The ship “MINERVA ANTONIA” in the Mediterranean Sea with a number of cruise missiles.
How the hell do these creeps get to blockade Israel and fire on neutral vessels? Do they want to be turned to glass also? In a former universe the west would be onto them as fast as you could say “knife”.
Perhaps, because the west are so pathetically weak, calli.
The all powerful US, you will remember, got kicked out of Afghanistan by goat herders, using fertiliser bombs.
The Houti’s have modern missiles. Totally different kettle of fish.
That is why the USN moved its assets further offshore.
Biden had stated that the Houti’s will be “neutralised” and had a couple of weeks of intense strikes.
They must have been very successful strikes, right?
Just like our defence force, they are hopelessly outgunned by potential aggressors, but you can rest assured they are up to date with the diversity lectures and Pride awareness meetings.
Judge Merchan just told the jury that they do not need unanimity to convict. 4 could agree on one crime, 4 on a different one, and the other 4 on another. He said he would treat 4-4-4 as a unanimous verdict.
The group’s actions have disrupted global shipping, leading to rerouting around Africa and creating significant risks for vessels heading to Israeli ports.
How the hell can this be allowed to continue? At what point do countries involved in trade through Suez kick up and put a stop to it?
Or are Yemenis special in some way? Please enlighten me.
A follow up on a very obvious attempt to stir up antisemitism particularly in Melbourne.
Lots of people were attacking Peter Horwitz for pointing out the obvious, that it was obviously fake.
“Her fake hate crime post received 10 million views and 200,000 likes before she locked her account. She invented a hate crime to demonise Jews. Should she be charged with a hate crime herself? @AusFedPolice” https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1795795650363232460?t=LGtO2Os67zD7ikTTSaKh3Q&s=19
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rosie
May 30, 2024 3:17 am
“The Israeli military says it has established “operational control” over the entire so-called Philadelphi Corridor — which runs for a total of 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) all along the Gaza-Egypt border.”
From the Oz. A lawyer with some integrity and humour has been stood down from chairing a committee over use of pronouns.
A silk who said his preferred pronouns are ‘HeHaw HeHaw Ha Ha Ha’ and questioned the use of gender-neutral titles in court and has been sacked as the chair of one of the NSW Bar’s central committees.
Families of America’s veterans interred at the Cheyenne National Cemetery were snubbed by bureaucrats on Memorial Day: A memorial event was announced for 11 a.m. but no one showed up to conduct it or honor the veterans.
I’m surprised the Tim Pool, Donald Trump interview hasn’t received more coverage.
A lot of bloviating.
And a summary of key issues he’ll address in his first 100 days.
KevinM
May 30, 2024 4:52 am
Yesterday was the day of the Fall of Constantinople 1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire.
Didn’t see any mention of it on the MSM, probably an insignificant event in the grand scheme of things.
A district judge in Michigan was shocked when a man with a suspended driver’s license joined a court Zoom call while driving a car. At one point the judge says, “I don’t even know why he would do that.”
The blurb of Mr Ellison’s Wardell Chambers profile includes a series of jokes, including that he has “no interest in sailing, skiing, golf, cooking or learning a foreign language and does not own a winery”.
“He does not wish to achieve a work/life balance. Lindsay doesn’t smoke. Nor does he drink tea, coffee or alcohol. He eats too much chocolate. He knows nothing about cars or sport. He is one of the least interesting persons you might ever meet,” it reads.
“Lindsay has made over 600 donations to the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service. He recommends you do the same. His philosophy is that if you draw blood, the least you can do is to give some back.”
I like him, calli.
That reads to me like one long pith take of what some people put on their bio’s.
Off the top of my head that’s over 100yrs worth of blood donations! 🙂
I agree. I’ve seen those corporate bios and this is definitely a piss take. We need more like him instead of the hordes of dead eyed vanilla wokesters.
I gave 50 units of O+ until the Red Cross rejected my donations on the basis of medications.
It’s actually a competitive activity when you get to 3 figures.
I did it because I could, and it was necessary at times – a bit of giving back, so to speak.
And the bikkies. But I’m a sucker for bikkies.
calli
May 30, 2024 5:52 am
A rooftop garden in Seville. The heat of the day slowly dissipating, the brilliant blue sky of midday fading into milky softness as the sun finally meets the horizon’s waiting embrace.
And as the air begins to cool, they rise. Groups of swallows, scribing arcs in the evening air, their soft voices calling for a response. In this part of Spain these migratory birds are everywhere. The heat keeps them hidden …only as the setting sun takes its daily journey do they appear.
I’m too scared. It might do something completely horrid, like the rogue hand shower that pretends to work then drenches you with freezing water from the concealed ceiling rose.
Never trust European plumbing. It’s a trap.
Tintarella di Luna
May 30, 2024 6:36 am
Ah calli what a delight to read this l’il vignette, I can see and feel the waning warmth if only I could read the swallows’ message, could it be need more pepitas? Thanks for taking us with you.
A rooftop garden in Seville. The heat of the day slowly dissipating, the brilliant blue sky of midday fading into milky softness as the sun finally meets the horizon’s waiting embrace.
And as the air begins to cool, they rise. Groups of swallows, scribing arcs in the evening air, their soft voices calling for a response. In this part of Spain these migratory birds are everywhere. The heat keeps them hidden …only as the setting sun takes its daily journey do they appear.
132andBush
May 30, 2024 6:47 am
Season update soon.
Trying to get more urea spread and the last of the irrigated Durum in the ground before more of the rain that was never again going to fill our dams and river systems does so, again.
Tintarella di Luna
May 30, 2024 6:50 am
It would appear there’s going to be no quick verdict on the Trump-ed Up trial – still no verdict after day one of deliberations.
Went out with a pal who recently had a both sides examination – colon and gastroscopy. The bill came in. He’s insured and so doesn’t know where the bill finally settled between the hospital and the insurance. However, if he was paying it himself, this is what the NYC hospital was expecting. Have a guess what it came in at?
US$58,000! The Doc’s portion of that was $9,000.
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Farmer Gez
May 30, 2024 7:00 am
Red sky in the morning at the ranch.
Sowing finished and rain on the way. Very dry here with most seed waiting on moisture to germinate and the sheep relying on me for feed.
I’d better be off and run a couple of big bales to a mob I didn’t get to yesterday.
Farmer Gez
May 30, 2024 7:04 am
Vicplod claiming they clocked a bike and a car doing speeds in the high 290’s in traffic.
Are we meant to believe this?
Fairly significant range of bikes capable of reaching that speed now. Cars less so but enough could. Wouldn’t like to try it on public roads personally, not even airports or tracks for that matter. Sat alongside a former touring car driver at 190kph in a 911 Cup car on a track which didn’t seem so bad.
Knuckle Dragger
May 30, 2024 7:17 am
War is hell (the NT News):
It’s been a tense few days in Pyongyang ever since North Korea’s much lauded new spy satellite, intended to keep an eye South Korea and the US, blew up shortly after launch on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, South Koreans – including defectors from the north – have been sending balloons carrying USB sticks loaded up with K-Pop, money, food, medicine and anti-North Korean leaflets across the border.
A bit of Gangnam Style should entice a few more over the border, surely.
In retaliation, North Korea sent some balloons of its own on Wednesday carrying vast amounts of foul-smelling faeces.
Balloons with crap in them sent into Greens headquarters sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately, they’d most likely smoke it, thinking it was some new breed of skunk.
In retaliation, North Korea sent some balloons of its own on Wednesday carrying vast amounts of foul-smelling faeces.
They export what they have.
Megan
May 30, 2024 7:19 am
Several degrees of separation to the west of calli, the Sicilian Prince and my good self have wound up our wonderful ten days with family on the outskirts of Milan.
Our apartment was in the Commune of Magenta and the entire place was gearing up for a big reconstruction this weekend, of the famous Battle of Magenta that ended the Second War of Italian Independence on June 4th, 1859.
It resulted in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III and Patrice de MacMahon (*que?) against the Austrians under Marshal Ferenc Gyulay and the Prince of Montenuovo.
We also spent an afternoon wandering Boffaloro sul Ticino where fighting actually began on the evening prior. Gelato and coffe were also involved, something denied to the unfortunate soldiers awaiting their fate. The French Sardians were at a numerical disadvantage and the losses on both sides were considerable. A local Municipio building still is decorated by the giant holes punched in it by cannonballs during the battle.
Paddy MacMahon ended up as Duke of Magenta and President of France eventually. An interesting result of Irish immigration to France. The Rue de Magenta in Paris also commemorates this victory.
As an artistic side note, a red-pink dye discovered three years previously, and known as triaminotriphenyl carbonium chloride was renamed Magenta in honour of the unexpected victory because of the blood soaked battlefield and the colour created by blood on the blue imperial jackets. I’ll never look at paint tubes of Magenta in quite the same way after that.
A bit disappointed to miss the raucous celebrations but we have somewhere else to be that involves another foray onto the Italian train system. More updates pending.
* highly amusing listening to the various attempts by the locals to pronounce such an overtly Non-Italian name. Some of the more talented manage to make it sound totally local, but it always manages to make me laugh.
Top Ender
May 30, 2024 7:22 am
‘Issue with racism’: ABC’s chief political correspondent doubles down on comments suggesting Australia is a racist country
The ABC’s chief political correspondent insists Australia has an “issue with racism” after it was revealed she had been “counselled” by the broadcaster’s news director over her comments at an event last weekend.
Laura Tingle made controversial comments at the Sydney Writers’ Festival when she was asked to comment on Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s policy about migration and the economy, including housing.
“I did indeed make the observation on Sunday that we are a racist country, in the context of a discussion about the political prospects ahead,” she said in a lengthy statement on Wednesday.
“I wasn’t saying every Australian is a racist. But we clearly have an issue with racism.”
Many Muslims and leftists do. The American journalist Andy Ngo has observed and chronicled a long list of Muslim and leftist ‘hate crimes’ which all turned out to be fakes.
Of course, the most sensational fake hate crime of recent years was Jessie Smollett.
will
May 30, 2024 7:27 am
US$58,000! The Doc’s portion of that was $9,000.
I read many years ago in the New Yorker that the insurance for a gynecologist was $1 million per annum. No doubt more now and representative of the cost of medical practice, especially in Tort mad USA.
alwaysright
May 30, 2024 7:28 am
I liked this.
Top Ender
May 30, 2024 7:29 am
Read the result at the end!
Darwin man jailed for inadvertently killing Wadeye brother
A Darwin man who, after a heavy session of drinking, kicked his brother in the back, inadvertently perforating the victim’s pancreas and kidney, has been sentenced for the tragic death.
Jingili man Peter Kinthari, who is in his early 40s, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory to a charge of engaging in a violent act causing death.
The victim was his brother, who is referred to as TK for cultural reasons.
The offence occurred at Kinthari’s Jingili residence on August 3, 2022, with TK expiring the following day from catastrophic internal bleeding caused by a fractured rib perforating his right kidney and pancreas, Justice Judith Kelly told Kinthari’s sentencing hearing on May 20.
On the day in question, TK and his family had flown from Wadeye to visit Kinthari and his family, and the group began drinking heavily.
After 9pm, TK “got upset” at Kinthari, Justice Kelly told the court.
“Nobody seems to know why,” she said.
TK challenged a reluctant Kinthari to a fight, “hassling… [and] challenging him” until he agreed.
There was a melee on the street, which drew police attention, and TK and his partner left for several hours, returning at about 11pm, where a bumptious TK “demanded” another fight after a verbal disagreement.
TK lunged at Kinthari, flipping his brother onto his back, to which Kinthari responded by pushing TK over.
While TK was sitting on the ground, Kinthari “went up to TK from behind and kicked him hard in the right side of his body,” Justice Kelly said.
This kick “caused a displaced fracture of the right posterior twelfth rib,” which, unbeknown to all, had already set in motion the victim’s death.
Soon, TK felt a “sharp and severe stomach pain,” collapsing against the bathtub.
