Whilst I am definitely not supporting the vile dross currently occupying the Treasury benches, were you out of the country between 2020-2023?
Without the financial assistance provided by Scummo et al, the dictatorial scum in charge of the states could NEVER have trampled over our civil rights.
Australia now has the worst, most despicable, craven, corrupt and malice driven government since the days of the Rum Corps.
Prove me wrong.
You’re not wrong though the government before this one was almost as bad which led the people to give it a flick. It’s difficult to make a good choice when the options are so poor.
It’s difficult to make a good choice when the options are so poor.
Thats been the problem for over a decade now. Small target Opposition not losing their way into government. Hewson ensured you will never see real policy from Opposition in Australia again.
The real government of Australia appears to be the extreme left wing unelected Public Service plus a politicised judiciary. Elected politicians are just ignored.
Bill Leak was even better though. Maintain the rage.
feelthebern
May 11, 2024 5:14 am
Thanks Tom, many many lols with the cartoon haul today.
The change of policy on gas should be something the media beat the ALP over the head with considering it’s changing a policy that goes back to 2007.
But of course they won’t.
Do Victorian’s believe there will ever be an airport rail link?
Victorian politics is part Illinois, part South Africa.
Mt Warning. Met Marc Hendrix yesterday who is fighting to have secret men’s business lifted from Mt Warning . Made up stories to close down access to the National Park . Even the original indigenous tribe of the area want to keep it open but protesters rule . BTW asked him if protesters looked like me blonde blue eyed I guessed correctly..Soon there will be no access to any place in Australia so about time to reverse If they want their land back they have to give back all the stuff they have got from the whiteys let’s start with mobile phones
Get the jug eared imbecile before this judge. The horse has bolted though, this should have been done at the time. Hun:
Victoria Police used “unlawful” and “unjustified violence” in a violent attack on anti-lockdown protesters during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, a judge has found.
In a stunning decision handed down in the County Court, Judge Liz Gaynor ruled police were the “aggressors” and “employed unjustified violence” amid a public protest on 29 May, 2021 that left one man with a dislocated arm.
The judgment has called into question police tactics and prompted calls for prosecutors to consider laying charges against the police involved.
At the time of the protest Victorians were subject to strict lockdown conditions including bans on leaving the home and wear face mask requirements.
A 5km bubble was in place for needing to go shopping or wanting to exercise, and both public and private gatherings were explicitly banned.
The protest, around the city’s Flagstaff Gardens, drew a huge police presence with officers outnumbering the 150 protesters and forming a ring of steel around the gardens.
More than a dozen protesters were arrested for offences including assaulting police, affray and breaching the chief health officer’s directions, during the protests.
They included Jason Reeves, Nicholas Patterson and Adam Roob who were each thrown to the ground and arrested by police at the scene.
The men had been asked to leave before their arrests.
In her stinging judgment Judge Gaynor ruled the arrests unlawful, saying the men did nothing to warrant the violent police response which was captured by body-worn cameras.
Mr Reeves was the first to be arrested after being punched to the face by police and thrown to the ground in what Judge Gaynor dubbed an “immediate and violent” response.
Mr Patterson and Mr Roob, who said they were trying to defend Mr Reeves, were then sprayed with OC spray and thrown to the ground, with Mr Paterson suffering a dislocated arm.
The pair was in court facing a string of charges including assaulting an emergency worker on duty and common law assault.
But Judge Gaynor ruled police evidence inadmissible because “by their unlawful violence police instigated the response by the accused which underlies the charges they now face.”
“There are a number of ways in which the charging of the accused could have taken place,” Judge Gaynor said.
“It could have been done by the issuing of infringement notices at any stage … it could have been done by way of stopping the accused and other members of the group informing them that they were in breach of the restrictions and that they were to be placed under arrest.
“However, the police chose not to respond that way. I am satisfied that in arresting Mr Reeves, police used unnecessary and unwarranted force and violence.”
Judge Gaynor said footage of the group in the half-hour leading to the arrest showed no behaviour which warranted police forming a view they would engage in violent behaviour.
“I am satisfied that (police) were the aggressors in the situation and that they employed unjustified violence on Mr Reeves in effecting the arrest.
“They did not wait for a line to be formed across the footpath which could have been observed by Mr Reeves.
“They did not speak to him and inform him he was under arrest and then inform him why.
“They simply confronted, pushed, and attacked him before bringing him to the ground. In my view, they used unlawful violence in arresting Mr Reeves.”
Judge Gaynor also found Mr Paterson and Mr Roob “were met with physical intervention”.
A senior justice figure, who could not be named, said the matter warranted further investigation.
“I’m not a fan of those who were protesting and carrying on during the lockdowns, but considering the waste of money and resources that continue, and now what appears to be police committing serious indictable offences, people should be held to account,” they said.
“If protesters were charged, so should the police who have been found by a court to have committed impropriety or contravention of an Australian law.”
Both Victoria Police and Office of Public Prosecutions refused to comment.
Andrews and that fat phuck Cornelius were glowing in their praise of the jackbooted thugs during this period of interminable idiocy. Get the feeling their chairs got a little hot.
Wow. A stunning development. I bet it won’t get much airing in the general MSM. But I do get the feeling that a realisation of the enormous wrong that occurred is beginning.
I will be watching the news tonight to see what airplay this gets.
This is the first time I have heard of potential judicial action against the the Vikpol thugs.
If they are charged and have any sense they will dob in superiors all the way up to commissioner and Minister to face charges too. Then go after that rotten khunt Andrews.
And this was just one particularly egregious incident among many from this period. This group had already dispersed and were departing the area, the uniformed thugs literally hunted them down.
Kudos to the judge here too, albeit I doubt the cops or DPP will let this lie. No doubt Kerry Judd will I’ll lodge a secret complaint about Judge Gaynor.
It would be worthwhile putting a few of these pricks under the spot lamp and seeing if there is any evidence of unwritten orders to brutalise. It might just be me, but I had a strong sense at the time of seeing the same cop, older silver haired, recurring in multiple instances of filmed brutality.
Too right l, I fear. The regime tools in the OPP will refuse to lay charges and get the judge sacked. The regime tools in the higher ranks of the judiciary will be only too keen.
If the LNP get back in and don’t rescind that, they are as big a pack of traitorous scum as the ALP.
Vicki
May 11, 2024 7:09 am
So the United Nations, with us included, has just voted for a group of people ( defined as Palestinians ) who are acknowledged as led by terrorists, to join the United Nations.
We have formally entered an era of deadly intent. It will not end well.
Steve trickler
May 11, 2024 7:12 am
Emotional clip.
The family were up for $50k to retrieve him and the wreckage.
HeavyDSparks with his mates did it for free.
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In this video, we’re sharing the recovery of a tragic airplane crash that took the life of Wayne Wirt. We have The Wirt Family in our thoughts and prayers as we mourn the loss of this amazing Husband, Father, and Grandfather.
HUGE thanks to:
Ryan McDonald- North Wind Helicopters
Mark and Mike Patey
Ben Schumacher- Timberland Helicopters
Linn County Sheriff’s Office
US Forest Service
NTSB
As a recently ex politician they’ve lost c. 50% of their prospective audience to begin with. If you’re going to have a politician present it, it has to be someone who has long since exited the political stage and has atoned for their political sins in the meantime, i.e. “eminent”. Frankly, I can’t think of any who’ve managed that.
In my view Deb Conway would have been an inspired choice as she has spent decades in the arts – including presenting on the ABC – and has garnered a lot of respect from lefties in the course of her career.
Good morning all, except it isn’t a good morning is it? I have woken up to find myself living in a country that has a government that rewards a ‘people’ who partake in the wholesale rape, butchery, slaughter, decapitation and kidnapping of Jews!
I have thought for a while how this country has changed but nothing can really prepare me for this. As you all know, I am not and have never been one to mince my words, I have long thought and said out loud that Pong, Sleazy and most of Labor and the left are now unapologetic Jew haters. They are the Nazis. The actions of this government overnight at the UN prove this.
No wonder Pong and Sleazy have been in a bind since October 7, because now it is pretty clear that they approve of what Hamas did that day. They like a dead Jews.
I now equate both of them alongside Hitler and other Jew haters through history who have tried to destroy the Jewish people.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Oh and by the way Pong and Sleazy, where are the hostages?
They’re probably trying to remain out of the sights, of the IDF snipers Cassie.
It seems as soon as a hostage gets within shouting distance of the IDF, bad things happen.
Vicki
May 11, 2024 7:45 am
With you all the way, Cassie, as virtually everyone here is. It is heartbreaking and sickening. All I can say is – hopefully the “quiet Australians” think as we do. The amazing outburst of the Victorian magistrate re the disgusting Nazi tactics of the police during the Covid demonstrations gives me hope.
On the other hand, Australia has changed radically in terms of demographics in the past 2 generations. This MUST reflect in philosophy and general characteristics of the populace.
I mourn the Australia I grew up in.
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Roger
May 11, 2024 7:49 am
5 Rwandans arrive in the Torres Strait and claim asylum.
Why bypass so many safe countries to get here?
The UN refugee convention is no longer fit for purpose.
It would help solve a lot of problems now and in the future. Do it.
Roger
May 11, 2024 7:51 am
Australia now has the worst, most despicable, craven, corrupt and malice driven government since the days of the Rum Corps.
It’s been decades in the making, calli.
Frog in the boiling pot syndrome.
GreyRanga
May 11, 2024 7:58 am
Headlines in newspapers should read “Australian Government Supports Terrorism”, instead due to omission it reads “Australian Government Supports Terrorism and so do We”.
Bruce of Newcastle
May 11, 2024 8:00 am
5 Rwandans arrive in the Torres Strait and claim asylum.
Looks like Labor has accidentally lost control of country shopper boats again. Amazing how they always accidentally lose control like this every time they get in. Accidents keep on happening. Accidentally like. It’s a mystery.
Boats are electoral poison for the Liars. Luigi will need to sort this out quickly – something Giles and Clare O’Neil show no sign of being able to do.
132andBush
May 11, 2024 8:03 am
It’s quite obvious the Hutt River Province was doing things all wrong.
Pogria
May 11, 2024 8:05 am
Interesting juxtaposition. the first link is drone footage of scummy students etc, training for their protests.
Went for a stroll down to the port area of Portland. Ships loading up with I don’t know what, but to watch this in action is a different type of beauty. Shit that makes us prosperous. Except our idiots in government don’t want that.
Was also struck by the amount of bluestone buildings around the place. Just about every church is built thusly. Just superb.
Wood chips for Japan. The drive across to Nelson is very instructive but only if you have oodles of time. Cape Bridgwater is worth a look. Also the Car Museum in Portland.
Australia has backed a United Nations General Assembly resolution that would grant Palestine full member status, breaking with the US in a move that is likely to infuriate the Jewish community.
In a sign of Israel’s growing isolation internationally as the war in Gaza approaches its eighth month, the UN General Assembly voted by 143 to 9, with 25 countries abstaining, to make Palestine the 194th full member of the UN, a largely symbolic move almost certain to be blocked in the Security Council where the US wields a veto.
