Open Thread – Mon 28 Oct 2024


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Rabz
October 30, 2024 9:58 am

The subtext for the creation of a CDC is that any future pandemic response must be taken out of the hands of state premiers and their incompetent lickspittle health advisers.

And delivered into the doughy hands of an even more incompetent bunch of hysterical anti-scientific imbeciles, presided over by the likes of that loathsome fag sutton.

No, no and no.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 30, 2024 9:59 am

Hezbollah elects new leader Naim Qassem to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, Israel warns he is only ‘temporary’Georgina NoackThe Nightly
Wed, 30 October 2024 3:57AM

Hezbollah has elected a new leader to replace long-serving boss Hassan Nasrallah after he was killed in an Israel airstrike over a month ago.
On Tuesday, the Lebanese militant group announced that its governing Shura Council has chosen long-serving deputy chief Naim Qassem to succeed Nasrallah, in accordance with its established mechanism for choosing a secretary general.
“Hezbollah’s Shura Council agreed to elect … Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary-general of Hezbollah,” the Iran-backed group said in a statement.
Israel responded to the announcement with an apparent threat against the long-serving Hezbollah figure, saying Qassem’s tenure would be “temporary”.
Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant posted on X a photo of Qassem, writing: “Temporary appointment. Not for long.”

Zippster
Zippster
October 30, 2024 10:00 am

I think it’s time we closed the universities for a year and sorted the girls out.

They have gone collectively mad.

Having a teenage daughter, one of the major problems is they have no effective disciplinary methods. time outs and having their devices banned seem to have no effect, they sit there and day dream. social media is an enabler of the worst toxic female tendencies. what they need strong deterrents like a belt across the butt.

schools need to bring back the cane.

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 10:04 am

And delivered into the doughy hands of an even more incompetent bunch of hysterical anti-scientific imbeciles, presided over by the likes of that loathsome fag sutton.

Quite possibly.

But one of the upshots of the inquiry report is that the extreme measures used during covid – state border closures, de facto vaccine mandates and lockdowns – are now permanently off the table.

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cohenite
October 30, 2024 10:08 am
Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
October 30, 2024 10:09 am

Here you go Vicki et al. From today’s Oz.

Never forget, never forgive.

Nation’s pandemic pain deserved more than bureaucratic jargon
Judith Sloan

If ever there were an event that justified a royal commission, it was the response to Covid-19. 

In terms of the taxpayer money spent and the restrictions imposed on citizens, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. The relevant persons should have been made to provide evidence and be subject to close examination and scrutiny.

It is perhaps understandable that state governments shied away from this option; let’s call it the nuclear one. 

There is just too much to hide and too many actions for which there were no justifications. They would prefer to move on and declare “nothing to see”.

 

Why the Albanese federal government would rule out a royal commission is less clear-cut. After all, it was the Coalition Morrison government that was in power for most of the duration of the pandemic.

There might even be some political points to score were it not for the fact Labor overwhelmingly supported the extravagant and liberty-sapping initiatives of the federal and state governments at the time. 

Bear in mind here that most state governments were Labor at the time.

In its place, the Albanese government, through the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, commissioned an independent inquiry led by a panel of three women, including one with public health expertise and another an economist. The terms of reference were limited and specifically excluded an examination of actions taken by state governments independently of the federal government. In this way, any analysis of the most egregious actions taken in the name of Covid was specifically ruled out.

Judged by the much-delayed release of the report, Covid-19 Response Inquiry: Lessons for the Next Crisis, it’s apparent the authors have been taking lessons from the master of the word salad, Kamala Harris. There are just so many flowery words and meaningless sentences in the summary. 

We are told “there is undoubtedly much to forget, but there is also much to be proud of as a nation”. And what about this guiding recommendation: “Build, value and maintain capability, capacity and readiness across people, structures and systems”? One wonders what this even means.

We are then told “pandemics invariably involve making decisions in the face of significant uncertainty. However, the existence of strong, secure, readily adapted, interoperable data systems, processes and capacity for generating, synthesising and communicating evidence can reduce this uncertainty by providing governments with the evidence-based intelligence they need to assess risks and minimise harm”. Again, I’m not really any the wiser.

Rather than this rambling, verbose report full of bureaucratic language, it would have been far better to just bluntly state the facts and let those facts speak for themselves. We spent far too much money; we imposed far too many restrictions; and we allowed our politicians and bureaucrats to grab far too much power.

Our children were damaged by unjustified school closures even though young people were never much at risk from the disease. A damaging bout of inflation was set off and there was a step-up in the size of government that shows no sign of receding. 

While we may have flattened the curve initially, in subsequent years the excess deaths have demonstrated that it’s possible to alter the timing but not the course of the disease. In the meantime, other preventable deaths for other reasons have occurred.

We made the serious mistake of trusting public health officials without acknowledging that these experts understand only the supposed benefits of restrictions, such as controlling people movement, while ignoring the costs. 

To allow the chief health officers of the states to be calling the shots was simply wrong. They were often just making stuff up – like closing the playgrounds in Victoria, shutting schools and imposing nightly curfews.

We tolerated the mandating of vaccines even knowing the vaccines had not be subject to thorough, longitudinal evaluation. In fact, one of the main vaccines used here, the AstraZeneca one, has now been taken off the market.

 

This was an unforgivable restriction on people’s liberty, particularly as it became clear very early on that the vaccines – they were just shots – had no significant impact on population transmission. There has been grossly inadequate compensation for those whose careers were affected and for those adversely affected by the vaccines.

As for economic responses such as JobKeeper, far too little attention was paid to the details. There was no transparency about the recipients – in similar schemes overseas, there was full transparency; there was inadequate attention paid to compliance; and many casual workers received large windfall gains in terms of their income. It has been estimated that at least $25bn was overspent relative to a well-managed wage replacement scheme.

The fact things were done in a rush was not an excuse. Other countries managed to do it better and with similar resources and timing in terms of bureaucratic advice. The establishment of the national cabinet was another error because it diluted the accountability of state governments while forcing the hand of the federal government to pick up the tab for any decisions they made. Had the generous JobKeeper not been in place, for instance, some of the state governments would have had to rethink the requirement for most businesses to close.

It turned out to be politically toxic for Scott Morrison because he was forced to own many of the increasingly unpopular restrictions. When people were prevented from being with their dying relatives, when people were unable to return to their own residences, when people’s mental health deteriorated as a result of isolation – these things really began to weigh on the judgment people made about what was being imposed upon them.

As for the suggestion in the report that there should be an Australian Centre for Disease Control, dare I suggest that the last thing we need is yet another government agency? There are far too many government agencies currently. The last thing we need is this one, modelled along the disastrous US example. 

And as for more communication, again, spare us all. Victorians had to put up with the daily monologues from then premier Dan Andrews in his North Face jacket, and ponderous chief health officer Brett Sutton. The truth is they were mainly talking out of their hats.

The chief health officers in the other states were little better. Surely, the suggestion of the South Australian CHO to refrain from touching the football lest you catch Covid, or the fake story about the contaminated pizza, should go down in the annals of pandemic stupidity. Add in the Queensland officer who thought closing the schools sent the right message even though there was no evidence to back it up.

The one sentiment in this pointless report I agree with is: “Trust has been eroded and many of the measures taken during Covid-19 are unlikely to be accepted by the population again.” Let’s hope so.

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 10:17 am

Add in the Queensland officer who thought closing the schools sent the right message even though there was no evidence to back it up.

Er…that would be our present governor, Judith.

And that is the most infuriating aspect of the whole affair – none of the people responsible for the egregious assaults on our liberty that took place will face a reckoning with justice.

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Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 30, 2024 10:17 am

schools need to bring back the cane.

Not on my watch.
Half a century ago corporal punishment was dealt out by sadists and weak teachers on boys, up until we were big enough to say ‘No, you’re not doing that to me’.

Whereupon the discipline issue either vanished, or was passed to parents – where it belonged in the first place.

cohenite
October 30, 2024 10:25 am

In other news:

Jewish group takes Islamic cleric to court

It’s a start. I can’t believe the Jewish vote in the US is still substantially for cackles. I just think of jessica tarlov on The Five. She is a jewish fukwit who aggressively espouses demoratism and one of the pleasures of life is watching Watters and Gutfeld eviscerate her.

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
October 30, 2024 10:29 am

And yes the muslims coined the name ‘ kaffir lime’.

Back in the day when Thai food was the up-and-coming flavour of the month, I had a job in a Thai restaurant* and thought the owner said kaffir larm leaves – and would wax lyrical to diners about the exotic herb that ‘made the dish’, the larm…. Nor had I or any of the eager punters heard of jasmin rice and garnished my explanation of its qualities with my surmise – quite incorrectly it turns out – that it was rice cooked in jasmin tea.

*The food they ate out the back was divine, not all of it hot. One pork dish tasted like it had been cooked in top notch green tinged oaten hay. I have never come close to replicating it.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 30, 2024 10:29 am

Add in the Queensland officer who thought closing the schools sent the right message even though there was no evidence to back it up.

Er…that would be our present governor, Judith.

The same one who issued the diktat that a mask must be worn while driving alone – ‘to ensure people realise how important masks are’

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 10:34 am

The same one who issued the diktat that a mask must be worn while driving alone – ‘to ensure people realise how important masks are’

Whose husband was a consultant to Pfizer.

