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The Arky half track!
It looks more like mum is thinking “What are we going to do with you, son?”
To everyone’s relief, no more Woodstock pics or comments from me. Roger, self appointed PHD professor on everything Woodstock, has…
I am currently reading Ian Mortimer’s ‘Medieval Horizons – Why the Middle Ages Matter’. Food poisoning and sweating sicknesses brought…
Lidia doesn’t plan to humiliate herself by standing for re-election.
No doubt something lined up.
https://x.com/RoadknightThe/status/1848537506633170979?t=57plWSSFtZZWHOWta_u6mg&s=19
The lower houses in the states control the presidential election. If you assume the cheating goes on in those states then Trump can still win if he keeps the state houses controlled by the GOP.
Here’s a breakdown of the lower houses (State Houses or Assemblies) in key battleground states for the 2024 election:
1. Arizona:
2. Georgia:
3. North Carolina:
4. Michigan:
5. Pennsylvania:
6. Wisconsin:
Summary:
These legislative compositions can impact how these states handle election laws and processes, which is crucial in the tight 2024 race.
JC isn’t Arizona GOP controlled by the Cheney skank?
I think you’re thinking of McCain. McCain’s kid carries some influence, but I’m not sure the house majority would go all in with a cheat.
Quadrant website appears to have been hijacked.
Leftards hate competition.
OK again at present.
If the Virginia governor and the lower house make sure the real votes are counted, Trump has a shot at winning the state. Rassie had Kamaltoe up 3 about a month ago and she been falling since the day she was ‘appointed”.
U.S. elections are incredibly complicated. I just discovered that Pennsylvania is a “commonwealth” state, and I always thought that was just a fancy title with no real significance. the official name is Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It turns out that the counties have a lot of freedom to determine their own election procedures. It feels like, with just about everything in that country, the details are overwhelmingly complex and sometimes hard to wrap your head around.
Lysander
October 21, 2024 10:47 pm
A friend of ours has a 16 year old daughter with similar issues. She has been professionally diagnosed (primarily) as bipolar with mild autism. She also has a couple of other issues but all of these are being managed. Outwardly, she appeared fine and a normal teenager but she could fly into rages with obscene and vindictive language with dark threats of potential violence towards the parents and her siblings.
My strong advice is that you and your wife see a professional psychologist firstly to explain the situation. That psychologist will subsequently want to see your daughter and make treatment recommendations. It may transpire that your daughter is simply ‘acting out’ and if so, that can be dealt with. Alternatively, she may have genuine psychological issues over which she has little/no control and it can be a particular environment/stress (even food additives) that will trigger her behavior or, a combination of those and/or other factors.
Most importantly – you are not alone. Kids today grow up in a far more complex world than we did. Most will ride over the bumps but some develop, or may have genetic psychological issues that are triggered, that require professional assistance to be effectively managed.
That young girl I mentioned is under ongoing treatment and is far ‘better’ than she was. She is on some medications and sees her psychologist regularly – she now has a chance of leading a (more or less) productive and fulfilling life.
Best advice I have seen. Been through similar and there is light at the end of the tunnel
Psychologist cannot make that diagnosis officially psychiatrist Must make it alfhough It can be recognised by psychologist as I did but had to refer on Will need to be medicated if bipolar .Psychologist can do therapy. Not do medication
Perhaps it was a psychiatrist. I wasn’t directly involved as the girl isn’t my child. However, she has had the diagnosis and is on prescribed medication. I do know that her parents took her to see various mental health professionals so it may well have been psychiatry in the end..
A gorgeous day here in Sydney and there are thousands of people at the Opera House to cheer on King Chuck and Queen Camilla.
Nice, very nice.
I suspect he won’t visit these shores again.
Sorry to miss him. But we did toast him as well as sing God Save the King at the Quadrant dinner last night. Monarchists galore, as there also seem to be in Australia at large.
Isn’t broke, don’t fix.
Glad you attended to swell the crowds, Cassie. Hope he was looking good. Always like to checkout the Queen too. She’s aging gracefully.
db, about time for a US election predictions thread please.
wank in private mUnty
Too early, who wants two weeks of mUttley copy/pasting US DNC talking points and leftard websites.
What’s wrong with you posting one on your own blog?
It is fascinating to see videos of young kids in their disco gear all with a rifle slung over their shoulders. I assume that they find national service to be burdensome but they appear to just get on with it.
Travelled through Israel many years ago. Bus loads of national service kids at many roadhouse stops. Picnic tables literally PILED with various rifles and semi automatic armaments while the recruits ate their burgers. Roadhouse food not dissimilar to much of ours too.
Andrew Lawrence. Outstanding.
The Great British Exodus
Fuc*ing Indians.
4 phone calls trying a scam.
I’m trying hard not to be racist.
If you do, the soft cocks here will hammer you.
They all “have Indian Friends”.
They have “never been scammed” – that they know of.
if you say a bad word about them, they will hound you for over a year.
If you want to try it, keep your hand on your wallet.
Oh yes, I remember who shat on me for daring to criticise our Subcontinental Brothers.
Were you doing a truck oil change at the time?
The Five is nonpareil news commentary with Watters and Gutfeld. Today the black token demorat on the issue of who had the most energy, cackles or Trump, was saying cackles will be in 3 states today….
Gutfeld: 4 if you count inebriation.
News Flash:
PETA to go after Thorpe for wearing real animal skins during her “protest”.
Sorry. No. Just joking.
Crikey! That was the Bungonia Bee, not the Babylon Bee!
Australian takes charge of Disney.
Here’s hoping they don’t come across any ‘n*****words in the woodpile’.
hahahaha I remember that. The Ford dude. Rumors there’s an Epstein connection.
Why Does Keir Starmer Hate British Tradition?
Because he is a leftard, who hates his country and its history and traditions.
It is fascinating how many of these fascists in UK, Canada and the US have been, or are prosecuters.
Tin gods.
Because he’s a Communist?
Katie Hopkins
2025. The Year of Non-Compliance. I WILL NOT COMPLY
We attended the Quadrant Dinner last night. A good crowd, enhanced by many young people turning up from the Free Speech Union. Good company in the drinks beforehand, at the table for eight we were on, and in the discussions held on stage between Keith Windschuttle, Margaret Cameron Ash and Nigel Biggar. A good night out for a reasonable expenditure for the food was excellent, better fare than most of these sort of things, and the glitzy ballroom at Tattersalls provided good light for diamonds to sparkle and some amazing dresses to be shown off.
Shame that the website was down for a while, but teething problems for the new look. All ok now.
Oh hoho. Someone doesn’t like reports of a good dinner and a good time with a bit of glitter in the cause of political freedom.
What a boring person. Guess they don’t like that we sang God Save Our Gracious King and gave the Royal toast as well.
Lots commented that they hadn’t before sung the anthem for the King and could barely remember the last time they sang it for the Queen. It did us all good.
It’s the institution not the person, people said to each other, although some stuck up for Charlie as doing an ok sort of job. I thought so too.
It’s the mention of diamonds that sets them off.
I wore a diamond necklace, diamond earings and five diamond and saphire rings. Very subtle, I thought. 🙂
These are the things you must do, LizzieB.
😀
I am afraid I prefer the “old look.”
Sorry, Lizzie.
Miss reading the comments too, even though two or three of the commenters were truly horrible after the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October last year.
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Bear at 3:31 (Reply to JC).
Good to hear you are travelling OK.
One big hairy foot in front of the other.
Then repeat.
Cheers
Seconded!
My best wishes too, Bear.
One of Tom’s toons addressed that issue this morning.
“Don’t pick me!”
I am loving the wishful thinking of “poor IDF morale”.
How is the morale of those in Hamarse who no-one is courageous enough to lead, but are being urged to claim their 72 virgin prize?
How is the morale of those in Hez-ball-less who are now setting their microwave with a broomstick for fear it will explode?
Greens deputy leader defends Lidia ThorpeGreens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi has defended Lidia Thorpe following her Parliament House outburst and slammed Opposition leader Peter Dutton for putting pressure on the independent senator to resign.
‘Peter Dutton and the Liberals calling for Senator Thorpe to resign for telling the truth is contemptible,’ she said.
‘That’s what should be condemned, not a protest against the monarchy.
‘Colonial forces that inflict huge suffering and have committed horrific atrocities on First Nations peoples can’t then complain about protests against them.
‘It is a fact that the British committed genocide here, it is a fact that their racist legacy lives on in Australia today and that should absolutely be resisted and confronted.’
Don’t ask Mehreen about Paki genocide of fleeing Hindus after the 1947 partition, cough cough.
Of course she has.
Frightbats of a feather frump together.
Piss off back to Pakistan you truly horrible woman.
If Australia is so bad, why are you still here?
Because she might have to give up her $5-6 million property portfolio? Our racist hellhole has treated her so badly.
A recent settler colonists condemns those who arrived earlier, and established the conditions that enabled her to colonise Australia.
Great fun that the Greens are simultaneously managing to discredit their greenness, their aboriginal support and their antisemitism. Will the last true Scotsman put they/them’s hand up!
Faruqi will be following Thorpe out the door. Frauds.
Not only is Mehreen a beneficiary of Australian generosity, so was her father, who received a scholarship to study here in the 1950s via the Australian taxpayer.
Even Andrew Barr of the ACT’s jumped-up town council is warning Albanese not even to think of a coalition with the federal Greens.
Cheers to the correction earlier, I didn’t know the HAMAS slag was female. Points still stands about a terrorist sympathiser and having a pass to a secure area like an airport. Cassie is spot on too with how she isn’t in irons already for incitement.
A day of planes, trains and automobiles. Spent about an hour in Melbourne CBD, fark what a run down s’hole its turning into. May pen some observations later. Beautiful day for Melbourne standards though.
Next couple of days I’ll be getting radio frequency neurotomy on some pesky vertebrae.
m0nty
October 22, 2024 4:45 pm
Paraphrased:-
“I need another punchbowl to piss in.”
Because they’re newsworthy. If the rule was do not report what has happened before in war we would not hear of combatants being killed, wounded, surrendering, retreating, advancing, and so on.
The point of reporting this is to get an idea of what is going on now a year in where the IDF has been largely engaged in mopping up operations and not in directly engaged with a near peer enemy in Gaza. Things are only going to move up a gear as the IDF becomes more directly engaged in Lebanon.
Something that struck me last night during an interview with the ex-owner of Soda Stream (who, incidentally has offered a reward for hostages) – the whole country is suffering from PTSD.
They’ve been “at war” for over a year now after a frightful, unspeakable jolt. And with much lukewarm “support” or outright hostility from once trusted allies.
There’s only so far adrenaline and anger can take you before reaction sets in. I understand the onset of battle weariness. I can only pray that, if those arms are failing, that they will be lifted.
Nice to see Peter Costello, our best ever treasurer, speak up to condemn the Covid response, which pummelled our civil liberties and freedoms.
But why didn’t he speak up during the Covid response to condemn the lockdowns, the vaccine mandates and so on? I only recall his silence. He could have and he should have spoken up during those bleak years.
That was the first question I asked also.
He wasn’t arrested or pepper sprayed!
Not Robinson Crusoe there.
Another brave soul ex post facto.
As Chairman of Ch9 was too busy accepting OPM from the government during covid.