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The US voted against the measure along with Israel, Hungary, Argentina, Czechia, Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guines and Palau. Canada and the UK abstained.
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In dramatic scenes a furious Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan put a copy of the UN charter into a paper shredder while holding up a photograph of Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar with the word ‘president’.
“You are shredding the UN charter with your own hands … That’s what you’re doing, shredding the UN charter. Shame on you,” he told the chamber, adding the US would be letting a “terror state … into its ranks” that would be led by the “Hitler of our times”.
He accused UN member nations of not mentioning Hamas’ October 7th attack in southern Israel, which killed 1,200 people, and seeking “to reward modern-day Nazis with rights and privileges.”
International politics rarely resonate in the Australian suburbs, but I think this issue will further damage Labor’s already tattered primary vote.
lotocoti
May 11, 2024 8:10 am
The Victorian machine starts finding ways…
If the Sword and Shield of the Party are anything like QLD plod under Blight, the good Judge will be assigned her very own traffic branch “maverick”.
Despite all those attempts at washing, cleaning and scrubbing oneself, yet one still feel dirty because nothing is able to clean and wipe away the filth and grime that lingers, this is how I feel today after waking up and reading the news about what Pong, Sleazy and their fellow Nazis did overnight at the UN.
I think Adolf is smiling in hell today. He has just added new members to his club.
Not just symbolic politics either. Witness the all-out assault on habeas corpus, the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair trial and to defend oneself in court, mounted by the woke left and their media organs.
Noticing on a lot the of “news ” sites that allow comments the majority are blocking opinions on their “we luv Hamas/Pali” fables .. Seems they are prepared to print the luv-of-terrorism adoration drooling but prefer not to have any debate on same …….!
Vicki
May 11, 2024 8:15 am
This appalling UN decision is such a nonsense. What on earth is this Palestine “nation”? Is it the few millions who live in Gaza & the West Bank? If so, they are hardly a nation, since they ( specifically the Gazans) depend almost totally on donations of millions of dollars support from Muslim oil nations such as Qatar.
As many have noted, Gaza could develop into a coastal trading & entrepreneurial nation like Singapore if the population was so motivated. They are not.
What the “Palestinians” want is no less than the hugely prosperous technological nation of Israel with all its riches.
Some are wondering why the so-called ‘anticapitalist’ protesters who attacked the Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin are ignoring other automakers whose brands cater the the upper class they claim to oppose.
“Why not protest factories making BMW 7 series and Mercedes S Class or Maybach?” asks X user ‘Warren Redlich,’ adding “Because they’re full of crap.”
To which Tesla owner Elon Musk replied: “Something super weird is going on, as Tesla was the *only* car company attacked!”
The attack happened yesterday. If these are climate crusaders, which they seem to be in addition to boilerplate radical Marxism, then why attack a maker of electric cars? Ok, yes, Elon has annoyed the left with his Twitter buy, but as Dover said the other day cui bono?
Cassie, the hundreds of thousands of Australian soldiers who gave their lives fighting fascism in World War II are also turning in their graves.
I know, Tom. And our greatest general, a proud Jew and a proud Zionist by the name of Sir John Monash, a man knighted on the battle field by King George V, is also turning in his grave.
John Monash was revered by his troops. My eyes are full of tears as I write this.
I expect a lot of students at the University named for him will be withdrawing or transferring today? No ? Hypocrites those little protest darlings are. I’m getting more cranky as the day goes. Going for a bike ride now, have to get clear air.
I’m also deeply ashamed of the malevolent, despicable scum that made and implemented this outrageous decision. I feel powerless, my local rep is Labor and I’m certain anything I wrote to express my disgust would just be totally ignored.
Almost everybody in my circle of friends and acquaintances are opposed to Hamas and support Israel. The sheep go on voting for dickheads, unfortunately.
I stand with you and with Israel, Cassie.
GreyRanga
May 11, 2024 8:38 am
BoN everything is a mystery to Labor scum, except the brown paper bag.
The brown paper bag is the reason that there will NEVER be a cashless society in the western so-called democracies.
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Boambee John
May 11, 2024 8:39 am
On the UN vote, there are around 850,000 Mueslis in Australia, but only around 100,000 Jews. Many of the latter are in either safe Liberal seats, or Teal seats.
Sleazy has done the numbers, principled behaviour has been abandoned for political benefit.
Johnny Rotten
May 11, 2024 8:42 am
hzhousewife May 11, 2024 8:30 am
So the members of the U.N. are betraying their morals and standards, while the citizens of the UK attempt to destroy the Magna Carta. What a day!
There are four originals of the Magna Carta document. One is in Salisbury Cathedral and another in Lincoln Castle.
The British Library has the other two (I think).
The best preserved copy is in Salisbury Cathedral and is quite secure.
They may attempt to destroy the physical form, but the ideology remains. Stupid foolish idiotic people. I suppose it takes such actions to arouse the sleeping majority, I hope so.
we took the lead with lock outs , we are a superpower.
Indolent
May 11, 2024 8:49 am
International politics rarely resonate in the Australian suburbs, but I think this issue will further damage Labor’s already tattered primary vote.
You can’t blame people for switching off when the major parties are just two sides of the same coin. I’m ashamed of them too.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 11, 2024 8:50 am
Live sheep shutdown date to be revealed as Federal Government unveils new industry ‘transition’ plan Dan Jervis-BardyThe West Australian
Sat, 11 May 2024 12:00AM
A timeline to shut down the live sheep export trade will finally be revealed as the Federal Government unveils a new plan to ‘transition’ the industry. Credit: The West Australian
A timeline to shut down the live sheep export trade will finally be revealed as the Federal Government unveils a new $107 million plan to “transition” the industry.
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt will make the long-awaited announcement in Perth on Saturday, ending the uncertainty for WA farmers about how and when the trade will end.
Senator Watt is expected to release the independent panel’s report into the phase out as well as the Federal Government’s response to it. WA farmers and the State and Federal oppositions have been demanding Labor come clean about the timeline after Senator Watt was handed the panel’s findings in October last year.
The announcement will put an expiry date on an industry that employs about 3000 people across the supply chain – 80 per cent of which are in WA – and ignite a political firestorm for Labor in the State just days out from the Federal Budget.
Senator Watt will attempt to soften the industry and political blowback with the announcement of a $107 million package to support an “orderly and well-planned” shutdown of the trade.
The package – to be funded in next Tuesday’s Budget – will include $64.6 million to assist producers and workers across the supply chain manage the phase-out of their industry.
The West understands that will include access to advice, grants for capital upgrades and support to expand processing capacity.
Rural financial counsellors and broader mental health support for farmers will be funded as part of the package.
A further $27 million will be put towards boosting demand for sheep products in Australia and internationally, including in the Middle East and north Africa, while $2.6 million will be set aside to improve sheep welfare standards.
A so-called “transition advocate” will be appointed to act as an intermediary between the industry and Federal Government during the transition.
More than $11 million will be budgeted to implement the phase out, including a stocktake on progress in 2026-27.
The timeframe for the stocktake suggests the industry will be phased out gradually over the course of the decade rather than shut down immediately.
Labor went to the past two federal elections promising to phase out live sheep exports after the deaths of about 2400 sheep on a ship from Fremantle to the Middle East in 2017.
We could use the ships to take those antisemitic uni students to the Middle East instead. They baa like sheep and would like living in MENA with their new friends.
Idiotic – not a single cent to the farmers which is what they need. Increase demand in Australia – how much more can we consume.
every real industry has been destroyed by unions and labor
“I am pleased to inform you that we will begin offering COVID-19 vaccinations to eligible on-site essential colleagues and contractors over the next several weeks.
Eligible on-site essential contractors will be notified, either by e-mail or by their Pfizer sponsor, and will receive instructions for registering for an on-site appointment as well.
“The vaccine doses to be used for this program are separate and distinct from those committed by Pfizer to governments around the world and will not impact supply to national governments in any way,” reads the leaked email.
I will only believe our governments are in the business of protecting their populations when they start investigating allegations like this one. I think a few of our politicians must be starting to think by now why they were not offered the same deal.
Miltonf
May 11, 2024 8:52 am
Black Ball never been to Portland. Must check it out. Mt Gambier was another wonderful surprise. Beautiful old stone buildings.
Let’s be amateur profilers: Old, divorced, bitter, post-divorce conversion to lesbianism, cats, patchouli, feels safer in the woods with a bear than a man*.
How did I go?
*Apparently a concept going around the internet that Brittney type women would feel safer being in the woods with a bear than a man.
The Grattan Institute’s Tony Wood has strong hopes for Australia’s renewable future:
[Unlinkable OZ]
There is mounting evidence that without further action the National Electricity Market may not be able to deliver enough investment in low-emissions generation, storage and transmission when and where it will be needed.
The good news is that prices are showing signs of falling, and the government can claim some credit for that. Today, renewables have an almost 40 per cent share of generation and government projections have been for almost 70 per cent by 2030.
What Tony is missing is that renewable have a share of generation that ranges between 40% and ~0%, depending on time of day, wind conditions, and storage availability.
The 0% part of that range is a bit of a problem.
But luckily, there is a solution to this dreary technical issue:
The key to reforming the electricity system is to accept and work with today’s messy but now committed policy frameworks and market mechanisms through the coal closure era, while developing the reforms that will deliver long-term success for post-coal Australia. A carefully designed, effectively regulated and well-maintained electricity market will deliver the best long-term outcome for consumers.
Gotcha.
We just need us one of them regulated, well-maintained markets and we’ll be sweet.
Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan theatrically inserted a miniature copy of the UN charter into a transparent paper shredder.Credit: YouTube/United Nations
Eyrie
May 11, 2024 9:18 am
Via Bob Zimmerman’s behindtheblack.com
How SpaceX operates and gets things done. https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-work-at-spacex-elon-musk-2024-4
A sample: The directive was if I was in a meeting and it was adding value to what I did daily, stay, or if I was adding value based on my expertise, stay — but if neither of those things were happening, you should get up and respectfully walk out. In one instance, a government customer came in with a 50-slide deck. Six slides into the presentation, 75% of the room had walked out. I had to tell him that if he didn’t get to the point, I’d be the only person left in the room — and only because I had to walk him out. He skipped ahead to his last five slides. That kind of environment makes you much more efficient.
H B Bear
May 11, 2024 9:21 am
Still cannot believe KRuddy missed out on the UN Secretary General job. He was born for it.
Aaron
May 11, 2024 9:21 am
If I were a Jew, I’d be thinking there’s is only one country to be relatively safe in.
Gotta luv how easy it is for some blog sites to do backflips .. I read “reddit” but don’t participate .. Anywayz day after day they have a surplus of “luv Hamas” threads and we -luvs-Palis is 99% of the commentary .. Yet, this morning, they ran aOz/UnN vote thread and ……. 100% of the comments are, basically, Luigi & the “pong” are furglewitz .. not one “luv-of-Palis” comment …….!
