Open Thread – Thurs 17 Oct 2024


Stroll at Albano, Karl Bryullov, 1833

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Helen
Helen
October 17, 2024 12:05 am

Yes it is I
First

Beertruk
October 17, 2024 12:15 am

Second.

mizaris
mizaris
October 17, 2024 1:41 am

Interesting…Labor health ” care”.

1030pm here in WA at RPH.

“Wake up mizaris, we’re transferring you to a different ward. You’re going home.”

Have not seen a consultant. Have had no firm diagnosis.

WTF???

THIRD!!!

Tom
Tom
October 17, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
October 17, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
October 17, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
October 17, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
October 17, 2024 4:03 am
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 5:01 am

We Aussies are masters when it comes to taking the piss. In this case, the Qantas crew @4:27 had a wait, what moment?

Kennedy Steve got them good. You just know a few moments afterwards they would been have saying, he got us good.

The radio response from the flight deck …uh

PROPWASH!

——

Great clip. Watch in full.

Kennedy Steve – ATC JFK from years back.

mizaris
mizaris
October 17, 2024 5:52 am

No-one else awake yet?

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 17, 2024 6:39 am

Andrew Bolt:

Anthony Albanese on Tuesday reached the death zone in a prime minister’s fall. For the first time, his own ministers are telling journalists he has no judgement.

That was about the kindest thing they were saying about this broken leader.

Labor-friendly journalists on the ABC, shocked, told of Albanese’s colleagues also calling him “selfish” for buying a $4.3m beach house on NSW’s Central Coast.

Other Labor MPs – again anonymous – vented in the Sydney Morning Herald.

“I can’t think of a greater act of self-sabotage in my life,” said one. “This is f—ing terrible.”

“Not a good look,” complained another.

A line has now been crossed – both by Albanese and the Labor MPs he pretends to lead.

I said on Monday that Albanese’s authority was already destroyed when Australians a year ago rejected his racist Voice. Albanese was exposed as politically clueless, unpersuasive, unfocused and strangely disengaged.

But until this week his colleagues stayed disciplined, as if expecting Albanese to bounce back with an agenda that might finally wow voters, smashed by inflation and falling living standards.

True, there were signs of fraying patience. Treasurer Jim Chalmers last month struck out on his own and asked Treasury to work out the figures if he cut negative gearing, to Albanese’s obvious surprise.

But only this week did that discipline truly break, with widespread leaking by Labor politicians of their anger and frustration with Albanese. Not coincidentally, it came the day after Newspoll for the first time had Labor behind the Coalition.

Some Labor spokesmen have tried to publicly defend Albanese’s decision to buy an expensive beachfront house at Copacabana, of all the frivolous names.

“Leave him alone,” pleaded Energy Minister Chris Bowen. Buying a house ahead of his marriage was Albanese’s private business.

Except that’s not quite true. Just look at the intense media coverage since, all totally predictable. Almost all negative.

Sure, Albanese’s nice house has inflamed Australia’s ugly tall-poppy jealously. That said, Labor has for decades exploited the politics of envy, so I’m short of sympathy.

But there’s more to this anti-Albanese backlash than mere envy, or a suspicion that Albanese is checking out of politics for more beach time.

Back when he was running against Bill Shorten to be the Labor leader – back when we still spoke – I told Albanese to give more speeches mentioning he was raised in a housing commission flat by a single mother on a disability pension.

Sorry for that. He’s since overdone it to prove he really is a man of the people who understands battlers and their struggles to buy groceries and a house.

How often have you heard him tell that story? It’s so critical to the Albanese image that his personal web page features “My Story”, which starts: “This is what drives me. My mum raised me in public housing as a single parent.”

Even on Tuesday, defending his house purchase, he told it again: “I also know what it is like to struggle. My mum lived in the one public housing that she was born in for all of her 65 years.”

He added: “I know what it is like, which is why I want to help all Australians into a home.”

And there we get to the real problem.

Compared to many past prime ministers – Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, Paul Keating, Bob Hawke – Albanese is not rich, but his I-grew-up-in-a-shoebox shtick is now dead-dead-dead.

As of this week, it’s going to grate. Voters aren’t going to buy what Albanese is trying to sell by telling that story – that he’s one of them, and knows the struggles they’re going through as he relaxes on his balcony with its magnificent ocean views.

No, his colleagues are right. Albanese has hurt his party. He was selfish to buy this house at this time, when millions of Australians are struggling to afford a roof over their own head.

The thing is, Albanese is no longer like the battlers. Buying this $4.3m home on the beach was naturally going to make millions of voters compare his finances to theirs, and feel like losers.

Worse, many would work out that Albanese is to blame, in part, because he’s made it harder for them to afford a house of their own.

Look at the inflation that’s making us poorer. Whose government made that worse with its wild spending, and with its union-friendly laws, green tape and race laws that destroy our productivity?

Then there’s Albanese’ insane immigration policy. He’s still letting in nearly half a million people a year, when building approvals have dropped to their lowest level in a decade – less than 160,000 homes a year.

No wonder that homes in our capital cities have become so scarce and expensive.

There’s where Albanese has gone so wrong. Just before an election he buys a showy house that reminds voters how hard he’s made it for them to buy anything at all.

No wonder his MPs now think he’s lost the plot.

One could argue he never had the plot to start with Mr Bolt.
As Damon said a couple of days ago on the olde fred, what are his achievements? What has he actually done that has benefited his constituents in Grayndler and indeed Australia since he became Pwime Minister?
Expect serious discussion on whether he will lead Labor to the next election.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 17, 2024 7:04 am

Labor-friendly journalists on the ABC, shocked, told of Albanese’s colleagues also calling him “selfish” for buying a $4.3m beach house on NSW’s Central Coast.

With a nice $100 million taxpayer-funded driveway…

PM announced $100m to upgrade roads leading to new coastal mansion (Sky News mainpage headline, 16 Oct)

More than $100 million in taxpayer funds will be spent to upgrade the main road which leads to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s new $4.3 million beach house.

In June this year, Mr Albanese held a press conference where he personally spoke about the upgrade to Avoca Drive on the Central Coast. It will be funded with $100 million in federal government money and $30 million in state funding.

Obviously a complete coincidence.

shatterzzz
October 17, 2024 7:08 am

Incredulous ..! some of the things you read .. CentreLink will no longer be accepting payments in .. wait for it ..! FOREIGN currency ……. ?From December 19 onwards, foreign currency cheques and money orders will no longer be accepted as payment methods for Centrelink debt recovery.

PeterM
PeterM
October 17, 2024 7:09 am

Supposedly the US has given Israel 30 days to get aid to Gaza or lose out on some arms shipments. I guess this is to appeal to a certain voting bloc dear to Democrats, but I wonder if that voting bloc is smart enough to see that the 30 days takes us past the election when the ultimatum becomes reversible at no electoral cost?

johanna
johanna
October 17, 2024 7:15 am

One part of the Albo sob story that I don’t get is the bit about how his mum has lived in public housing (taxpayer subsidised) for 65 years.

Her loving son has been on good money for decades, and has even amassed an investment property portfolio.

How come loving son hasn’t set his mum up in better accommodation? Is it that, contrary to his implication, she is on a very sweet deal, not a hardship gig? Or is he too stingy to do it?

Neither possibility reflects well on him.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 7:38 am

Not a comparison with taking nothing though
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3235950/

AnotherRanga
AnotherRanga
October 17, 2024 7:39 am

3rd day in Queensland and the Sun is shining. Some things I have learned on this trip.
It’s almost impossible to eat half a chook with the wooden cutlery that Red Rooter give you.
Queensland drivers need an engraved invitation to merge onto a freeway.
Bribie Island is Gods waiting room but has fantastic fish and chips.

Today may be the day that I try a 1Kg donut.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 7:43 am

Mrs Albanese/Ms Ellery died in 2002, apparently she lived in public housing her entire life, doesn’t quite square with her father running a printing business, if he too lived in public housing.
Maybe it was a choice for him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9558849/Anthony-Albaneses-heartbreaking-tribute-mum-died-going-hospital-Mothers-Day.html

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 7:46 am

Albanese’s mother’s life and early death is so heavily featured in the msm I’m surprised anyone would think she was still alive.
It’s an essential part of his schtick, her being a disability pensioner.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 7:48 am

Albo’s conveniently timed new road to his holiday shack is getting a bit of twitter coverage.
Maybe he’ll get to enjoy more time off soon.

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lotocoti
lotocoti
October 17, 2024 7:51 am

A Grauniad opinion piece so perfectly Grauniad it has to be parody.
Also: If Rose is a creative pattern cutter, but has never worked as a creative pattern cutter, is she a creative pattern cutter?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 17, 2024 7:52 am

I try a 1KG donut

And 36 hours later another 1KG wonder.

johanna
johanna
October 17, 2024 8:01 am

Thanks Pogria.

I didn’t know she was dead, because he keeps talking about her as though she’s alive and the media keep repeating his schtick.

Who rabbits on endlessly in public about a parent who died 25 years ago?