He was transported to Royal Darwin Hospital via an emergency ambulance, but while awaiting the trauma team, he went into cardiac arrest.
TK was declared deceased at 6.50am the following morning.
An autopsy subsequently determined about 1.7 litres of blood had bled into his body cavity.
Kinthari has been remanded in pre-sentence custody ever since, a period of about 22 months.
Justice Kelly said there were a number of mitigating factors, including that TK was the provocateur in both fights, Kinthari had suffered the “devastating” loss of his sole remaining brother, and that Kinthari did not mean to kill or cause serious harm to his brother.
Kinthari was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment but released immediately, with the remainder of his sentence suspended for an operational period of 18 months, conditional upon Kinthari being under the supervision of Community Corrections.
And of course, closer to home, in Melbourne back in November 2023, a fake crime was alleged by Nazi Muslims and their Nazi leftist comrades. These 2024 Nazis decided to imitate their 1933 Nazi ideological kin and allege a ‘Reichstag fire’ type incident. So, in November 2023 they alleged that Jewish arsonists set fire to a crappy Palestinian owned hamburger joint. And so what did the leftist and Muslim scum do? On the Sabbath, in the suburb of Caulfield where lots of Jews happen to live, whilst Vic police stood buy (as always), these 2023 Nazis unpeacefully assembled directly in front of a synagogue to harass, intimidate and threaten Jews!
It was later discovered that no Jew had been involved in the arson attack…of course. But who needs evidence and proof when you want to harass, intimidate and threaten Jews!
The 1400 year old playbook says you just need the ‘vibe’.
rosie
May 30, 2024 7:41 am
Life is cheap in the NT.
Sancho Panzer
May 30, 2024 7:42 am
It was later discovered that no Jew had been involved in the arson attack
To his credit, one police officer was steadfast in his view that this was not a racist or religiously motivated attack.
When arrests were finally made, those charged did not have many degrees of separation from the Middle Eastern chaps involved in the illegal tobacco trade.
Roger
May 30, 2024 7:45 am
‘Issue with racism’: ABC’s chief political correspondent doubles down on comments suggesting Australia is a racist country
Sounds more like an attempted walk back.
“Oh, I didn’t mean we’re all racist, just some of you.”
Pathetic.
As is Kim Williams’s disappearing act.
Apparently he has not returned The Australian’s phone calls.
Kim Williams used to be News Corp’s favourite in-house lefty. Now he’s the ABC’s most useful idiot, too dumb to work out for himself that, in spite his desire to impose impartiality on the ABC;s activist staff, the chairman of the board has zero power and will be ignored with impunity by the staff as they continue their campaign for the Greens — the fleas on the back of the Labor government.
Two months for retirement? No wonder he feel brave enough to take the piss out of the whole crapola.
GreyRanga
May 30, 2024 8:06 am
What no rioting TE, guess it must be ok when one of them is not a criminal being arrested and trying to stab the arresting officers.
Roger
May 30, 2024 8:08 am
Tony Abbott addressed the Danube Institute in Budapest this week, claiming the West is wimping out in a “civilisational moment”. As China, Russia and Tehran pose “unprecendented challenges” to our way of life, we wallow in “moral confusion.”
Everything he says is true (more or less).
But this is the leader who wimped out on repealing 18C.
If we don’t play our part with courage when called upon, what right do we have to lecture others on their failures?
You can read a summary in The Australian today, if you wish.
How are China, Russia and Tehran posing “unprecedented challenges?”
As far as Australia goes, the UniParty in Canberra have, for at least 40 years, had a far more significant and detrimental effect on Australia’s way of life, than those three.
For the “West” in general, Europe in particular, the US, with its illogical and irrational dictates and aggression, has led them by the nose, to impose sanctions, which have destroyed the European economies.
If anyone can explain to me, why every EU nation, (except Hungary and Slovakia), has “willingly” destroyed their economies and emptied their arsenals, for the most corrupt nation in Europe, that is not a member of the EU, or NATO, I would be most grateful.
Those three entities, had nothing to do with that.
Then there is the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline, ……….
bons
May 30, 2024 8:09 am
Spent the night cowering under the covers as the ‘rain bomb’ approached.
Brought the dogs in. They hugged each other quivering.
My raindrop counter tells me that there were 17 miliflans. I didn’t notice, and the dogs just snored – loudly.
A beautiful sunny sky assures me that I survived yet another close escape from BOM gotterdammerung.
I saw that late last night.
All I could do was a massive groan.
I have wondered how such people survive. Only in Western countries.
H B Bear
May 30, 2024 8:17 am
Teh Paywallian has an interesting storey on the Hawthorn AFL story. Liar affiliated legal types Gordon Legal and Leon Zwier are noticeable participants. Zwier now front and centre In the Brittany farce.
The AFL might need to join the ALPBC as the ALPFL.
John H.
May 30, 2024 8:17 am
Tony Abbott addressed the Danube Institute in Budapest this week, claiming the West is wimping out in a “civilisational moment”. As China, Russia and Tehran pose “unprecendented challenges” to our way of life, we wallow in “moral confusion.”
The perennial proclamations of a coming cultural apocalypse is a favourite theme of conservatives. Let me know when the sky falls.
Walked past a Brownstone home on 72nd street. Prominently displayed on the front of the home facing the street, was a white lit neon sign which said,
I am a proud Jew.
Sancho Panzer
May 30, 2024 8:21 am
“Oh, I didn’t mean we’re all racist, just some of you.”
Specifically, Peter Dutton and the 60% of us who voted Nyet in the referendum last October.
Of course, what Bingle is pissed off about is the inexplicable backlash against Giles allowing child rapists and granny bashers imported from various shit-holes to stay here.
What has really got Bingle wrapped around the axle isn’t the reaction of Joe Public. It is the fact that this brave new “F-ck You!” to middle Australia has now been abandoned by Elbow and now Giles. I hear overnight that Giles has thrown the AAT under the bus, saying they had “misinterpreted” his directive and we can expect “tough new measures”.
More generally, in Bingle World, anyone who questions the quantum of immigration on economic grounds, without saying a word about where migrants come from is obviously racist.
Why do I suspect that La Tingle critises “settler colonialism”, while neither unsettling herself from the colony, nor allowing any criticism of the ongoing influx of huge numbers of settler colonists.
One suspects it’s not colonisation itself that is objected to – displacing the current ‘enemies of humanity/globalism’ is highly desirable – but who does it that counts.
Insiders vs. Outsiders.
Eyrie
May 30, 2024 8:21 am
Tony Abbott addressed the Danube Institute in Budapest this week, claiming the West is wimping out in a “civilisational moment”. As China, Russia and Tehran pose “unprecendented challenges” to our way of life, we wallow in “moral confusion.”
Pretty mouthy for a bloke who completely wimped out when he was PM and had the opportunity to do something about it.
Yes, many of us were very disappointed with Tony as PM. Nonetheless, we need voices ( no pun intended!) to speak up about the decline in our belief in our values in the West.
A follow up on a very obvious attempt to stir up antisemitism particularly in Melbourne.
Lots of people were attacking Peter Horwitz for pointing out the obvious, that it was obviously fake.
“Her fake hate crime post received 10 million views and 200,000 likes before she locked her account. She invented a hate crime to demonise Jews. Should she be charged with a hate crime herself? @AusFedPolice”
Obviously there is a universal shortage of hate crimes against muslims that the only thing they can do is to produce them themselves.
Knuckle Dragger
May 30, 2024 8:29 am
It was later discovered that no Jew had been involved in the arson attack
Called it.
*moonwalks*
Vicki
May 30, 2024 8:29 am
Hmmm John H …….havnt noticed the sky falling? Well start looking up.
Seriously, the West is suffering many problems – not the least because it’s belief in the principles that made it great are in decline. The great historian Victor Davis Hanson has spoken recently (& published a new book) of the parallels with Ancient Rome. Interestingly, he speaks of the remarks of Livy, Tacitus & others of the effects of “luxus” on Roman morals and society. The similar effects of western affluence are very clear, in my humble opinion.
Arguably, our greatest delusion* is that ‘There is no need to defend what is being clearly attacked, because this affluence is forever; change will not touch it.’
*Affluence grants us time for these delusions. Leisure has its benefits, but only if the potential deficits (ample time and provocation for digressive – often abstract – cognition) are managed.
Sancho Panzer
May 30, 2024 8:30 am
H B Bear
May 30, 2024 8:17 am
Teh Paywallian has an interesting storey on the Hawthorn AFL story. Liar affiliated legal types Gordon Legal and Leon Zwier are noticeable participants.
I heard a report on 3AW. “The most serious allegation – that Hawthorn officials pressured a player and his girlfriend to have an abortion – was found to have no substance. Hawthorn is under pressure to make a financial settlement in the matter”.
So there you have it in a nutshell. Nothing proven.
But need munny.
I suspect the “pressure to have an abortion” was a fire-side chat with a 19 year old coke-head with no sense of responsibility about what being a parent really meant.
Yep. The sort of thing that doesn’t make it past Day 1 in court and often results in a spray from the judge about wasting the court’s time.
Roger
May 30, 2024 8:30 am
“Last week, in an article in The Australian, I joined many from around the world denouncing the moral equivalence from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) between Israel as a democratic country with an elected Prime Minister, a professional and disciplined military and a powerful and independent judiciary, on the one hand, and Hamas as a terrorist organisation with no internal judicial checks on its military conduct whatsoever, on the other.
Perhaps stung by the chorus of criticisms, Karim Khan, the prosecutor, has now dug the hole he is in even deeper in an interview with The Times. A British citizen of Pakistani ancestry, he recalled the many attacks on prominent British leaders by the Irish Republican Army and commented that the UK did not bomb Belfast to get the IRA on the justification that ‘there undoubtedly may be some IRA members and Republican sympathisers’ in Belfast. Khan is now guilty of serial false equivalencies.
Where to even begin when a man in such a critically important office for international criminal justice betrays such jaw-dropping ignorance and lack of understanding?
First off, Belfast is part of the UK and people of Northern Ireland are British citizens. Gaza is not part of Israel and Palestinians living there are not Israeli citizens. The government and defence force of Israel, unlike Hamas, believe it their solemn duty to serve, defend and protect Israelis, not bomb them.
During the time of the Troubles, the IRA were not the ruling party of Northern Ireland.
The IRA was not committed by its charter to the complete destruction of the UK and the liberation of the entire country, from the English Channel to the North Sea and the Irish Sea. Senior IRA spokesmen did not call repeatedly for the death and ethnic cleansing of all Englishmen, with excitable mobs of expatriate Irish chanting ‘Gas the Poms!’ and ‘Where are the Poms?’ in the West’s major cities.
Perhaps I missed the news item when the IRA crossed the narrow sea to attack a major cultural festival where the English youth had gathered to celebrate life with dancing, singing and general good cheer and bonhomie, killing 8,000 (scaled from the October 7 attacks to reflect the much bigger UK population), abducting another 1,700, including children, babies and elderly, and sadistically raping and torturing at will.
The IRA did not regularly launch rocket attacks from the cover of Belfast hospitals across the Irish Sea on civilians, installations and infrastructure in Britain. Nor do I recall news of the IRA building hundreds of miles of underground tunnels in which to hide their fighters and arms either.
If this is the level of Khan’s intellectual and logical reasoning capacity, the ICC will be living in interesting times for the next few years. He should be embarrassed by the political theatre he has staged.”
The surprising thing is that Karim Khan is Ahmadiyya, even married the daughter of their ‘Caliph’. And they are seen as heretics, who the orthodox want to wipe out – technically Pakistani but not wanted there. You’d think he’d have a more nuanced view. BTW, it says his mother was ‘born in the UK’ perhaps suggesting she is/was English, like Varadkar whose mother was Irish, also a nurse.
Tony Abbott addressed the Danube Institute in Budapest this week, claiming the West is wimping out in a “civilisational moment”. As China, Russia and Tehran pose “unprecendented challenges” to our way of life, we wallow in “moral confusion.”
