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Curtin’s “beating the big drum to stop the work force going on strike” was probably his greatest contribution. Even then…
At 6.30am AET, a total of 70% of the electricity used across the five states in the Eastern grid was…
Our resident Maggies are rearing their second fledglings this year. Hope they get rid of them earlier than last year’s…
Watched my honeyeater kick the kiddies out of the nest and they’re gone. I love nature.
Sorry Tom, I should have looked at the time.
Dozens of Rivian EVs Go Up in Massive Ball of Fire at Illinois Manufacturing Plant
Again I wonder how these things can even be insured.
Andrew Bolt:
Take it to the bank that a fair proportion of these Gazans have ill will towards the West.
But only rhetorical of course eh Mr Burgess?
Where’s the Environment Defenders? Daily Telegraph:
Transgrid. Why aren’t they subject to the arduous green/black tape that has seen actual enterprise go under like the Blayney gold mine?
I’d like to see an audit of those Aboriginal co-ops in the area where these monuments to stupidity are erected and if they have effectively been bought out by Transgrid to sit down and shut up.
Black Ball
August 27, 2024 5:36 am
Why not just refurbish old coal power plants to current level of tech or build new efficient ones?
We are not going to run out of coal for a long time.
Bolt showing his ignorance, referring to Solingen as “an obscure town in Germany”.
Hugh
August 27, 2024 5:54 am
He probably never heard of the city of steel.
Solingen steel and knives are world famous for a good reason.
Bolt is ignorant of a lot of things, or pretends to be.
The lead turd who investigated Zachary Rolfe for the shooting of Kumanjaye Walker, has been sacked for impersonating a junior, female Officer on an online dating site, also posting mocked up nudes of her.
Read the article. The poor female, upon finding out about the site, when to this creep to report the crime.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13779181/zach-rolfe-wayne-newell-sacked.html
From The Oz….
Labour will need 10 years to rebuild Britain, Keir Starmer says, and “hard work” will be required to bring about lasting change.
Fuhrer Starmer is telling Britons the truth, he’s now PM for life. What’s on the Fuhrer Starmer’s menu to bring about this ‘lasting change’?
Islamic blasphemy laws
Abolishing free speech
Locking up the indigenous working class, Conservatives and anyone who breaches Starmer’s edicts about speech
Expelling Briton’s Jews
Taxing the middle class out of existence
Abolition of the monarchy
Replacement of the Union Jack with a crescent flag
Abolishing council elections
Mutilating adolescent girls and boys in the name of transgender medicine
I could go on. Don’t laugh at the above, ask me how it’s going in two years.
Oh and note how Fuhrer Starmer isn’t coy about talking about ‘lasting change’. Remember how the Tories were elected in 2010, ‘governed’ until 2024 and not once did they institute any ‘lasting change’, instead they spent fourteen years entrenching Blairism.
Why I refused to acknowledge the traditional owners at the Vic Bar Council
LANA COLLARIS
At every meeting of the Victorian Bar Council, president Georgina Schoff acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which the meeting is held and pays her respects to elders past, present and emerging.
At a recent meeting, I decided to acknowledge all Australians. I posted the minutes on social media and was promptly labelled a “racist”, a “visitor” and an “introduced species”. I was publicly condemned by two of my fellow Bar councillors and was told by the Indigenous Justice Committee that I had brought the Victorian Bar into disrepute.
Australians are told that acknowledgments of country are about showing respect to “First Nations” people and the rich cultural history and connection to country they have developed over more than 60,000 years of living on this great land.
However, in my view, acknowledgments of country are not about respect, as most people would understand that word. We show respect to Indigenous Australians by celebrating their culture and language, by valuing their historical knowledge, and by holding them to the same standards as all other Australians, not by making ubiquitous acknowledgments of country.
When we are told that acknowledgments of country are about showing “respect” to First Nations people, what is meant is respect for Indigenous Australians as the true sovereigns of our land.
The term First Nations deserves attention. A nation is a distinct political society. Therefore the term First Nations suggests there was once a number of distinct political societies, separated from the others, that lived upon our land and were the first nations.
While the existence of tribes or clans at the time of British settlement is an established fact, the notion there were “nations” by any definition cannot be established. The idea has also been rejected by the High Court of Australia and is accordingly wrong in law: Coe v Commonwealth [1979] HCA 68 at [12].
The term First Nations is wrongly used to strengthen the claims of the “sovereignty was never ceded” and “always was, always will be” movement, and to give some Indigenous people of today, who seek to make treaties with the states of Australia, the appearance of some kind of legal standing.
The chief executive of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service has recently stated: “I am looking forward to the day when the First Peoples’ Assembly sign a justice treaty with the state of Victoria, so that we can transform the legal system so that it respects the oldest continuous cultures on Earth and delivers real justice for our people.” This is serious stuff. Based upon the September 2023 recommendations of the Yoorrook Justice Commission and article five of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, what is being sought is some kind of Indigenous-only legal system that operates within, but separately to, the legal system of the state.
Not only would such a two-tiered legal system be antithetical to equality and the rule of law, but the real-world consequences are unknown, would be without precedent and are not currently the subject of any public discussion.
Indigenous people don’t live their lives in a bubble; they interact with non-Indigenous people as they go about their lives. What would happen if a non-Indigenous person was accused of a serious crime against an Indigenous person or vice versa? Which criminal justice system would apply and how would this be determined? Who would be the judge and how would the jury be selected? Would concepts such as the onus of proving the charge beyond reasonable doubt and the right of the accused to remain silent apply? Such questions are not limited to the criminal justice system; similar considerations would apply to civil disputes.
In Australia, we are the beneficiaries of a legal system that has been developed over centuries and which is arguably one of the best and fairest in the world. I accept that the imprisonment rate is significantly higher for Indigenous Australians than non-Indigenous Australians. But this fact alone comes nowhere near close enough to proving our legal system is the main causal factor, or that a radical change to it by creating a two-tiered system based on race would close this gap. The reasons people commit crimes are complex and multi-factorial and are generally skewed towards economic, social and environmental factors. One thing I hope we can all agree upon is that race is not a factor.
Acknowledgments of country are not about showing “respect”. They are political statements signalling support for a two-tiered system based on race. They have no place in the law, including in our courtrooms, and the average Australian instinctively knows this. A colleague recently told me that when court commenced with an acknowledgment of country, their client immediately felt the judge would take a view against them and lost any notion of receiving a fair trial. This is what happens when the legal system infects itself with politics.
For as long as people continue to make political statements by way of acknowledgments of country, I will continue to acknowledge all Australians, signalling my support for an Australia where we are all equal and subject to the same laws regardless of our race.
Lana Collaris is a barrister and member of the Victorian Bar Council.
Oz with comments open
The lead turd
There are some seriously fcuked up people working for NT plod.
Of course, nothing matches VicPlod.
This looks to be good news.
Billionaire Paul Marshall Nears Deal to Buy Britain’s Spectator Magazine for Over $131 Million (WSJ, 23 Aug, paywalled)
Mr Marshall already owns at least a fair bit of GB News, and supports Brexit.
Let me be clear. I am absolutely not saying the 3000 Palestinians who Albanese and his ministers decided to let in from Gaza without even an interview are all potential terrorists.
Don’t appease Bolt you wimp. Trying to be liked by everyone, especially those who hate you.
And get that wart cut off.
