Open Thread – Mon 15 July 2024


Ruins in the moonlit landscape, Arnold Böcklin, 1849

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Chris
Chris
July 17, 2024 3:12 pm

Gee, I wonder if some cowboy boots have been firmly stamped down on JD dealers hands across the US.

After the Bud Light action it must have been very clear to JD management and shareholders who had the power. They would have quickly told Blackrock to shove their ESG measures up their jacksie.

m0nty
m0nty
July 17, 2024 3:13 pm

21yo man arrested near RNC in Wisconsin wearing a ski mask and carrying an AK-47.

The copycats have begun.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 17, 2024 3:15 pm

The idea they have to wait for him to point his gun directly at Trump is ridiculous, they need a reasonable suspicion of threat which is clear from the guy’s actions well before he directly puts Trump in the crosshairs.

m0nster went further than that.
According to his reading of the Marquess of Queensberry rules, they can’t fire until the assassin fires off the first shot.
As I said here the other day, some dweeb on Sky suggested that “returning fire was the best protective action”.
Firstly he confuses battlefield tactics with VIP protection protocols.
Secondly, “return fire” refers to a situation where the assailant is concealed and you can only become reactive after they reveal themselves by opening fire. It does not mean that, where the assailant is in plain sight, some sort of sportsmanship rules come into play and the white-hats must hold fire until the President’s brains are all over the podium.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 17, 2024 3:23 pm

Gee, I wonder if some cowboy boots have been firmly stamped down on JD dealers hands across the US.

Yes, emphatically so. Non farming types may not be aware of the lightning fightback by American farmers.
Tractor Supply co. (sort of a cross between CRT, Golders, BBQ’s Galore, Mitre 10’s Home & Garden dept & pet food shops) was last month forced by unhappy balance sheets to totally & completely scrap their DEI program & issued an “American Values” type public statement.

Tractor Supply is Fortune 500 company & was a good couple of years into the DEI claptrap.

John Deere recently came under suspicion of being under ponytail influence.
That was enough for America’s farmers, who made it emphatically clear they did not want getting their tractor repaired to be secondary to the JD mechanic’s Qwerty ranking.

John Deere has a very strong brand, that wouldn’t have saved them from seeing their tractor sales going the way of Bud Lite.

110% of John Deere’s customer base are fair dinkum overall wearing farmers.
Screeching pink haired trannys declaring they’ll “boycott John Deere unless it turns LGBTI” will have zero impact.

Last edited 4 months ago by Salvatore – Iron Publican
damon
damon
July 17, 2024 3:25 pm

they need a reasonable suspicion of threat”

Somehow, I doubt this is in the written (or unwritten) rules.

Kneel
Kneel
July 17, 2024 3:28 pm

“I am more convinced now that the SS had the right to do some remodelling on the guys head the moment they saw the gun was pointed at Trump without having to wait.”

If the SS had declared everything within a 500m radius of where the protectee (Trump) was to speak a “federally protected area”, then it is my understanding that they do not even need to wait for him to point the weapon towards anyone, they could take him out as soon as they saw him with a weapon on the roof. It might have been a bit of trouble and a “please explain” moment had they done so, but under those circumstances they probably would have been exonerated.
I mean – honestly. Come on, you climb up on a roof overlooking a place where an SS protected person is speaking, and you are carrying a weapon. What does any normal person expect would happen? That they send you a sternly worded note? That they climb up and say “ullo, ullo, what’s goin’ on ‘ere, then? I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you to accompany me the the station my lad”?

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 17, 2024 3:48 pm

I too would stroll around Pennsylvania, climbing onto a semi-concealed rooftop position that has within a radius of a cricket ball toss, dozens of armed Secret Service, countless police marksmen at action stations + tonnes of armed police.

Proceeding to nonchalantly aim a rifle at a Presidential candidate, I’m secure in the knowledge that I’m perfectly safe & there’s nothing anybody can do unless I open fire directly at the Presidential Candidate.

(Seriously, where does this cockheaded flog monty get his stupid talking points?
Does he wank furiously such that his brain is deprived of oxygen & then he types something?)

Last edited 4 months ago by Salvatore – Iron Publican
billie
billie
July 17, 2024 3:51 pm

The ‘Climate Emergency’ is a Myth, Says Nobel Prize Winner John Clauser. Here’s Why He’s Right

No one cares because the government, CSIRO, entertainment celebrities and MSM do not agree.

Really, if it was true, then all of the above would surely agree, wouldn’t they?

(sarcasm)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 17, 2024 4:01 pm

Screeching pink haired trannys declaring they’ll “boycott John Deere unless it turns LGBTI”

Yes but screeching pink haired trannies love Mexicans.