Gotta hand it to “Tones” failed as PM not only lapping up his “retirement” bonanza but ensuring the family fortune on the international talk-fest circuit where he can say what he likes, soak up the applause & rake in big bucks cos nuttin’ he sez has any, practical, effect on anything ..
IMO that is unfair on Abbott. He opposed Waffleworth in support of Branch members and we have since got a sense of the internal opposition he faced as PM. He is not the villain here.
I read an article that said the reason why most media stories use “Ireland” rather than Eire is cos the, current, Irish gummint doesn’t like it to be referred to by its, actual, name …….
thefrollickingmole
May 30, 2024 8:33 am
and the dumbest blockheads one could ever imagine.
The bell curve giveth, and the bell curve taketh away again.
South Africans queued late into the night to vote Wednesday, forcing polling stations to remain open beyond closing time in a landmark general election, with the ruling ANC fighting to protect its three-decade-long grip on power.
More than 27 million voters were registered for the most uncertain poll since the African National Congress led the nation out of apartheid.
Most polls started to close at 9pm (8am AEST) but thousands were still waiting in line after nightfall in some big-city voting stations, with electoral officials vowing everyone would get their chance.
With opposition challenges from both the left and right, unemployment and crime at near-record levels and a new generation growing up with no memory of the struggle against white-minority rule, the ruling party may lose its absolute majority and be forced to share power.
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said it projected turnout to go “well beyond” the 66 per cent recorded in the last election in 2019.
“We are experiencing a late surge and are processing a large number of voters,” the IEC’s head Sy Mamabolo told a press conference less than an hour before polls were due to close.
Eyrie
May 30, 2024 9:04 am
As Thomas Jefferson wrote of King George III, “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
Reminds me of ‘straya 2024.
Roger
May 30, 2024 9:09 am
The great historian Victor Davis Hanson has spoken recently (& published a new book) of the parallels with Ancient Rome.
Rome didn’t fall in a day.
For many living in the countryside life barely changed even as political tremors shook the city, culminating in the abdication of the last emperor of the West in AD476 (the eastern empire continuing for another millennium and even retaking parts of the western empire).
That being said, they didn’t have electronic communications or electricity grids.
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Rufus T Firefly
May 30, 2024 9:13 am
Jupiter Macron appeared in Berlin with Scholz yesterday and yet again stated that “Ukraine” could fire French weapons, into Russian territory, as it saw fit.
Also, over the last week, several statements have been made, by Ministers from the Baltic states, (total population of all three is 6 million), stating that they will supply troops to Ukraine.
Why these morons are trying to invoke a response from Russia, given their position of ultimate weakness, is beyond me.
They clearly don’t give a f*ck about their populations, just like the brain dead weasels, we have the misfortune to call our “representatives” in Canberra.
Why I mention this, is because of comments made by President Putin yesterday.
First, he stated that Russia knows Ukraine does not have the weapons or capability to conduct the surveillance required, nor the technical skills, to launch these attacks. In other words, western operatives will provide these skills.
The West will attack Russia. Does that seem like a good idea to you?
Secondly and most chillingly, he said:
“These countries are small in size and have dense populations. They should remember that.”
Russia called in the British and French Foreign Ministers three weeks ago and “read them their horoscopes” after some intemperate remarks.
The EU leaders seem hell bent on drawing a blinding flash over their capitals. If I were them, I would heed the warnings.
No one, especially Russia, has infinite patience.
Bourne1879
May 30, 2024 9:14 am
Comparing what happened on 7 Oct to IRA in N Ireland has got to be one of the worst comparisons ever made.
Ramesh is doing some great work with his articles including on Covid issues.
Ramesh is doing some great work with his articles including on Covid issues.
Second that!
Bruce of Newcastle
May 30, 2024 9:15 am
“We are experiencing a late surge and are processing a large number of voters,” the IEC’s head Sy Mamabolo told a press conference
Those 3am ballot drops need a bit of preparatory messaging?
mem
May 30, 2024 9:17 am
Apparently there’s been a 60% reduction in admissions to emergency departments from men suffering from prostate cancer who receive specialist care from nurses. The headline reads; “Nurses Head off Cancer Admissions”. Can’t post the article, and I know this sounds like a serious breakthrough, but haven’t stopped chuckling yet. Nurses may be in greater demand than usual! (article in the OZ and written by Elizabeth Pike))
A wife-beating Sudanese thug told officials he could play the didgeridoo and was Aboriginal now – and that was enough to let him stay in Australia
Daily Mail. Seems he’s been adopted by one of the tribes.
For the past few years, the SunCable ‘Let’s power Singapore from solar in Darwin’ has thrashed around. The spruikers, carpetbaggers and subsidy farmers have tumbled out increasingly huge and confusing GW’s and GWh’s of solar supply and storage – with commensurate billions of Excel dollars capex and unknown opex.
In 2022/23, Singapore made clear that there was no government financial support and it wasn’t that keen on committing to an energy strategy delivering hopelessly expensive power at the end of 5,000km of cable exposed to the risk of seismic events, anchors, and sabotage. Particularly with alternatives like an Indonesian solar project on Riau, a mere 400km away.
After that, Twiggy Forest pulled the pin and Mike Cannon Brookes took over as ringmaster in late 2023, introducing Quinbrook as a financial partner.
DarwinLink is the Australian onshore component of AAPowerLink and includes the development of the world’s biggest integrated renewable energy zone on Powell Creek in the Barkly region of the Northern Territory, along with 800km of overhead HVDC transmission to the Darwin region. The project plans to deliver up to 4GW of 24/7 renewable electricity to the Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct, to underpin a new wave of green industrial development.
Which obviously harmonises nicely with the Albanese choir:
DarwinLink is expected to generate ~$8billion worth of investment and ~1750 direct jobs in Australia during the construction phase. Once complete, the project has an operating life of 70 years; which is where the project can really deliver intergenerational benefits to the Barkly region and the Northern Territory. The operations phase anticipated 350 permanent jobs, and a range of contract and business enterprise opportunities for the region.
With metrics like this, a cynic might expect a flood of taxpayer lazy millions to flow towards the Barkly region.
That there is one of them Florence thingies, you know, costs 10x to 20x what the original costing was and is used to drain taxpayer money and probably will never work. No one involved will be unhappy though, except taxpayers who appear to have no word at all in all this.
Lots of government goes to die in the NT and northern Australia more generally.
Roger
May 30, 2024 9:38 am
Long story short, SunCable has now been reimagined as DarwinLink
Is a monorail included?
That would be the icing on the cake!
Bruce of Newcastle
May 30, 2024 9:43 am
I have mentioned the Furiosa box office already a couple times, but here’s another story on it with a wider look at the malaise Hollywood has gotten into.
Someone turned the propaganda dial up to eleven. Since then media companies have been on a relentless campaign of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Their goal? To saturate every corner of pop culture with feminism, critical race theory and LGBT indoctrination to the point that it’s impossible to walk into a movie theater or turn on the TV without being psychologically molested (a problem Hollywood is famous for).
The agenda went even further that that, though. The industry not only set out to make every single project woke, they also tried to go back in time and retroactively erase characters they don’t like anymore – Specifically, straight white male heroes.
That’s never a good sign. An even worse sign is Captain America has suddenly turned into a black guy. Dunno how that happens, maybe it’s like Dr Who metamorphosing into a gay African (which led to the worst Who TV ratings ever).
But one thing seems likely: audiences are going to smell the stench of woke from a mile off. I don’t like the movie’s chance of making a profit even if it does make it to release.
There’s nothing wrong with having black heroes (eg. Hancock) or strong ladies (eg. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider). Both movies did well, and are fun, but neither were at all woke.
What so all the race swapping and lead tough girl parts are not working?
What a surprise!
To be honest, I can’t stand all the movies that make white men look stupid and dumb.
Who built the modern world? For all its flaws, it was built by white men.
Everyone knows that the fantasy race and gender swapping parts, are just that, fantasy and there is just no way anyone wants to see this warped view of the world. Oh granted a few do, but look at the numbers, they just support what I have noticed.
John H.
May 30, 2024 9:46 am
Vicki
May 30, 2024 8:29 am
Hmmm John H …….havnt noticed the sky falling? Well start looking up.
Seriously, the West is suffering many problems – not the least because it’s belief in the principles that made it great are in decline. The great historian Victor Davis Hanson has spoken recently (& published a new book) of the parallels with Ancient Rome. Interestingly, he speaks of the remarks of Livy, Tacitus & others of the effects of “luxus” on Roman morals and society. The similar effects of western affluence are very clear, in my humble opinion.
Hansen like all talking heads needs to keep people alarmed. Why is that people predicting the future are so neurotic? Because people are attracted to bad news.
Political tragics always paint doom.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
–H. L. Mencken
The problem isn’t that the sky is falling, it’s that Western governments all believe the sky is falling. They’re running around like a horde of rich elite Chicken Littles squawking and doing horrendous damage to Western economies. That can’t end well: remember Nongqawuse.
We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and our students, and the insistence on our future, in the face of all current attempts to erase us.
The Israeli occupation forces have demolished our buildings but our universities live on. We reaffirm our collective determination to remain on our land and to resume teaching, study, and research in Gaza, at our own Palestinian universities, at the earliest opportunity.
We call upon our friends and colleagues around the world to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide in occupied Palestine, to work alongside us in rebuilding our demolished universities, and to refuse all plans seeking to bypass, erase, or weaken the integrity of our academic institutions.
Lest anyone think university protests and open and tacit academic and administrative support go unnoticed and unappreciated in the Tunnels of Gaza.
Meanwhile, with little fanfare in the media, an Israeli university appointed a new rector a few weeks ago. So what, you might ask? She is an Arab woman.
oh and please, something “smart”, can’t do without one of those!
Sancho Panzer
May 30, 2024 9:56 am
GreyRanga
May 30, 2024 8:55 am
Thancho, locusts are when its dry, frogs when its wet.
Well, I did fail the Plagues module in Bible Studies.
GreyRanga
May 30, 2024 10:00 am
ZK2A the Sudanese didgyonly had to learn the hollow stick, the wife beating was mandatory so passed with flying colours. Not sure about getting on the grog as they’re 90% muzzie. Christianity is the highest minority.
From my chatting to them, I’d guess the most Sudanese in Oz are not Muz. They are South Sudanese, Dinka and Nuer. They also hate each other.
Sancho Panzer
May 30, 2024 10:03 am
Dr F at 9:24:-
“Billions of Excel dollars”.
Love it!
I have been guilty myself of printing Excel dollars myself but, in my defence, they were at least loosely tethered to real dollars
GreyRanga
May 30, 2024 10:04 am
Thancho the only Bible studies I did was fondly gazing at Lynley Evans.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 30, 2024 10:09 am
Groom discovers his bride is actually a MAN… TWELVE DAYS after their wedding: ‘Wife’ avoided sex by saying ‘she was on her period’
Daily Mail. Ek roll ap dir vloor….
Vermeer is my favourite classic artist. I’d have drank milk offered by this milkmaid.
In other news: For me the 2 best de niro movies were Godfather 11 and Midnight Run with Casino a maybe. I won’t be rewatching them. De niro is certifiable. But the amazing thing is he is a typical Trump hater. These people are deranged but more importantly they hate their fellow Americans and they hate America.
For many living in the countryside life barely changed even as political tremors shook the city, culminating in the abdication of the last emperor of the West in AD476 (the eastern empire continuing for another millennium and even retaking parts of the western empire). ? That being said, they didn’t have electronic communications or electricity grids.
We won’t have soon either.
damon
May 30, 2024 10:36 am
“It would appear there’s going to be no quick verdict on the Trump-ed Up trial”
They’ve got one or more holdouts on a guilty verdict.
BobtheBoozer
May 30, 2024 10:37 am
The big meltdown will happen as his medications wear off. This is just a little taste of it.
As the dementia progresses, the chances of him actually attacking a reporter increase.
Are they centred around Fortitude Valley by chance?
