I think the punters are stirring, getting ansty. Normally letting politics of either persuasion slide by as we just get…
I think the punters are stirring, getting ansty. Normally letting politics of either persuasion slide by as we just get…
How quickly the pose of determined rectitude melted into that of a political streetwalker.
operation ‘Grim Beeper’
Operation ‘Grim Beeper’, brilliant planning and execution.
Great stuff from the past. Visuals and audio are great. —— F r. David – Words Don’t Come Easy
Flying Renewable Death news (the Hun):
Of course they are.
And:
Surely not. Wind turbines damaged by wind?
Our betters wouldn’t have – you know – lied, would they?
New Zealand’s Chest Pain Crisis: What’s Going On?
Banning AI Memes Already Blew Up in Gavin Newsom’s Face
The critique of Churchill might attract more credulity if it was backed up with some primary source facts instead of fever dreams.
Okay try this. Was there a common trait that you saw in murderers during your time?
Had a fall two weeks ago trying to navigate my way to bed after a bottle of wine.
Hit my head on my bedside table. I lay there and couldn’t get up. Called 000. I am on blood thinners.
My father died two weeks ago. Not sure how to process any of this.
Sorry, Dover. Going off line.
I can’t say much about Numbersnuts because, honestly, I’ve never bothered reading anything he writes. He’s excruciatingly boring and I don’t believe that’s changed. Fatboy, though, likes to troll. It’s like he wakes up in the morning thinking, “How can I get a reaction today?” But hey, credit where it’s due—he’s doing us a service. Instead of us having to wade through the latest left-wing nonsense, he does the dirty work, then brings it right to us so we can have a little fun tearing it apart.
The common trait in murderers is that they are shit people. Sometimes they kill other shit people, sometimes they kill people that are not shit people.
When they are pinched and binned, they are removed from their natural habitat. By the time professional handpatters get to them years later, they are so well versed in the ‘oh I’m rehabilitated’ and ‘it was all someone else’s fault’ lines that said handpatters are blinded to their inherent shitness, and they persuade themselves that their ineffectual, State-paid-for mewlings are actually effective.
The reality is that the handpatters are actually attracted to murderers’ ‘dangerous, bad boy’ personas. This is why chicks working in corrections can’t seem to stop themselves throwing handjobs at crooks who should never see the light of day again.
Ben Shapiro: The INSANE Reaction To Israel’s Genius Hezbollah Operation
Hard hats, eh?
And what if one of these shards landed in your chest, or cuts an artery on a limb?
They can’t possibly rule such an event out, but I suppose because it’s “green” technology it gets a free pass in our otherwise workplace health and safety obsessed culture.
Just wear a hard hat. Yeah, right.
I want to approach this with the utmost care. On the old blog.,you used to share that you had experienced difficult and painful events in our early life, and at times it seemed to deeply affect you emotionally. Given the personal impact this must have had on you, I was wondering how you managed to stay emotionally detached when working on cases related to this area of criminal behavior. I ask only out of curiosity about how such experiences shape one’s ability to navigate similar situations professionally. I also ask because I’m somewhat sceptical anyone could not let these experiences color their view.
Yep, I’m asking you.
@robinmonotti
A young man with Cerebral Palsy, has always wanted to ride in a Super Car.
His dream came true. Watch the “good man”, who made his dream possible.
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1837240693892210855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1837240693892210855%7Ctwgr%5Ec9ef67591088997637895c922fc01cf80801fe88%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Is America Facing a New Soviet Union? | Victor Davis Hanson | The Way I Heard It
Words to live by.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/violence.jfif
I wonder if border security was on the agenda of Albanese’s 90 minute meeting with Biden today?
“I wonder if border security was on the agenda of Albanese’s 90 minute meeting with Biden today?”
The two of them would have been having a nap.
Kitties gorn!
Talking about shit people…
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1837199576127922287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1837199576127922287%7Ctwgr%5Ec9ef67591088997637895c922fc01cf80801fe88%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Yep.
The Dangerfields, aka Geelong, have rightly been consigned to the stinking bin of also-rans for the season. I hear hair product sales are tanking already.
The GF will now be scratched over by the Sydney Mancravers and the Brisvegas Lions.
Sigh.
That would be the Sydney Türkiyes, thanks very much.
I do this.
Squeeze – Cool For Cats (1979)
Advance‘s political campaign for the next feral election – putting the greenfilth and their vile toxic idiocy and hypocrisy under the microscope:
Indeedy.
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 8:11 pm
Yep.
Somewhere tonight, a grown man is making his way home in a full cat outfit with tear-streaked cat face-paint running down his whiskery cheeks.
frigging ridiculous trying to find a reply to a question asked earlier on.
This format is shit, Dover.
The Meanjin Lions have won some sort of sporting competition and now face the Gadigal Swans.
The only upside I can see is that this will enrage the Naarm sodomites.
OK.
Bye bye for now.
Now it is the sancho – knuckle dragger intelligence
I’m reading Thomas Fleming’s book “The New Dealer’s War.” Interesting reading, to say the least!
How do you identify a Jihadi? He’s using pen and paper.
It truly is incredible that there are imbeciles existing on this planet who think that Fatty Trump and the Pute are besties and that “wussians” of various indeterminate identities helped the Orange Man (bad) win the election in 2016.
Collectivist crackpot: “Fatty Trump fraudulently beat shrillary in 2016 due to wussian interference”
Normal person: “and geriatric joe won eleventy gazillion votes in 2020 entirely legitimately campaigning in his basement while gifted with advanced dementia”
The cackling kamel will stagger over the line in November, Cats, unfortunately there is no way to prevent it.
The Furniture Shop is missing one of its mascots.
Whack a moll!