From BB’s pasted article above.
Translated this means “These bullsh*t forms of power generation have no hope of continuously supporting a power grid, and inventing a phrase such as “tapered capacity” gives us further scope to harvest more taxpayer funds for at least another 10 years building more of the stupid things”
When in comes to the power grid the word “capacity” should only have one descriptor in front of it, that being “base load”.
Such suffering and privation!
Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes staff ‘ticked off’ over high profile staff exempt from network’s new economy class mandate as it further tightens the belt (26 Aug)
It’s what happens when everyone in the FTA MSM crowd over to the left of the political spectrum. Righties won’t watch and lefties have the ABC – which doesn’t have pesky ads.
The term First Nations deserves attention.
It certainly does. It’s a misnomer calculated to deceive.
Trump’s latest campaign ad. Kamala talking to Kamala. It’s a hoot.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1828124818908348770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828138805754503425%7Ctwgr%5E3a4767001adcee938f2635814e72eaac878f0a99%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fnick-arama%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Ftrump-ad-kamala-harris-vs-kamala-harris-n2178557
I think it’s about time a wind turbine every 250m gets proposed from Cape Otway all the way round to Sorrento.
Transmission losses would the be at an absolute minimum. Huge savings.
What do they think ‘radicalising’ Muzzies involves? It is not surgery. It is not flipping a switch up their date when they are butting the floor toward Mecca. It is rhetoric. Fanning flames and whipping up a storm with words.
It seems to be the only ‘free speech’ our pollies will protect.
First RFK jr now Tulsi.
Former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Endorses Trump (26 Aug)
Thousand of trees are being felled to erect solar factories, wind turbines and transmission lines in native bushland and countrysides, around Australia.This is happening on an incredible scale. Not a peep from The Australian Conservation Federation (ACF). But all of a sudden the ACF launches an attack on beef farming for clearing practices that happened decades ago. Perhaps the blow back from farmers and rural communities condemning the renewable roll out is starting to hit home? Are the Greens and Labor Party starting to panic?Is this a distraction strategy launched to try and save Green’s seats and Bowen’s disastrous energy policy.There’s an election coming up in Queensland shortly and the assault on pristine native forests by the renewables industry in QLD, working hand-in-glove with the Labor government, has not gone unnoticed. The ABC, the self appointed voice for the Greens, leads the attack. And notice in the attached media release from ALPBC how supermarkets have been included as a supply chain colluder for the “nasty” beef industry. It would appear that the ALP/Greens strategy is to put pressure on supermarkets to require beef farmers to submit to yet another Green-tape compliance intervention.What this would do is add more cost and regulation to farmers and supermarkets, resulting in higher prices to the consumer and distortion of the supply chain price mechanism. Let’s hope the supermarkets fight back hard, as well as the farmers. Otherwise we’ll be eating bugs in the near future.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-27/coles-woolworths-urged-to-dump-beef-linked-to-deforestation/104261314
It also reminds people that she is still the current VP and has been for the past 3.5 years.
Her campaign seems to be going to great pains to paper that over, presenting her as a new cleanskin candidate.
The EU is getting worse.
In Europe, Growing Calls for Musk to Be Arrested (25 Aug)
Rumble CEO: Just Escaped Europe After Telegram CEO Arrest (25 Aug)
Macron: Arrest of Messaging App CEO Not Political (26 Aug)
As for the last one I suppose if you are going to tell a porky it may as well be a real stinker.
Chalmers casting Dutton as “divisive and dangerous” is very revealing. It’s a sure sign that Labor are scared.
It’s the same tactic applied to Abbott back when he was looking like winning – which he did – and it’s the same tactic used in the USA by the left who fear Trump.
Chalmers has been saved by our mining industry, not by his expertise in budget matters.
First RFK jr., then Tulsi, and now ardent Democrat broadcaster Bret Weinstein:
“Let me be perfectly clear about this. I think the modern Democratic Party is an existential threat to the Republic. Although I am a Democrat and have been a Democrat my whole life, the party I see in front of me today is the inverse of the party I signed up for. This is now the party of war, the party of racism, the party of censorship. I don’t recognize this party.”
Lifelong Democrat Bret Weinstein Now Considers Voting for Trump After RFK Jr. Endorsement — Calls Democrats an “Existential Threat” to the Republic | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim H?ft
Transgrid’s Broken Hill bid might just be the first sign that the community push back in REZ areas is biting.
The major flaw in unilateral REZ declarations is the access to land for projects within the zone. If enough landholders resist then the generation forecasts cannot be met.
AEMO have arrogantly chosen productive agricultural land for REZ because they think it’s easy country to occupy but at the same time have little control over the money and terms offered to landholders by renewable companies. The money is not attractive unless you have big parcels of land that can sustain 200+ turbines or hundreds of hectares of solar.
All the government wants from the bush is the land to exploit for energy. There’s virtually no inputs or value adding to benefit the local economy, that’s why the community benefit money is being pushed hard to win over some clueless townies. Locals should be aware that such money from companies also displaces government grants for community projects that are a just return on taxation. A game of corporate largesse by the syphoning of power bill money through a company structure that allows the government to use tax money in the marginal seats where they gain most political benefit. The old pea and thimble game never gets old for the unwary.
Curious that Albo and the Liars use Chalmers as their first SAV (Spud Attack Vehicle). Chalmers has been invisible for weeks, will be lucky if the RBA doesn’t hike interest rates before the election and is centre of cost of living concerns. The Liar front bench might be more underwhelming than R-G-R when Abbott wiped them out.
I would encourage all officials to use the words used by Lara Collins as a template for their official welcome speech to events and meetings. eg
On behalf of the xyz Association welcome to (XYZ event), we acknowledge all Australians, and show our support for an Australia where we are all equal and subject to the same laws regardless of our race. Thank you.
The Qantas Welcome to Australia could be revised.eg
Welcome to Australia, we acknowledge all Australians, and show our support for an Australia where we are all equal and subject to the same laws regardless of our race. Thank you.
People would heave a sigh of relief.
In Cargo Cult news:
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Luckily for Handsome Boy, the Pasifica Vote in crucial ALP seats is completely disorganised – so he can hope to get away with a little spittle, a bright floral shirt, and the traditional sharing out of parcels of munni wrapped up in palm leaves.
Emperor Xi smiles at the irony.
@EndWokeness
This brutal ad against Kamala Harris is going up in the swing states.
Extremely effective.
Welcome to Australia, we acknowledge all Australians, and show our support for an Australia where we are all equal and subject to the same laws regardless of our race. Thank you.
We’re here! Cheated death again! Now get off the plane!
Emma Garlett: Aboriginal public housing tenants left out in the coldTue, 27 August 2024 2:00AM
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Without safe, healthy housing, we will never close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Without a stable and clean place to live, we can have no expectation of good physical and mental health.
But thousands of West Australian public housing tenants in Aboriginal communities are continuing to suffer, sharing their falling-apart homes with pests, without access to safe drinking water.
These are conditions that would be unacceptable anywhere else in the State. But in the hundreds of Aboriginal communities across WA, they’re commonplace.
The issue has been forced back into the public consciousness courtesy of a class action brought against the WA Government by Slater and Gordon.
The class action accuses the Housing Authority and State of WA of breaching multiple residential tenancy, contract and consumer protection laws over the last 14 years.