Roger
May 11, 2024 9:39 am
Still cannot believe KRuddy missed out on the UN Secretary General job. He was born for it.
Two guys were picked up by the cops for smoking dope and appeared in court before the judge. The judge said, “You seem like nice young men, and I’d like to give you a second chance rather than jail time. I want you to go out this weekend and try to show others the evils of drug use and pursued them to give up drugs forever. I’ll see you back in court Monday.” Monday, the two guys were in court, and the judge said to the first one, “How did you do over the weekend?” “Well, your honor, I persuaded 17 people to give up drugs forever.” “17 people? That’s wonderful. What did you tell them?” “I used a diagram, your honor. I drew two circles like this: O o and told them this (the big circle) is your brain before drugs and this (small circle)is your brain after drugs.” “That’s admirable,” said the judge. “And you, how did you do?” (to the 2nd guy) “Well, your honor, I persuaded 156 people to give up drugs forever.” “156 people! That’s amazing! How did you manage to do that!” “Well, I used the same two circles. I pointed to the small circle and told them, “This is your bum hole before prison….”
The Russians only appear to have committed reconnaissance forces thus far, which is to be expected – Russian troops caught on video in the border region (see the attached stills) seem to be largely proceeding on foot. Russian drones and long-range fire strikes are, however, very much preceding them. Ukrainian forces in the immediate border region are nevertheless retreating and photos of a number of prisoners have emerged.
I saw a report several weeks ago that Ukrainian troops had largely withdrawn from the border region to more secure defenses farther back, but on the other hand they don’t seem to have a lot in the area – I’ve only seen the 58th Brigade and the ultranationalist RDK and Aidar units mentioned. Ukrainian “second-line” fortification efforts have also been shambolic, seemingly with only small segments fully built out for propaganda purposes.
This activation of the Russian “N Group” on the northeast Ukrainian border also marks the return of General Lapin to the active battlefield. Previously he was in command of the Central Military District detachment (“O Group,” now active around Avdeevka) during the Russian push to seize northwest Lugansk Oblast in May-June 2022; lately he’s been organizing Russian reserve forces and made a personal appearance during an effort to push back an RDK border raid last year.
This is going to develop significantly over the coming days. Huge question marks remain over the size, disposition, and intentions of this new Russian force now pushing into Kharkov, as well as over Russian plans elsewhere along the front line.
Good summary Dover.
This action extends the line of conflict, by a reasonable margin.
As you report, the Russian numbers are not massive here, but nonetheless, it will require Ukraine to move resources around to defend the situation.
The problem for St Volodymyr the Pure and the other haters of Ukraine, currently destroying their population, is that, they do not have the troops available to do this.
Wherever they take the troops “from”, to plug this gap, Ivan will attack “there”.
Even if every weapon in the world was given to ‘elensky, they simply do not have the men, let alone trained men, to use them.
This is somewhat confusing, as just over a month ago, St Volodymyr himself stated that Ukraine had lost only 31,000 troops so far.
Their army was over a million strong, (the largest in Europe), in Feb 2022.
A carefully designed, effectively regulated and well-maintained electricity market will deliver the best long-term outcome for consumers
What fantastical horsesh*t, especially when we know what the “long-term outcome for consumers” will be. Regular, lengthy blackouts, if there’s any electrickery available at all.
As for the UN vote, just when you thought those stinking labore deadsh*ts couldn’t plumb any subterranean new lows, they grab some fresh shovels and keep digging.
The #summit between the two countries produced results that correspond to the #Chinese President #XiJinping’s historic #visit, with the parties signing eighteen important #agreements, the #ForeignMinister announced.
Mak – left click and paste the piece as plain text. Links are wiped out that way.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 11, 2024 10:09 am
Rabbi ‘totally appalled’ and ‘offended’ by Labor MP who compared WA Liberal leader to Adolf HitlerEmma KirkNCA NewsWire
Fri, 10 May 2024 5:23PM
A rabbi has called out a Labor MP in Western Australia for “appalling” comments he made comparing a parliamentary colleague to Adolf Hitler.
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam had spoken out against a bill that would make it easier to change gender on a birth certificate and said her party would ban the use of puberty blockers to children under the age of 16.
Labor MP Stuart Aubrey told parliament that like Hitler was to the Jews, Ms Mettam was to the trans community of WA.
“Infamous world leaders have found ways to blame marginalised sections of society for the suffering of the masses, using mass communication methods to spread propaganda, lies and fear and using politics of fear and division in an attempt to overthrow democracies and convince people to vote against their better interests,” he said.
“People like Trump and the Mexicans, Hitler and the Jewish, Abbott and the boat people, Morrison and trans athletes, Dutton and Indigenous Australians, Hanson and Asians, Indigenous Australians and basically all minorities, and the Leader of the Liberal Party, Libby Mettam, and the trans community of WA.”
Rabbi David Freilich said the comments were “totally appalling”.
“I lost most of my family during the Holocaust and making those comparisons was very offensive,” he said.
“Comparing situations to one of the most atrocious and vile things to take place against humanity trivialises the enormity the Holocaust had against Jewish people and all of humanity.
“Whenever a politician uses that comparison, I get very offended and it hurts me deeply.
“It doesn’t just hurt me, it hurts many people in the Jewish community and beyond who lost whole families.”
Apart from Jews existing in reality and Hitler having them murdered en masse, the two are just the same. Evil and imbecility concentrated in one ALP pollie. Now multiply that by the rest of them and the Greens.
This week’s Multipolarity podcast is also out. Looks at Xi’s visit to Belgrade and Budapest, Egypt moving away from USD gradually, among other things.
Mak Siccar
May 11, 2024 10:11 am
Progressive crusade to bend arc of history
Chris Uhlmann
A religious civil war is raging but only one side understands that it is a battle over theology.
At stake is whether the ascendant state morality will drive deeper into the ancient institutions of faith and force believers to submit to its temporal commandments.
Nationally, the Australian Law Reform Commission’s final report on religious exemptions from anti-discrimination law is just another sortie in a long campaign over what the state will allow you to believe and how far it is prepared to go to force apostates to heel.
Queensland’s proposed anti-discrimination bill also seeks to narrow the rights of the faithful. Alex Deagon, from Queensland University of Technology, argues it will “significantly undermine the ability of religious organisations to employ persons in accordance with their faith”.
When you lose the freedom to manifest your faith, abide by your beliefs and the liberty to ensure your children are educated in your creed, what is left? The commission is erasing the right of a religious school to organise around its own ethos.
This is an extreme form of laicism, driven by a fierce “progressive” crusade against Christianity. In a multifaith society that means all believers are on this battlefield, as the institutions of government are mobilised against them. Like many things dubbed progressive, it is the latest incarnation of the despotic tendencies of the Bureautocracy (n): the ubiquitous, unelected technocratic blob bent on imposing its notion of utopia on the mob. Its relentlessly mutating dogma has spread like Paterson’s curse through all the institutions.
In a profound irony we are witnessing the final metamorphosis of Christianity as zealots torch the last idol: belief in a power that transcends the state.
The child has turned on a parent it does not recognise because the source code of this secular faith is the notion of universal human rights. That idea was born with the belief that each individual is valued by God, an avowedly Christian concept and part of a set of revolutionary beliefs that the early faithful simply called “The Way”.
Universal equality is captured in Paul’s letter to the Galatians: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Another epoch-changing idea rings from the first sentences of John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the word (logos). And the word was with God. And the word was God.”
The New Testament was written in Greek and logos means both word and reason. So, in the Christian tradition, God is reason itself. Christianity is the singular encounter between Greek philosophy and Jewish mysticism, the marriage of reason and faith. The theology that evolved was a thoroughly different way of thinking. Let’s call it wisdom.
This wisdom elevated the poor, the meek, the righteous, the merciful and peacemakers. Faith in God demands you “treat others as you would like them to treat you”, and not to act with reason is contrary to the nature of God.
Christianity is born in the East, informed by the West and takes on its historically decisive character in Europe. Europe is defined by its faith and its faith is defined by reason. Faith and reason set Europe on the road to liberal democracy.
Through all its failures, and its many crimes, reason pushes the West forward and demands that it learn and evolve. And the excesses of both church and state always had to contend with its Christian conscience.
The savage colonisation of the Americas was fiercely denounced by Dominican friar Bartolome de Las Casas, the evil of slavery collapsed when it confronted the faith of William Wilberforce. Despite often spectacularly failing to abide by its ideals, Christianity demanded the West slowly bend towards realising the radical demand of the central tenet of its faith. The new commandment to “love one another” excludes no one.
As historian Tom Holland demonstrates in his epic work Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, “To live in a Western country is to live in a society that is utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions.”
It is, of course, a heritage that the zealots of the New Way deny. To them their belief system is self-evident because it just is. It is neutral. It is agnostic. That is a delusion. The New Way exhibits some of the best and all the worst features of a proselytising religion. It looks to uplift, to guide, to build a better, more just world. It is also deeply intolerant of dissent and has established the institutions of inquisition to police heresy, in state and federal human rights commissions.
It’s hard to criticise anti-discrimination laws but the growth of objective penalties for subjective crimes should trouble those who care about liberal democracy. Such penalties are how American journalist Robert Wargas defines totalitarianism.
What standards will be applied? The notion of transgender identity, for example, is a rapidly moving target. Even the Australian Human Rights Commission’s website admits the “terminology is strongly contested”.
So, this latest assault by the state on the faithful is a battle of competing theologies, as the disciples of Caesar seek to mount his image in every temple. And the insurgents know nothing of faith because, as anyone who has any dealings with religious schools knows, most have no desire to discriminate and are far more tolerant of difference than “progressives”.
What religious institutions don’t want is to be forced to submit to state diktats that deliberately undermine the ethos of their institution. Here let’s recall that the Labor Party pledge demands its members not be a part of any other organisation that is inimical to its ideals. Why shouldn’t religious schools enjoy the same right?
The arc of history has bent out of shape. Those who claim the heritage of reason have discounted the role of faith in their enlightenment. They discriminate and call it equality. They unreasonably seek to force the faithful to heel.
So, this latest assault by the state on the faithful is a battle of competing theologies, as the disciples of Caesar seek to mount his image in every temple.
I’ll say it again…everyone is a theologian; even the secularists.
Like Tony Abbott, he had an early stint in a RC seminary, so presumably he had a decent formation in the Catholic iteration of the Christian faith to begin with.
A couple of his exegetical points are debatable but he’s painting with a broad brush.
He’s at the right place on the right of the religious to be free from the unreasonable interference of secularist absolutists, Titus; he just took the wrong route to get there!
“Made up stories to close down access to the National Park .”
When I’m in the area I warn people that they’re looking in the general direction of Mt. Warning and that it’s illegal to cast white eyes on it, because it’s literally genocide.
If course, just a single poofteenth of an Aboriginal gene makes you a co-owner of it, and thus able to shame any honky for daring to look at it without written permission and a welcome to country ceremony at the modest fee of $50,000, to cover expenses. Which includes a free admonishment for the sin of your ancestors being dragged here in chains and the enormous privilege that went with it.