Chris
Chris
October 30, 2024 10:35 am

Top Ender

 October 29, 2024 2:00 pm

Years back, In Defence, there was a major whinge going on from management about points accrued for Frequent Flyers being used by individuals.

At one stage there was a directive issued that we had to keep track of such points – as opposed to ones accrued by personal travel – and somehow they would be used for work flights.

Fell in a heap when it was pointed out people purchased their own FF membership, or even were given it free personally. Also how to use the points was too difficult and so on.

BHP proposed (in the early 2000s I think) to take FF points off staff in return for a slight discount on work fares for the company.

Very reasonable.

Except that hundreds of staff on thousands of flights found themselves less interested in flying out on Sunday nights for Monday meetings, or flying home late when the job was done, as we routinely travelled outside working hours.

People proposed booking fights from 10am Mondays instead of the night before so travel was in work time, the whole proposal went POOF like a non-core promise.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 30, 2024 10:47 am

Opposition Senate Leader Simon Birmingham says Anthony Albanese must declare whether he acted “on behalf of Qantas” during the government’s recent decision not to allow more Qatar Airways flights into Australia.

This comes amid mounting pressure on the Prime Minister about his relationship with former Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce. Mr Albanese has repeatedly dodged questions on whether he solicited free flight upgrades in direct communications with Mr Joyce.

“Here’s a question Anthony Albanese should answer today – did he or his office ever engage with the Transport Minister or her office on the Qatar flights decision?” Senator Birmingham told Sky News.

“Did, in fact, he exercise his prime ministerial authority or his office do so on his behalf to interfere to protect Qantas and to ensure that Australian aviation customers were given less choice and greater costs?

“Because that’s what this all comes down to.

“If you’re having a debate about indeed the influence, it is also whether that influence was used and exerted by the Prime Minister in terms of protecting, potentially, Qantas’ interests and he’s never given a straight answer on that. That’s really where he should be pressed to give a direct answer. Did he ever actually act, as Prime Minister, recently on behalf of Qantas?”

Oz

cohenite
October 30, 2024 10:50 am

Even with the demorat cheating Trump looks good. Red Eagle’s latest analysis:

Republicans Are CRUSHING Democrats in Early Voting!

mem
mem
October 30, 2024 11:04 am

Dr. Adi Paterson, Nuclear expert responds to questions about the viability of introducing a nuclear powered grid at Senate Hearing. Dr Paterson is impressive under pressure and provides considered replies that left me convinced it can and should be done. From the comments underneath I’m not alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZqlWUZ0Oz0

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 11:06 am

“Because that’s what this all comes down to.”

That may be the case in terms of nailing Albanese in parliament, but in the public’s mind the issue is an apparently long-standing pattern of behaviour that goes to Albanese’s character and fitness for office, which they’ll have the opportunity to vote on if he leads Labor to the next election.

That will be exercising not a few Labor minds this week and beyond, even if Albanese manages to stonewall Dutton in parliament next week

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 30, 2024 11:13 am

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant posted on X a photo of Qassem, writing: “Temporary appointment. Not for long.”

Qassem’s acceptance speech:

‘Uh. I’d like to thank the Shura Council which consists of my ex-wife, landlord I haven’t paid in five years, as well as three of my sons impatient for their Qatar townhouse inheritance.’

calli
calli
October 30, 2024 11:13 am

I remain very tight lipped and unconvinced about the upcoming election in the banana republic once known as the USA.

Four years ago, in the midst of riot, arson, pestilence and murder, a senile basement campaigner became president with an “80 million” vote majority. That mindless corpse was overthrown in a blatant coup by a vacuous, race-baiting imbecile who refuses to engage in serious debate.

Will the next fortnight see the pattern repeated?

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 30, 2024 11:28 am

Calli I don’t think anyone Trump included had any idea how rotten the us body politic was. We are all wiser. I didn’t realise how rotten Howard was either.

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 30, 2024 11:33 am

Fun story over at News.com.au.

‘Blasphemy’: Proposed new map of Australia divides on social media (30 Oct)

A proposal to merge two Australian jurisdictions has prompted debate on social media, amid renewed calls for Queensland to be split in two.

The unofficial map, which fuses North Queensland and the Northern Territory to create ‘Northern Australia’, was shared on Reddit with the caption: “How to get north queensland their own state.”

A number of people responding to the post said they would be in “support” of the move, which would mean government “could focus on the real issues up north”.

“I’d vote for that,” a second person wrote. “To be honest, there should be a political push for this new map.”

Some vehemently disagreed with the proposal, describing it as “blasphemy”, while another called on leaders to “just split Queensland” and “leave the Northern Territory alone”.

The story includes a poll as well!

Should QLD be split into two separate states?

Yes 63 %

No 37 %

2762 votes

As an old Townie I voted yes. 😀

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 30, 2024 11:33 am

As for the modern pommy establishment, they are beneath despicable.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 30, 2024 11:34 am

The Green-Left Weekly Radio (now Half) Hour formerly known as AM does it bit to stir up the abortion debate. It’s on.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/-unspoken-ban-limiting-access-to-abortions-in-nsw/104535016

Arky
October 30, 2024 11:37 am

Corporal punishment.
I got caned quite a bit.
I object to the times it was done over stupid “procedural” crap or minor classroom infractions.
Getting belted because you forgot to show up for such or such fatigue because your socks were down, bullshit.
Or because some boring xunt of a teacher felt his grip loosening over a class and happened to turn around while you were talking to a mate. Weak pricks.
But the time I physically bullied a smaller kid, got warned, then did it again? That punishment was deserved. And it hurt too.
But the effect on me and most of my mates was: we left and got a trade.
As for the modern classroom, not much has changed. The useless and weak pricks without a grasp of what they are supposed to teach or any idea of how to hold another human being’s attention deal out punishments. But today the punishment is in some cases worse: long boring lectures and meetings with “team leaders” full of all the current jargon and insincere psycho babble.
And the “bad” kids still don’t give a f*ck, are on track to leave early after disrupting everyone else’s lives and take punishments as a badge of honour.
Nothing really changes.
I taught for twenty years. I could not imagine taking to even the most annoying kid with a cane or a strap, and am totally bemused about what could possibly have been going through the brains of the idiots who used to do that to us when we were nine or thirteen. It’s frankly incomprehensible.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 30, 2024 11:41 am

Btw Mr Qassem bugged out to Tehran three weeks ago. He’s probably keeping a quite low profile and is checking under his bed every evening.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 30, 2024 11:42 am

BBC world news is total puke.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 30, 2024 11:44 am

Seem to interviewing some.old demorat slag. The dirty old woman from San Francisco?

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 30, 2024 11:45 am

And the “bad” kids still don’t give a f*ck, are on track to leave early after disrupting everyone else’s lives and take punishments as a badge of honour.

One idea is the “leave school early” exam. Can sit for every 3 months when 13 on. Demonstrate basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, some civics and elementary life skills. Pass and you are outta there.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 30, 2024 11:49 am

And that is the most infuriating aspect of the whole affair – none of the people responsible for the egregious assaults on our liberty that took place will face a reckoning with justice.

Don’t bet on it, they will live with their infamy every day and justice will come, it will come when it is due, we may not see it but it will be delivered.

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
October 30, 2024 11:50 am

The trouble is BoN, the Cain tsunami only reached SEQ – but that was enough to wipe out old school fiscally responsible Country Party corruption. The Andrews tsunami will probably reach Mossman. We’re Hanrahaned.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
October 30, 2024 11:51 am

At last, the quiet bit is finally being said out loud. Very well said PO’B and thank you. Selected extracts follow.

But I would add that Muslim immigration from any country should cease immediately. Moreover, heavy restrictions (on dual citizenship, welfare for multiple families, honour killings, child forced marriages, inflammatory sermons, taking over streets for worship, no-go zones, etc etc) should be imposed (and rigorously enforced) on those already resident here. And if they don’t like it, they can leave forthwith.

All we need now are politicians with a backbone to urgently do something about this festering cancer. (/sarc)

Against Muslim Immigration
Peter O’Brien

The greatest threat to our nation is Muslim immigration from the Middle East.

Why do I say that? Because they are changing our country for the worse, as is evidenced by the disgraceful events of the past year, culminating in the refusal even to allow Jews to commemorate, in peace, the October 7 massacre on its first anniversary.

That was a middle finger upraised to Australia and its values. And the greater the Muslim population grows, the more marked will be this damage initially inflicted by Malcom Fraser (as Tony Thomas explains here) and now being worsened by this Albanese government and the Greens.

Islam is not just a religion. It is also a political ideology. Its imams regularly preach death and destruction in Australian mosques. The notion that the minister of any other church, in particular Christian ones, would be allowed to get away with this, on the basis of freedom of religion, is unthinkable. This is not about freedom of religion. It is the political nature of Islam that is key. You might argue the majority of Australian Muslims are peace loving and do not support or hold extremist views. 

That may be true, but I would argue that it is irrelevant. Supposed experts say the same thing about the people of Lebanon or Gaza. If that is true it can only mean that, in the face of radical Islam, they acquiesce to the ideology rather than repudiate it. Lebanon has a standing Army of 80,000. If the Lebanese people truly hate Hezbollah, why is that Army not deployed in support of the IDF to rid the country of Hezbollah?

If we continue importing people from the Middle East at the current rate, that decline can only increase. I don’t care how many people I offend in saying this. And please, by all means, call me Islamophobic if, by that, you mean I am afraid of Islam.