BobtheBoozer
May 30, 2024 10:55 am
https://mailchi.mp/bernardgaynor/u9ceet3738-841119?e=fe7dbed3ce
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Australia’s classification laws are being reviewed and urgent action is needed to ensure that these laws protect children from pornography. At the same time, we must address the widespread availability of violent pornography which scientific studies prove is directly linked to violence against women.
It is shocking that the Commonwealth government’s Australian Classification Board has legally approved all of the following to be given to children:
Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping admitted at a Politburo session on Monday that China’s job market is in “chaos.”
He ordered his underlings to create “full, high-quality employment” by developing “new sources of job growth,” although he offered few hints on how they might go about their monumental task.
Xi’s remarks after a Politburo “study session” in Beijing were unusually candid about the turbulent state of the Chinese economy. …
The dictator sounded a bit less optimistic on Monday, when his address to the Politburo came after a dour lecture on the job market by Mo Rong, director of a government think tank called the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security.
“We must develop new business entities and new business models vigorously, actively cultivating new professions and developing new sources of job growth,” Xi declared.
“The course of high-quality development should be a process that spawns more, better jobs, and that development should better drive employment,” he said. “We must effectively deal with employment discrimination, defaults of wages and social security contribution, illegal lay-offs and other chaos.”
Xi said the public should be taught to hold “correct views of employment,” by which he seemingly meant that Chinese businessmen should focus more on creating jobs than pursuing profit.
Um, doesn’t work top down sonny boy, you have to do the Deng thing by getting out of the way and not forcing Chinese businessmen to “focus more on creating jobs than pursuing profit”. That always fails.
“The course of high-quality development should be a process that spawns more, better jobs, and that development should better drive employment,” he said. “We must effectively deal with employment discrimination, defaults of wages and social security contribution, illegal lay-offs and other chaos.”
All the problems they have could be resolved nearly overnight by deregulating the employment conditions and allowing the market to work.
This is the one thing the Communists cannot do – and thank God for that. Imagine the growth of a free enterprise China.
We would be buried in product because our governments won’t do it either.
A free China is the nightmare our bureaucracy fears.
But one thing seems likely: audiences are going to smell the stench of woke from a mile off. I don’t like the movie’s chance of making a profit even if it does make it to release.
It does affirm one’s faith in humanity when woke crap is rejected by the punters. Disney’s woes is reassuring. But the woke bastards who run entertainment are not going to go without a fight. A black and gay Dr Who won’t be the bottom of their projected self loathing. So far we’ve seen Thor grow tits, various gay super heroes and the insidious female power theme dominate action and particularly Marvel movies. I personally find that the most galling and is part of the context which has allowed trannies to take over. It started and persists with the feminists proclaiming sheilas can do anything a bloke can do and we have seen a plethora of movie duds showing a 120 lb woman beating the tripe out of 220 lb men. It is just junk.
Woolamai
May 30, 2024 11:09 am
We call upon our friends and colleagues around the world to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide
ScholasticideI love this new word – clearly related to insecticide.
feelthebern
May 30, 2024 11:19 am
Ive always liked a good Grenache.
However it’s odd how over the last month literally all the plonk emails I get are now pushing it, at the same time it’s getting written up by columnists.
Lots of the Aussie brands seem to be bringing out their own mass-market grenache, malbec and tempranillos lately. Which is nice, although I prefer European ones since Australian versions tend to be a bit too fruity. Much prefer the drier Portuguese riojas and French bordeaux styles for such wines.
A cynic might think the Next Big Thing didn’t turn out to be so big. Nothing like drinking off trend varietals to pick up a bargain. Just about time to break out a few fortifieds.
billie
May 30, 2024 11:23 am
COMPREHENSIVE SUBMISSION TO REFORM AUSTRALIA’S CLASSIFICATION LAWS AND LEGALLY RESTRICT PORNOGRAPHY FROM CHIILDREN
No thanks, because we were all told similar with the bikie laws for instance, that were just brought in restrict various activities and allow law enforcement people certain extra abilities to restruict bikie criminal behaviour.
Then, during the covid lockdowns we discovered that the police can demand you open your phone so they can check locations, and privacy settings as well as anything else they feel like doing on your phone, including conficating it .. all legally under the .. bikie laws that extend to the entire community, not just that one small group.
So no, no more restricting anything. Some of those things might not be great, but that’s human nature to see what’s around us.
Sancho Panzer
May 30, 2024 11:29 am
feelthebern
May 30, 2024 11:19 am
Ive always liked a good Grenache.
However it’s odd how over the last month literally all the plonk emails I get are now pushing it, at the same time it’s getting written up by columnists.
Seems like Big Grenache has some clout.
I also think the main shill for Big Shiraz has put the spittoon in the rack.
Sancho Panzer
May 30, 2024 11:32 am
Dr Faustus
May 30, 2024 9:52 am
Is a monorail included?
And shirley a multifunctionpolis.
If you’d just step over here to the whiteboard I’ll walk you through the Knowledge Nation model.
It’s exquisite in it’s complex simplicity, even if I do say so myself.
The former head of Britain’s farming union yesterday spoke out against large-scale solar farms, declaring ‘there’s a huge amount not to like’.
But Minette Batters warned they will continue to be built while her members faced uncertainty about the future of dairy and arable farming – and while wealthy investors are free to buy up large chunks of the countryside.
Ms Batters, the ex-president of the National Farmers’ Union, also highlighted ‘horrific examples’ where tenant farmers are being booted off land for huge solar schemes so the landowner can make more money.
Those dastardly kulaks, how dare they stand in the way of Great Stalin’s holy wind turbines and solar farms. The nerve!
I wonder where the Lock The Gate activists have all gone? They seem to’ve vanished.
Well-educated but barely employable: that description, which once would have seemed paradoxical, describes an increasing number of Americans. One of them is David Walsh, who has a PhD in history but apparently can’t get a tenure-track job.
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But the phenomenon at work here–a huge cadre of well-educated people who think they are entitled to make good money, be treated with deference, and play a significant role in public life, but who in fact are not very employable and whose expectations are doomed to be frustrated–explains a lot about the demented quality of our current culture.
There’s a lot between those two paras that is worth reading. The theory of “elite overproduction” turning into a threat to society is particularly interesting.
But one thing seems likely: audiences are going to smell the stench of woke from a mile off. I don’t like the movie’s chance of making a profit even if it does make it to release.
It does affirm one’s faith in humanity when woke crap is rejected by the punters. Disney’s woes is reassuring. But the woke bastards who run entertainment are not going to go without a fight. A black and gay Dr Who won’t be the bottom of their projected self loathing. So far we’ve seen Thor grow tits, various gay super heroes and the insidious female power theme dominate action and particularly Marvel movies. I personally find that the most galling and is part of the context which has allowed trannies to take over. It started and persists with the feminists proclaiming sheilas can do anything a bloke can do and we have seen a plethora of movie duds showing a 120 lb woman beating the tripe out of 220 lb men. It is just junk.
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As I’ve said before, IMHO Hollywood is now just a vast money-laundering operation for the cartels and anyone else with criminal cash.
In the 1980s, when the cocaine cartels had so much cash they were digging big holes in the ground and burying it, Hollywood and LA generally was awash with coke. It went all the way from extras to studio bosses and financiers.
It’s not much of a stretch to imagine that these conspicuous consumers knew people who knew people who knew people. Why would they resist millions of dollars in cash at much less than 100% value? With the maze of production companies and their subcontractors involved, losing the cash would not be difficult. Everyone likes cash.
Besides, Hollywood accounting has always paralleled its product in being largely fictional. The next step was easy.
Pandering to fashionable causes is the perfect cover for an essentially criminal enterprise.
Roger
May 30, 2024 12:19 pm
Home Affairs Secretary Stephanie Foster admitted in Senate Estimates this week the department had not kept Mr Giles up to date on the visa challenges and decisions by the Australian Appeals Tribunal.
Why didn’t he seek out the information?
Why didn’t Dreyfus alert him to the cases?
And how did we get Direction 99 in the first place?
Are they really trying to say the Direction 99s went from Giles oblivious of any status or follow up ?
Expect this to be clarified later in the day or week.
Westminster ministerial responsibility is deader than one of those giant wombats during a cultural burn. Debatable whether democracy can function effectively without it.
Bungonia Bee
May 30, 2024 12:35 pm
Last night Chris Kenny made a comment that I think went even beyond his Voice silliness.
He said he was “disgusted” that Trump hadn’t accepted the outcome of the 2020 election.
Plenty of people have described the various ways that the 2020 election was warped.
I haven’t heard him say he’s “disgusted” at the way the US justice system is being weaponised right now, in a manner worthy of soviet Russia or any number of banana republics.
In fact, the entire daytime Sky crew won’t say anything negative about either the 2020 election or the weaponisation of the justice system. I don’t hear them saying anything about who funds all those lefty DAs, or about the number of left leaning judges appointed by Obama and now Biden. This is why crime is so high in so many places.
I don’t hear them looking askance at the new roles for the FBI and CIA, or the number of lefty appointments to senior military positions – with resultant imposition of force weakening DEI etc.
US manufacturing has been hollowed out and sent to China. The Strategic Oil Reserve has been halved, now down to the lowest level since the early 1980s. Shipbuilding can’t keep up a healthy replacement program for surface ship or submarines.
It’s said there is “a lot of ruin in a nation”. The sands in that hourglass have been running down for decades, and the end, when it comes, could be a lot faster than our slobby media realise.
From tonight I’ll be bringing forward last night’s Sharri to replace CK at 5pm.
Kenny is a twot. I don’t know why people bother with legacy meja let alone pay for it. I turned off Tom Elliott after he just fell into line with the approved narrative re the 2020 steal. That was the last legacy media I listened to
And then there was Murray lamenting the factions doing over Hollie Hughes. He evidently wants to forget that Hughes got there BECAUSE of the left faction. Her parliamentary performance has got better over the last several months but she has limitations on policy particularly her bias on the NDIS. A bigger problem is that Braggs got back up . Ask Why that was, Paul.
At the start of the year, Chris Kenny took over Sharri Markson’s 5pm hour (I suspect at Markson’s request) without any of the newsbreaking originality, which is still her trademark at Sky News.
Kenny sees his role as simply adding his opinion to the daily news broken by other journalists. As far as I know, Kenny hasn’t broken a single story in the past year, whereas Markson on average is breaking at least one big one a week.
Chris Kenny is a lazy sod and his weekday hour is forgettable filler.
I suspect his lack of performance is being reflected in his ratings and he’ll be the first to go in the next network program review (probably in favour of giving Rita Panahi a proper daily time instead of her current 11pm slot).
But he didn’t have to say he was disgusted. And the lawfare is a separate issue from the steal. compere’s at Fox News talk about it all the time.
Barking Toad
May 30, 2024 12:36 pm
It derives from Albanese placating Ardern.
I was surprised to find that Albanese liked horses.
eric hinton
May 30, 2024 12:39 pm
H B Bear
May 30, 2024 8:17 am
[snip]The AFL might need to join the ALPBC as the ALPFL.
Back when Bomber Beasley was opposition leader, I used to call the AFL the official opposition – they had all the cuddly policies an ALP in opposition should spout. Little did I know – and this was before Demetriou.
Bungonia Bee
May 30, 2024 12:43 pm
There is no way the “academics of tunnel city” were unaware of the makeup of their city or its politico-military DNA.
Of course not. But Arabs lie constantly – and they lie like children.
“Why is Achmed crying, Mohammed?”
“A bad man stole his chocolate.”
“How did that happen, Mohammed? How did he get into the house past me?”
“He came in through the window, Mama.”
Mohammed looks at the floor, desperately seeking a way out of his chocolate free dilemma.
“A Jew must have let him in.”
“A Jew? In this house?” Mother looks shocked.
“Yes Mama.” He looks up earnestly at his mother. “You know how sly the Jews can be.”
And mama knows exactly what happened – Mohammed stole his little brothers chocolate. But mum walks away laughing to herself and Mohammed grows up thinking she believed him and everybody is stupid except for him. After all, who got the chocolate and missed out on the clip around the ears?
