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Can’t post the video this picture is from, but you should see it, it’s delightful how people react and the…
Not at every suggestion. We had an earlier conversation that they could integrate NK troops in their own formations and…
All imports to Australia are taxed GST. Tariff = a tax on imports. Ergo, GST is a tariff.
Woodstock, don’t tell me this is fake too and it wasn’t as much fun as claimed? I missed it all.
Good morning all.
Hi. Segundo.
Not a huge, or any commercial success actually, but great engineering, aircraft building.
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The Dornier Do X, introduced in 1929, was a remarkable engineering achievement and the largest flying boat of its time. With a wingspan of 157 feet (48 meters) and a length of 130 feet (40 meters), it was a massive aircraft that stood out in the aviation landscape.
Designed by the German aircraft manufacturer Dornier Flugzeugwerke, the Do X was conceived to serve long-distance passenger routes, epitomizing the luxurious travel experience of the late 1920s. Its innovative design featured a distinctive high-wing configuration and a hull designed for optimal performance over water, allowing it to take off and land on lakes and seas.
Powering the Do X were twelve engines, a combination of six dual-row radial engines mounted on each wing, providing it with significant thrust. This impressive power allowed the aircraft to carry up to 169 passengers, making it a pioneer in commercial aviation.
The spacious interior was designed with luxury in mind, featuring sleeping cabins, lounges, and dining areas, which attracted wealthy passengers seeking a unique travel experience. The Do X represented the pinnacle of luxury air travel, showcasing the ambitious vision of its creators and the potential of commercial aviation.
Despite its groundbreaking design, the Do X faced numerous challenges. The operational costs were high, and its limited commercial viability was compounded by the onset of the Great Depression, which severely affected the airline industry.
Although it undertook several promotional flights and set records for flying distance and passenger capacity, the Do X never achieved sustained commercial success. Nevertheless, it remains a symbol of aviation innovation and ambition, highlighting the dreams of early aviators who sought to connect the world through the skies.
There is a lot to see in Australia, pity that sometimes it costs double that of an overseas trip.
Here are a couple of pics.
#1
Agree re the cost. Some friends have a big wedding anniversary coming up and did some research. Two weeks glamping in the Kimberley would cost more than a six-week stay in the south of France.
#2
Captivating, an astonishing sight that defies expectation: a magnificent rock formation known as Wave Rock, nestled in the wild heart of Western Australia, close to Hyden.
Rising dramatically to about 15 meters (49 feet) in height and stretching an impressive 110 meters (360 feet) in length, this natural wonder resembles a colossal wave, forever suspended in time.
Crafted over countless millennia through the relentless forces of erosion and the gentle touch of rainwater, the rock’s stunning stripes of color tell a tale of nature’s artistry.
With roots that delve back an incredible 2.7 billion years, Wave Rock is not just a geological spectacle; it is also a site of deep cultural significance for the local Aboriginal communities, drawing the admiration of tourists eager to witness its beauty.
Reputed by some to be the site of the first aboriginal surf club. Pascoe describes the astonishing growth of the movement and how skills were exported to ancient centers of surfing excellence such as the then aboriginal resort of Bali.
It was carved by Aborigines who invented surfing.
Remember this?
Luckily either I’m not old enough or we was posh. LOL
From the feed;
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“Yes on a Friday out came the tin bath
I do remember, we were a family of four children, we all went in the youngest first, I was the oldest and probably came out dirtier than when I went in. Happy days.”
Not only the bath but gas lighting indoors .. remember dad standing on a chair to light the gas mantles …….. mid 1950s, pit village, County Durham …
Memories!
Love your work KevinM
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
This is fantastic. We need to hope that the momentum of exposing polly crooks is maintained.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
Kettle has boiled.
Time for a cup of tea.
Bolta in today’s Tele:
FARUQI WIN IS A DEFEAT FOR FREEDOM OF OPINION
ANDREW BOLT
4 Nov 2024
Pauline Hanson was smashed in the Federal Court last Friday. Her One Nation party now faces bankruptcy, with its legal bills estimated at $900,000.