The lawsuit alleges that WA authorities failed to maintain, repair and carry out structural and other improvements to public housing rental properties and to do so within a reasonable time.
I have seen first-hand the state of many of these houses in WA — and their appalling condition would come as a shock to many West Australians.
There are cockroach-infested shacks with boarded-up windows. If you’re lucky enough to have plumbing that works, there’s a good chance it leaks.
Many have no working toilets or showers, or even a place to cook food.
Some have exposed electrical wiring, a significant danger, particularly for families with children. Many homes are mouldy and are infested by rodents and insects.
Others are without working lights or doors that lock. Some are missing doors entirely.
In some communities, residents can’t drink the water because of uranium contamination fears.
All the while, tenants are paying significant amounts of rent to the Government.
For homes that are unsafe, unacceptable and unliveable.
The class action will cover all Aboriginal public housing tenants in the Wheatbelt, Mid West, Gascoyne, Goldfields-Esperance, Pilbara, West Kimberley and East Kimberley unless they choose to opt-out.
It also includes Aboriginal tenants who are living in Derby, Broome, Kununurra and Exmouth.
These are West Australians who should expect much more from their Government. They have the right to safe, healthy housing for themselves and their families, just as West Australians in the State’s metropolitan areas do.
Housing is one of the most important planks of a healthy society.
How can we expect children to be healthy and happy if they are living in a home infested with rodents?
How can we expect them to succeed at school if they don’t have lighting or access to a shower at home?
And how can we expect their parents to go to work if they’re laying in bed at night worrying who might walk through the broken door, or how they’re going to provide food for their families without access to a working kitchen?
Until Aboriginal public housing tenants and their families are provided with clean, safe and healthy homes, they are being set up to fail.
@SaveUSAKitty
Dan Bongino @dbongino with an opening statement in the J13 Forum
Jim Chalmers has attacked Peter Dutton as the ‘most divisive leader of a major political party in modern history’, in a major speech in which he outlined his blueprint for a ‘fourth economy’.
That means Labor are now shit scared. Dutton has them in a corner.
Worth remembering that Chalmers, the slushing slug from Grayndler and all the other comrades have never stooped to describe those who are really ‘divisive’ and ‘dangerous’, and that is Greens aka the Australian Nazi party.
I note Fatso Faruqi’s appointment to a senate committee on Jew hatred. Do we laugh or do we cry? I haven’t decided yet but I know who is laughing in hell, and that’s Hitler, Goebbels and co….so I think I’ll cry.
NatWest, who debanked Farage, is at it again.
Bank apologizes for ‘debanking’ Yad Vashem UK (26 Aug)
Administrative error eh? Sure, that is so totally believable.
Top Ender, our CX-5 is 4 and a half years old. Excellent vehicle. Quiet, smooth, AWD and the top model has all the bells and whistles. The electronics and driver assist are done very well and not annoying.
Anything with a CVT is totally out of consideration and that’s Honda CR-V, Subarus and most RAV 4’s except for the top model which has a horribly clunky 8 speed auto, sounds like a truck and drives like one and an interior that looks like it belongs in a base model. The Toyota styling department should also be fired. Also most of these cars don’t even have a vertical height adjustment for the front passenger seat which leaves the 5 foot and half inch Mrs Eyrie at a disadvantage.
I hope witnesses at the senate enquiry bore it up Faruqi.
Give the hag a taste of her own medicine. They need to come prepared to take no prisoners.
the fact that she’s there at all is an “up yours” to Aussie Jews under the pump. They should be hopping mad. I know I am for my family’s sake.
Did my annual Qld driver licence medical yesterday. You get to be interviewed by the nurse first. Who turned out to be a 5 foot 7inch skinny girl with nose ring in one nostril, blond and purple hair and tatts.
I was pleasantly surprised that she was totally professional, efficient and personable and told her so on the way out and also mentioned it to my Doc.
The article about acknowledgements of country at the Oz is getting huge amount of comments
Cargo cult indeed.
Expect more solar panels and bird shredders to be approved before the next election.
While checking my junk email account just now, I noted a prominent headline on yobbo accusing some audience member of Queer & Atrophied of being a racist. The female audience member’s image was published, but I didn’t click on the story to discover why ‘some producers’ felt her question should not have been put to air.
Perhaps there is more to this than I’m aware of, but if they’ve just publicly labelled an average citizen as a racist …
And not just my family, mind. Stupid, dozy Christians need to wake from their cosy, protected slumbers.
Mean looks and snarky words aren’t the worst things we can expect in the near future if this tourist visa trajectory is continued. We are softer, fatter targets than our Jewish friends.
”Niceness” won’t help us. Love first, but be aware and scope the room.
Let me be clear. I am absolutely not saying the 3000 Palestinians who Albanese and his ministers decided to let in from Gaza without even an interview are all potential terrorists.
Let me be clear. Most of them are potential terrorists: they voted for hamas and in every poll since Oct 7 the majority of pallis have supported what hamas did.
Absolutely not. Most – maybe all – want only peace.
Bullshit. Pallis are the scum of the scummiest place on Earth, the muzzie ME. These bastards would rather have a fight then a feed.
It is emblematic of this age of staggering global stupidity that this idiot can utter such garbage and be taken seriously (only by imbeciles, admittedly).
As for a “fresh commitment” from rapidly shrinking economies such as Australia, has the collectivist nutcase had a chat with Blackout Bowen or Blabbersack lately? Totally on board with this year zero insanity, they are.
Meanwhile the ALPBC is hyperventilating over sea levels “increasing at double the expected rate” across the Pacific. Which of course, they aren’t and the ALPBC is lying – again. Just as they were lying yesterday when they claimed that 2024 is going to be “the hottest year on record” (contained within a hysterical piece linked by Johanna about some normal August weather patterns across Australia).
More than 36 years of fact and evidence free anti-scientific horsesh*t, purveyed incessantly by catastrophist wrongologist clowns, with no end to the hysteria in sight. I’m so bloody sick of it.
Oh, I see. It’s a Senate committee, not an enquiry.
So a carefully curated gab fest. And Faruqi will get a nice little stipend for her “contribution “.
I despise this government and their associated parasites.
The chief instigator of the Solingen attack was subject to a year old deportation order.
Source: euggypius via substack
That’s enough from me this morning.
Stock pot simmering, cake baking in the oven and the sewing machine calling like the Lorelei – time to finish another little blanket for the children’s ward. All to the dulcet tones of Bach and Handel.
It’s the battle of the Queenslanders.
The Trump campaign is circling the drain. Down three or four points in the polls and still falling.
Fresh from joining Trump as his new unofficial VP, RFK Jnr has promised he and Trump will prosecute those committing chemtrail crimes. This on the back of that story about him chainsawing the head off a dead whale, strapping it to the top of the family car and driving five hours with his kids in the back gagging as whale ichor leaks over them. Weird.
The MSO’s grub pianist made some typical leftard comments about Israel while performing and was removed by the MSO boss, an attractive woman so she’s not a leftie. Now she’s been fired and the pianist has been reinstated and peter garrett has been appointed to investigate. I hope the bastards lose every Jewish sponsor who are the main source of their money:
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra boss leaves in wake of controversy over handling of pianist’s Gaza comments (msn.com)
The Trump campaign is circling the drain. Down three or four points in the polls and still falling.