I was amazed at some of the absolute bullshit they would tell each other and it would be – sorta – accepted.
The Middle East – the appearance becomes the reality.
Lysander
May 30, 2024 1:09 pm
Agree that Chris Kenny comes out with some weird crap from time to time, it’s almost like he’s transitioning back to being a Leftard and we’re just seeing some small previews of it. He might meet Bill Maher on the way over.
Rita is another one that does my head in. Simply unwatchable. Her segments are always “about the Left” and I get a bit tired of the same theme, like it’s “high school politics.” Any reporter can find any one of a million crazies online, label them “the Left” and then go to town on them, it’s not difficult and she insults my (and your?) intelligence.
Paul Murray is the best they’ve got with Peta shortly behind him then Sharri.
Her childish sneering and giggling and the pointless exaggerated delivery….seems to be company policy. They all do it to some degree, but she is by far the worst.
Barking Toad
May 30, 2024 1:24 pm
Paul Murray is the best they’ve got with Peta shortly behind him then Sharri.
Murray can be annoying and unwatchable at times.
Credlin is the smartest and best by a country mile. Markson next.
Actually, I prefer to watch any of them, Bolta included, rather than the leftards on their ABC or Nein, 10 or 7
First?
Twoth.
Bloody insomnia!
Good morning Cats. And from me, good afternoon.
The Beloved thinks his appearance is a little untidy in this hot as Hades temperature. He needs a little pampering.
Can any of guess where we are? Here’s a clue.
La Scala?
LOL. Clearly not a Bugs fan. I’m part of a generation introduced to opera via Warner Bros and Mel Blanc.
That’s what I meant!
That’s part of the Opera episode. 😀
Albuquerque?
Seville
The ship “MINERVA ANTONIA” in the Mediterranean Sea with a number of cruise missiles.
How the hell do these creeps get to blockade Israel and fire on neutral vessels? Do they want to be turned to glass also? In a former universe the west would be onto them as fast as you could say “knife”.
Perhaps, because the west are so pathetically weak, calli.
The all powerful US, you will remember, got kicked out of Afghanistan by goat herders, using fertiliser bombs.
The Houti’s have modern missiles. Totally different kettle of fish.
That is why the USN moved its assets further offshore.
Biden had stated that the Houti’s will be “neutralised” and had a couple of weeks of intense strikes.
They must have been very successful strikes, right?
Just like our defence force, they are hopelessly outgunned by potential aggressors, but you can rest assured they are up to date with the diversity lectures and Pride awareness meetings.
Absolutely. I am keeping an eye on the Arabian Sea, for we will be traversing part of it on a cruise in December.
These Yemeni need to be brought to heel – now.
Someone hates me to personalise it.
But you would too if you were going. O So a big FU to you too.
John Roberts
@johnrobertsFox
Judge Merchan just told the jury that they do not need unanimity to convict. 4 could agree on one crime, 4 on a different one, and the other 4 on another. He said he would treat 4-4-4 as a unanimous verdict.
Wow.
Just wow.
Chances of that surviving appeal? Nil.
But it serves its purpose as lawfare.
The Democratic Party and its judicial appointees now fear Trump more than they fear being disbarred for misconduct.
I do hope Trump goes after this pettifogger in office.
Minerva -the name of a convict ship that dropped my lot in Hobart in July 1818.
According to Wiki, Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory and the sponsor of arts, trade and strategy.
She is also a goddess of warfare.
Be careful who you fcuk with you stone age goat fcukers.
She is also depicted on the US Medal of Honour.
Now that the US is a caricature of what it once was, this will no longer matter. I’d be surprised if a handful of US citizens even know about it.
Other than a couple of Arab accounts no-one is reporting that the MINERVA ANTONIA has sustained damage? On its way to Egypt.
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9380398
Only report on MINERVA I could find was here.
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/2954285-houthis-escalate-maritime-attacks-six-ships-targeted-across-three-seas
The Laax was damaged.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-red-sea-ship-attack-c47710540383198ba1acb41b07f14751
From Rosie’s second link:
How the hell can this be allowed to continue? At what point do countries involved in trade through Suez kick up and put a stop to it?
Or are Yemenis special in some way? Please enlighten me.
Muslims.
Yep in islam genocide is defined as muslims being denied the right to commit genocide.
https://x.com/Ranting4Canada/status/1794938241411596413?t=LkUifEFWdV7iXkw9Jsfk6w&s=19
A follow up on a very obvious attempt to stir up antisemitism particularly in Melbourne.
Lots of people were attacking Peter Horwitz for pointing out the obvious, that it was obviously fake.
“Her fake hate crime post received 10 million views and 200,000 likes before she locked her account. She invented a hate crime to demonise Jews. Should she be charged with a hate crime herself? @AusFedPolice”
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1795795650363232460?t=LGtO2Os67zD7ikTTSaKh3Q&s=19
“The Israeli military says it has established “operational control” over the entire so-called Philadelphi Corridor — which runs for a total of 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) all along the Gaza-Egypt border.”
https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1795848320633462978?t=UMA2HHLZ3TxKO3pTpmJZ3Q&s=19
From the Oz. A lawyer with some integrity and humour has been stood down from chairing a committee over use of pronouns.
A silk who said his preferred pronouns are ‘HeHaw HeHaw Ha Ha Ha’ and questioned the use of gender-neutral titles in court and has been sacked as the chair of one of the NSW Bar’s central committees.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/outrage-we-people-showed-up-today-government-didnt/
John Spooner.
Mark Knight classic.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge. Brilliant.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis #2.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
I’m surprised the Tim Pool, Donald Trump interview hasn’t received more coverage.
A lot of bloviating.
And a summary of key issues he’ll address in his first 100 days.
Yesterday was the day of the Fall of Constantinople 1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire.
Didn’t see any mention of it on the MSM, probably an insignificant event in the grand scheme of things.
Michigan is a failed state.
CBS News
@CBSNews
A district judge in Michigan was shocked when a man with a suspended driver’s license joined a court Zoom call while driving a car. At one point the judge says, “I don’t even know why he would do that.”
https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1795874128387334418
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Robert De Niro is a c-bomb.
Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, And Lara Trump React To Robert De Niro & Biden Campaign Press Briefing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3ApuiEGiA
The pronoun lawyer sounds like a good fellow:
The blurb of Mr Ellison’s Wardell Chambers profile includes a series of jokes, including that he has “no interest in sailing, skiing, golf, cooking or learning a foreign language and does not own a winery”.
“He does not wish to achieve a work/life balance. Lindsay doesn’t smoke. Nor does he drink tea, coffee or alcohol. He eats too much chocolate. He knows nothing about cars or sport. He is one of the least interesting persons you might ever meet,” it reads.
“Lindsay has made over 600 donations to the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service. He recommends you do the same. His philosophy is that if you draw blood, the least you can do is to give some back.”
He sounds like a halfwit to me. Why would you count how many times you’ve donated blood?
As for the teetotaling, who gives a toss? Maybe he’s a Methodist.
I like him, calli.
That reads to me like one long pith take of what some people put on their bio’s.
Off the top of my head that’s over 100yrs worth of blood donations! 🙂
I agree. I’ve seen those corporate bios and this is definitely a piss take. We need more like him instead of the hordes of dead eyed vanilla wokesters.
He’s taking the piss… love it.
I gave 50 units of O+ until the Red Cross rejected my donations on the basis of medications.
It’s actually a competitive activity when you get to 3 figures.
I did it because I could, and it was necessary at times – a bit of giving back, so to speak.
And the bikkies. But I’m a sucker for bikkies.
A rooftop garden in Seville. The heat of the day slowly dissipating, the brilliant blue sky of midday fading into milky softness as the sun finally meets the horizon’s waiting embrace.
And as the air begins to cool, they rise. Groups of swallows, scribing arcs in the evening air, their soft voices calling for a response. In this part of Spain these migratory birds are everywhere. The heat keeps them hidden …only as the setting sun takes its daily journey do they appear.
Something for Trickler…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPEMZteFjWc
A breathtaking work of passion, poetry, and trenchant moral philosophy.
Hugh…you are a very naughty boy.
😀
And…because I’m in Europe, I will confess…
I have never used the ubiquitous bidet.
I’m too scared. It might do something completely horrid, like the rogue hand shower that pretends to work then drenches you with freezing water from the concealed ceiling rose.
Never trust European plumbing. It’s a trap.
Ah calli what a delight to read this l’il vignette, I can see and feel the waning warmth if only I could read the swallows’ message, could it be need more pepitas? Thanks for taking us with you.
Season update soon.
Trying to get more urea spread and the last of the irrigated Durum in the ground before more of the rain that was never again going to fill our dams and river systems does so, again.
It would appear there’s going to be no quick verdict on the Trump-ed Up trial – still no verdict after day one of deliberations.
Undoubtedly a mix of Republican and Democrat jurors. Will be hung.
They found out tomorrow was pizza lunch day.
Seville is my favorite city after Sydney. As for Hugh, its what makes the world go round. I’m unapologetic, can’t help it.
Went out with a pal who recently had a both sides examination – colon and gastroscopy. The bill came in. He’s insured and so doesn’t know where the bill finally settled between the hospital and the insurance. However, if he was paying it himself, this is what the NYC hospital was expecting. Have a guess what it came in at?
US$58,000! The Doc’s portion of that was $9,000.
Red sky in the morning at the ranch.
Sowing finished and rain on the way. Very dry here with most seed waiting on moisture to germinate and the sheep relying on me for feed.
I’d better be off and run a couple of big bales to a mob I didn’t get to yesterday.
Vicplod claiming they clocked a bike and a car doing speeds in the high 290’s in traffic.
Are we meant to believe this?
Fairly significant range of bikes capable of reaching that speed now. Cars less so but enough could. Wouldn’t like to try it on public roads personally, not even airports or tracks for that matter. Sat alongside a former touring car driver at 190kph in a 911 Cup car on a track which didn’t seem so bad.
War is hell (the NT News):
A bit of Gangnam Style should entice a few more over the border, surely.
Erg.
Balloons with crap in them sent into Greens headquarters sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately, they’d most likely smoke it, thinking it was some new breed of skunk.
They export what they have.
Several degrees of separation to the west of calli, the Sicilian Prince and my good self have wound up our wonderful ten days with family on the outskirts of Milan.
Our apartment was in the Commune of Magenta and the entire place was gearing up for a big reconstruction this weekend, of the famous Battle of Magenta that ended the Second War of Italian Independence on June 4th, 1859.
It resulted in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III and Patrice de MacMahon (*que?) against the Austrians under Marshal Ferenc Gyulay and the Prince of Montenuovo.
We also spent an afternoon wandering Boffaloro sul Ticino where fighting actually began on the evening prior. Gelato and coffe were also involved, something denied to the unfortunate soldiers awaiting their fate. The French Sardians were at a numerical disadvantage and the losses on both sides were considerable. A local Municipio building still is decorated by the giant holes punched in it by cannonballs during the battle.
Paddy MacMahon ended up as Duke of Magenta and President of France eventually. An interesting result of Irish immigration to France. The Rue de Magenta in Paris also commemorates this victory.
As an artistic side note, a red-pink dye discovered three years previously, and known as triaminotriphenyl carbonium chloride was renamed Magenta in honour of the unexpected victory because of the blood soaked battlefield and the colour created by blood on the blue imperial jackets. I’ll never look at paint tubes of Magenta in quite the same way after that.
A bit disappointed to miss the raucous celebrations but we have somewhere else to be that involves another foray onto the Italian train system. More updates pending.
* highly amusing listening to the various attempts by the locals to pronounce such an overtly Non-Italian name. Some of the more talented manage to make it sound totally local, but it always manages to make me laugh.
‘Issue with racism’: ABC’s chief political correspondent doubles down on comments suggesting Australia is a racist country
The ABC’s chief political correspondent insists Australia has an “issue with racism” after it was revealed she had been “counselled” by the broadcaster’s news director over her comments at an event last weekend.