It’s just creepy, or very cynical.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 8:04 am
Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 8:10 am

Apparently this is a school principal saying no visitors allowed, there is no context to the clip.
I’ve seen others where Maronite villagers are blocking entry roads and shia are sleeping at beaches because people won’t rent houses to them, because once in they might never leave.
Looks to be a fraught situation with hezbos going north.
https://x.com/mountlevnon/status/1846570038213394937?t=zqziuDT6TsHGvjPVvamwbw&s=19

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 8:11 am
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 17, 2024 8:11 am

Dedicated to Albo’s new home away from his other homes:

If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says
“15 miles to the Grub Shack”
Grub Shack, yeah, yeah
I’m heading down the Avoca highway
Looking for the grub getaway
Headed for the grub getaway

I got me a car, and a protective detail
And we’re headin’ on down to the Grub Shack
Where no one can see us so we can spend plenty
So hurry up and bring that taxpayer’s money

The grub shack is a little old place where
We can spend together
Grub Shack, baby (the Grub Shack, baby)
Grub Shack, baby, Grub Shack
Grub Shack, baby, Grub Shack
Grub Shack, baby, Grub Shack (grub, baby, that’s where it’s at)
Grub Shack, baby, Grub Shack (grub, baby, that’s where it’s at)

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 8:13 am
Rabz
October 17, 2024 8:23 am

If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says

“15 miles to the Grub Shack”

Brilliant, Load.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 17, 2024 8:26 am

Another winner for a chopper ride:

In yet another example of the judicial system siding against election integrity, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney has delayed a pivotal new rule from the Georgia State Election Board that mandates the hand-counting of ballots at the precinct level until after the election.

Judge Robert McBurney, in his ruling, claimed that the hand-counting rule would create “administrative chaos” and “add uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process.”

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 17, 2024 8:29 am

Yet another Judge winning a seat on a helicopter ride.

In a heartbreaking plea to the American public, a devastated husband blasted the Biden-Harris regime after his wife, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, surrendered to federal authorities to begin her three-year prison sentence.

Her crime? Peacefully protesting outside an abortion clinic in violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 8:35 am

“Supposedly the US has given Israel 30 days to get aid to Gaza or lose out on some arms shipments.”
It’s northern Gaza and Israel have already resupplied hamas via the Erez West crossing.
https://x.com/cogatonline/status/1846504749056590320?t=5a18mJQ58Uj2A557g8hm2g&s=19

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 8:38 am

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/guest-column/black-deaths-blue-shirts-killer-lies/

Quadrant magazine. Anything that shows indigenous culture in a bad light is to be suppressed…

Crossie
Crossie
October 17, 2024 8:39 am

Bruce of Newcastle

 October 17, 2024 7:04 am

Labor-friendly journalists on the ABC, shocked, told of Albanese’s colleagues also calling him “selfish” for buying a $4.3m beach house on NSW’s Central Coast.

With a nice $100 million taxpayer-funded driveway…

The sea view house was probably not as huge an issue as the road upgrade to it. The whole country is pock marked by pot holes yet he gets a smooth ride to his weekend love nest? This will sink him and many, many votes that might otherwise have gone to Labor.

132andBush
132andBush
October 17, 2024 8:42 am

From the Grub Shack one can easily go looking for rock lobsters.

Rabz
October 17, 2024 8:43 am

My goodness the sheer tin eared idiocy of labore politicians is a wonder to behold – from the Oz:

Labore MPs renew negative gearing push after albansleazy’s $4.3m modest coastal cottage splash

Labore MPs are pushing for negative gearing changes after revelations albansleazy purchased a modest $4.3m beachside cottage, threatening a sch’ism between the PM and dim chambers over housing tax policies

OK – so let’s examine the logic here. Torrie fighting communist buys $4.3 million modest coastal cottage (with bonus $100 million road upgrade thrown in) courtesy of money plundered from taxpayers (and ahem, other “unknown sources”) over a period of almost three decades.

Much self righteous wailing (possibly audible in space) ensues from labore politicians and j’ismists bloviating about everything except the staggering hypocrisy.

The solution proposed by the braindead labore politicians supposedly outraged about the appalling optics? Why, let’s make accumulating a “property portfolio” even more difficult for everyone except parasitic politicians!

The sooner these obnoxious infuriating utterly irredeemable imbeciles are gifted some electoral oblivion, the better.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 17, 2024 8:52 am

Why are political parties addicted, as much as any smack user to turbomigration?
What does it actually improve apart from the nebulous “GDP”.
The current crop of lobotomites seem incapable of placing even the smallest cap on numbers.
I hate to say it, but at some stage the “You have to go back” meme is the only option left.

So what is it, corruption or hatred of Australia?
https://twitter.com/rationalaussie/status/1846642651803857083/photo/1

lobotomite
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 8:53 am

ACT Liberal leader Elizabeth Lee forced to apologise after she was caught on camera sticking up her middle finger at journalist
Noah Yim
16 minutes ago.
Updated 3 minutes ago

0 comments

ACT Liberal leader Elizabeth Lee has been forced to apologise after she was caught on camera sticking up her middle finger at a journalist after he had turned his back following a tense press conference.
The ACT election will be held on Saturday.
“I engaged in poor behaviour that was unprofessional, and I apologise”, she said afterwards.
“I have history with this journalist. I respect the work that journalists do, including asking the tough questions, and I think that I have demonstrated during this term that I’m willing to step up and answer tough questions.”
Ms Lee and RiotACT reporter Ian Bushnell had a tense exchange at a press conference on Wednesday.

Mr Bushnell questioned Ms Lee about the timing of costs and details on election pledges.
“Isn’t it a bit late in the day to be having these discussions?” Mr Bushnell asked.
“Isn’t it late in the day for [ACT Chief Minister] Andrew Barr to still have not submitted costings for his policies?” She responded.
“We’re talking about your policies,” Mr Bushnell said.
“No, you can’t throw things at the opposition and expect to have no comeback when the fact is, this is a treasurer who’s been in charge of the ACT treasury – are you finished?”
“I just want you to answer the question.”
“Are you finished?”
“Answer the question.”
“Are you finished or not? I will answer the question in my own way, Ian, you don’t get to dictate how I answer the question.”
After this, footage shows the reporters turning away as the press conference ended, and Ms Lee walks to the side and briefly flashes up her middle finger aimed at Mr Bushnell’s back.
Ms Lee and the ACT Liberals are seeking to end Labor’s 23 continuous years in power in the ACT.

“Well done” to the lady, says I

132andBush
132andBush
October 17, 2024 9:00 am

Comrade Montgomery,

What invective loaded bombast straight from chunk yoghurt do you have for us today?

The “Trump has a senior moment on stage and is obviously senile” narrative lasted barely half a day.

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 9:00 am

Three years for “unlawful assembly”? Is there such a thing. I thought that peaceful assembly was specifically mentioned in the Constitution.

@MrsBevelynW

Biden/Harris administration has made my husband a single father today. I am on my way to turn myself into federal prison where I am scheduled to serve three years in federal prison for unlawful assembly. Share this and make mothers and fathers of this nation aware of what’s going on!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 17, 2024 9:02 am

Reports in that One Direction (a boy band) singer Liam Payne has fallen to his death from a Buenos Aires hotel balcony.

I suppose, then, that his last ‘one direction’ was…

Down.

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 9:05 am

But there’s no money to help the victims of two catastrophic hurricanes.
Biden announces $425 million security aid package for Ukraine

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 9:07 am
Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 17, 2024 9:08 am

What I’d like: Every journalist who asks AnAl a question prefaces it with “Speaking as one who’s mother lived her entire life living in the one housing commission house…”

Rabz
October 17, 2024 9:09 am

“You may not know this, but you would appreciate this. I grow chili peppers.”

Yet more tin eared idiocy. Reminiscent of Shrillary’s revelation she carts around “hot sauce” in her bag.

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 9:11 am

In all the right people, who can’t even imagine losing in their entitled lives.

Nolte: Halperin Says Trump Victory Will ‘Cause Greatest Mental Health Crisis in History’

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 9:14 am
Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 9:16 am

@JDVance

Kamala Harris let a terrorist into our country. He was going to kill our people.

And the media attacked those who protested as racists or mean-spirited for suggesting that we should properly vet newcomers to our nation.

Thank God her leadership didn’t kill anyone this time.

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 9:17 am
Natural Instinct
Natural Instinct
October 17, 2024 9:20 am

A $4 million beach house for retirement is a bad obvious look.
But the real hidden crime is the pension used to service the mortgage.
$250,000 plus for life (AAP)
The IPA says $400k.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 17, 2024 9:23 am

The sea view house was probably not as huge an issue as the road upgrade to it.

That road is the main artery. It has needed upgrading since at 2011 when we moved to the coast ( other end up in beautiful downtown Budgewoi)

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 17, 2024 9:24 am

“Dammit Harris, it’s chicken, not chilli!
Koreans like chilli, brothers dig on chicken!”

Roger
Roger
October 17, 2024 9:27 am

How come loving son hasn’t set his mum up in better accommodation?

Or his well to do uncle prior to that…

Roger
Roger
October 17, 2024 9:30 am

Australia’s birth rate has hit 1.5, which demographers say is close to the point of no return.

The finger is pointing at declining living standards, unaffordable housing and a lack of hope for the future due to the climate change scare.

One could also mention a punitive tax system.

Well played, Uniparty.

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 17, 2024 9:50 am

My sister came to visit yesterday, got driven down from Brisbane by my nephew. This is the first time she’s visited in 25 years. Stayed for 2 1/2 hours and left. I’ve visited her for at least a week a year for quite a while. Missed during the coff lock down. Don’t think I’ll bother anymore or am I just as bad if I do that or in this case not. Nephew was embarrassed. Not quite as bad as wifes aunt. Uncle went to visit after not seeing his sister for 20+ years, he’d been there for half an hour when she asked him when he was leaving. He was showing his granddaughter where the family lived when they came out from Ireland and Scotland in the 1830’s. Both lots were pioneers. Aunt has a flash holiday house nearby where they were going and never offered to let them stay. Just as well cousin was there to organise it. Families?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 9:59 am

Anybody looking for some “Thinking persons fiction”, I can recommend Robert
Harris “An Officer and a Spy.” – it’s based on the “Dreyfus Affair”, and has some resonations in today’s society…

cohenite
October 17, 2024 10:00 am

Great painting with lots of swagger. Reminds me of when I was young(er).