Katzenjammer
May 11, 2024 10:19 am
Sleazy has done the numbers, principled behaviour has been abandoned for political benefit.
Don’t give them local politics as an excuse. It’s about Jews and the Jewish state. They voted Jews out. Excusing it for votes makes them sound rational.
Has Dreyfus made any statements about these events?
Min
May 11, 2024 10:22 am
in doing research for my latest book which takes place in Florence it seems we are still facing the hordes trying to take over Europe. 900’s when they stopped them in France. Federico Stupor Mundi 1221 features in my story went on the crusades, won with diplomacy, married Saladin ?Caliph’s daughter and become king of Jerusalem. He spoke Arabic and had Saracen archers in his army and entourage included a harem. In Italy fought the papacy who were trying to take over. Did he ever meet St, Francis ?
Mahathir in Malaysia was a pain in the backside in many ways. But on this issue he was spot on: the hypocrisy of affluent, romantic white Greenies wanting to keep people in developing countries in a human zoo if poverty and backwardness so that they can indulge in virtue-signalling.
The choice is not between acting or not acting to deliver a successful energy transition. The transition is upon us. The choice from here is to go well or to go badly.
I don’t know what else he says, but here’s who he is:
Tony Wood is the Director of the Energy Program at the Grattan Institute
Well how about that? A fox says he should guard the henhouse for the good of the proles.
The Oz keeps giving space to these people. Perhaps they should publish science fiction instead, it’d be more believable.
Miltonf
May 11, 2024 11:04 am
It’s intriguing, thinking about the attack on Musk’s factory in Germany, how the marxist establishment can conjure up a violent rabble with a moment’s notice.
The choice is not between acting or not acting to deliver a successful energy transition. The transition is upon us. The choice from here is to go well or to go badly.
The bar and restaurant specialises in plant-based meals, and most dishes are dairy-free.
Fans are devastated at the closure.
“This is so sad,” one commenter posted. …
Popular nationwide vegan fast food chain Lord of the Fries closed its last NSW store this week. The Newtown Lord of the Fries was only about two kilometres from Sunshine Inn.
Obviously not devastated enough to actually buy enough of their stuff. Pass me another steak sanga.
This is from Chris Ulhmann’s column. ALRC has always been over the top and all about changing our society. The overall effect will not be to maximise the realisation of human rights but to curtail them against sections of the community they don’t like. Extreme individualism is only to be extended to a preferred section of the population. That somebody’s extreme individualism impinges on others’ rights does not concern the ALRC in the least.
This agency refuses to recognise that churches are groups of individuals whose rights will be curtailed or even simply forbidden in order to placate some other vocal groups. The Australian Law Reform Commission is actually working agains voters rights. This agency needs to be closed and new laws proposed only by our elected representatives who are answerable to voters for their actions and policies. Enough of the unaccountable elite.
Rather, get some sunlight in. Individual topics attract those who are activist on that topic, and education is concentrating activist ideas in successive generations of graduates.
The institution may be recoverable even when the hot topic of the moment is captured by the forces of woke.
thefrollickingmole
May 11, 2024 11:33 am
I disagree a little on this point
but the one and only reason he found that Lehrmann was a rapist was because Higgins was, apparently, super-duper credible.
it was, if anything more convoluted than that. The judge was at pains to point out discrepancies and changes in Brittle-knees evidence was in line with ” victims” experiences and shouldn’t be taken as unreliability on her behalf.
in effect it was a self licking ice cream cone, because she claimed to be a victim any evidence given by a victim should be viewed in terms of a trauma survivor. any discrepancies were able to be waved away with this.
Lee J seemed to have made much of Brittany’s pre and post Sharaz evidence. I’m not sure that was valid. There are a number of not remote reasons way it may have changed. Especially to support a finding of rape, irregardless of the degree of probability.
Undoubtedly, but Lee could wave that away with ” trauma from a rape” before using the most beneficial reading of Brittle- knees statements to establish the ” fact”.
Probably the only bit of his judgement I found very troubling.
IMHO Leahmann hung himself with the ” there was no sex, but if there was it was consensual” gambit.
AFAIK Bad Boy Bruce never put forward any argument that allowed sex to have taken place. Its almost as if he was telling the truth because he could have allowed for some minor fumbling before she unloaded her dinner & fell asleep. A tale many could believe.
Diogenes
May 11, 2024 11:34 am
The #summit between the two countries produced results that correspond to the #Chinese President #XiJinping’s historic #visit, with the parties signing eighteen important #agreements, the #ForeignMinister announced.
Orban has lost me. It was justifiable when he opposed EU fascism, but like someone voting Green because the Libs piss you off, submitting to China and Russia is criminal stupidity. There is never a justification for providing a bridge into Western society for imperialist dictatorships.
We must now support EU moves to shut this treasonous lunatic down.
The sole positive thing that Morrisson ever did was to shut down Andrew’s attempt to do the same. Not that the outcome was sustained for long since China’s principal agent has been appointed as Australia’s senior public servant by Andrew’s puppet.
The chances of Hungary under Orban, receiving cash from Von der Crazy, or any of the other vacuous, thieving dogs running the EU, would be at best, remote.
Hypocrisy has never been much of a problem for the Left.
Miltonf
May 11, 2024 11:41 am
Don’t know Dover. I’ll take ‘the Voice’ as an example. A clearly marxist project with old 70s commos heavily involved. It had the support of government, big business, education and media.
Intrresting observation Chris. The electorate would vote this down in a flash, but to do so they need candidates who see their role as acyually representing the people.
Miltonf
May 11, 2024 11:44 am
Marxism is certainly a great cover for class warfare.
Some great toons this morning Even Ramirez was clever.
Just rethinking Lehrmann. His appeal options are solid. Lee is a self indulgent jurist. He said this in his cost judgment:
Justice Lee said, even in an alternative where he did not find the rape took place, he was unable to find there was no sex at all. “Even if I had not reached the level of satisfaction Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins … I would have declined to award costs in Mr Lehrmann’s favour.”
This is remarkable. Firstly Lee is saying he cannot find that sex did not take place but since it did it was non-consensual. But he offers no criteria for saying sex took place rather than did not let alone that it was non-consensual. This is a half rotten apple but you don’t know which part until you bite it.
Secondly he says even if he found Lehrmann did not commit rape he would still punish him by not awarding costs even though he would have proved his point. This shows fatal bias.
The cost awards are a dog’s breakfast: 10 have their truth but not Qualified privilege costs. So they have costs for being right but no costs for anything to do with proving they were right because according to Lee they did not attempt to prove they were right. They will have buggar all costs once the costs consultants and the fed court assessor combs through their file separating the 2 areas of work.
Brucie should appeal. He can continue his law degree but can’t practise unless he overturns Lee’s judgment because bankrupts and folk of bad character cannot be lawyers.
Brucie should appeal. He can continue his law degree but can’t practise
Doubtful anyone is going to fund it. The legal beagles have been warned off by the collective. Time for him to do an apprenticeship in carpentry and go work in a real job.
Sancho Panzer
May 11, 2024 11:57 am
Indolent
May 11, 2024 8:49 am
International politics rarely resonate in the Australian suburbs, but I think this issue will further damage Labor’s already tattered primary vote.
…
You can’t blame people for switching off when the major parties are just two sides of the same coin. I’m ashamed of them too
Oh, really?
From the Oz:-
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham said Australia’s vote at the United Nations General Assembly was only “advancing the wishes of terrorists”.
How about you do some reading instead of just blindly posting “pox on both their houses” shit?
Though we were freer only a decade ago and markedly better off financially.
Bruce of Newcastle
May 11, 2024 12:07 pm
The new Apple ad is a fine piece of reverse advertising. Lots of electrons are being burned in outrage as I write. Meanwhile another example of reverse advertising is still resonating:
Revenue for Anheuser-Busch jumped 2.6% to $14.55 billion from higher prices, but volume sold dropped 0.6%, though it was less than Wall Street anticipated. The largest decline came from North America, where volume dropped 9.9%, largely due to sales of Bud Light.
Sales to retailers and wholesalers were down 13.7% and 10.7%, respectively, in the US.
“We’ve lost a whole generation of hardcore Bud Light shoppers,” Bump Williams of Bump Williams Consulting told Yahoo Finance. “It’s going to take us at least 10 years to try and recapture what we lost in one year.”
I do hope MBAs will get to study this corporate catastrophe. I doubt it though, given how woke universities are these days.
Johnny Rotten
May 11, 2024 12:15 pm
The next time that Tennis Elbow or anyone from this Feral Guv’ment or the MSM or the Judicial system or anyone else tries to muzzle you then just point out some of the Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN in 1948 –
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
2. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
This Feral Guv’ment does bow to the wishes of the UN, does it not?
Martin van Kranendonk is an astrobiology and geology professor at Curtin University. Speaking to Newsweek, he said: “Venus is not a nice place. Metal space-exploration landers melt in minutes. Mean surface temperature is 867 degrees F. This is because 1) it is closer to the sun than Earth, so warmer, and 2) because it has a super-greenhouse atmosphere composed of 96 percent CO2 (carbon dioxide).
Mar’s atmosphere is 95% CO2 and you would freeze your nuts off there. What makes Venus as hot as a Kardashian arse is atmospheric pressure. The atmospheric pressure of Venus is 1,043,000 kg/m2. On Mars the atmospheric pressure is 173 kg/m2.
Venus is a shithole because it is close to the Sun and non-tectonic. Because there are no gaps in its surface the internal pressure builds up and every now and then the whole surface is overturned by lava releasing vast amounts of CO2. Nothing to do with a greenhouse effect.
Single malt would get me on board.
…maybe not. Will they also subsidise airfare?
Sancho Panzer
May 11, 2024 12:18 pm
thefrollickingmole
May 11, 2024 11:33 am
I disagree a little on this point
but the one and only reason he found that Lehrmann was a rapist was because Higgins was, apparently, super-duper credible.
This was a flaw in Lee’s reasoning. The Great Divide in Britnah’s credibility coincides with the arrival on the scene of Sharaz, and the concoction of the Sweeping Political Conspiracy story, which was comprehensively disproved by credible witnesses and contemporaneous notes.
So, Britnah was quite capable of being seduced by Sharaz into telling the most monstrous lies about Reynolds, Brown et al, but was an incorruptible truth teller in the presence of the ratings hungry TeeVee star Wilkinson?
Come on, man.
Also, I could see how Lee might find, on the balance of probabilities, that sexual activity had taken place. It is the absolute certainty and graphic detail he goes into which is of concern. He failed his own “just the facts, ma’am” maxim which he applied rigorously to witnesses.
It speaks to the arrogance and hubris of the judicial class, believing they have special insights into the mysteries of life.
Late night reading
Australia now has the worst, most despicable, craven, corrupt and malice driven government since the days of the Rum Corps.
Prove me wrong.