One of the most interesting guys on the internet is cyber expert Mike Benz. Just listened to him being interviewed by former SEAL Shawn Ryan.
If you are interested in big picture stuff they cover :
The disinformation censorship industry and why they need to control Musk / X.
What has been happening in Brazil in relation to US supporting Lula. Plus X and Starlink in Brazil and China involvement in Brazil.
Talks about Atlantic Council which has 7 former CIA heads on its board and is funded by 11 US agencies.
A lot about Hunter Biden / CIA / Burisma / Ukraine / Gas and why Ukraine so important to US policy.
Where once one could wear an Akubra, made from a genuine renewable resource, one now has to wear a hat made from the products of evil fossils.
To protect oneself against products made from evil fossils.
To save the planet.
And Trump is Hitler.
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 9:08 pm
You don’t speak for me!
…
Or do you?
Check your email.
Aaaaaahahahahaaaa.
And this is where it was born. Knuck feck and Leigh Lowe. Triggered
Chicago Schools Tell Teachers to Pass Migrant Students Regardless of Performance
Wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
Trump Assassins: Off-the-Books Assets?
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 9:30 pm
Bwah ha ha ha.
Good times.
Went off like a Lebanese pager.
Driving west to east in Melbourne this afternoon there was an electronic sign recruiting women to be part of the first all female built tunnel.
Nuts.
https://x.com/ACCIONA_EN/status/1833331057032368326?t=d7aIBWn535yox9TeykxHZw&s=19
DEI: A cancer on the Armed Forces
Meme
@catturd2
The Kamala Harris fascist regime is coming for all political opponents through lawfare.
Scratch the bullies. Why are they silent.
Who is this Leigh Lowe?
Spot on. The parents at those remote & rural schools;
a) make sure their kids attend.
b) make sure their kids learn. [very different to point (a)]
b) turn up to working bees, or even when there’s not a working bee.
c) raise a helluva lot of money, some raise enough to pay for running the school [yes, this includes salary for the teacher & every other cost]
d) put in no end of their own time & a considerable amount of effort, to ensure the school operates.
e) make the school the hub of their community & the hub of social life.
In every way, they’re the opposite of the other remote schools.
Nothing is holding back the parents at the other remote schools, the ones not in productive farming communities.
… except the parents themselves. They clearly have no culture of ‘having a go’ & no overriding urge to ensure their kids have every opportunity.
Silly me thought a realtively innoccuous comment at the Paywallian might get though…..
There was an article by Chris Kenny abou how awful people were to disparage those unhappy about Welcome To Country and such like. My comment was:
As I understand it the Welcome to Country was invented by Ernie Dingo and Richard Whalley in the 1970’s to assist with a ceremony for some foreign dignitary.
Then the smoking ceremony: also invented, there seems to be no record of this being a legitimate activity by aboriginal people. Mind you they did generate plenty of smoke with the burning of the bush that was practiced to flush out some food.
Ditto the ‘dot paintings’. No paintings anything like dot paintings found among the rock art and cave ‘paintings’ of aboriginal people.
All are fabrications and totally made up.
When you have to lie and make things up about your past, then either you did not have one worth much or are embarrassed about it.
Without honesty there is not much.
Does anybody know who The Currency Lad is? His blog has abruptly stopped.
Week In Pictures.
Well deserved honor.
Martha Raye was a comic actress and singer who entertained U.S. troops in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. She was the only woman buried in Fort Bragg’s Special Forces cemetery, where she received full military honors in 1994.
I would’ve started from a more modest height first, just in case.
On your bike!
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In the world of human-powered feats, speed is often the ultimate benchmark. And in 1962, an astonishing gear ratio and physical endurance pushed the limits of what seemed possible. A single-speed road bike reached an incredible 127 mph, which is an almost unimaginable accomplishment for any cyclist.
This daring feat required both extraordinary engineering and superhuman endurance.
The most curious aspect of this achievement, beyond the sheer speed, is the setup of the bike. Not only was the bike a single-speed—a type of bicycle typically used for much slower, controlled rides—but the front fork was also turned backward.
This might seem counterintuitive, as a backward fork would normally result in unstable handling. However, there may have been aerodynamic or mechanical reasons behind this unusual modification, possibly to shift the rider’s weight in a way that would reduce drag or improve stability at such high speeds.
The feat becomes even more mind-blowing when we compare it to other land speed records of its time. Just over 50 years earlier, in 1906, a steam-powered vehicle broke the land speed record. Steam technology, though seemingly antiquated by today’s standards, was at one time the pinnacle of innovation.
In fact, that 1906 record, set by Fred Marriott in the *Stanley Rocket* at 127.66 mph, stood for several years and demonstrated that steam engines had tremendous potential for speed.
In 1909, however, the record was broken again, this time by a Mercedes with an internal combustion engine, marking the dawn of a new era in speed and mechanical performance.
The Mercedes record was lower than the 1906 steam-powered speed, but the internal combustion engine would soon dominate automotive engineering.
These land speed records, whether powered by steam, combustion engines, or sheer human force, tell a story of mankind’s relentless pursuit of speed and innovation. The 1962 bike achievement, with its backward fork and single gear, represents a triumph of both mechanical ingenuity and human endurance.
Below from article up at Daily Telegraph.
Two years after its launch, online radio platform TNT News has been wound up due to a lack of funding.
The Gold Coast-based conservative news platform, which purported to “separate fact from fiction, truth from propaganda” and committed way too much uncensored and unchecked airtime to conspiracy theorists espousing their views on anything from “government tyranny” to “Covid malfeasance”, closed its operations yesterday after its financial backers withdrew.
The platform had, in recent years, given sanctuary to some of the industry’s more polarising voices, among whom, notably, was serial sex pest Chris Smith, longtime understudy to 2GB’s breakfast king Alan Jones”.