‘Devastating’: Retired John Deere employee warns of ‘significant impacts’ of mass layoffs as the company moves manufacturing to Mexico, says the jobs ‘won’t be returning’ (16 Jul)

The Chinese and South Koreans are going to eat their lunch and spit on the soon to be rotting corpse of a once great company methinks.

Zatara
Zatara
July 17, 2024 4:03 pm

Open Carry does not mean you can carry a weapon anywhere you want. Every state has restricted ares where weapons are forbidden. Feds also have designated restricted areas.

In Pennsylvania they include schools, courthouses, prisons, hospitals, law enforcement agencies, state owned facilities, secure areas of airports, and other specific prohibited places.

Other specific prohibited places would include the secure perimeter around a presidential event.

Unfortunately the secure perimeter around the event Saturday was necessarily shallower than desired due to the lack of USSS personel to man a deeper one.

cohenite
July 17, 2024 4:04 pm

2 things dickless vomited recently:

1 Trump was asleep at the RNC; no he was praying with his eyes closed during the beginning blessing. Since dickless lefties never pray dickless would not know this.

2 Pennsylvania is an open carry so the assassin mongrel was perfectly entitled to be crawling on a roof with an AR-15 and the Trump snipers could not take him out until the bastard started firing. Trump’s snipers are bound by rules of engagement which allow them to fire on people who constitute threats regardless of any rights these people may have. The Trump snipers did not fire earlier because they had no sight on the bastard until he started firing; that’s according to Bongino.

Anyway FOAD dickless.

Roger
Roger
July 17, 2024 4:04 pm

Australia’s economy ‘below long-term trends’ in 2025, experts predict
Australia faces the prospect of an economy performing below long-term trends through early 2025 based on leading indicators.
Westpac/Melbourne Institute 17 July 2024

1 in 11 hospitality businesses expected to close as much of Australia begins the transition from a barista economy to a bedpan economy.

Last edited 4 months ago by Roger
eric hinton
eric hinton
July 17, 2024 4:10 pm

Roger

July 17, 2024 4:04 pm

 bedpan economy

Is this your coin?

cohenite
July 17, 2024 4:12 pm

More examples of the filthy left condoning the assassination:

Progressives in Higher Education React to Trump Assassination Attempt Just as You’d Expect (legalinsurrection.com)

Liars: Dem Rep Says No Place for Violence While Own Staffer Says ‘Don’t Miss Next Time’ (westernjournal.com)

And to prove the world in not yet submerged under left filth, examples of VIPs now coming out in support of Trump:

President Trump receives flood of surprising endorsements after shooting-one group is particularly interesting… – Revolver News

I’m going to a get a t-shirt made up with that iconic photo of Trump waving his fist after being shot

Trump-fist-assassination
calli
calli
July 17, 2024 4:14 pm

😀

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Zatara
Zatara
July 17, 2024 4:23 pm

Screeching pink haired trannys declaring they’ll “boycott John Deere unless it turns LGBTI”

The number of trannys who are John Deere customers wouldn’t fill the short school bus.

m0nty
m0nty
July 17, 2024 4:41 pm

I see Nick Fuentes is leading the groyper backlash against Jon Don Vance for having an Indian wife and kids. That didn’t take long.

Roger
Roger
July 17, 2024 4:49 pm

Heartening to see various state & federal authorities springing into action to distance themselves from the CFMEU.

[sarc]

What do they know and when did they know it?

The federal and VIC governments have reportedly been sitting on damning evidence for two years.

Last edited 4 months ago by Roger
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 17, 2024 5:06 pm

Stevo.

—-

Steve Inman:

Just another day at this pub
https://rumble.com/v57558t-just-another-day-at-this-pub.html

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 17, 2024 5:17 pm

One more clip from Stevo. So many clips to choose from…

—-

Steve Inman:

People Cheating Death!
https://rumble.com/v575zfp-people-cheating-death.html

Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 5:22 pm

This is the replication of the shooting I mentioned earlier. Just unbelievable.

Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 5:24 pm

@CollinRugg

NEW: Dan Bongino says an “unimpeachable source” tells him that someone was supposed to be on the roof where Thomas Crooks shot from but “didn’t show up.”

Bongino also claimed that the Biden admin is telling the USSS director to keep her mouth shut if she wants to keep her job.

“According to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post… [there] was so supposed to be someone there.”

“They’re now making up excuses saying the pitch of the roof. My source says to me that no one knows why the post didn’t show up.”

“I was also told that the USSS director has been given instructions from the administration and the DHS secretary: ‘If you wanna keep your job, you’ll keep your mouth shut about this.’”

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 17, 2024 5:30 pm

More Brittany Blob news in Teh Paywallian. There must be a big question mark against the validity of that trust. As I have said previously much more interesting questions of law here than Friday night legovers in Canberra.

