It compounds electoral problems for Labor, which is struggling to please any one community, particularly the Muslim…

Here’s a novel idea:

What about promoting the common good?

Still, there’s some schadenfreude to be had watching the chief sponsor of multikulti, the Australian Labor Party, being attacked by the monster it created.

Trump on tariffs:

The word tariff to me is a very beautiful word, because it can save our country, truly.

And yet I think because of graft. Because of a lot of consulting payments. And other things given by other countries (he is talking about bribes here- Arky) We have so much fighting with politicians on using it.

I saved our steel industries (and those great, big beautiful iron ore freighters on the Great Lakes- Arky) by putting tariffs on steel that China came in and dumped.

And you know what they do? They dump and dump and dump and everyone goes out of business. Then they (The Chinese- Arky) buys those businesses very cheap and then they raise the prices to higher than they ever were.

If you want to sell your furniture in China, they won’t take it, but if you want to build your plant in China to make furniture using their labour, they take it. We’re doing the same thing, but a lot of people “Oh we don’t want to have tariffs”.

The country was at its richest point in its history in the 1890s. Because it was all tariffs. If you look at William McKinley as an example he was a big tariff president. They had committees put in charge of what to do with all the money, we were taking in so much money. And McKinley would say “Why should we let people come in and steal our factories and steal our workers and why shouldn’t we benefit”, and he tariffed other countries. And we made so much but then they went to the income tax system later.*

*Trump interview with Dave Ramsey, October 2024, Transcribed by Arky.

Trump hits on a number of things here that you have never in your lifetime heard a politician say. The history of tax. The fact that Republicans for most of history were FOR tariffs. Trump chose McKinley as an example, but he could have chosen from half a dozen Republican presidents. The history of swapping tariffs for other forms of taxation which was conflated with de-regulation in an extremely corrupt way. Trump is for radical deregulation, and low taxation, very low taxation. but also for tariffs.
Trump breaks the orthodoxy of the last forty five years. It’s very refreshing.

Jewish group launches campaign against Greens ahead of Queensland election

McKenzie Scott, The Australian, 2 October, 2024

A grassroots Queensland Jewish group has accused the Greens of stoking anti-Semitism and hatred in the wake of the October 7 attacks in Israel, launching a billboard and letterbox campaign against the minor party in key seats ahead of the state election. The Australian can reveal the Queensland Jewish Collective has registered as a third party for the October 26 election, and has already raised more than $20,000 in community donations to fund 12,000 pamphlets and erect billboards in Brisbane electorates targeted by the Greens.

A first wave of advertisements compares the Greens protesting dams in the 1980s to today’s pro-Palestine movement, accusing the party of abandoning its core environmental message to support terror, indoctrinate children to hate, and undermine Australian values.

This week, the QJC will launch another series of billboards in partnership with the Australian Hindu Association and local Iranian community to take a stand for marginalised groups.

“They no longer stand for all minorities,” reads one of the QJC flyers. “They support our persecutors and terrorisers here and overseas. We’re putting them last.”

The collective is attempting to unseat Queensland’s first elected Greens MP, Michael Berkman, from the inner-west electorate of Maiwar, which he won in 2017, and is also targeting Moggill, held by the LNP’s Christian Rowan on a margin of 3.59 per cent, to blunt the Greens after it collected the overlapping federal seat of Ryan in the 2022 Brisbane “Greenslide”.

At the last Queensland election in 2020, the Greens held Mr Berkman’s seat and won a second, South Brisbane, ?after the LNP preferenced Amy MacMahon above Labor’s former deputy premier Jackie Trad.

One of the QJC’s three organisers Hava Mendelle said Queensland had become increasingly unsafe for Jewish Australians since October 7, and that danger had been exacerbated by Greens politicians appearing at pro-Palestine rallies.

“I’ve been living here for 25 years, and (being Jewish) was never something that I had to fear, because I knew that my government was behind me,” Ms Mendelle said.

“The rhetoric that has been coming out of the Greens, not just candidates, but the members, has been so one-sided with no nuance … it’s actually making Jews scared.

“Over the last 12 months, it has been so pro-hate and divisive that we couldn’t just sit here and not do anything.”

Ms Mendelle declined to appear in photographs for The Australian because of fears about her safety and that of her children.

She and non-Jewish organiser Joshu Turier have each voted for the Greens in the past but no longer feel they can.