I listened to a few shows early on in 2022. They did provide an outlet for Covid commentary that was not allowed in mainstream media. It was a interesting organisation as it operated 24 hours and had hosts from Australia, UK and USA. One was Jim Hoft from Gateway Pundit. One Nation Senator Roberts was frequently on it.
No idea who was behind it but must have been some big money. They did not get much advertising money and perhaps this fits in with something Mike Benz was discussing with Shawn Ryan. He was talking about an organisation called Newsguard which rated different media outlets but also sought to deprive them of advertising funding. I would however say TNT radio did cover out there type issues and would be hard for an advertiser to be associated with them.
Mike Smith has now gone to ADH TV which is where Alan Jones was until health issues.
Top story at Daily Mail Australia at time of writing concerns Ingi Doyle.
“I was a super-fit mum-of-two who ran triathlons – until I got the second Covid vaccine. I mourn my old self every day”.
She was one of the first vaccine injuries stories I heard about. Naturally it was not from mainstream media because to mention her case might cause vaccine “hesitancy”.
Apart from Covid-19, there is another virus circulating at the moment.
It is just as dangerous as the Covid Pandemic, but it originated in the USA, not China. It has seeped across the Pacific like leaking fluids from an overstocked fridge, carried on the bonkers blogs and nutjob social media accounts of some in the land of the shooting spree. Recent events close to home at Wieambilla provide an instructive example. The consequences are real, as can be observed by the chaotic state of US politics.
I’m referring, of course, to the epidemic of distrust of institutions and government across the Pacific since the Tea Party movement emerged towards the first ten years of the new millennium. That movement grew out of a sense of grievance and entitlement precipitated by globalism, automation, and the GFC.
Political movements generated by national grievance rarely end well. Examples include Brexit, which is wreaking havoc on daily life in the UK right now, and the Tea Party itself, which has changed some Republicans from a credible conservative movement to a baying mob, despite the fact that it largely disappeared from the scene in its original form. National grievance was one of the major factors driving the rise of the NAZI movement in Germany in the thirties, and remains a large component of Chinese nationalism, used extremely effectively by the CCP under Xi Jinping.
Another component assisting the rise of grievance politics is the role of US corporate media, exemplified by Fox news, and these days, Newsmax. Gone are the days when the corporate media reported the public mood. These days they make a profit by exploiting that mood, monetising it, and then selling it back to the consumers of that same media.
These same consumers are always prepared to pay for what they want to hear. They become opinion junkies, and this phenomenon leeches into social media. Recently, social media platforms have belatedly started to arrest the tide of misinformation and disinformation that feeds this sense of grievance. Facebook and Twitter (now X) have begun to do this, although with reluctance, as it messes with their business model. It took an insurrection for Twitter to give Trump the shove. And the twit from South Africa reinstated him.
None of this would bother me very much, except that it is beginning to have an effect locally. One example of this is the imported outrage from the US about vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Despite the fact that the Australian death rate from the virus per head of population is about 1/25 of what is it across the Pacific (67 per million here vs 2297 per million in the US) there are Australian nitwits jumping on the culture wars bandwagon, and bleating, post-event about mandates and restrictions.
The most recent example of this trans Pacific virus is the push for legislation designed to require voters to present ID at the ballot box. It is designed to solve a problem which does not exist in this country, and has already been resolved in Queensland, where people on the electoral roll are posted an ID card to their address, to present when they vote. I’m accumulating a collection.
A far greater problem than electoral fraud in this country is the rate of participation in state and federal elections – (91.9% at the last federal election). Despite the Electoral Commission seeing this as an achievement, we’d be doing better as a democracy if everybody got to vote. Full participation is essential to democracy. How about the legislature take measures to ensure this disenfranchised 8.1% of the Australian electorate votes, rather than chasing the less than the 0.001% of the electorate who allegedly voted more than once at the last federal poll?
I won’t hold my breath for an answer.
Pagers, walkie-talkies, solar panels & …….. GPS navigation systems .. Israelis gotta luv ’em … LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/israel-gps-spoofing-against-missiles-disrupts-civilian-life-aviation-in-lebanon-and-middle-east/ar-AA1qXNof?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=66130fdae4f44283b4d3915ffab79466&ei=31
Marxism. It’s endemic.
Numbers, when you wake up you will realise that governments are merely criminal organisations that have seized control of a country and maintain it by threats of or actual violence.
After all, a government seized you and threw you in to the Army, a form of slavery.
Yet lefties like you want more government.
A virus of experience Numbers.
Mistrust of government and their institutions is well placed and only becomes more apparent when dealing with them directly.
A good comment came from a mate who’s dealing with the renewable roll out with government mandated bodies and private companies trying to access his land for their purposes, he said “I used to trust people working for the government and think that in the end their trying to do what’s best for us, I don’t any more.”
his augments are not rational or logical
numbers will now continue fill the pages here with more even gibberish
John
September 22, 2024 2:36 am
The chances of him buying a cheap Lebanese pager are low.
But not zero.
CL is receiving a foot massage.
Oh yeah.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-18-at-12.24.43%E2%80%AFPM-768×542.png
Totally agree with this.
“I used to trust people working for the government and think that in the end their trying to do what’s best for us, I don’t any more.
Governments employee numbers are rapidly expanding in Australia and as more Government jobs are created they have to justify themselves by creating more rules and regulations for this rest of us.
As more jobs are created the managers have more subordinates and their posts have to be upgraded to reflect their bigger responsibilities. It is called “empire building”.
Someone snuck in and drank my Chardonnay while I was asleep
CL is having a WEB.
