Rockdoctor
 May 18, 2024 5:42 pm

Another on Queensland election coming. ALP just got a break, KAP is standing thee useless Margie Ryder as candidate for Townsville that pretty well much hands the seat to the ALP.

Doc, it isn’t called the Katter party for nothing.
Katter isn’t going to endorse anyone who has a remote chance of showing him up.

shatterzzz
 May 18, 2024 7:44 pm

Apparently the A League fitba betting ploy came unstuck cos GREED ..! .. Someone raked in $190K off the type of bets (number of yellow cards per game/ time of cards) that usually atracts less a coupla hundred dollars investment over a week ….

A stupid, stupid scam.
Excess money put on an exotic spot bet draws attention, so you can’t do a one-off hit and run and make good money.
So you have to repeat the trick over and over with smaller bets, which will generate suspicion if a few players start copping repeated yellow cards.
I initially thought the $190k might have been a result of the scam leaking and more money going on than intended.
However, they paid the players $10k, so they must have planned to win at least $50k.

It still spins me out how close they fly together.

Trust!

—

Blue Angels – Dancin on the Ceiling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpV0lMconCA

I like this one. I didn’t get jabbed/boosted and I’m still going strong.

Gotta luv the optimism of “our” ABC .. full-on promotion for the latest series of DOCTOR WHO .. the series has been absolutely panned in the UK where it has scored the lowest ratings figures ever in the 26 seasons of the Doctor ……. go woke, go broke .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-19/dr-who-ncuti-gatwa-bodkin-what-to-watch-may/103862916

Having been fortunate enuf to visit Richmond (+ Gettsysburg & Appomattox Court House)whilst the statue still stood can’t believe how pathetic this is .. Richmond is also home to Hollywood Cemetery where there are dozens of memorials and grave sites honouring the Confederacy as well as the, heritage listed, Tredegar Iron Works, the main Confederacy cannon and ammo manufacturing base, not too mention several Confederate museums + the Confederate “White House” yet knock over one statue and feel the WOKE pride ..!
Richmond City generates a large chunk of money from tourism based on it’s Confederate history .. FFS! …….
https://x.com/carolmswain/status/1791690934075195730

Well at least she wasn’t dragged through the streets of Flemington on the back of the HiAce. Hun:

Premier Jacinta Allan was forced into hiding after an angry mob of pro-Palestine protesters stormed the Victorian ALP state conference.

The Premier and deputy premier Ben Carroll were hurried away from the conference floor at Moonee Valley Racecourse after dozens of protesters stormed the venue in a major escalation of their ongoing protests.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside hurling abuse at federal and state MPs, as well as other delegates, before a group of dozens breached a significant security presence to make their way into the venue about 10.20am.

The conference descended into chaos as MPs, delegates and other attendees were locked inside a conference room with the organisers forced to declare an official security incident shortly before protesters tried to smash their way into the room as nervous officials awaited a police response.

Concerns were raised about the safety of children who were being looked after in a makeshift childcare centre inside the venue.

Earlier, hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters hurled abuse at MPs and Labor delegates as they entered the conference.

Senior officials said despite repeated warnings the party’s administrative wing had failed to properly prepare for the protest.

Assurances had been given to party officers that an adequate security presence would be put in place.

Ms Allan, who along with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addressed the conference, later slammed the protest.

“Today, protesters and intruders brought violence, homophobia and anti-Semitism to the front door of state conference,” she said.

“I’m disgusted. No one should be cowered by these bullies.

“As Premier, my priority is a cohesive society where all Victorians feel safe and respected. That’s what I’m fighting for.”

Greens state MP Tim Read and senator Lidia Thorpe were among those to address protesters outside the venue.

The protest came after Labor came under attack from Greens MPs in parliament this week.

Former Greens leader Samantha Ratnam branded Labor “cowards” after they refused to debate a petition over the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the Allan government’s signing of the memorandum of understanding in the upper house.

“In parliaments like this across the world people are burying their heads in the sand, pretending that they cannot take responsibility and there is nothing they can do,” Ms Ratnam said.