Many will cheer, but this verdict is deeply troubling.
It seems to me that Hanson has essentially been found guilty of criticising the extreme political beliefs of a woman who, by chance, is brown and Muslim.
Two years ago Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi responded to the death of the Queen with a brutal tweet: “Condolences to those who knew the Queen. I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.”
That tweet predictably caused much anger.
But Faruqi blamed the backlash on what Hanson tweeted in response: “Your attitude appalls (sic) and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country.
“You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and (got) a job in a parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan.”
Note that nowhere there did Hanson say Faruqi was a Muslim or “woman of colour”.
Yes, she’d mentioned Pakistan, but told the court she’d have told Faruqi to “piss off back to New Zealand” had she been a Kiwi instead.
I believe her. I’m sure Hanson would have said the same to an immigrant from any other country who’d similarly attacked our head of state, our past, our culture and our system of government.
After all, Faruqi, in her first speech as a senator, also declared that we lived “on stolen land” that “always will be Aboriginal land”, claimed “bigotry and xenophobia have been allowed to flourish”, and said our “culture of online harassment” targeted “everyone who is not a straight white man”.
I’d guess many Australians would also then wonder why Faruqi chose in 1992 to come to this racist, stolen, women-hating land with its thieving head of state?
You’d ask that even if she were white, Christian and male, because the incongruity is so striking.
Couldn’t Faruqi at least make more speeches saying this “racist” country must actually be great if a brown Muslim woman could now own four properties and be in parliament?
Yet Justice Angus Stewart decided Hanson’s response to Faruqi was racist and unlawful under the Racial Discrimination Act, ordering her to take it down and pay Faruqi’s legal costs.
He conceded “it is true the words in Senator Hanson’s tweet did not refer to skin colour”, but added: “The tweet was directed to a Muslim woman of colour who immigrated from Pakistan.”
Duh! Yes, of course it was, because that happened to be the author of that nasty anti-Queen post.
What’s the judge suggesting? Hanson’s response would have been OK had she been criticising a white Christian instead?
Maybe so.
Faruqi once told Prime Minister Scott Morrison to “just f… off”, but the judge noted she defended that as “not racist”.
Anyway, once the judge decided Hanson had offended a brown Muslim woman with her “age-old racist trope”, all that was left was to prove racism had indeed been Hanson’s secret agenda. Mind readers, some judges.
This involved putting Hanson on trial, in effect, for everything she’d ever said about Muslims. Hanson’s past caught up with her. The judge pointed out Hanson had once said she wouldn’t sell her house to a Muslim, that no Muslim should be allowed to immigrate here, and “Islam is a disease we need to vaccinate ourselves against”.
Nasty stuff. But to repeat: this particular Hanson tweet hadn’t mentioned Islam at all.
It got worse. The judge gave other examples of Hanson’s “Islamophobic claims”, including saying Islam was “not compatible with our way of life”. Is that now an opinion that cannot be safely debated?
The judge also attacked Hanson for making “negative, derogatory, discriminating or hateful statements” in criticising multiculturalism and attacking the “white guilt industry”.
Those don’t seem “hateful” statements to me.
Even former prime ministers agree with them.
So what next? It’s a perilously small step from suggesting an immigrant not stay here to saying others not come at all.
Will opposition leader Peter Dutton now be dragged before the Federal Court to be told that when he said it was too dangerous to bring in Palestinians from terrorist Gaza he was actually being racist to brown Muslims?
I’m told Hanson is shattered by this verdict and her party cannot afford to appeal it unless donors bail it out.
I hope some will, because Hanson’s tweet was crude and rude, but banning it is far more dangerous.
Another on appearances of this, woeful judgement by the Federal Court.
Judge seems to have tied himself in knots to find for Farouqi, will have a look at the judgement later & reasons if up but is this another case of personal bias dressed up in judicial robes?