War pagers are legitimate targets.
https://x.com/persianjewess/status/1837190059113472048?t=4viLtV2qXv1hrDH29HslJQ&s=19
ABC news featuring Australian “Lebanese community” members claiming Israel is “targeting civilians.”
Angry at Albanese government for not criticising Israel more strongly.
No mention of Hezbollah’s indiscriminate rocket & missile attacks.
I think we’re only days away from calls for “tourist visas” for Lebanese with Australian family connections.
I’m sick of the lies.
Thanx TOM ..
Week-in-pictures has outdun itself today .. an excellent selection ..
Week In Pictures.
Good Morning Rosie, reading your interesting travelogue about Ireland gave me the impression you wouldn’t be going back. You don’t recommend visiting it anymore? I’ve been reading about Nth Ireland- looks very beautiful and it’s got me interested.
Building off the grid. Away from the MSM. Start storing supplies. Tunnels. Get ahead before it happens. One Nation.
Following the Trump campaign. Do you play golf, sancho?
“tourist visas” = backdoor PR. Public admin in Australia= malicious incompetence. The canbra way.
Aaannd here we go…
Number of asylum seekers in Australia reaches six-year high (Sky News, 22 Sep)
Oooh hurrah Newcastle gets its first… (checks notes) …man with silicone t*ts in council.
Because visibility. Or something.
Better when Newcastle was famous for steel.
Piers Akerman sinking the boots in. Deservedly so:
The shooter was there 20 odd hours in advance. It couldn’t be clearer that he was told.
@wendyp4545
From ther Hun.
Clementine Ford threatened with legal action by Kingston Council candidate Jane Agirtan over social media spatA social media spat that kicked off over a designer handbag could end up costing Clementine Ford more than $150,000, after an aspiring councillor claimed she’d been defamed.
The member of the Senate who told me (re AGW) “It’s bullsht and everyone knows it, it’s just a giant wealth redistribution scheme”, had nothing more in their sights than the obscene remuneration and fat super package available upon obtaining office.
?
Just in case you don’t detest the UN enough yet.
UNRWA demands immunity for employees implicated in October 7th massacre (22 Sep)
Kamala Harris, AOC, Al Sharpton praised Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2020 townhall dedicated to COVID, honoring black Americans
I note the Gazans here on “tourist visas” are now demanding work and study rights and Medicare cards.
I think they intend to settle down.
NBC’s Simmons: Israel Didn’t Bring Hezbollah Commander Responsible for Killing Americans to Justice by Killing Him
LAWLESS KINGDOM: A Rape Is Reported Every Hour in London
This Is the Most Deliciously Devious Part About Israel’s Exploding Pager Attacks
The Beloved’s birthday today. Busy child wrangling – the little ones thought there would be a party and were up at sparrow’s.
Himself ran away from the mayhem to wash the car! Amazing how urgent such things become, even on your birthday.
‘Massive Victory’ — Irish Government Drops Draconian Hate Speech Legislation After Backlash
This is where she really outperforms.
The art of vacuity
Sucked in greenies!
Running an electric car is twice as expensive as a petrol one (21 Sep)
It’ll be even worse here, once chargers start upping their c/kWh rates. The price of petrol and diesel is much higher in the UK.
This is interesting because the rush to net zero will kill AI just the same as everything else. Perhaps when the lights go out such nuclear reactors can be repurposed for more immediate needs.
Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
Stockpile weapons, canned food. We need to go underground. If Trump doesn’t get up we are ruined. Complain on a blog for attention. Look at me – I write words, but don’t live up to the words. I travel and write travelogues. I am a Jew who writes on a blog about my time on a bus in the city. But do I do anything, but indulge the sensors. My grandmother’s nightmares have revisited me since October 7. No young leftist knows my pain. Frank Foley was our Schindler. Never would I imagine this. EVER in my lifetime.
From Indolent’s link:
Wrong word. The Oct 7 massacre and abductions were diabolical. Endless rocket fire into civilian areas and the displacement of 60,000 civilians is diabolical. The murder of 12 children on a soccer field is diabolical.
The electronic pocket Kabooming of terrorists is justice.
@ImMeme0
Fvcking EPIC
The woman featured during an Oprah Winfrey town hall endorsing Kamala DROPPED a new video to announce who she supports for the next president.
… and no one ever named a band The Albaneses.
Poetic, is what it is. Brilliant, elegant also comes to mind.
Looks like they didn’t factor in insurance and depreciation.
Or average repair costs over a vehicle’s lifetime.
Which would make the EV figures much, much worse.
And governments are just biding their time until they can make those chargers a revenue source.
I foresee a day not far hence when EV owners will cry for subsidies.
Nothing illustrates the intellectual and moral dead end that is Australian prog-leftism like the fetishisation of Whitlam.
Death toll from Israeli strike on Hezbollah military leaders risesStephen Kalin
11 hours ago
Dow Jones
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Israel’s airstrike on a building in southern Beirut didn’t just kill a top Hezbollah commander – it took out an entire class of senior leaders of the militant group’s most elite fighting force, as the two foes lurch closer to all-out war.
Hezbollah on Saturday raised the death toll among its fighters from Friday’s airstrike to 16, including top military commander Ibrahim Aqil and many of the senior commanders of the elite Radwan force. The strike on top leadership followed a pair of broad attacks on the group’s rank and file, when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies that had been rigged with explosives blew up roughly simultaneously across the country.
According to the group’s own death announcements, the week’s attacks accounted for about 10% of the 500 Hezbollah fighters to have been killed since the group started firing rockets across the border shortly after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on Israel that sparked the war in the Gaza Strip.
I thought Oprah’s body language showed embarrassment as Kamala avoided answering questions
I won’t hold my breath for an answer.
Please do you rancid POS.
