I don’t trust them either so they need to be worked on. As for Trumble, I regard him as Howard’s…
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Eggzakkerly.
Moccona regularly swings by nearly a third in price. I only buy it on special and have enough to wait.…
We shouldn’t trust them on ANY numbers, especially numbers that advance their narrative and their agenda.
FFS – for those Cats singing the praises of that ‘orrible vulvo ad – this is an ad – I…
Wackadoo! news (the Tele):
She was the wheelman, then. Or, if you will, wheelwoman.
The flaw in the plan, of course, was that the escape required parallel parking.
Feeling rather Prime Ministerial right now.
Got upgraded to economy x, and didn’t even have to ask.
And an exit row.
Pity it’s only a 40 minute flight.
“Um, Mr Bowen, there’s a man from Europe on line 2.
Something about offshore wind farms”.
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/dogger-bank-wind-farm-project/8053/
Otoh, Chalmers has publicly stated he’s never rung Alan Joyce to ask for an upgrade.
Qantas benefits ..
Show me a Dept. Defence project manager who, given the choice between a contractor in Australia versus a contractor in the USA (many frequent Flyer points, status credits, fancy lounges) picks the Australian one and I’ll get out some shares in a bridge down here for you to look over.
That’s probably the biggest decision wegiht of all, the side benefits. Qantas have the government contract anyway, so why do they need more incentives to fly with Qantas?
Not to mention Hotel points as well, but this is about Qantas.
I know of a guy who, after his yearly visits to contractors in the USA, is able to take his family to Fiji every year, admitedly economy class, for free. He is well known for it in his organisaiton. No one cares, they all do the same anyway in the department.
If you want to flatten out the opportunities for defence manufacturing and investment playing field, you need to remove the ability of public servants to earn or keep frequent flyer benefits.
After all, they already travel business class, get paid good wages and have better employment conditions than most.
I rarely agree with Clive, but this time, I reckon not only take the Chairman’s Lounge out of play, but all the airline benefits.
Watch Qantas fares plummet .. you might actually get some competition.
Upgrade Albo should resign, he is corrupt, there is no other way to see his behaviour.
Chalmers, full to pussy’s bow with hubris.
How I love watching these slow motion, no survivors, political train wrecks.
I suppose that makes me a bad person.
It’s Hawke v. Keating all over again.
Only this time without the charisma or the wit.
Or any runs on the board.
Why is Bill Shitten, doing the gummint whining about Israel dumping UNWRA instead of our perennial whinger “plenty wrong” ..?
With the Qatar issue, putting indigen dot painting on planes during the Voice, invoking welcome to countries upon landing anywhere in Australia, terminals (partly owned by Qantas…at least in Perth) with indigenous murals and messaging, renaming of Australian towns and cities to indigenous names… and whatever else; this has all happened under Elbow.
You tellin’ me there’s no quid pro quo here?
Avi:
With a Trump rally drawing an enormous crowd at Madison Square Garden, I spent hours among supporters eagerly awaiting the former president’s appearance. Opposing them, a small group of anti-Trump protesters gathered.
New York goes WILD for Donald Trump as Antifa protest flops
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.
Hmmm, this just out in the Oz
The ministerial codes of conduct that were in place when Anthony Albanese was transport minister explicitly banned ministers from seeking or encouraging any form of gift in their personal capacity, raising fresh questions over the Prime Minister’s integrity.
This is starting to look like resignation material.
And here’s me without a bottle of Grange.
Resignation material
Agreed, TE.
Anyone doing a market on this? I would say that I reckon that Albo will be gone by Christmas. But I wonder whether it will be much sooner. Much, much sooner.
Friday perhaps. If it weren’t for the ALP’s silly rules.
The Babylon Bee has also endorsed Kamala Harris — I just love their headlines:
Case in point:
Outstanding short clip from RFK Jr., who truly understands what we’re facing. The few seconds of Harris that’s included is enough to send shivers down your back.
@RobertKennedyJr
Albo being forced to resign for misconduct would neatly allow the Liars to bypass the changes in party rules put in place by Kevin Rudd a decade and a half ago to prevent leadership challenges.
The trouble for the Liars is they have no-one better to replace him.
So the two-pronged strategy for the 2025 election would be to save the furniture by: a) making a loser like Tony Burke (NSW Right) leader on his way to retirement; b) a scare campaign about abortion like the one just run in Queensland.
The Liars have nothing else left in the tank.
This one isn’t bad either, Tinta.
MSNBC condemned former President Donald Trump for holding a rally on the same planet where, 66 million years ago, an asteroid caused mass extinction.
😀
I have only two words to say about the upgrades solicitation scandal…
*possibly plagiarised
That’s not right. The origins of climate alarmism goes back to Sweden and Germany, and the U.S. picked it up later. Until the mid-1980s, the U.S. was still predicting a cooling trend, warning of a potential ice age rather than warming.
When Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement, Germany could have followed, but it didn’t—further challenging your argument. In fact, the Germans were deadset against Trump’s gerbil warming policy during his term. No one told them to dismantle their nuclear and coal plants. They did that by themselves.
Setting that aside, the principal means by which the US has stuffed Europe has been by setting it against Russia.
This is revisionism. Northern European countries, in particular, have been just as vocal and supportive of intervention as the US. At one stage, for instance, Macron was even toying with the idea of sending in French troops. Your claim that the Americans set Europe against Russia is unadulterated hogwash. They didn’t need any help. Finland and Sweden joining NATO wasn’t because the US demanded it. They’re afraid of the Orc.
This is absurd revisionism.
That’s the American’s fault is it? France actively supports its nuclear sector while Germany dismantled theirs, and then buys gas from an extremely unreliable partner. It always goes back to Russia, doesn’t it.
Sure,
You’re arguing against something that was never suggested. In fact you’re quite blatant with anti- US views.
Trump Accuses Fox News of Promoting Democrats and Trying to Sabotage His Campaign
I think I saw somewhere this morning that they had changed their minds about sending 100 volunteers across but who knows.
Eric Trump warns Keir Starmer he risks ‘poisoning’ UK-US relations with Labour ‘interference’ in election
Hardly. Perhaps they’re just hedging their bets a little.
Is the Media Turning on Kamala Harris? | Opinion
More information on what Germany has done to itself and nothing to do with the US.
Germany has made significant progress in decommissioning its nuclear power plants as part of its nuclear phase-out policy. Here’s a summary of the current status:Decommissioned Nuclear Plants
Overall Nuclear Power Plant Status
Historical Context
Current Situation
While the decommissioning process is ongoing for many plants, Germany has made substantial progress in dismantling its nuclear power infrastructure as part of its energy transition towards renewable sources.
“Whoever Wins this Presidential Race, We’re Going To See a Lot of Violence” | Shawn Ryan
For those interested in the Shroud of Turin, Dr. John Campbell digs into the background.
Shroud studies
“Indolent
October 29, 2024 2:32 pm
Hardly. Perhaps they’re just hedging their bets a little.
Is the Media Turning on Kamala Harris? | Opinion“
David Axelrod is an Obama mouthpiece – whatever he says is what Obama is thinking but not allowed to say directly.
It’s pretty self-evident why she’d be scared of that sort of revelation.