 During his ‘wilderness years’, Winston Churchill attracted much opprobrium as a warmonger for warning against the dangers of Nazism, but he was proven correct. And, incidentally, he too warned of the dangers of Islam well over a century ago.

Putting this genie back in the bottle is a tall order, particularly for our modern brand of political leaders – Churchills are very thin on the ground at the moment. But this is a matter of self-defence.

John H.
John H.
October 30, 2024 11:52 am

(1) What Makes Ukraine’s F-16s so STRANGE! – YouTube

The pods enhance defense against Russian SAMs and air to air missiles. Valuable intel will be the result. The summary will read: Russian SAMs and air to air missiles suck. BTW how many of those NK troops will return home or are they cannon fodder because poor old Vladie is running out of bodies to throw at Ukraine?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 30, 2024 11:53 am

Maaaates!

Albanese government appoints ‘global warming crusader’ as Future Fund chair (Sky News, 29 Oct)

“I just read something today that should set off the alarms in every Liberal politician’s office … we could now see the nation’s savings squandered on the Albanese government’s failing and crazy global warming schemes,” Mr Bolt said.

The Albanese government has revealed former Labor minister Greg Combet will succeed Peter Costello as chair of the Future Fund.

Carbon Combet? Oh that’s going to be so great for Future Fund earnings. I wonder how many millions he will be paid? It is so good to be in the elite Labor royalty stratum.

Crossie
Crossie
October 30, 2024 11:53 am

Just saw a commenter on Fox explain why Kamala is not resonating with people. She said that nobody sees themselves in her. That’s obviously not so as there are quite a few people who do see themselves in her however, those are childless and single women who are thankfully not a majority of voters.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 30, 2024 12:02 pm

Roger: …which they’ll have the opportunity to vote on if he leads Labor to the next election.

Mmm. Labor will be exercising itself over this. So many choices:

a) Airbus Albo “resigns” and they put someone new in as an excellent leader.

b) Tennis Albo resigns and they put anyone in who might save some of the furniture.

c) Albosleazy is forced out and either a or b

d) carry on regardless and hope the electorate forgets by 24 May 2025.

but then again

e) if (d) what happens if Albo does something else to enrage even more voters?

So many choices, so little time.

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 12:08 pm

Grifting Greens became the regime

Jordan Knight, The Spectator (Australia), 30th October 2024

Like all good revolutions, the Greens’ attempt has ended with a fatal, self-inflicted wound. What started as a positive, well-meaning, and future-focused environmentalist group is now ending in a negative, paranoid, schizophrenic mess. The Greens result in Queensland state election matches similar results in New South Wales state elections and Brisbane council elections, and is the beginning of the end for another minor party that started in the 90s. The Green dream is over.

But it’s overseas where the future of the Greens Party can be found. In Germany, the birthplace of the Greens, their most regional election saw its vote share drop to record lows. The biggest, and most unexpected losses, were in the youth vote, many of whom swung to the nationalist AfD party. This may seem strange – young people voting hard right? – but it makes sense when you consider what the Greens were supposed to be, and what the AfD now are.

The Greens are supposed to be the counter-cultural party, the ones standing against the regime. Instead, they became the school teacher-ish naysayers. Far from being edgy, they began policing language. Far from painting a vision of a brighter future, they banged on endlessly about perceived injustices of the past. Far from speaking truth to the regime, they became the regime.

The Greens have lost their sting. What started off as anti-elite, became the elite. If you want an example, consider now that the Greens leader, Adam Bandt, now has a Chairman’s Lounge pass with Qantas – the single most exclusive lounge in the country. Or the Greens members with multiple investment properties. We have Greens that stand up and play populist about the climate, but with the schtick of slender, overpaid, effete guys pretending to be a big blue-collar toughie in Parliament doesn’t really cut when your party has more double-barrelled names than the polo club.

Above all else, their failures come down to the fact that they live in a world of constant contradiction. They’re for fixing the housing crisis, but don’t want to address immigration. This is a terribly hard sell for any young person who is visibly outbid for a rental by international students. They’re pro-union, but anti-development. They want green energy, but not nuclear. They want to reduce emissions, but they want to import more people into a high carbon economy. They’ve tied themselves in knots–it’s no wonder there are dozens of stories of bullying and harassment in their offices – the stress of managing these contradictions must be huge.

No, the Greens are not the future. If you want the future, look to Germany and France. The young are rebelling – this time, they are not hippies, they’re against the hippies. They’re still against globalism, they’re still against big capital, only they’re looking at it from a different direction. They want cuts to immigration, a national identity, borders, homes, cheaper energy, the chance to build things in their country, and they don’t care about foreign conflicts.

The Greens grifted the youth vote, they sold out their most fervent voters for a pass in the Chairman’s Lounge. They told people what they could and could not say, they attacked their past, heritage, and nation. They tried to win voters by being vocal on foreign issues, at the cost of local votes.

In many ways, the Greens became what they hate the most: conservatives. They are now desperately trying to conserve a left-dominated political culture. But the new revolution is here. And the revolutionaries are right wing. The right wing revolution will be televised – just on TikTok.

In polite disagreement with Jordan, I don’t think the Greens were ever what they pretended to be. Certainly not those who led the movement. Evidence of German Green links with the East German Stasi in the 1980s has already been uncovered.

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mizaris
mizaris
October 30, 2024 12:12 pm

bemused about what could possibly have been going through the brains of the idiots who used to do that to us when we were nine or thirteen. It’s frankly incomprehensible

I was caned with a 3ft long blackboard ruler when I was 6. Sisters of Mercy. I’d been at the new WA school for 4 days.

My crime?

I had not learned my 3 times table.

Because I had been promoted to grade 2 the afternoon before the tables test.

Having been in grade 1 for the prior week, until my parents pointed out that I had done grade 1 the previous year in Victoria.

shatterzzz
October 30, 2024 12:15 pm

Ebay has , definitely lifted their game ..! Bought something for over $200 3 weeks ago .. Goods never turned up, no answer to emails to seller.. contacted Ebay last Thursday and Today got a full refund cos seller didn’t reply to Ebay contact …….
Once upon a time complaints went unanswered and you just lost your dosh.. ..

John H.
John H.
October 30, 2024 12:21 pm

China is facing its biggest demographic crisis, with only nine million births recorded in 2023, the lowest since 1949, according to government figures.

The price a country pays for reading Germaine Greer.

Rosie
Rosie
October 30, 2024 12:25 pm

There was some corporal punishment at my Catholic primary school but zero at my girls Catholic secondary school.
The boys schools used the cane though
The only teachers who dished it out at the primary school were female married lay teachers, never the nuns.
Parents knew whether or not the teachers at the schools they sent their children to hit children if they didn’t condone it, the children wouldn’t be there.
Corporal punishment was also used in state schools. The Beaumaris enquiry stated primary school children were belted, caned, strapped, even kicked by male teachers.
Times have changed.

Vicki
Vicki
October 30, 2024 12:27 pm

The subtext for the creation of a CDC is that any future pandemic response must be taken out of the hands of state premiers and their incompetent lickspittle health advisers.

No! No! No! Roger.

The creation of the CDC is an attempt to ENTRENCH the “incompetent lickspittle health advisers”. I have been talking to my friend (retired research company CEO) who was a vociferous opponent of the government handling of the pandemic and is currently a member of the AMPS – the society of medicos trying to get justice for the vaccine injured and a change in understanding of Covid. The cabal who has put out this report even have a CEO in mind for the job and we wont like who it is!

The key to understanding this ploy is to look at the CDC in the US. It was hand-in-hand with Big Pharma. I have not yet read the whole of the report – but from what I understand it is designed to put the blame for the worst of the policies to the Morrison government. Lockdowns etc will not happen again. But don’t think that mRNA vaccines will be withdrawn – I believe that the bureacrats will attempt to convince whatever government is in power to adopt the WHO mandates in the event of future pandemics.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 30, 2024 12:29 pm

am totally bemused about what could possibly have been going through the brains of the idiots who used to do that to us when we were nine or thirteen. It’s frankly incomprehensible.

I was 17 and got “done” for wagging compulsory sport. TBF I was at war with the sports master for my 6 years of high school as I hate sport in all forms and still do !

Did I start going to compulsory sport? Not on your nellie!

In my entire 6 years I think I may gone maybe 24 times. My first athletics/swimming carnival was as a 51 year old beginner teacher(!)

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Lysander
Lysander
October 30, 2024 12:35 pm

Feeling pessimistic so… spoiler alert…

The fawning press will absolve Elbow of all guilt and hone in on Fletcher for his 69 travel upgrades (in less sitting time than Elbow).

Unless there’s a smoking gun (a text, phone message) that Elbow requested upgrades from bumchum Leprechaun, this is going to go nowhere. Might cost a few 0.0000% votes but hardly anything…

Rabz
October 30, 2024 12:50 pm

the extreme measures used during covid – state border closures, de facto quaccine mandates and schlockdowns – are now permanently off the table

Until they aren’t.

Rosie
Rosie
October 30, 2024 1:01 pm

Biden* calling Delaware Republicans garbage.
*it’s different when they say it

https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1851429599718392037?t=WPrN8_w5LkHX_VHfttKGWA&s=19

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 30, 2024 1:02 pm

To splitting Queensland hell yeah.