Still, well done. That lengthy post reeked of elitism and the sole conspiracy that infects leftoids like yourself. Which is, any threat to the leftoid control of the narrative/institutions is a manifestation of hillbilly extreme rightwingers. The irony is it is not the patronising lies which leftoids embellish their narrative/institutions which is the zeitgeist but their control and power of the narrative/institutions. Being in power is the only quality leftoids have: all the descriptions of the right wingers are merely a rephrasing of that being in power and their suppression of any threat to that power.
Given that, you are merely a useful idiot, like all leftoid minions.
Here we go.
What’s REALLY In the mRNA Vaccine? Truth Revealed!
Would I be right in thinking the original author of the supplies and tunnels thing was a missionary from the Furniture Store here on a Temporary Activity visa?
Bombshell Court Order: FDA Admits Graphene Oxide Found in Pfizer mRNA Vaccines – Confidential Docs Exposed!
Starmer’s ‘PIOUS’ behaviour proves that his ‘holier than thou rhetoric’ doesn’t match his actions
Leftoids don’t do humour:
Never mind: Kremlin says Vladimir Putin was joking about backing Kamala Harris for president – Washington Times
“the impression you wouldn’t be going back”
Not during their school holidays for sure.
I’m not in a hurry, only because there are several, many, other places I would like to visit however if a family member wants me to return in the near future I will. So I might go back in late 2025. I might even catch the ferry to Bilbao.
There was lots to like, especially in the wild west, and the people are nice.
I’m pondering a short visit to Japan in November, then, as there is a happy event expected in February I’ll be home in the new year.
I see Kellie-Jay Keen copped another bowl of tomato soup to the face in Sheffield, this time by a bespectacled ranga beardo who works at the university as a diversity officer. The gentleman was arrested and charged with assault.
I am sure Cats will react to this news with suitably moderate thoughts.
Waiting FAA bureaucrat peoples, waiting…
Light this candle!
I didn’t get past the first cartoon in WIP before I was laughing:
Jimmy Dore is unimpressed with the Israeli pager/walkie-talkie attacks ion Hezbollah.
He doesn’t seem to like Israel at all. I suppose he must occasionally burnish those progressive bona fides.
Quite the screed from numbers this morning. It will be fun when he realises that teachers work for the government. Self awareness to follow in short order.
Roger, that Mises Wire guest paste is a great read, thanks heaps
Asylum claims at six-year high as record numbers await decisionBy Natassia ChrysanthosSeptember 22, 2024 — 3.00am
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The number of people seeking asylum in Australia has hit a six-year high and a record 117,500 people are on shore awaiting a decision or deportation as huge backlogs and five-year wait times expose the country’s immigration system to exploitation.
The list of people in limbo is growing by about 1000 a month, creating a backdoor for people on temporary visas who run out of options, including students, to keep working in Australia by applying for asylum and entering the drawn-out appeal process.
It means those found to be genuine refugees are also forced to wait years for security.
The Labor government has spent $275 million to step up resourcing and accelerate processes after a review found delays were “motivating bad actors to take advantage by lodging increasing numbers of non-genuine applications for protection”.
But it faces a tough task in wresting control of the system as latest Home Affairs data reveals 25,210 people applied for protection visas in the 2023-24 financial year, the highest number of applicants since 27,931 people in 2017-18. More than four in five asylum claims were rejected, with applicants from Vietnam lodging the highest portion, followed by those from China and India.
Helen Duncan, chief executive of the Migration Institute of Australia, said it was “without doubt” that people who probably did not have legitimate claims were using protection visas to extend their stays in Australia.
“It’s not a situation we like to see because it means genuine refugees have their cases delayed because of huge backlogs and cases that have no merit,” she said. “If the processing was quicker, people wouldn’t be using it to delay their stay in Australia. But it’s there, so people use it in the wrong way.”
Excellent day yesterday. Had lunch with the great Bushie, Farmer Gez, Matrix, John and Mater. Along with wives of Mater and Matrix.
Fantastic to just sit and listen to these people and their experiences.
From climate change to Islamic Jihad.
Global warming is coming for our toilets.
Many people in the Pacific lack access to adequate toilets—and climate change makes things worse (Phys.org, 21 Sep)
Here’s who they are:
Sigh. Maybe that august educational centre should go back to being the Mount Gravatt Teacher’s College.
Thanks for the post Roger- got me thinking about the last 10 years. It’s almost as if the internet has allowed scrutiny of the elites to a degree never previously possible. Furthermore, it’s allowed genuinely populist candidates to talk directly to voters. This has caused the elites (the political-meja class) to reveal their true selves and their willingness to use Stalinist tactics to stifle dissent.
so not murder as no intent, but it surely is manslaughter and dangerous driving, or does everyone get away with that, not only senior labour figures?
The Starliner debacle claims a scalp…
The head of Boeing’s defense and space business is out as company tries to fix troubled contracts (21 Sep)
So I did as you do and looked him up. Yep, my woke bingo card got another box ticked.
will P Diddy survive the weekend?
Just received a message telling me to behave.
As you were.
Not a bad feed either BB.
Keep that wing out of trouble.
If only Dawkins had become a winemaker…
Wiki: “He is the son of Muriel (née Lee Steere) and Alec Letts Dawkins. His father, originally from Adelaide, was an orthopaedic surgeon and military physician during World War II with the rank of brigadier.[3] His maternal grandfather Sir Ernest Augustus Lee Steere was a prominent pastoralist and businessman in Western Australia, while his uncle Sir Ernest Henry Lee-Steere served as Lord Mayor of Perth in the 1970s.[4]… Dawkins attended primary school in Cottesloe and went on to attend Scotch College, Perth. After leaving school he moved to South Australia to attend Roseworthy Agricultural College, graduating with a diploma in agriculture in 1968”
Numbers, the right/left thing politically is very simple. The Left wants more government – rules, regulations, hoops to jump through etc. The Right wants fewer of these.