Laura Tingle made controversial comments at the Sydney Writers’ Festival when she was asked to comment on Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s policy about migration and the economy, including housing.
“I did indeed make the observation on Sunday that we are a racist country, in the context of a discussion about the political prospects ahead,” she said in a lengthy statement on Wednesday.
“I wasn’t saying every Australian is a racist. But we clearly have an issue with racism.”
She surely does, it’s around her every corner.
“I wasn’t saying every Australian is a racist. But we clearly have an issue with racism.
SureJan.
No mention of how racist many Muslims are to Jews?
Drew Pavlou asks a good question…..
What kind of sicko fakes a hate crime?
Many Muslims and leftists do. The American journalist Andy Ngo has observed and chronicled a long list of Muslim and leftist ‘hate crimes’ which all turned out to be fakes.
Of course, the most sensational fake hate crime of recent years was Jessie Smollett.
I read many years ago in the New Yorker that the insurance for a gynecologist was $1 million per annum. No doubt more now and representative of the cost of medical practice, especially in Tort mad USA.
I liked this.
Read the result at the end!
Darwin man jailed for inadvertently killing Wadeye brother
A Darwin man who, after a heavy session of drinking, kicked his brother in the back, inadvertently perforating the victim’s pancreas and kidney, has been sentenced for the tragic death.
Jingili man Peter Kinthari, who is in his early 40s, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory to a charge of engaging in a violent act causing death.
The victim was his brother, who is referred to as TK for cultural reasons.
The offence occurred at Kinthari’s Jingili residence on August 3, 2022, with TK expiring the following day from catastrophic internal bleeding caused by a fractured rib perforating his right kidney and pancreas, Justice Judith Kelly told Kinthari’s sentencing hearing on May 20.
On the day in question, TK and his family had flown from Wadeye to visit Kinthari and his family, and the group began drinking heavily.
After 9pm, TK “got upset” at Kinthari, Justice Kelly told the court.
“Nobody seems to know why,” she said.
TK challenged a reluctant Kinthari to a fight, “hassling… [and] challenging him” until he agreed.
There was a melee on the street, which drew police attention, and TK and his partner left for several hours, returning at about 11pm, where a bumptious TK “demanded” another fight after a verbal disagreement.
TK lunged at Kinthari, flipping his brother onto his back, to which Kinthari responded by pushing TK over.
While TK was sitting on the ground, Kinthari “went up to TK from behind and kicked him hard in the right side of his body,” Justice Kelly said.
This kick “caused a displaced fracture of the right posterior twelfth rib,” which, unbeknown to all, had already set in motion the victim’s death.
Soon, TK felt a “sharp and severe stomach pain,” collapsing against the bathtub.
He was transported to Royal Darwin Hospital via an emergency ambulance, but while awaiting the trauma team, he went into cardiac arrest.
TK was declared deceased at 6.50am the following morning.
An autopsy subsequently determined about 1.7 litres of blood had bled into his body cavity.
Kinthari has been remanded in pre-sentence custody ever since, a period of about 22 months.
Justice Kelly said there were a number of mitigating factors, including that TK was the provocateur in both fights, Kinthari had suffered the “devastating” loss of his sole remaining brother, and that Kinthari did not mean to kill or cause serious harm to his brother.
Kinthari was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment but released immediately, with the remainder of his sentence suspended for an operational period of 18 months, conditional upon Kinthari being under the supervision of Community Corrections.
And of course, closer to home, in Melbourne back in November 2023, a fake crime was alleged by Nazi Muslims and their Nazi leftist comrades. These 2024 Nazis decided to imitate their 1933 Nazi ideological kin and allege a ‘Reichstag fire’ type incident. So, in November 2023 they alleged that Jewish arsonists set fire to a crappy Palestinian owned hamburger joint. And so what did the leftist and Muslim scum do? On the Sabbath, in the suburb of Caulfield where lots of Jews happen to live, whilst Vic police stood buy (as always), these 2023 Nazis unpeacefully assembled directly in front of a synagogue to harass, intimidate and threaten Jews!
It was later discovered that no Jew had been involved in the arson attack…of course. But who needs evidence and proof when you want to harass, intimidate and threaten Jews!
The 1400 year old playbook says you just need the ‘vibe’.
Life is cheap in the NT.
To his credit, one police officer was steadfast in his view that this was not a racist or religiously motivated attack.
When arrests were finally made, those charged did not have many degrees of separation from the Middle Eastern chaps involved in the illegal tobacco trade.
Sounds more like an attempted walk back.
“Oh, I didn’t mean we’re all racist, just some of you.”
Pathetic.
As is Kim Williams’s disappearing act.
Apparently he has not returned The Australian’s phone calls.
Kim Williams used to be News Corp’s favourite in-house lefty. Now he’s the ABC’s most useful idiot, too dumb to work out for himself that, in spite his desire to impose impartiality on the ABC;s activist staff, the chairman of the board has zero power and will be ignored with impunity by the staff as they continue their campaign for the Greens — the fleas on the back of the Labor government.
Poor dumb Kim.
Looks like he’s content to play straight man in the ABC’s running joke on the Australian taxpayer, Tom.
Since he is only 2 months from retirement we need Rita Panahi to do a column and interview with the no pronouns lawyer.
Two months for retirement? No wonder he feel brave enough to take the piss out of the whole crapola.
What no rioting TE, guess it must be ok when one of them is not a criminal being arrested and trying to stab the arresting officers.
Tony Abbott addressed the Danube Institute in Budapest this week, claiming the West is wimping out in a “civilisational moment”. As China, Russia and Tehran pose “unprecendented challenges” to our way of life, we wallow in “moral confusion.”
Everything he says is true (more or less).
But this is the leader who wimped out on repealing 18C.
If we don’t play our part with courage when called upon, what right do we have to lecture others on their failures?
You can read a summary in The Australian today, if you wish.
Better late than never, Roger.
I imagine the fee for the speech helped clarify his thoughts considerably.
How are China, Russia and Tehran posing “unprecedented challenges?”
As far as Australia goes, the UniParty in Canberra have, for at least 40 years, had a far more significant and detrimental effect on Australia’s way of life, than those three.
For the “West” in general, Europe in particular, the US, with its illogical and irrational dictates and aggression, has led them by the nose, to impose sanctions, which have destroyed the European economies.
If anyone can explain to me, why every EU nation, (except Hungary and Slovakia), has “willingly” destroyed their economies and emptied their arsenals, for the most corrupt nation in Europe, that is not a member of the EU, or NATO, I would be most grateful.
Those three entities, had nothing to do with that.
Then there is the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline, ……….
Spent the night cowering under the covers as the ‘rain bomb’ approached.
Brought the dogs in. They hugged each other quivering.
My raindrop counter tells me that there were 17 miliflans. I didn’t notice, and the dogs just snored – loudly.
A beautiful sunny sky assures me that I survived yet another close escape from BOM gotterdammerung.
How much longer can our luck hold out?
I’ve often said, the US has the smartest people in the world and the dumbest blockheads one could ever imagine.
Tap here for an example of the most stupid.
I saw that late last night.
All I could do was a massive groan.
I have wondered how such people survive. Only in Western countries.
Teh Paywallian has an interesting storey on the Hawthorn AFL story. Liar affiliated legal types Gordon Legal and Leon Zwier are noticeable participants. Zwier now front and centre In the Brittany farce.
The AFL might need to join the ALPBC as the ALPFL.
The perennial proclamations of a coming cultural apocalypse is a favourite theme of conservatives. Let me know when the sky falls.
Yes – great speech by Tony fully reported in the Oz today. Also great article by Adam Creighton on the problems of the West.
Funny how the “Wimping out” begins after they are not leading any more.
He had his chance and was a wimpy PM.
Walked past a Brownstone home on 72nd street. Prominently displayed on the front of the home facing the street, was a white lit neon sign which said,
I am a proud Jew.
Specifically, Peter Dutton and the 60% of us who voted Nyet in the referendum last October.
Of course, what Bingle is pissed off about is the inexplicable backlash against Giles allowing child rapists and granny bashers imported from various shit-holes to stay here.
What has really got Bingle wrapped around the axle isn’t the reaction of Joe Public. It is the fact that this brave new “F-ck You!” to middle Australia has now been abandoned by Elbow and now Giles. I hear overnight that Giles has thrown the AAT under the bus, saying they had “misinterpreted” his directive and we can expect “tough new measures”.
More generally, in Bingle World, anyone who questions the quantum of immigration on economic grounds, without saying a word about where migrants come from is obviously racist.
“How can we help you Prime Minister?”, although for most of the ALPBC it’s really “How can we help you Adam?”.
Why do I suspect that La Tingle critises “settler colonialism”, while neither unsettling herself from the colony, nor allowing any criticism of the ongoing influx of huge numbers of settler colonists.
One suspects it’s not colonisation itself that is objected to – displacing the current ‘enemies of humanity/globalism’ is highly desirable – but who does it that counts.
Insiders vs. Outsiders.
Tony Abbott addressed the Danube Institute in Budapest this week, claiming the West is wimping out in a “civilisational moment”. As China, Russia and Tehran pose “unprecendented challenges” to our way of life, we wallow in “moral confusion.”
Pretty mouthy for a bloke who completely wimped out when he was PM and had the opportunity to do something about it.
Yes, many of us were very disappointed with Tony as PM. Nonetheless, we need voices ( no pun intended!) to speak up about the decline in our belief in our values in the West.
Most Lieborals find their spine passing through Customs to deliver speeches to foreign thinktanks, often in London. Abbott has form in this area.
Talked and still talking a big game. Actually played a duck.
bons
May 30, 2024 8:09 am
The rain bomb here threatens to drop 4mm … all between midday and teatime.
What next?
Locusts?
Covid Cover-Up Revealed: Top Fauci Advisor Admits to Deleting Emails Concerning Covid Origin
Obviously there is a universal shortage of hate crimes against muslims that the only thing they can do is to produce them themselves.
Called it.
*moonwalks*
Hmmm John H …….havnt noticed the sky falling? Well start looking up.
Seriously, the West is suffering many problems – not the least because it’s belief in the principles that made it great are in decline. The great historian Victor Davis Hanson has spoken recently (& published a new book) of the parallels with Ancient Rome. Interestingly, he speaks of the remarks of Livy, Tacitus & others of the effects of “luxus” on Roman morals and society. The similar effects of western affluence are very clear, in my humble opinion.
We’ll, if our political “leaders” have their way, the luxus won’t last much longer. No electricity, no future affluence.
Arguably, our greatest delusion* is that ‘There is no need to defend what is being clearly attacked, because this affluence is forever; change will not touch it.’
*Affluence grants us time for these delusions. Leisure has its benefits, but only if the potential deficits (ample time and provocation for digressive – often abstract – cognition) are managed.
H B Bear
May 30, 2024 8:17 am
I heard a report on 3AW.
“The most serious allegation – that Hawthorn officials pressured a player and his girlfriend to have an abortion – was found to have no substance. Hawthorn is under pressure to make a financial settlement in the matter”.
So there you have it in a nutshell. Nothing proven.
But need munny.
I suspect the “pressure to have an abortion” was a fire-side chat with a 19 year old coke-head with no sense of responsibility about what being a parent really meant.
Yep. The sort of thing that doesn’t make it past Day 1 in court and often results in a spray from the judge about wasting the court’s time.
Ramesh Thakur, The Spectator 28 May 2024
The surprising thing is that Karim Khan is Ahmadiyya, even married the daughter of their ‘Caliph’. And they are seen as heretics, who the orthodox want to wipe out – technically Pakistani but not wanted there. You’d think he’d have a more nuanced view. BTW, it says his mother was ‘born in the UK’ perhaps suggesting she is/was English, like Varadkar whose mother was Irish, also a nurse.
PS:
‘Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the Ahmadi branch can be openly practiced.’
Ahmadiyya in Israel – Wikipedia
Is Mr Khan so buried in legal stuff and media misinformation that he does not know this?