“Many Jews in Brisbane actually vote for the Greens because we care about the environment, we care about social justice,” she said.

“But the Greens are not that party anymore.”

Mr Turier said he believed anti-Semitism had “absolutely corrupted” the Greens.

“If someone can show me another reason why there’s this obsessive focus on demonising Israeli actions, then I’m happy to consider it, but nobody’s been able to,” he said.

One of the figures in the new advertisement campaign, Hesam Orouji, said he moved to Australia eight years ago to live in a secular society for greater security. The Iran Novin Party member said he had to take a stand after being re-traumatised by people yelling anti-Semitic chants and carrying terrorist flags.

“I don’t know why they support this politics, which is against the Australian values and against humanity,” Mr Orouji said.

“I’m not in Iran anymore, but I can see same things happening here.”

Greens strategists say four suburban Labor-held seats could fall to the Greens: Cooper, McConnel, Greenslopes and Miller. The LNP seats of Clayfield and Moggill are also possible targets.

A Queensland Greens spokesman said the party “stands with Jewish people across the world who do not want to watch a genocide unfold, who want to see the hostages returned and want a ceasefire” and opposed anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all forms of racism.

“Criticising the war crimes of the far-right extremist government of Israel is not anti-Semitic.”

On Wednesday, federal Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather emailed party members, accusing the QJC of being a front for right-wing lobby group Advance Australia, a charge the organisation denies, and asking for donations to fund its own counter-billboards.

During the Trump presidency the Great Lakes shipping companies began to buy, for the first times since the 1970s, new lake freighters. Ore boats to make the 1000km journey carrying iron ore and all types of US commodities on the lakes.
The ship yards produced once again, those beautiful boats.

https://greatlakesships.wordpress.com/mark-w-barker/

The Mark W. Barker was constructed in 2022 (Laid Down: June 23, 2020) by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, as a self-unloading river-class bulk carrier for the Interlake Steamship Company. She was the first self-powered American freighter to be constructed for Great Lakes service in almost 40 years, the latest being the Columbia Star [American Century, 2006;] of 1981

The rest of the decade: inflation and high interest rates, locked in I reckon. The expectation of higher prices is accepted at a population wide level.

QLD Election gaffe: Premier Steven Miles forgets name of Labor candidate

Easy to do given there’s so many faceless men among them.

“…uncovered a “significant lack of governance and consistency” over how ballistic vests had been accounted for in police commands.”

Given my last experience with “NSW’s Finest”, finding a lack of ethics in the staff is not at all surprising.
I really wish I didn’t have to say that, but I do.

Daily Tele.
Pro-Palestine protesters to hold snap rally outside Supreme CourtAs NSW police try to stop long weekend October 7 protests proceeding, Pro-Palestinian protesters will gather outside the NSW Supreme Court this afternoon.

Dover might find this too long, but it is a great article from The American Spectator on the political chasm between the sexes in the younger generation

Flocking to Conservatism

American society seems dedicated to punishing youthful masculinity. 

https://spectator.org
?by NATE HOCHMAN

September 26, 2024

Young men once occupied a special — even unique — place in the West. Alexander the Great was 20 years old when he became king of Macedonia, and 25 when he conquered the Persian Empire; by the age of 30, he had brought most of the known world to heel. Augustus was 17 when he inherited Julius Caesar’s will; Charlemagne was 24 when he became the undisputed king of the Franks; and Napoleon was 24 when he became a general in the French army. On July 4, 1776, James Madison was 25; Alexander Hamilton was 21; and James Monroe was just 18. Christ himself was estimated to be roughly 30 — not young, per se, but hardly old, either — when he began his ministry.

The West’s greatest achievements were secured by men in the prime of their lives who were eager for glory, ready to die for immortality, and determined to write their names in the annals of their people’s history. From the early Viking raiders who sailed westward to explore and conquer alien worlds, to the European kings who struggled to unite and forge nations, to the Christian missionaries and explorers who crossed oceans to bring their God to new lands, Western Man’s undying thirst for new frontiers drove his civilization onward to destiny. They were the dreamers, poets, artists, statesmen, priests, philosophers, soldiers, and kings whose restless and irrepressible desire to know, explore, create, and conquer painted a civilization upon the empty canvas of primordial Europe. It was young Western men who poured out from the shores of their respective kingdoms to conquer continents, build a global empire, and give birth to the modern world.