Latest betting odds on Trump:

Faith in President Donald J. Trump‘s reelection prospects has surged to new highs in the betting markets, with at least one now projecting Trump to have a 60 percent chance of winning the presidential race. Betting website Polymarket projects that Trump has a 59.7 percent chance of winning the presidency compared to his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, at 40.2 percent.

Trump Hits Historic New Highs in Betting Markets. (thenationalpulse.com)

Aaron
Aaron
October 17, 2024 10:08 am

Albanese tells the “Brought up in a matchbox by a poverty struck single mother” schtick all the time.

Do the sums.

Albo started working for Uren while still in uni, went on to pre -selection in ’96.

Mother passed away in 2002.

So the miserable germ left her in public housing.

No investment properties then eh?

JC
JC
October 17, 2024 10:08 am

LOL

Wow.

The stupidity of this entire “movement” on full display here.

“Anti-Israel” woman goes on a rant and tears down Greek flags at a Greek restaurant thinking they are flags of Israel.

They get stupider and stupider I swear

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 17, 2024 10:17 am

This is just awful.

UNRWA ‘very near’ to possible breaking point on Gaza operations, says head (16 Oct)

UNRWA is close to a possible breaking point for its operations in the Gaza Strip due to increasingly complicated conditions, said its head on Wednesday.

“I will not hide the fact that we might reach a point that we won’t be able anymore to operate,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told journalists at a news conference in Berlin.

It would be so totally terrible if Hamas guys could no longer shoot at Israelis from inside UNRWA clinics. Or store weapons in tunnels and HQs underneath them. Why, they might even be forced to leave Gaza completely. How catastrophic!

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 17, 2024 10:18 am

The finger is pointing at declining living standards, unaffordable housing…

I’ve got a sister who works at the Primary School, next town down the road.
Proximity to the coast has driven up property prices which is forcing younger families out. Enrolments are sliding off a cliff and the viability of the PS looking dodgy.
Which puts the HS on shaky ground.
?

cohenite
October 17, 2024 10:19 am

Great painting with lots of swagger. Reminds me of when I was young(er).
Latest betting odds on Trump:

Faith in President Donald J. Trump’s re-election prospects has surged to new highs in the betting markets, with at least one now projecting Trump to have a 60 percent chance of winning the presidential race. Betting website Polymarket projects that Trump has a 59.7 percent chance of winning the presidency compared to his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, at 40.2 percent.
?
Trump Hits Historic New Highs in Betting Markets. (thenationalpulse.com)

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 17, 2024 10:26 am

Theres an interesting 3rd rail neither side of polly-ticks has explored for housing.

1: Cease migration to 50,000 a year – skilled/family only.
2: Make interest deductible on the family home.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/mortgages-real-estate/11/calculate-the-mortgage-interest-math.asp
3: Income splitting for couples/families – the sheer mongnitude of taking 40% of a couples income because one of them works a well paid job is insane.
https://www.whittakercpas.com/income-splitting-to-pay-less-taxes/

calli
calli
October 17, 2024 10:28 am

Stroll at Albano.

Excellently droll, Dover. Not quite clifftop, but lakeside will do. 😀

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 17, 2024 10:30 am

In good news news!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1846536879849587181

New Wallace and Gromit coming out.

cohenite
October 17, 2024 10:33 am

Trannies and their supporters on the warpath again: and the feckless libs wriggling with carrots up their arse as usual:

MP breaks party ranks on transgender birth certificates (msn.com)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 17, 2024 10:35 am

Doesn’t sound like Kamala’s spot on Fox went well…

‘I’m Speaking’: Bret Baier Interviews Kamala Harris (Twitchy, 16 Oct)

I thought he’d soft soap her, but he seems to’ve been doing a decent job.

Roger
Roger
October 17, 2024 10:35 am

Can these dead bones live?

Angus Taylor lays foundation for Coalition’s economic overhaul

Jack Quail, Greg Brown & Matt Bell, The Australian, 16 October 2024

The Coalition has issued a pre-election warning about the growth of the care economy as it vows to drive productivity by ­returning to the economic model championed in the 1980s through lower taxes, spending and regulation. Opposition Treasury spokesman Angus Taylor has used a major speech to declare the ­nation is at a similar crossroads to the one faced 40 years ago when the Hawke government began ­deregulating the economy, declaring the “consequences of getting it wrong will burden our future generations as much as the current one”.

While not being specific about the Coalition’s economic policies, despite pressure to do so from Labor, Mr Taylor said a Dutton government would reintroduce a tax-to-GDP cap, slow the yearly increase in spending to below economic growth and target a structural budget balance in the “medium term”.

He also flagged a slashing of business regulations, easing rules on the financial services sector, unwinding some of Labor’s workplace reforms while declaring the Coalition would lower taxes with the first priority being on wage earners and small businesses.

Declaring the nation needed a more “realistic economic framework” to deal with the challenges of the 2020s, Mr Taylor warned that the embracement of ­Keynesian-inspired spending to stimulate growth was contributing to inflation and doing nothing to enhance productivity.

Jim Chalmers has credited Labor’s spending with saving the nation from a recession, but Mr Taylor said government stimulus was the wrong approach to deal with the looming economic slowdown because “today’s challenges” were driven by structural and not cyclical problems.

“The traditional government response to an economic malaise is to stimulate demand,” Mr Taylor said, delivering the Warren Hogan memorial lecture at the University of Sydney.

“Slowdowns are typically assumed to be cyclical, not structural. But that is the wrong answer for today’s challenges. Structural challenges on the supply side are now hurting us badly.

“Restoring our living standards can only come from an ­expansion of the productivity ­capacity of the economy.”

Mr Taylor’s speech came after UBS Asset Management bond veteran Tim Van Klaveren warned that interest rate cuts had been delayed due to the cost-of-living support delivered by state and federal governments.

“We have both state and federal governments, particularly Queensland and Victoria, who are spending more than the RBA would like, which is creating ­demand in the economy and has kept inflation firmer than it ­otherwise would be,” Mr Van Klaveren said.

With Queensland voters heading to the polls in nine days, and elections in Western Australia and at a federal level scheduled for the first half of 2025, Mr Van Klaveren added that any additional pre-election spending threatened to further undermine the RBA’s inflation fight.

“The reality is that any new government that does come in will have to act a lot tougher on fiscal policy and spend accordingly,” he said.

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn said Australia was facing a “higher for longer” inflationary environment, as he revealed the bank had ­handed out 132,000 tailored hardship packages in the past year. He said the economy was “still absorbing the shocks of the past few years”. While inflation was falling, it remained persistent.

In his speech, Mr Taylor said central banks and treasuries across the western world were blindsided by inflation spikes after Covid because they were reliant on “new Keynesian models” that were not adequate at “predicting inflation or delivering structural growth in prosperity”.

Mr Taylor took a shot at the inflation forecasts delivered by former Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe and Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy, who he lumped among the “economics profession and policy advisers (that) have got it so wrong”.

“The idea that inflation was largely immune to surging ­demand had become a feature of most economic models, including at central banks,” Mr Taylor said. “But our old enemy from the 70s and 80s had not gone away. Inflation had just been in hiding, only to come back with a vengeance.”

With nearly two-thirds of jobs created under the Albanese ­government coming in taxpayer-supported “care economy” ­sectors including health, disability and aged care, Mr Taylor said this was adding to productivity problems. He said there had been “no labour productivity growth in the care economy for 20 years”, with productivity growth in the market sector outstripping it by 17.5 per cent since 2000.

“Rapid growth in public spending is crowding out private sector activity and investment at a time when the supply side of our economy is constrained,” Mr Taylor said. “The majority of ­employment growth is coming from the non-market sector, where there is direct public ­employment or jobs indirectly funded by governments, while market sectors are experiencing skills shortages.”

The RBA has attributed a surge in government spending – expected to hit a record 28 per cent of GDP by the end of 2025, according to Westpac – as one of the reasons why it does not expect underlying inflation to return to its 2 to 3 per cent target band until mid-2025. Mr Taylor committed to a different approach should the Coalition form government, focusing on “getting the basics right” across five key areas of reform: fiscal management, regulatory reform, and housing, energy and tax policies.

On regulatory changes, Mr Taylor vowed that the Coalition would advance plans to wind back “productivity-draining” requirements across environmental approvals, climate reporting, workplace relations, and the corporations act. “These initiatives risk reallocating resources from generating economic activity to responding to government ­departments and creating unnecessary conflict,” he said.

Businesses were spending more time on compliance than strategy and investment, he said.

He also flagged easing financial services sector rules.

“We run the risk of becoming under-banked, under-insured, and under-advised at a time our ageing population will demand more financial services, not less,” he said.

Flagging changes to tax ­settings, Mr Taylor said the ­Coalition would strive to reduce the income tax burden on families and young Australians but was scant on specifics. Backbench Liberals and Nationals have pressed the shadow cabinet to promise generous income tax cuts at the next election, as the benefits of the stage three tax cuts are unwound due to bracket creep.

Arky
October 17, 2024 10:36 am

Think about Anthony Albonese’s ex- neighbours.

Living next door to Albo.