Cant
Whilst I am definitely not supporting the vile dross currently occupying the Treasury benches, were you out of the country between 2020-2023?
Without the financial assistance provided by Scummo et al, the dictatorial scum in charge of the states could NEVER have trampled over our civil rights.
The Rum Corps at least knew how to make money via mercantile activity.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Mark Knight #4.
Brett Lethbridge.
David Pope.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom, you are a champion! Thanks for all your thoughtful work.
Michael Ramirez.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
You’re not wrong though the government before this one was almost as bad which led the people to give it a flick. It’s difficult to make a good choice when the options are so poor.
Thats been the problem for over a decade now. Small target Opposition not losing their way into government. Hewson ensured you will never see real policy from Opposition in Australia again.
The real government of Australia appears to be the extreme left wing unelected Public Service plus a politicised judiciary. Elected politicians are just ignored.
Leak is so good at extracting the micturition
Bill Leak was even better though. Maintain the rage.
Thanks Tom, many many lols with the cartoon haul today.
The change of policy on gas should be something the media beat the ALP over the head with considering it’s changing a policy that goes back to 2007.
But of course they won’t.
Do Victorian’s believe there will ever be an airport rail link?
Victorian politics is part Illinois, part South Africa.
“Dudzy” beating someone over the head .. LOL! ..
don’t hold your breath .. LOL!
Largest export of each US state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_xuLzZjCLU
Aircraft production impacts so many US states.
Mt Warning. Met Marc Hendrix yesterday who is fighting to have secret men’s business lifted from Mt Warning . Made up stories to close down access to the National Park . Even the original indigenous tribe of the area want to keep it open but protesters rule . BTW asked him if protesters looked like me blonde blue eyed I guessed correctly..Soon there will be no access to any place in Australia so about time to reverse If they want their land back they have to give back all the stuff they have got from the whiteys let’s start with mobile phones
Next should be motor cars, then housing.
I applaud Marc’s efforts on this – truly heroic in these times.
I also encourage everyone to ignore these rules if they’re in the area.
Become ungovernable on these matters.
For Cat Trekkies…
Watching TOS “Obsession” dubbed in Spanish! Very dramatic!
Spain is great fun. Even for dags like me.
Es la vida Jim, pero no como la conocemos.
Qué? Jim’s not from Barcelona. Iowa, iirc. 😀
Get the jug eared imbecile before this judge. The horse has bolted though, this should have been done at the time. Hun:
Andrews and that fat phuck Cornelius were glowing in their praise of the jackbooted thugs during this period of interminable idiocy. Get the feeling their chairs got a little hot.
Wow. A stunning development. I bet it won’t get much airing in the general MSM. But I do get the feeling that a realisation of the enormous wrong that occurred is beginning.
I will be watching the news tonight to see what airplay this gets.
This is the first time I have heard of potential judicial action against the the Vikpol thugs.
If they are charged and have any sense they will dob in superiors all the way up to commissioner and Minister to face charges too. Then go after that rotten khunt Andrews.
Well done Judge Gaynor.
A few months in jail and their bankruptcy from damages might concentrate a few minds.
I can dream
And this was just one particularly egregious incident among many from this period. This group had already dispersed and were departing the area, the uniformed thugs literally hunted them down.
Kudos to the judge here too, albeit I doubt the cops or DPP will let this lie. No doubt Kerry Judd will I’ll lodge a secret complaint about Judge Gaynor.
It would be worthwhile putting a few of these pricks under the spot lamp and seeing if there is any evidence of unwritten orders to brutalise. It might just be me, but I had a strong sense at the time of seeing the same cop, older silver haired, recurring in multiple instances of filmed brutality.
Too right l, I fear. The regime tools in the OPP will refuse to lay charges and get the judge sacked. The regime tools in the higher ranks of the judiciary will be only too keen.
What about IBAC?
We know Cain’s corrupt sprog will do zip.
Before it’s lights out here in Santander, it might be worth remembering another US president and another hostage situation involving US citizens.
Soo “plenty wrong” & Luigi go against the USA & Israel, officially , a now standard procedure where Oz pollies are concerned, and vote YES to legitimize terrorism … furgling traitors ..!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-11/australia-votes-yes-at-un-for-more-palestinian-rights/103833838
We now engage in the thrilling sport of watching the Teals squirm.
Comments Muz Spender?
Australia did not vote yes only the communist Jew hating Labor politicians did.
If the LNP get back in and don’t rescind that, they are as big a pack of traitorous scum as the ALP.
So the United Nations, with us included, has just voted for a group of people ( defined as Palestinians ) who are acknowledged as led by terrorists, to join the United Nations.
We have formally entered an era of deadly intent. It will not end well.
Emotional clip.
The family were up for $50k to retrieve him and the wreckage.
HeavyDSparks with his mates did it for free.
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In this video, we’re sharing the recovery of a tragic airplane crash that took the life of Wayne Wirt. We have The Wirt Family in our thoughts and prayers as we mourn the loss of this amazing Husband, Father, and Grandfather.
HUGE thanks to:
Ryan McDonald- North Wind Helicopters
Mark and Mike Patey
Ben Schumacher- Timberland Helicopters
Linn County Sheriff’s Office
US Forest Service
NTSB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utB9YApOBQc
I’m so ASHAMED of Australia. 25 countries abstained. 9 rejected.
An abstain is the same as voting for.
In a stunning decision handed down in the County Court, Judge Liz Gaynor ruled police were the “aggressors”
The Victorian machine starts finding ways to either remove judge or ensure they never rise higher than their current role.
Britney sets the benchmark.
A couple mill each.
Done and dusted by Tues lunchtime
Pali group of the day ..
Trigglypuff Family.
Well fed lot, aren’t they?
Apparently on hunger strike. This could take awhile….
Looking forward to Joshie’s Sky special on Anti-Semitism. So pleased that Sky is broadcasting it.
Sadly, the people who need to see it don’t and won’t watch Sky.
Frydenberg is not the best person to present such a weighty subject.
He’s an ex-politician and hardly an eminent one.
But Roger, he is a proud Jew. And that matters.
As a recently ex politician they’ve lost c. 50% of their prospective audience to begin with. If you’re going to have a politician present it, it has to be someone who has long since exited the political stage and has atoned for their political sins in the meantime, i.e. “eminent”. Frankly, I can’t think of any who’ve managed that.
In my view Deb Conway would have been an inspired choice as she has spent decades in the arts – including presenting on the ABC – and has garnered a lot of respect from lefties in the course of her career.
And that’s your target audience.
Agreed, Rog – perhaps you should let sky know this directly.
The idiots.
Frydchickenburger is the incompetent imbecile responsible for this deliberately engineered “cost of living crisis”.
Good morning all, except it isn’t a good morning is it? I have woken up to find myself living in a country that has a government that rewards a ‘people’ who partake in the wholesale rape, butchery, slaughter, decapitation and kidnapping of Jews!
I have thought for a while how this country has changed but nothing can really prepare me for this. As you all know, I am not and have never been one to mince my words, I have long thought and said out loud that Pong, Sleazy and most of Labor and the left are now unapologetic Jew haters. They are the Nazis. The actions of this government overnight at the UN prove this.
No wonder Pong and Sleazy have been in a bind since October 7, because now it is pretty clear that they approve of what Hamas did that day. They like a dead Jews.
I now equate both of them alongside Hitler and other Jew haters through history who have tried to destroy the Jewish people.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Oh and by the way Pong and Sleazy, where are the hostages?
I’ll stand next to you Cassie, or in front. Whatever is needed.
They’re probably trying to remain out of the sights, of the IDF snipers Cassie.
It seems as soon as a hostage gets within shouting distance of the IDF, bad things happen.
With you all the way, Cassie, as virtually everyone here is. It is heartbreaking and sickening. All I can say is – hopefully the “quiet Australians” think as we do. The amazing outburst of the Victorian magistrate re the disgusting Nazi tactics of the police during the Covid demonstrations gives me hope.
On the other hand, Australia has changed radically in terms of demographics in the past 2 generations. This MUST reflect in philosophy and general characteristics of the populace.
I mourn the Australia I grew up in.
5 Rwandans arrive in the Torres Strait and claim asylum.
Why bypass so many safe countries to get here?
The UN refugee convention is no longer fit for purpose.
BIRM.
We should withdraw from it. No question.
It would help solve a lot of problems now and in the future. Do it.
It’s been decades in the making, calli.
Frog in the boiling pot syndrome.
Headlines in newspapers should read “Australian Government Supports Terrorism”, instead due to omission it reads “Australian Government Supports Terrorism and so do We”.
Nuther bunch overnight.
ABF intercepts boat carrying 33 suspected asylum seekers (Sky News, 11 May)
Looks like Labor has accidentally lost control of country shopper boats again. Amazing how they always accidentally lose control like this every time they get in. Accidents keep on happening. Accidentally like. It’s a mystery.
Boats are electoral poison for the Liars. Luigi will need to sort this out quickly – something Giles and Clare O’Neil show no sign of being able to do.
It’s quite obvious the Hutt River Province was doing things all wrong.
Interesting juxtaposition. the first link is drone footage of scummy students etc, training for their protests.
https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1788036437071323347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1788223022727327899%7Ctwgr%5E25f90bf464d0d96e86703c25df4ed8ea948329a5%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
This clip is what happens when ONE man stands up to the squealing filth.
https://twitter.com/saras76/status/1788273719015563454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1788273719015563454%7Ctwgr%5E25f90bf464d0d96e86703c25df4ed8ea948329a5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Went for a stroll down to the port area of Portland. Ships loading up with I don’t know what, but to watch this in action is a different type of beauty. Shit that makes us prosperous. Except our idiots in government don’t want that.
Was also struck by the amount of bluestone buildings around the place. Just about every church is built thusly. Just superb.
Wood chips for Japan. The drive across to Nelson is very instructive but only if you have oodles of time. Cape Bridgwater is worth a look. Also the Car Museum in Portland.
Yes thank you hzhousewife was indeed woodchips. The sun hadn’t risen when I went down.
Not only woodchips, but logs as well
Paywallian:
International politics rarely resonate in the Australian suburbs, but I think this issue will further damage Labor’s already tattered primary vote.
If the Sword and Shield of the Party are anything
like QLD plod under Blight, the good Judge will be
assigned her very own traffic branch “maverick”.
Despite all those attempts at washing, cleaning and scrubbing oneself, yet one still feel dirty because nothing is able to clean and wipe away the filth and grime that lingers, this is how I feel today after waking up and reading the news about what Pong, Sleazy and their fellow Nazis did overnight at the UN.
I think Adolf is smiling in hell today. He has just added new members to his club.
Cassie, the hundreds of thousands of Australian soldiers who gave their lives fighting fascism in World War II are also turning in their graves.
Around 40,000, but the point stands.
Gaza Greta, the Gruesome Goblin’s elderly relatives.
Sigh, someone left the nursing home door open again.