For what young men gave to the West, the West gave back to them in kind. Youthful masculinity was afforded a certain kind of poetic glory in the West. But today, it is precisely what all of modern American — and more broadly, Western — society seems dedicated to punishing. The very virtues that were once celebrated and idolized by the bards and poets are now depicted as vices by the modern social and cultural regime. The very structure of American life appears, at times, to be organized around suppressing the same distinct ethos that originally shaped it.

In practice, this manifests as both an attack on young men specifically and an attack on masculinity in general — not just on the “gender norms” we hear about incessantly today, but on the masculine virtues and ways of viewing and interacting with the world. The phenomenon goes by many names, but perhaps the most popular descriptor, at least on the younger and more internet–savvy end of the Right, is “The Longhouse” — a term that “refers,” as the pseudonymous writer L0m3z put it in First Things, “to the remarkable overcorrection of the last two generations toward social norms centering feminine needs and feminine methods for controlling, directing, and modeling behavior.” Lomez writes:

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the realm of free speech and the tenor of our public discourse where consensus and the prohibition on “offense” and “harm” take precedence over truth. To claim that a biological man is a man, even in the context of a joke, cannot be tolerated. Instead, our speech norms demand “affirmation.” We are expected to indulge with theatrical zealotry the preferences, however bizarre, of the never-ending scroll of victim groups whose pathologies are above criticism.… Further, these speech norms are enforced through punitive measures typical of female-dominated groups –– social isolation, reputational harm, indirect and hidden force.

The emasculation of American life is both a literal process — whereby women are increasingly replacing men in traditionally male-dominated positions of power — and a more abstract, but no less potent, transformation, wherein feminine tastes, attitudes, and behavioral norms and expectations are replacing their masculine predecessors. As Lomez notes, “The Longhouse distrusts overt ambition. It censures the drive to assert oneself on the world, to strike out for conquest and expansion. Male competition and the hierarchies that drive it are unwelcome. Even constructive expressions of these instincts are deemed toxic, patriarchal, or even racist.

It is no coincidence, then, that political and ideological polarization among young people is increasingly splitting across gendered lines. “The Left,” broadly construed, is the party of the insiders — corporate managers, government bureaucrats, academic administrators, Big Tech C-suites, NGOs, and foundations, and so on. “The Right,” broadly construed, is the party of the outsiders — the Americans who, as a result of their geographic location, economic status, occupation, demographic characteristics, religious worldview, and sociological background are most alienated from the centers of social, cultural, and political power in modern America. The insiders represent, defend, and benefit from the new system; the outsiders resent and are disenfranchised by it.

The result is that, by many measures, gender-based ideological polarization within Generation Z is more pronounced than at any other time in recent memory. A University of Michigan survey tracking the political views of twelfth-grade boys and girls dating back to the 1970s found a sharp and drastic divergence to the right among young men starting around 2015 — and a sharp and drastic divergence to the left among young women around the same time. “Twelfth-grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative versus liberal, according to [the] respected federal survey of American youth,” the Hill wrote. At the same time, “women ages 18 to 29 are more likely to identify as liberal now than at any time in the past two decades, according to Gallup surveys. Young women are almost twice as likely as young men to claim the liberal tag.” A major global survey written up in Reuters back in April found that young American men were “the only U.S. population group to turn more conservative over the past decade.”

A slate of other polls, surveys, and studies published over the past few years tell the same story. According to Gallup, the share of young men who identify as Republican has increased by double digits over the past decade. According to a Wall Street Journal poll published in late July, the majority of young men (ages 18–29) now support Trump — a 29-point swing from 2020. Young women, on the other hand, supported Biden over Trump by a whopping 30-point margin. (For context, the gender gap between young men and young women was only 5 pointsin the 2008 presidential election).
The trend extends to specific issue-based positions: On everything from a border wall to gender identity to abortion to tax cuts, the Journal poll found that young men sit to the right of young women by double-digit margins. On “abortion should be legal,” the gap between young men and women is 37 points; on “let kids pick their gender identity,” the gap is 35 points; on both “build the wall” and “extend the Trump tax cuts beyond 2025,” the gap is an astounding 43 points.