As someone who battled to get letters published criticising the mRNA vaccine agenda, I can imagine the prohibitions that extended right through the political class as it did for the rest of us,
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ABC royalty not happy about royalty.
‘A job for an Aussie’: Republicans call for Australia’s head of state to be changed (Sky News, 22 Oct)
Why should Mr Spencer be on our soil? He should be sent to Somalia, within which he will be happy since it is a republic.
“We think it’s a job for Aussie.”
It is – the 1975 “Dismissal” proved that. Do try to keep up!
The Australian people thought otherwise when last asked about it in 1999. But of course they are all bogan redneck fascist racist retards who need their betters to correct them.
Well spotted Cassie.
Costello didn’t have the ticker to challenge Howard or when the time came to defend the human rights of Australian citizens from the two bit dictatorships that pose as state governments.
His post political career is a tramp stamp.
Costello was as gutless as the Stupid Frigging Liberals who let Malcolm Turnbull hijack the Liberal party after he had been rejected for membership of the ALP. As has been demonstrated since he left parliamentary politics, Costello is part of the problem. Piss off, you rich fat cat.
Reflecting on the Thorpse, who knew that bells and motley would morph into possum fur and high heels?
That’s the antipodes for you.
Bruce Pascoe in his next book will have a whole chapter on aboriginals inventing high heels 40,000 years ago.
Cultural appropriation
It would seem you don’t have to be a Catholic to attend & graduate from ACU.
What’s the point then?
(Not having a go just at Catholics….the same question could/should be asked of the church owned school systems.)
Money and cachet and the old boy network.
Not sure the OBN applies anymore but money & cachet certainly do. In which case, doesn’t that contradict the Christian ethic?
Many of us view that as an appealing feature rather than a bug of the present arrangement, Adam.
We don’t want a prog-left appointed president regularly haranguing us from a bully pulpit.
We already had one who regarded himself, and was regarded by the usual suspects, as “the conscience of the nation”. Sir (Republican knight) William Deane, IIRC.
On the positive side for Peter Costello – at least he’s saying something. It seems that every other politician, save a tiny few, are prepared to let the whole thing slide.
I will never forget what they did to me and mine. And others suffered even more, much more.
Cuddly can afford to throw a few stones. As others have noted, he sat the whole thing out.
“Because they’re newsworthy. If the rule was do not report what has happened before in war we would not hear of combatants being killed, wounded, surrendering, retreating, advancing, and so on.”
You know I just think there is an agenda here, like the one that constantly claims Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, that 60 to 65 children are being deliberately shot in the head by Israeli snipers every single day, that Gazans were being lead to execution pits to be massacred, that Israel is hiding the true number of IDF casualties etc etc
All to paint the IDF as the incarnation of the SS and that is why golly just fancy IDF soldiers have PTSD! All of them.
Incidentally Israel always published its casualties, just as soon as families are notified.
Meanwhile in Hamasville all we get is a barrage of falsehoods.
The only confirmed hamas casualty is Sinwar!
Today’s breaking story by the way is seven arrests of new Israelis as Iranian Spies, one of whom was a soldier who may well have provided Iran with the information that allowed them to successfully target a mess hall full of 19 year old recruits.
Unlike alleged Spies in Gaza or the west bank, they aren’t being arbitrarily executed as Judaism isn’t a human sacrifice death cult.
chrisafooli and the grinning idiot suddenly on Sky.
Off switch hit, toot de sweet.
Thus Spake M0ntythustra
I will try to debate this in the hope I learn something along the way.
One wonders how the tariff policy would start a _worldwide_ recession when the policy is to target particular importing nations on particular value-added goods, not everything. In commodity markets the other exporters would benefit from increased prices when selling to the USA (even without collusion).
As for the illegal immigrants, it really depends on how many are on welfare versus working the low wage jobs. Even then it affects the labour component of retail pricing, while at the same time the energy cost component is supposed to be eventually brought down by DrillBabyDrill.
I’m not convinced Trump is right about saying the exporter will eat the tariff without passing it on to the customer. They may do this if they don’t want to lose marketshare to other exporters, but that is more for commodities than for goods that are more difficult to duplicate like cars.
Hurricane Oscar, economic woes, and US sanctions undermine Cuba’s ability to restore electricity
where the IDF has been largely engaged in mopping up operations and not in directly engaged with a near peer enemy in Gaza.
No, that’s not true. There has been a lot of hand to hand direct combat in Gaza, particularly in the tunnels where IDF soldiers have faced off against Hamas Nazi scum. As recently as August of this year IDF soldiers fought direct hand combat against Hamas Nazi terrorists, because they were desperate to try and reach Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat and Almog Sarus. Remember them? Alas the IDF couldn’t make it in time because Hamas Nazi scum dragged out the starved Jews and shot them point blank in the head.
As for fatigue, the IDF is careful to allow soldiers home time, to be with their wives and families. I have a cousin who was in Gaza and is now in Lebanon. His wife is pregnant, and they have time together.
Given the scale of government overreach in complete contradiction of Liberal Party principles, Abbott’s established, sensible pandemic plan which should have been the government’s response & common sense, I’m not inclined to give him a pass here.
Oh and when they rescued Noa Argamani and the other male hostages back in June, IDF soldiers fought hand to hand combat to get to them.
?It’s been a very long time since a liberal leader has had the guts and the conviction to call out loudly an opposition member – particularly of the female variety – for disgraceful behaviour.
Well done, Peter Dutton.
Excellent opportunity to suggest Faruqi should join her.
I mean, it’s just so comforting so see the likes of brave Peter Costello, brave Dominic Perrottet and so on now speak up to say they were against the lockdowns and mandates, three and four years after the Covid horrors.
Aren’t they brave? Except they’re not They could have and they should have spoken up during the height of the Covid insanity but instead they chose silence, and Perrottet, in government at the time, chose to be walked over by the MSM, by health bureaucrats and all the rest of the Covid hysterics.
THEY CAN ALL F*CK OFF.
The greens really vomit up the most spiteful malicious people imaginable.
It’s not cuddly old homo GPs anymore. Hasn’t been for a while.
Roger
October 22, 2024 7:19 pm
Quite so.
A distant and uninterested head of state appeals.
WE have a vice-regal Governor-General here all the time, that’s enough.
Republican’s are just seeking increased power, not a better system.
Psychopathic
I mean, wasn’t Peter Costello head of Channel Nine during the Covid insanity?
He remained silent when people questioned the insanity of lockdowns, he remained silent when ordinary people took to the streets because they were seeing their livelihoods destroyed, only to be beaten, bashed and bludgeoned, he remained silent when people lost their jobs because they refused to partake of a dodgy jab.
He chose his personal comfort over truth.
So brave…..not
As gutless and useless as the rest of the political class. HoP time.
It’s bizarre really.
Israel could have avoided far more IDF casualties by conducting long distances war fare but to minimise civilian casualties they have been going at it with hamas.
How else have they lost over 700 soldiers?
The death of Sinwar was precipitated by raw recruits on patrol engaging with three armed men in Rafah.
Whatever they do it’s the wrong way, right?
And there is endless footage of idf engaging with hamas directly since they entered Gaza.
Of course that’s another narrative ‘ Israelis are nappy wearing cowards’.
Yeah Costello associating with Fairfax really blew up any remaining credibility.
The Thorpe’s are getting attacked on twitter with claims that Lidia is only 3% aboriginal.
That isn’t true though the family haven’t helped by erasing her maternal grandfather from public view.
Lidia does admit to being a descendant of Harry Thorpe a decorated Aboriginal war hero who died on the battle field in world war one and was her great great grandfather, presumably her grandmother married his grandson who I believe was named Alister.
Wasn’t her father Scots?
Yes, your point?
No he is english
ZK2A mentioned 1/16th, unsure of his source but makes sense if she is multiply removes by generations, that’s still 6.25% which is pretty small.
Her family were part-aboriginal with white admixture for generations, No full bloods in there. Which means the ‘aboriginal’ proportion of her genes is miniscule.
That’s why ‘aboriginality’ is claimed as a cultural rather the a genetic matter.
Yes I get it. Stilettos and push up bras were the cultural attire of aboriginal women 500 years ago?
Seems both Tim and Peter are odious but in different ways
As Tolstoy would have noted.
You’re a true scholar bear.
Eden Yerushalmi was 24 years old when she was murdered by Hamas Nazi scum. She was taken hostage at just 23 years of age, only one week before her 24th birthday. Eden endured almost eleven months of living hell, she was raped, she was starved, she was unable to stand upright in the hole she was kept in. As desperate IDF soldiers bravely fought to free her and the other hostages, she was dragged out of the hole and shot dead at point blank range.
Here’s her funeral…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txvW80cKqH8
Eden’s family are Mizrachi Jews, they are Jews who never left the middle east.
How terribly sad for all.
May we remember her.
May we remember her.
I will. When the news came about her death, I was working in a section of my garden..palm tree, bird of paradise and miniature nile lilies. So I named that little patch “Eden” and Eden it will remain for as long as I live here.
And wasn’t it Sinwar who ordered her murder by execution along with the five other hostages also murdered as the IDF drew close to rescuing them?
Hamas in the last few days killed the commander of 401st Armoured Brigade in an ambush. From what I’ve seen online following Sinwar’s death, their morale is not going to be reduced. Not announcing a replacement is a smart move operationally.
Hezbollah’s operational tempo has only increased since the Pagers incident and the assassination of Nasrallah. They took big hits but they’ve suffered those before and not folded. Still a long way to go.
My shallow thinking copped a severe application of the cluebat this evening on Sky. I have regularly advocated the dissolution of the ACT and its incorporation as just another NSW entity.
The electoral wizzkid who was posed this question announced that such an outcome would ensure initialy Labor, and then Green governments in NSW in perpetuity.
Message to self. Fantasies are fantasies. Canberra is a plague.
As with the voice & nuclear power, he is following public opinion.
Fine.
That’s more than the opposition has done, ref: Bowens blind adherence to renewables?
BTW: isn’t that the major role for politicians, supporting the opinions of the public?
I have no problem with a politician who changes his/her mind, especially after they’ve taken the time to ‘read the room’. I’m glad that Dutton is flexible enough to do this. But I suspect a deeper dislike with you, Roger. Please, for us Liberal hopefuls, can you explain openly your reasons for this?
As regard to the criticism of Costello, I think its time we got honest about the costs of what was done.
If everyone is too scared to speak about it, how can we avoid a future trainsmash like that?
For instance, pandemic, but also over islamofascist ambitions in western countries.
Start by offering Muslims living in Australia cash bonuses to renounce their Australian citizenship, if they have it, and leave never to return.
“Hezbollah’s operational tempo has only increased”
Apparently this is a fact.
As for hamas, yeah the hard men aren’t folding, they’re killing Gazans left right and centre.
Why not when every dead body can be blamed on Israel.
“It seems that Hezbollah is using its UAVs to gain victorious images.”
https://israel-alma.org/2024/10/21/hezbollah-attacks-against-israel-since-the-beginning-of-the-ground-maneuver-in-lebanon-data-review-october-1-20-2024/
Abortion rears its head again as part of the two leaders debate ahead of the QLD election.
Women already have access to it, so what is this other than a scare campaign?
It seems to be a leftist deflection, look over here, don’t look at our failed policies.
Our old pal Raffensperger is up to no good again in Georgia.
Does Brad know something about how the election will play out? Hmm.
They forget how many times electoral results in the US have been queried.