Plibbers called when she got the word, She said: “I suppose you’ve heard – About Albo”.
Well I rushed to the window,
And I looked outside,
But I could hardly believe my eyes – As a big limousine rolled up
Into Albo’s drive…
 Oh, I don’t know why he’s leaving, Or where he’s gonna go,
I guess he’s got his reasons,
But I just don’t want to know,
‘Cos for twenty-four years
I’ve been living next door to Albo.
Twenty-four years just waiting for a chance,
To tell him how I’m feeling, maybe kick him in the pants, Now I’ve got to get used to not living next door to Albo…
Parliamentary leather,
Since 1996.
Now the super rolls in,
He’ll give the voters the slip,
The voice for abos,
Plibbers mine fix, and house prices are high,
Just for a moment, I caught his eye, As the big limousine pulled slowly
Out of Albos drive.
Oh, I don’t know why he’s leaving, Or where he’s gonna go,
I guess he’s got his reasons,
But I just don’t want to know,
‘Cos for twenty-four years
I’ve been living next door to Albo.
Twenty-four years just waiting for a chance,
To tell him how I’m feeling, he sure ain’t J.D. Vance,
Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Albo…
Plibbers called back, asked how I felt, She said: “You know his mother was a houso”.
She said: “Now Albo is gone,
But I’m still here,
You know I’ve been waiting
For twenty-four years”…
And the big limousine disappeared…
I don’t know why he’s leaving, Or where he’s gonna go,
I guess he’s got his reasons,
But I just don’t want to know,
‘Cos for twenty-four years
I’ve been living next door to Albo.
Twenty-four years just waiting for a chance,
To tell him how I feel, and maybe get my Victa back,
But I’ll never get used to not living next door to Albo…
Now I’ll never get used to not living next door to Albo…

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 17, 2024 10:40 am

Some more, this time from PJ Media:

BREAKING: Kamala Shouts, Whines, Cannot Answer Basic Questions in Fox Interview (16 Oct)

Quite interesting her desperation to not answer any question except with meaningless word salads and TDS.

Crossie
Crossie
October 17, 2024 10:46 am

I watched Kamala’s interview with Bret Baier on Fox. It was as you would expect, she gored the questions and simply carried on about Trump and then got angry when asked to address the question. The interview finished in about 15-20 minutes, not sure who pulled the plug, Fox or her people. She is incapable of answering anything at short notice.

Crossie
Crossie
October 17, 2024 10:51 am

Bruce of Newcastle

 October 17, 2024 10:40 am

Some more, this time from PJ Media:

BREAKING: Kamala Shouts, Whines, Cannot Answer Basic Questions in Fox Interview (16 Oct)

Quite interesting her desperation to not answer any question except with meaningless word salads and TDS.

I was quite mystified when Bret Baier kept telling her he needs to wrap up. Surely an important person like a presidential candidate would be allocated at least a whole hour. It must have looked even worse to Fox or her people than it did to me that the interview was cut short. It was obvious that she was antagonistic and had no intention in answering any questions.

Makka
Makka
October 17, 2024 10:51 am

Biden to Obumma : “So is Kamala doing ok?” (Hilarious)

https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1846684133298159702

Rabz
October 17, 2024 10:54 am

Taylor took a shot at the inflation forecasts delivered by (cue spookee muzak …) former Reserve Bank governor Dilip Lowie and Treasury secretary Wallee Nobody, who he lumped among the “economics profession and policy advisers (that) have got it so wrong (again)

Noice. We can never (figuratively) bash economists too hard or frequently enough.

cohenite
October 17, 2024 10:54 am

Can these dead bones live?

Angus Taylor lays foundation for Coalition’s economic overhaul

Jack Quail, Greg Brown & Matt Bell, The Australian, 16 October 2024

NO; unless they denounce global boiling and renewables. All taylor could manage was some tinkering around the edges with climate and environmental regulation reduction. Reduction?! FFS.

In addition conservatives have to come out against trannies and the alphabet loons. If they can’t define a woman and recognise trannies are mentally ill they’re just as bad as the leftoids only a little bit slower.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 10:55 am
local oaf
October 17, 2024 11:07 am

“thefrollickingmole
October 17, 2024 8:52 am

Why are political parties addicted, as much as any smack user to turbomigration?”

I don’t understand why the Liberals even have an immigration policy.
Before the 22 election, they proposed 160,000/year and I believe recently reiterated that policy.

Albo has already brought in 1,200,000, probably 1,500,000 by the next election.
That’s nearly 10 years worth of what the Liberals think is appropriate!

They should be proposing a total cessation of all immigration for the next decade.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
October 17, 2024 11:08 am

Daytime Sky still showing no sign of liking Trump. Fine, you’ll all go down as helping the USA go down, and I don’t mean in a good way.

Roger
Roger
October 17, 2024 11:16 am

Why are political parties addicted…to turbomigration?

Because for nigh on five decades their family policy has been to get as many child-bearing age women into the workforce as possible to increase the tax base.

From c. 2001 John Howard turbo-charged migration to counter the looming demographic consequences of the above policy.

The sugar hit boost in consumption masked the decline in the production of the goods and services that create wealth. Lacking the courage to tackle the productivity problem, it was easier to keep the foot on the immigration accelerator every time we hit what should have been a recessionary bump in the road.

That’s what it boils down to.

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Arky
October 17, 2024 11:27 am

Just watched the Kamalala- Fox interview.
She ain’t no retail politician. She’s just a cocksucker.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 17, 2024 11:41 am

Albo’s beach house might see him knitting the kangaroo.

local oaf
October 17, 2024 11:42 am

This feminism seems pretty racist to me.

White women must have all the jobs and fulfilling careers, while the dirty work of birthing and raising children is outsourced to immigrants from the 3rd world.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 17, 2024 11:58 am

H B Bear
 October 17, 2024 11:41 am

Albo’s beach house might see him knitting the kangaroo.

I think the Women’s Weekly wedding photo shoot might be on the back-burner.
Or maybe not.

Arky
October 17, 2024 11:59 am

Pulling this out of embedded because it’s one of the best things I ever wrote:
Arky
 October 17, 2024 11:53 am

 Reply to  Roger
The change occurred due to de-industrialisation.
During our Industrial Age, housing was where you kept a productive workforce, therefore it was a cost to be kept down.
During the current Stupid Age, housing is financial assets.
Houses are assets on balance sheets against which money can be created.
Immigration drives housing, drives the financial sector, which is all that is left in a post industrial apocalypse.
It’s a means to pull people’s future potential earnings into the present and enrich c*nts.
Same with welfare, same with electrification, same with degree loans.
Don’t think of a degree, a car or a house as the thing. Think of them as the hook required to get people to sign over potential future earnings, and then that to be traded on the financial markets.
That’s all it is, and that’s why the policies around all those things are what they are.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 17, 2024 12:00 pm

I’ve got a baby crow that can hardly fly. I’m giving it lessons, as in chasing it so it flys. About 10m, 300mm off the ground.

Jock
Jock
October 17, 2024 12:02 pm

Regarding Elbows mother. You all need to recall that many immigrants and others utilised public owned housing. It wasnt welfare in those days. When we arrived from Scotland in 63, many of the Brits moved into housing commission. Its what they had in Britain. The same would apply to Europeans. One of my fathers close friends was an electrician working in a mine. Made great money. His wife was a cleaner at the local HS. They were doing great. But lived in Housing Commission. Never owned a house
Im not defending the PM. He is a twit. And this story he recalls is romantic twaddle of the “oppressed working class”. He thinks he is inventing his own folklore. What I would like to know is what disability and didn’t she ever work? Why didnt he help her?

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Top Ender
Top Ender
October 17, 2024 12:02 pm

At Warbirds Downunder in Temora.

Driving through the little town we saw Paleface Park by the side of the road.

Will be writing to the Town Council to tell them to keep up the good work.

Cross
Cross
October 17, 2024 12:17 pm

They should be proposing a total cessation of all immigration for the next decade.

The US had that policy from the 1930s to 1960s though it was mostly to assimilate the huge influx until then.

We need to halt the incoming until housing is cheap again and there are plenty of well-paid jobs for the current population.

It also wouldn’t hurt to start using the terms integration and assimilation as ways to make us all equal, and that includes the indigenous. Assimilation may be out of favour now but it assures we are all on the same page and can fully participate in the economic and social life of the country. It gives a sense of belonging that is very much missing in this age of multi-culti.

Crossie
Crossie
October 17, 2024 12:28 pm

“The same would apply to Europeans. One of my fathers close friends was an electrician working in a mine. Made great money. His wife was a cleaner at the local HS. They were doing great. But lived in Housing Commission. Never owned a house”

Knew a family in Melbourne who lived in one of the housing commission high-rises. The man sneered at dad for getting a mortgage and spending money on a car. Dad said at least he could sell up and move wherever he wanted and could drive anywhere not just where the train could go.

Just realised a couple of letters fell off the end of my name, all fixed now.

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lotocoti
lotocoti
October 17, 2024 12:28 pm

Turdtowns is the place to visit if you want to experience the long term effects of de-industrialisation without the need for a Dettol bath and flea powder dusting afterwards.

Makka
Makka
October 17, 2024 12:36 pm

It gives a sense of belonging that is very much missing in this age of multi-culti.

The die is already cast. Past Govts have totally fkd our Brit/Euro heritage , since the 70’s. Multiculturalism is clearly a leftist brainfart that the cowardly LNP has never challenged. Once we did have something to “belong to”. Now it’s a hodge podge of various national identities inhabiting the continent. In many places now it’s like being in a foreign country.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 17, 2024 12:38 pm

Luigi the Unbelievable’s back story smells of tripe.
As Rosie said, her father supposedly having an established printing business doesn’t gel with eligibility for public housing.
And nor does going on a Mediterranean cruise when the average middle-class holiday was two weeks in a caravan at Rye.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 12:40 pm

Commentary from Mark Dice. It saves me from having to watch the interview.

She is filth. A disgusting creature.

