bit confused here, as that suburb is still has lost its original inhabitants and became an enclave of the same ethnicity.
‘Jealousy of WA’s economy at an all time high’Paul Garvey
Western Australia treasurer Rita Saffioti has accused her state counterparts of envy amid ongoing scrutiny of the GST floor that has pumped billions of extra dollars into Australia’s richest state.
Speaking at a breakfast in Perth on Friday, a day after handing down her first budget as treasurer, Ms Saffioti said WA’s economic performance – which has now included eight consecutive years of budget operating surpluses – meant the state was “respected but not liked” by other states.
“Jealousy is at an all-time high,” she said.
“They should all be grateful for the role Western Australia is playing in the national economic performance and supporting their finances but it doesn’t seem to be the case.”
She noted that Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas had described WA’s contribution to the GST as “limited” when he handed down the state’s budget earlier this week.
But Ms Saffioti said that even with the floor in GST distributions, which guarantees Western Australia retains at least 75c of every dollar of GST it generates, the state would pump significant sums to other states in the coming years.
“Over the next five years, even with the 75 per cent floor, we will distribute $13 billion of our population’s share of GST to the other states,” she said.
“As one of my favourite Warner Brothers cartoons, Foghorn Leghorn says, ‘that’s mathematics son. You can argue with me, but you can’t argue with the figures’.”
WA’s higher share of GST revenues has come at the same time as it enjoyed consecutive years of record high iron ore royalties. Those two sources of income drove the state to announce a $3.2 billion operating surplus on Thursday.
Without the floor in the GST, WA’s booming iron ore royalties would have meant the state would have retained just 11c of every dollar of GST revenue it generates.
Western Australia, bailing out the mendicant States, that don’t want to mine their minerals….