The system is complex and therefore results aren’t always immediate.
If you are an election official in GA, you are REQUIRED to certify the results by the specified date, EVEN IF you have issues with what you have seen and think the results may have been illegally altered in some way. As far as I know, you have to certify even if you have proof of illegalities in the election!
Nor is that solely a Georgia thing – it’s been ruled on in other states as well.
This is unbelievable, but true nevertheless.
Our media, political, and elite class is a grotesquery of reptilian anthropomorphs.
The quiet part out loud.
You have to be very careful with asset managers and hedge fund principals giving their view on markets.
Asset managers are obviously long all the markets, so they are talking their own book.
It’s very strange or instructive that centre-right political thought pays little attention to oligarchy.
Au contraire, I keep a mistrustful eye on the ultra rich, many of whom have attached themselves to the political, academic, bureaucratic and NGO groups that now dominate leftism. They all are as bad as each other.
You and your online sources are barking at the moon. Ham arse is finished operationally. They have to wait for another generation to be mowed down.
Don’t be impatient and upset with this, but the Hez is going to go the same way as those loons in Gaza.
I have no idea what that even means. What oligarchy are you referring to – the Kremlin?
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The ads claim that women in the US have lost their rights and that could happen in QLD because the opposition leader doesn’t support abortion at birth or such.
Abortion at birth is murder of the most defenceless in our society.
No amount of ‘rights’ of the mother can alter it.
@TaraBull808
She was Epsteined.
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Lol
You left out the Kremlin part. LOL
I made a general remark about little attention being paid to oligarchy in centre-right political thought and you pretended to not understand what I meant and then referenced the Kremlin. Hmm.
I must’ve missed your deep concern about oligarchies, especially since you seem to cheer those you prefer. Go Dictators, am I right?
But seriously, if you’re worried about oligarchies, maybe take a peek at the ones you’re rooting for. China’s been rolling out the red carpet for their elite since 1948. Iran? Late 70s VIP-only regime. North Korea? Dictatorship royalty since the late 1940s. And Russia—oh, Russia’s been running that oligarchy marathon since 1917, with a quick water break in the 90s.
But sure, you’re worried about oligarchies.
I didn’t say I was ‘worried’ about oligarchies (although I do detest them), I said its strange (or instructive) that centre-right political thought appears to pay little attention to them, especially so, since they are discussed in classical political thought.
Handwaving that away by referencing the usual suspects is just absurd.
The ads claim that women in the US have lost their rights and that could happen in QLD because the opposition leader doesn’t support abortion at birth or such.
I got a bad feeling about QLD.
Would definitely fall into the unloseable election category if the SFL stuff it up.
Crisafulli can’t be that bad, can he? Hard to get a feel from the other side of the country. Not long to wait.
He’s not called “Christwhatafool” without valid reason.
He fully supported Anastacia Palasczcak’s treaty with ‘first nations’.
He firmly opposes Dutton’s nuclear power plans.
The bloke can’t agree with Labor quickly enough, changing his mind only when enough browned-off grass roots voters make irate phone calls saying if he’s going to be same as Labor, then they’re going to vote for Pauline Hanson or Bob Katter.
ICE vs EV Fires: The Shocking Truth
18 24 150 who to believe?
https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1848677380295925904?t=AtBbb_5NMZfIweEQ4mjJeA&s=19
The ‘macwin’
https://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1848362761299865765?t=aISMDzA_vSai86gWJqRXlQ&s=19
Interesting rabbit hole tweet about who owns the companies that make the voting machines in the USA.
https://nitter.poast.org/FFT1776/status/1846570820614709341#m
I’m looking for some guidance here.
Mme Zulu’s daughter is staying with us for a few days. She has had an indigenous family, move in to public housing, two houses next door.
“I’m not a racist, I just hate all you white conts.”
How do you deal with that?
Propafella sabbidge dog moves in to her yard – new ‘pet’.
Move, asap.
You do not want to be living next door to these people.
Baseball bats
You are racist and if you were fair dinkum not a hypocrite you wouldn’t be taking white mans money.
Don not speak to me or my family.
Sympathies. Without knowing more about the character of the individuals I can’t offer any advice. As a general rule I have nothing to do with people who have a low opinion of me but your situation is much more difficult than dealing with the occasional asshole. I suggest that you state there will be no assistance provided and make it perfectly clear you are capable of rapid and highly disproportionate retribution.
I believe there was a song about this once written by noted ethnographer Kevin Wilson.
Why do you need to “deal” with it? Each to their own, play on.
Piss off, Nazi.
That’s Kevin Bloody Wilson mate. Show some respect.
Would a smoking ceremony help?
Depends on what you’re smoking I guess.
The attached is a speech by John Mearsheimer about Israel, Gaza etc, I feel that the keyboard warriors on this site should read it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuFB-T9gMfo
Interesting perspectives, but anyone who quotes Amnesty is immediately undermining his arguments.
Cleetus and crew.
Good to see the blokes who built the body on site.
Live and learn. They will fix it.
Leroy’s First Pass With a Body!
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Poor old Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Hey, Steve T. Livin’ the dream in WA. 🙂
Genuine music fans, read this and weep:
CLEVELAND (AP) — Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Zendaya bookended Saturday’s inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, giving a little stardust to an eclectic lineup that included pop icon Cher, heavy metal’s Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop soul queen Mary J. Blige, soft rockers Foreigner and 83-year-old soul icon Dionne Warwick.
It was a five-hour-plus show that also honored hip-hop trailblazers A Tribe Called Quest, punk pioneers the MC5, the effortless dance music of Kool & the Gang, the soft rock of Foreigner, the beach bum tunes of Jimmy Buffett and the jam band fusion of Dave Matthews Band.
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Foreigner are ‘soft rock’?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=youtube+urgent+foreigner+#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a5e7bf8c,vid:Z5KsbsdZV1M,st:0
That’s like saying that The Divine Agatha wrote romance novels.
As for Dionne, the crime is that she wasn’t recognised decades ago.
The so-called Hall of Fame has the credibility of the Greens’ commitment to the environment.
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Bungonia Bee
October 22, 2024 8:42 pm
Abortion rears its head again as part of the two leaders debate ahead of the QLD election.
Women already have access to it, so what is this other than a scare campaign?
It seems to be a leftist deflection, look over here, don’t look at our failed policies.
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Well spotted.
The horse has bolted, it’s over red rover. But the left know that reviving the abortion debate will be like a hammer on the knee of certain right-wingers, so they apply the hammer whenever they can.
Trump has wisely steered clear of it.
That’s a lot of amps there, imagine the size of the cables.
A lot of small ones.
This picture of Diana wasn’t widely circulated at the time.
If she can do it I have no shame doing it myself.
Of course she had an excuse I will never have.
Lady Diana Falling Asleep During An Official Royal Engagement, 1981. She was actually pregnant with Prince William at the time, but her pregnancy had yet to be announced.
And to top it off, a fav actress of the past.
19 year old Brigitte Bardot at the Cannes film festival 1953
The pointy bra is hilarious. Despite that, she is an impressive woman. She still maintains her animal rights office in the 16th. I spotted her a couple of times having coffee in the brass’ across the street when I was walking to the Metro.
She went through a Tommy Robinson experience when she emerged as one of the first to warn against Muzzie immigration. She’s tough.
Another day, another poll showing Harris leads by a big margin.
Ready for the steal?
This is a ploy to convince voters. It is destined to capture voters who follow the lead of others.
Thanks Tom.
From The Oz…..
Lidia Thorpe has racked up thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded interstate travel and nabbed a membership to the VIP Qantas Chairman’s Lounge since entering parliament, and Peter Dutton says there is a “strong argument” for her to resign after her tirade at King Charles III
As senators consider options to rebuke Senator Thorpe when parliament returns after her profane protest in front of the King and Queen Camilla, an analysis of the upper house independent’s expenses has revealed she has accumulated at least $1346 across 16 occasions on cancelled Comcars marked in her expenses as “no show”.
Senator Thorpe, who earns an extra $25,702 for chairing a committee on forever chemicals on top of her base salary of $233,660, has tried to defend her shouts of ‘you are not our king’, “Give us treaty” and “F..k the colony”, declaring she does not “assimilate” to “colonial structures”.
Across eight quarterly expenditure claims from mid-2021 to mid-2024 worth $884,646, the Victorian senator has also billed the taxpayer for travel to Darwin, Alice Springs, Perth and Brisbane and more than a dozen books on Indigenous issues under “office administrative costs”.
Senator Thorpe, who has repeatedly railed against the “colonial state”, has also declared the home she owns in the Melbourne suburb of Preston, which has a median house price of $1.18m and $590,000 for apartments.
Unsurprisingly, Ms Thorpe doesn’t mind some ‘colonial structures’.
It’s such a grift, paid for by you and me.
This picture of Diana wasn’t widely circulated at the time.
Actually it was. I remember it well.
Abortion rears its head again as part of the two leaders debate ahead of the QLD election.
Must be a SEQ thing, I can tell you no-one regional cares. Crime has crowded everything else out.
It is a media beat up low information voters are mybe buying. Don’t also put it past the far left media also talking up selected polls.
I’ve already voted and the LNP wasn’t at the top but was above the ALP & slime, pre-polling was very busy.
I do think Chrisifooli has since being leader been too timid backed the wrong horse more than once and has made a complete 180 deg on what he was like as a Townsville city councillor. Love to know what the party machine does with attack dogs and how it turns them into inoffensive puppies.
He may learn the folly of keeping a no/low profile until the election. While I get the feeling that we are more than ready for a change, the more people see of him, the less they like like him.
He is still miles ahead of slimy Miles who exhibited his malevolence last night for all to see.
Golly those Queenslanders love their sweet, sweet abortions, don’t they?
Even the rumour that the Premier hopeful might not fully be on board personally is enough to set all the old hens and capons cackling in the henhouse.
Last night was a schoolboy taunting – had I been Chrisafuilli, I would have smashed that grinning bastard. Verbally, of course.
What are you grinning at? Don’t you think this is a serious matter? Wipe that stupid smirk off your face. Is this how you treat Queensland women, using their concerns to get at me personally? And then find it funny? He had sooooo many opportunities to go for the jugular.
Just to let everyone know my stance on Abortions:
I know you were all waiting in breathless anticipation of it.
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“ZK2A mentioned 1/16th, unsure of his source but makes sense if she is multiply removes by generations, that’s still 6.25% which is pretty small”
That is incorrect and of course it’s a long time since Lidia had a full blood ancestor, she’s a Victorian.
Her maternal grandmother Alma Thorpe who’s grandmother was a ‘full blood’ from Franglingham way was married to a Thorpe, Alister Thorpe of Yallourn, a world war 2 veteran who was the grandson of Harry Thorpe from Lake Tyers mission, who was also an aboriginal man and a decorated war hero who died at the front in 1918.
That gives her heritage on both sides, Harry’s wife was also at least part aboriginal as she also grew up at an Aboriginal mission.
These families have always lived within the Victorian aboriginal community.
I’m not going to pretend that part Aboriginal families didn’t face disadvantage and discrimination over generations.
They did.
They aren’t Johnny come latelies like Bruce Pascoe.
People just need to stop with the 3% or 6.25% as it is incorrect.
I also think Lidia is an idiot and it’s time for her to give it a rest.
Her children and grandchildren are also the product of mixed marriages.