“Well, your silence matters, and our culturally diverse populations – our Palestinian communities, our Muslim communities right across this country – see you for what you are, Labor. Cowards!

“You have abandoned them at their time of greatest need, and they will never forgive you. This is a betrayal of everything that they had hoped for. Never again will they ever trust you.”

Factional infighting over Labor’s stance on the ongoing conflict is also expected to be aired at the conference.

Motions drafted by the party’s Socialist Left faction, which includes Jacinta Allan, will demand the federal government back Palestine and condemn Israel.

One motion states: “State Conference resolves that Victorian Labor affirms the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and calls on the Federal Labor Government to: Support the inalienable right of self-determination for the Palestinian people; Immediately recognise Palestine as a fully independent sovereign state within the term of this parliament.”

Ms Allan has faced criticism in recent months over a memorandum of understanding the government signed with Israel’s Ministry of defence in 2022.

But she received a standing ovation at Saturday’s conference that left her choking back tears as she announced plans to draft laws to crackdown on the abuse of Victorian workers.

The Prime Minister spruiked last week’s federal budget.

Jacinta, they hate you as much as they hate the rest of us. They want us dead.
As for Ms Ratnam, go ahead to Gaza and see how you fare.

COVID-19, which killed 1.1 million Americans and destroyed the lives and livelihoods of millions more, is a manmade virus that escaped from a Chinese lab partly funded by the US government (Taxpayer/Borrowed/Printed money).

Even today, you’re not supposed to say that — even though it’s the only plausible scenario.

No, “fact checkers” will rush in to claim that eminent scientists deny this. Which is because those scientists have too much invested — in money, in time, in their own beliefs — to admit the truth.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/opinion/we-now-know-the-likely-truth-about-covid-and-how-scientists-lied/

@JackPosobiec
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South Bronx woman: I’m voting for Trump!

@PaulIngrassia
The streets of the South Bronx are already FLOODED with Trump supporters — nearly a week out from the rally!
They can’t wait! MAGA is UNSTOPPABLE!

Well yes Cassie and miltonf.
Allen has now seen the hate and vitriol that defines these people who are happy to have babies put in ovens and their kinfolk raped.
Now will come the time for her reaction. Will she order the camps at Victorian universities to be shut down? To have the weekly protest shut down? To have the police crackdown on blatant agitation through speech that calls for the destruction of Israel?
One can only hope

The Washington Post’s Disgrace

Early morning tea, and reading “Spitfire” on the verandah.

“Nerves got the better of the most experienced pilots during Rhubarbs ( fighter sweeps over Northern France.) On one occasion, two of Robertson’s fellow 111 pilots flew over the Channel into cloud, then came back and slipped over the coast. They spotted a train and shot it up before heading back home.

They were surprised on return to be called into the Station Commanders office.

“What had they been shooting at?”

“A train.”

“Did they damage it?”

“Yes, quite a bit.”

“Did they realize the train they had shot up was headed to Margate?” (Page 109.)

A warning note from the Danish experience with Gaza refugees …..

Two-thirds of those who were granted a residence permit with the Palestinian Act have been at odds with the law, according to the statement. “Depressing,” says the minister

“Spitfire” tells the story of the lady Air Transport Auxiliary pilot, who, when flying a Spitfire, found herself in thick cloud, with a choice between bailing out, or turning around. The decision was complicated by the fact that she was flying in her uniform skirt, and bailing out would involve floating down, in a hitched up and very tight serge uniform skirt, with her bare legs and knickers open to view. “I was very modest.”

She made a successful forced landing.

China Dumping US Debt At Record Levels

As I have been warning, these STUPID Neocons threatening the world have ZERO respect for the American people or our economy. Threatening China when they are the largest holder of US debt is braindead. As I have said, China would be stupid if they did not start to dump every penny of US debt because when these Neocons start a war, they will default on all debt held by foreign enemies, which they define as anyone who opposes their commands.

CHINA sold a record amount of Treasury and US agency bonds in the first quarter, highlighting the Asian nation’s move to exit the US debt market thanks to war. Beijing dumped a total of US$53.3 billion of Treasuries and agency bonds combined in the first quarter, based on Bloomberg calculations of the latest data from the US Department of the Treasury. Belgium, often seen as a custodian of China’s holdings, disposed of US$22 billion of Treasuries during the period.