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1788918123665481883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1788918123665481883%7Ctwgr%5E25f90bf464d0d96e86703c25df4ed8ea948329a5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Not just symbolic politics either. Witness the all-out assault on habeas corpus, the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair trial and to defend oneself in court, mounted by the woke left and their media organs.
Noticing on a lot the of “news ” sites that allow comments the majority are blocking opinions on their “we luv Hamas/Pali” fables .. Seems they are prepared to print the luv-of-terrorism adoration drooling but prefer not to have any debate on same …….!
This appalling UN decision is such a nonsense. What on earth is this Palestine “nation”? Is it the few millions who live in Gaza & the West Bank? If so, they are hardly a nation, since they ( specifically the Gazans) depend almost totally on donations of millions of dollars support from Muslim oil nations such as Qatar.
As many have noted, Gaza could develop into a coastal trading & entrepreneurial nation like Singapore if the population was so motivated. They are not.
What the “Palestinians” want is no less than the hugely prosperous technological nation of Israel with all its riches.
And Israelis to keep it all working, Pallis are too lazy to do that.
And within three years, without Israeli input, it would turn into the usual middle-east squabbling and insanitary unproductive shithole.
I smell a Chinese rat.
“Something Super Weird Is Going On”: Musk Reacts To ‘Anticapitalist’ Attack On Berlin Gigafactory (11 May)
The attack happened yesterday. If these are climate crusaders, which they seem to be in addition to boilerplate radical Marxism, then why attack a maker of electric cars? Ok, yes, Elon has annoyed the left with his Twitter buy, but as Dover said the other day cui bono?
Caboolture.
Where lifestyle really counts.
Indeed it does.
That is so sad. Caboolture was lovely in the early eighties.
So the members of the U.N. are betraying their morals and standards, while the citizens of the UK attempt to destroy the Magna Carta. What a day!
It’s the UN. What morals or standards?
Cassie, the hundreds of thousands of Australian soldiers who gave their lives fighting fascism in World War II are also turning in their graves.
I know, Tom. And our greatest general, a proud Jew and a proud Zionist by the name of Sir John Monash, a man knighted on the battle field by King George V, is also turning in his grave.
John Monash was revered by his troops. My eyes are full of tears as I write this.
RIP Australia.
I expect a lot of students at the University named for him will be withdrawing or transferring today? No ? Hypocrites those little protest darlings are. I’m getting more cranky as the day goes. Going for a bike ride now, have to get clear air.
Much love to you from me Cassie.
Pity our government is filled with terrorist loving miscreants.
I’m also deeply ashamed of the malevolent, despicable scum that made and implemented this outrageous decision. I feel powerless, my local rep is Labor and I’m certain anything I wrote to express my disgust would just be totally ignored.
Almost everybody in my circle of friends and acquaintances are opposed to Hamas and support Israel. The sheep go on voting for dickheads, unfortunately.
I stand with you and with Israel, Cassie.
BoN everything is a mystery to Labor scum, except the brown paper bag.
The brown paper bag is the reason that there will NEVER be a cashless society in the western so-called democracies.
On the UN vote, there are around 850,000 Mueslis in Australia, but only around 100,000 Jews. Many of the latter are in either safe Liberal seats, or Teal seats.
Sleazy has done the numbers, principled behaviour has been abandoned for political benefit.
hzhousewife
May 11, 2024 8:30 am
So the members of the U.N. are betraying their morals and standards, while the citizens of the UK attempt to destroy the Magna Carta. What a day!
There are four originals of the Magna Carta document. One is in Salisbury Cathedral and another in Lincoln Castle.
The British Library has the other two (I think).
The best preserved copy is in Salisbury Cathedral and is quite secure.
https://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/discover/magna-carta/
As for the UN, well they would not know what the Magna Carta is so who gives a shite about that awful Mob and what they do.
Even though they should do as the Magna Carta was the basis for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948.
I thought one copy is in the Parliament House in Canberra.
Wasn’t that attacked a while back?
They may attempt to destroy the physical form, but the ideology remains. Stupid foolish idiotic people. I suppose it takes such actions to arouse the sleeping majority, I hope so.
The text of Magna Carta is incorporated “in extensio” into the constitutions of seventeen of the fifty states……David Starkey 2015
Free download of book on the Israeli Defence Forces …….
https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-idf-training-police-in-australia/
What is it with these foul old wimmin trying to destroy the Magna Carta? Trying to feel important?
How are you supposed to get off a speeding fine? The Corporations Law doesn’t work.
One of them a priestess. Gawd.
Druid?
Christianity is too mild for their liking.
Wow, just wow.
https://twitter.com/fentasyl/status/1789046972835303677
~~datahazard~~
@fentasyl
we took the lead with lock outs , we are a superpower.
You can’t blame people for switching off when the major parties are just two sides of the same coin. I’m ashamed of them too.
Live sheep shutdown date to be revealed as Federal Government unveils new industry ‘transition’ plan
Dan Jervis-BardyThe West Australian
Sat, 11 May 2024 12:00AM
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A timeline to shut down the live sheep export trade will finally be revealed as the Federal Government unveils a new plan to ‘transition’ the industry. Credit: The West Australian
A timeline to shut down the live sheep export trade will finally be revealed as the Federal Government unveils a new $107 million plan to “transition” the industry.
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt will make the long-awaited announcement in Perth on Saturday, ending the uncertainty for WA farmers about how and when the trade will end.
Senator Watt is expected to release the independent panel’s report into the phase out as well as the Federal Government’s response to it.
WA farmers and the State and Federal oppositions have been demanding Labor come clean about the timeline after Senator Watt was handed the panel’s findings in October last year.
The announcement will put an expiry date on an industry that employs about 3000 people across the supply chain – 80 per cent of which are in WA – and ignite a political firestorm for Labor in the State just days out from the Federal Budget.
Senator Watt will attempt to soften the industry and political blowback with the announcement of a $107 million package to support an “orderly and well-planned” shutdown of the trade.
The package – to be funded in next Tuesday’s Budget – will include $64.6 million to assist producers and workers across the supply chain manage the phase-out of their industry.
The West understands that will include access to advice, grants for capital upgrades and support to expand processing capacity.
Rural financial counsellors and broader mental health support for farmers will be funded as part of the package.
A further $27 million will be put towards boosting demand for sheep products in Australia and internationally, including in the Middle East and north Africa, while $2.6 million will be set aside to improve sheep welfare standards.
A so-called “transition advocate” will be appointed to act as an intermediary between the industry and Federal Government during the transition.
More than $11 million will be budgeted to implement the phase out, including a stocktake on progress in 2026-27.
The timeframe for the stocktake suggests the industry will be phased out gradually over the course of the decade rather than shut down immediately.
Labor went to the past two federal elections promising to phase out live sheep exports after the deaths of about 2400 sheep on a ship from Fremantle to the Middle East in 2017.
We could use the ships to take those antisemitic uni students to the Middle East instead. They baa like sheep and would like living in MENA with their new friends.
These bastards.
May corrupt Labor never win another election.
It will all disappear into the pockets of carpetbagger consultants.
In five years the sheep farmer will be left with sheep he cant sell.
Spastic mongs and wreckers.
All so the fart huffing degenerates of Fweemantle don’t have to be exposed to that icky industry.
Cattle next.
Idiotic – not a single cent to the farmers which is what they need. Increase demand in Australia – how much more can we consume.
every real industry has been destroyed by unions and labor
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Pfizer whistleblower has raised the alarm that Pfizer workers were offered a “separate and distinct” COVID vaccine.
The letter is there for all to read.
I will only believe our governments are in the business of protecting their populations when they start investigating allegations like this one. I think a few of our politicians must be starting to think by now why they were not offered the same deal.
Black Ball never been to Portland. Must check it out. Mt Gambier was another wonderful surprise. Beautiful old stone buildings.
@unusual_whales
Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only porduced 7 stations in two years, per Washington Post
Obviously, $1B is not quite enough for one. But too cheap to meter. I wonder where the money is going?
Maaaaaates.
A retired priestess and a retired schoolteacher.
Big clues right there.
Ghastly
Subaru driver?
Axminster over hardwood?
ha ha I think I get it
Let’s be amateur profilers: Old, divorced, bitter, post-divorce conversion to lesbianism, cats, patchouli, feels safer in the woods with a bear than a man*.
How did I go?
*Apparently a concept going around the internet that Brittney type women would feel safer being in the woods with a bear than a man.
Settle bear – ya can’t knock a soob.
In Danger, Public Intellectual at Work news:
The Grattan Institute’s Tony Wood has strong hopes for Australia’s renewable future:
[Unlinkable OZ]
What Tony is missing is that renewable have a share of generation that ranges between 40% and ~0%, depending on time of day, wind conditions, and storage availability.
The 0% part of that range is a bit of a problem.
But luckily, there is a solution to this dreary technical issue:
Gotcha.
We just need us one of them regulated, well-maintained markets and we’ll be sweet.
Top men. Like Tony.
Regulated like South African power generators where there are regular blackouts throughout the day?
Russell Brand interview with Mike Benz. Starts at two and a half minutes.
“You’re Going To Get KILLED!” Mike Benz EXPOSES CIA Secrets Like NEVER Before
Green transition is stitched into the tax code: White House economist
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/how-dare-you-.html
Little Greta’s latest cause..
More on the doom pixie.
https://theconversation.com/misogyny-male-rage-and-the-words-men-use-to-describe-greta-thunberg-124347
I wonder who’s funding her activism these days?
It used to be Swedish renewable energy corporations, but she seems to have moved on from that.
Also known as Pol Tot.
Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan theatrically inserted a miniature copy of the UN charter into a transparent paper shredder.Credit: YouTube/United Nations
Via Bob Zimmerman’s behindtheblack.com
How SpaceX operates and gets things done.
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-work-at-spacex-elon-musk-2024-4
A sample: The directive was if I was in a meeting and it was adding value to what I did daily, stay, or if I was adding value based on my expertise, stay — but if neither of those things were happening, you should get up and respectfully walk out.
In one instance, a government customer came in with a 50-slide deck. Six slides into the presentation, 75% of the room had walked out. I had to tell him that if he didn’t get to the point, I’d be the only person left in the room — and only because I had to walk him out. He skipped ahead to his last five slides. That kind of environment makes you much more efficient.
Still cannot believe KRuddy missed out on the UN Secretary General job. He was born for it.
If I were a Jew, I’d be thinking there’s is only one country to be relatively safe in.
Treacherous bastards.
Every day gets worse.
Remembered AnAl fellating Corbyn?
Yes that one.
Dr. John Campbell interview with Alex Mitchell, who was vaccine injured and is acknowledged as such.
Just read Chris Uhlmann’s opinion piece in the Oz, brilliant. If anyone can post it – well worth the reading.
it seemed to work quite well before climate worriers got their hands on it.
The same way they have reformed our educational system.
Gotta luv how easy it is for some blog sites to do backflips .. I read “reddit” but don’t participate .. Anywayz day after day they have a surplus of “luv Hamas” threads and we -luvs-Palis is 99% of the commentary ..