Roger
Roger
July 17, 2024 5:34 pm

“I was also told that the USSS director has been given instructions from the administration and the DHS secretary: ‘If you wanna keep your job, you’ll keep your mouth shut about this.’”

She’ll very soon be called to testify before a Congressional inquiry.

And that’s just for starters.

She doesn’t look like the hardboiled character type required to suppress any conspiracy, if that’s what we’re looking at.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 17, 2024 5:35 pm

From Kiwiblog on a disease that we’ve exported across the ditch:

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/07/the_road_cone_plague.html

As for those traffic controllers, some have Darwin’s Awards wishes, yup ladies those stop/slow signs don’t have a forcesheild of invincibility and I don’t have X ray vision through vegetated corners.

Small bridge works on a tight vegetated bend with an intersection into it. Traffic controllers set up on a 2km straight on one side and on the other round a blind corner that even at the long 40km/h zone came into view suddenly. The limit there is normally 80. I was prob at 50 looking for said roadworks but had some fool tailgating me, the sign signalling stop/go was in view at the same time as I spotted the lady with the sign.

Problem wasn’t 2 of the approaches, it was the more travelled third that already had roadworks signs of it’s own on for other works. Lady got defensive when explained she was poorly able to be seen even at the adjusted speed. I gave up and explained to the older bloke on the other end the same which he seemed to understand if she pushed down about 100m she would have better control of the 2 approaches she had and be able to see him.

For the money they pay these guys you’d think they’d hire people with at least some practical nous…

JC
JC
July 17, 2024 5:41 pm

10 years ago, it took 12.8 ounces of gold to buy the Dow Jones Index. It now takes 16.6 ounces to buy the Dow.

2014 16,000/US$1,250 = 12.8
today 41,000/ $2,468 = 16.6

Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 5:41 pm
alwaysright
alwaysright
July 17, 2024 5:44 pm

It occurs to me that all roofs have a slope. If they didn’t they wouldn’t drain water.
The crazy woman needs to go.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 17, 2024 5:48 pm

Heartening to see various state & federal authorities springing into action to distance themselves from the CFMEU.

[sarc]

What do they know and when did they know it?

The federal and VIC governments have reportedly been sitting on damning evidence for two years.

Two years?
That long?

Why, it seems only yesterday that Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon was being torn down as a Liberal hack and ‘McCarthy redux’ for suggesting that such naughtiness was going on.

Barry
Barry
July 17, 2024 5:48 pm

JC

July 17, 2024 5:41 pm

10 years ago, it took 12.8 ounces of gold to buy the Dow Jones Index. It now takes 16.6 ounces to buy the Dow.

2014 16,000/US$1,250 = 12.8

today 41,000/ $2,468 = 16.6

That’s just the Trump premium.

Priced exquisitely for the Donald.

Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 5:52 pm

This is a short Sky News interview with Vivek at the Convention.

‘Miracle’: Vivek Ramaswamy discusses failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life

Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 5:54 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 5:56 pm
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 17, 2024 5:59 pm

I’ve worked with plenty of CFMEU at the lower levels on the bigger mine sites. Most I’ve never even known till it was mentioned or pointed out to me. Never had any problems with the rank and file.

The leadership even down to the lodge level seem to be the problem and oh boy there are some thugs there. I used to know one well but he seemed to like me so we had a good relationship but even then I could see what he was capable of. His whole family were involved too.

Unsure what the solution bar complete razing like BLF or Painters & Dockers but it’s like a mafia and chances are it will regenerate in another form. I think they need to go all out on the bad eggs but that will never happen when one of the parties of Government reliant on their support and the other too timid/blackmailed to do what it knows it needs to do.

Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 5:59 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 6:04 pm
mem
mem
July 17, 2024 6:04 pm

Just received an email offer from my very “benevolent” Power supplier AGL. It’s for 25% off cinema tickets! So our Vic and Fed governments are providing funds to retailers (subsidies compliments of my taxes) to reduce the real cost of my energy bills (pushed up by renewable energy) and these retailers are providing tiddly wink discounted cinema tickets and other marketing guff to make me grateful. And all based on the lie that CO2 warms up the planet and the even bigger lie that wind and solar power will reduce CO2. A circle jerk of grand proportions.

Roger
Roger
July 17, 2024 6:04 pm

I think they need to go all out on the bad eggs but that will never happen when one of the parties of Government reliant on their support …

I’ll say it again…

The ALP is a criminal outfit with a parliamentary front.

Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 6:07 pm

Roseanne Barr
@therealroseanne

Y’all accepted me despite my foul mouth and history. We are the big tent party now. Populists who care about the future of our children. The issues we care about are the issues everyone ACTUALLY cares about.