Cut in two, round Gladstone north. That way Queensland could have the Ag and NQ the mining. As for as a port Townsville could be expanded just need a shedload of dredging the sand flats south of Ross creek mouth. Airports, 2 international rated ones with again Townsville and Cairns. Cairns currently runs most of the commonwealth bureaucracy and Townsville the present Queensland state. Everything’s there just within the state framework atm.

No effing way to absorbing the territory, that would just set up another perpetually left dominated state and there’s enough of those now.

Lysander
Lysander
October 30, 2024 1:03 pm
m0nty
m0nty
October 30, 2024 1:03 pm

Even with the demorat cheating Trump looks good. Red Eagle’s latest analysis:

Republicans Are CRUSHING Democrats in Early Voting!

cohenite, the problem with your boy at Red Eagle is that he ran exactly the same content in 2020, and his predictions got smoked. He forecast Trump to win with 290 EVs.

Lovely that you get to hear comforting reassurances to make you feel better, but he is treating you like a sucker.

Rosie
Rosie
October 30, 2024 1:05 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 30, 2024 1:09 pm

Anyway, it being the anniversary of my nativity, Mme Zulu and I am off to lunch, at one of our favourite eateries in the Swan Valley , following by time spent replenishing the grog cellar, at a couple of our favourite wineries.

It’s Hell, being a self funded retiree.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 30, 2024 1:19 pm

I was caned with a 3ft long blackboard ruler when I was 6. Sisters of Mercy. I’d been at the new WA school for 4 days.

My crime?

I had not learned my 3 times table.

Because I had been promoted to grade 2 the afternoon before the tables test.

Having been in grade 1 for the prior week, until my parents pointed out that I had done grade 1 the previous year in Victoria.

Spared the fatal beating it seems.
Soft!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 30, 2024 1:20 pm

Well this will be a first if true.

Just heard a rumours of a few unsolicited texts going out to a selection those on the Queensland electoral roll, one accusing LNP being Nazis and another saying something about him under Newman. All regional so far from central and north. I know one has already contacted QEC asking if they have been hacked.

I haven’t received anything but be interesting of some skulduggery is going on and a pathetic indictment of how polarised/entitled to power some are now.

Rosie
Rosie
October 30, 2024 1:26 pm
Vicki
Vicki
October 30, 2024 1:28 pm

Son-in-law, who swims every morning on Northern Beaches, was taken to Emergency this morning after swimming into a mass of bluebottles and suffering many stings. Grandson at Newcastle says huge swarms are coming down the coast. Warm water currents? So – all who like to swim on the eastern coast – be aware.

Rosie
Rosie
October 30, 2024 1:37 pm
will
will
October 30, 2024 1:41 pm

Lysander

 October 30, 2024 1:03 pm

WALLET WIZARD!!!!

But why has the CPI increased at a reduced rate in the September Quarter, from 1% increase to 0.2% increase.

Behold:
Electricity prices fell 17.3 per cent in the September quarter; “The introduction of the 2024-25 Commonwealth Energy Bill Relief Fund (EBRF) rebates and State government rebates in Queensland, Western Australian and Tasmania from July drove the fall this quarter.” 

Transport: “The main contributors to the fall were Automotive fuel (-6.7%), Motor vehicles (-0.8%) and Urban transport fares (-2.1%). Urban transport fares fell (-2.1%) due to cheaper or free public transport initiatives by state and territory governments. Initiatives effective within the September quarter 2024 were Brisbane with 50-cent fares from 5 August, Darwin with free bus fares from 1 July, Canberra, from 20 September, with free public transport as the city transitions to a new public transport ticketing system and Hobart with half-price fares, which was effective from 1 June.”

All that lovely government money, freshly printed just for you. It’s free!

Vicki
Vicki
October 30, 2024 1:47 pm

Heather Heyering is a scientist married, I recollect to Bret Weinstein. She was previously a rusted on Democrat. During Covid, like many others, she got a “wake up call”. She has just posted, on her substack, the reasons she will now vote for Trump. I have abbreviated it – but it is worth reading.

Why I Am Voting for TrumpAnd am proud to do soHEATHER HEYING
OCT 29

Eight years ago I couldn’t imagine that I would ever vote for Trump. Four years ago I considered it, but opted against, voting third party instead. This year I am voting for Trump.

There are many Americans who have followed a similar path.
Last week’s DarkHorse made a case for Trump. But I am still met with dismay and disbelief by some family and friends. Increasingly, what I hear is this:
“I understand that you can’t possibly vote for Kamala. But what are the reasons to vote for Trump?”
Here is one set of answers.

Trump is not owned.
Trump is not the nominee for the Republican Party of old, just as Kamala is not the nominee for the Democratic Party of old. Dick Cheney has endorsed Kamala Harris, and all the neocons are becoming Democrats, saying that Trump has “suffocated the soul of the GOP.” Traditional power is scared, and it is concentrating in the modern Democratic party.

Trump doesn’t answer to the power brokers of either party. He is his own man, and he is WYSIWYG—What You See Is What You Get. This is part of what people don’t like about him—they don’t like his tone or his humor, his meandering or his jibes. I understand. I didn’t like any of that either, although I got over it. You know what he never is? Insincere. He is human, and he is willing to show us his humanness. I far prefer a president who is comfortable enough with himself to reveal that self to the American people, than someone who is always hiding behind prepared words and fictions.

Trump is taking counsel from truth-speaking patriots.
Among these is Bobby Kennedy, Jr, who was my preferred candidate for president. Kennedy left the race in August, and endorsed Trump. More important than that, Trump has embraced Kennedy, and we are told that Kennedy will be empowered in a Trump administration.
Kennedy sees the death grip that Big Pharma, Big Food, and Big Ag have on the American people, and he has the capacity to address those problems. We have become a sick, out of shape, and confused people. We accept meds for every perceived ailment, including the ones caused by the last meds. The ingredients in the prepared foods on our grocery store shelves are a toxic brew—far more toxic than the products allowed on the shelves in other countries. Our food pyramid is inverted, and the recommendations coming out of nearly every agency tasked with watching out for our health are the inverse of what healthy people should do. Do not listen to the FDA, the USDA, or the CDC. Instead, eat animal proteins and fats, and produce that has been grown with as little chemical intervention as possible, savoring every single bit. And then do what is free and feels good. Go outside and face the sun. Walk. Form relationships. Touch people, and also grass and water and soil. Be barefoot under a night sky.

With Kennedy on task, many of the federal agencies, including those which fund science, will be on notice, and will have their houses cleaned. Finally.
The FDA was supposed to oversee the safety of our food and our drugs; instead, they are in bed with big pharma. The CDC was supposed to help us stay healthy and avoid disease; instead, they too are in bed with big pharma, and run by useful idiots. The NIH and NSF are supposed to be overseeing the funding of science; instead they, too, are in bed with big pharma (note a trend?), and also so bolloxed up that they don’t know science when it hits them in the head. They are funding politicized garbage which often doesn’t meet the basic expectations of science. Covid revealed the rot in medical and pharmaceutical research, but the rot is everywhere. Politically popular answers are generated by power brokers behind the scenes, and then research is funded and conducted to arrive at those answers. This “science” is conclusion driven, rather than hypothesis driven, and is therefore not science at all. Actual science that arrives at different answers—atmospheric Carbon is not the only thing responsible for our changing planet; puberty blockers are not safe for children—is disappeared.
It is also true that, in the final year of his first term, as Covid became the thing that we were all focused on, Trump halted funding to the World Health Organization¹. At the time, I thought this was yet another randomly batshit move of his. I was wrong. During Covid, the WHO revealed itself as an extra-governmental agency that seeks authority over people which nobody should have, ever. The United States should not be part of the WHO. Trump was right.

We need science back, real science, not feel good solutions that don’t help anyone. The Democrats think they are the party of science, but they are not. Trump, with Kennedy and his other advisors, will steer us in the right direction.

Trump is better for Americans.

In Trump’s first administration, prices of household goods fell, and jobs were created (until Covid turned everything upside down). People could afford to live. Trump understands the value of small businesses, and worked to support them. Since 2020, though, according to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of food and beverages has gone up 22.6%, the price of housing has gone up 25%, and the price of gasoline is up 55.8%.Many Americans are suffering—finding it ever more difficult to feed and house their families—while the media spins stories assuring us that the economy is strong.

Trump is not ashamed to be working on behalf of the American people. We are Americans, electing an American president. It is not just our right, but our duty, to want a leader of our country who puts our country first. This is neither racist nor elitist.

Trump talked big about building the wall at the southern border, and some of his rhetoric was inflammatory and mean. This was another place where the mainstream media got into my head. I always knew that a secure border was a necessary precondition for a health society, but I was foolish to believe that Trump’s talk of a border wall was over the top, anti-legal-immigrant, anti-human even. Once again, I was wrong. Trump failed to build the wall, though, and under Biden-Harris, the immigration problem has become catastrophic.

In April 2024, the House Committee on Homeland Security released their latest “Startling Stats Factsheet” which provides details on the people apprehended at our southern border (reported at homeland.house.gov). In March of 2024, encounters with Chinese nationals at the southern border had increased by 8,500% compared to March of 2021, and the vast majority of these Chinese nationals were single individuals, not families. In Panama’s Darien Gap in January of 2024, Bret and Zack Weinstein (my husband and first born, respectively) observed several immigration camps, full of people heading north to try to get in to the United States. At some of those camps, like Lajas Blancas, Latin American families were common; in stark contrast, the massive San Vicente camp was mostly populated by single Chinese men of military age.