Yet, this morning, they ran aOz/UnN vote thread and ……. 100% of the comments are, basically, Luigi & the “pong” are furglewitz .. not one “luv-of-Palis” comment …….!
One of Maladroit Trumble’s better decisions.
Ruddy would have destroyed the UN in no time. Bad decision by Turnbull.
I fear he would have lent it credibility.
He was still well regarded abroad at the time.
Two guys were picked up by the cops for smoking dope and appeared in court before the judge. The judge said, “You seem like nice young men, and I’d like to give you a second chance rather than jail time. I want you to go out this weekend and try to show others the evils of drug use and pursued them to give up drugs forever. I’ll see you back in court Monday.” Monday, the two guys were in court, and the judge said to the first one, “How did you do over the weekend?” “Well, your honor, I persuaded 17 people to give up drugs forever.” “17 people? That’s wonderful. What did you tell them?” “I used a diagram, your honor. I drew two circles like this: O o and told them this (the big circle) is your brain before drugs and this (small circle)is your brain after drugs.” “That’s admirable,” said the judge. “And you, how did you do?” (to the 2nd guy) “Well, your honor, I persuaded 156 people to give up drugs forever.” “156 people! That’s amazing! How did you manage to do that!” “Well, I used the same two circles. I pointed to the small circle and told them, “This is your bum hole before prison….”
Good summary Dover.
This action extends the line of conflict, by a reasonable margin.
As you report, the Russian numbers are not massive here, but nonetheless, it will require Ukraine to move resources around to defend the situation.
The problem for St Volodymyr the Pure and the other haters of Ukraine, currently destroying their population, is that, they do not have the troops available to do this.
Wherever they take the troops “from”, to plug this gap, Ivan will attack “there”.
Even if every weapon in the world was given to ‘elensky, they simply do not have the men, let alone trained men, to use them.
This is somewhat confusing, as just over a month ago, St Volodymyr himself stated that Ukraine had lost only 31,000 troops so far.
Their army was over a million strong, (the largest in Europe), in Feb 2022.
What fantastical horsesh*t, especially when we know what the “long-term outcome for consumers” will be. Regular, lengthy blackouts, if there’s any electrickery available at all.
As for the UN vote, just when you thought those stinking labore deadsh*ts couldn’t plumb any subterranean new lows, they grab some fresh shovels and keep digging.
Absolutely bloody disgraceful.
Rabz, keep an eye out for generators at Bunnings. Once the blackouts start, they’ll be sold the monent they get on the shelves.
Beerie, I’ve been scoping generators for a while. Even worked out where to put it, but I’ll need a sparkie to wire it up.
Rabz,
if you can afford it, get an LPG generator. No need to worry about fuel degrading in jerry cans.
Thanks for the tip, Pogs.
China & Hungary have had a good relationship for at least the past decade.
One of the biggest foreign investors in the country.
I’ll try to post Chis Uhlmann’s piece from the Oz. Lots of linkies though.
Ta, Mak.
Mak – left click and paste the piece as plain text. Links are wiped out that way.
Rabbi ‘totally appalled’ and ‘offended’ by Labor MP who compared WA Liberal leader to Adolf HitlerEmma KirkNCA NewsWire
Fri, 10 May 2024 5:23PM
A rabbi has called out a Labor MP in Western Australia for “appalling” comments he made comparing a parliamentary colleague to Adolf Hitler.
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam had spoken out against a bill that would make it easier to change gender on a birth certificate and said her party would ban the use of puberty blockers to children under the age of 16.
Labor MP Stuart Aubrey told parliament that like Hitler was to the Jews, Ms Mettam was to the trans community of WA.
“Infamous world leaders have found ways to blame marginalised sections of society for the suffering of the masses, using mass communication methods to spread propaganda, lies and fear and using politics of fear and division in an attempt to overthrow democracies and convince people to vote against their better interests,” he said.
“People like Trump and the Mexicans, Hitler and the Jewish, Abbott and the boat people, Morrison and trans athletes, Dutton and Indigenous Australians, Hanson and Asians, Indigenous Australians and basically all minorities, and the Leader of the Liberal Party, Libby Mettam, and the trans community of WA.”
Rabbi David Freilich said the comments were “totally appalling”.
“I lost most of my family during the Holocaust and making those comparisons was very offensive,” he said.
“Comparing situations to one of the most atrocious and vile things to take place against humanity trivialises the enormity the Holocaust had against Jewish people and all of humanity.
“Whenever a politician uses that comparison, I get very offended and it hurts me deeply.
“It doesn’t just hurt me, it hurts many people in the Jewish community and beyond who lost whole families.”
What a vile, despicable halfwit- vomiting up all the standard cultural marxist talking points.
Apart from Jews existing in reality and Hitler having them murdered en masse, the two are just the same. Evil and imbecility concentrated in one ALP pollie. Now multiply that by the rest of them and the Greens.
The scum of the middle class, as Beazley senior put it.
This week’s Multipolarity podcast is also out. Looks at Xi’s visit to Belgrade and Budapest, Egypt moving away from USD gradually, among other things.
Progressive crusade to bend arc of history
Chris Uhlmann
A religious civil war is raging but only one side understands that it is a battle over theology.
At stake is whether the ascendant state morality will drive deeper into the ancient institutions of faith and force believers to submit to its temporal commandments.
Nationally, the Australian Law Reform Commission’s final report on religious exemptions from anti-discrimination law is just another sortie in a long campaign over what the state will allow you to believe and how far it is prepared to go to force apostates to heel.
Queensland’s proposed anti-discrimination bill also seeks to narrow the rights of the faithful. Alex Deagon, from Queensland University of Technology, argues it will “significantly undermine the ability of religious organisations to employ persons in accordance with their faith”.
The ALRC admits one of its recommendations may limit “the freedom to manifest religion or belief in community with others, and the associated parental liberty to ensure the religious and moral education of one’s children in conformity with one’s own convictions”. This, it says, is balanced by the overall effect, which “would be to maximise the realisation of human rights”.
The ALRC wants section 38 of the Sex Discrimination Act, which allows religious schools to hire those whose lives and ideas accord “with the doctrines, tenets, beliefs or teachings of a particular religion or creed”, to be abolished.
When you lose the freedom to manifest your faith, abide by your beliefs and the liberty to ensure your children are educated in your creed, what is left? The commission is erasing the right of a religious school to organise around its own ethos.
This is an extreme form of laicism, driven by a fierce “progressive” crusade against Christianity. In a multifaith society that means all believers are on this battlefield, as the institutions of government are mobilised against them. Like many things dubbed progressive, it is the latest incarnation of the despotic tendencies of the Bureautocracy (n): the ubiquitous, unelected technocratic blob bent on imposing its notion of utopia on the mob. Its relentlessly mutating dogma has spread like Paterson’s curse through all the institutions.
In a profound irony we are witnessing the final metamorphosis of Christianity as zealots torch the last idol: belief in a power that transcends the state.
The child has turned on a parent it does not recognise because the source code of this secular faith is the notion of universal human rights. That idea was born with the belief that each individual is valued by God, an avowedly Christian concept and part of a set of revolutionary beliefs that the early faithful simply called “The Way”.
Universal equality is captured in Paul’s letter to the Galatians: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Another epoch-changing idea rings from the first sentences of John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the word (logos). And the word was with God. And the word was God.”
The New Testament was written in Greek and logos means both word and reason. So, in the Christian tradition, God is reason itself. Christianity is the singular encounter between Greek philosophy and Jewish mysticism, the marriage of reason and faith. The theology that evolved was a thoroughly different way of thinking. Let’s call it wisdom.
This wisdom elevated the poor, the meek, the righteous, the merciful and peacemakers. Faith in God demands you “treat others as you would like them to treat you”, and not to act with reason is contrary to the nature of God.
Christianity is born in the East, informed by the West and takes on its historically decisive character in Europe. Europe is defined by its faith and its faith is defined by reason. Faith and reason set Europe on the road to liberal democracy.
Through all its failures, and its many crimes, reason pushes the West forward and demands that it learn and evolve. And the excesses of both church and state always had to contend with its Christian conscience.
The savage colonisation of the Americas was fiercely denounced by Dominican friar Bartolome de Las Casas, the evil of slavery collapsed when it confronted the faith of William Wilberforce. Despite often spectacularly failing to abide by its ideals, Christianity demanded the West slowly bend towards realising the radical demand of the central tenet of its faith. The new commandment to “love one another” excludes no one.
As historian Tom Holland demonstrates in his epic work Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, “To live in a Western country is to live in a society that is utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions.”
It is, of course, a heritage that the zealots of the New Way deny. To them their belief system is self-evident because it just is. It is neutral. It is agnostic. That is a delusion. The New Way exhibits some of the best and all the worst features of a proselytising religion. It looks to uplift, to guide, to build a better, more just world. It is also deeply intolerant of dissent and has established the institutions of inquisition to police heresy, in state and federal human rights commissions.
It’s hard to criticise anti-discrimination laws but the growth of objective penalties for subjective crimes should trouble those who care about liberal democracy. Such penalties are how American journalist Robert Wargas defines totalitarianism.
What standards will be applied? The notion of transgender identity, for example, is a rapidly moving target. Even the Australian Human Rights Commission’s website admits the “terminology is strongly contested”.
So, this latest assault by the state on the faithful is a battle of competing theologies, as the disciples of Caesar seek to mount his image in every temple. And the insurgents know nothing of faith because, as anyone who has any dealings with religious schools knows, most have no desire to discriminate and are far more tolerant of difference than “progressives”.
What religious institutions don’t want is to be forced to submit to state diktats that deliberately undermine the ethos of their institution. Here let’s recall that the Labor Party pledge demands its members not be a part of any other organisation that is inimical to its ideals. Why shouldn’t religious schools enjoy the same right?
The arc of history has bent out of shape. Those who claim the heritage of reason have discounted the role of faith in their enlightenment. They discriminate and call it equality. They unreasonably seek to force the faithful to heel.
This is not wise.
I’ll say it again…everyone is a theologian; even the secularists.
Chris Uhlmann seems to have been on the road to Damascus since he left Their ABC.
Or perhaps that is why he left.
Like Tony Abbott, he had an early stint in a RC seminary, so presumably he had a decent formation in the Catholic iteration of the Christian faith to begin with.
A couple of his exegetical points are debatable but he’s painting with a broad brush.
That’s what I thought, Roger. Can’t fault his big idea, though.
He’s at the right place on the right of the religious to be free from the unreasonable interference of secularist absolutists, Titus; he just took the wrong route to get there!
😀
The ALPBC would not have been a safe space for Mr Gai Brodtmann.
I’m not sure I trust him yet.
It’s not a personal relationship.
Skip trust, just verify.
“Made up stories to close down access to the National Park .”
When I’m in the area I warn people that they’re looking in the general direction of Mt. Warning and that it’s illegal to cast white eyes on it, because it’s literally genocide.