We don’t care about virtue signaling or trying to impress our tinder dates

with thoughtless bullshit no one actually believes.

We care about the principles of this great nation and if we are to preserve them we must come together. We must unite and stop our adversaries from brainwashing anymore of our children into destroying this great country.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 17, 2024 6:13 pm

Strikingly, few Labour MPs have held down ‘working class’ jobs – or, indeed, any job outside of politics. Many have arrived in parliament following a stint as local councillors. Others have had careers in Westminster or the European Parliament. Three were special advisers to former prime minister Gordon Brown. A surprising number are political nepo babies, including Liam Conlon, son of Starmer’s chief of staff, Sue Gray; Hamish Falconer, whose father served in Tony Blair’s government from 2003 to 2007; and Georgia Gould, daughter of the late Baron Gould, who led Labour’s strategy and polling for more than two decades.

As Roger says, it’s a cast.

Labour is no friend of the working classes – spiked (spiked-online.com)

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 17, 2024 6:22 pm

BREAKING NEWSLinda Reynolds’ court win over Brittany Higgins as former political staffer is ordered to reveal secret detail in $2.4million settlement
Daily Mail.

cohenite
July 17, 2024 6:24 pm

Judge Janine made a great point on The Five. When the Republican POTUS candidate was shot there was not one riot or law broken; when a scumbag, black rapist died of fetanyl overdose while in police custody the demorats rioted for months, killed people and destroyed $billions of property.

And Jan 6 was a demorat event.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 17, 2024 6:26 pm

This packs an emotional punch.

Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms ( war version )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpwKQo5_Z0

cohenite
July 17, 2024 6:30 pm

Blackout told many lies in his press club vomit today. The best of all was both droughts and floods are increasing. Magic times. The Drought Atlas of Australia and New Zealand shows the worst Australian droughts occurred before the 20thC and the worst drought was from 1500-1522:

Eastern Australia New Zealand Drought Atlas (memphis.edu)

Must have been all those 3rd nations coal plants.

Indolent
Indolent
July 17, 2024 6:32 pm
Barry
Barry
July 17, 2024 6:33 pm

Fortescue restructure announced as Andrew Forrest tells workers 700 jobs will go

Andrew Forrest has launched a sweeping restructure at Fortescue in the face of the company’s failure to deliver on its green energy promises.

You can’t beat the laws of thermodynamics.

John H.
John H.
July 17, 2024 6:34 pm

Roger

 July 17, 2024 4:49 pm

Heartening to see various state & federal authorities springing into action to distance themselves from the CFMEU.

[sarc]

What do they know and when did they know it?

The federal and VIC governments have reportedly been sitting on damning evidence for two years.

For over 3 years there has been construction work on an M1 overpass in my suburb. They repeatedly change the pedestrian path through the overpass and every time a change is made construction workers at both ends. They don’t do anything except say hello. Perhaps they fear the pedestrians will climb over the fence. The length of time for the construction, still incomplete, and the presence of those workers, is outrageous. There must be corruption involved.

MatrixTransform
July 17, 2024 6:47 pm

The ALP is a criminal outfit with a parliamentary front

these un-elected and elected clowns are scheming together to best screw Joe and Joelene Average

here in Aust we have our own version of the USA’s recently blonked Chevron Doctrine and these psychos are doing whatever they feel like doing

the checks and balances are gone

they believe that men can have babies, that we’re all gonna die in a fiery Thermageddon, and that they know best

…it’s for your own good

both sides of politics are captured
academia is captured
the police are captured
the judiciary are captured
the media is retarded

… so basically, you’ve been asking for it

Last edited 4 months ago by MatrixTransform
Eyrie
Eyrie
July 17, 2024 6:54 pm

The ALP is a criminal outfit with a parliamentary front
?
Same for the Libs and Nats, only the ALP are somewhat more *competent* criminals.

Roger
Roger
July 17, 2024 6:56 pm

these un-elected and elected clowns are scheming together to best screw Joe and Joelene Average

Speaking of which, I saw a news report today (which I now can’t find) on some of the country’s largest nursing home providers charging the taxpayer – not the resident, which would be outright theft – for personalised services they aren’t providing, which is mere fraud. Multiplied by the number of residents, the monies falsely claimed must be into the hundreds of millions.

Just don’t expect anyone to go to prison for this.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 17, 2024 6:59 pm

From Michael Smith.

Lidia Thorpe again–one of the senators for Hamas
Australian Senator Posts Photo Wearing a Mock Hamas Headband, Promptly Deletes Post
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/07/16/australian-senator-posts-photo-wearing-a-mock-hamas-headband-promptly-deletes-post/

MatrixTransform
July 17, 2024 7:08 pm

both sides of politics are captured

academia is captured

the police are captured

the judiciary are captured

the media is retarded

serious question:

where does the political will come from to fix it?