Latest polling analysis (not CNN or any of the other msm bullshit):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7lJ1Z2kfEk
Fresh from joining Trump as his new unofficial VP, RFK Jnr has promised he and Trump will prosecute those committing chemtrail crimes. This on the back of that story about him chainsawing the head off a dead whale, strapping it to the top of the family car and driving five hours with his kids in the back gagging as whale ichor leaks over them. Weird.
Average piss taking from dickless.
But thousands of West Australian public housing tenants in Aboriginal communities are continuing to suffer, sharing their falling-apart homes with pests, without access to safe drinking water.
Considering the pillorying of the last chap who suggested dealing with this problem…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/18/wa-plan-to-close-100-remote-and-indigenous-communities-devastating
These places are welfare sinkholes.
They exist only to provide scabs for city “abos” to pick off its inhabitants to coat themselves with to call for more munni.
Nothing will change because nothing can change.
Until Aboriginal public housing tenants and their families are provided with clean, safe and healthy homes, they are being set up to fail.
Typical lefty Arts student shyte.
Maybe if they didn’t rip up floorboards and pull studs out of the wall to have indoor fires the houses would be very comfortable.
I’m sure there are plenty of non-abo families that would appreciate and look after properties.
Morning Nazi! I note that our Nazi has zero self awareness, he circles the drain everyday.
NatWest, who debanked Farage, is at it again.
Bank apologizes for ‘debanking’ Yad Vashem UK (26 Aug)
That was NO accident.
Would this be the same boss who politicised the MSO during the Voice referendum campaign?
Speaking of Dim Chalmers…
I think Judith is in fact soft-pedalling it here.
And where is shadow treasurer, Angus Taylor?
Paywalled, so I can’t read it, but those super cheap renewables are going great!!
Actually, I was wrong, our Nazi doesn’t just circle the drain, he lives in the drain.
How odd.
AFP reveals Labor’s detainee crime surge (Paywallian)
Maybe Labor should have deported them rather than let them out onto the street to commit crimes like this.
Hello…
Ten years ago, gold mine blocker Nyree Reynolds identified as a Gamilaroy woman when lodging a protest against a goat abattoir on traditional Gamilaroy country near Orange, NSW.
Ten years later she’s a Wiadjury woman protesting a gold mine on Wiadjury country.
Source: The Australian
London to a brick she’s neither, but is a member of the Green tribe, aka watermelons.
Broken Hill Propitiatory has cut their dividend! Hellfire and damnation, I may have to drink inferior single malt.
Harris campaign posts short video of Trump trying to chicken out of the next debate with appropriate backing track.
It has been most pleasing to see the Democrats under Harris winning the meme wars by realising they can take the long handle.
I feel a disturbance in the force, like a million apparatchiks squealed at once, and then were unemployed…
“And when I take office we will ask for the resignations of every single official,” the Republican nominee added. “We’ll get the resignations of every single senior official who touched the Afghanistan calamity, to be on my desk at noon on Inauguration Day.
“You know, you have to fire people. You have to fire people when they do a bad job,” Trump added. “You got to fire them like on ‘The Apprentice’ … You did a lousy job. You did a terrible, terrible disservice to our country. You get fired when that happens.”
Anyone else having problems with C.L.’s website?
ZK2A yesterday:
I’d have reacted the same way.
Every now and then, the enemy reacts in ways that our betters tell us is impossible, and in the midst of the killing shows us a human face.
It also shows the truth that frontline soldiers often have more in common with the enemy they are facing, than with the people who put them in those positions.
In the end, soldiers on both sides are doing a horrid and thankless job they cannot avoid.
Just further to the Jew hating slag aka Fatso Faruqi and the Nazi party she belongs to, last November this same ‘senator’ attended a Jew hating protest here in Sydney’s CBD and Fatso stood, with a big grin on her very ugly fat face, in front of a young woman who held up a rather unsavoury poster….
Faruqi is seen standing with six students who attended the protest, five of whom are holding hand-made placards. While four of the signs bear messages of support for Palestine, the fifth (circled in the picture provided) instead depicts a figure placing an Israeli flag into a trash bin alongside the words “keep the world clean”.
Firstly, don’t anyone try and tell me that the slag didn’t see the obscene words and picture on the poster.
Faruqi, who looks like some hideous toxic pudding from a Grimm fairytale, proudly uploaded that picture on her social media the same day, only later deleting the post.
But here we have yet another example of the endless hypocrisy and double standards applied to the left versus the right. Fatso remains in the senate, I fail to recall any censure motion or similar against her. Did I miss something? No. And their ABC and the leftist media ran cold on it. Fatso Faruqi was and is given a free pass for her obscene Jew hatred.
But imagine if this had been a conservative politician? We all remember the opprobrium directed at Fraser Anning. Anning is no Jew hater. In fact he’s a proud supporter of Jews and Israel. But I recall the insane levels of hysteria and screeches directed at Anning, and he was subjected to a senate censure motion.
We live in a time of staggering hypocrisy and double standards. Well, it’s time to call it out, the days of turning the other cheek are over, finito, finished. Fatso Faruqi is a disgrace, a big fat ZIT on our parliament. And now this ZIT has been given a gig to opine on Jew hatred. The absurdity is Kafkaesque. But don’t worry, I’ll call out the Jew hatred, I’ll call out Nazis, whether it’s Nazis in the Australian Greens, or the Nazi who comments here.
Strategist James Carville on why Donald Trump’s poll numbers are lulling Democrats into false sense of security | Sky News Australia
Famous Democrat strategist reminds Harris that Trump always underpolls and she needs to be up by 3 points nationally to win and that RCP’s polling aggregate of battleground states — which doesn’t allow for tossups — currently has Trump winning all up but one battleground state.
This could be fun!
‘Coup’: French President rules out left-wing government amid bitter deadlock (27 Aug)
The fun bit is this:
Non Merci! Le Pen Vows Vote of No Confidence For Any Leftist Gov’t Installed by Macron (26 Aug)
So if the far-left does bring an impeachment motion against Microman it just might get up on the votes of Le Pen’s party.
I suspect Macron will squirm and do gymnastics for a while then submit to the far-left, since he’s a socialist.
After the ghastly news that Nine is forcing their employees to fly cattle class we now have appalling news from Seven also.
Seven West Media under fire after video of ‘sexy Santas’ at staff meeting emerges (26 Aug)
So Seven showed sexy Santas in celebration of appointing a feminist editor and a qwerty newspaper head? I’m not sure whether this is awesome trolling or extremely tin-eared.
From the Chief UN Lackey, Guterres.
China is the world’s biggest “carbin” emitter, stop wasting time in the South Pacific, go to Beijing and preach there, I dares yuh.
This one’s for the bush lawyers on the Cat.
The Toodyay businessman, who is fronting the Spanish Inquisition over the case involving the mythical rainbow serpent, the Wagyl, has had his case adjourned , yet again, for what, to the best of my knowledge, is the SIXTH time.
What possible grounds can any magistrate cite, for so many delays?
The fat fascist fool is baaaack. All over the place as usual.
He was at least semi coherent when he used ChatGPT on the weekend, but not today.
So they do know what a woman is!
Colour me amazed.
Fatso Faruqi is a disgrace, a big fat ZIT on our parliament.
She’s also a virtue-signalling phony, Cassie.
I saw photos somewhere of her family when they came here, she was a child of 8-11 IIRC.