If course, just a single poofteenth of an Aboriginal gene makes you a co-owner of it, and thus able to shame any honky for daring to look at it without written permission and a welcome to country ceremony at the modest fee of $50,000, to cover expenses. Which includes a free admonishment for the sin of your ancestors being dragged here in chains and the enormous privilege that went with it.
Don’t give them local politics as an excuse. It’s about Jews and the Jewish state. They voted Jews out. Excusing it for votes makes them sound rational.
Has Dreyfus made any statements about these events?
in doing research for my latest book which takes place in Florence it seems we are still facing the hordes trying to take over Europe. 900’s when they stopped them in France. Federico Stupor Mundi 1221 features in my story went on the crusades, won with diplomacy, married Saladin ?Caliph’s daughter and become king of Jerusalem. He spoke Arabic and had Saracen archers in his army and entourage included a harem. In Italy fought the papacy who were trying to take over. Did he ever meet St, Francis ?
feelthebern
May 11, 2024 5:29 am
Largest export of each US state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_xuLzZjCLU
Which is why Boeing has had Washington by the short ‘n curlies for so long.
Alarmists Warn of ‘Pernicious Pervasiveness of Environmental Racism’ (breitbart.com)
That old deadshit still hanging around like a bad smell
Old Japanese proverb:
‘Man who preaches minimalism for sake of environment while owning several homes might be hypocrite.’
America’s Flannery.
Mahathir in Malaysia was a pain in the backside in many ways. But on this issue he was spot on: the hypocrisy of affluent, romantic white Greenies wanting to keep people in developing countries in a human zoo if poverty and backwardness so that they can indulge in virtue-signalling.
LOL!
Transition to post-coal world doesn’t need to be this messy (Paywallian)
TONY WOOD
I don’t know what else he says, but here’s who he is:
Well how about that? A fox says he should guard the henhouse for the good of the proles.
The Oz keeps giving space to these people. Perhaps they should publish science fiction instead, it’d be more believable.
It’s intriguing, thinking about the attack on Musk’s factory in Germany, how the marxist establishment can conjure up a violent rabble with a moment’s notice.
Nordstream?
The choice is not between acting or not acting to deliver a successful energy transition. The transition is upon us. The choice from here is to go well or to go badly.
Threatening us now. Eff off.
The establishment is not ‘Marxist’.
Marxist, fascist, same effect.
The result of the long march through the institutions suggests to me that the new establishment in indeed marxist.
If you can’t make it in Redfern or Newtown, with woke uni students and oodles of Greens…
Sydney vegetarian restaurant Sunshine Inn has grilled its last tomato (11 May)
Obviously not devastated enough to actually buy enough of their stuff. Pass me another steak sanga.
This is from Chris Ulhmann’s column. ALRC has always been over the top and all about changing our society. The overall effect will not be to maximise the realisation of human rights but to curtail them against sections of the community they don’t like. Extreme individualism is only to be extended to a preferred section of the population. That somebody’s extreme individualism impinges on others’ rights does not concern the ALRC in the least.
This agency refuses to recognise that churches are groups of individuals whose rights will be curtailed or even simply forbidden in order to placate some other vocal groups. The Australian Law Reform Commission is actually working agains voters rights. This agency needs to be closed and new laws proposed only by our elected representatives who are answerable to voters for their actions and policies. Enough of the unaccountable elite.
Rather, get some sunlight in. Individual topics attract those who are activist on that topic, and education is concentrating activist ideas in successive generations of graduates.
The institution may be recoverable even when the hot topic of the moment is captured by the forces of woke.
I disagree a little on this point
but the one and only reason he found that Lehrmann was a rapist was because Higgins was, apparently, super-duper credible.
it was, if anything more convoluted than that. The judge was at pains to point out discrepancies and changes in Brittle-knees evidence was in line with ” victims” experiences and shouldn’t be taken as unreliability on her behalf.
in effect it was a self licking ice cream cone, because she claimed to be a victim any evidence given by a victim should be viewed in terms of a trauma survivor.
any discrepancies were able to be waved away with this.
Lee J seemed to have made much of Brittany’s pre and post Sharaz evidence. I’m not sure that was valid. There are a number of not remote reasons way it may have changed. Especially to support a finding of rape, irregardless of the degree of probability.
Undoubtedly, but Lee could wave that away with ” trauma from a rape” before using the most beneficial reading of Brittle- knees statements to establish the ” fact”.
Probably the only bit of his judgement I found very troubling.
IMHO Leahmann hung himself with the ” there was no sex, but if there was it was consensual” gambit.
AFAIK Bad Boy Bruce never put forward any argument that allowed sex to have taken place. Its almost as if he was telling the truth because he could have allowed for some minor fumbling before she unloaded her dinner & fell asleep. A tale many could believe.
Who needs EU money if the Chinese will provide
Orban has lost me. It was justifiable when he opposed EU fascism, but like someone voting Green because the Libs piss you off, submitting to China and Russia is criminal stupidity. There is never a justification for providing a bridge into Western society for imperialist dictatorships.
We must now support EU moves to shut this treasonous lunatic down.
The sole positive thing that Morrisson ever did was to shut down Andrew’s attempt to do the same. Not that the outcome was sustained for long since China’s principal agent has been appointed as Australia’s senior public servant by Andrew’s puppet.
The chances of Hungary under Orban, receiving cash from Von der Crazy, or any of the other vacuous, thieving dogs running the EU, would be at best, remote.
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That is certainly what the establishment wants you to think. Why would that be?
OK. I’ll settle for ‘sanctimonious hypocrites’.
So many of these idiots have become “da man” they used to incessantly mouth foam about.
Well said!
Hypocrisy has never been much of a problem for the Left.
Don’t know Dover. I’ll take ‘the Voice’ as an example. A clearly marxist project with old 70s commos heavily involved. It had the support of government, big business, education and media.
Support a mile wide and a few inches deep.
Da Voice had both kinds – old 70s commies and today’s Marxists. Just like a GetUp tea and coffee station.
Intrresting observation Chris. The electorate would vote this down in a flash, but to do so they need candidates who see their role as acyually representing the people.
Marxism is certainly a great cover for class warfare.
Some great toons this morning Even Ramirez was clever.
Just rethinking Lehrmann. His appeal options are solid. Lee is a self indulgent jurist. He said this in his cost judgment:
Justice Lee said, even in an alternative where he did not find the rape took place, he was unable to find there was no sex at all.
“Even if I had not reached the level of satisfaction Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins … I would have declined to award costs in Mr Lehrmann’s favour.”
This is remarkable. Firstly Lee is saying he cannot find that sex did not take place but since it did it was non-consensual. But he offers no criteria for saying sex took place rather than did not let alone that it was non-consensual. This is a half rotten apple but you don’t know which part until you bite it.
Secondly he says even if he found Lehrmann did not commit rape he would still punish him by not awarding costs even though he would have proved his point. This shows fatal bias.
The cost awards are a dog’s breakfast: 10 have their truth but not Qualified privilege costs. So they have costs for being right but no costs for anything to do with proving they were right because according to Lee they did not attempt to prove they were right. They will have buggar all costs once the costs consultants and the fed court assessor combs through their file separating the 2 areas of work.
Brucie should appeal. He can continue his law degree but can’t practise unless he overturns Lee’s judgment because bankrupts and folk of bad character cannot be lawyers.
I did find that unusual. Definitely agree on rolling the dice on an Appeal.
I thought a “bad character” was the prime requisite to practice law?
Can be a problem getting off the starting blocks. Clients, not lawyers are usually the problem, although sometimes it’s both.
It strikes MessageBank great leap from discounting Bruce’s (obviously BS) evidence and finding he raped our Britt.
Wow “me”to “MessageBank”. Thanks nerds – that’s just what I meant.
Doubtful anyone is going to fund it. The legal beagles have been warned off by the collective. Time for him to do an apprenticeship in carpentry and go work in a real job.
Indolent
May 11, 2024 8:49 am
Oh, really?
From the Oz:-
How about you do some reading instead of just blindly posting “pox on both their houses” shit?
fascism, socialism, marxism, communism
even the democratic bi-partisan-party Party
are just various ways of running the farm
they are all different facets of the same gem
we are semi-free-ranging-debt-serfs
Though we were freer only a decade ago and markedly better off financially.
The new Apple ad is a fine piece of reverse advertising. Lots of electrons are being burned in outrage as I write. Meanwhile another example of reverse advertising is still resonating:
Bud Light sales still falling as Modelo, Coors fight to keep their gains (10 May)
I do hope MBAs will get to study this corporate catastrophe. I doubt it though, given how woke universities are these days.
The next time that Tennis Elbow or anyone from this Feral Guv’ment or the MSM or the Judicial system or anyone else tries to muzzle you then just point out some of the Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN in 1948 –
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
2. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
This Feral Guv’ment does bow to the wishes of the UN, does it not?
And for the full Declarion –
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf
Alarmism is the perfect mind virus; look at this shit:
Scientists discover why Earth’s ‘sister planet’ lost all of its water | indy100
At the conclusion:
Martin van Kranendonk is an astrobiology and geology professor at Curtin University. Speaking to Newsweek, he said: “Venus is not a nice place. Metal space-exploration landers melt in minutes. Mean surface temperature is 867 degrees F. This is because 1) it is closer to the sun than Earth, so warmer, and 2) because it has a super-greenhouse atmosphere composed of 96 percent CO2 (carbon dioxide).
Mar’s atmosphere is 95% CO2 and you would freeze your nuts off there. What makes Venus as hot as a Kardashian arse is atmospheric pressure. The atmospheric pressure of Venus is 1,043,000 kg/m2. On Mars the atmospheric pressure is 173 kg/m2.
Venus is a shithole because it is close to the Sun and non-tectonic. Because there are no gaps in its surface the internal pressure builds up and every now and then the whole surface is overturned by lava releasing vast amounts of CO2. Nothing to do with a greenhouse effect.
PV = nRT
So temperature goes up linearly with pressure, all else being constant.
San Francisco is giving taxpayer-funded shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics in $5m program organizers claim ‘improves participants’ health’
?
Daily Mail.
Single malt would get me on board.
…maybe not. Will they also subsidise airfare?
thefrollickingmole
May 11, 2024 11:33 am
I disagree a little on this point
This was a flaw in Lee’s reasoning. The Great Divide in Britnah’s credibility coincides with the arrival on the scene of Sharaz, and the concoction of the Sweeping Political Conspiracy story, which was comprehensively disproved by credible witnesses and contemporaneous notes.
So, Britnah was quite capable of being seduced by Sharaz into telling the most monstrous lies about Reynolds, Brown et al, but was an incorruptible truth teller in the presence of the ratings hungry TeeVee star Wilkinson?
Come on, man.
Also, I could see how Lee might find, on the balance of probabilities, that sexual activity had taken place. It is the absolute certainty and graphic detail he goes into which is of concern. He failed his own “just the facts, ma’am” maxim which he applied rigorously to witnesses.
It speaks to the arrogance and hubris of the judicial class, believing they have special insights into the mysteries of life.