I think Griffith is a Menzies uni like Macquarie, LaTrobe, Flinders. Never much chop I suspect and none of them are much good now anyway.
Hezbies are getting curry.
Israel Unleashes Hell On South Lebanon With Giant Mystery Bomb As War Escalates (22 Sep)
I wonder if they found Nasrallah’s underground bunker? That would be worth a MOAB.
so not murder as no intent, but it surely is manslaughter and dangerous driving
If he’d been impaired due alcohol he’d be in jail. Diabetics surely have a duty of care to be fit to drive as do we all, all the time.
“The ability to supply the device to Hezbollah was helped by the fact that the terror group cannot make purchases on the open market, because of suppliers’ fears of US sanctions, and therefore must routinely work with intermediary suppliers”
Makes sense.
https://x.com/OliaOnX/status/1837651935001706822?t=lA5kb1c8UoXcaYA_focCNg&s=19
I suspect the Dawkins reforms were cribbed from the Poms where all the Polytechnics suddenly became unis eg Uni of Westminster.
“I’m not sure people grasp how brave the women at these events are. They know that trans activists are violent scum, but they come anyway.”
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1837495112827387924?t=XV_BnKliuCM9SP-p6grZnA&s=19
I’m really not looking forward NOT to the soon to be implemented extra security measures as a result of the Pager bombs. Start with airlines and go from there. I’m sure we’ll kill people as a result. Hundreds have already died after we locked the cockpit doors after 9/11
A can of worms has been opened.
Regarding Starship Flight 5 and the FAA:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/spacex-and-elon-musk-blast-the-faas-red-tape-again/
RTWT. The FAA are a pack of utter bastards who must be taking lessons from CASA which is yet another criminal organisation.
I’m told by a former insider that the only two things discussed at lunch at CASA are “how’s my super going” and ” Who in the industry I managed to screw over this morning”.
?A great Message to quote back at the climate fanatics.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/09/20/the-real-climate-change-deniers-are-those-who-deny-the-climate-changed-before-we-started-burning-fossil-fuels-says-geologist/
Do these blokes get paid to go to work every day???
Secret Service admits its ‘failure’ during Donald Trump assassination attempt, reveals different radio frequency meant Secret Service unaware of shooter on roof
Sky
ASD
“They exhibit an intense and focused preoccupation with limited interests that are often unusual or abnormal in their intensity.”
Greta has switched from climate to jihad, it’s as though the climate is longer the pressing issue it was just a couple of years ago.
Weird.
Celebrity rapper turns out to be accused of pimping, and drug dealing.
I mean, who would expect that?
All that music with such positive, Christian messages!
I think I’m losing faith in humanity.
Sigh.
If you can’t trust the gangster rappers, who can you trust?
We know Van Fatham is on drugs.
But this unhinged screed is 2 pencils up the nose wibble wibble fingerpainting with poo all over the place.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/22/yes-more-australians-should-have-access-to-ivf-but-talk-of-a-fertility-problem-has-the-the-scent-of-old-patriarchy
The review recommends establishing uniform national fertility law, guaranteeing equal rights for same-sex and single-by-choice birthing parents and ditching the ridiculous must-be-unpregnantly-banged-for-a-year current definition of “infertility” (yes, true). It also proposes an expansion of reproductive health services and removing economic barriers to accessing reproductive care.
Awesome, lets subsidise the group with the worst outcomes for kids … single mums.
Does Israel turning its attention to the north indicate that it considers the situation in the south to be coming under control?
Take 2. Stinking buggy website, sorry DB need to vent.
As a lowly geo I jagged an invite to the 2 RAR INTERFET reunion recovery at the See View Hotel thru s mate.
Could be a long long long arvo…
33deg here beautiful spring day.
The more I read the offerings of of mtf trans on the internet the more obvious it becomes that most of them are porn addicted autogynephils.
“Autogynephilia is defined as a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female”
Why are you always carrying water for them Monty?
Griffith was mooted by the QLD government as an extension of UQ for boomer kids right on the cusp of the cultural revolution of the late ’60s.
By the time it was opened it was ’75 and the long march was underway.
A mate did an Arts degree there in the late ’70s. I remember him showing me the texts – full on counter-cultural crap. Despite this miseducation he went on to build a successful business as a media entrepreneur.
“Trans Activists Set Off Explosion in Attempt to Sabotage Conference Critical of Gender Ideology”
Hahaha its just another tin of Heinz
https://reduxx.info/france-trans-activists-set-fire-to-venue-in-attempt-to-sabotage-conference-critical-of-gender-ideology/
so not murder as no intent, but it surely is manslaughter and dangerous driving
As does anyone with a medical condition which is likely to impair driving.
The mantra for diabetics is “over five before you drive”.
That is, blood glucose should be above 5.0 mmol/L before you drive.
But it is not required by law.
Below 4.0 is considered hypoglycaemic territory, but 5.0 gives a bit of a margin.
No excuse with the BGM technology available today (which this guy had, but chose to ignore).
There is something very suss about this case.
Sure is. Connections perhaps.
The pager attack in Hezbuttallah, reminded me that we are open to obvious threats . Jamesw Patterson has been banging on abnout security cameras from china, and for that matter, solar panels, EVs, Phones, etc etc. We are more wide open than hookers at a WEF Davos convention.
if the israelis did indeed put a fix on the pagers and other infrastructure of hezbolaknuts, then we would be far easier to fool, given we are so utterly open and trusting.