And people expect interest rates to decline?

Yea Baby Yea………………………..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00w1HGqyxTM

Israel War Cabinet Member Sets Ultimatum and Threatens to Quit Government

• By Carrie Keller-Lynn
• Dow Jones
• 10:21AM May 19, 2024
• 47 Comments

Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, sharply criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and threatened to quit the government in June if Netanyahu doesn’t articulate a plan for ending the war and securing the enclave of more than two million Palestinians.
Gantz laid out his own ideas for what that plan should look like, including a demilitarised Gaza Strip with Israeli security control, an interim civil administration with Palestinian and international responsibility, and a strategy for freeing Israeli hostages. He set a June 8 deadline for Israel’s war cabinet to approve plans to accomplish those goals.
“If you choose to follow the path of zealots and lead the entire nation towards an abyss, we will be forced to leave the government,” Gantz said in comments directed towards Netanyahu. “The moment of truth has arrived.” Netanyahu’s office quickly pushed back against the criticism, arguing that Gantz’s conditions would lead to Israel losing the war.
Gantz’s comments extended an already fractious week in Israeli high politics at a time when the war in Gaza has turned more intense, with heavy fighting in several areas across the enclave and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians forced to evacuate.
On Wednesday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who fills out the three-member war cabinet with Netanyahu and Gantz, publicly blasted the prime minister for failing to plan for Gaza’s post-war status, which he said left Israel with a choice between an unwanted military occupation or a return to rule by Hamas.
Those comments were among the harshest public displays of internal criticism directed at Netanyahu since the start of the war. Gantz at the time said Gallant was “speaking the truth.” The displays of frustration by top officials reflect broad discontent among the Israeli military establishment and public with the Netanyahu government’s failure to close a ceasefire deal to release some of the roughly 124 remaining hostages taken by Hamas militants on Oct. 7.
They are pressuring Netanyahu’s government ahead of U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s visit to Israel, where he is expected to meet with the prime minister, Gallant and other officials to discuss Israel’s latest push into the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah as well as post-war plans for the strip.

The absence of a political plan for post-war Gaza is one of the sharpest points of friction with the US, a crucial strategic partner of Israel. Senior officials in President Biden’s administration including Sullivan have urged Israel to come up with a plan, pointing to the outbreak of violence in previously cleared areas of the Gaza Strip and warning the country can’t win with force alone.
Netanyahu rejected the US demands on Wednesday, arguing that it would be “just chatter” while Hamas remains intact.
“There is no alternative to military victory,” Netanyahu said in a video released by his office. “The attempt to bypass it with this or that claim is simply detached from reality.” The U.S. is working on a long-shot diplomatic deal that would swap Israeli commitments to Palestinian statehood for diplomatic recognition of Israel by Saudi Arabia, an effort to create a long-term solution to the conflict. Netanyahu’s office said Saturday he opposes “the establishment of a Palestinian state that will inevitably be a terrorist state.” Gantz, a former head of Israel’s military who has emerged as Netanyahu’s chief political rival, joined Israel’s wartime government as a show of unity after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks that Israeli authorities said killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

Netanyahu’s party holds the most parliamentary seats in his coalition, but the realities of Israeli electoral politics still leave the prime minister heavily dependent on far-right parties that have pushed him to give priority to military operations over a ceasefire deal.
Gantz’s withdrawal likely would leave those far-right parties with even greater influence in Netanyahu’s government. His slimmed down coalition retains a narrow grip on power and could be forced into elections by losing just five additional politicians.

Negatives are

Government debt is too big and has to be brought under control.
There’s a corrupt fcking moron in the White House and needs to be sent to a nursing home.

That is the Elephant in the room (US Feral Guv’ment Debt) along with out of control Feral Guv’ment Budget Deficits.

It will all keep going along until it can’t.

$54.5 trillion

Understanding Fixed Income Markets in 2023

The U.S. fixed income markets are the largest in the world, comprising 39.3% of the $138.6 trillion securities outstanding across the globe, or $54.5 trillion (as of 3Q23).