DOJ Tracked ‘Moms for Liberty’ As a Hate Group, According to Uncovered Emails
@bennyjohnson
TRUMP: “These charges are rigged, the whole thing is rigged. The whole country is a mess between the border and fake elections and you have a trial like this where the judge is so conflicted he can’t breathe—This is all because of Joe Biden.. but we’re going to win this election.. We’re going to take back our country from these fascists and these thugs.”
Tony Abbott addressed the Danube Institute in Budapest this week, claiming the West is wimping out in a “civilisational moment”. As China, Russia and Tehran pose “unprecendented challenges” to our way of life, we wallow in “moral confusion.”
Gotta hand it to “Tones” failed as PM not only lapping up his “retirement” bonanza but ensuring the family fortune on the international talk-fest circuit where he can say what he likes, soak up the applause & rake in big bucks cos nuttin’ he sez has any, practical, effect on anything ..
Disagree. Every comment helps. Why else do we vent our spleen on this blog?
Cos we ain’t got anywhere else .. LOL!
Better he gets fat post politics by saying something useful than rake in the cash while in power, from places like China.
IMO that is unfair on Abbott. He opposed Waffleworth in support of Branch members and we have since got a sense of the internal opposition he faced as PM. He is not the villain here.
Modern feckin’ Oirland.
Flying their own flag would’ve been racist.
Or something.
I read an article that said the reason why most media stories use “Ireland” rather than Eire is cos the, current, Irish gummint doesn’t like it to be referred to by its, actual, name …….
and the dumbest blockheads one could ever imagine.
The bell curve giveth, and the bell curve taketh away again.
The Rise of Neocons: How and Why They’re So Successful
Bons a lefty could drown in 17 milliflans. You are not a serious person. Whole cities disappear at 18 milliflans. Don’t go the fool 19.
Oops. Yeah sorry. Reeducation required.
Love the use of ‘milliflans’.
Wondering if negative microflans can be measured also.
Thancho, locusts are when its dry, frogs when its wet.
South Africa votes with ANC rule in balance
South Africans queued late into the night to vote Wednesday, forcing polling stations to remain open beyond closing time in a landmark general election, with the ruling ANC fighting to protect its three-decade-long grip on power.
More than 27 million voters were registered for the most uncertain poll since the African National Congress led the nation out of apartheid.
Most polls started to close at 9pm (8am AEST) but thousands were still waiting in line after nightfall in some big-city voting stations, with electoral officials vowing everyone would get their chance.
With opposition challenges from both the left and right, unemployment and crime at near-record levels and a new generation growing up with no memory of the struggle against white-minority rule, the ruling party may lose its absolute majority and be forced to share power.
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said it projected turnout to go “well beyond” the 66 per cent recorded in the last election in 2019.
“We are experiencing a late surge and are processing a large number of voters,” the IEC’s head Sy Mamabolo told a press conference less than an hour before polls were due to close.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote of King George III, “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
Reminds me of ‘straya 2024.
Rome didn’t fall in a day.
For many living in the countryside life barely changed even as political tremors shook the city, culminating in the abdication of the last emperor of the West in AD476 (the eastern empire continuing for another millennium and even retaking parts of the western empire).
That being said, they didn’t have electronic communications or electricity grids.
Jupiter Macron appeared in Berlin with Scholz yesterday and yet again stated that “Ukraine” could fire French weapons, into Russian territory, as it saw fit.
Also, over the last week, several statements have been made, by Ministers from the Baltic states, (total population of all three is 6 million), stating that they will supply troops to Ukraine.
Why these morons are trying to invoke a response from Russia, given their position of ultimate weakness, is beyond me.
They clearly don’t give a f*ck about their populations, just like the brain dead weasels, we have the misfortune to call our “representatives” in Canberra.
Why I mention this, is because of comments made by President Putin yesterday.
First, he stated that Russia knows Ukraine does not have the weapons or capability to conduct the surveillance required, nor the technical skills, to launch these attacks. In other words, western operatives will provide these skills.
The West will attack Russia. Does that seem like a good idea to you?
Secondly and most chillingly, he said:
“These countries are small in size and have dense populations. They should remember that.”
Russia called in the British and French Foreign Ministers three weeks ago and “read them their horoscopes” after some intemperate remarks.
The EU leaders seem hell bent on drawing a blinding flash over their capitals. If I were them, I would heed the warnings.
No one, especially Russia, has infinite patience.
Comparing what happened on 7 Oct to IRA in N Ireland has got to be one of the worst comparisons ever made.
Ramesh is doing some great work with his articles including on Covid issues.
Second that!
Those 3am ballot drops need a bit of preparatory messaging?
Apparently there’s been a 60% reduction in admissions to emergency departments from men suffering from prostate cancer who receive specialist care from nurses. The headline reads; “Nurses Head off Cancer Admissions”. Can’t post the article, and I know this sounds like a serious breakthrough, but haven’t stopped chuckling yet. Nurses may be in greater demand than usual! (article in the OZ and written by Elizabeth Pike))
In more ways than one.
Thousands of non-binary identifying goths have descended upon Disneyland. Imagine the smell.
https://gettr.com/post/p362uo20a6e
Note the common characteristic.
A wife-beating Sudanese thug told officials he could play the didgeridoo and was Aboriginal now – and that was enough to let him stay in Australia
Daily Mail. Seems he’s been adopted by one of the tribes.
When is he going to move to Wadeye? Join the ‘lations.
He beat up his aboriginal partner so I suppose that now makes him a tribe elder.
Another reason to not take indigeneity seriously. This sort of moronic nonsense should kill it stone dead.
#wereallindigenousnow
Common values.
For the past few years, the SunCable ‘Let’s power Singapore from solar in Darwin’ has thrashed around. The spruikers, carpetbaggers and subsidy farmers have tumbled out increasingly huge and confusing GW’s and GWh’s of solar supply and storage – with commensurate billions of Excel dollars capex and unknown opex.
In 2022/23, Singapore made clear that there was no government financial support and it wasn’t that keen on committing to an energy strategy delivering hopelessly expensive power at the end of 5,000km of cable exposed to the risk of seismic events, anchors, and sabotage. Particularly with alternatives like an Indonesian solar project on Riau, a mere 400km away.
After that, Twiggy Forest pulled the pin and Mike Cannon Brookes took over as ringmaster in late 2023, introducing Quinbrook as a financial partner.
Long story short, SunCable has now been reimagined as DarwinLink:
Which obviously harmonises nicely with the Albanese choir:
With metrics like this, a cynic might expect a flood of taxpayer lazy millions to flow towards the Barkly region.
What’s that smell?
That there is one of them Florence thingies, you know, costs 10x to 20x what the original costing was and is used to drain taxpayer money and probably will never work. No one involved will be unhappy though, except taxpayers who appear to have no word at all in all this.
Ah, a familiar smell indeed.
Lots of government goes to die in the NT and northern Australia more generally.
Is a monorail included?
That would be the icing on the cake!
I have mentioned the Furiosa box office already a couple times, but here’s another story on it with a wider look at the malaise Hollywood has gotten into.
Furiosa Box Office Flop Signals The Death Of Feminist “Boss Babe” Films (30 May)
That’s a perfect lead into this story today:
Captain America 4 test screenings ‘so poor Marvel ordered months of reshoots’ (29 May)
That’s never a good sign. An even worse sign is Captain America has suddenly turned into a black guy. Dunno how that happens, maybe it’s like Dr Who metamorphosing into a gay African (which led to the worst Who TV ratings ever).
But one thing seems likely: audiences are going to smell the stench of woke from a mile off. I don’t like the movie’s chance of making a profit even if it does make it to release.
There’s nothing wrong with having black heroes (eg. Hancock) or strong ladies (eg. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider). Both movies did well, and are fun, but neither were at all woke.
All of this is an investment in the future: inserting ‘sleepers’ to wreak havoc in the coming generations.
The past is being used as a tool to sabotage what is yet to be; economically, socially, environmentally, etc.
What so all the race swapping and lead tough girl parts are not working?
What a surprise!
To be honest, I can’t stand all the movies that make white men look stupid and dumb.
Who built the modern world? For all its flaws, it was built by white men.
Everyone knows that the fantasy race and gender swapping parts, are just that, fantasy and there is just no way anyone wants to see this warped view of the world. Oh granted a few do, but look at the numbers, they just support what I have noticed.
Hansen like all talking heads needs to keep people alarmed. Why is that people predicting the future are so neurotic? Because people are attracted to bad news.
Political tragics always paint doom.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
–H. L. Mencken
The problem isn’t that the sky is falling, it’s that Western governments all believe the sky is falling. They’re running around like a horde of rich elite Chicken Littles squawking and doing horrendous damage to Western economies. That can’t end well: remember Nongqawuse.
John H:
Do you buy insurance? And why?
Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world
Lest anyone think university protests and open and tacit academic and administrative support go unnoticed and unappreciated in the Tunnels of Gaza.
Things really are different these days, there are now universities (multiple) in the “Gaza concentration camp”.
In one sense, statements like these damage the narrative that Israel’s ‘occupation’ pre-7 Oct ’23 was equivalent to an ‘open air prison.’
Meanwhile, with little fanfare in the media, an Israeli university appointed a new rector a few weeks ago. So what, you might ask? She is an Arab woman.
And shirley a multifunctionpolis.
oh and please, something “smart”, can’t do without one of those!
GreyRanga
May 30, 2024 8:55 am
Well, I did fail the Plagues module in Bible Studies.
ZK2A the Sudanese didgyonly had to learn the hollow stick, the wife beating was mandatory so passed with flying colours. Not sure about getting on the grog as they’re 90% muzzie. Christianity is the highest minority.
From my chatting to them, I’d guess the most Sudanese in Oz are not Muz. They are South Sudanese, Dinka and Nuer. They also hate each other.
Dr F at 9:24:-
“Billions of Excel dollars”.
Love it!
I have been guilty myself of printing Excel dollars myself but, in my defence, they were at least loosely tethered to real dollars
Thancho the only Bible studies I did was fondly gazing at Lynley Evans.
Groom discovers his bride is actually a MAN… TWELVE DAYS after their wedding: ‘Wife’ avoided sex by saying ‘she was on her period’
Daily Mail. Ek roll ap dir vloor….
The ancients were on to this one. Get those bedsheets out at the time.
Vermeer is my favourite classic artist. I’d have drank milk offered by this milkmaid.
In other news: For me the 2 best de niro movies were Godfather 11 and Midnight Run with Casino a maybe. I won’t be rewatching them. De niro is certifiable. But the amazing thing is he is a typical Trump hater. These people are deranged but more importantly they hate their fellow Americans and they hate America.
Obama did this.
Trump has reacted to de niro at Truth:
Donald Trump: ‘Wacko’ Robert De Niro Looked ‘So Pathetic and Sad out There’ (breitbart.com)
Vermeer bores me.
Not saying it’s shite, just not my cup’o’tea.
The finger pointing gives him away.
Vermeer apparently had an affection for the working class.
Disgusting!
Rome didn’t fall in a day.
For many living in the countryside life barely changed even as political tremors shook the city, culminating in the abdication of the last emperor of the West in AD476 (the eastern empire continuing for another millennium and even retaking parts of the western empire).
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That being said, they didn’t have electronic communications or electricity grids.
We won’t have soon either.
“It would appear there’s going to be no quick verdict on the Trump-ed Up trial”
They’ve got one or more holdouts on a guilty verdict.
The big meltdown will happen as his medications wear off.
This is just a little taste of it.
As the dementia progresses, the chances of him actually attacking a reporter increase.
“Gerbil werming” … duuuuuuh! .. cutting the grass this far into Autumn ain’t funny ….!
Queensland on alert after eight cases of ‘monkeypox’
To preempt unkind comments, I might point out that not the whole of Queensland is on alert.
Bottom story of the day.