Rosie
September 22, 2024 12:59 pm
Actually, come to think of it, I haven’t seen m0nster for a couple of days.
Don’t know if anyone else has seen this but…
Mission: Incompetent
MH370 Mystery Solved! The Shocking Evidence That Changes Everything We Were Told | Redacted News
NO ONE ELECTED HER: Why Does Jill Biden’s Signature Appear on Joe Biden’s Official Legislation Folders?
Tim Walz Accidentally Creates New Ad for the Trump Campaign: ‘We Can’t Afford Four More Years of This!’
Biden, Obama pal and top Dem fundraiser owed millions in back taxes while dishing out tens of thousands to Harris: records
My father died recently.
The best memory was deep sea fishing. We went off the coast of the Bay of Plenty in Tauranga, New Zealand.
I asked to jump off the boat. My father allowed me to. We were way off the coast. He said he would put the shark detector on. I swam. It was exhilarating.
On the way back the motor died. Dad put me on a crate to see over the top of the steering wheel
He said, see that light on the horizon … focus on that. Don’t take your focus off it. I steered the boat, focusing on the point he told me to.
I cried. I was 12. I made him proud. To cut a long story short, I made my dad happy.
RIP
UN General Assembly Votes to Make Old Jerusalem Jew-Free – Orders Jews Out of the Old City
Gareth Evans in the Oz – 17 September 2024
Paul Keating, Bob Carr and I seem to have jangled a few security establishment nerves with our critique of the AUKUS submarine deal as having profound negative implications for Australia’s security and sovereignty.
Our former colleagues and advisers Kim Beazley, Paul Dibb, Mike Pezzullo, and the US Study Centre’s Peter Dean, were in full war-cry mode in The Weekend Australian. And they have now been joined by ANU’s John Blaxland, currently seconded to the Australian Embassy in Washington.
Our critique, much of which has either been misrepresented or ignored in these responses, has five basic elements.
One, there is zero certainty of the timely delivery of the eight AUKUS boats. Both the US and UK have explicit opt-out rights. Even in the wholly unlikely event that everything falls smoothly into place, we will be waiting 40 years for the last boat to arrive, posing real capability gap issues.
Two, even acknowledging the superior capability of nuclear-propelled submarines, making large assumptions about their continued detectability advantages, and accepting for the sake of argument the utility of “deterrence at a distance”, how useful will this eight-boat fleet actually be for Australia’s defence? When, given usual operating constraints, only two of them will be deployable across our vast maritime environment at any one time.
Third, even assuming the eye-watering cost of these boats is fiscally manageable, it will make much harder the acquisition of other capabilities — in particular, state-of-the-art missiles, aircraft and drones — arguably even more important than submarines for any kind of self-reliant capacity in meeting an invasion threat, were one ever to arise.
Four, the price now being demanded by the US for giving us access to its nuclear propulsion technology — achieving what is now described as fleet “interchangeability”, not just “interoperability” — has become indefensibly high.
The conversion of Stirling into a major base for a US Indian Ocean fleet will mean Perth now joining Pine Gap and the North West Cape, and probably the B-52 base at Tindal, as a potential nuclear target. It is hard to conceive of Australia ever being a target of any kind of Chinese military attack short of our being sucked into fighting alongside the US in a war not of our making, and manifestly not in our national interest. But that prospect is now very real. given the abdication of Australian sovereign agency inherent in the AUKUS decision as it has evolved.
Five, the purchase price we are now paying, for all its exorbitance, will never be enough to guarantee the absolute protective insurance that supporters of AUKUS think they are buying.
ANZUS, it cannot be said too often, does not bind the US to defend Australia, even in the event of existential attack. We can rely on military support if the US sees it in its own national interest to offer it, but not otherwise.
The issue that most troubles me, Keating and Carr in all of this — and which most seems to enrage AUKUS defenders — is what we see as the loss of Australian sovereign independence that’s necessarily involved. Those who deny that this is even an issue like Dean, or ignore it entirely like Blaxland, are simply defying reality.
And those who accept the reality of our loss of sovereign agency, but actually applaud it as a price worth paying for our protection — such as Beazley, Dibb and Pezzullo — seem to have lost not only any sense of national pride, but of Australia’s national interest.
Dean makes the risible claim that I and my colleagues are “claiming an elaborate conspiracy theory” in “asking people to ignore the statements of their own government about us having control of these (submarine) capabilities”.
Of course, our government will insist that it retains control as to how these assets are used, as will always be the case on paper. But the reality, should serious tensions erupt, will be very different.
It defies credibility to think that Washington will ever go ahead with its sale of Virginias to us in the absence of an understanding that they will join the US in any fight in which it chooses to engage anywhere in our region, particularly over Taiwan. Are we all just meant to ignore Kurt Campbell’s indiscreet observation at the time of the AUKUS announcement that “we have them locked in now for the next 40 years”? I have had personal ministerial experience of being a junior allied partner of the US in a hot conflict situation — the first Gulf War in 1991 — and my recollections are not pretty.
Even more troubling is the uncritical acceptance by Beazley, Dibb and Pezzullo of the loss of sovereign agency which they acknowledge, with varying degrees of frankness, is necessarily involved in our embrace of the AUKUS submarine project. Pezzullo goes so far as to cheer what he describes as a “‘pooling of sovereignty’ in the face of a belligerent China”.
All this is not just depressing, but sickening, for all those Australians who have long nurtured the belief that we are a fiercely independent nation, ever more conscious of the need to engage constructively, creatively and sensitively with our own Indo-Pacific neighbourhood. And a country which had put behind us the “fear of abandonment” which had been so central to our defence and diplomacy for so much of the last century: recognising, as Paul Keating continues to put it so articulately, that we need to find our security in Asia, not from Asia.