More dilute every generation.
Aboriginal corporations in Victoria these days are just leeches getting rich off of scams in the building and construction industry and various sinecures
“This Remembrance Day I’m thinking about my great great grandfather Harry Thorpe and all he did for our country, family and community.
He was a Brabuwooloong man of the Gunaikurnai nation, who fought fearlessly and died for a nation that would not even afford him the right to vote.
#LestWeForget him, my grandfather Alister Thorpe who fought in WW2, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander soldiers who died for this colony.
Lest We Forget also the thousands who died in the Frontier Wars, the first war on these shores.”
From Lidia’s Facebook.
No vote????
Miles having a giggle about the murder in Ipswich should be sufficient disqualification like Andrews’ treatment of the Blairgowrie boy. Decent, normal people they are not.
The Greens considered Thorpe their most worthy candidate to represent Victoria. More fool them, I guess, but it must be a shallow pool.
“Lest We Forget also the thousands who died in the Frontier Wars, the first war on these shores.”
From Lidia’s Facebook”
Wars normally involve Generals planning troop movements and directing attacks. Is there any evidence of British officers in Sydney or elsewhere co-ordinating attacks on Aboriginals? Simple reality is that for the size of the land area there were hardly any troops here.
People who do not know history fail to understand that the British Army was a bit busy elsewhere in places like America, Europe ( v Napoleon), India, Afghanistan, China, NZ and Africa.
Of all the colonies Australia was perhaps the easiest to settle. Says something about capability of the natives here.
There’s also a distinct lack of forensic evidence of any such wars.
Nothing sez “read me” better than a bit of “dreamtime” writing, does it! The opener for this piece is plod using Capsicum spray to break up a “riot”.. BUT, reading on and only one incident of spray used, no explanation as to why and given no one was arrested and no, actual, insight into the “riot” leaves you wondering what they are on about other than a bit of, the usual, “our” ABC support for “illegals” ……..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-23/refugee-rally-disrupted-by-far-right-protesters/104504672
Yet another gathering of new Nazism who aren’t arrested, do nothing and seem to be a nuisance but nothing else. Yet we don’t know who they are or who leads them. My betting is that the journos and plod do know who they are, but it’s a big secret.
The waste and grift by these pollimuppets along with their pubic serpent pals in canbra should not be tolerated. Contemptuous waste of money forcibly taken from workers. I’m sure Thorpe is just one example.
I read rumours about this last night but now it appears to be solid. I’m still doubtful this will happen. It was reasonable to expect Ukraine to fold within months of the invasion. While it was well known Russian military capability was over-rated most military analysts didn’t expect it to be so bad. Russia might be doing this as a means of preserving its working population.
North Korea’s decision to send troops to Russia puts Ukraine, allies on edge
Oh good, MSN horseshit.
Multiple sources from across the globe. Even Sky News claims it is highly likely. I still don’t believe it. Doesn’t make sense because integration nigh impossible.
Believe it.
They’re getting the old gang back together.
North Korea, Russia, China, weaponised Comintern Western fools, mass movements of “refugees” who turn out to be fifth columnists, Mid East terrorists, organised boycotts and political pressure against a chosen target, in the 70s it was South Africa this decade it’s Israel, university campuses in turmoil. The dirty animals of the rolling “counter culture” now mainstreamed and out in the open.
All the usual fellow travellers hoovering up the detritus of a busted open culture. The pimps, the dealers, the traffickers.
They never went away, they just convinced the free market fools that it was a new world, they never intended to integrate with the West. They never change, it is the same conflict we have been embroiled in our entire lives.
They never go away because they have a driving ideology and burning hatred that unites them across time and space. Across the centuries. And everywhere they go, from Mumbai to Melbourne, from Birmingham to Burma, from Berlin to Beijing, they find the nasty creatures of resentment to join the cause. Whereas all we have is the age old yearning to be free and left alone to live our lives.
Big scare. Russia’s military has become a laughing stock, North Korea is a failed state with weaponry so antiquated it is shown in museums in other countries, China has the fastest aging population in the world and has an economy imploding. Who are these free market fools you speak of? Reagan, Thatcher, Friedman?
I wasn’t supporting the Frontier wars claim, just reproducing the Facebook page.
In Lidia’s Gippsland forebears case, they weren’t wars, they were simply massacres.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_McMillan
That is a bullshit story without any shred of primary evidence. The catalyst for the police action was the premeditated ambush and murder of McAlisters nephew. Native police all over Australia made sure the criminals murdered no more. I believe the very much feared by other tribes the kurnai of Gippsland settled down after the event. All this nonsense came about when McMillan’s lefty relation came out from Scotland a few years ago to stir things up. I have been unable to source any primary evidence of McMillan’s involvement. Lots of tales.
No longer a candidate.
https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/1848816701585993823?t=ndEvPnNc0nRjDy5U1CfUVw&s=19
Oh dear Candace thinks all paper is white.
https://x.com/strxwmxn/status/1848776998933414356?t=GaU4AMkYrA8Cb9fTXAz-CQ&s=19
Racist paper or racist crayons?
Don’t let her see chalk. She’ll have conniptions. 😀
My black pen doesn’t work on black paper. Who knew?
I can see a visual fantasy in Candaces future.
Standing desks are bad for your health – new study
I warned people standing desks were a con because gravity … . Sitting or standing think about keeping the calf muscles busy. Helps with circulation. And
‘Special’ Muscle Can Promote Glucose and Fat Burning to Fuel Metabolism for Hours While Sitting – Neuroscience News
Summary: The pioneering “soleus pushup” effectively elevates muscle metabolism for hours, even when sitting.
Gosh, all that war fatigue, morale collapse along with IDF reservists who are refusing to fight has really crippled Israel…..
Israel’s army has confirmed it “eliminated” Hezbollah’s Hashem Safieddine, apparent successor of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike in a southern Beirut suburb three weeks ago.
“It can now be confirmed that in an attack approximately three weeks ago, Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, and Ali Hussein Hazima, the head of Hezbollah’s Intelligence Directorate, were killed along with other Hezbollah commanders,” the army said in a statement.
Hezbollah has not yet issued a statement regarding the claim.
On October 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the military has “taken out” Safieddine, without specifically naming him.
As written here last night by rosie, Israel could have razed Gaza to the ground on October 8, 9 and 10 2023. It did not for two good reasons, firstly it wants those Jewish men, women and children taken on October 7 2023 back, either alive or dead. We need their bodies back in order to give them a Jewish funeral, that happens to be quite important for us Jews. Secondly, out of respect for human life, something our enemies do not believe in, Israel did not raze Gaza to the ground, instead it has fought a painstaking war over the last year, involving much hand to hand combat in tunnels in an effort to find the hostages and dent, permanently, Hamas.
On October 21 Bibi turned 75. He looks good for his age, still handsome but he’s aged considerably over the last year and who would not. But Bibi now has a spring in his step. As he said a few days ago, they raped our women, they beheaded our men and they burnt our babies, and for this they will pay a heavy price, there will be justice, and no amount of puerile pontification from the likes of anti-Semitic armchair warriors like John Mearsheimer will stop this from happening.
There is something quite bizarre about this ‘neo-Nazi’ group, how they form up unmolested, their childish performative theatrics, and the softcock way the police handle their appearance.
Video* of Vikpol’s ‘sort of’ dispersal (ex OZ) shows about 10 cops marching back 20 Gay Grampians, using some sort of spray that doesn’t seem to distress the Nasties, or the unprotected cops who appear also to be covered in the stuff.
Weirdly, the ‘OC sprayed’ Grampians then calmly march off and around a corner, in formation, without any further Vikpol intervention.
If these pricks are doing illegal stuff – why no arrests?
Something troubling about this strange street theatre and its convenient political message that white Australians are terrifying racist bastards preying on multiculti goodness.
Perhaps Mike Burgess has some idea.
* Instagram: just click ‘Not Now’ to view.
I bet the Grampian Nasties are Vicplod.
What is needed is photos of the Nazis faces to be plastered over the net.
That will take some organising, but once the faces are displayed, there will be no question about their support system.
Broadly agree.
There seems to be evidence that the Grampian Nasties are actually associated with a Melbourne boxing gym run by White Supremacists. Naming and shaming individuals might be helpful (although the risk is it might also be seen to ‘glorify’ the brain dead tools).
My concern is about the apparent official tolerance of their clumsy, cartoonish performances. If they are committing public order offences, arrest and charge the fakirs – and then arrest and charge the PalliPals who, with their own performances, are terrorising the Jewish community.
Unfortunately, at best, the official response looks like avoidance dressed up as evenhandedness.
The Grampian Nazis are a Vicplod covert operation.
If we had a news media interested in finding out stuff the public would be interested in, we’d know the identities of all the Grampian Nazis along with their work histories.
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I have paid no attention to this election. There is a libertarian candidate in my electorate so my vote is decided.
The assumption that LNP is going to romp it in is not sustainable, nor is it a foregone conclusion.
The recent elections in Great Britain shows what can happen when a Radical Marxist Party manages to split the Conservative vote.
Watch the Hansonites as they claw votes from the LNP, and leave Labor a fighting chance.
LNP could have used that to their advantage by swapping preferences with PHON but, of course, they are above such politicking. They are pure and will not be sullied by Pauline’s peasants.
Sounds ideal. Noddy has really got them running scared, just like Work Choises. It took a decade before the Feral Lieborals could even mention IR.
Exactly. And the me-tooism goes further: when was the last time (Angus Taylor’s recent speech excepted) when you heard one of our ‘conservative’ leaders come up with a credible plan to reduce budget deficits and public debt? That (as Peter Costello reminds us) should be the Liberals’ strong suit.
Cribbed from the cia or fbi. Despicable conduct.
Perhaps Mike Burgess has some idea.
No, he has NFI.
A man has been charged after the Queen Victoria statue in Sydney’s CBD was defaced with red paint early Tuesday morning.
Police were called to the Queen Victoria Building on Market St shortly before 5.30am following reports of the vandalism.
Upon arrival, authorities established a crime scene around the monument and investigations commenced.
Public Order and Riot Squad officers later searched a residence on Wonga St in Strathfield, where they found and seized bottles of paint.
A 26-year-old man was arrested at the scene and taken to Burwood Police Station.
He has been charged with malicious damage and having his face blackened or disguised with intent to commit an indictable offence.
The man was granted conditional bail and is set to appear at Burwood Local Court on November 12.
No name or photo? Why not? Related to somebody who might be embarrassed?
I watched Tommy’s statement regarding the death in custody of political prisoner Peter Lynch.
Impressive. He started out expressing heartfelt anguish and then exploded against Starmer. Expletives sure, but is was carefully choreographed fury.
Starmer and his corrupt Judge Jefferys are going to have to watch this bloke. He has matured, and certainly now possesses the ability to motivate crowds beyond the ‘terraces’.
A link to the speech, please?
Senator wants abortion on the national agenda as debate engulfs state politics
Argentina can do it, why not us? https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/10/22/javier-milei-dissolves-argentinas-government-revenue-service/
Maria Shriver and Kamala Harris are on stage together. They do have something in common beside their politics. Either their husband or their ex-husband have knocked up the hired help.
Well, they are. Why is this so difficult for certain evil psychopathic deadsh*ts to understand?
100% Rabz. Well said.