Kamala’s Fox News Interview Trainwreck! Bret Baier Humiliates Her By Just Asking Relevant Questions

Lysander
Lysander
October 17, 2024 12:45 pm

On the immigration debate being had here.. I’m always a little wary of saying “let’s only bring in those who are fit to work!” It sounds a little “master race” to me… Conversely, I’m not saying “open the flood gates.”

My parents came over on a ship in the 60’s and they had very little skills given they were farming folk. However, in those 70+ years here, they have made an enormous contribution to society… They did, however, know how to assimilate.

I dare say there’d be a number of Cats who wouldn’t be here had that principle been adopted.

Methinks there also needs to be some genuine humanitarian intake but needs to be tight. British born patriots trying to escape Islondonbad may be one such example! 😛

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
October 17, 2024 12:48 pm

I find everything to do with our Aboriginal brethren (and particularly the activist parts thereof) utterly depressing. I can only hope that Jacinta N Price can one day get true power and fix the whole rotten stinking mess, and also change the prevailing extremely hostile attitude towards whitefellas perpetrated by politicians, bureaucrats and activists.

I remain pessimistic as there are too many snouts in the trough of this grievance industry.

Black Deaths, Blue Shirts, Killer Lies

The idea that white men in blue shirts enforcing Western laws are the biggest threat to black lives is the lie that won’t die. It’s not the biggest lie perpetuated and proliferated by failing institutions which ostensibly exist to ascertain truth, but it is one of the most widely believed. Despite the sadness and seriousness of the issue, it’s amusing to watch the collective cognitive dissonance, the fake performative questioning, reporting and advocacy around indigenous deaths. There is the “courageous exposition” of red herrings and the decisive dealing with straw men; and the people who are sure they are on the “right side of history” who are making things worse. Their inability to identify and propagate the truth is causing real suffering.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 17, 2024 12:49 pm

What is it with Liars politicians and their overwhelming need to tell Four Yorkshiremen stories about the upbringing?
First we had Kokoda Kev telling us he lived in a car (probably went to sleep on the way home from the drive-in).
Now we’ve got the Dickensian tale of Luigi living on stale bread crusts in a houso flat.

johanna
johanna
October 17, 2024 12:55 pm

Jock
October 17, 2024 12:02 pm

Regarding Elbows mother. You all need to recall that many immigrants and others utilised public owned housing. It wasnt welfare in those days.
—————————————————
Yes, originally public housing was simply a way of supplementing housing stock, which was very low after WWII. Rents were a bit lower than the private sector, but not by much.

It only started to be targeted to low income earners, the disabled, the chronically unemployed etc in the 1970s. Prior to that it was simply an option in the rental market, and the houses were pretty basic.

While they were not flashy, public housing estates were usually quite respectable places to live, and the vast majority of tenants had jobs, unlike today. They were meant to be a stepping stone to better things.

Once dysfunction started being rewarded with lifelong cheap accommodation, the results were predictable.

Turnip
Turnip
October 17, 2024 12:55 pm

My parents came over on a ship in the 60’s and they had very little skills given they were farming folk. However, in those 70+ years here, they have made an enormous contribution to society… They did, however, know how to assimilate.

That’s the difference, your parents weren’t eligible for much in the way of financial support and had no choice but to assimilate.
Immigration these days is a very different beast and is no longer the nett benefit to the host society it once was.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 17, 2024 12:57 pm

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has condemned the ‘organised theft’ of a town’s land which she says has been quietly handed over to a Aboriginal corporation against the wishes of the community. 

Senator Hanson said the deal to hand over 210ha of Toobeah Reserve – near the NSW border in western Queensland – to the Bigambul Native Title Aboriginal Corporation was quietly arranged behind closed doors due to the upcoming state election.

Toobeah has been bitterly split by the move, with publican Michael Offerdahl leading the fight against what he described as a secretive ‘Aboriginal land grab’ that will hand over $2million worth of land comprising of over 95 per cent of the town.

More at the Daily Mail

Pogria
Pogria
October 17, 2024 12:59 pm

Nut job going crazy with a broken bottle in a Melbourne shopping centre.
When you see him, it’s a safe bet there will be no description of him being “early man”.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13968229/man-stabbed-security-guards-shopping-centre-melbourne-mulgrave.html

Turnip
Turnip
October 17, 2024 1:01 pm

I missed most of the debate but watched the review on Fox after.
She turned up 15 minutes late and Fox were worried they would not have the show set up for broadcast in the 45 minutes they had left.
Her people were trying to wind up the interview a bit earlier, but they eventually got BB to stop. Not sure if they got the advertised 30 minutes?

Why they would turn up late to the likely most important event they had that day is a surprise…deliberate to shorten the interview or just poor planning?

Lysander
Lysander
October 17, 2024 1:25 pm

B2 Bombers have flown from Missouri to hit targets in Yemen.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 1:31 pm

A fabulous song combined with a stunning visual montage.

Chris Rea – The Blue Cafe

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 17, 2024 1:31 pm

originally public housing was simply a way of supplementing housing stock, which was very low after WWII. Rents were a bit lower than the private sector, but not by much.

This is what my mother described. Also later turnip touched on it with the lack of welfare, most of my aunties and uncles worked, some in the Moorebank industrial area across the Georges R from Liverpool.

Most were grateful for the house they lived in from what I have been told. It wasn’t considered an entitlement. That came later.

As for Albo quite sure wasn’t his dad, it was an uncle that owned the printing business and supporting the lesser fortunate of the family wasn’t uncommon especially if it were paying the school fees so the children got a good start. My mum recalls this happening a lot especially among Catholics.

As for his public housing credentials, yeah he got a leg up by politics. However I’d hardly describe his contribution to the nation as positive. I’d rather those who came out of those areas who built businesses like a couple of my cousins or even the likes of older relatives above who worked on a production line quietly trying to get ahead. They deserve accolades not a self aggrandising politician with precious little substance.

Pogria
Pogria
October 17, 2024 1:47 pm

A great election ad from a Nebraska Republican. SFL’s should take note.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PBn34pV8gM

JC
JC
October 17, 2024 1:55 pm

dover0beach

October 17, 2024 1:17 pm

One of the keys to understanding the last 20 or more years – and not just Middle East affairs – is Syria:

Kevork Almassian????

@KevorkAlmassian

Former head of Mossad: we treated al-Qaeda militants in Israeli field hospitals in the Golan Heights.

Yeah, keys to understanding Mid East affairs.

Israel provided medical care to Yahya Sinwar, the current leader of Hamas in Gaza, during his time in Israeli prisons. Sinwar was arrested in 1988 and sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the deaths of Palestinian collaborators. During his time in prison, he reportedly received treatment for a brain tumor in an Israeli hospital.

In 2011, Sinwar was released as part of the prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held captive by Hamas for over five years. Since then, Sinwar has become one of the key leaders of Hamas in Gaza.

Roger
Roger
October 17, 2024 1:56 pm

What is it with Liars politicians and their overwhelming need to tell Four Yorkshiremen stories about the upbringing?

They’re examples of how St. Gough lifted millions out of poverty.

That usually gets a mention.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 1:56 pm

Titus Groates
 October 17, 2024 1:38 pm

Reply to  Steve trickler
It is a great track. Chris Rea criminally underrated in my view.

—-

100%

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 17, 2024 2:21 pm

Former President Barack Obama is urging black men to support Kamala Harris, suggesting that our allegiance should be based on the color of her skin and the chance to “make history.” But I have a simple response to that: my ancestors fought too hard for my right to vote for me to be reduced to a racial checkbox in a political game. I won’t support someone just because they look remotely like me—especially when that person has shown no regard for the real issues facing black communities.

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/cj-pearson-race-baiting-obama-can-kiss-my-black-ass/

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P
P
October 17, 2024 2:26 pm

Nuclear Kamala
Crisis Magazine – October 16, 2024

We’re on the brink of nuclear war. Team Kamala could push us over.

Since 2022, the Biden-Harris administration has forbidden negotiations with Russia and empowered Ukraine to continue a war that has resulted in the depopulation of that country and the destruction of its communities

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 2:33 pm

Is Israel being condemned for the humanitarian treatment of Syrians civilian or otherwise during the civil war now?
This shouldn’t be a revelation to anyone paying attention back then.
Anyone who sought treatment was given it, including pregnant women.

“At the end of February 2013 on a Saturday night much like any other, a routine Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) military patrol along the border with Syria came across a group of seven badly wounded Syrian combatants located close to the border fence. They were mostly unconscious and clearly in need of urgent medical care. A local operational decision was made, based on their medical condition alone, to take in these individuals and transfer them by military ambulance to the nearest hospital capable of caring for severe trauma,”
https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/68098

JC
JC
October 17, 2024 2:40 pm

I don’t think Sinwar being treated while imprisoned by the Israelis is quite the same thing as members of al-Nusra, etc. fighting in Syria being treated for injuries in Israel.

Why not?
The entity that has shown enmity towards Israeli has been the Ba’ath party.

The broader point of Syria being one of the keys to understanding the broader picture remains true. You don’t even need to know that much to see how different the situation appears had Syria not been racked by civil war these last 13 years.

Ignoring the fact that it was the Ba’ath party with their heavy handed tactics against civilians that started the civil war.

I’m curious, in your eyes (now) has Israel ever done anything right?

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 2:40 pm

Paleface Park
That would be named for the famous trotter, Paleface Adios.
No doubt it’ll get the kibosh eventually.
Like the expression ‘beyond the pale’ which is now racist thanks to ignoramuses.

alwaysright
alwaysright
October 17, 2024 2:45 pm

What is it with Liars politicians and their overwhelming need to tell Four Yorkshiremen stories about the upbringing?

When I was growing up we were so poor …

Can we have a dedicated thread with the above title.