Humanitarian crises do cause families to flee terrible regimes, and while open borders are never the answer, sometimes people make difficult decisions that put them on the wrong side of the law because they truly have no choice. But young men immigrating solo, often with criminal records in their home countries, are living an entirely different story. Families tend to flee war zones. Young men tend to go towards war zones. A flood of illegal immigrants across our southern border of fit young men of fighting age looks a lot like a war—or preparation for a future war—is coming to us.

Trump was aware of the problem, and was roundly mocked for being concerned about it. The problem has gotten far worse since he left office—since Kamala was put in charge of stemming illegal migration across the border, and failed utterly. Now, Trump is even more focused.

See more on Heather’s substack

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Lysander
Lysander
October 30, 2024 1:55 pm

(Late) October surprise:

Biden just called Trump supporters “floating garbage”

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1851422243793863104

Way to go Joe, that’s 75,000,000 Americans you just pissed off.

Lysander
Lysander
October 30, 2024 1:58 pm

Well… this changes “the discussion:”

Axel Rudakubana: Southport murders accused facing terror charge

The teenager accused of murdering three young girls in Southport has been charged with producing the poison ricin and possessing a military study of an al-Qaeda training manual.

Lysander
Lysander
October 30, 2024 2:01 pm

And, finally: Don’t be Paul Pelosi’s lover as they’ll send you to Château d’If, forever:

David DePape sentenced to life without parole for hammer attack on Paul Pelosi in state case

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 30, 2024 2:08 pm

Good thing Bill Shorten is out. He was Leadership Material if I ever saw it. Stuffed to the cat’s clacker with OPM, jet setting maaate of the rich…
and, like other leaders and leader-adjacent blokes like Gayleford, Schwartzenegger, Emhof and Biden, he’s knocked up the nanny*.
*Rabz, please confim

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 30, 2024 2:29 pm

The Greens are supposed to be the counter-cultural party, the ones standing against the regime. Instead, they became the school teacher-ish naysayers.

Is there anything as satisfying as bagging school teachers? Ex school teachers maybe?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 30, 2024 2:33 pm

Cuddly Costello will really have to pull the belt in with only a couple of hundred k of Parliamentary pension coming in since going all WWE on that j’ismist.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 30, 2024 2:38 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
October 30, 2024 2:39 pm

That’s enough from me for a while.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 30, 2024 2:44 pm

Reposted for excellence, from Roger’s linked piece:

The Greens are supposed to be the counter-cultural party, the ones standing against the regime. Instead, they became the school teacher-ish naysayers. Far from being edgy, they began policing language.

Far from painting a vision of a brighter future, they banged on endlessly about perceived injustices of the past.

Far from speaking truth to the regime, they became the regime.

*golf clap*

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 30, 2024 2:54 pm

The Head of the National Anti-Corruption Commission has allegedly been found to have engaged in misconduct.

Where are we at now?
Who watches the watchers?
Who watches the watchers who watch the watchers?

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 30, 2024 3:12 pm

Quick! To the Batmobile! Something must be done!

Network 10 newsreader Narelda Jacobs has claimed she was refused an empty table in a Melbourne café that was subsequently offered to a “white man”.

The veteran journalist anchors the network’s flagship 10 News First program at midday and was the first Aboriginal and first openly lesbian newsreader in Western Australia.

Sky

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 3:12 pm

@JDVance

A mother mourning her son who died of a fentanyl overdose is not garbage. A truck driver who can’t afford rising diesel prices is not garbage. A father who wants to afford groceries is not garbage.

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 30, 2024 3:12 pm

At Yass on final leg from Cooktown to Melbourne. Bright and fresh spring day compared to hot and steamy.

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 3:13 pm

The Head of the National Anti-Corruption Commission has allegedly been found to have engaged in misconduct.

I was going to joke that they’ve accepted membership in the Chairman’s Lounge. But apparently it’s true.

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 3:14 pm

@BasedMikeLee

Madam Vice President, @KamalaHarris, when President Biden called Trump supporters “garbage” moments ago, did he mean older people, like my parents? Or younger people, like my children, nephews, and nieces? 

Also, are just men garbage, or are my wife and sisters garbage too?

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 30, 2024 3:15 pm

The old perv further reveals what an evil, spiteful old parasite it truly is. Total filth.

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 3:16 pm

@Real_RobN

And here it is,

U.S. Border Chief Aaron Heitke who served under 5 different Administrations:

CONFIRMS BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT,

Since January 20, 2021, the United States government is being run by a terrorist organization.

Was ordered by the Biden/Harris terrorist administration to coverup, conceal and manipulate data on the border crisis.

“We have no idea who or what is coming through our country.”

— “Special Interests Aliens” (SIAs) and “KNOWN and SUSPECTED TERRORISTS”,

“At the time I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests.
The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border”

— FENTANYL
“San Diego area sees between 80 and 90% of the methamphetamine and fentanyl seizures annually for our entire country.
With little enforcement at the border these drugs were coming through in mass.
During my last year in San Diego the price for a single pill of fentanyl for example went from 10 dollars to 25 cents.”

— FUNDING
“To make matters worse during 2022 and 2023 I had to shut down San Diego traffic checkpoints. Which are critical from drug interdiction. Because the resources had been diverted to PROCESS RELEASE MISSION.”

— THE COVERUP
“I had to release illegal aliens each day into communities who could not support them. To QUITE the problem two flights a week were provided from San Diego to Texas. Each flight cost approximately $150,000. This was the administration’s way to try to quiet the border crisis.”

“Through pressure through the Administration my headquarters became more interested in fiction being portrayed in the media and not at all concerned with reality.

We had 2000 or more illegal aliens sitting between the fences asking to turn themselves in. I WAS TOLD TO MOVE THEM OUT OF SIGHT OF MEDIA.”

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 3:19 pm

He’s not wrong. And even if Trump wins, it’s even a question of whether they will permit him to take office. That’s where we are at the moment.

@catturd2

Kamala Harris is getting more cringe by the minute. If the Democrats cheat enough to get her installed – I promise you, the USA is finished.

It’s over.

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 3:23 pm

They tried to explain it away by saying he meant to refer to the comedian who made an off-colour joke at MSG.
Cillizza: Biden Calling Trump Supporters ‘Garbage’ an ‘Absolute Nightmare’ for Kamala Harris Campaign

P
P
October 30, 2024 3:23 pm

Australia’s deputy chief medical officer during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Coatsworth said having people lose jobs over vaccine mandates “really did erode trust” while speaking on Today on Wednesday morning.

“When we – I’m looking at myself here because I was part of this apparatus – were pushing vaccine mandates and people were losing their jobs because they weren’t taking the vaccine, that really did erode trust.”

The Chief Health Officer of NSW has served in this capacity since 2007. I saw her on TV midyear advising all to get their COVID vaccine booster. She has survived seven NSW premiers and is now on her eighth. No way she is going to lose her job.

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 3:24 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
October 30, 2024 3:25 pm

Do you think Albanese will politically survive the Qantas freebies scandal?

PETER VAN ONSELEN: Albo drops Covid report in a desperate bid to get YOU to forget about his Qantas freebies. So, did it work?

Includes:

Yes, voters will forget about it 8% / 33 votes
No, his integrity is shredded 92% / 383 votes
416 votes.

Daily Mail

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 3:28 pm
Rabz
October 30, 2024 3:32 pm

please confirm

Wait until February next year “post politics” when certain “lurve life developments” may just happen to be made public, Wally.

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 3:47 pm
Lysander
Lysander
October 30, 2024 4:08 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 30, 2024 4:17 pm

Top Ender

 October 30, 2024 8:46 am

It’s lurv, but not as we know it!

FPrime Minister Anthony Albanese and former Qantas chief Alan Joyce go way back. See the pictures of their years-long relationship.

Joe Aston was on 3AW yesterday and talked about the bromance.
Putting aside the obvious corruption issue, Aston pointed out Luigi’s tin ear when it came to da Voice, and probably Qantas as well.
At a time when Qantas and Joyce were clearly on the nose, Luigi decided that it would be a great idea to launch da Voice campaign alongside the Detestable Leprechaun in front of a Qantas dot-painted jet.
He was clearly drinking his own bathwater by the schooner. Firstly, believing firstly that da Voice Yes campaign was an unassailable winner and, secondly, that Qantas was a much loved National Carrier and the shit-show that it had become was just media chatter.

Lysander
Lysander
October 30, 2024 4:17 pm

LOL!!!

‘Kwinana council is not racist’: Police minister defends street name mishap

Police minister Paul Papalia has just weighed in on a blog post we brought you earlier today (8.51am) about the City of Kwinana accidentally naming a street after a racial slur.

Last week during a council meeting, the council approved nine street names for a new estate, including Kaffir Road.

The term ‘kaffir’ is considered a racial insult in South Africa, however Papalia was quick to defend the council and said he wasn’t offended by what had occurred.

“I can tell you Kwinana council is not racist, that’s a stretch” he said.

“We’re not in South Africa, we’re in Australia, and [the street] might be named after a family or individual.”

The council said the street was named after a lime tree, and that it did not realise the word was offensive.