They all wore western dress. Her mother didn’t look any different from other Australians, her father and the two daughters ditto.
The hijab is an affectation to differentiate her from her political opponents and to provide a launch ramp for accusations of ‘racism’ and ‘Islamophobia’ to be hurled at anyone who criticises her about anything.
I suspect that a dig into her private life might reveal some un-Islamic behaviour. 🙂
Now that the Taliban have banned women’s voices from public spaces, her response is eagerly awaited.
…. crickets.
Which in itself is one of the reasons why Teh Voice went down quicker than a two dollar hooker.
The average Joe Blackfella see this and are heartily sick of it. Again whilst most want to keep a roof over the head and food on the table, these entitled arseholes swing from trough to trough with no actual work performed.
It’s obscene.
And in former Premier news:
Smart Energy of course an oxymoron.
So who would Palacechook endorse?
And where is Crisafulli?
Michael Kroger says the proles are revolting against people like him.
‘Silent majority are in open revolt’: Former Liberal powerbroker’s major claim after Labor’s shock defeat in NT election (27 Aug)
Maybe mate you could have a word in the shell-likes of the “hard left activists” of the Liberal Party. You know like Messers Kean and Photios. Might help.
The “exhausted” Mark McClown:
This fuels the fire that his wife left him, after he got a colleague pregnant, and his life was about to fall apart.
Oh dear. Remove the heretic! The bubble has been infiltrated! Hun:
FMD so much stupidity in so little time.
A group of female dancers wearing Santa hats and short red dresses then appeared on stage.
A photo of the event was shared online and drew heavy criticism, with some saying it was a scene pulled directly from the 1980s.
Female staff reportedly reacted with shock, with some walking out in protest.
‘Female staff’ at Seven are clearly not ready for interaction with the real world, if a few lasses in short skirts dancing on stage makes them react with shock and walk out.
How would they react to a dead druggie with a needle in the arm, a catastrophic car accident, or a gory murder scene?
No doubt they are down on the police who actually have to deal with these things as well.
No wonder Seven is in trouble.
If only Steve Dunleavey was still alive. He’d have them in profit in a year.
A Cat poll.
Who’s the more ‘divisive and dangerous’ to this country?
Please answer using the reply button. I will tally later.
Sorry if this has already been discussed – it seems that after the arrest of the founder of Telegram in France – other owners of “dissident” and free speech websites are concerned about the content on their sites:
https://thepostmillennial.com/rumble-ceo-flees-france-after-telegram-ceo-arrested-over-failure-to-moderate-content
Hey DB – we are very thankful for your provision of this blog site. Standing up for freedom of speech looks like being one of the great challenges in this age of Unreason.
When nest of Marxist vipers is the ABC. Had to look up Roxanne Gay. A don at Rutgers and related to the phony at Havard.
“A climate expert explains why Australia is ridiculously hot right now”
It’s above average because if it never went above that average, the average would be lower you peanut!
The Q&A racism story that BB refers to is also unpaywalled on news.com.au. It also has a link to a poll asking whether respondents consider the question racist. Currently 87% of 11500 people answered “no”, not racist.
A photo of the event was shared online and drew heavy criticism, with some saying it was a scene pulled directly from the 1980s.
Female staff reportedly reacted with shock, with some walking out in protest.
Once again proving that the left has zero sense of humour.
Orica now warning that gas shortages & electricity prices are seriously impacting their local operations.
Their CEO is calling for urgent action to protect local jobs.
I’ve been watching old episodes of the US show Jeopardy with the daughter as she likes quizzes.
The interesting thing is the adverts.
The 1970s adverts are fecking dismal. The interiors, the attitudes, the products, the scripts of the ads. Awful, awful, awful. I don’t remember the seventies being that bad, but I was only a kid for most of it. The 1980s and 1990s advertising is fun. There was a real sense of humour and fun about, The products were better, the interiors bright, the scripts relatable. The girl laughed out loud many times.
Now to today. The advertising, although it looks less dismal than the seventies, there is no humour, and there is a certain weirdness that was also present in the 1970s. Like there are constraints or an alien viewpoint inserted. I can’t quite express it fully, but the vibe is the same. Not relatable to the common person, as if taken over by a little clique with a bunch of in- group baggage.
Pretty much the same as the poll in the Herald Sun.
Wonder if the yes respondents would also agree to the Rabz method in dealing with the ABC.
Looks like we have a political crisis in France right now:
They’ve changed the ratings methodology for TV so it’s all a bit confusing now.
I can’t work out if Q&A got 838K viewers or 332K viewers?
does anyone understand this change:
The biggest change to TV Ratings in 20 Years is coming… here’s why. | TV Tonight
What’s the diff between Total TV National Average Audience and Total TV National Reach??
Dipping into Gareth Russell’s biography of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother- when being told Countess Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerily “Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!”
Well, today’s CFMEU riots are going well.
Mrs Faustus tells me that the Brisbane CBD is in partial lockdown as thousands of extremely wealthy building wukkas storm around chanting: ‘Fcuk Albo, Fcuk Miles’.
Public servants at the Tower of Power, 1 William Street, have been warned not to go out at lunchtime for their own safety.
Things must be becoming truely dangerous in the former UK.
Katie Hopkins is no longer slurping red wine during her diatribes.
The Solo man adverts of today stink as much as anything else.
With a chubby version of Solo Man crying at a chick flick and wearing a face pack in the bath.
Idiotic. As if the people who wrote it half watched some old ads and didn’t realise the original Solo Man was a bit deliberately over the top to start with.
That over sugared and chemical tasting shit beverage gives me a migraine anyway.
Stick with Coke.
Macron has /is carrying out a soft coup.
Yet the denizens of the EU seem perfectly fine with him not following the rule of law.
Compare and contrast with the treatment of Orban in Hungary.
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And in SkyNews I see that the pretend journalist Andrew Clennell has dyed its hair.
You great big fcking Mary ponce
And on SkyNews we have the Special Envoy For Social Cohesion – Peter Khallil. Whatever the fcuk that means.
Another labor spud. Where does Luigi find these dickheads?
The Chinese having a bit of “fun” again….
Chinese military plane carries out first violation of Japanese airspace | Japan | The Guardian
Ugh!!!
More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris, hit Trump (usatoday.com)
We might be stuck with the old methods.
Wondering why 70’s ads were so dull?
Just look at the lounge rooms that received them.
Biden-Harris Equity Commission Wants To Spend $20 Million To Disarm Traffic Cops
So those 11,500 people are racists too.
This racism is clearly getting out of control!
It is now more important than ever to lock up people who might have wrong ideas. We cannot rely on proving their racism – the peril is far too imminent. You don’t ask people to prove they like chocolate. Or to prove that they are telling a lie. This ‘white supremacy’ thinking is a Trojan horse for Hitlers. When you have proof it already is too late!
To save democracy…etc.
@TuckerCarlson
When Bobby Kennedy endorsed Donald Trump last week, he burned his boats. There’s no turning back for him, or for American politics. Here’s his first interview since that happened.
Kamala Surrogate: Ignore All the Stuff She Said Before About Banning Health Insurance
US and UK all-cause cumulative excess mortality graphs clearly show that our interventions were counterproductive
@JudiciaryGOP
‘Perfect hiding place’ for MH370: Scientist claims he figured out where missing Malaysia Airlines plane is
The Bee. Too true to be funny.