Why Kamala Harris is Scared of Joe Rogan – Michael Moynihan
The Aussie dollar’s getting taken apart bit by bit. Start of October, it was floating around 69 cents, now it’s sunk to 65.5 and about as light on its feet as a gal with serious anorexia. No fresh disasters in China since they pulled out their economic rescue. Meanwhile, the U.S. 10-year bond rate jumped back to 4.25% from around 3.75% a month ago, not exactly a pep boost for the Aussie. The opposite. And politics? This government’s performance—absolute dud. It really feels as heavy as anything.
Tom at 2:20 pm
The only way that would happen is if da bruvvas thought someone had a better chance of winning the next election. I’m not sure there is.
What a delicious phrase, heard it for the first time on Sunday used by a lovely lunch guest and here is Dr Faustus using it too. Another to go in the lexicon larder.
When does Albo’s beach house settle?
Yet another dangerous, air polluting, CO2 emitting fire at a recycling facility, this time in Laverton (outer Melbourne).
Recycling facilities go up in flames with alarming frequency.
As noted earlier here, lithium batteries are causing numerous fires in garbage trucks. Not to mention the fires in and around buildings sourced to e-scooters and the like. Plus the occasional vehicle that goes kaboom.
Just imagine if businesses associated with debbil debbil gas and petroleum had that kind of safety record. The usual suspects would be howling like banshees, and demanding that the whole lot be shut down immediately to protect the public.
If the Coalition had any gumption at all (I know, I know) they would be running a spreadsheet on these continuous, dangerous, polluting events, and bashing the Greenfilth and Liars at every opportunity.
Albo caught out lying again:
Peter van Onselen on X: “Albo used a media conference today to ask why author Joe Aston didn’t disclose having been a Liberal staffer and working at Qantas a decade and a half ago….he did, both are disclosed on page one line one of the book. How on earth does a media team of 50 let that happen https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f92f.svg” / X
calli
October 29, 2024 2:20 pm
This one isn’t bad either, Tinta.
Oh how I love the clever clogs at the Bee
Senator Hawley really, really cuts loose. WOW.
GOP Senator Grabs The Mic And EXPOSES Entire Democrats For Violations Of 1st Amendment Rights
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
Australia lives under both.
He really is outstanding. Exactly the right approach.
BREAKING NEWS: JD Vance Addresses Blowback To Tony Hinchcliffe’s Remarks At Trump’s MSG Rally
Safe to say word salad has entered the lexicon. Stick it in your Multi for word of the year.
Looks like the meeja sense blood in the water with the Albo Airbus upgrades stories.
Interesting questions for him would be “Are you going to continue to accept them?” and “Will you be ringing the new Qantas chairman for upgrades any more?”
“full to pussy’s bow”
My grandmother used to say that, gets an occasional airing in my family still.
Apparently a uniquely Australian expression.
That would be nice
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851080997414277548?t=ZibbEzIQgrMKU1wSrv_cow&s=19
Labor kiddies will be distraught.
They’ll all now have to fly cattle class.
Lots of phone cameras are watching.
And no Chairman’s Lounge.
Oh the ignominy!
Chalmers would be somewhat nervous at the moment. Woodridge, a state electorate within his federal one, had a 7.4% swing to the LNP, oversize for a Brisbane seat on Saturday. This large swing wasn’t just due to the overall LNP victory, but gentrification of the area as renters are pushed even further out.
This is/was Chalmers’ core support; other state electorates in his are quite marginal. If that swing is repeated federally, he will find his seat is decidedly less safe.
PETER VAN ONSELEN: The two reasons Anthony Albanese should sack himself now
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14013551/PETER-VAN-ONSELEN-Anthony-Albanese-sack-now.html
Roger
October 29, 2024 1:27 pm
Is it likely that someone who wrote their PhD thesis on the subject of PJ Keating would be content to have his career top out at the Treasury Portfolio?
I habour grave doubts.
Stop the prayer wheels spinning for the Little Houso Battler Champ’s resignation.
Australia needs the Golden Fortune 32% Albanese Government to go to the 2025 general election with Handsome Boy at the wheel.
This is no time for Good Government That Has Lost It’s Way softcockery. We need everything in the ditch: hubcaps rolling down the road, petrol fumes, fizzing electrics, clicking hot metal, and all.
His personal record of clear vision, glorious success, personal integrity, and firm leadership is vital to avoid the risk of a messy Labor/Green/Teal coalition.
Peter Dutton is relying on it.
H B Bear
October 29, 2024 3:06 pm
It raises an interesting point.
I wonder what concessional conditions and interest rate discounts he has managed to extract.
For example, was it assessed as a primary residence?
Albo is gorn.
Watching Albo squirm and twist on the hook is excruciating.
He was asked a direct question…did you phone a leprechaun friend for an upgrade?
Many…many words. Much…much squid ink being spread around, including the lie about Aston’s declaration.
Do him slowly, Dutton.
“I’ve definitely come across it in English novels of the 1920s and 30s, although I can’t recall a specific example.”
As you didn’t even know elbows mum was dead, for 22 years, I’m not taking your declaration re pussy’s bow as definitive.
In fact every reference on the internet says it’s Australian slang.
There are zero English (or Irish) references to the expression on the internet. Every reference says it’s Australian slang.
My grandmother was born in Tasmania in 1898 to an Irish mother and English father, her dad died when she was eight so at best it was a handed down Irish expression but there’s no evidence of that either.
If one of us grandchildren ever announced they were ‘full’ we were corrected to ‘up to pussy’s bow’ as the more polite way to say we were replete.
Kath used it on Kath and Kim which reinforces the Australianness of it.
https://wordhistories.net/2020/11/20/pussys-bow/
Singaporean former Minister goes to Jail after accepting gifts.
The investigation of Iswaran, 62, caused a stir in the Asian financial hub and centred on allegations that, while transport minister, he accepted expensive gifts from businessmen that included tickets to English Premier League football matches, the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix, London musicals and a ride on a private jet.
The value of those totalled more than $400,000 Singapore dollars ($308,880), according to the prosecution. More at Michael Smith News. https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02e860d86029200b-pi
Bob “Numbers” Whittaker getting increasingly unhinged on Michael Smith’s blog.
He’s defending Albo’s soliciting for favours and gifts from Qantas and backing Benny Pong’s pro-UNRWA/anti-Israel stance.
I think Kamala’s woes are getting to him.
Michael’s patience with him is clearly running out though.
So good to see Kamalbanese word salading furiously.
I want to see some others ducking and weaving. He won’t be the only one to accept gifts or even solicit gifts.
They don’t get rich in politics accidentally.
Just why haven’t the smartest men in the room realised that a gift is really a poisoned chalice?
Wonderful to see that the toxic leipreachán remains a bit part player on the Australian political stage.
Leaving Albansleazy looking like like a slimy grasping entitled grub (again).
…ISW points out that any military force conducting a tactical withdrawal will take or destroy its munitions to prevent the enemy from capturing them. Hezbollah completely failed at this task and left even its most “prized and high-end” munitions like advanced Russian anti-tank missiles and night-vision systems…
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1851047929538101558?t=uxBLCD6Pd4CUsKtnRPIogA&s=19
I don’t think it’s a question now of whether he called Joyce.