For all practical purposes, our AUKUS commitment may well now be irreversible. But so too is likely to be the judgment that this will prove one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions Australia has ever made.
This, from the Lotus Eaters, is essential viewing.
The Headless Tyrant
Trying to do a deep dive on the Diddy allegations, but I can’t understand a word they’re saying.
Does anyone here speak jive?
Much as I detest Evans et. al. they have a point about sovereignty.
As for Perth becoming a nuclear target…meh.
Just kidding, Perthians.
😀
Bizarre and repulsive behaviour from a defence lawyer in the Pélicot case.
https://x.com/helenstaniland/status/1837599224466211185?t=CcOlfkmdA0DLUvH3TBTZYw&s=19
Kamala Crashes and Burns Even With Oprah As Co-Pilot
Oh my lordy.
The Seaview Hotel is (or was) unrivalled – absolutely unrivalled – as a Sunday session venue.
Godspeed, RD.
80’s joke: Why does Gareth Evans always book 2 seats on a plane?
One for himself and one for his ego.
Gareth Evans at last leaves a positive mark on international affairs, as thanks to his refined involvement, this sounds as polished & urbane as it would have on the original directive written in Mandarin.
So whats the odds on one 9or more) of the 3 mentioned in numberwangs article being the Chinese agent of influence ASIO decided we didnt need the name of?
Given that the Ukraine war is being fought on both sides with obsolete equipment that would otherwise have cost a fortune to dispose of safely, I’m highly suspicious of the entire enterprise at this point.
That men are being blown apart in vehicles decades older than they are, by munitions past expiration, over land that doesn’t seem worth a shit…
You can tell Prenti Downs Station ( look it up on Google Earth ) has had some good rain this year. Lots of green to be seen. I’d love to spend a couple of months up there. People from around the globe have said the same.
Kudod to the blokes going up there to harvest the flesh*
*Don’t watch this clip if you are squeamish. Camels are a pest that need to be controlled.
——-
Jack Out The Back:
Last Camels in the Chiller
Arky, I know what you mean & totally agree, while acknowledging that’s actually some of the (if not the) best soil on this planet.
Just discovered you can’t completely delete a comment.
Had an excellent meme too. Never mind.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/kamala-harris-faces-fierce-criticism-cnn-could-this/
Easing her out so the Hildebeast can move in?
Saw a map the other day of the mineral resources in Ukraine. Huge in the east and south, significant elsewhere and great agricultural land.
What ‘primary source facts’ could conclusively show that a different approach was avail or preferable in early ’39, or immediately after the Fall of Poland, etc. ?
Eastern Ukraine is worthless.
Bunch of peasant huts and Soviet era brutalist concrete flats full of toothless old women.
You could buy the entire joint for what slipped down between the cushions of Trump’s limo.
No, this game is about something else. Or somethings else.
Oh, dear.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-22/marxist-politician-leads-sri-lanka-s-presidential-vote/104381728
No doubt, promises of free stuff and prosperity for all characterised the campaign.
Looks like Sri Lankans are about to get it, good and hard.
Correct.
Agenda Free TV:
Israel Hezbollah Fighting – LIVE Updates & Breaking News Coverage (Fears of War in Lebanon)
And not a lot different from US interests in Syria not being about ‘democracy’.
Oops.
Link here.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/australian-taxpayer-funded-free-healthcare-for-gaza-visitor-visa-holders.html
I bought VPN this morning – Proton – 7day free trial.
This afternoon, got an email that my trial period was over, and the funds were being deducted from my bank account.
I’m sick of these people who give you a free period and then are uncontactable to cancel.
Looks like a drive into Longreach tomorrow and have a rant at the girls at The Commonwealth bank.
Speaking of Israel and the garbage protesting and threatening Jews here…a question from my granddaughter…
Why do we have men with guns at school?
This is where our country is right now, you bwave servants of terror.
Allow me to upset a few regular posters.
Wheat?
Pffft.
With reference to Gareth Gareth Evans pontificating on AUKUS, to the extent that he made any useful contribution, his “positive” mark was the “Responsibility to Protect” theory or doctrine that probably encouraged western intervention in some shitholes, leading to much death and destruction, but not much positive.
If that “Doctrine” is not by now thoroughly discredited, it should be.
…waits…
That’s been happening for quite a while.
It’s officially been the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka since 1972 and socialism is enshrined in the constitution.
They’re stuck in the post-colonial Marxist mire.
Seeing the writing on the wall, anyone with any get up and go got up and left, starting with the burghers in the ’70s, quite a few of whom came to Australia.
Death gluten?
Viva Frei looks at a video of demorat jamie raskin outlining what the demorats are going to do after Trump wins in November. Viva points out the irony of the demorats accusing Trump of being a threat to democracy (9 mins):
(981) PLEASE SHARE! Jamie Raskin is the TRUE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY! Disqualify Trump? Viva Frei Vlawg – YouTube
New Bombshell – This is Why They Try to Silence RFK Jr
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FdPqhlVTjZo
Spent part of today on a stall at the local picnic races, and I am pleased to announce the return of the micro mini skirt, worn by some seriously shapely young ladies, indeed…
Like the rest of the trash who run this country, I expect this incompetent clown is immune to pressure (Paywallian):
We’ll see.
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My biggest issue with AUKUS is that it is a vehicle for Grift across the government, corporates and unions for multiple generations. I will be very surprised if any subs are delivered before 2040. Imagine the cost blow outs as well.
Random fact.
Twenty (20) boxes of ‘Cocaine for external application’ were damaged by water and written off by the Japanese 67th L of C Hospital at Giruwa, Papua, in September, 1942.
[ATIS Enemy Publication No. 24, via the U.S. National Archives].