UK Prime Minister Recommends Citizens Avoid Stabbings By Submitting To The Holy Koran And Acknowledging Muhammad As The One True Prophet Of Allah, Peace Be Upon Him
Fckerberg is such a gutless, offensive little worm.
Meme
Meme
Kennedy’s interview with Tucker is very, very worthwhile. He’s really good value.
Don’t agree with the whole article but interesting:
The Separate Realities of Living in Lebanon: Raves in the North, Rockets in the South (msn.com)
If you haven’t seen it, the interview with Kennedy’s VP running mate (Nicole Shanahan) illuminates the dems gloves-off strategy when it comes to opponents. Primaries fixed to prevent outsiders, sabotage, plants in their campaign, legal persecution in multiple states, etc.
Their enemy was the dems, not the republicans.
(1hr chat, but cut into titled sections)
https://youtu.be/lAqVn5lRdes
How to sort the Gaza mob coming to Oz. Get them to swear allegiance on the Bible. It would sort out all migrants; Christian are happy, Buddhist,Hindus and atheists don’t care, Jews, 80% of it is theirs anyway.
You mean journalism is not about incessantly tweeting selfies, wearing dresses adorned with Indigenous dot art, and telling everyone when you feel ‘sad’?
I’m a First Nation man.
Australia was the first nation on this continent, and I’m Australian.
Havent read the McCrann article in the Australian. I gave up the paper after some leftist twit kept on blocking my comments. Anyway he seems to say the Fed should have started cutting earlier. I tend to disagree. Inflation is still on the high side. Particularly real inflation. And until last week employment was looking good. I assume McCrann like the Fed was taken in by the dodgy labour figures. Looks like the regime now thinks lower interest rates give Harris a better chance than pretending employment is better. I wonder how many other Depts are publishing dodgy data to support regime narrative. The subversion of statistics and data should be an indictable offense. we might see when a new President is in the White House.
Today’s WSJ
Is anyone surprised?
More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney aides endorse Harris
RFK Jr had to go Trump; he’s too muscular to be a soy shit demorat:
69-Year-Old Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Shirtless Beefcake Photos Hit the Internet and Go Viral – Then Quickly Censored and Disappeared on Twitter | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Meme
Quite a list – and 15 out of 15.
@liz_churchill10
And it’s a ‘Perfect Record’ for the ‘Conspiracy Theorists’. Imagine.
People Are SICK of Blatant Lies of ELITES – Dr. Philip Kiszely | heretics
I’m on my second Cx5, probably change it over next year. No problems at all.
Interview with Tucker, I’m not sure when.
Telegram Creator Speaks on Elon Musk, FBI Pressure, and Surviving California Mugging
The Police Have Foolishly Abandoned the Decent Law-Abiding Public
If I may briefly interrupt the latest Indolent blogshart – this is reposted for absolute excellence. Roger’s link:
BB:
Yes.
Perfect.
Perfecter.
@MikeBenzCyber
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Here’s a poll tally…..
Who’s the more ‘divisive and dangerous’ to this country?
As at 6.20 tonight, number 1 above is running at 99%. Someone did answer Anthony Albanese and that person might have a point because the slug from Grayndler IS the most divisive and dangerous PM this country has ever seen.
@chrispavlovski
The first comment –
@rdmccord
Arresting a CEO for allowing encrypted violent speech on his social media platform is like arresting a landlord for criminal conspiracy happening in one of his apartments.
@MikeBenzCyber
The Bee, doing stellar work.
Reporter Who Asked Kamala A Question Charged With Hate Crime
The Bee again. The thing is, it’s more like straight reporting than parody.
Attorney General Reminds Americans That Questioning The 2024 Election Is Illegal Unless Trump Wins
US Open star collapses during match in frightening scenes before being carted off in wheelchair
Without the slightest doubt.
@MikeBenzCyber
“There is no chance on earth that French law enforcement made such a geopolitically and geostrategically sensitive move without coordinating, notifying or working with the US Embassy in Paris.”
@elonmusk
Interesting headline from Haaretz.
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-08-22/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israel-will-collapse-within-a-year-if-the-war-against-hamas-and-hezbollah-continues/00000191-795e-d8d0-a7bb-f9ff81000000
@MikeBenzCyber
@MikeBenzCyber
Tim Walz Was Dead Wrong About Misinformation and Free Speech
Just look at that face.
Ultra MAGA Party Video: Two Days Before Attempted Assassination of Trump Victoria Nuland Boasted – “I Don’t Think Trump’s Going to Be President, If That’s What Putin Is Betting on, He’s Going to Get Unhappy Surprise!”
Hamas And Other Terror Organizations: We Will Resume Blowing Up Buses In Tel Aviv
12 Facts That Prove That People All Over The Globe Are Already “Eating The Bugs” On A Regular Basis
What Is Happening in the Ukraine War Should Scare the Hell Out of Us
Cassie, I’ll let you watch Blot on Sky tonight so I don’t have to. I’ll be watching another Rick Stein food video while I wait for Outback Truckers to start at 7.30pm on Seven Mate.
Indolent,
It might be in your own interest to apply a filter to your links before hitting save, because atm I think most scroll on by regardless, which negates your purpose.
As Chilon of Sparta said, less is more.
BREAKING: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Removes Over One Million Ineligible Voters, Including Nearly 500,000 Dead People and Thousands of Non-Citizen from State’s Voter Rollshttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/breaking-texas-governor-greg-abbott-removes-one-million/
This is an interesting talk on early hominid evolution, discussing the original of the predatory food skills and in particular the fact that eating fat seems to have been a driver in early hominid brain development. The giveaway is that the early hominid hand had, as we do, a pitted shape ideally suited to picking up a rounded stone and beating the fatty marrow out of dead prey.
My contribution is to add that this shape makes an ideal cup, either in a single hand for small amounts of liquid or when joined together as an ideal drinking vessel. Important in dry savanah territory I would think.
I know it’s The Project but watch.
Weidy is a great bloke and a champion of the farming industry.
https://youtu.be/kyP706YBsuU
CFMEU vows to destroy Labor Party, launch High Court challenge
From the Oz. Ek roll ap die vloor..
Stop using the term “fossil fuels” and start using the term “God-given fuels”.
Back in Alternative Reality World:
Rogue CFMEU leaders vow ‘absolute destruction’ of Labor
Obviously the whole Nation responds to the patriotic chant of “Fcuk Albo”. But when the ETU is out on the streets against a Labor Government, pashing with the Greens, things are getting serious.
The only outstanding question now is how Handsome Boy is going to arrange his pike and double somersault dismount.
I’m thinking a CFMEU Voice to Parliament will be on the cards.
Paul Murray, despite what many think here, was a tour de force just now.
But then blows that by having Joe Hildebrand as his next guest. FMD
A quick laugh:
https://x.com/NoContextBrits/status/1828198159819960439
This may not be for everyone and possibly not for anyone but I will share the experience none-the-less.
On ANZAC Day this year I was uncomfortable with my weight and I recalled hearing that another, younger than me, retired Clearance Diver had undertaken a carnivore diet with quite remarkable results.
I contacted him and he explained it to me. On April 27 I weighed 97.6kg and started the carnivore diet. This morning I weighed 78.4kg. The remarkable thing is, I never feel hungry.
I have almost exclusively stuck to the diet which is easy at home but not quite so easy when traveling.