He did.
The slime and obfuscation will centre on the substance of the phone calls.
If Joyce is hauled up on oath, will he be truthful, or will he muddy the waters? They need a seasoned attack derg for this one.
The big problem for Albo, if the leprechaun claims he offered the upgrades is Albo accepting them, Twenty two times and counting.
As soon as I read who the plaintiff and the defendant were I knew who they were.
(I read his book).
The daughter didn’t believe her mum was involved and went to live with her maternal grandparents.
https://x.com/dkrolph/status/1851075674033045603?t=G4XdkJ3w6E_K9nZNkS3cuA&s=19
Oops
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1850920994762117303?t=RSj9n55codKh0TAqnYkssw&s=19
Chuckle. Watching Susie O’Brien commenting on the nonsense answer from Kamalbanese…
…if my kids had given me that sort of answer…
LOL! My three wouldn’t have dared. You know! How do you know?*
*secret mothers’ business
I see we have an Albo fanboi lurking.
*waves*
It’s a wonder that the Leprechaun managed to get any work done.
PA: Boss, it’s Albanese on the phone, he…
Joyce: Yes, sure to be sure, whatever, just give him what he’s asking for…
The Mangy Roo senior executive have always known their way around Canberra. No Google Maps for them.
Aston on Sharri Markson’s show just now, showing a nice turn of phrase:
Mr Aston even gave his personal take on the character of the Prime Minister who he claimed posed as a working-class hero but was really a compulsive sybarite.
“I think it’s certainly true that for someone who came from so little, Albanese has an insatiable appetite for VIP travel and hospitality,” Mr said.
“The ones who bang on the most about their origin story, you know, about how they grew up in a brown paper bag or they floated to Australia on a stick of spaghetti. They’re always the ones who are most susceptible to the high life.”
Victoriastan claims another victim. The Block houses on Philip Island may not even recoup their purchase costs. LOL
Queensland is the land of queens.
‘You have to leave now’: Brisbane man kicked out of Wickham Hotel for wearing Trump hat as staff claimed people would not ‘feel safe’ (Sky News, 29 Oct)
Ok yes Wickham Hotel is in Fortitude Valley. I suppose that would be a given.
in the 1970s the mob ran huge chunks of the US economy.
Everyone knew it.
In the 80s law enforcement mapped out their organisation and took them down.
Now,
There is never a vacuum. Someone or something always takes that niche.
Who today runs huge chunks of the US economy, and when will they fall? Who will map out the criminal organisations and who will be brave enough to take them down?
I say it’s an evil amalgam of far left ideologues, crony capital, oligarchs, deep state operatives, drug and people traffickers and political connections. But there must be a central nervous system to the organisation.
At least the mafia kept the neighbourhood clean. These guys are scum.
I saw David Poocock yabbering on about Albo’s a gratis quagmire — I wonder how many freebies that dope has had? My advice to Poocock is to pull his head in they’re lookin’ for wood.
Just why haven’t the smartest men in the room realised that a gift is really a poisoned chalice?
“Gift” means poison in German.
Nigel Farage is lost in action here. Very disappointing.
Andrew Bridgen: “Tommy Robinson is No Terrorist”
Bill O’Reilly: Kamala Harris is Not in Charge of Her Campaign
Like fellow Labor apologist Joe Hildebrand, Sky News political editor Andrew Clennell is desperately trying to make excuses for Allbo’s corrupt behaviour in accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in Qantas personal freebies from his personal travel agent, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, when Albo was the regulator for aviation as transport minister and later as prime minister — when Labor blocked additional landling rights for key Qantas competitor Qatar Airways.
Albo’s prime ministership is now in a death spiral after a series of self-inflicted wounds.
I no longer believe Albo will be PM when Labor faces voters federally next year.
Exclusive
Ministers gifted Qantas upgrades after blocking rival airlineThe seven Labor Ministers and Assistant Ministers were given the Qantas upgrades after the Albanese Government decided to stop Qatar from expanding into Australia.
Australia – just as corrupt as any other Third World banana republic.
Here we go again:
Haje Nahed Hijazi was about to fall asleep in Sydney on October 14, when her daughter burst into her room announcing the Lebanese home their family was taking refuge in had been hit by an Israeli air strike.
“I jumped out of bed, and I grabbed my phone to call someone, and then I dropped it,” she said.
“I wanted to [take] two minutes, just not knowing what’s happened.”
It wouldn’t be until the next morning that the 43-year-old from Bexley in Sydney’s south and her 22-year-old daughter Zainab Mawassi learnt that 19 members of their family had been killed.
The oldest victim was Zainab’s 95-year-old great-grandmother, Haje Sareye Hijazi, and the youngest was her four-month-old infant cousin Elaine.
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How many sob stories has TheirABC run about the hostages and their families?
Vanishingly few.
The idea of elderly people or babies being victims of war shocks them – except when they are Jewish.
If I were preparing questions for Senate Estimates, here are two for Their ABC:
(i) Since 2015, how many stories has the ABC published that say anything positive about Donald Trump, compared to how many stories about him in total. Examples of positive stories are required.
(ii) Does the ABC have a settled view on the best outcome of US elections? If not, why not?
Don’t Ask Me No Questions
I do not agree with Candace Owens being not allowed into OZ.
Why? No debate ensues. If she wants to run her mouth off, people will challenge.
The way it should be.
Mr Aston even gave his personal take on the character of the Prime Minister who he claimed posed as a working-class hero but was really a compulsive sybarite.
The article containing the paragraph above was on Sky New website by Oscar Godsell —
Thank you Oscar, a new word from you today and a new phrase at Sunday lunch — sybarite and full to pussy’s bow — and that I can put the two together in a sentence – By all recent accounts Mr Alabanese seems to be a sybarite full of it, full to pussy’s bow.
Does this mean that the GG won’t be giving the bride away afterall.
Poor Anthony. People just don’t understand the stresses of a life of service. Mistakes are made, it is understandable.
Great word, sybarite.
One of those words that you save up for especial effect.
“I’ve definitely come across it in English novels of the 1920s and 30s, although I can’t recall a specific example.”
I’ve read English novels of the period in large numbers, and I’ve never seen the expression. I don’t know what it means precisely or how ‘bow’ is pronounced.
“I don’t know what it means precisely or how ‘bow’ is pronounced.”
It demonstrates that you have had an elegant sufficiency at dinner time.
It’s a reference to a ribbon around a pussy cat’s neck.
New kid on the block.
https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1851178849758810311?t=93NndZ1X0sTgvpg2CjscSg&s=19
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/caption-contest.html
A couple of the riper entries seem to have gone down the memory hole…
Not this guy
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1850979504363364828?t=ju0AosHTe__7eb9kon1FPA&s=19
Iron ore mine Roy Hill rains $4 billion dividend on Gina Rinehart’s Australian mining empireSimone GroganThe West Australian
Tue, 29 October 2024 2:25PM
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Gina Rinehart has renewed her attack on red and green tape after sharing in a staggering $4 billion dividend windfall by iron ore flagship Roy Hill.
The rainmaker operation and main source of wealth for Mrs Rinehart’s majority-owned, overarching private entity Hancock Prospecting, made a $3.2b profit during the year, up from $2.7b the year before.