132andBush
132andBush
July 17, 2024 7:25 pm

There was a windfarm near Nantucket.

With subsidies scammed by the bucket.

But when constructing the same

A blade fell off a crane

And floated away to refrains of “oh fck it!”

Last edited 4 months ago by 132andBush
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 17, 2024 7:34 pm

Seems Twiggys hydrogen plans not going well.
But at least he got plenty of good selfies with Labor leaders all around the country as they threw money at him.
Oh wait .. .. our money!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 17, 2024 7:36 pm

Fluffy Annelise does it again.
The RNC convention is gung ho because they “sense they are winning, and winning is the thing here in the USA”.
I watched days 1 and 2 and the messages I got were not any more about simply “winning” as much as “fixing” the cr#p that has been visited on the USA by the left.
So many really good speakers, so many good stories.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 17, 2024 7:38 pm

Can any commentator resist the urge to say something about Trump like “mean tweets” or something along those lines?
Give me a break.
What we hear from the left media daily is worse.

Crossie
Crossie
July 17, 2024 7:57 pm

Zatara

 July 17, 2024 4:10 pm

 Reply to  Bruce of Newcastle

Those John Deere plans were made under a Biden administration and I think it’s safe to say they are on hold for now.

Trump’s threatened tariffs are likely to make moving John Deere manufacturing out of the country a non-option for them.

That’s why it’s important to have JD Vance as VP who can be elected in 2028 to continue with Trump’s trade policies and to keep the corporations straight.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 17, 2024 8:04 pm

The RNC convention has been a welcome relief from the Daytime Sky carefully slanted commentary.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 17, 2024 8:06 pm

Andrew Forrest has launched a sweeping restructure at Fortescue in the face of the company’s failure to deliver on its green energy promises.

He’s very worried about climate change and the rising ocean. It’s why he built an enormous pile maybe 50 metres from it? Maybe less. Anyway, that’s dedication and sacrifice for you. Clearly he wants to be the first to sound the alarm when he notices the sea starting to inch closer to the gates of his mansion.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 17, 2024 8:12 pm

The Courier Mail moderators are pretty confused about what to approve under the CFMMEU articles.
One trend I am noticing is that they are part of Qld Police PR team as very difficult to comment negatively on them.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 17, 2024 8:13 pm

Bolta fires back:

?Energy Minister Chris Bowen said something about me at the National Press Club on Wednesday that forces me to conclude he’s really an idiot.

Otherwise I’d be forced to call him a liar.

So this is what this idiot said about me in selling his disastrous plan to force Australia to run its economy totally on unreliable wind and solar power: “Full on, open climate change denial is now less fashionable than it was 10 or 15 years ago in the public debate…

“Andrew Bolt still does it, but most other people don’t bother with it.”

Actually, scepticism about Bowen’s climate fear-mongering and net-zero plans is growing, but let me deal with his most fundamental misunderstanding. I won’t say lie.

I’ve never been in “denial” about climate change. I’ve always said the planet has warmed slightly over the past century.

But why I anger Bowen is that I’ve pointed out we haven’t had many of the predicted consequences of that – Bowen’s “climate catastrophe’’.

Some examples. Former Climate Change Commissioner Tim Flannery predicted nearly two decades ago that global warming could dry our dams, and Sydney could be without water in a few years. Instead, Sydney’s dams are 99 per cent full, and Melbourne’s 87 per cent.

We were told the Great Barrier Reef would die. Instead, hard coral cover is at – or near – record highs.

We were told rising seas would drown atoll islands such as the Maldives and Tuvalu. In fact both nations have grown.

We were told we’d get more cyclones, but Australia has instead had fewer over the past 50 years. And our grain harvests have grown.

Yet to “save” us from this fake climate crisis, Bowen is defacing our countryside with wind farms and destroying our reliable coal-fired power system, claiming wind and solar will give us cheaper power.

As if. Look at your power bills.

And look at the billions Bowen is blowing on green energy schemes, including green hydrogen, a fuel made from water that’s unproven at scale anywhere in the world.

Yet Bowen on Wednesday again told us we can’t have nuclear power stations, a proven technology, because they’d be built too late to save us. He means, to save us from the energy crisis he’s causing.

So, no, I don’t deny climate change. I just deny that Bowen’s mad spending will do anything to change our climate, or save us from his “climate disaster’’.

Prove me wrong, Chris.

Herald-Sun

Zippster
Zippster
July 17, 2024 8:25 pm
billie
billie
July 17, 2024 8:41 pm

CFMEU Query

While we’re having a quick look under the covers, could we possibly revisit the cancellation of the Eastern Freeway link to the Tulla freeway?