Over 95% of all the meals I have eaten have been exclusively meat and eggs (steak, chops, sausages, bacon, mince, some chicken and pork, never cooked in oil, only butter, ghee or lard) and I drank water and one Berocca tablet daily. To be fair, I haven’t drank alcohol, coffee or tea for over 40 years and since January 2016 only water. No soft drinks or fruit juices.
I have no intention of stopping but may start eating small amounts of some other food groups to control the weight loss but not bread.
This bloke puts his finger on precisely what is wrong with modern sport, in a way I have been thinking about for a while.
Wish I had made this short video.
Sport is the new opiate of the masses.
Teams no longer represent the supporter base.
Sport is now just another vehicle for the woke agenda.
Give him a watch, independent thought is a rarity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFiFMczt4o
Waiting for the bus to Drogheda, (which is pronounced Dro-da!) and fell into conversation with an elderly gentleman I asked him if the Navan train still ran and he told me not for a long time.
He then was pleased to tell me he’d never caught a train, or an airplane. What about a ferry? no, a boat? Not one of those either.
Had travelled by car, so there was that.
He got off the bus at a tiny village somewhere between Slane and Drogheda.
A different world.
I’m guessing the cheat spread in marginal states is 5%..
If this shit is going on in Red Texas, how is it possible for Trump to win a must-win state like Pennsylvania?
It’s funny how all this stuff is coming out now, when people like our fat lesbian have been telling us for the past 3+ years how election fraud in the US was a conspiracy theory and their elections were 100% honestly run.
Digger, get thee to some spuds cooked in beef fat.
Very low carb, very low GI, goes very well with… well, beef. And whatever else is bleeding on your fork.
Hamas have released an Israeli Arab hostage.
I wonder what Sinwar got out of it.
Safe passages to Qatar?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/first-images-emerge-of-rescued-hostage-al-qadi-in-overall-good-condition-says-hospital/
Roger
August 27, 2024 7:10 pm
Indolent,
#metoo
Dr Faustus
August 27, 2024 9:36 pm
Back in Alternative Reality World:
Should I file this under “T” for “Trooble at Mill”, or “G” for “Golly, that’s awkward”?
The only thing which could make this slightly better is if the allegations of CFMEU skulduggery had been published in the Mudrock Press, instead of Nein.
Sorry to mislead. Farhad Al Qadi was rescued by the IDF.
“He says when he heard “Hebrew outside the door, I couldn’t believe it, couldn’t believe it.”
The IDF, he says, is doing “holy work, risked their lives, did everything to rescue me”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/rescued-hostage-tells-president-captives-in-gaza-experiencing-immense-suffering/
What people do for gold and money.
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Sebastião Salgado (1944), “Gold Mine, Serra Pelada, Brazil”, photo taken in 1986.
« The first time I saw the mine I was speechless. I got goosebumps: 52,000 men working, without a single machine, in a well 200 meters deep.
Half the people carried heavy bags of dirt up wooden stairs.
The other went down the muddy slopes, sinking into the abyss.
The photo is part of the series of images that, in 1986, Salgado took in the Brazilian gold mine where thousands of men from the agricultural areas of north and northeast of Brazil flocked hoping to find a gold nugget.
And so, every day, thousands of figures, more like ants than men, went up and down the precarious stairs of the quarry, dozens of times a day, carrying 60 kilograms of mud bags, in which they also looked for the smallest ones. trail of precious metal.
The photo, from the position from which it was taken, seems to represent an open-air circle of Dante’s Hell, showing a swarm of muddy, ocre-colored bodies, rustid by the minerals used for extraction, immersed in the ceaseless noise of the blades and peaks, rising Deaf of that huge crater.
Today the Serra Pelada mine no longer exists. The crater has been abandoned and inside the gigantic open-air quarry is a small polluted lake.
A legend and a beauty.
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Raquel Welch
Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress.
Welch first gained attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made
One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Kansas City Bomber (1972), The Last of Sheila (1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Wild Party (1975), and Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976).
She made several television variety specials.
Through her portrayal of strong female characters, helping her break the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s.
Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood’s vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell.
Her love scene with Jim Brown in 100 Rifles also made cinematic history with their portrayal of interracial intimacy.
She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance as Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers and reprised the role in its sequel the following year. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in Right to Die (1987).
Her final film was How to Be a Latin Lover (2017). In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History”. Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their “100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century” list.
This is what I’d call the ultimate taking of the urine.
You should see the hundreds of supporting posts from adoring fans with no idea of how things work.
Roger
August 27, 2024 7:10 pm
Indolent,
If you lot (TM) can tolerate my musings, I say let him be.
Sure, nobody, correction, some as I saw it has the time to follow them up therefor he is useful, so other then clutter up the place there is no harm.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Bob Gorrell.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
If CFMEU workers and their families don’t vote Labor the problem is many are going to vote Green. This will impact quite a few seats.
Black Ball
August 27, 2024 9:36 pm
Paul Murray, despite what many think here, was a tour de force just now.
But then blows that by having Joe Hildebrand as his next guest.
FMD
I hung around after that and afterwards watched Shari Markson and she had this young bloke on that nailed it:
Actor Nathaniel Buzolic joins Sharri to discuss the rise of antisemitism in the West
To be honest I can’t say I have ever seen or heard of him before this.
Today’s Daily Tele:
James Morrow: We have to ask the hard questions about multiculturalism, no matter what Q&A says
Mind your manners, because Q&A viewers are upset. But there was nothing racist about an audience member’s question.
Mind your manners, everyone.
The (dwindling) viewership of the ABC’s Q&A is offended.
And they would like a quiet word to anyone who thinks that this is a free country where the right to disagree is respected, particularly when it comes to multiculturalism.
On Monday night, you see, studio audience member Jenny Carroll committed a thought crime, telling he panel she did not believe multiculturalism was “a great thing” (strike one!) and claimed that the culture of the “original British/Irish majority has been demonised constantly for the last three decades” (strike two!).
Then, to round things out, she backed up her argument with evidence, saying “Case in point – frequent vandalism of memorials to Captain Cook. How does democracy fit into this atmosphere of beat up the white guy?”
Strike three, and one can only imagine the panic stations in some ABC control room after this question.
The whole incident, unsurprisingly, caused a number of home viewers to choke on their vegan lasagne.
“Slow clap to the producers for allowing a blatantly racist question be aired,” said one commenter.
“If that question was vetted then I’d like to know who’s doing the vetting,” wrote another.
And on and on it went.
The question was, of course, smacked down by the panel, with youth minister Anne Aly who said that multiculturalism “the character of our nation … not a policy that was foisted on anyone.”
Well, it’s a bit of an open question as to how much debate went into Australia’s official policy of multiculturalism, which was inaugurated in 1978 by then-prime minister Malcolm Fraser.
But, more to the point and with apologies to the delicate flowers who get their weekly talking points from Q&A, there is no better way to ensure that Australian multiculturalism falls over in a flaming heap of division than to say we are not allowed to talk about multiculturalism.
As awful as recent anti-immigrant riots in the UK were, their genesis could also be traced directly to years if not decades of an officially sanctioned silence about the negative side of diversity.
At its most horrific, this saw police and council workers fail to act on gangs of largely Pakistani migrant men engaging in the mass sexual abuse of girls and young women in northern English towns because they did not want to be thought of as racist.