The Pilbara mine churned out 64 million tonnes of the steelmaking input, up from 63.3mt, and revenues grew from $8.5b to $9.4b.
Roy Hill as a result shelled out a bumper $4.05b dividend during the year, compared with a $1.45b payout in 2023. A further payment of about $300 million was dished out to shareholders in October.
About $2.8b of the headline payment will go to Roy Hill Holdings Pty Ltd.
Hancock Prospecting has a 70 per cent stake in Roy Hill, with the remaining 30 per cent held through a consortium made up of Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation, South Korean steel manufacturer POSCO and China Steel Corporation.
The iron ore entity’s corporate tax payments were $1.4b for the year and State and Native Title royalties of $665m.
But the strong result came with another warning from Australia’s richest person, who said “increasing government intervention” combined with “ideological and impractical policies” were hurting new mining investment.
It’s a reference to a ribbon around a pussy cat’s neck.
Thank you. That was my guess, but it’s good to have it confirmed.
Ministers gifted Qantas upgrades after blocking rival airline
The seven Labor Ministers and Assistant Ministers were given the Qantas upgrades after the Albanese Government decided to stop Qatar from expanding into Australia.
Seven Labor Ministers and Assistant Ministers were gifted complimentary flight upgrades from Qantas in the months after the Albanese Government blocked a rival airline from expanding in Australia.
The upgrades, which included international trips, are contained in the recent MP declarations for Mark Butler, Bill Shorten, Mark Dreyfus, Anika Wells, Pat Conroy, Matt Keogh and Andrew Giles.
They were provided after Labor’s controversial decision to prevent Qatar Airways from offering an additional 21 flights per week, a move which experts believed would have reduced the overall cost of airfares.
It has since emerged that former Qantas boss Alan Joyce met with Mr Albanese and his Transport Minister Catherine King on several occasions in the lead up to Qatar being blocked.
Ms King decided to prevent Qatar Airways from expanding on July 10, 2023, without taking the proposal to cabinet, claiming it was “not in the national interest.”
A few weeks after her decision – Health Minister Mark Butler accepted a Qantas business class upgrade for a private flight.
In August 2023, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten declared a “complimentary and unsolicited upgrade to first class” on an international journey with Emirates, Qantas’ international partner.
Sports Minister Anika Wells and her Chief of Staff both managed to score Qantas upgrades in Europe during September, 2023.
In November last year, Matt Keogh, the Assistant Minister overseeing Veterans’ Affairs, was given a “complimentary upgrade from business to first class” on a Qantas flight between London to Singapore.
Former Immigration Minister Andrew Giles also received three separate domestic upgrades in November 2023.
The Minister for Defence Industry, Pat Conroy, was bumped up on a flight from Los Angeles to Sydney a month later.
Finally, in February 2024, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus was moved to first class when he flew from Los Angeles to Melbourne.
All seven Labor MPs were approached for comment.
Herald-Sun
No no no. I’m reposting this:
And:
Not in the national interest (apparently), but most certainly in the troughers’ interest.
This will be meat and drink to the other team, and absolutely appalling to ordinary punters who are right now getting charged an arm and a leg for a shit flight in seat 24E to see a sick/dying relative interstate.
Just horrendous. Joe Aston should be knighted.
Standard disclaimer: They all deny wrongdoing.
But imagine a Labor government coming undone because they all felt entitled to first class flight upgrades.
Up the workers!
Also, Panahi:
Suddenly the question, posed earlier today, about when the Torrie-Fighter’s multi-million dollar beach shack settles becomes even more relevant.
“Look! Over there! It’s a leprechaun!”
Albo, Albo, it’s a unicorn mate.
So our prime minister is exposed as a corrupt shit. Who is surprised?
I tugs me forelock to the Great KD.
In the pursuit of excellence, I paraphrase a comment about the Elbow upgrade cesspit from Michael Smith News.
“While my Qatar gently weeps”.
“The ongoing investigation will take days, weeks, months,’ Insp McEvoy said. ”
The sheila collected a kid from the school. She gunned it, and slammed into a bench with kids on it. Killed one.
How f**king long does it take to work out WTF happened???
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14013779/Multiple-children-injured-hit-car-Melbourne-school.html
Another one that’s going to walk like the diabetic murderer.
Sybarite (noun).
1.A person devoted to pleasure and luxury: a voluptuary.
A company swapping favours with government – The Voice, upgrades, Qatar bans, Covid subsidies etc – and dudding punters: the very definition of fascism. Prove me wrong. But keep fighting British conservatives Albo.
Lost in the days other news – the Cth review into Covid.
”Oh that.”
Sybarite:
noun
Gee that sounds a lot like Rub’n’Tug doesn’t it though?
Garret, a.k.a Cleetus needs to treat the upcoming World Cup as a test and tune. Do not try to set the WORLD on fire. Just take it easy. I reckon his wife and mates have said the same.
This motor is a beast!
Project “Eagle” First Fire Up! (5,000 Horsepower Proline Hemi)
There’s a scene from the final episode of the fifth series of GoT, where Jon Snow is cornered and stabbed by furious fellow men of the Night’s Watch. As each disgruntled man stabbed Snow, they recited the reason why they were stabbing him. That GoT scene reminded me of that classic scene from Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express when Poirot cracked the case of the murder on the train, and you finally find out how the criminal gangster Ratchett died.
You see, that’s how I feel about what what’s currently happening to the entitled Trot from Grayndler, the king of the upgrades! He is slowly being kicked, stabbed, knifed, smashed, and pummelled and he doesn’t like it, not one bit, having had an easy ride since his elevation as PM (and before), a ride no Liberal PM is ever gifted. And now we get to see the real Albo, the ‘snivelling snarling Trot from Grayndler’, and it’s just glorious to watch. He is completely unable to handle pressure and so that blokey ‘nice’ facade with his slushing voice quickly evaporates and the real and true Albo emerges, the toxic, snivelling, snarling Jew hating adolescent thug who’s risen way above his pay grade. You see, I want to see this putrid human smashed to smithereens. Like one of those scenes from GoT and Orient Express, as I smash and pummel him, I have a long list of reasons (it’s a long list) but here are three….
Firstly, the Trot was up to his neck in the Higgins allegations. The politicisation and weaponisation of a rape allegation to go after Scott Morrison and the Liberal government was a nadir in this country’s political history, the fallout will continue for years.
Secondly, the Trot was up to his neck in the Christian Porter allegations. He and Pong were instrumental in the assassination of Porter. Whether you like or loathe Porter is irrelevant, he did not deserve what was done to him, his political career destroyed.
Thirdly, I hold the Trot personally responsible for the explosion of Jew hatred in this country since October 7 2023. I had long known that both the Trot and Pong were unapologetic far-left Jew haters but nothing, absolutely nothing, could or would have prepared me for what’s ensued in this country since that dark October day. The Trot is to blame for this. His tenure as PM has been a blot on this country. I want to see him crucified. He is the most disgraceful PM in our history.
As an aside, have others also noticed the silence of Simon the Pimp’s Teal Whores? I recall hearing a lot about transparency from the whores prior to the last election but they’ve been quiet today. Oh of course, I know, they’re just selective about who they demand transparency from.