Daily volume is about US$800 billion a day.

Daily gold volume

Average daily volume33m oz. = $80 billion

And that’s because the price has gone up over the past two years magnifying the size.

In this instance, buying gold from sales of UST’s is actually a hedge against both the USD and their treasury holdings.

LOL, not it isn’t. It’s divestiture. That’s not hedging.

Mole

Here’s the thing to consider when these discussions take place.

The US runs a large trade deficit, which means it imports capital from the rest of the world equaling the trade deficit. It runs a capital surplus.

Conversely, China has harsh capital export controls.If the Chinese government relaxed capital controls, the Yuan would halve in the first couple of seconds. It would halve again in the next couple of seconds and continue to.

Revealed preferences suggests that foreigners have no problem sinking money into to the US, whereas China is a roach motel.

A dog walks into a butcher shop with a purse strapped around his neck. He walks up to the meat case and calmly sits there until it’s his turn to be helped. A man, who was already in the butcher shop, finished his purchase and noticed the dog.

The butcher leaned over the counter and asked the dog what it wanted today. The dog put its paw on the glass case in front of the ground beef, and the butcher said, “How many pounds?” The dog barked twice, so the butcher made a package of two pounds ground beef. He then said, “Anything else?” The dog pointed to the pork chops, and the butcher said, “How many?” The dog barked four times, and the butcher made up a package of four pork chops. The dog then walked around behind the counter, so the butcher could get at the purse. The butcher took out the appropriate amount of money and tied two packages of meat around the dog’s neck.

The man, who had been watching all of this, decided to follow the dog. It walked for several blocks and then walked up to a house and began to scratch at the door to be let in. As the owner opened the door, the man said to the owner, “That’s a really smart dog you have there.” The owner said, “He’s not really all that smart. This is the second time this week he forgot his key.”

Piers Akerman:

Labor voters who still support the Albanese government’s flaccid foreign policy are turning their back on the compassionate, worldly legacy of Labor’s greatest leaders, Ben Chifley and Bob Hawke.

Under Chifley, Australia was at the forefront in the Western world’s near universal decision to support the foundation of a modern Jewish state after the horrors of the Holocaust. Herbert Vere “Doc” Evatt was Australia’s signatory at the birth of the UN declaration in October 1945.

Evatt, the Australian external affairs minister and chairman of the UN Special Committee, recommended the establishment of an independent Jewish state in the British mandate Palestine, together with a neighbouring independent Arab state, and this was endorsed by the UN General Assembly in November 1947. Evatt’s most capable assistant was Paul Hasluck, later to become a Liberal MP, and minister in the Menzies government from 1951 to 1969 when he was appointed governor-general.

The Evatt-Hasluck relationship, though sometimes fractious, stands as a beacon in the long history of Australia’s bipartisan support for Israel. Hawke, a huge admirer of Israel’s achievements in the face of universal hostility from Islamic nations, counted Israeli PMs Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin as friends.

After Israel defended itself in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he warned: “If the bell tolls for Israel, it won’t just toll for Israel, it will toll for all mankind.” That prescient quote is as relevant today as it was half a century ago.

The Albanese government, however, honours this more often in the breach than in any substance as its contemptible UN vote against Israel’s survival demonstrated.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong is no Evatt or Hasluck. Both men had years of scholarship behind them and the lived experiences of the Depression and World War II. Wong brought an adolescent undergraduate activist’s view to the job.

In backing the corrupt Palestinian Authority’s UN bid, the government has caved into terrorism and stupid student activism.

Albanese’s defence of Labor’s stance on Israel has been a “farrago of fantasy, falsity and outright fiction”, to borrow a line from former High Court justice Sir Victor Windeyer’s observation of the fabricated Document J in the Petrov royal commission. Hamasattacked civilians at a concert and families living near the Gaza border last October 7, with more than 3000 terrorists and waves of Gazans murdering 1163 people. Hamas is not seeking peace with Israel. Its charter demands the annihilation of all Israelis “from the river to the sea”.