At the time it was well understood it was all a squabble between the CFMEU (Dan Andrews factional partners) and the AWU (Billy Shortens factional partners) about who got what.

The AWU were “in” and the CFMEU were locked out and instructed Dan, their guy, to close it down regardless of consequences or there would be no more support. It was shut down with massive cost to taxpayers, who else?

Are we to believe there is no evidence behind this?

No emails or text messages, no recordings?

Are we to presume all records ended up like Julia Gillard’s file at her previous employer’s chambers .. missing .. ?

I have mentioned to people on occasion that the Labor Party are the political arm of the union movement and they seem genuinley surprised that could possibly be the case.

I guess if it is not mentioned in school these days, and why would it be, it is a known unknown.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 17, 2024 8:47 pm

Cultural leader for Hearing Australia Azizah Roe urges ear checks for Indigenous children in Mid West-GascoyneJessica MoroneyMidwest Times
Wed, 17 July 2024 2:00AM

Hearing Australia is encouraging families in the Mid West-Gascoyne to get their children’s ears checked, after an alarming 26 per cent of First Nations children were found to have an undiagnosed ear disease.
More than 120 children received hearing assessments in the Mid West-Gascoyne in 2022-23. Results found more than 25 per cent had undiagnosed hearing loss and about 19 per cent had ear disease.
As NAIDOC Week ends, Hearing Australia is urging parents and primary healthcare providers to ensure young Indigenous children are having regular hearing checks.
Geraldton cultural leader and Hearing Australia representative Azizah Roe has first-hand experience and knows how important children’s hearing checks are. Her two-year-old grandson was diagnosed with glue ear and required grommets to prevent a build-up of fluid.
“Not hearing properly meant it would impact on his learning … a few months after his surgery, my grandson had another hearing check and his hearing had returned to normal,” she said.
“It was a great outcome and really reinforces the importance of getting our kids’ and grandkids’ hearing checked regularly, because if there are any issues, they can then be put on the path to treatment.”
Ms Roe said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children experienced some of the highest rates of otitis media (middle ear infection) in the world, with children under two were found to have more ear trouble than older children.
“Ear infections are common in children but for First Nations children they typically occur more often, start very early in life and last longer. This can affect their ability to listen, learn, yarn, and connect with others,” she said.

Vagabond
Vagabond
July 17, 2024 8:58 pm

The ALP is a criminal outfit with a parliamentary front

Yep, and the LNP is a stupidity outfit with a parliamentary front.

And the green slime are a malignant psychotic outfit with a parliamentary front

It’s a very depressing situation

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 17, 2024 9:01 pm

I said ages ago I would post this once a year.

Here we go again.

I showed this to Dad and Brother and both were nonplus. 10 minutes later, and the feeling in the room was palpable. Stone cold silence.

—-

Al White: The Story of a Marine Grunt in the First Battle of Khe Sanh (April 1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWJ5yxuvTMw

cohenite
July 17, 2024 9:01 pm
Crossie
Crossie
July 17, 2024 9:05 pm

And to prove the world in not yet submerged under left filth, examples of VIPs now coming out in support of Trump:

I think the attempted assassination was not the reason these business people are now backing Trump, but it was a galvanising moment, a last straw. I believe what horrified them more, Jewish and non-Jewish ones, was the Democrats’ and the universities’ reaction to the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and rampages after the 7th October 2023 attacks on Israel. The submission to protesters and Biden’s treachery to Israel convinced a lot of them that Democrats cannot be trusted any more.

Cassie of Sydney
July 17, 2024 9:09 pm

And the green slime are a malignant Jew hating psychotic outfit with a parliamentary front

Yep, it’s a very depressing situation.

..

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 17, 2024 9:15 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
 July 17, 2024 9:08 pm

Reply to  Steve trickler
I served with a veteran of 25th Division at Khe Sanh – he used to upset the system by wearing his Yankee campaign ribbons and Combat Infantry Badge with Aussie uniform..
He “had the talks” one night. “Out of food, running low on ammo – I’ve never been so fvcking scared in my life.”

Respect.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 17, 2024 9:17 pm

State of Origin final.

Global Major sporting event: watched around the world. Super-tough gladiators, worshiped by Tina Turner fans, glistening men, who make the SAS and Seals look like receptive poofters.

2:0 at half time.

Not helped by two bizarre, softcock (think of the kiddies watching) send offs for terrifying handbagging.

Far Cough.

Zippster
Zippster
July 17, 2024 9:19 pm

thomas matthew crooks may have missed Trump but I think he has scored a bullseye and put a slug right between the eyes of woke.