On 26th September Trump Media closed at US$12.80. Yesterday it closed at US$47.36.
What a ride.
It may be predicting a Trump win.
Nice little droplet of information from Sharri this evening – Upgrade Albo said his ex was his Plus 1 when in fact she had her membership of the Lounge in her own right because she was Premier of NSW — so he made Nathan his Plus 1 — but oh dear how can that be? because in 2022 he made Jodie Haydon his Plus 1 — oh what a tangled web — sadly Albo’s memory is failing him.
Was there any actual problem with each State running its own response?
There was nothing stopping the feral health department from making suggestions.
The only reason this new department is being floated is so they can say they work for “ACDC”. And no they will not be done dirt cheap.
Cassie of Sydney
October 29, 2024 9:15 pm
Hear! Hear! Cassie
He didn’t invent it.
A relative (not on my side I hasten to add) had Geoff Dixon’s number. Used to take great delight in calling him for upgrades.
A great disappointment when Geoff left the building and he couldn’t get the Leprechaun’s number. Eventually got punted from the Chairman’s Lounge.
But he wasn’t PM, so there is that.
Have I told this story before? Sam, the senior bloke was retired when Jack Stand Jimmy moved in next door. Sam was basically sitting on the front porch doing very little. COME TO THE CLEETUS SHOP!
So he did.
He’s basically a Grandad to all the crew and their family now.
Their ABC has scrubbed the story, but
“I went there with my wife and my six-year-old daughter… when we arrived, everything was okay. We went out the back through the pub, and there was a dance party. So we were there for a couple of hours,” Mr Holt said.
How does this get a pass. You people are worried about hats and let this go nuts. Stupid and money: How?
It would be epic trolling if Qatar Airways lodged an application for a bunch of landing slots tomorrow morning.
CNN panelist is thrown off air and banned from network after telling Muslim reporter ‘I hope your beeper doesn’t go off’ during debate over Trump’s NYC rally
Daily Mail. Snork, snork!
First time I’ve watched Sky in possibly a year. Who’s the woman on the panel at the moment? Her voice could be causing mass suicides.
Caught a little bit of the reportage on the covid inquiry.
Basically it wasn’t allowed to investigate the states/ feds meetings.
In other words the fix was well and truly in.
Lots of tooth sucking about loss of trust.
And the 2019 pandemic plan got a mention as completely ignored as the various states stampeded for headlines not health outcomes.
And a sop tossed to Chalmers blaming all inflation on the covid helicopter money and ” supply chain issues”
@theblaze
JD Vance: “Kamala Harris and her team decided to compare us to Nazis for gathering in Madison Square Garden and celebrating the United States of America. These people have no plans, no ideas, and no solutions. All they have is hatred of their fellow citizens.”
Disinformation: The Dark Sword of Tyranny
@MikeBenzCyber
Victoria Nuland is now at the CIA’s #1 cut-out, the organization I keep warning you about, the prime mover in the censorship industry: the National Endowment for Democracy.
It seems Luigi has been an habitual grifter over a long period of time.
I got to thinking about how this sits with his alleged working class roots.
Almost without exception, any working class people I know who have done well in life take great pride in paying their own way.
Luigi isn’t working class in that sense.
He comes from a long line of welfare dependents with an over-inflated sense of entitlement.
Unpopular opinion:
There’s no such thing as Working Class, it was invented by the Marxist Lizard People as a legislation lubricating meme.
There’s really only two different “class” societies in the human sphere- one of striated ownership and opportunity (basically all slave-trade Africa, French Aristocracy, Raj India, First Nationses, the EU), a dynamic and therefore class-lass entrepreneurial economy (the UK, USA, modern Japan).
The challenge in the Enlightenment West is constantly fighting off the Trots and Karens who would impose their own class strictures upon us, with the loss of property, arms and common law justice that would have to neccesarily make way for their reign.
Bungonia Bee October 29, 2024 8:27 am
Reply to Miltonf
Industrial manslaughter, shirley!
One of the Melbourne Cup favourites, Jan Brueghel, was scratched from the race today by Racing Victoria veterinarians. He’s an unbeaten colt from the famed Aidan O’Brien stable in Ireland. Long way to come for that to happen. They said scans indicated he was in imminent danger of injury. Stable said he was jumping out of his skin and good to go. Interesting.
In light of that, and with Via Sistina now unlikely to compete, I reckon the Pommy horse Onesmoothoperater is the go. He’s not much more than a “bread and butter” horse back there, but the way he shat the Geelong Cup in, and the turn of foot he displayed there; WOW! That’s where my coin will be.
If that Chalmers poof thinks he’s gonna take over; two options for him:
a) Disappear into obscurity.
b) Fall out of a helicopter.
John Spooner.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Bob Gorrell.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Teri Garr has died.
A few days ago, someone linked to a music clip which featured Miss Garr.
I always liked her.
“Axel Rudakubana, 18, will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Wednesday charged with producing the biological toxin ricin and having a document titled “Military studies in the Jihad against the Tyrants – the al-Qaida training manual”.”
A convert to islam committing jihad against little girls.
The rioters were right.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/29/southport-suspect-charged-with-terror-offence-and-producing-ricin
Will the Irish go ape?
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1851282654781399536?t=_VS259Teivmb4B7rvKsXmg&s=19
Dunny Brush:
It’s the definition of corruption, Dunny Brush. Not related to a government type at all. Just plain old corruption derived from an overweening sense of entitlement and arrogance.
“Axel Rudakubana, 18, will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Wednesday charged with producing the biological toxin ricin and having a document titled “Military studies in the Jihad against the Tyrants – the al-Qaida training manual”.”
A convert to islam committing jihad against little girls.
The rioters were right.
Yes they were right, and they were right to riot.
Oh and remember how we were also told the suspect was Welsh?
Meanwhile Tommy Robinson now languishes in prison, unlikely to survive.
Via Blazing Catfur, apparently is or has been charged with Terrorism:
https://order-order.com/2024/10/29/southport-killer-downloaded-al-quaeda-manual/
One of the fathers apparently and rightfully not happy.
lovely lady – great in Tootsie
Not to mention the Same Sex Marriage putsch
Teri Garr hamming it up in (arguably) the funniest move ever made.
On the Southport killer and the ensuing cover up…the people knew. The “rioters” rioted because they sensed that coverup was happening right under their noses.
I can’t help but think of that 61 year old who was imprisoned for two years on trumped up charges…who then topped himself in prison.
There has been a bit of spirited defence of The Australian here recently. I stopped subscribing years ago, and while I agree there are some good people writing for it, I won’t be subscribing to any masthead or website that uses the work of Samuel Clench, whose TDS knows no bounds.
The WAPO has also been losing subscribers following the owner’s decision not to endorse “a candidate” this time around. That of course means not endorsing Kamala, since there would have been no chance of endorsing any Republican, and particularly not Trump.
This looks a lot like an insurance policy being bought by Bezos, at the cost of losing some 200,000 subscribers if reports are correct.
Being one of the world’s richest men and funding the WAPO himself, he can probably do that without any subscribers. But the take away from this is that both Zuckerberg and Bezos think Trump might win.