Arf, arf…
Are they centred around Fortitude Valley by chance?
https://mailchi.mp/bernardgaynor/u9ceet3738-841119?e=fe7dbed3ce
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Australia’s classification laws are being reviewed and urgent action is needed to ensure that these laws protect children from pornography. At the same time, we must address the widespread availability of violent pornography which scientific studies prove is directly linked to violence against women.
It is shocking that the Commonwealth government’s Australian Classification Board has legally approved all of the following to be given to children:
The Boys on Amazon better lift its game in the upcoming series or it’s into the bin.
Hmmm, what is “trouble at mill” in Chinese?
Xi Jinping Concedes China’s Job Market Is in ‘Chaos,’ Demands Underlings Fix the Economy (29 May)
Um, doesn’t work top down sonny boy, you have to do the Deng thing by getting out of the way and not forcing Chinese businessmen to “focus more on creating jobs than pursuing profit”. That always fails.
Xi’s been peeking at Albanese’s homework.
All the problems they have could be resolved nearly overnight by deregulating the employment conditions and allowing the market to work.
This is the one thing the Communists cannot do – and thank God for that. Imagine the growth of a free enterprise China.
We would be buried in product because our governments won’t do it either.
A free China is the nightmare our bureaucracy fears.
nothing a good invasion of a nearby island can’t fix
But one thing seems likely: audiences are going to smell the stench of woke from a mile off. I don’t like the movie’s chance of making a profit even if it does make it to release.
It does affirm one’s faith in humanity when woke crap is rejected by the punters. Disney’s woes is reassuring. But the woke bastards who run entertainment are not going to go without a fight. A black and gay Dr Who won’t be the bottom of their projected self loathing. So far we’ve seen Thor grow tits, various gay super heroes and the insidious female power theme dominate action and particularly Marvel movies. I personally find that the most galling and is part of the context which has allowed trannies to take over. It started and persists with the feminists proclaiming sheilas can do anything a bloke can do and we have seen a plethora of movie duds showing a 120 lb woman beating the tripe out of 220 lb men. It is just junk.
We call upon our friends and colleagues around the world to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide
Scholasticide I love this new word – clearly related to insecticide.
Ive always liked a good Grenache.
However it’s odd how over the last month literally all the plonk emails I get are now pushing it, at the same time it’s getting written up by columnists.
Seems like Big Grenache has some clout.
Lots of the Aussie brands seem to be bringing out their own mass-market grenache, malbec and tempranillos lately. Which is nice, although I prefer European ones since Australian versions tend to be a bit too fruity. Much prefer the drier Portuguese riojas and French bordeaux styles for such wines.
A cynic might think the Next Big Thing didn’t turn out to be so big. Nothing like drinking off trend varietals to pick up a bargain. Just about time to break out a few fortifieds.
COMPREHENSIVE SUBMISSION TO REFORM AUSTRALIA’S CLASSIFICATION LAWS AND LEGALLY RESTRICT PORNOGRAPHY FROM CHIILDREN
No thanks, because we were all told similar with the bikie laws for instance, that were just brought in restrict various activities and allow law enforcement people certain extra abilities to restruict bikie criminal behaviour.
Then, during the covid lockdowns we discovered that the police can demand you open your phone so they can check locations, and privacy settings as well as anything else they feel like doing on your phone, including conficating it .. all legally under the .. bikie laws that extend to the entire community, not just that one small group.
So no, no more restricting anything. Some of those things might not be great, but that’s human nature to see what’s around us.
feelthebern
May 30, 2024 11:19 am
I also think the main shill for Big Shiraz has put the spittoon in the rack.
Dr Faustus
May 30, 2024 9:52 am
If you’d just step over here to the whiteboard I’ll walk you through the Knowledge Nation model.
It’s exquisite in it’s complex simplicity, even if I do say so myself.
I think you and I could work together on this. My brilliant thesis on the simple complexity of Knowledge Nations is at your service.
This sounds familiar…
Farmers are being booted off their land in a drive for more solar power, former union chief warns (29 May)
Those dastardly kulaks, how dare they stand in the way of Great Stalin’s holy wind turbines and solar farms. The nerve!
I wonder where the Lock The Gate activists have all gone? They seem to’ve vanished.
tenant farmers aka serfs
They and their ilk ran a huge campaign against new transmission lines in north east NSW about ten years ago.
They now seem to have lost the urge to fight such lines.
I nominate the tingle for frightbat of the year
Let’s all chip in and send her a new cardigan in appreciation.
Seconded
ooooh .. hard to beat
Some of the grinning idiot’s free kittens* would no doubt be appreciated as well.
*See a recent Lethbridge.
What the prog-left has been doing to higher education for nigh on 50 years.
Interesting article on such things:
Historians Need Not Apply | Power Line (28 May)
There’s a lot between those two paras that is worth reading. The theory of “elite overproduction” turning into a threat to society is particularly interesting.
It isn’t “elite overproduction”, it’s expanding the elite into less-than-elite groups.
From the article picture:
I think this is where the phrase “But what kind of American Historian are you?” comes in, sucker.
…and as a sideline, these universities have Funds worth billions of dollars. Are they not allowed to tap them for employment?
Boat person.
‘Why do you still have a job?’: Giles grilled as he fights to stay afloat (Sky News mainpage headline, 30 May)
Giles vows to work ‘day and night’ to solve immigration debacle (Sky News mainpage headline, 30 May)
Maybe son you should tie yourself to the mast to help you keep awake while you are trying night and day to not solve the country shopper problem.
cohenite
May 30, 2024 11:04 am
But one thing seems likely: audiences are going to smell the stench of woke from a mile off. I don’t like the movie’s chance of making a profit even if it does make it to release.
It does affirm one’s faith in humanity when woke crap is rejected by the punters. Disney’s woes is reassuring. But the woke bastards who run entertainment are not going to go without a fight. A black and gay Dr Who won’t be the bottom of their projected self loathing. So far we’ve seen Thor grow tits, various gay super heroes and the insidious female power theme dominate action and particularly Marvel movies. I personally find that the most galling and is part of the context which has allowed trannies to take over. It started and persists with the feminists proclaiming sheilas can do anything a bloke can do and we have seen a plethora of movie duds showing a 120 lb woman beating the tripe out of 220 lb men. It is just junk.
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As I’ve said before, IMHO Hollywood is now just a vast money-laundering operation for the cartels and anyone else with criminal cash.
In the 1980s, when the cocaine cartels had so much cash they were digging big holes in the ground and burying it, Hollywood and LA generally was awash with coke. It went all the way from extras to studio bosses and financiers.
It’s not much of a stretch to imagine that these conspicuous consumers knew people who knew people who knew people. Why would they resist millions of dollars in cash at much less than 100% value? With the maze of production companies and their subcontractors involved, losing the cash would not be difficult. Everyone likes cash.
Besides, Hollywood accounting has always paralleled its product in being largely fictional. The next step was easy.
Pandering to fashionable causes is the perfect cover for an essentially criminal enterprise.
Why didn’t he seek out the information?
Why didn’t Dreyfus alert him to the cases?
And how did we get Direction 99 in the first place?
It derives from Albanese placating Ardern.
A circle of fingers at 10 paces.
If Giles had a skerrick of integrity he already would have resigned but the ambulance chaser is strong in him.
It will be certainly someone else’s fault.
Are they really trying to say the Direction 99s went from Giles oblivious of any status or follow up ?
Expect this to be clarified later in the day or week.
Giles will have Albo’s full support. Right up until he doesn’t.
Westminster ministerial responsibility is deader than one of those giant wombats during a cultural burn. Debatable whether democracy can function effectively without it.
Last night Chris Kenny made a comment that I think went even beyond his Voice silliness.
He said he was “disgusted” that Trump hadn’t accepted the outcome of the 2020 election.
Plenty of people have described the various ways that the 2020 election was warped.
I haven’t heard him say he’s “disgusted” at the way the US justice system is being weaponised right now, in a manner worthy of soviet Russia or any number of banana republics.
In fact, the entire daytime Sky crew won’t say anything negative about either the 2020 election or the weaponisation of the justice system. I don’t hear them saying anything about who funds all those lefty DAs, or about the number of left leaning judges appointed by Obama and now Biden. This is why crime is so high in so many places.
I don’t hear them looking askance at the new roles for the FBI and CIA, or the number of lefty appointments to senior military positions – with resultant imposition of force weakening DEI etc.
US manufacturing has been hollowed out and sent to China. The Strategic Oil Reserve has been halved, now down to the lowest level since the early 1980s. Shipbuilding can’t keep up a healthy replacement program for surface ship or submarines.
It’s said there is “a lot of ruin in a nation”. The sands in that hourglass have been running down for decades, and the end, when it comes, could be a lot faster than our slobby media realise.
From tonight I’ll be bringing forward last night’s Sharri to replace CK at 5pm.
Kenny is a twot. I don’t know why people bother with legacy meja let alone pay for it. I turned off Tom Elliott after he just fell into line with the approved narrative re the 2020 steal. That was the last legacy media I listened to
And then there was Murray lamenting the factions doing over Hollie Hughes. He evidently wants to forget that Hughes got there BECAUSE of the left faction. Her parliamentary performance has got better over the last several months but she has limitations on policy particularly her bias on the NDIS. A bigger problem is that Braggs got back up . Ask Why that was, Paul.
At the start of the year, Chris Kenny took over Sharri Markson’s 5pm hour (I suspect at Markson’s request) without any of the newsbreaking originality, which is still her trademark at Sky News.
Kenny sees his role as simply adding his opinion to the daily news broken by other journalists. As far as I know, Kenny hasn’t broken a single story in the past year, whereas Markson on average is breaking at least one big one a week.
Chris Kenny is a lazy sod and his weekday hour is forgettable filler.
I suspect his lack of performance is being reflected in his ratings and he’ll be the first to go in the next network program review (probably in favour of giving Rita Panahi a proper daily time instead of her current 11pm slot).
I suspect this is a crash-and-burn edict from News Corp management: both the Steal and J6 are never to be talked about.
That has required people like Miranda Devine at NYP to finesse the edict by going after Hunter and the Biden corruption issues instead.
I don’t blame Kenny too much on this one, there’s only so much you can do when you are fighting on two fronts: the Left and your own RINO management.
But he didn’t have to say he was disgusted. And the lawfare is a separate issue from the steal. compere’s at Fox News talk about it all the time.
It derives from Albanese placating Ardern.
I was surprised to find that Albanese liked horses.
H B Bear
May 30, 2024 8:17 am
[snip]The AFL might need to join the ALPBC as the ALPFL.
Back when Bomber Beasley was opposition leader, I used to call the AFL the official opposition – they had all the cuddly policies an ALP in opposition should spout. Little did I know – and this was before Demetriou.
There is no way the “academics of tunnel city” were unaware of the makeup of their city or its politico-military DNA.
Of course not. But Arabs lie constantly – and they lie like children.
I was amazed at some of the absolute bullshit they would tell each other and it would be – sorta – accepted.
The Middle East – the appearance becomes the reality.
Agree that Chris Kenny comes out with some weird crap from time to time, it’s almost like he’s transitioning back to being a Leftard and we’re just seeing some small previews of it. He might meet Bill Maher on the way over.
Rita is another one that does my head in. Simply unwatchable. Her segments are always “about the Left” and I get a bit tired of the same theme, like it’s “high school politics.” Any reporter can find any one of a million crazies online, label them “the Left” and then go to town on them, it’s not difficult and she insults my (and your?) intelligence.
Paul Murray is the best they’ve got with Peta shortly behind him then Sharri.
Her childish sneering and giggling and the pointless exaggerated delivery….seems to be company policy. They all do it to some degree, but she is by far the worst.
Paul Murray is the best they’ve got with Peta shortly behind him then Sharri.
Murray can be annoying and unwatchable at times.
Credlin is the smartest and best by a country mile. Markson next.
Actually, I prefer to watch any of them, Bolta included, rather than the leftards on their ABC or Nein, 10 or 7
Agree that him going on about fuel excise is pretty boring and possibly a bit dumb, depending on where you stand on the issue.
Obviously, there should no excise whatsoever!