What’s particularly notable is that by at least some measures, the rightward shift appears to be accelerating at the younger end of the spectrum: According to PRRI’s annual poll of Generation Z — which helpfully breaks down results between “Gen Z adults” (ages 18–25) and “Gen Z teens” (ages 13–17) — younger Gen Z boys are 25 points more likely, on net, to identify as conservative over liberal than their older Gen Z counterparts.
The significance of the rightward shift among young men is evident in the fact that it extends beyond the relatively small cohort of highly politically engaged or active constituencies. Youth male culture today is often either implicitly or explicitly right-wing. This is visible in the most popular and well-known influencers among boys — Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, and so on. This is the true measure of the political culture in a particular demographic: Even for the apolitical members of the group, the environmental backdrop — the podcasts they listen to, the figures they idolize, the topics of discussion with their friends and broader social circle — is either right-wing or right-wing–coded.

Political and ideological polarization among young people is increasingly splitting across gendered lines.

This divergence isn’t just happening in America; it’s taking place across the developed world. “In the US, Gallup data shows that after decades where the sexes were each spread roughly equally across liberal and conservative world views, women aged 18 to 30 are now 30 percentage points more liberal than their male contemporaries. That gap took just six years to open up,” the Financial Times reported earlier this year. But the precisely same phenomenon is occurring in Germany (which has a 30-point gap), the United Kingdom (which has a 25-point gap), and any number of other developed nations. An Ipsos survey of male and female “Zoomers” across 26 countries, published earlier this year, found consistent double-digit gaps between young men and women on issues like same-sex marriage.

What all this means for America — and for the Right’s place within it — remains unclear. The genre of rightism emanating from the alienated, disenfranchised young male masses is certain to be distinct from the movement conservatism of the past few decades. It will be angrier, more militant, and organized largely around an emerging set of issues that are often described as the “culture war.” In reality, these issues are merely different battlefields in the far more fundamental war surrounding the most essential questions of American identity. Young men know, at a visceral level, what defeat in this war would mean. They understand, better than many of their older counterparts, the stakes. They are the Right’s natural allies — if the Right is willing to embrace them.

dover0beach

October 3, 2024 2:56 pm

Okay, higher or lower than 50K, what’s your point here?

Precisely what I said.

The war has been going for about 10 months now at full scale. If you believe 50K is a dream-on figure, lets call it 100K (?) then. 333 war dead per day sounds reasonable to you, right? Where are the stiffs?

Arky
October 3, 2024 2:50 pm

It appears (allegedly, allegedly, allegedly)…
That your music industry gangster rapper was a Russian doll of playing roles within roles within roles.
You act like a gangster to get the cred to become a musician.
You become a musician to access girls and drugs.
You use the girls and drugs to lure in adoring blokes to your parties.
For your ultimate goal of vigorously bumming young fellows.
That’s some 4D chess.
Plus I guess all the money and fame the whole enterprise brings.
It makes one wonder if the entire entertainment industry isn’t just a giant machine for illicit rooting, and the music, movies and TV that results is just a byproduct.
Sure would explain why everything is so dumb and boring and shit.
Producing art was never the intent.

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Spot on the money, Arks. Modern music is garbage.

Going back in time, this wasn’t below.. Taylor Swift for example is not even remotely close to quality such as this, yet so many people think she has talent. I saw a clip of one of her concerts in a packed out stadium and I just laughed. Fools easily parted with their cash paying for muck.

With that said, I do not listen to radio anymore, so there could be something that exists?

Quality here:

Pretenders – Don’t Get Me Wrong (Live in London)

“Enough to deter them from responding against Iran as proposed overnight? Well find out soon enough.”

“Revenge is a dish best served cold”
Israel will do what it always does – not use brute force where targeted attacks against individuals is more effective.
They’ll find out who ordered it, and assassinate them.
Everyone will know, but no-one will be able to prove it.
“You can run, but you can’t hide – not forever. And we have a very long memory.”
FA&FO.

What a stark contrast from the previous clip from India. Bald in Cambodia now.

35 minute clip.

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Bald and Bankrupt:

1975 the Khmer Rouge rolled in to Phnom Penh to begin four years of brutal oppression in Cambodia. Although there were eventually defeated by the Vietnamese in 1979, Pol Pot and his army never went away completely. Hanging on in a northern village until the 1990s. I went to investigate and meet their descendants.

Drinking With The Khmer Rouge