I stumbled into ABC Radio National briefly last night and was only a bit surprised to hear a concerted push for more action on Da Voice. They are not going to let a mere 60-40 loss at a referendum put them off.
The ABC has outlasted its useful time as a national broadcaster and should be defunded.
On the Southport killer and the ensuing cover up…the people knew.
That they did.
I think I even recall our own Nazi insisting the ‘suspect’ was Welsh and that he was not a Muslim.
LOL, except nothing about what happened is funny, three little girls are dead, many more injured, their lives permanently destroyed.
@DC_Draino
Samuel Clench doesn’t write for The Australian, I’ve never seen The Oz use his stuff. Clench writes for news.com.au which is trash.
sudden outbreaks of bad cattitudes?
‘Nazi Rally’ Fail: Hasidic Jews Endorse Trump After MSG Event; Harris a ‘Threat to the Jewish People’
ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Democrat Thugs Reportedly Caught Posing as Election Officials in Pennsylvania While Officials ‘Shove Voters Out of Line’
Negotiations for Harris to appear fell through when he refused their conditions. J.D. Vance may be next.
Joe Rogan posts entire Trump interview on X amid claims YouTube is ‘censoring’ it
This five minute video shows where canola oil, vegetable shortening, and cattle feed come from. No wonder our spending on health care is so high.
Steve Bannon had just been released from prison after serving a sentence for refusing to testify against Trump related to the 6th Jan. They released him during the night to prevent press attention. During his imprisonment he ran civic studies for inmates.
Bannon is a force of nature.
They reckon they can’t establish motive DESPITE HAVING AN AL QAEDA TRAINING MANUAL. The chief constable will go down in history as the dumbest of bints. I’d be covering my mirror in black insulation tape.
Teri Garr hamming it up in (arguably) the funniest move ever made.
I loved Garr, I adored her in Tootsie. My other favourite actress of the time was Karen Allen (who appeared in the first Raiders movie).
Both Garr and Allen were naturally attractive, sexy, spunky and very funny. They represented the best of ‘women’…..nothing ‘botoxed’ or contrived about them.
My personal favourite for the gong ‘the funniest movie ever made’ is Some Like It Hot.
George W. Bush’s daughter is door knocking for Harris.
@catturd2
You get the neocon war pig family – we get Elon Musk and RFK jr.
We’re good with that
@bennyjohnson
TRUMP: “Today, we are going to talk about the REAL character of Kamala Harris—a person who has no remorse for the anguish she has inflicted on families across America…”
You know, I’ve been looking at several pictures of the Trot from Grayndler and the ugly Irish leprechaun and it’s clear that they were in a romance of sorts with each other. You can see the love between them. It’s quite distasteful.
“Imperfections in Barcodes” – Ballot Printing Error in Nevada County, California Causes Scanning Issues with 77,000 Mail-In BallotsALERT: A ballot printing error in Nevada County, CA, has caused scanning issues with 77,000 ballots, preventing the ballot counting machines from reading them properly. pic.twitter.com/aYqzVWdtGn
Yes and no. It’s ordinary corruption, but of course formalised favouritism is a cornerstone of fascism as it is a more practical version of controlling the means of corruption.
After all, fascism is still socialism and fascism as a pragmatic version of communism demonstrates that they are two sides of the same coin.
But of course in this instance it’s bog ordinary corruption by bog ordinary Albo.
Democrat Thugs Reportedly Caught Posing as Election Officials in Pennsylvania While Officials ‘Shove Voters Out of Line’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/election-interference-democrat-thugs-caught-posing-as-election/
While sharing video footage of voters showing up in droves to cast ballots in Bucks County, he revealed that election workers are removing voters from the lines and demanding they return the next day.
“There’s been lines like this for days across counties in PA,” Blair noted. “Only for elections officials to come out and push people out of line and tell them to come back.”
The Covid inquiry in Oz just released is being applauded by the press but is actually a cloak for protecting the medical bureaucracy. It actually claims that the Morrison government was culpable in being too slow to acquire the vaccines costing many lives! It proposes the institution of a CDC, a Disease Control department modelled on the infamous CDC in the US which perpetrated the adoption of the Big Pharma vaccines.
It’s political involvement is also apparent in its slating of the Morrison government’s lockdowns and other pronouncements. Now while I agree with this criticism, a similar criticism is not directed at the involvement of the Labor governments.
What was required was a Royal Commision which was proposed by the LNP. But this would have directed attention to the important conclusions regarding the horrific advice of the medical bureaucracy during Covid. It also might have exposed the government to legal redress.
Apple and Google CEOs reaching out to Trump. The writing is on the wall.
I am entitled and the rules don’t apply to me Sound familiar These beliefs indicate Narcissism . Up to pussy’s bow a sybarite narcissist Would you believe must have been the housing commission upbringing
The Frankfurt School: Politics of Perversion
Summary: The video discusses the critique of the Frankfurt School’s theories, particularly those of Theodore Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, in relation to contemporary “woke” culture. The speaker argues that the Frankfurt School’s ideas about art, beauty, and societal structures promote a negative mindset that rejects traditional aesthetics in favor of criticism and deconstruction. This mindset, as illustrated by the theories of Adorno and Marcuse, sees beauty and societal harmony as oppressive and coercive. Adorno’s aesthetic theory views positive art as a perpetuation of oppression, while Marcuse’s theories suggest that sexual and gender norms should be dismantled for societal liberation. The speaker posits that such ideologies have ultimately led to a society that is suspicious of beauty and morality, contributing to a form of radical individualism that could facilitate a new type of tyranny. ### Key Points: 1. **Frankfurt School Overview**: – Roots in 1920s, developed critiques post-WWII. – Synthesis of Freud and Marx; termed psychoanalytical neocommunism. 2. **Theodor Adorno**: – Social theory aims to reveal contradictions in totality. – Negative Dialectics: traditional philosophy seen as a cover for oppression. – Art perpetuates oppression by presenting distorted truths. 3. **Impact of Aesthetic Theory**: – Positive art and beauty viewed as threats to those outside their definitions. – Claim that beautiful things must be deconstructed to reveal oppression. 4. **Cultural Critique**: – Modern criticism of beauty leads to skepticism and a rejection of traditional morality. – Woke activism accused of making beautiful things appear ugly and oppressive. 5. **Shift of Political Focus**: – Political left has evolved from worker’s rights to identity politics. – Modern radicalism inversely targets traditional beauty and morality as oppressive. 6. **Herbert Marcuse**: – Advocated for the embrace of sexuality and eroticism as liberating forces against repression. – Argues for a non-repressive civilization where sexual energy fuels societal progress. 7. **Erotic and Environmental Ideals**: – Environmentalism framed as a pathway to psychological liberation, derived from Freudian concepts. – Repression leads to societal taboos; Marcuse’s vision opposes traditional distinctions and hierarchies. 8. **Critique of Contemporary Activism**: – Examples such as the vandalism of art by environmentalists align with a rejection of traditional culture. – Rejection of representational art as oppressive and a call for revolutionary art. 9. **Individualism vs. Collectivism**: – Radical individualism promoted by Marcuse may lead to societal control and tyranny. – Dismantling natural authorities and identities could lead to increased dependence on state systems. 10. **Conclusion**: – The rejection of traditional beauty and morality can result in a new form of oppression. – The promises of liberation may mask the encroachment of tyrannical authority in modern political structures.