JC
JC
July 17, 2024 9:31 pm

cohenite

July 17, 2024 9:01 pm

Doubt emerging that crooks was even the shooter:

FULL SCOOP: Everything That’s Been Revealed So Far About Trump Shooter, Thomas Crooks | WLT Report

The little prick shot about 8 times. Ballistics would be able to tell if it came from his gun.

Zippster
Zippster
July 17, 2024 9:40 pm

Marjorie Taylor Green destroys a Times reporter.

“You’re from the Times? you’re ridiculous and you’re the problem in our country. You lie about people like me.… we have to put up with an unbelievable amount of bullshit because of little liars like you”

JC
JC
July 17, 2024 9:44 pm

Never seen Trump so emotional. The bandage, the music, the way he greets Tucker, JD, his sons…what a powerful moment.

No shit. Since the first week following his election in 2016, they have subjected the man to unimaginable hell. He endured the worst harassment, lawfare, and hoaxes, abuse—absolute hell—and was only inches away from having his head blown off. mostly due to his disagreement with the left.

Even though he’s tough, there must be emotional upheaval in his life right now. To be honest, I have no idea how he manages.

And then his campaign schedule must be a nightmare through all of this.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 17, 2024 9:56 pm

First paras of article from The Oz.
Well done the Oz who have told her to get lost.

Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has threatened to sue The Australian for defamation and demanded an apology over a Johannes Leak cartoon that portrayed her wearing a Hamas headband and whitewashing a wall bearing the words ‘October 7’, claiming the depiction was “racist” and would cost her votes at the next election.

The Australian has told Senator Faruqi it will not accede to any of her “grossly hypocritical” demands, and that the cartoon – which it argues is clearly protected by truth and honest opinion defences – will remain online.

The cartoon, published on Monday last week, shows the Greens deputy leader using a ­roller to apply white wash to ­obscure the date of the Hamas ­terror attack on Israel in which ­almost 1200 people died, while saying: “What’s the big deal? It’s just a bit of paint”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 17, 2024 9:56 pm

Convicted murderer gets stay of execution just 20 minutes before he was given lethal injection over 1998 killing of 85 year old during home robbery

  • Ruben Gutierrez was found guilty of stabbing the woman with a screwdriver
  • Gutierrez, 47, admitted to being part of plan to rob the woman of $600,000

Daily Mail.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 17, 2024 10:01 pm

Forget Hamas, glass-jaw Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi declares war on satire: ‘Cartoon will cost me votes’Stephen Rice
48 minutes ago.
Updated 35 minutes ago

Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has threatened to sue The Australian for defamation and demanded an apology over a Johannes Leak cartoon that portrayed her wearing a Hamas headband and whitewashing a wall bearing the words ‘October 7’, claiming the depiction was “racist” and would cost her votes at the next election.
The Australian has told Senator Faruqi it will not accede to any of her “grossly hypocritical” demands, and that the cartoon – which it argues is clearly protected by truth and honest opinion defences – will remain online.
The cartoon, published on Monday last week, shows the Greens deputy leader using a ­roller to apply white wash to ­obscure the date of the Hamas ­terror attack on Israel in which ­almost 1200 people died, while saying: “What’s the big deal? It’s just a bit of paint …” The cartoon followed Senator Faruqi’s repeated refusal on the ABC’s Insiders to call for the terror group to be dismantled, saying that was up to the Palestinian people to decide.

Senator Faruqi said the Greens were not demanding any change to the listing of Hamas as a ­terrorist organisation but “it’s not up to me to say who should be gone or not”.
The cartoon also references Senator Faruqi’s attempt to play down the defacing of the ­Australian War Memorial with pro-­Palestinian graffiti as nothing more than “some paint on a building”.
In its response to Senator Faruqi’s lawyers, The Australian said it was “surprised and bemused that your client is threatening legal action given her comments can only be understood to mean that the barbaric Hamas regime, a listed terrorist group and the perpetrators of the October 7 atrocity, has some legitimacy if it is supported by the Palestinian people”.
In the circumstances, the ­cartoon was “somewhat mild”, the paper said, and in any event was part of an important political discussion.

Funny, no comments allowed..

Cassie of Sydney
July 17, 2024 10:05 pm

Marjorie Taylor Green destroys a Times reporter.

Sublime, more please. There is simply no point in tolerating and indulging MSM garbage

Back in 2020, at CPAC here in Sydney, walking from the bathroom back to the table where I was sitting with other Cats, I was confronted by an SBS female reporter. She stopped me and asked me if she could ask some questions. I responded bluntly…….

No, I do not talk to garbage media.