Damon
Damon
October 17, 2024 2:45 pm

Never attribute malevolence to that readily explicable by stupidity.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 2:48 pm

Twitter has a story about a ftm transgender with the recognition certificate, nice new male birth certificate etc who had put her employer in a quandary.
She’s four months pregnant and he doesn’t know what to do. She plans to take two weeks ‘paternity’ leave while her partner who must be male larping as female takes maternity leave.
He doesn’t want her working on her own in a food van til due date but what leave can she take?
Mental.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 2:55 pm

“Lebanese MP Nadim Gemayel has criticized Hezbollah, stating that they are now facing the consequences of their own actions. He asserted that Lebanon will not step in to resolve Hezbollah’s crisis, emphasizing that the group must first disarm.”
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1846457122885644570?t=4W1SLdaoAl4eTQ_EAd3KSw&s=19

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 2:58 pm
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 17, 2024 3:06 pm

Luigi the Unbelievable’s back story smells of tripe.

I do not believe for one moment that the Grayndler Grub has a scintilla of mediterranean DNA is that stale pale body.

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Damon
Damon
October 17, 2024 3:06 pm

It has been obvious for years that Kamala has never been particularly coherent.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 3:07 pm

Kamala Harris signals black Americans could be paid reparations if she is elected president in November
Daily Mail.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 3:08 pm
Lee
Lee
October 17, 2024 3:14 pm

What a coincidence.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt and Martin), Kamala apologists and Trump-haters, show up on C.L.’s blog within an hour, after about a week’s absence.

Hugh
Hugh
October 17, 2024 3:14 pm

When I was growing up we were so poor …

…mum used to cut holes in our pockets so we’d have something to play with.

Rabz
October 17, 2024 3:14 pm

Cackling Kamel signals black Americans could be paid reparations if she is elected president in November …

… deplorables hardest hit.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 3:17 pm

H/T Michael Smith

Greg said…
I have heard about Albabese’s mother for years and years. If she had a tough time in her early years I sympathise with her and understand the difficulties she may have endured. But I believe that his mother and father met on a cruise ship in Europe. In about 1960 cruising around Europe was very expensive and reserved for the wealthy. So what went wrong? How can you be cruising around Europe at vast expense while living in social housing? Something doesn’t add up.

Rabz
October 17, 2024 3:19 pm

What is it with Liars politicians and their overwhelming need to tell Four Yorkshiremen stories about the upbringing?

That may be about to change, for example:

“Dim Chambers, why do you possess such a staggering ignorance of basic economics?”

“Well, I grew up in a middle class family …”

Inspired of course, by a certain overseas political imbecile.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 17, 2024 3:24 pm

Tintarella di Luna
 October 17, 2024 3:06 pm

Luigi the Unbelievable’s back story smells of tripe.

I do not believe for one moment that the Grayndler Grub has a scintilla of mediterranean DNA is that stale pale body.

Yep.
I reckon mum was potted by some minor local luminary whose family had enough cash to ship her off on a cruise to save embarrassment.
The Itie waiter back-story is simply a cover.
Interesting that Luigi was an out-and-proud Itie but suddenly became a little coy when all the Sec 44 mud was being thrown about citizenship.
The media were remarkably uninterested in the provenance of baby Luigi. This could just be the normal reflex of giving the Liars a free pass. Or perhaps they were briefed that the whole Itie heritage thing was bullshit.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 3:38 pm

Kamala Harris signals black Americans could be paid reparations if she is elected president in November
Daily Mail.

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Send the invoices to Africa. Slavery is still in full swing over there.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 3:42 pm

Roy Clark:

Roy Clark performs, “Yesterday When I Was Young” on Hee Haw 10th Anniversary Celebration which aired October 22, 1978.

Yesterday When I Was Young by Roy Clark | Live on Hee Haw (1978) 

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 17, 2024 3:51 pm

When I was growing up we were so poor …

We could only afford one first name to be shared among all 15 of us.

The same text books were handed down year and always had the correct name.

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calli
calli
October 17, 2024 3:54 pm

Just watched Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix) because in recuperation mode and my wings are clipped.

So I’ll add my voice to others here who have recommended it. Excellent performances all round, and Howard’s direction is low key and sensitive. It’s a story played out around the world, drugs, family breakdown, delinquency. They’ve avoided melodrama, which is refreshing. Good score also by Zimmer.

A genuine “Four Yorkshiremen” story if you like.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 4:01 pm

Always worthy of repeat.

Thomas Sowell – Black Rednecks

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 4:16 pm

In contrast to the close relationship with his mum, Albanese knew nothing much of his father — just a romantic, tragic story. He knew his father’s name was Carlo Albanese, that he was Italian and that Maryanne Ellery had met him on her greatest adventure, a trip to Britain and Europe when she was 25.
He recalls that from when he was young, he’d heard that Maryanne and Carlo had married after a short courtship during her eight months abroad, but that his father had died in a terrible car accident, leaving her pregnant and widowed. The story was accepted without question among those who knew it, both within the family and around the neighbourhood; there was no reason to doubt it.
But one night, when her son was 14, Maryanne sat him down at the kitchen table and said, “We need to talk.” Then she told him the truth, a startling rewrite of his life’s story. Maryanne Ellery had, indeed, met Carlo Albanese on her trip to Europe — a four-week ocean voyage she and her older brother had taken from Sydney to Southampton in March 1962 on the Fairsky, a cruise ship of the Sitmar Line. Carlo was a steward on board, and he and Maryanne had begun a romance. Not long after, the good Catholic girl discovered she was pregnant.
According to this new version of his origins tumbling out onto the kitchen table, Maryanne had told Carlo of her situation. The response was not what she might have hoped — he could not marry her; he was engaged to wed a girl from his town in southern Italy, and that was what he was duty-bound to do. So, contrary to the story upon which he’d built his life to date, young Anthony learnt that his parents had never actually married at all. There had been no fatal accident.
Still a single woman, Maryanne had arrived back in Sydney in October 1962, nearly four months pregnant. She moved back in with her parents and acquired and wore wedding and engagement rings — to this day, her son doesn’t know where they came from — and took her lover’s surname as her own, not bothering with the deed poll. When her son arrived on March 2, 1963, he became Albanese too — pronounced then in a plain, Australian way without any Italian flourish: Alban-eez.
After his birth, Maryanne had gone about her life in an elaborate, well-intentioned ruse. Seeking to avoid the innuendo she feared might come from being an unmarried mother in a tight-knit working-class Catholic community in 1960s Sydney, she presented herself to the world as a young widow, to protect her son from scorn and maintain their family’s public reputation.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 17, 2024 4:19 pm

Yes, originally public housing was simply a way of supplementing housing stock, which was very low after WWII. Rents were a bit lower than the private sector, but not by much.

Just got home after 2 weeks away ,wedding and birthday. The birthday was in Traralgon and my cousin took me around Morwell. There was a big section that used to be (still is?) housing commission, most was taken up SEC workers, and well maintained, drove past last Saturday for the first time in 50 years … uuuuurrrrrrggggghhhhh what a shithole !

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 4:20 pm

GreyRanga
October 17, 2024 12:00 pm

I’ve got a baby crow that can hardly fly. I’m giving it lessons, as in chasing it so it flys. About 10m, 300mm off the ground.

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Don’t you dare ditch it. If it becomes a pet, so be it. Look after it.

Give it a feed.

Arky
October 17, 2024 4:21 pm

I’m officially calling it.
Let me check the time: it’s 4:10 pm.
Scribbles on pad,
The woman are officially insane.
Or to put it in language the brothers can understand: bitches be crazy.
Just had the bird on 3AW spend the second afternoon in a row inflicting her insanity upon her listenership about the football idiots and the blow up doll.
Listen sweetheart, there is reality, and then there is this thing in your brain that tells you anyone gives two shits about your feelings. Learn to distinguish the two.
F*ck me it’s painful. Every unwanted glance or misguided pickup attempt from every man spewed up in a rainbow technicolor yawn from her and her crazy bird followers.
Wolf whistles from building sites 40 years ago got a mention.
Sexualising that poor blow up doll.
Shock, horror, a bar maid might have been offended.
Blokes, until you start returning fire this shit could get truly unhinged. You need to start making the women live up to these sick and idiotic standards too. Next time some old hag female colleague makes you feel uncomfortable at the Christmas party, breathing boozy breath in your face and putting the hard word on you, DO SOMETHING. We all just blow it off as men. Don’t. Fire back. The girl boss puts her hand on your chest, while making a comment about your tie, put in a complaint.
This is where we’re at, and unless we can as a nation get a divorce and males and females go their seperate ways, this is the battle we must fight for our young blokes.

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cohenite
October 17, 2024 4:28 pm

When I was growing up we were so poor…

Pre-Monty Python: We Were So Poor (youtube.com)

Arky
October 17, 2024 4:29 pm

Trigger warning: sexist rant upthread, don’t read if your wyminsses fee fees are tender.
The trigger warning come after the rants, right?

Arky
October 17, 2024 4:35 pm

We’re all going to die in the nuclear fire of WW3, and the last thing you’ll hear on this Earth is some moronic bird complaining about the gender pay gap or men’s attitudes.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 4:42 pm

“How can you be cruising around Europe at vast expense while living in social housing? Something doesn’t add up.”
The cruise doesn’t gel with the poor old house story but
public housing wasn’t ‘social housing’ back in the early 1960s.
Back then, like in the UK and Ireland working class families lived in public housing, it was normal.
Governments build them to replace poor quality housing stock and/or to relieve shortages caused by ww11.
As for ‘inheriting’ them, that happened too, remember the story about three generations of families living in the same two story terraces in The Rocks til Plibesek’s husband pulled the plug and sold them all?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754322/Rundown-Millers-Point-terraces-double-price-fourth-terrace-sold-sets-suburb-record.html

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 17, 2024 4:46 pm

This Tucker Carlson interviewee really exposes the grifter running to be president of the US – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omgw-g1gVnM

It has been obvious for years that Kamala has never been particularly coherent.