Starmer is MORE EXTREME than Corbyn. The Right Don’t Understand the Battle They Are Losing
Summary: In this video titled “Starmer is MORE EXTREME than Corbyn,” Peter Whittle interviews Peter Hitchens to discuss the current state of the Labour government under Keir Starmer, comparing it to previous administrations, particularly Tony Blair’s. Hitchens argues that the Labour Party has shifted ideologically under Starmer, describing various government members, especially the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, as dogmatic and effective in implementing a left-leaning agenda. He critiques the Conservative Party as ineffective and lacking ideological consistency, noting their failure to oppose the radical changes brought about by Labour. The conversation spans topics such as the Conservative Party’s current leadership elections, the historical context of political shifts in Britain, and the ongoing issues surrounding law enforcement, immigration, and societal change. ### Key Points by Section: #### 1. **Introduction and Overview of Government:** – Peter Hitchens assesses the current government, noting a perceived lack of competence among its members. – Highlights the effectiveness of Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in implementing her agenda. – Emphasizes the ideological motivation driving Labour’s actions; a significant dogmatic shift seen under Starmer. #### 2. **Comparisons to Blair’s Government:** – Draws parallels with Blair’s government, stating that while they appeared incompetent, they executed a clear ideological agenda. – Discusses the media’s inability to hold Labour accountable during Blair’s tenure. #### 3. **On Tyranny and Opposition:** – Hitchens refutes claims of tyranny under Starmer, arguing that British political structures prevent such extreme measures. – Advocates that criticisms of Labour’s grasp on power should be based on their actual actions rather than emotional rhetoric. #### 4. **Constitutional Changes and Reforms:** – Discusses the repercussions of constitutional changes initiated during the Blair era, particularly the Equality Act of 2010. – Hitchens argues for a repeal of many of these legislative changes but suggests the political landscape makes this unlikely. #### 5. **Critique of Conservative Leadership:** – Expresses skepticism towards the Conservative Party leadership candidates, asserting neither represents true right-wing values. – Critiques the party for its borrowing of ideas from American conservatism which do not translate well into the British context. #### 6. **Reflections on Political Ideology:** – Hitchens believes there’s a fundamental misunderstanding among conservatives regarding the depth of socialism’s reach in the government. – Contends that there is no unified ideological front in the Conservative Party capable of crafting profound policy changes. #### 7. **Social Issues and Governance:** – Addresses issues of policing, particularly the rise of armed police in response to changing crime patterns post-death penalty abolition. – Critiques political leaders for avoiding real responsibility regarding law enforcement and criminal justice policies. #### 8. **Immigration Discussion:** – Discusses immigration’s impact on British society, advocating for a pause to allow better integration. – Expresses concern over political parties’ inability to address immigration effectively, and critiques systemic failure in understanding voter discontent regarding the issue. #### 9. **Concluding Thoughts on Hope and Policy:** – Hitchens conveys a sense of hopelessness regarding traditional politics and the lack of meaningful discourse on the issues. – Emphasizes a personal shift in focus towards spiritual and eternal matters over political ones. These sections encapsulate the ideological conflicts and critiques present in the contemporary British political landscape, as discussed by both interviewees.
Sam Clench doesn’t/hasn’t written for The Australian?
They seem to think he has.
Sam Clench | The Australian
Chris Mitchell is one of the best, and he was excellent on Sharri last night.
Black Belt Barrister goes back to the beginning.
Perry Williams used to write climate alarmist and renewable-boosting articles week after week when I did subscribe to The Australian. I don’t know if he still does or if they have someone else doing it, but it was unforgiveable as far as I was concerned. I see some here are still encountering the comments disappointments that were a daily annoyance back then as well.
The publishers of USA Today and two hundred other publications have announced they will not endorse anyone, meaning they will not endorse Kamala.
This has nothing to do with the new era fair reporting and everything to do with not being associated with a loser. That all these publications are jumping ship means that polls are nowhere near as close as they are still publishing. Basically, look not at what they say or print, look at what they are doing.
Britain’s reversion to feudalism proves leftism is a top down elitist project.
Luvly couple …!
The Daily Chart: Coal for the Win
As demand for power goes up faster than renewables can supply, the world is turning to a time-tested source to produce it: coal. . . One barely hears about this in glossy descriptions of the energy transition. . .
Here’s monty’s lot covering themselves in glory. Well maybe not glory, more like horseshit.
Judith Sloan, God bless her, has written a stunningly insightful indictment of the Report on the Covid response just released by the government. She covers just about every appalling aspect of this report. Will put it on the Cat later if no one else does. Farm chores beckon.
Cheesehead uses the open invitation.
And good on Brett Lethbridge for going there. Not much of a cartoon… but i think we pattern-recognitioners need to boot this “inquiry” into the same skip bin as Bringing Them Home and the Pink Batts- ie an incurious and heavily perfumed insulation job.
They seem to think he has.
Sam Clench | The Australian
I can’t say I ever noticed or read his stuff in The Oz, not once, and I note in the link you provide he hasn’t penned a piece for The Oz for years. Clench does write for news.com.au (which I don’t read but which you don’t need to pay for), it’s also part of the News Corp stable, just like Sky News Oz is (which I note you do watch and clearly subscribe to). By the way, Sky News Oz also gives a platform to more than a few who suffer from TDS, will you stop watching it?
News Corp is a broad church, it has columnists/presenters who suffer from TDS, it has columnists/presenters who are milquetoast about Trump and it has columnists/presenters who like or love Trump.
Trump should get them to endorse him, reaching out is not good enough after what they have done and are still doing. Then, should he win, he should have them broken up into their constituent parts to reduce their power like it was done to the earlier robber barons. And they are robber barons, swallowing all smaller businesses around them to prevent competition and achieve monopoly.
https://x.com/i/status/1850172257412293083
I think it’s time we closed the universities for a year and sorted the girls out.
They have gone collectively mad.
Like what you’d do for any cult dominated organisation. We have to rescue them, deprogram them, and gaol the lecturers.
The High Court shirked its responsibility to uphold section 92 in Cilve Palmer’s challenge by giving the task of ‘fact finding to a single Federal Court judge. His findings made it easy for the High Court judges to dismiss Palmer’s suit. A win would have stopped the cruel prohibitions on cross border travel.
Is Post-Vax Euthanasia The NEW Deadly Trend?
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.
Anthony Albanese and Alan Joyce’s relationship goes years back, with the pair consistently photographed well before Mr Albanese’s ascent to Prime Minister.
The association has lasted through Mr Albanese’s roles as Transport Minister under the former Labor government, as Opposition leader and then as Prime Minister.
More than a decade ago, in 2013, then-Transport Minister Mr Albanese posed with the then-Qantas chief executive at the launch of a Qantas and Emirates partnership.
Two years later, the pair were photographed sitting together and chatting at the National Press Club in Canberra.
Mr Joyce and Mr Albanese also posed together alongside West Australian Premier Mark McGowan in 2018 at the launch of Qantas’s direct flights between Perth and London.
The year after, in 2019, Mr Albanese and then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison posed with Mr Joyce at the Qantas Centenary launch.