I still remember the shocked look on her face.

cohenite
July 17, 2024 10:24 pm

Some of the most powerful imagery I have seen; victims of biden’s open borders speaking at the RNC of the crimes committed against them and their families by illegals let into the US by biden and cackles.

cohenite
July 17, 2024 10:41 pm

This is going to be a conspiracist’s dream; the lying hag who is head of the US SS, Kimberly Cheatle (the roof was too steep to put snipers on), is not only thick with the perverted corpse but the cheneys who think Trump is the biggest threat to democracy nada, nada.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 17, 2024 10:49 pm

an alarming 26 per cent of First Nations children were found to have an undiagnosed ear disease.
One- just say Yamatji or whatever, “First Nationses” in this context is pathetic
Two- the fact that young indij kids have undiagnosed- read, unnoticed- hearing loss is surely a damning mark against the piccaninny-mob-auntie-no-responsibility culture of having no parental regard for children.

Beertruk
July 17, 2024 11:09 pm

W000000TT….meanwhile in other news….:

NSW 14 v Queethlanders 4 (two penalty conversions…NO tries…LOL)

Happy…I am so fricken happy!!!…after all these years…

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
July 17, 2024 11:54 pm

Funny, but not ha-ha funny, DoverLord.
It’s not crazy conjecture to suppose that there may have been plants who acted to ensure Crooke had a clear run up to his position.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 18, 2024 12:28 am

So any apology to those of us at the time who said his ideas were ridiculous?

Fortescue restructure announced as Andrew Forrest tells workers 700 jobs will go

Billionaire Andrew Forrest has abandoned ambitious green ­hydrogen targets in a major ­business backdown that threatens the Albanese government’s pledge for the energy source to help drive the nation’s transition to net-zero emissions by 2050.

Dr Forrest launched a sweeping restructure at For­tescue in the face of the company’s failure to deliver on its green-energy ­promises. Up to 700 jobs will go in the massive cutbacks after the iron ore mogul pulled back from the company’s goal of producing 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen a year by 2030.

Dr Forrest is understood to have addressed Fortescue staff on Wednesday afternoon, flagging a major round of redundancies – ­including the departure of more of the company’s senior ­management.

The concession that For­tescue cannot meet its green-­hydrogen targets represents a major retreat by Dr Forrest, who only a few years ago was boasting that the company’s green-energy ambitions would one day make it ­bigger than Saudi energy giant Aramco.

The move also punches a hole in Labor’s emissions transition plan, with the government providing $8bn in investment and support for hydrogen production as part of a push for Australia to become a key player in global ­efforts to achieve net zero.

Anthony Albanese has pinned the government’s hopes on green hydrogen, solar and wind as key supply sources that can hand the nation “energy sovereignty”.

Oz

KevinM
KevinM
July 18, 2024 1:07 am

Jerry built?
No.

Why is it Crooked?

The Crooked House wasn’t built crooked; the fairy tale facade you see today is a quirk of history…

In the 14th and 15th centuries, Lavenham was one of the richest places in England – its wealth derived from the wool trade and popular ‘Lavenham Blue’ cloth made in the village.

With many merchants fast making money and building houses, the wood they used wasn’t always given enough time to dry.
As the timber frame of The Crooked House dried, it gradually twisted and contorted.

By the time this had happened, Lavenham’s wool industry was in decline. The merchants left and without the money to rebuild, the house was left crooked and divided up.

The result is a rare survivor – The Crooked House you see today – wonderfully wonky and one of the world’s most photographed homes. 

PS, that small town of less than 2000 people at the time, paid more in taxes than the city of York.

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KevinM
KevinM
July 18, 2024 1:15 am

Not sure I agree with this, takes a bit more than dexterity.

Congrats anyway, seen it a few times and still beats me doing the same even with the shirt off.
Good times they were, fumbling around, alas a long time ago.

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KevinM
KevinM
July 18, 2024 2:26 am

In case you are visiting Germany, instructions how to pee.

  1. totally wrong
  2. almost right
  3. Correct
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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 18, 2024 7:17 am

LOL Newscorpse kiddies at it again with the climate chicken little and snow/sleet in SEQ elevated regions. I’d say it would be more sleet than snow and shock has happened before:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/parts-queenslands-scenic-rim-dusted-with-snow-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade/news-story/79ccf1dca9b57a7d32ae9045d779ad32

Quick check of the BOM has snow all the way up the Divide to Qld border between 1100m & 1400m asl. Vic 1100m asl. Qld won’t put an altitude on theirs but snow was seeing falling at Spicers Ck Lodge at 1100m asl. Sorry not unusual for July.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
July 20, 2024 7:00 am

The beeb’s NewsHour show tried a series of race bait questions to that Detroit pastor who had a visit to his church from DJT. The pastor had their measure!
Q. How did your black congregation feel about a visit from this white guy?
A. They crowded around him and asked for selfies and autographs.

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