Seconded
Anyone surprised that SBS is a festering pesthole of antisemitism? No?
Jewish presenter resigns from Australian radio station after removal of pro-Israel content (Arutz Sheva, 22 Oct)
Shut them down, fire them all.
The ABC/SBS conglomerate of Leftist Activism needs to go.
Put their funding up to public subscription so we can identify them.
In this age of internet there is absolutely no justification for SBS. New and older immigrants can simply access programming in their own languages by searching online or subscribe to sites they want. I know people whose aged relatives are doing just that. SBS is not even on their radar.
Good piece; but “increasingly”?
Unfortunately, for those of us watching Queensland politics first hand, Crisafulli has appeared a weak man right from the start of his tenure.
He is wholly and absolutely a follower – a creature of polling, focus groups, and political advisers. Sadly the LNP is an introspective, Brisbane-centric private club and has nothing better to offer.
My serious concern is that the vacuum between failed Labor and Empty Suit LNP is going to be filled with a nasty rash of urban Greens.
My own electorate of McConnell (formerly Brisbane Central) has been a safe hold for ALP’s Grace Grace. She’s likely to hold again this weekend on LNP preferences, but the Greens candidate has a chance this time around – which is scaring the shit out of the ALP faithful.
Close friend was a member of the Liberal Party in NQ. Your assessment of a private club is correct, he let it lapse but they still send out mail pleading him to rejoin.
I expect plenty of Liars lie awake at night thinking about Green nightmares. So many of them pick up their paycheque thanks to Greens preferences. As soon as it is a Liar Greens count it’s over. Luckily Albo has an escape plan.
538 now favouring Trump win:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/?cid=rrpromo
Specially for Monty ‘coz he asked for it.
You such a nice bloke, 2dogs.
With the lefty pollsters massaging their numbers to make it look like the Kamel is ahead it’s dead cert that it will be stolen. And most Americans think so.
What happens afterward I have no idea. But it will be ugly one way or another.
Just scary stuff.
The markets think so as well:
Gold A$4140/oz, Silver A$52.27/oz.
Trump: Harris ‘destructive to Christianity,’ Catholics ‘treated worse than anybody’
This is rubbish, the numbers just don’t stack up when compared to the total population numbers. In a population of 350 million 150 million voted at the last election. What proportion are children who cannot vote? What proportion are non-citizens who cannot vote? Yet you still have 100 million Christians who will not vote. Yeah, Nah.
Arizona Chistian University give more details.
More info under ‘Turnout and People of Faith’
Here’s another happy US election story for the Gimp.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13989643/Joe-biden-kamala-harris-donald-trump-lock-up.html
SBS has been run on a semi-commercial basis now for decades. There is absolutely no reason why it can’t be wholly run as a pay per view service (if it could be dignified with such a term).
Way past time all government funding for it ceased.
Via Courier Mail.
The Los Angeles Times has refused to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in 15 years.
In a blow to Kamala Harris, her hometown newspaper refused to back the vice president despite endorsing a Democrat candidate for the White House in every presidential race since 2008; Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden.
The LA Times had previously endorsed Ms Harris for California Attorney General in 2014, the US Senate in 2016, and as vice president under Biden in 2020.
The decision was made by the newspaper’s owner Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong, according to two people familiar with the situation quoted by Semafor.
She’s invented her own religion. Guess who the deity in it is.
Jewish Dems Create New Religion Around Kamala (Daniel Greenfield, 22 Oct)
Meanwhile Trump has had a rather surprising endorsement.
Dearborn Islamic Leader: Trump Closer to Bible, Torah, Quran than Kamala (21 Oct)
Nice to see someone from Dearborn has noticed that Trump and his son in law pushed peace between Islam, Israel and Christianity via the Abraham Accords.
If I were his editor that piece would have taken a different tone.
Indeed.
No subscribers would be a reason.
One of their news programs – Worldwatch, I think? – has so few viewers it often rates zero.
The only decent thing they run is high-end historical and archaeological documentaries – in English. That would have been the ABC’s remit until it reduced itself to the level of the Year 9 Marxism Collective at Bulamakanka High School.
Breaking news from The Oz:
Ten has been dealt a massive blow in Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal of the landmark defamation ruling that found he raped Brittany Higgins, after a Federal Court judge dismissed the network’s request to force the bankrupt former Liberal staffer to put up $200,000 ahead of the matter being heard.
Judge Wendy Abraham on Wednesday also said she would set aside the $2 million legal bill Mr Lehrmann was ordered to pay Ten until after the appeal concludes.
Mr Lehrmann is appealing a landmark ruling that found Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson did not defame him when airing an interview with Ms Higgins in 2021 because, on the balance of probabilities, he did rape her in the office of senator Linda Reynolds.
Earlier this month the court heard arguments over whether the $2 million costs order should be set aside, and if Mr Lehrmann should be required to put up $200,000 in security for costs before the matter is heard.
What a sad lot.
The unholy mess continues to roll on.
Perhaps others with more litigation experience can comment. My understanding it is very rare for courts to make a costs order that has the effect of killing a case.
Albanese reportedly has a new “signature policy” to be announced before the election:
Universal childcare for a low flat rate fee.
It’s an attempt to wedge the Greens in inner city electorates & the Libs in the aspirational suburbs.
If I were Dutton I’d counter with a low, flat rate income tax that could be split between parents on a single income, allowing mothers to spend more time at home with their children.
The last thing the big end of town wants is women out of the workforce thereby reducing labour supply and increasing wage pressure. The Coalition will never implement a policy like that. Which is a shame because I think Bowlby’s principle caregiver hypothesis has merit.
Which is one of many reasons why they don’t get my primary vote, John.
Imagine the howls of outrage from the wokerati: we can’t let these bogan redneck slags in the boondocks decide for themselves!
BREAKING NEWSBruce Lehrmann scores huge legal win as disgraced ex-political staffer pushes ahead with defamation appeal
Daily Mail.
Good post, Berka.
Yes, it would start a global recession if implemented as promised. 10-20% on all imported goods plus 60% on China and maybe 100% on Mexico is the claim, and if that happens there will be guaranteed increases in American goods that have inputs sourced from foreign suppliers. Try to find a significant American industry that will not have taxes on its inputs Raised arbitrarily.
Of course exporters will pass tariffs onto the consumer. Don’t be naive.
This is essentially a consumption tax. Now, that is not necessarily a bad thing in the long run, but it does cause disruption and temporarily increases inflation. These are long-established realities, at minimum.
Trump’s DrillBabyDrill mantra is stupid because Biden already got there first. America is now energy self-sufficient due to massive production investment under Biden, including fracking. There is no slack left for Trump to take up there, the US domestic energy industry is already booming.
The US economy is already booming, despite Trump talking it down. The stock market hits new highs every week. Introducing unnecessary inflation with a trade war plus tightening the labour market by deporting its most profitable workers is a recipe for a sudden crash.
The global economy has not been doing that lately… except for America. If Trump tanks the US economy in some lame dick measuring contest with Xi, the rest of the world is not going to suddenly fill the growth void.
Things are a bit fragile at the moment, on the brink of Ukraine escalating into a new World War to upgrade from the current new Cold War. Electing Trump would add further chaos to an unstable situation. Which, of course, benefits the Axis.
Monty is approving of ‘drill baby drill’?
Wow. You’ve been contaminated son.
The Green Stasi will be coming for you.
Blinkers off, Monty – please. The only companies going gangbusters are the big players like Black Rock and other global predators.
Haven’t you noticed – the average punter is struggling – in the US, as well as in other countries. As you obviously recognise – the globe is on the brink of a sizeable Recession. The big companies have plenty of “fat” to survive, but small business and many over-committed families are targets.
The Orange Man (or is it silver, now?) recognises all of this. He wants to buffer the US consumer. You may not think it will work. But it did last time around.
Go play with your Hamas buddies, Nazi.
Too late, they’re mostly all dead.
So much for sympathy with the lowest paid US workers. mUttley wants them to be replaced by illegals paid in cash, and not paying tax.
As for the rest, it becomes ever clearer why he failed Economics 1.
The USA has ongoing labour shortages. Trump will not implement this policy because he will be assailed by employer groups.
Nor will he implement tariffs. Industry groups will hit the roof over higher input costs.
Monty Trump is just making stuff up as he goes along. These tropes score well with his base. At present that is all he cares about. The same when he said he wants to bring the military to bear upon the “enemies within”. Talk, talk, talk. Ya know, like his health plan that has been arriving in the next few weeks for 8 years now.
Phone fun.
Petrified passengers flee as bridge to plane catches on fire: terrifying video (23 Oct)
It looks like the passenger was charging their phone off a power bank and one or other of the devices went wooshka. Going to be a real problem for airlines. Do they ban portable chargers? There’s no way they can ban phones, most people would need theirs surgically removed from their right hands.
Problem:
Items containing lithium batteries combusting on aircraft.
Solution:
Ban Items containing lithium batteries, or ban the batteries. If the passengers MUST have contact with other very important people, a lead to the charging point at each seat be made available. Voila! Phone connection enabled. No battery on board that isn’t up to spec. Airport concession shops make a fortune selling the different types of batteries.
Outcome:
Airport Concession shops burn down and take the entire airport complex down as one (1) phone battery does the “Burn, Baby, Burn.” video in real life.
Honestly, what did these people do twenty years ago?
On October 21 Bibi turned 75. He looks good for his age, still handsome but he’s aged considerably over the last year and who would not. But Bibi now has a spring in his step. As he said a few days ago, they raped our women, they beheaded our men and they burnt our babies, and for this they will pay a heavy price, there will be justice, and no amount of puerile pontification from the likes of anti-Semitic armchair warriors like John Mearsheimer will stop this from happening.
Absolutely Cassie. The naysayers and anti-Semites are SO eager to pounce on any apparent misstep. They give themselves away. Overheard something of the same in the coffee shop this morning in Sydney. A person I know. I turned around and said how impressive the precision bombing of the Israelis was! Silence.
Exactly. People who badmouth the IDF attempt to minimise enemy civilian casualties only do it because they rarely get pulled up on it.
Had a few beers at the pub yesterday evening and a news flash came on stating some item from the MidEast war.
“Haha! Cop that, you hezzy bastards!” shouted the Winston.
All the patrons and bar staff (7 of them) laughed and cheered.
Not much sympathy there for the “Palestinians”.
Vicki, just a little correction;
“how impressive the precision bombing BY the Israelis” 😀
Fluffy Annaliese is happy to present Kamala saying “Trump has no plan.”
But wait – Daily Telegraph reports that she might be facing a peck a trouble herself, with allegations surfacing that she plagiarised Republican congressional testimony and presented a fake sex trafficking story.
The left media – and that’s most of them – are going along with the “polling shows them neck and neck” narrative. This is known to be a tactic that enables narrow wins after the vote count “goes on a bit longer than usual”.
That’s ironic since most of Kamala’s plan was stolen off Trump.
The only “plan” I have heard from Kamala is tax the wealthy.
plus tightening the labour market by deporting its most profitable workers
DeCaprio did the line better
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The New Cat can do animated GIFs?
Mole you’re gonna have to send Dover money because you’ve just exploded his bandwith…
There was something pre covid in the Lancet (or similar) where they found that the risk of death something, something… from standup desks was greater than smoking a pack of fags each day. True story. Made my black little heart sing for multiple reasons.