Kamala Harris is a grifter from way back

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 4:48 pm

Look at this. Babushka is Mum to these birds. Cats are in heaven.

Show these clips to children. No cartoon crap!

Beef Stuffed Eggplants: A Delicious Village Recipe

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
October 17, 2024 4:48 pm

Can anyone confirm:

Albo’s mother was a teacher, in the early to mid 1980’s, correct or not?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 17, 2024 4:50 pm

Very good movie called Winter’s Bone starring a young Jennifer Lawrence set in the Ozarks. Quite chilling.

Cassie of Sydney
October 17, 2024 4:52 pm

On October 7 2023 and on the days and nights thereafter, the IDF and Israeli internal security captured quite a few Hamas and Gazan terrorists on the run in southern Israel, and many of those terrorists were injured, some seriously.

Those same injured terrorists, almost all of whom had participated in the rapes and murders of Jews on October 7, were provided with medical treatment in Israeli hospitals. When news got out, several hospitals were besieged by furious Israelis who were rightly outraged that the rapists, murderers and kidnappers of Jews were being given medical treatment. Call me ‘inhumane’ but I agreed with the protesters. Personally, I think the Gazan Nazi scum should have all been executed on site and their bodies dumped in the Red Sea for the sharks to feed on but Israel doesn’t operate like that. Unlike its neighbours, Israel is a functional society, a humanitarian society and a decent society.

I’m not aware of any of the Jewish hostages still remaining in Gaza (of which there remains 101 Jewish men, Jewish women and Jewish children*) receiving any medical treatment whatsoever since that gruesome day in October 2023. On the contrary, Eden Yerushalmi, one of the six young Jews murdered by Hamas in August, had been starved.

Food was scarce, and the captives were starved, leading to drastic weight loss. Eden Yerushalmi’s body was discovered weighing merely 79 lbs. Inside the tunnel, remnants of their harsh captivity were found: a few protein bars, a generator and a small flashlight that was unreliable. The hostages were unable to stand.

I watched the funeral of Eden Yerushalmi. You could see the bones through her funeral shroud.

*Further to the 101 hostages who still remain in Gaza (most of whom are probably dead), at last Monday’s rally here in Vaucluse, that monumental Labor effwit, Mark Butler, gave a pathetic speech. He once again repeated the story about how his great-grandparents were Jews, to the yawns of most in the crowd, and during his speech he said there remained 97 hostages in Gaza. F*CK. What a dickhead, he couldn’t even get right. Many people hissed, myself included, and we shouted………………….

101 hostages

It was notable how Stephen Lowy, in his speech, lauded praise on Peter Dutton and Chris Minns. He did not laud Mark Butler.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 17, 2024 4:52 pm

Sancho Panzer — I agree with you — the Section 44 would not have been relevant to Luigi because Italian-ness follows the mother’s line since about 1948 — but I believe Luigi was conceived here in Oz and the Italian papa is just a fantasia

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 5:04 pm

Paul Ham’s book “Vietnam : The Australian War” has an interesting chapter on “Draft Dodgers.”

Seems that, if you wanted to claim to be a conscientious objector, you had to prove your beliefs against your participation in military service, of any kind, at any time, “It was “not sufficient” to object to a particular conflict, such as Vietnam.”

“…..most applicants were granted full exemption: of 1242 conscientious objector cases that went to court during the war, 72 per cent were granted total exemption, 14 per cent non combatant duties, and 14% refused exemption. ” (Page 284.)

JC
JC
October 17, 2024 5:18 pm

Because those two things are not the same.

No two things are identical. Even two cartons of milk can differ. What’s similar in this case is Israel providing medical assistance to those who are, by circumstance, their enemies. In fact, one could argue that Israel went out of its way to help Sinwar, as removing a brain tumor is a significantly more humanitarian act.

The entity that has shown enmity towards Israeli has been the Ba’ath party.

I can understand the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ rationale here.

Okay.

Yes, yes, if not for the ‘heavy-handed tactics’ the Salafists, etc. would have remained non-violent. They would have stuck to podcasts, blog posts, and the occasional town meeting.

Excuse me, but the Ba’ath Party started it. in 2011, Schoolchildren wrote anti-government graffiti on a wall, and they were arrested and severely beaten. The town rose up in protest, and your Ba’ath Party shot into the crowds, killing people. These individuals were not Islamic extremists; they simply wanted freedom. That’s the Ba’ath Party for you.
The Syrian opposition is very complex, and suggesting or implying that all those opposing the Ba’ath Party are Islamic extremists is nonsense.

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Arky
October 17, 2024 5:20 pm

Finished rewiring the engine bay, and just fired up the Model A for the first time in what must now be around four years?
What a little champion she is.
95 years old, and after a few cranks burst into life again.

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calli
calli
October 17, 2024 5:23 pm

Harris and Gillard have something in common.

They just can’t stop talking about their competitor. Gillard was obsessed with Abbott. Harris just can’t say “Donald Trump” enough.

She also can’t answer a simple question. All she does is become belligerent and incoherent under pressure.

JC
JC
October 17, 2024 5:26 pm

Those same injured terrorists, almost all of whom had participated in the rapes and murders of Jews on October 7, were provided with medical treatment in Israeli hospitals. When news got out, several hospitals were besieged by furious Israelis who were rightly outraged that the rapists, murderers and kidnappers of Jews were being given medical treatment.

That’s the history of the Jews in Israel.

JC
JC
October 17, 2024 5:28 pm

calli on Open Thread – Thurs 17 Oct 2024

October 17, 2024

Harris and Gillard have something in common. They just can’t stop talking about their competitor. Gillard was obsessed with Abbott

Excellent comparable. Kamaltoe is the American version of the lying slapper. In fact they’re both slappers.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 5:29 pm

GreyRanga
October 17, 2024 5:01 pm

 Reply to  Steve tricklerI wore out before it did. It is now sitting on a low branch about a metre of the ground. It’s parent has been down to see it then fly’s back up into the Chinese Elm. Parent is squarking at it.

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Look after him or her, just do it.

Rosie
Rosie
October 17, 2024 5:35 pm

From Wiki. Bill Shorten’s mum was the teacher.
Another tale of woe.
“Albanese grew up with his mother and maternal grandparents in a Sydney City Council home in the Inner West suburb of Camperdown, opposite the Camperdown Children’s Hospital.His grandfather died in 1970, and the following year his mother married James Williamson. He was given his stepfather’s surname, but the marriage lasted only 10 weeks, as Williamson proved to be an abusive alcoholic.Albanese’s mother worked part-time as a cleaner but suffered from chronic rheumatoid arthritis, with the family surviving on her disability pension and his grandmother’s age pension.”

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 17, 2024 5:37 pm

Katies copping a flogging on X.

Could happen to a nicer man jawed harridan.

https://twitter.com/SenKatyG/status/1846781185965674933

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 17, 2024 5:57 pm

Very distressing news in today’s Worst for Perth taxi drivers. 6PR is broke.

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 6:15 pm
Tom
Tom
October 17, 2024 6:30 pm

Paywallian:

Australia’s labour market continued to display remarkable resilience through September with the proportion of people in work or searching for a job rising to a record high.

The economy added 64,100 jobs last month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday, significantly more than the 25,000 economists expected. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 per cent, below analysts’ estimates of 4.2 per cent.

What the statistics don’t reveal is that 80% of new jobs being created in Australia are government jobs.

Government jobs don’t create wealth, they consume wealth.

So all Treasurer Jim “wallet wizard” Chalmers is doing with his laughable economic policy is draining the national wealth and providing more reasons for the Reserve Bank to increase interest rates to quell the inflation monster Chalmers has created through his expansionary budgets.

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 6:30 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 17, 2024 6:31 pm

H B Bear
 October 17, 2024 5:57 pm

Very distressing news in today’s Worst for Perth taxi drivers. 6PR is broke.

Tickler will be distraught.

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 6:36 pm
P
P
October 17, 2024 6:46 pm

Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Haydon talk love and life in their first ever joint interview

His mother, Maryanne Ellery, worked as an usherette and saved like crazy for her fare to London on the Sitmar ship Fairsky. Her brother, George, who was a comedian and had a gig on the ship, acted as a very half-hearted chaperone. 

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 17, 2024 6:47 pm

Another interesting statistic from Paul Ham’s book – “The most popular illegal way to avoid national service was simply to fail to register: almost 12,000 youths took this course between 1965 and 1972, and only about 200, on average were prosecuted per year. The rest slipped through the net.” (Page 285.)

Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 6:51 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 6:52 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 17, 2024 6:55 pm
Lysander
Lysander
October 17, 2024 7:00 pm

Court Delivers “First Known Conviction of a ‘Thoughtcrime’ in Modern British History” ? The European Conservative

Adam Smith-Connor, who served in Afghanistan, was prosecuted for breaching a ban on protests within a buffer zone around a clinic in Bournemouth, Dorset, in November 2022.

His head was bowed and hands were clasped as he prayed for his unborn son Jacob, whom he now regrets aborting more than two decades ago.

Reporting on the case, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) legal advocacy group said the conviction was “the first known conviction of a ‘thoughtcrime’ in modern British history.”

It added that Smith-Connor must now pay £9,000 (€10,770) in legal costs to the prosecution, just for praying in his head for three minutes.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 17, 2024 7:07 pm

Here you go girls currently protesting in favour of Islam – here’s your future job at 1:09:27, and a job for the kiddies.
Not quite what you expected, eh? No Infidel slaves to do the work while you sit around on your arses directing and abusing the Philipino maids?