These are the sorts of things that happen when people aren’t allowed to talk about multiculturalism, diversity, immigration, and how bringing in (as we are now) historic numbers of newcomers is not just about gorgeous new cuisines.
Because even if phrased less than artfully, Jenny Carroll’s Q&A question contained a broader truth.
Sure, key institutions like our parliament and legal system are all more or less directly descended from centuries of British history, thought and tradition.
But no one can claim with a straight face that there is not an effort in some segments of society to run our British heritage down at every turn.
Anyone with children knows that from preschool on, kids are regularly taught that Australia was unjustly taken.
The block of Australian history from the arrival of the British to the advent of multiculturalism is treated as an aberration and a vague source of shame.
Twenty years ago British demographer Eric Kaufmann coined the term “asymmetrical multiculturalism”, to describe how in a “multicultural” society every ethnic and racial identity is celebrated, with the exception of what in Australia we would call our “Anglo” heritage.
Could there be a better description of the way multiculturalism is put into practice in so many of our institutions, from academia to the ABC?
And while Aly unsurprisingly backed in multiculturalism, saying democracy is “more resilient” and “better for it,” this is not necessarily so.
In 2006 Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam found that at least over the short and medium term, increased diversity leads to lower social trust, social capital and neighbourliness.
People in diverse communities, he found, tend “to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more but have less faith that they can actually make a difference.”
Putnam was hesitant to publish his findings at the time because he was afraid of how they might be used by the political right – exactly the sort of self-censorship that has led to tragedy elsewhere, and which ABC fans would seem to encourage.
But we will never determine whether he was right or not if we are not allowed to talk about it.
Arrogant Adam Ant.
He’s getting a bit big for his boots if he’s already demanding such stuff as the price for supporting Labor. Go home to Gaza, Adam, they’ll like you there.
Greens to propose $514 billion tax hit for big business (Sky, 28 Aug)
Stiglich goes there! Good man.
No mention of the forced lobotomy, but that was loooong ago. What a family.
Arky, don’t be snarky. If you saw how much work I got done in a day your head would spin. And there I was thinking retirement would be a doddle. Cuppa time and I open the Cat for my doses of Tom, Indolent or anyone else who cares to post stuff. Whether I agree with the content or not is up to me. Often it’s a couple of paras and then “click”.
I see cohenite has taken to posting muscle pics of RFK Jnr. Not bad for an old bloke and easier on the eye than the Cute Owls.
Another hostage rescued. Bedouin security guard. Well done.
Reeeeeee! High fire danger for Sydney and Illawarra screams the Sky chiron.
It has been raining so long there you’d have trouble lighting a match, let alone a bushfire.
What is it with these clowns and their temperature garbage and the dog whistling to firebugs? Fortunately the local bushland is in an uncooperative frame of mind.
Oh. My fan club is unhappy with the hostage rescue. Tells you all you need to know about their moral bankruptcy.
Doesn’t your fan club give you the big minus, in their tiny minds anyway, no matter what you comment on calli?
I frame no hypotheses why this tickled my fancy.
TIK lays out briefly, and with some acknowledged gaps a map of some of the influences of our political philosophies.
Looking at the lineage of communism/socialism, fascism and nazism , communism/socialism and fascism have more in common than fascism and nazism.
https://youtu.be/v7_J_daQkSU?feature=shared
I’ve been wondering lately if Luigi the Unintelligible, Wallet Wizard and their motley crew see the writing on the wall. Being the small, mean types we know them to be will therefore leave this country in even worse shape than they found it – deliberately.
Like the rotten tenant who trashes a house when they get notice to vacate. That’s the only explanation I have for their increasingly bizarre, dangerous and ruinous behaviour.
Found this nice little meme. Teach your children well.
MAGA hats, 2024…
who was it that got a batch in 2020 or 2016? Arky? Dr Beau?
…anyone with the means to buy some again?
Some interesting news from Germany.
German Youth Have Woken Up! Green Party Loses 83% Of Its Young Voters In Thuringia! (27 Aug)
Similar figures in Saxony. The Green-induced economic malaise in Germany really is starting to bite, as Steven Hayward also mentions today.
back from Darwin this morning
waiting in the wee hours to check bags before leaving D-Town
and there an insufferable bunch of 40-somethings
all crapping on about their good deeds and how special they are
seriously I spotted them before they even opened their traps with the self-congratulation
the missus later pointed out that our favorite darling Clem Ford was among them
CU in the NT eh?
PS … may not have actually be her … dunno
Wish media would stop pumping these obviously family fed stories. Another no travel insurance hard luck plug for go fund me story with a twist though.
Two PI boys in Vietnam, died in mysterious circumstances. I’m certain the kiddy journo would have a whisper of what caused their deaths. First thoughts, boxers and PI’s having hot heads they got involved in something local they should have stayed out of or went somewhere off the beaten track and were victims of a mugging.
Mid way through the article mentions they are CMFEU members, hmmm. South East Asia is a know hotspot for bikie gangs laundering money, I’m certain these so called “religious guys” were up to something no good that back fired on the face of it:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13783553/Vietnam-Australian-deaths.html
David Sharaz remains the ‘where’s Wally’ of Higgins saga
Updated 1 hours ago
The poem, The Little Man Who Wasn’t There, has been mentioned before in dispatches about David Sharaz. Better known as Antigonish, the 1899 poem by Hugh Mearns was apparently inspired by a male ghost wandering the stairs of a haunted house in the Nova Scotia town of Antigonish.
“Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, I wish, I wish he’d go away …”
For a lowbrow culture equivalent, try Where’s Wally. Sharaz, like Wally, is nowhere but also everywhere once details come into focus in the Brittany Higgins scandal. Yet he never comes within cooee of a witness box. Once again, as Linda Reynolds’s defamation action draws to a close in Perth this week, Sharaz won’t be called to defend his wife.
Reynolds is running two arguments about Higgins’s four allegedly defamatory social media posts. First, Higgins’s former boss says the alleged defamation warrants aggravated damages because there was “a plan” conceived and implemented by Sharaz and Higgins “as a weapon to inflict immediate political damage” on Reynolds and the then government of the day. In the alternative, Reynolds is pleading a tortious conspiracy between Shiraz and Higgins to injure her.
Neither of the two central characters will be giving evidence. Sharaz’s absence may possibly be more problematic for Higgins’s defence.
Higgins’s lawyer, Rachel Young SC, told the Western Australian Supreme Court last week her client would not be giving evidence because of her medical state, and because they believe there is enough evidence to succeed without Higgins entering the witness box. As an aside, now Higgins has chosen not to give evidence, one wonders if she still believes the legal system “silences women”?
Justice Paul Tottle may choose not to draw a Jones v Dunkel inference from Higgins’s non-appearance as a witness for her own side if there are sufficient reasons for her absence. In short, this 1959 High Court decision says that if one side doesn’t call a person to give evidence who may have shed light on the case, and there is no acceptable explanation as to why they don’t give evidence, then the court may draw an inference that their evidence would not have assisted that party’s case.
The inference may carry more weight when it comes to Sharaz. There is no person so central to this saga, apart from his wife. He could appear by video link if he is not in the jurisdiction.
If Sharaz entered the witness box, he might be cross-examined by legal heavy hitter Martin Bennett about his role in Higgins’s decision, against police advice, to take allegations of a rape and a political cover-up to the media before making a formal complaint to the police.