Rockdoctor, I know that Pauline is not everyone’s cup of tea, but if she puts up a ‘go fundme turnout’ I will chip in for her.
That ‘judgment’ and the reasons for are a fckn disgrace.
What Rockdoctor said.
The activist Federal Court is out of control — too many judges who didn’t have the guts to run for political office are now using the bench to settle ideological scores.
So, it’s now illegal to tell someone to piss off back home?
No, just expensive .. !
This is worse than the pile on Stephanie Rice when she stuck up for the Aussie Rugby team.
Women who are patriotic are shamed – denegrated.
Good on Pauline what she said, another pile on to her and we should chip in.
THe juicairy are effin idiotic , law has decended into the slums of teaching and jounalism. Its does not take much to get in and there is not structure like mathemathical jobs.
These people are clowns – they do not know what they are saying.
Unbeleive when you look at what Farqui has assased. Just shows you how stupid and full of shit they all are – Wong , Albo, Garrett, etc
OOT…
18 months ago because there is no money in the Defence budget to pay for it.
How much did those half full charted QF flights from Cyprus cost?
Also all the material support to the terrorist enablers UNWRA.
I won’t even start to the largesse thrown at Ukraine if we have cancel programs like this that would be a start on our problematic over-reliance on allies capabilities.
Looking at Defence decisions over the last 20 or 30 years and applying Occam’s razor, the explanation I arrive at is often
“treason”.
Nick Cater in today’s Paywallion on the debacle at Broken Hill :
Broken Hill’s power outage can’t just be swept aside
Nick Cater
4 Nov 2024
Broken Hill’s two-week experiment in fossil-fuel-free living ended at 8.41pm local time last Thursday when its connection to the east coast grid finally was restored. Transgrid issued a press release thanking the community for its patience and announced that the emergency diesel generators it had trucked in would remain in place.
Three years ago, Transgrid boasted that the outback town could run on a renewable energy microgrid if the line to the outside world went down. It was so confident that it sought permission from the Australian Energy Regulator to decommission the two diesel generators installed in the early 1980s. The AER said no, a decision criticised as “really silly and perverse” by Chris Bowen, who held it up as an example of the antiquated energy market thinking he intended to fix.
“A little while ago Transgrid wanted and suggested that to help Broken Hill, they would put in a microgrid of renewable energy,” the Climate Change and Energy Minister told David Speers on the ABC’s Insiders in August 2022. “It was much more reliable, with much lower emissions, and they were told at that point, ‘No, you’ve got to keep your old diesel generators running.’
“It wasn’t the regulator’s fault … they haven’t been legally able to take into account emissions reduction, and it’s been ridiculous, and we’ve fixed it.”
Bowen has yet to comment on the fortnight of rolling blackouts across the NSW far west that began when seven transmission towers collapsed on the 260km high-voltage line to Buronga.
He was not there to witness the indignity of AGL’s new mega battery being recharged by diesel generators or watch the Silverton wind turbines sit idle because they weren’t connected to the grid. He didn’t see Broken Hill residents hunting for the off switch on their rooftop solar arrays because their fluctuating output tripped the diesel generators.
To describe the Silver City’s experience as a setback for Bowen’s dream of turning Australia into a nuclear-free clean energy superpower would be an understatement. Broken Hill was the renewable energy industry’s Potemkin village, the recipient of $650m of green investment and the proposed location for the world’s biggest advanced compressed-air energy storage plant.
In 2018, Broken Hill City Council announced its goal to become Australia’s first carbon-free city by 2030. Three years ago the mayor at the time, Darriea Turley, welcomed the announcement that AGL was proceeding with plans to build a grid-scale battery, which the company claimed would be a reliable backup power source for 10,000 homes.
“This is a great opportunity for Broken Hill and renewable energies,” Turley told the ABC. “What they will see is when there is an outage, the battery would click into operation.”
AGL had badly misled Turley and her fellow councillors. When the storm hit at about midnight local time on Wednesday, October 16, the battery clicked offline, not on. The town sat in darkness for several hours until the single operating backup diesel generator could be turned on.