Julia
19 minutes ago
Lidia Thorpe has proclaimed (to the King): “You are not my King!”
Section 34 (ii) of the Australia Constitution provides:
he (she) must be a subject of the Queen (King), either natural-born or for at least five years naturalized under a law of…the Commonwealth, or a State.
It hardly seems an investigation is needed.
mUntard at 1038.
So much for sympathy with the lowest paid US workers. mUttley wants them to be replaced by illegals paid in cash, and not paying tax.
As for the rest, it becomes ever clearer why he failed Economics 1.
Even clearer he’s a desdshit that’s never wanted for anything.
Monty is reading from the same leftist playbook of economics as Matt and Martin (on C.L.’s blog).
The three of them seem to use the same AI to draft their longer comments.
It is even more retarded than they are.
Update on our problem with sudden massive increase in our electricity bill at the farm, in spite of our 10kw solar grid:
Husband put our case to the Ombudsman, and we have just been notified that the company had offered to pay compensation for overcharging! They have also offered to have the meter read manually, and not by transmission!
It obviously pays to pursue these issues. Admittedly, husband would not back off and takes daily readings of the meter!
BTW since the meter has been checked by an expert and deemed OK – the readings have magically returned to normal.
I still say you need to “accidentally”, smash the smart meter with a bullock or tractor, then demand that it is replaced with a normal meter.
I expect changing providers would achieve the same result.
Good new, Vicki.
Well done. Too much of this BS happening. People ( like me) just pay up because the can’t be bothered with the hassle. Hopefully they will get QANTAS in the end. And the rainbow leprechaun.
they should also pay for your time wasted checking up on their frog-shit
and with interest
No.
The period 1870 to 1890 saw massive increases in protectionism globally.
The reason why late 20th / early 21st century trade liberalisation, anti- protectionist policies saw low inflation and high growth was because the world had mature industries that could be transferred to low wage countries via trade liberalisation and gain a one off benefit of that globalisation and cheap Chinese labour.
In addition, the trade liberalisation of that time was accompanied by deregulation of financial institutions, which lowered costs and reduced friction, As well as changes in how consumer prices were measured which masked the real rates of inflation. Not to mention the historically low interest rates due to the effects of the long term debt cycle of the last 20 years.
Whereas in the late 19th and early 20th century manufacturing was undergoing a revolutionary technological advancement. Systematic research into the properties of materials, the introduction of moving assembly lines and cheap labour as from the American south to feed into plants meant that industrialisation was the way to go almost everywhere. Similar to the current advancements in technology. Today, the advancements in computers and the internet are reliable drivers of productivity. In these circumstances it means that protectionism will lead to re-industrialisation everywhere, increased productivity, lower costs and more robust supply chains.
De- globalisation, re-industrialisation is the way to go.
And just like in the 1880s it will reduce inflation and drive up living standards. It will divert investment money out of housing and speculation into productive assets, lowering housing costs and increasing job opportunities for the younger generations.
Interesting, Arky. I like this idea that money will be diverted away from speculation and into the real economy.
I also like the idea of de-globalisation. Globalisation promised universal prosperity. I cannot see that has ensued. Instead, we have had multiculturalism and open borders forced upon us. The cost, in terms of cultural identity, has been high.
I can recall, years ago, someone (it could have been Nick Greiner) said that Australia was destined to become a “service economy” – as if that was a good thing. Indeed, the prophecy was correct – and its effect, in my humble opinion, has been catastrophic.
My view is that inflation was not a problem thanks to the Chinese. Everything just became so cheap – $2 socks, $200 barbecues – it didn’t mattter what it was. China kept its currency undervalued and ran trade surpluses long after a more politically open country would. I suspect its ability to continue this policy is reaching the end.
It’s a big part of it, for sure.
EXCLUSIVETraumatised Aussie war veteran Cath decided to ditch her PTSD therapy session and go to see the King and Queen – then something incredible happened
Daily Mail. No disrespect to the lady, but two tours of Afghanistan that saw her retired from the Royal Australian Navy?
Didn’t put that very well. What R.A.N. members were deployed to Afghanistan?
All sorts.
At the class reunion in ’98 some bloke had to go easy, because he had an 03 early flight to Kabul to “clean up another mess”.
The bwavest documentary of the year.
Grauniad J’ismist winds the hyperbowl up to eleventy.
Marxist propaganda.
… Or a load of Leftist bullshit.
In other words, the extremist Left have declared themselves the Centre of politics and they view everyone else from that viewpoint – and why not? Everyone they know agrees with them.
Re-industrialisation will have considerable social and cultural impacts, almost all positive.
It will help integrate new arrivals.
It will make the social justice warriors irrelevant.
It will redirect the activities of tertiary institutions.
It will make possible huge improvements in local innovation, invention and business creation. It will make new products available that we can’t even conceive.
It will reduce the local political involvement of malignant foreign regimes.
(See Vicki’s embedded comment above).
Go tell CEOs that. Corporations exist to make profits not make countries great again. They will move out of China and into other developing economies. Politicians have no control over that. The current trope that manufacturing declined because of energy costs is bollocks, the rot settled in long ago.
The Australian culture is antithetical to innovation. We are The Lucky Country which is why we’ve never promoted a culture that rewards creators and entrepreneurs. We rode on the sheep’s back and now the miner’s trains.
MAGA = Let’s make AUSTRALIA great again!!!!
I’m not even going to argue that point with you, John – it’s too bloody stupid.
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Go Arky!
Roger, this would be a revolutionary pro-family move though I wonder if Dutton has the nerve to go that way. The better strategy would be to have Jacinta Price suggest it, she has a lot of political capital to spend.
Of course he doesn’t, Crossie.
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I suspect the costs are just too great. Of course, it is the first thing anyone with a discretionary family trust does.
Dementia Joe’s swansong – apparently with the aim of sinking poor old Kamala (the Hun):
Aaaahahahaaa.
Oh. Er. Um….
The leader of the free world, allegedly. Tremendous.
To save democracy we have to jail or use any means to keep our opponent from running for the presidency.
First as regards tariffs, Trump will do it as he did the same during his first term. He will choose which imports will be slugged by how they affect local products and producers.
Second, why should Trump care what the so-called employer groups think? He owes them nothing and neither do Americans who have been sidelined by these very same employers in favour of illegals.
In the first term manufacturing suffered a hit. Even Harley Davidson went to Mexico. He hasn’t talked about choosing, he has talked about across the board tariffs.
That he owes them nothing it utterly irrelevant. What matters is what is good for the economy. The USA is already at near full employment, the rest is shuffle. The USA also has a fertility issue that won’t be resolved for decades if ever. That’s why when he complained about immigrants taking all the new jobs he revealed he doesn’t have a clue about the current USA labour market and demographics. He should care because without an increasing labour force manufacturing will decline, internal demand export potential will decline. I know that corporations are doing it for themselves and can have sociopathic tendencies. Thus has it ever been.
And mUntard favours the (cheap to hire, not paying tax) illegals over the local workers.
This is just from south Lebanon. Number is not surprising given the images and videos posted over the last few weeks and this:
Pull the other one, its got bells on.
This propaganda is a lot of fun. It’s also complete rubbish.
What’s your estimate of the tank losses?
0.0
Any Hezbie that tries gets potted.
More seriously Arutz Sheva posts combat fatalities every day. Not many. Two or three a week. A Merkava hit by a missile is three fatalities. I cannot recall the last time the IDF had three dead in a single day. This is not hideable, since the Left in Israel is watching like a hawk.
What do you think is burning on this ridge near Labouneh?
There was one tanker killed last week as I recall, but that was in Gaza not Lebanon.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Jef8ixb7QQI?si=FpRJ2lCOwFzwrYk2
Winston, apologies I missed your call for a link to Tommy’s statement. It is about three minutes in.
bons, no need for apologies, but thanks for the link.
I’ve answered at 1416 – may God Curse this nested format. 🙂
Ten has been dealt a massive blow in Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal of the landmark defamation ruling that found he raped Brittany Higgins, after a Federal Court judge dismissed the network’s request to force the bankrupt former Liberal staffer to put up $200,000 ahead of the matter being heard.
Judge Wendy Abraham on Wednesday also said she would set aside the $2 million legal bill Mr Lehrmann was ordered to pay Ten until after the appeal concludes.
God bless Justice Wendy Abraham she encapsulates the essence of the word mensch. A truly admirable person with a great sense of fairness and applies logic and common sense to matters that come before her.
Happy hornets.
Oriental hornets do not get sick or die when consuming very large amounts of alcohol, study shows (Phys.org, 22 Oct)
How can we let this stand? We Cats are going to have to lift our game, especially Saturday nights.
Keeping up with our peers, the Asian hornets? I couldn’t keep up with Asian engineering students, never mind hornets.
I prefer to use the time honoured system of gradually growing tolerant to large doses of ethanol – in various flavours and quantities.
It was good enough for our progenitors, and it’s good enough for me.
Of course, a massively oversized liver genetically inherited is also a worthy goal for our geneticists who seem to be doing Jack Shit at the moment raising the collective I.Q.
I disagree.
Australian and New Zealand workshops, farms and sheds are full of tinkerers and craftsmen and inventors who would love to not have to take their ideas offshore.
And many now who work offshore would love to return.
Same in the USA.
True.
But the bureacracy IS antithetical to innovation if it doesn’t have millions for an army of compliance staff.
No high tech stuff. For example, Biden arranged for a TSMC fab plant to be built in the USA with subsidies. Great idea given China’s rapidly advancing fabs. Ironically the USA does have enough skilled labour for the plants. Doh!
One industry does make a nation innovative. Sweden, half our population, much more innovative than us. Brilliant littoral subs, 4th gen fighters, IT etc etc. Sweden makes us look like a country of dweebs. We can’t even build cars.
The big money is manufacturing is not going to be in workshops it is going to be in corporations and research institutes building better widgets and IP.
All wrong.
Corporations and institutes are captured by Marxists and crony capitalists.
The innovation will be driven by start ups.
It will come from small, flexible and driven by individuals companies.
De-regulate, provide cheap energy and let people do what they naturally do. Which is grow, employ people and make great products they are proud of.
People want to make and buy locally manufactured goods, people don’t want to live in a f*cking cargo cult.
I should think not.
Ethanol 20% by volume + sucrose. A very near match for McWilliams Royal Reserve Sherry.
Breakfast of champions.
MenchOsint is a notorious spruiker for Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.
His antipathy towards Israel, Jews and Zionism is well known.
He also thinks attacks on Jews and synagogues by keffiyeh wearing Jew haters are deliberate Zionist false flags.
I remember Maladroit Blight Trumble Esq. solemnly opining that sitting at your desk was the new smoking.
It’s wonder he didn’t issue a fiat ordering standing desks for all public servants.
Umm, Standing desk are probably the most common in many APS offices.
Trump gets another endorsement.
Archbishop Viganò endorses Trump, tells Catholics abstaining ‘means allying oneself with the enemy’ (22 Oct)
Good.
I saw the other day, might have been on this blog, that second hand smoke is irrelevant as a carcinogen. I’m starting to think that the medical-scientific community realise the loss of prestige and trust they caused with their reaction to the COVID panic that they are now trying to correct their tainted image. Suddenly they are prepared to question some sacred cows. Perhaps we need to re-examine all of them.