That’s the genocidal chant that moronic students disrupting the education of thousands at our taxpayer-funded universities and at leading US and UK campuses cheer. It’s the same phrase used by Labor senator Fatima Payman when she broke ranks with some in the ALP to attack Israel’s attempts to eliminate Hamas in Gaza. Australia Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni praised Senator Payman at a Melbourne University protest, much as Hamas had applauded Australia’s UN vote.

Albanese’s limp response has been to say the phrase used by the senator and the students is “inappropriate”, a word rendered almost meaningless, conveying no sense of any consequence.

Australians, particularly those who championed Labor’s historical support for the only liberal democracy in the Middle East for the past 70-plus years, can only weep at this trashing of the intellectual, moral and ethical position pledged by Labor on behalf of the nation. The phrase “we must never forget” used after the Armenian genocide of the 1900s, the Holocaust, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, after the Bali bombings, has gone from Labor’s lexicon. We must never forget.

The Truth about the Abortion Pill

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John Anderson

Anti-Semitism, Israel, and The Twilight Of Western Civilisation | Dennis Prager

Indolent
 May 19, 2024 2:05 pm

EU Warns Media Platforms Can Be Fined for Slovakian PM Shooting ‘Disinformation’

You mean, it is Miss Information to say that he wasn’t shot?

Bwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Our E Censorship Commissar should be on the case toot de sweet………lol

THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #193 (rumble.com)

An early clip shows that grotesque thing and member of the squad, pressley, the bald bitch, yapping about white men falling up; and nearly every clip shows black criminality and violence

cohenite
 May 19, 2024 3:18 pm

I like Minns. And it’s not just because he’s a good sort. So sue me.

We’ll see whether he shuts Eraring. That’ll test his gonads. I’m better looking.

Of course he will not shut the Biggest Coal Fired Electricity Station in Australia. He wants to get Re-Erected………..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQAkjdrgo7M

Stagflation in the 1970s (video)

https://youtu.be/XfYuA4OL82U

And for Junior’s benefit this is not a Marty Farty Promotion whatsoever. LOL,

FMD. Get a load of the initial reporting from the Hun:

A significant police presence has blocked Spring St, separating pro-Palestinian protesters from clashing with a “right wing” pro-Israel Christian group rally.

Pro-Palestinian groups hurled abuse as pro-Israeli protesters walked through the police blockade into the rally, chanting “Israel is a terror state” and “baby murderers”.

Police were forced to rush through the crowd to help an elderly woman in a wheelchair holding an Israeli flag after she was surrounded by pro-Palestinian protesters.

Meanwhile, a video shows a group of protesters wrestling an Israeli flag from a man and shouting at him as he heads towards the rally, before a swarm of police intervene to separate them.

The rally, at the steps of parliament, has been organised by Christian group “Never again is now”, which claims to be a “Christian grassroots movement educating and mobilising Christian’s to actively stand against the most ancient of racial hatreds, anti-Semitism.”

Rally attendees held green and gold umbrellas which read “stop the hate mate”, with several wearing Israeli flags.

But the group has been accused of being “openly hostile to Islam” and condemned by the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA).

“This rally aims to exploit Jewish fear about anti-Semitism and Holocaust memory for a pro-Israel Christian Zionist agenda,” JCA posted on its website.

Sarah Schwartz from the JCA said the rally was about “fighting anti-Semitism through pushing Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.”

“We need to fight anti-Semitism as part of the fight against all forms of racism and bigotry, by acting in solidarity with others facing racism,” she said.

Pro-Palestinian protesters stood on the outskirts of the rally, separated by police, chanting “free Palestine”.

Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters marched up Bourke St on Sunday afternoon to join the crowd rallying against the “Never Again is Now” movement.

Free Palestine protest organisers warned supporters to “not engage” with the “Never again is now” rally on Sunday.

Looks to me Sarah Schwartz is a bit ditzy. Darling, they hate you, there is no appeasement.
Right wing movement eh? Maybe just concerned Jews looking after their own?

Unite, one of the UK’s two large unions, will campaign against Labour’s Net Zero policy in the upcoming election.

35 000 North Sea oil workers would lose their jobs under the policy.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/thank-you-president-trump.html

Snork, snork!