Many peeps don’t realise road names and suburb names are governed by a geographic names committee that adheres to naming conventions set by the United Nations. That, in itself, is odd!

Back in the ancient history, I helped name a street after a famous community service volunteer. His surname was Hall and I (proudly) managed to get the rules broken by having the road called Hall Way. 😛

bons
bons
October 30, 2024 4:18 pm

I am unable to come to terms with the UK Government’s (and the people’s) response to what is the most horrific crime imaginable – the massacre of infants.

A nation that still talks about the Yorkshire Ripper not only buried this outrage but attacked and imprisoned those who knew that Starmer’s police were lying about the attack and protested appropriately. “Far right thugs”; an elitist cover up call taken up by the Conservatives, conservative media, Farage, police and even Spiked and Lotus Eaters. The latter two engaging in cowardly concessions to free speech repression.

The UK is on the edge. The murder of Robinson and others by muslim prisoners is being engineered. Now that it is proven that the people were lied to and the maniac who dismembered the innocents was indeed a jihadi, what can we expect?

Violence would be terrible but seemingly inevitable, and in the long run may contribute to the removal from power of disgusting stalinist socialism, and an honest defensive response to Islam.

Who is to blame – Blair, Obama, Trudeau, Adern, Gillard, Cameron and pussy struck Johnson – all from the anglosphere. They capitalised upon the innate good nature and trust of their societies in order to destroy western culture and those societies. Criminals!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 30, 2024 4:24 pm

Top Ender
 October 30, 2024 9:16 am

Interesting analysis:

Why the US presidential race isn’t as close as everyone thinks: With a week to go, analyst CRAIG KESHISHIAN says the polls are missing a hidden voter surge

Taking the long road trip from The Big Smoke to the Country Estate today so just catching up.
3AW reporting that the bookmakers have slammed the bag shut.
Trump is unbackable.

cohenite
October 30, 2024 4:25 pm

Wally Dali
 October 30, 2024 2:08 pm

Good thing Bill Shorten is out. He was Leadership Material if I ever saw it. Stuffed to the cat’s clacker with OPM, jet setting maaate of the rich…
and, like other leaders and leader-adjacent blokes like Gayleford, Schwartzenegger, Emhof and Biden, he’s knocked up the nanny*.
*Rabz, please confim

Kathy Sheriff could not be contacted for comment.

Tits jogging. I ask you, could this slob run Australia:

Social media erupts over video of Bill Shorten’s unique running style | Daily Mail Online

Vicki
Vicki
October 30, 2024 4:35 pm

The Second ComingWilliam Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst   
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   
The darkness drops again; but now I know   
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

cohenite
October 30, 2024 4:37 pm

News:

Biden-Harris Admin Promotes Iranian Agent to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense | Frontpage Mag

How the British Gov’t is Working to Elect Kamala | Frontpage Mag

Top Chinese Communist Official’s Daughter Details Fling With Tim Walz

The left want to destroy the West and conservatives still think there are rules. They’ve had several attempts at killing Trump and have corrupted the legal system going after him. If Trump wins despite massive fraud their next thing will be to twist the results and prevent Trump from taking office. The left are only good for fertilizer and even then I reckon they would poison the plants.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 30, 2024 5:20 pm

Anthony Albanese’s Qantas upgrade controversy reveals big problem with PM’s biggest strength | Samantha Maiden
Maybe politics isn’t the PM’s strong suit after all. It’s not like this is Canberra’s only travel scandal, writes Samantha Maiden.

The conventional wisdom about Anthony Albanese over the years has often settled on the notion that he was never a public policy genius, but he is good at politics.

Remember, this is the bloke that was Australia’s longest serving transport minister, preferring to cut ribbons for new roads and wander around in hangars with then Qantas CEO Alan Joyce rather than take on a new portfolio, even when he was briefly deputy prime minister under Kevin Rudd’s second coming.

But the Prime Minister’s week from hell, courtesy of the Qantas flight upgrade furore, hints at a harsher assessment.

It’s an assessment that first came into view during his less than stellar performance on the 2022 campaign trail.

He was prone to stumbling over silly gotcha questions about interest rates posed by young reporters who were reading from their mobile phones while trying to memorise their bosses’ questions.

He was not good at campaigning and it’s an open question after this week if he is really that much good at politics.

What he has been the recipient of is extraordinary good luck, which granted him the Labor leadership after Bill Shorten misguidedly wanted it straight after the 2013 election.

Mr Albanese’s predecessor would have been wiser to wait but he wasn’t and the rest is history.

The Tortoise beat the Hare.

That put Anthony Albanese in the box seat to win the 2022 election after voters wanted Scott Morrison put in the bin after Hawaii and other adventures.

And now here we are, watching in real time as his replacement ties himself up in knots trying to explain why there’s nothing to see here with this Qantas story, just as Scott Morrison said there was nothing to see here about his Hawaii holiday while bushfires raged.

It’s hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for the Prime Minister, who has become so desperately out of touch with the real world after nearly 30 years in politics that he thinks this is all normal.

He really doesn’t seem to have a clue.

Imagine for a moment if Treasurer Jim Chalmers was routinely offered membership of a secret bank lounge where he could hang out with all the other politicians and their wives drinking French champagne and score interest rate deductions and other freebies and it was all organised by the big banks’ government relations lobbyist.

Now imagine he said that was all very nice, very demure, and not a problem at all because everyone is doing it so it’s fine.

He would be rightly laughed out of town. People would lose their collective minds.

And yet Mr Albanese’s brain has become so warped and mangled by spending half his life catching planes to Canberra on the taxpayer dime that he seriously thinks getting freebie upgrades for private holidays from Qantas from economy to business is normal and fine because he declared it.

He wants to split hairs about whether he rang the CEO directly, or if there’s a hotline his staff called, or whether he was just offered it and how is he to say no?

For heaven’s sake, he was the transport minister. Does he lack even the most basic of insight to see why this pisses people off?

It’s clear enough the Prime Minister doesn’t think he was influenced by all this influence peddling in any way.

And maybe he wasn’t. But that’s not the point.

The point is that it stinks to high heaven and the fact the Prime Minister can’t smell the proverbial being metaphorically left in large piles all around the Lodge is a serious concern.

Does he need to see a nose doctor? And gosh, Tony Burke is awfully quiet right now. Remember what happened to Tony?

Four years ago he repaid $8600 of taxpayer money he spent flying his family to Uluru under “family reunion” travel for a holiday in 2012, eight years after the flights were booked and several years after questions were raised.

In theory, family reunion travel was meant to be about flying your missus or mister to Canberra but somehow it was worked out you could “reunite’ anywhere and so bugger it, he did it in Uluru after a work trip. Totally within the rules.

The issue first blew up when Labor pursued then Speaker Bronwyn Bishop over her $5000 Geelong helicopter flight to attend a Liberal Party fundraiser.

Back then the Liberals were whispering all the same lines that Albanese’s mates like Queensland’s Murray Watt have been whispering this week, which is something along the lines of “Sssh Be careful, Be careful, because we are all doing it and you will be in trouble too.”

And so Tony Burke led the attacks on Bronwyn Bishop and then the Liberals went to the disclosures chum bucket and found out he had used family reunion travel to do the Uluru trip.

It is said that he never claimed family reunion travel again.

Not because he wasn’t allowed to but because he didn’t want to put his family or himself through the drama again.

“After further reflection he decided the costs associated with his family’s travel did not meet community expectations so he repaid it,” a spokesman said

In other words, he learned his lesson.

But right now, the Prime Minister hasn’t learned his lesson. He says anyone mentioning the perks for his fiancee and son are attacking his family.

But life has a way of teaching us the lessons we would rather not learn the hard way.

And one way or the other the Prime Minister is about to work that out.

Daily Tele

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 30, 2024 5:23 pm

Looks like Airbus Albo has yet to come to a satisfactory landing:

Do you think Anthony Albanese has satisfactorily answered the questions over his Qantas perks?
Yes 5 %
No 95 %

3243 votes

Daily Tele

bons
bons
October 30, 2024 5:31 pm

It isn’t in reference to our handsome boy, but ‘Hardthrasher’s’ latest headline is timely:

“ELBONIA IN CRISIS”

cohenite
October 30, 2024 6:00 pm

Good but too late.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE v. WETZEL (2024)
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
The case is about demorat officials allowing the counting of votes received up to 5 days after election day. The Fifth Circuit has rejected this and said only votes, however cast, received on election day can be counted. This would kill the demorats.

Tom
Tom
October 30, 2024 6:02 pm

I’ve just had to turn the sound down on Sky News so I don’t have to listen to the slimiest creep Sky uses as progressive “balance” in its daily formula, Neil Mitchell’s former producer at top-rating “conservative” Melbourne radio station 3AW Justin Smith.

Smith wound sell his mother if he thought it could help the loony left.

Unfortunately, I’ve also had to turn the sound down on contrarian ratbag Liz Storer, who used to be a voice of reason before she hitched a ride on the anti-semitism bandwagon.

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 30, 2024 6:15 pm

Well knock me down with a feather.

New data reveals major super funds handed millions of member’s savings to CFMEU, other unions over 2023 financial year (Sky News, 30 Oct)

Between them, AustralianSuper, Australian Retirement Trust, Aware Super, BUSSQ, CBUS, First Super, and Mine Super handed $14 million to various unions over the period, with $3.8 million given to the CFMEU and CFMMEU.