Perth man treated for scurvy, condition linked to cost-of-living crisisJohn FlintThe West Australian
Wed, 23 October 2024 6:30AM
Scurvy, the scourge of seafarers in the 15th and 16th Centuries, is making a comeback in WA amid the cost-of-living crisis.
A middle-aged Perth man, who’d been eating hardly any fruit or vegetables and often skipping meals, was treated for scurvy at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
The case prompted a scientific report which warned scurvy was a risk with rising food prices. Scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency.
The patient, in his early 50s, presented at the hospital with his legs covered with tiny painful red-brown pinpoints, resembling a rash. Blood was also present in his urine and he was anaemic.
He tested negative for inflammatory, autoimmune, and blood disorders, and scans revealed no evidence of internal bleeding. Similarly, a skin biopsy returned no diagnostic clues.
His rash continued to spread while he was in hospital. Further questioning revealed that he was short of money and neglected his diet, eating little in the way of fruit and vegetables. He said that he sometimes skipped meals altogether.
Doctors reported he had also stopped taking the nutritional supplements prescribed for him after previous weight loss surgery because he said he couldn’t afford them.
And its not even (Arrrrh!) International Talk Like a Pirrrrate Day, the scurvy swab!
MedXpress has it today:
Scurvy may be re-emerging amid cost of living crisis and rise of weight loss surgery (22 Oct)
Not a good look for Perth. But some excellent advice to be found at the Fremantle Maritime Museum. Eat some cabbage.
Geez ..! I know time sare tuff but is someone, actually, saying there are folk who can’t afford a bit of fruit/greens .. LOL!
Oranges are cheaper than chips.
Free fruit in baskets at my Woolies – intended for children but the staff would never stop anyone looking malnourished from taking some
As part of my preparations, I now have two orange trees, a lime and a lemonade tree in my back yard.
Each are over 2.5 meters tall, and crop well. But I also have about 20 meters of free fence space. Any suggestions?
(Apparently Apricot trees are verboten.)
Does munty still have a pager?
Asking for a middle eastern friend.
Does mUntard still operate his two blogs (Phat Pussy, his try to replace the Sinc Cat, and his, LOL economics/ political blog)?
Fine trolling from Kaitlin.
It’s good to know she has some big burly bodyguards.
Democrats Refuse to Help Black Migrant
Jayzus! The man/woman at 02:13 looks like they need to be in an asylum.
OSINT is like that; it requires a lot of effort so the people engaged in it are invested in the conflict one way or another, i.e. OSINTdefender. In the end, you have to see whether they post info that is credible and sourced. Whether they fall or don’t for obvious clickbait. Whether they generate actual info that is difficult to otherwise get and MenchOSINT has been very good because he picks up operational activity before they are reported elsewhere. One of his particular focuses is tracking military-related flights in the region. This is always a good indicator of prospective military activity.
There’s OSINT and then there’re people claiming to be OSINT.
The Atlantic is taking the coming of the Trumpenriech as soberly and non-hyper-bowl as possible.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/
Oh no!
The NYT Can’t Quit Donald Trump’s McDonald’s Visit, Says He Made Fries ‘Wrong’ (22 Oct)
This is a catastrophe! Monty will be in here in moments to argue that Trump is unfit to be President.
Nah he’ll be here to eat the fries – as an experiment/fact check.
MenchOsint is an anti-Semite, he’s not invested in or interested in impartiality, he’s only interested in spreading anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli tropes.
Islamophobia is a rational response, anti-semitism is totally nuts.
I don’t have much time for this position, John H. Tariffs and deportations are his core policies. He will be surrounded by lickspittles and zealots this time round, not generals and bureaucrats who would rein him in. You have to assume he will do the things he says he will do.
We hope so.
Milley, for example, should merit the long drop as a treasonous SOB in time of war.
Could you even imagine the Democrats letting a general like Milley getting away with treason behind their president’s back?
He’d have been sent to Thule Airbase, to count snowflakes in a bikini.
The left has always, always been in favour of globalism.
Always been prepared, no gleeful, to sacrifice the local working class.
Always there to stifle local industry, always there for smashing the local producer.
Always jealous, always destructive.
Always stoking division and envy and victimhood.
From taxing local economic activity, to slashing tariffs, to imposing green insanity, always, always, always the policies come from the same place and the same sentiment: a destructive, envious drive.
The nob class and the left are natural allies, if not the same people.
The landed gentry hated the industrialists.
Taking peasants, educating them, allowing them to leverage their skills into a better life for themselves and their families.
How uncouth!
This is never the case with Democrat presidents of course, oh no!
Speaking of which…
The Stress Myth: Your emotions are not an illness
Mental illness is rampant amongst lefties…
That is actual real data. When all your friends on social media keep telling you that the world is going to burn if Trump wins, and that Republicans are going to force you to have endless babies, you can see why so many prog-left people are neurotic rubber-room candidates.
We saw moves to censor medical practitioners during covid.
I would expect that Big Government, sponsored by Big Pharma, would be looking to extend their powers in this area.
Paraphrasing Jacinda Ardern, “If you didn’t hear it from the government it’s not true.”
Wasn’t that also the Joseph Goebbels philosophy?
And Macron’s.
It’s not the ’90s anymore.
I just saw an article about the execrable Obama still trying to help Kamala.
Obama claims that if you just look at Trump you can’t help but worry about his health.
Seriously, Trump is everywhere, non-stop. Frankly he shows more energy now than Obama ever showed, and I am absolutely not kidding when I say that. Obama moved slow in what I think he took as being a patrician sort of way. Labouring under the weight of his own grandiosity. But he was never energetic.
Obama then added a comment on how Trump speaks saying (I hope you are sitting down) that what comes out of Trump’s mouth is…word salad.
When Trump is giving speeches at rallies he does it in a freewheeling way, launching off on tangents before coming back on point. People love it. It is a magnificent show. But when he sits down for an interview or podcast he is quick, alert, and precise. They have to keep taking him out of context, or omit some of what he says, to make him look bad.
Bambi’s supposed mellifluous voice and soaring oratory? Never saw it. He actually has a very ordinary voice and very ordinary delivery. Practiced? Very much so. But that is it. (He sounds like he is talking through one of those old transistor radios – the bass component which can lend power is entirely missing.) Oh, “This is the moment when the oceans ceased to rise, and the planet began to heal…” Seriously? He sounded, right down to the cadence, like a Sunday morning evangelist looking for donations for a new yacht.
Obama sees himself as an epochal figure. The messiah of our times superseding all prophets and Gods who had come before. But his legacy is taking a beating. His sombre declaration that the days of economic growth above 1% being over, and that the jobs that had migrated overseas were never coming back, were shown by his orange successor to be just the flatulence of a man who wanted to recast the world in a miserable diminished form wherein he would seem a giant. People were encouraged to vote for him as somehow undoing the evil of a racist past and usher in a new era of harmony, but from the moment he got in he and his administration did all that they could to stoke racial division. And we are still seeing it today. Watch a TV show from the 90’s or 2000’s and you will see that there was no tension. People were at ease no matter who they were. Try watching TV now. There is a constant zero-sum game where a ‘marginalised’ person can only be respected by the humiliation of someone else. White people must be stupid and men stupid – except when they are petty and malign, and naturally their author of their own doing like cartoon villains with their overcomplicated schemes.
I will finish by inviting people to ponder Obama in light of this passage from Brideshead Revisited:
Daniel Greenfield:
Obama is Over (21 Oct)
That quote pretty much nails it, an empty suit held aloft by a sea of sycophants. The soaring oratory is not part of his legacy so much, after eight years it didn’t manage to persist.
My favourite is his first order of business: close Guantanamo Bay. It was to happen on day one.
On second thoughts, my favourite Obama move was sending an iPod to the queen loaded with his speeches. That move is hard to beat.
I thought Obama’s voice was old when I heard him speak on the TV last weekend.
I am so stealing that.
…and that.
Oooh! and that as well.
Mental illness is rampant amongst lefties…
Mental illness is not just the preserve of the left, it’s also rampant amongst quite a few on the right.
Not anywhere to the extent that it is in Leftist/Communist thought.
The ideological basis of Communism is the subjugation of human thought and its replacement by simple sloganeering that eventually drives its proponents mad.
The opener for this piece is plod using Capsicum spray to break up a “riot”..
This getz more hilarious, apparently, the only person sprayed was one of the speakers .. no idea what he did or said! .. none of the, so called, “right wing” extremists were harmed during this episode …………LOL!
Age (76) is catching up with me .. duuuh! .. Rode over to Parramatta Lake, 40 minute swim then back again .. about 45 kms .. Absolutely buggered … used to be able to do that without too much effort pre- Prostate op …….
You’ll turn into the Creature From The Dark Lagoon if you swim in Parramatta Reservoir.
Good grief, shatterzzz, you don’t need to take exercise to such extremes! The 40 minute swim would have been enough.
Absolutely. Learn to be kind to yourself as you age. Take time to enjoy lazing around as well as exercising.
This morning I did a very solid dance session full of leaps and bounds and arabesques. Then I drove quite a way to pay a visit to an errant soul who needs some support with his supermarket shopping choices. Then I drove home and had my keto lunch (nothing yummy). I’m knackered. Hairy is now going off to the shops to get what my American guest called ‘the groceries’, which always sounds so old-fashioned to me, like what mum used to do at the corner store, not in the modern day supermarket.
I’m off to bed now for a small nap before I face the evening. I used to laugh about nana-naps but now I enjoy them – occasionally, but especially after a big dance session.
If you scrapped ADRs, employment laws and the green shite you could have an Australian car industry tomorrow.
Starting with speciality vehicles, the segment would grow.
Small, bespoke manufacturers would immediately sprout up.
True de-regulation would result in true competition.
Many would fail along the way, and a handful would grow into sophisticated, large manufacturers which provided excellent products people here would love to buy.
Today’s electricity costs make any industries almost prohibitive.
In my world an ADR is an American Depositary Receipt.
Australian Design Rules – govt. requirements for cars sold here, many many of ‘em.
Administered and lovingly polished by a govt. department of course.
Almost completely unnecessary.
If a car has passed US, EU or Japanese standards it is good enough for me.
I don’t need a Canberra engineer to re-do Mercedes crash tests, but slightly differently, to be sure it is a safe car.
The ADR’s are a very good example of the role of empire building in the bureaucratic environment that emanates from Canberra.
The fact that it cannot justify it’s existence is of no consequence to the bureaucracy – that isn’t it’s purpose.
Its purpose is to provide high paying jobs for the Party Faithful, no matter the cost to the nation.
Crossie
Neither does actual smoking.
The cause of disease is so astonishingly obvious when you simply lay out the easily observable phenomenon that everybody in history could have seen and stop telling yourself that “the experts must surely have already seen this?”
1) Most people get sick more than once in their lifetime – IOW people typically recover from illness without intervention.
This means that illness is either a negative feedback dominated system or it’s an internally controlled process.
2) People can sometimes get similar symptoms simultaneously. So disease is caused by something that people can share.
3 (seemingly contrary to 2)) Doctors and their patients are not affected by each other despite being in close proximity all day every day. So sickness does not cause sickness.
4) Rashes are typically focused – often in clearly non-arbitrary ways. Eg what is called “hand foot and mouth” disease where rashes occur in corresponding parts of the body.
5 (a bit more left field)) the opossum plays dead when threatened. But it isn’t playing. Its subconscious mind forces it to be paralysed.