More recently, in 2023, Mr Albanese and his partner Jodie Haydon posed with Mr Joyce at the airline’s 100th Gala Diner in March, before the Prime Minister joined Mr Joyce again for a press conference in June.
Two months later, in August, Mr Albanese and Mr Joyce announced Qantas was displaying Yes23 livery on its planes in support of the government’s pursuit of the Voice referendum.
Scrutiny over the pair’s relationship also surfaced when the Albanese government rejected an expansion bid from Qatar Airways.
The Coalition used Mr Albanese’s long-running association with Mr Joyce to claim it was a “sweetheart deal” to help Qantas.
In a resurfaced tweet from 2018, Mr Albanese tagged the airline saying “I will speak to @Qantas” when a punter asked him to stop in Tennant Creek on his way to Darwin.
Redbridge pollster Kos Samaras said Mr Albanese was taking an electoral risk by associating with the Qantas brand.
“Qantas as a brand has been on the downward trajectory for several years,” he said.
“Alan Joyce turned what was quite a successful brand into one that was quite toxic by the end of his tenure.”
Mr Samaras said allegations that Mr Albanese solicited flight upgrades from Mr Joyce directly could be damaging to his relatable brand ahead of an election.
“He is being so closely associated with access to privilege which the average Australia is completely removed from,” he said.
“The lived experience of the vast majority of Australians is very different to that.
“Albanese has now attached himself to this brand.”
Daily Tele
Press commentary on the Covid-19 Inquiry Report is heavily conditioned by the fact that the report itself is massive, poorly summarised, and extraordinarily densely written.
Obviously I haven’t read the whole thing either, but the chapter synopsis gives a fairly clear overview of what the inquiry found.
The initial government responses in 2020, under the auspices of Morrison’s National Cabinet, were apparently characterised by “decisive leadership, agile implementation and public trust that government and fellow citizens would do the right thing.”
Then the wheels fell off.
State governments and public health officers started free-forming and making shit up, based on local political drivers and no central scientific “point of trust”.
This was immediately picked up by the citizens – who, unsurprisingly, despite being scientifically ignorant clods, can immediately spot government overreach and the arrival of the Fcukup Fairies.
In short, a combined failure of political and public health leadership.
The end point is Australia has come through the pandemic badly weakened and unprepared for the next one. Public trust in the good and great has been violated.
So, money must flow.
[None of which will come as the least surprise to anyone who followed the discussions on Sinclair’s Cat.]
You know, I’ve been looking at several pictures of the Trot from Grayndler and the ugly Irish leprechaun and it’s clear that they were in a romance of sorts with each other. You can see the love between them. It’s quite distasteful.
Which one is the pitcher and which the catcher?
NY Times, far-left Media Matters ‘strong-arming YouTube’ to silence conservatives, Ben Shapiro says
Min do you know of any psychological studies done on the attempts by unwed mothers to assuage their guilt by utterly spoiling the offspring of their guilt to the point of the offspring becoming Up to pussy’s bow a sybarite narcissist ? asking for a friend
Back a while, using Cameron Stewart as their USA correspondent was another fatal flaw in The Australian’s lineup.
Kwinana Council approves ‘racist’ street name at new Florence Estate that carries jail time in South AfricaRachel FennerSound Telegraph
Wed, 30 October 2024 2:00AM
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A racist street name has been approved for use in Kwinana. Credit: Supplied
A southern suburbs council voted against using one innocuous street name while approving another that could send you to prison overseas at its latest meeting.
On Tuesday, October 23, nine new street names were listed for approval by Kwinana council to be used at a new estate in Mandogalup.
One name listed was Kaffir Way, a word that has a deeply offensive history in South Africa.
The word kaffir is considered one of the most offensive terms that can be used in South African English.
In 2018, a South African real estate agent was jailed for using the term while abusing a black police officer.
Alternative names listed included Phlox, Agapanthus, Liatris and Pansy.
Conflict strategist and mediator Sarah Blake said the community deserves better.
“Street names often have a lasting impact on our community; not only are they a place, they set a tone and often become a deep part of our childhood stories,” she said.
Comments should be interesting.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/weak-manager-incapable-of-fixing-abc-bias-rewarded-with-600k-a-year.html
SHUT IT DOWN!
FIRE THEM ALL!
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
Daily Mail
One name listed was Kaffir Way, a word that has a deeply offensive history in South Africa.
Basic flight training Tamworth a while back. Former South African Air Force Instructor and Australian cadet.
“Cadet, why do we do wingovers?”
“To clear the area for traffic and change direction quickly”
“Very good, cadet, but the real reason we do wingovers is to better see where the Kaffirs are before we bomb them.”
One name listed was Kaffir Way, a word that has a deeply offensive history in South Africa.
It also gets bandied about in this part of the world, given the charming habit of certain of the local indigenous of spitting in your general direction, and using the term “white count.”
Why would any one consider kaffir as a street name?
It’s a perjorative that is a lot older that south Africa, it’s an Arabic word used for non Muslims, effectively non believer, that Muslim police woman that recently got sacked in the UK used it.
She wouldn’t use a coffee cup that had touched kaffir lips iirc.
It is used with the intention to offend.
And yes the muslims coined the name ‘ kaffir lime’.
Just what we all needed – another reminder of the bat flu insanity, when humanity was subsumed by a preposterous global mass hysteria unprecedented in the last 75 years.
Any report that didn’t have as its keynote recommendation the long overdue implementation of HOP Time™ for various evil stupid mongrel bastards isn’t worth a pinch of sh*t.
Just look at these inexcusable fascist f*ckwits. Never forget, never forgive.
“IDF controlled territory on the in Lebanon after 4 weeks. Most of the first line of villages along the border have been occupied, with 20 years of Hezbollah fortifications and stockpiles captured and “explosively demilitarised.” The IDF has lost 41 men, Hezbollah has lost over 1,500—though as the empty bunkers full of go-bags and valuable weapons testify, most of their fighters melted away, and reports of 1,000s fleeing to Syria with their families are credible.”
And never come back.
https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1851235724600787363?t=gJN-uyHwhbmdV7DTGQya8A&s=19
Minister for
HealthProtecting ex-Labor Premiers Mark Butler blames UK data, paper record systems and facsimile machines for poor decisions taken at state level during covid.And they wonder why trust in public officials has plummetted.
Awesome if true.
https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1851245720835182873?t=8sxWuwBRhGQ5BpiLQ_q7fg&s=19
Yes hamas is unwra is hamas
https://x.com/LTCPeterLerner/status/1851257479318913033?t=QFn4DqXh6-gSWOWEIXybEg&s=19
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.
Which reminds me, where is Brett Sutton these days?
Their ABC’s Annabelle Crabb pops up to run defence for Handsome Boy’s enjoyment of the extended delights of Club Leprechaun – and to point out the hypocrisy of his Parliamentary critics. Old news, rehashed by apparatchiks and people who do the exact same thing, but worse. Apparently.
On the way through she takes a shot at Fat Bastard:
Oddly, Mz Crabb doesn’t seem to recognise this as evidence that membership of the Chairman’s Lounge is strictly conditional on being – and performing as – a QANTAS Maaate.