I wonder whether the legal beagles of ICAC et al will take notice?

Ok, probably no, they’ve all been getting free upgrades too.

National Anti-Corruption Commission leaders gifted Qantas Chairman’s Lounge access amid Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s upgrade scandal (Sky News, 30 Oct)

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 30, 2024 6:27 pm

It seems someone needs to reiterate the old ” Caesers wife” tale to the filth of Cabraaagh
Not only is it enough to be not corrupt, but the appearance should be avoided as well.

Helen
Helen
October 30, 2024 6:34 pm

kaffir as a street name?

I knew it as a lime tree long before the dark association of the word.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 30, 2024 7:01 pm

Small goblins and witches for freedom!

Chinese Police Detain Shanghai Residents for Defying Halloween Costume Ban (29 Oct)

A Taiwanese-born bar owner said he was contacted by the police and told “there were to be no Halloween activities, no displays, and nobody in weird costumes, on pain of them shutting the bars down.”

“It was so sad,” the bartender commented.

Shanghai, a city of great financial importance with extensive international connections, has been the scene of civil disobedience a few times in the recent past, including demonstrations against dictator Xi Jinping’s abusive coronavirus lockdowns.

Some revelers tried taking their costumes to nearby cities, only to discover they were also enforcing costume bans. A resident of southern China calling himself “Chen” – everyone speaking to foreign media requested anonymity – told RFA the Chinese Communist Party has come to fear masks and costumes as signs of rebellion.

“The costumes they wear express dissatisfaction, and such dissatisfaction can easily evolve into a demonstration,” Chen said.

I wonder if the CCP will ban carved pumpkins? It’s gotta happen.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 30, 2024 7:02 pm

Maybe politics isn’t the PM’s strong suit after all. 

I suspect that, and an (admittedly inferior) heir of Keating’s, Albo spends amply on suits as a means (in his crabbed mind) enlarging on his imagined show of sophistication. But, truly, to what purpose? Will anyone confuse him with someone cultured or stylish

But he would think himself a modern Beau Brummell, and think ironed underpants and insisting upon french letters that are actually produced in France marks him out as a man of style.

A poor man’s idea of a rich man.

Cassie of Sydney
October 30, 2024 7:05 pm

I see the newly freed Steve Bannon has attended Miranda Devine’s book launch, only hours after being released from a US federal prison. How fantastic for Miranda, since moving to the US five years ago she’s made a big mark on American conservative journalism.

However, given her conservative superstar status in 2024, with the likes of Gina Rinehart and Steve Bannon attending her book launch, I’m left a wee bit confused, perplexed and bewildered because I can’t be the only one who recalls how, from from 2015 through to 2019, Devine was Malcolm Turnbull’s biggest champion and spruiker. She transforming her justified disappointment with Tony Abbot (something many of us shared) into an open dalliance with the hideous and miserable git from Point Piper. She openly fellated Turdbull, even after he was deposed, and was convinced he would have won the 2019 election. Yeah, and pigs fly.

I recall Devine’s expression for those of us who loathed Turdbull, she sneeringly described people like us as ‘Delcons‘, short for ‘delusional conservatives‘, and her disappointment and criticism of Abbott became unhinged and vicious.

And now Miranda hobnobs with Steve Bannon and Gina Rinehart, two titans of the right. Good for Miranda, I’m very glad she’s seen the light but she owes us an apology, and here’s the thing, if anyone was ‘delusional’ it was her.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 30, 2024 7:14 pm

It seems someone needs to reiterate the old ” Caesers wife” tale to the filth of Cabraaagh

The scrappy (still snaggle toothed in his heart) Tory fighter would not be one truly to be looked to as faithful.

Poor Cal-SPURN-ia.

But hey, Caesars wife must be above admission*.

*As in admitting things, as opposed to cases of allowing admittance – like to the Grub Shack.

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Rosie
Rosie
October 30, 2024 7:23 pm

“I knew it as a lime tree long before the dark association of the word.”
That’s the point ‘kaffir lime’ was named by muslms because they were grown by kaffirs.
This slate article pretends that the Indian Muslim/Arab usage isn’t perjorative.

https://slate.com/culture/2014/07/kaffir-lime-racist-murky-origins-suggest-a-racial-slur-might-be-responsible-for-the-fruits-name.html

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 30, 2024 7:28 pm

Say Frigging What?
Musk has bought Boeing?
Elon Musk has shocked the world once again—this time
by acquiring Boeing and shaking up the aviation industry like never before. Known for disrupting industries with bold innovation, Musk is now taking his vision to the skies and beyond. With Boeing under his control, Musk aims to revolutionize air travel with electric planes, sustainable aviation, and commercial space tourism, marking the dawn of a new era in transportation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f19CFmqSBiE

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Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 7:34 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 7:43 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 30, 2024 7:46 pm

From TE’s link to Samantha “I’ve only had two officer” Maiden’s article on the travails of Luigi. You get the impression Sam is a bit reluctant to put the boots in and is someehat exasperated that Luigi has left her no choice. She can’t resist a swipe at ScMo on the way through.
Unrelated to Luigi though, there is this bitchy little snippet:-

He was prone to stumbling over silly gotcha questions about interest rates posed by young reporters who were reading from their mobile phones while trying to memorise their bosses’ questions.

Couldn’t resist a swipe at a junior j’ism who brought the great Luigi undone.
With a question not asked by more seasoned pisspots in the Luigi’s press gallery cheer squad.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 30, 2024 7:48 pm

Vicki
October 30, 2024 1:28 pm

Son-in-law, who swims every morning on Northern Beaches, was taken to Emergency this morning after swimming into a mass of bluebottles and suffering many stings. Grandson at Newcastle says huge swarms are coming down the coast. Warm water currents? So – all who like to swim on the eastern coast – be aware.

—–

The little one Zach from the UK was in a WORLD of hurt. Dad could only look on with concern.

When watersking in the Swan River in Perth, I’ve had plenty of contact with the brown jellies. Annoying itch for 20 minutes.

No experience with a bluey.
Worst Blue Bottle Jellyfish Stings on Bondi Rescue

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 30, 2024 7:50 pm

Must be the day for it, little bloke got stung on the bum by a bluebottle this afternoon.
Decamped to swimming pool, a sting in the first 30 seconds is a message.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 30, 2024 7:57 pm

Must be the day for it, little bloke got stung on the bum by a bluebottle this afternoon.

The Sea (1998)

Don’t listen to this song. The sea is a bastard and wants to kill you.

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
October 30, 2024 8:18 pm

The bluey stings are painful enough, but the worst part is the itch for weeks afterwards.

Rabz
October 30, 2024 8:20 pm

Fatty Trump, JD Vance, RFK Jr and Elon – these are giants of the American political stage and just about that country’s last hope.

How a staggeringly stupid utterly incoherent cocksucking alcoholic imbecile can allegedly win an election against such a team without the benefit of massive industrial grade cheating, defies belief.

And as of next Wednesday night our time – I fear it will.

In the meantime, this interview between Tucker and Amaryllis Fox Kennedy (RFK Jr’s daughter in law, his campaign manager and now Fatty Trump supporter) is highly recommended – she is an incredibly accomplished, intelligent and impressive young woman.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 30, 2024 8:22 pm

This never, ever happened when I finished school (the CM):

Two of Australia’s highest-paid OnlyFans models have invited “barely legal 18-year-olds” attending Schoolies on the Gold Coast to film adult content with them,

Yay!

alarming parents and mental health professionals.

Boo!

Adult content creator Annie Knight posted a video on TikTok inviting newly-graduated high schoolers travelling to Surfers Paradise for Schoolies to join them to create content for their OnlyFans pages.

And:

Ms Knight said they would insist on multiple forms of identification to verify the teens can consent.

“Any press is good press when it comes to what we do for work – more people see us and more people follow us, and we make more money,” Ms Knight said.

“We want to film with as many people as possible.”

As a former 18 year old young bloke, I am unsure if Ms Knight and Ms Blue (the other one) are aware what they’re in for.

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 8:22 pm

You get the impression Sam is a bit reluctant to put the boots in and is someehat exasperated that Luigi has left her no choice.

Labor members in marginal seats will be less charitable.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 30, 2024 8:30 pm

Copped a clear jellyfish to the face surfing at Scarborough around Grand Final time one year. Never got a real bluebottle sting although they would wash up from time to time, although nothing like the East Coast. Just give it a miss if they are around.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 30, 2024 8:32 pm

Picked up a copy of the Oz for austerity.
I see the typesetters have given Rub’n’Tug’s saturated splutter defence the equivalent of fast-forwarding a dull podcast- mwa ha ha.

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 8:33 pm

Albanese makes his stand:

“Never called Joyce to ask for upgrades.”

-The Australian.

Mind you, this is the man whose parliamentary register pertaining to citizenship doesn’t include his Italian father’s name. That would be the late Carlo Albanese. Albanese explained that he omitted this on legal advice.

The parliamentary register of interests doesn’t require flight upgrades to be recorded.

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Cassie of Sydney
October 30, 2024 8:37 pm

Never called Joyce to ask for upgrades.

As Sharri is saying tonight, he didn’t have to.

JC
JC
October 30, 2024 8:41 pm

Roger

October 30, 2024 8:33 pm

Albanese makes his stand:

Never called Joyce to ask for upgrades.

The Australian.