When you add all this up the cause of disease is blindingly obvious. Only a retard could miss it.
Disease is caused by the mind induced by emotional trauma. The different types of trauma that the subconscious mind perceives is why people suffer different types of physiological conditions.
There’s details that can’t be deduced from the above – most critically that most the symptoms we notice are in the healing phase – but first and foremost it needs to be understood that the mind is running the biological programs we call sickness. That is why we typically recover. That is why we can get the same symptoms as an acquaintance (they experienced the same trauma). That is why doctors have normal life insurance premia. That is why rashes are focused and know right from left. That is why the opossum can undergo immediate and drastic physiological symptoms purely through trauma.
In fact, I would love it if there was a single person here who tried to explain the opossum if the mind theory of disease is wrong.
None of you will though. Instead you will all turn into Montys and argue the same way he does on every issue. Nothing surer.
Smoking tobacco certainly causes cancer in some people. But cancer will soon be a minor ailment that is easily cured.
The hypocrisy is that the Left are so knickers-in-a-twist about tobacco smoking whilst being totally ofay with pot smoking. Which is just as likely to cause cancer.
I haven’t ever done either, mainly because as a young uni person I was skint and anyway had discovered computers and wargaming.
I can’t understand the smart set’s attitude to tobacco yet they agitate for decriminalisation of marijuana. If they were really concerned with the danger of smoke inhalation you would think they would leave pot as a prohibited substance.
It really is all personal with these people: I don’t like something therefore it is harmful but if I like something it must be harmless.
There is a great difference between dope and tobacco use.
Long term tobacco smokers can develop all sorts of health problems, they don’t usually have problems with their brain health.
Long term dope smokers do become retarded. I have known many. It is not pretty.
I still say you need to “accidentally”, smash the smart meter with a bullock or tractor, then demand that it is replaced with a normal meter.
Pogria, they have offered to replace the meter – but will only replace it with another smart meter! They conceded that they will now have it manually read, instead of relying on the transmission signal. We rejected that – as it would be harder to contest as you would be doubting the honesty of the reader of the meter.
However, since the readings have returned to normal we think that they won’t “try it on” again.
Fingers crossed.
Still, don’t be afraid to smash the meter.
Remember, you were allowed to knock it back. They conned you then and tried it again. Very damn glad your husband is so determined. 😀
Vicki, when hubby reads the meter, does he actually read it and write it down or does he photograph it?
Winston – he writes it down. The Ombudsman accepted his data.
“I believe they’ve shot that many missiles …but hit? Doubtful. The TROPHY APS system is extremely effective”
Exactly.
That would be the same sort of ‘hitting’ hamas did in those red triangle videos, when mostly what you were seeing were the defence systems operating successfully.
Personally I think this account is just outright lying.
Israel is not reporting anything like the casualties that would be commensurate with that many successful hits.
And isn’t this the same account that lied about the flag planting village, the one where the NYT independently verified that the IDF had taken the village and was doing quite a bit of bulldozing?
There seems to be the assumption a hit means penetration and casualties. It’s perfectly possible to have a hit and damage, without casualties, but still enough to require extensive repairs.
At the same time, it’s entirely possible to have hit that penetrates and causes casualties, without showing extensive damage.
It’s not black and white.
Of course!
This explains so much more than just disease.
As a man I naturally think about the Roman Empire multiple times a day. Often at traffic lights where a good ballista would come in handy, but I digress.
But if you look at history you can see that at times the Empire was humming along fine, but there were times of peril which professors of history with the emphasis on ‘story, amiright?) tried to explain away as invasions by barbarians which the Empire, when it was damaged but ultimately won out in the end. Historians (huh, more like hysterians) pretend to think it is about invasion but ultimately the superior organisation and resources of the Empire defeated these barbarians, but clearly it is a negative feedback dominated system or an internally controlled process. In fact there is no evidence there ever were any Germans or Celts or Parthians.
How do people recover from disease if it is caused by replicating pathogens? Simple maths tells you it is impossible. The posited immune system would be, if it existed, a positive feedback and therefore exacerbates the maths problem (because the immune cells become exhausted and weaker as the number of pathogens increase).
So recovery would be impossible under the germ theory/immunity paradigm.
That’s why 1) is important. It doesn’t seem that way unless you understand maths.
Elon doesn’t muck around. He wants to go to Mars.
I hope they’ll try to land the second stage this time. In flight test 5 it landed perfectly onto the ocean west of Perth, so there appears to be no reason why they can’t do an orbit, re-entry, then land right back on the pad in Texas.
Hezbollah are claiming they hit 2 Merkvana tanks.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/hezbollah-destroys-2-israeli-tanks-in-southern-lebanon-killing-and-injuring-soldiers/3364769
Erdogan’s domesticated press…
No pictures. hah.
One of the specs at the head of the list of requirements for the Merkava was the emphasis on crew survivability.
Israel – like Australia – recognises that training crews to be an effective team puts their survival at a premium. Considering the costs of training and the limited amount of soldiery, Australia needs to have the same focus.
While everyone else was arguing Abrams vs Challenger 2 vs Leopard 2, I would have preferred the Merkava being built here in Australia. I’m sure Israel would have allowed and helped us.
But I’m open to argument from all and sundry, seeing that we are send a stack of our own armour to the bloody Europeans…
This kind of BS where the footage never shows a destroyed tank.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1848720022748737936?t=oq_U-5ZnKKyZIMEJkLWO2w&s=19
Bebo is fun.
That’s an IED off to the tanks right by about 1.5 – to 2 meters.
The crew would have said to the driver – “Your turn to repaint the side panels.”
They did get a humvee
https://x.com/Maronidd/status/1848763841577959880?t=vGs7d5xrPFNv9iEkPyRCQg&s=19
More ‘credible’ reports here.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/23/735792/Hezbollah-hits-six-Israeli-Merkava-tanks-in-south-Lebanon
In fact there is no evidence there ever were any Germans or Celts or Parthians.
But there is plenty of evidence for Tartaria. And Atlantis.
Pretty sure there is Celt in my ancestry.
I haven’t been swooped in years.
The local Maggie family gives me the eyeball. I give the eyeball back. They do a shuffle in the tree and give me another look.
“We know who you are”
I get given a path to proceed. People down down the street are in a different boat.
Lookout!
Ozzy Man Reviews: MAGPIES
Glorious!
My Cafe magpies are of course better behaved, at least with humans. I had to separate the two magpie daughters this morning though, they were going the full biff on each other while dad was watching on. A bit like human daughters I suppose.
The family near our house is pretty good, regularly sing to us and never swoop, but the next mob about a km away are real snits.
I got hit by an off target maggie yesterday .. Riding along & a massive thump between my neck & backpack & a quick glance of a maggie careering into an an upside down loop .. Thankfully, must have been his head and not his beak so no damage dun ………..!
Over the next 12 hours after m0nty said this Trump went up in the polls.
On the betting odds Orange Man is still leading, now at 60%.
https://electionbettingodds.com/President2024.html
Thanks m0nty!
I think that with this betting poll, any shenanigans in the poll count from the Democrats is going to result in violence.
It’s true!
Stand-up comedians have shorter life expectancy
Better life expectancy than aspiring rappers.
Arky
October 23, 2024 11:40 am
Your points 1 and 2 are just wishful thinking.
#1 needs a different set of immigrants.
#2 they always find a way to infiltrate government, needs a new kind of government.
#3 same as #2
Otherwise, spot on.
Same as your other posts regarding industry and manufacturing.
Re, embedded comments, I wish people wouldn’t do it or the replies should be automatically visible.
If you hadn’t called attention to it I would’ve totally missed Vicki’s comment.
Sorry!
Oh how I am loving watching industrial terrorist Sally McManus squarking about her safety because of the evil CMFEU thugs.
Dogs and fleas sweetie. You are getting a glance at what employers suffered for decades because of you.
Why can’t I give you 59,000,000 thumbs up. Unions have destroyed this country.
There isn’t an industry that went uncompetitive and broke, that wasn’t preceded by a Labor government and a takeover by a union.
Not just her, her and her ilk.
From someone I know and possible signs Albo is craping about the budget but is screwing the middle class to pay for his population ponzi/handouts to Ukraine/Terrorists/insert lefty agitator here.
Eligible for Family Tax Benefit but skates along the cut off threshold so he has to watch it. This year earned about $4K more than estimate but still good. Previous years no probs they reduce the allowance till the balance is cleared.
This year robo-style-debt letter comes signed by probably no actual person. Very direct, pay by this date etc language. Firstly they overstated his income by $4K but that still wasn’t over the threshold. They state he is entitled to nothing which is incorrect, even the estimators say he is entitled to something.
So far he has spent time going to Centrelink who couldn’t help said needs to speak with families section, spent another hour on hold to talk to the who also couldn’t help as it is a debt now so you need to get an explanation then apply for review.
So they go mediation phase or explanation as the letter states nothing of substance. Don’t worry we’ll call you and we’ll send a message before stating time and date. Gets message at work 5min before call just stating private number don’t not pick up. Nowhere near phone so 3 calls missed. That afternoon another message by this time has permission to carry phone but no call comes.
A week later, they call again. Same MO 5 min notice. Missed again. On phone again one and half hours wait this time, still can’t help.
They are at their wits end and about to approach their local member. Even the families call centre state it looks weird as he is entitled to something.
His words: it just seems they want us to shut, not to question, go away and give us the money back.
Centrelink staff do the best they can, it’s their system that is completely effed up. I had some interactions with them, it was a simple matter yet took weeks to resolve. You would think it was run by the same people as Optus.
Why aren’t the top brass in these departments sacked when things go wrong? LNP would do themselves a favour by running on sacking all heads of departments and hiring new leaders who can re-organise, streamline and simplify operations. Make user-friendly as the slogan.
Send email to Henk Jorgens at Centrelink. Had 10 years of crap his office fixed it in a week. Give his office a go
That’s right, if only the US had allowed jihadis to overrun Israel, 9/11 wouldn’t have happened.
I wonder what sort of person doesn’t believe in good and evil.
https://x.com/Real_Politik101/status/1807472311454638303?t=IRc2GHA8NyP5NpzdrGJheA&s=19
Nothing to see here.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1848826359201861905?t=jlFJfjqRKG3becrPJBkmBA&s=19
snork!
I wonder just how much the Brits are loving their taste of a Marxist Government now?
https://www.youtube.com/live/Jef8ixb7QQI?si=FpRJ2lCOwFzwrYk2
An arrest for a protestor now is a death sentence from their Muslim allies who run the prison system.
A Volksgerichtshof Court appearance in front of a clone of Roland Freisler is now the fate of anyone who crosses the Communists ruling Great Britain.
And we think it can’t happen here?
Courtesy of Michael Smith.
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02e860d7c9e7200b-800wi
Harsh, but fair!
Gotta hand it to these NRL flogs they’ll use anything to excuse stupidity ..! Michael Maguire, Broncos coach, on Ezra Mam ..
“People will make mistakes but they have also got to own them. That’s the big thing, if he owns where he is at. Mam didn’t make a mistake, Mikie, he DELIBERATELY drove under the influence of (illegal) drugs in a vehicle KNOWING he didn’t have a licence to drive & injured 3 people, one of them a 4 years old child who now has a broken hip to contend with …FFS!
Michael Maguire is a baldheaded flog.