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 7:13 pm

Sancho Panzer
 October 17, 2024 6:31 pm

H B Bear
 October 17, 2024 5:57 pmVery distressing news in today’s Worst for Perth taxi drivers. 6PR is broke.

Tickler will be distraught.

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Happy, actually. I haven’t tuned into that sh*t of a joint in years.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 17, 2024 7:27 pm

Tickler will be distraught.

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Happy, actually. I haven’t tuned into that sh*t of a joint in years.

Oh?
So not a fan of 6PR, then?
You know, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
You’ll miss it.
I know you will.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 17, 2024 7:33 pm

Nine newspapers spread election misinformation after using doctored video to describe Donald Trump as ‘dazed’ at rallyhttps://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/nine-newspapers-spreads-election-misinformation-after-using-doctored-video-to-describe-donald-trump-as-dazed-at-rally/news-story/dcacede1911b4b1ec4b631b33e293434

Although the Sydney Morning Herald sought to pass the footage off as merely being “edited”, the video actually has a visible cut which removes the former president’s answer to a question from South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.

Instead of showing Trump answer the question, the doctored video makes it look like the former president bizarrely swayed to music instead of engaging with the governor.

It changed the context of the video significantly.

I believe this is the same one m0nty was crowing about yesterday(or day before?) and which I already debunked by finding the original. Trump looked bored and wooden but not confused.

It is definitely a problem that “seeing is believing” when what you see has been manipulated. Given how cliques/bubbles work, hardly anyone who saw the doctored version will see the correction and the original.

Luzu
Luzu
October 17, 2024 7:35 pm

For those who believe in following the money, Sportsbet now have Donald Trump at $1.62 to win and Kamala Harris at $2.25. The only reason I have looked this up is that I put money on The Donald three weeks ago and got $1.91. When I placed my bet, both candidates were paying the same.

calli
calli
October 17, 2024 7:36 pm

Just noticed the latest default position from cornered politicians…

Kamala – check out my website

Plibbers – check out my website

PM Office – check out my website

Golly they’re pathetic.

Roger
Roger
October 17, 2024 7:44 pm

For those who believe in following the money, Sportsbet now have Donald Trump at $1.62 to win and Kamala Harris at $2.25.

Even the Australian msm is reporting the shift in the odds.

With much anti-‘Trumpian’ hyperbowl.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 7:47 pm

Sancho Panzer
 October 17, 2024 7:27 pm

Tickler will be distraught.

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Happy, actually. I haven’t tuned into that sh*t of a joint in years.

Oh?

So not a fan of 6PR, then?
You know, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
You’ll miss it.
I know you will.

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Did you read what I said above? Go do a crossword from a Women’s Day magazine.

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cohenite
October 17, 2024 7:51 pm

I firmly believe the MSM is the enemy of the West. It should be purged, and by purged I mean Stalin. The problem is if you do that you destroy Western values. Therefore the only solution is a takeover but apart from Elon most billionaires are weirdos and leftoids.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 17, 2024 7:52 pm
Cassie of Sydney
October 17, 2024 8:07 pm

Further to Albo the Trot’s sob fiction of his mother’s life, how she met her Latin lover on a cruise, his houso upbringing and all the rest of the bunkum, bunkum which reeks of a tawdry Women’s Weekly piece circa 1975, isn’t this classic misinformation and disinformation?

Ya see, this is where I yearn for the Liberal party of old, where you had backbenchers like Wilson Tuckey who could and would take an iron bar to the sob fiction.

And why not? Albo the Trot puts the stories out there, he could easily decline to use it for political purposes. He’s fair game but nobody on the right would dare because they’re all big pussy cats. Meanwhile, of course, anyone on the right is fair game for political, social and economic ruin.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 17, 2024 8:14 pm

Golly they’re pathetic.

Rubbish people

Cassie of Sydney
October 17, 2024 8:17 pm

Geez, I love it when the chickens come home to roost, from The Oz….

National Gallery Council member quits after accusing Israel of committing ‘holocaust’
Artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah has resigned from the board of the National Gallery of Australia, just one day after it was revealed he accused Israel of conducting a “holocaust” against Palestinians, comments that sparked outrage in the Jewish community and the Coalition.

In a statement, the NGA confirmed that its chair, Ryan Stokes, had been contacted by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, who also oversees the arts portfolio, informing him of Mr Abdullah’s immediate resignation.
Mr Burke has remained tight-lipped about his appointment of Mr Abdullah and declined several requests from The Australian for comment.

The Australian revealed on Wednesday the Labor-appointed artist had shared derogatory social media posts calling on Israel’s opponent’s to “end this sickness” and “end Zionism”.

Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson welcomed the news of Mr Abdullah’s resignation after calling on Mr Burke to sack the artist he appointed.

“Mr Abdullah’s resignation from the NGA Council is welcome. But based on the information on the public record, he never should have been appointed in the first place,” Senator Paterson said. “Tony Burke must explain why he thought it was appropriate to appoint someone to an important cultural institution who thinks Australia is a ‘deeply belligerent, inherently bigoted and selfish country’. It’s impossible to see how this appointment was in the national interest even if Tony Burke thought it was in his political interests.”

Mr Burke appointed Mr Abdullah in September 2023, shortly before the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7. At that time Mr Burke said Mr Abdullah’s appointment would provide the NGA with “authentic leadership” that reflected “modern Australia”.

“It’s essential that our important national cultural institutions have authentic leadership that reflects their objectives, as well as modern Australia,” Mr Burke said at the time. “The National Gallery is one of our premier cultural institutions and I’m pleased to see it continue in safe hands.”

Based in the Peel region of Western Australia, the visual artist’s work, focusing on sculptures and installations, has been widely exhibited across the country.

In the fallout from the war in the Middle East, Mr Abdullah took to his social media account to accuse Israel of committing genocide and apartheid, including images of people burning, purportedly as a result of Israeli missile strikes in Gaza.

Before switching his profile to private, each of the images was timed to disappear from his social media within 24 hours.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the artist had demonstrated a “complete ignorance of what Jewish people believe, and complete disregard for their welfare”.

“He has articulated why the Palestinian movement has been a catastrophic failure. It is predicated on stripping Jews of their lawful rights, earned through millennia of toil and tears, instead of accepting Jewish self-determination, which is the meaning of Zionism, and seeking a peaceful Palestinian state alongside a Jewish one,” Mr Ryvchin said.

“It also demonstrates the vicious slander and disinformation that is marginalising Jews in the arts. It is totally unacceptable for someone in a position of leadership to behave in this manner.”

Opposition arts spokesman Paul Fletcher said Mr Burke’s silence was not good enough.

“The NGA is one of our most significant national cultural institutions and must uphold the principles of inclusion and respect. These comments do neither and instead seek to stir division,” Mr Fletcher said.

“Tony Burke needs to show leadership and condemn these comments. Offering silence isn’t good enough.”

As for Abdul-Rahman Abdullah’s authentic leadership‘, I think it is more likely ‘authentic Jew hatred‘.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 17, 2024 8:19 pm

Further to Albo the Trot’s sob fiction of his mother’s life, how she met her Latin lover on a cruise, his houso upbringing and all the rest of the bunkum, bunkum which reeks of a tawdry Women’s Weekly piece circa 1975, isn’t this classic misinformation and disinformation?

I presume all this shite’s being pumped out in an attempt to counter the bad optics of the tax leach’s real estate acquisition.

Muddy
Muddy
October 17, 2024 8:19 pm

Fascinating. An extract from Netanyahu’s ‘day after’ planfrom the Jewish News Syndicate.

Since Netanyahu was the most strident opponent of Obama’s nuclear gifts to Iran, the Obama team developed a comprehensive strategy for undermining Netanyahu’s efforts to block Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The U.S. effectively placed the IDF in a box. It showered Israel with defensive systems and compelled it to sign a military assistance deal that crippled Israel’s domestic military industries to remove its strategic independence. If Israel got all its bombs from the U.S., then any offensive operations had to receive U.S. approval. Same with its air platforms, its tank and artillery ammunition and its assault rifles.

The administration engaged in full-scale subversion of Netanyahu’s power by cultivating former and serving security brass to view them – rather than Netanyahu as “the responsible adult,” and to inform them of any plans Netanyahu had to take offensive action against Iran. To this end, in 2010, Mossad chief Meir Dagan informed his CIA counterpart of Netanyahu’s plan to attack Iran’s nuclear installations and the administration quickly blocked those plans.

[Bolding mine].

One of my earliest guest posts on SincCat was a review of a Mark Moyar book about Obama’s foreign policy and the neutering of the U.S. military. This piece by Caroline Glick reminds me of Moyar’s book.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 17, 2024 8:20 pm

With the spring carnival upon us, this remains the greatest race ever.
Watched as a kid and can hear the crackle and emotion of the legendary Bill Collins once Bonecrusher crossed the line.
Just superb.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 17, 2024 8:27 pm

Since 2022, the Biden-Harris administration has forbidden negotiations with Russia and empowered Ukraine to continue a war that has resulted in the depopulation of that country and the destruction of its communities

So things are going exactly according to the plan.

Zippster
Zippster
October 17, 2024 8:40 pm

Australia’s fertility rate has hit a low of 1.50 babies per woman, according to latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data.

It is the lowest birthrate in the last 90 years of available demographic data, with teenage women having less children. The country saw a peak in fertility in 1961, with a rate of 3.5.

But, overall, despite some movement up and down, Australian fertility rates have continued on a downward spiral since 1971.

well done girls

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