No, he didn’t need to, as his name would be automatically flagged for special treatment. I know someone who was on the list, and that’s how it works. This doesn’t make it any better, because as the upgrades were automated, he was still receiving freebies. What a lying dishonest douchebag.

Roger
Roger
October 30, 2024 8:43 pm

According to Sharri, he (or his deputy) called Parker.

One can imagine him deputising this to an underling.

Or, as JC suggests, he was flagged for automatic upgrades.

As with his citizenship declaration, he’s employing casuistry.

It won’t fly politically.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 30, 2024 8:46 pm

Anyhow, an excellent lunch in the Swan Valley, the wine cellar is restocked – dinner looks like being microwaved pasties, and some damnfine red, and muttering noises about a holiday in Europe in the early part of next year….

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 30, 2024 8:47 pm

Never called Joyce to ask for upgrades.

As in “I” never did. It was one of my staff. It was automatically an upgrade

And so on.

Albo’s an idiot and so are those advising him.

It’s the coverup that brings the perp down, not the crime.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 30, 2024 8:47 pm

I was caned with a 3ft long blackboard ruler when I was 6. Sisters of Mercy. I’d been at the new WA school for 4 days.

My goodness they could be cruel I can still hear the resounding the thump on the back of a girl in my class (5th class), reverberating through her chest, delivered by our then temporary teacher, Sister Generosa — if ever there was a mis-naming this was it.

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Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 30, 2024 8:48 pm

Young reporter missed the obvious follow-up.
“Mr Prime Minister, did Alan Joyce ever call you to request special treatment in matters pertaining to your portfolio?”

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calli
calli
October 30, 2024 8:53 pm

Happy Birthday, Zulu. Now here’s a thought…

Humour-5
JC
JC
October 30, 2024 9:02 pm

You know, the British government, regardless of political stripe, are real fcking arseholes that need to be brought down a few pegs.
British intelligence was heavily involved in pushing the Russiagate hoax, helping the Democrats shape it up. Now, the UK Liars are sending over their cronies to support Kamaltoe in her election bid.

It’s as if they’ve completely forgotten about that little thing called the American Revolution, where they threw them out on their backsides.

If Trump manages to overcome the cheating margine and wins, I hope he goes after these bastards with a meat cleaver. The Brits need to be taught a real hard lesson.
Honestly, sometimes I think Putin might be a more trustworthy partner for the U.S. than the Brits.

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Gabor
Gabor
October 30, 2024 9:07 pm

BoN, or others who researched renewables.

Is this true?

Wind turbines are net negative. There would be no point building them if they only achieved net zero. The energy payback is typically under a year.

I don’t know enough to rebut this claim,but it seems like too short a time frame even if true.
There are other things to consider than the energy return, surely?

JC
JC
October 30, 2024 9:08 pm

Trump should offer Robinson and many others political asylum.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 30, 2024 9:23 pm

Early Saturday night we were told the Queensland election would be close.
Sunday they were running the line that Lemon-sucking Miles had “saved the furniture with a stellar campaign” and Luigi should emulate the same “free shit” policies.
Here we are on Wednesday and the 2 Party Preferred is a whisker off 54:46 and the seat count looks like being:-
LNP 53.
Liars 35.
KAP 3.
Green 1.
Indy 1.
That is a smashing in anyone’s language.
In “saving the furniture” terms, Miles got out with one singed cushion.

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Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 30, 2024 9:24 pm

Turbines are energy negative
Hmmm.
Windmills, turbines, towers, footings, and transmission lines.
Extraction.
Refining.
Manufacturing.
Transport.
Istallation.
Decommissioning and disposal (yeah yeah, i know).
…i’d be very surprised of they are “energy negative” at all.
I like to tell pinko greenies, you cannot make wind turbines with wind power, and seeing as they don’t last long at all, they are therefore undeniably unsustainable.

JC
JC
October 30, 2024 9:25 pm

It’s truly amazing that while the Russians were accused of interfering in U.S. elections and dragged through the mud, the Brits, who helped Clinton with Russiagate, are now openly trying to steer the election in Kamala’s favor. But nothing is said about this, which is far worse than what the Russians have done.

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Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 30, 2024 9:46 pm

And the follow-up follow-up question-
“Mister Prime Minister, ex-Premier Daniel Andrews has colluded with the police to deny access to phone records pertaining to a serious allegation of criminal conduct- will you commit to full disclosure of your telephone records and conversations with Alan Joyce during your time as Transport minister and prime minister?”

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 30, 2024 9:50 pm

JC
October 30, 2024 9:25 pm

It’s truly amazing that while the Russians were accused of interfering in U.S. elections and dragged through the mud, the Brits, who helped Clinton with Russiagate, are now openly trying to steer the election in Kamala’s favor. But nothing is said about this, which is far worse than what the Russians have done.

—–

Trump needs to get on the front foot and relay it.

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 10:04 pm

@KimDotcom

X users are mass reporting election interference and fraud by the Democrats. It’s totally out in the open. This is a criminal conspiracy that will stop at nothing to stay in power. Including the use of the military against “garbage” Republicans. This could turn into a civil war.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 30, 2024 10:04 pm

Well done young bloke. Zappia family is happy.

Cleetus in the USA would be curious. He may have 5000 HP, getting the power to stick is another story,

They ( Zaps ) are at about 3500 HP.

Brodie Zappia gets Top Doorslammer license 5.881 @ 242 mph in Zaps Rat – Perth Motorplex 27.10.24

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 10:08 pm

@realDonaldTrump

While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate. She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters “garbage.” You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American People. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have shown they are both unfit to be President of the United States.

I am proud to lead the biggest, broadest, and most important political coalition in American history. We are welcoming historic numbers of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. It is my desire to be the President of all the people.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 30, 2024 10:29 pm

It’s the coverup that brings the perp down, not the crime.

An Iron Law.

One of the problems for good governance is that the toxic influence of Club Leprechaun has been spread so widely.

They all crave it.

The chances of the Canbraa system saving itself are (being generous) 2.3%.

I realise it seems to be overblown, but there is an obvious need for a Royal Commission into the wider institutional damage caused by QANTAS mateship.

None of the Canbraa vipers are trustworthy – and they all know it.

Muddy
Muddy
October 30, 2024 10:37 pm

My response to Cassie’s 7:05 p.m. post, not aimed at any individual. (Let the snark begin).

I disagree. I believe that conservatives – at least in Australia – are still delusional, given we are using the same tactics we have for decades (ad hoc and reactive, rather than seizing the initiative), but expecting different results. We remain fixated on pointing out hypocrisy, despite that never (ever) moving the needle, and believing that if only we could educate people about ‘the facts’ we will sway the believers.

If you had a business that was going bad, you would – at some point – examine why it was doing so. If you had a professional sporting team that was consistently unsuccessful, you would look at doing something about it, rather than continuing on the same trajectory.

Are conservatives getting an acceptable return on their investment? If not, why not?

But no, let’s keep on hoping that our opponents trip themselves up.

Conservatives have the intelligence and the worthiest of causes, but are utterly delusional when it comes to competing. We are sitting in the parking lot while the other team is scoring endless, unchallenged goals on a half-empty playing field.

I don’t claim to have any answers, but I DO advocate a re-evaluation of our present gameplay/business strategy. If it isn’t working, we need to first acknowledge that, and then move on to something that does. Fear of a bruised ego doesn’t help us.

Indolent
Indolent
October 30, 2024 10:39 pm

Russell Broadbent. They kept pushing the jabs when it was known they were dangerous. Morrison was the worst of the lot. All he cared about was getting injections into arms. Didn’t matter which one, didn’t matter how old the recipient, just do it. A disgusting, smug puffed-up pig (my apologies to pigs).

Unsafe and Ineffective

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 30, 2024 10:43 pm

Mrs Snowcone furiously spinning the NACC squirrel on 7:30.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 30, 2024 10:49 pm

Chris Merritt sets out Albo’s defence in Teh Paywallian,
”Now Alan, you would know I cannot solicit a private benefit but if you were to offer me one, like Chris used to do, and I declared it there would be no problem.”
”Ah yes, I understand completely Anthony. Have a nice holiday.”

Muddy
Muddy
October 30, 2024 10:55 pm

By the time the so-called ‘vaccines’ became widely available in Australia, there was enough data for state governments – with the substantial resources (financial and intellectual) at their disposal – to make more reasoned and nuanced decisions regarding their covidiocy response. I can understand the initial panic, but 15-18 months in… No. They didn’t do ‘the best we could in the circumstances.’ I believe that some of them embraced the type of mental and moral aberation that motivates pyromaniacs: They ‘got off’ on watching society and individuals metaphorically burn.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 30, 2024 11:59 pm

That’s a very good analogy, Muddy.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 1, 2024 8:33 pm

While on a Yeats binge:

I would have touched it* like a child

But knew my finger could but have touched

Cold stone and water. I grew wild.

Even accusing Heaven because

It had set down among its laws:

Nothing that we love over-much

Is ponderable to our touch.

* A much revered and romanticised remembrance of the mystical (in Yeats’ specific apprehension) geographical Ben Bulben.

I so understand this. When you get a lotto ticket it seems so rich in possible combinations but when you fill in the numbers everything collapses down to a single drab finite combination.

Should I explain the significance of the Hegelian dialectic with the 3:10 at Rose Hill? I have often seen my horses on the verge of ‘becoming’ (winners) on the last stretch.

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