AGL was not prepared to keep a $41m battery fully charged, primed for that just-in-case moment. The battery was dispatching power into the national electricity market from early evening on the day of the storm.
The battery was offline for more than eight days while it was reprogrammed to feed into the local grid and recharged with rooftop solar and diesel. Silverton and the Broken Hill solar plant did not resume operation until the region was reconnected to the grid last Thursday. Turley’s successor as mayor, Tom Kennedy, was pictured wielding a shovel at the soil-turning photo-op for the battery in November 2022. He told the ABC the battery closely aligned with the council’s desire to see the Silver City at the forefront of renewable energy and energy storage.
Last week he told Chris Kenny on Sky News, “There’s no way that renewables at this time are capable of supplying Broken Hill … The reality is it’s not consistent power. You don’t have that baseload power, so for Broken Hill it’s almost useless.”
The principle lesson from Broken Hill is that a stable, consistent baseload supply produced by rotating turbines is essential for stabilising the grid’s frequency and underwriting fluctuating demand. Converting DC power from wind and solar to synchronised AC current becomes harder the more renewable energy is put into the system.
Yet at the time of writing, AGL was still boasting on its website that its Broken Hill Battery Energy Storage System facility with advanced grid-forming inverters “will support the reliable supply of electricity to Broken Hill in the event of line failure and provide efficient grid support for the region”.
Elsewhere it was claiming that its part-owned subsidiary was harnessing enough energy at the Silverton Wind Farm to power about 98,000 average Australian homes, while the Broken Hill Solar Farm would meet the needs of 19,000 more.
Not everyone has been as quick as Kennedy to wise up to the monstrous deception the renewable energy industry practised. Last Monday, Australia Institute research director Rod Campbell appeared before a parliamentary committee on nuclear power to argue for the rapid phasing out of fossil fuels, “which is what climate science demands”. Nuclear power was a distraction, he claimed.
Campbell said he had “spent a lot of time looking at economic modelling” and concluded “the capital costs of nuclear are very high and very uncertain”.
Opposition climate change and energy spokesman Ted O’Brien asked
Campbell what his extensive knowledge of economic modelling had told him about the total system cost of the government’s renewables-only plan.
Campbell: “I don’t know. I haven’t researched that.”
O’Brien: “But aren’t you arguing that including nuclear as part of the mix would be more expensive than that?”
Campbell: “It would be more expensive.”
O’Brien: “You started off explaining that you’ve spent a lot of time doing modelling. So, do you know what the total system cost is for Labor’s plan to get to net zero by 2050?
Campbell: “No, I’ve never modelled that. I’ve done a lot of economic modelling through my career. I haven’t done much of it on the NEM itself and the ISP.”
O’Brien: “How have you drawn that conclusion then?”
Campbell: “Because, as I said at the top, you don’t need to do a lot of modelling to see that capital costs of nuclear energy are really high and really uncertain.”
Tellingly, the Australia Institute posted a video of Campbell’s testimony on YouTube, suggesting they weren’t aware that he’d made a clown of himself. The anti-nuclear left is immune to contrary facts, paying homage to “the science” while disregarding the laws of physics, urging us to abandon fossil fuels by this time tomorrow while never once considering the constraints of engineering.
Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre.
Blackout Bowen living up to its name.
unreliable and overpriced power is a feature not a bug!
how else are you going to achieve equity with the noble savages living in the outback
It’s a real life experiment that shows, like what happened in Darwin years ago, that the system cannot work without Diesel/Nuclear/Coal.
How many more examples do we have to have before this stupidity is cancelled?
Good example of the weakness of isolated and stretched networks. More common in WA. Carter’s criticisms remain valid. WA SWIS experiences issues with feed in solar, even in the more dense parts such as Perth. Most people fail to grasp the importance of time to electricity. Battery “storage” is pure misrepresentation.
On Lidiot Thorpe in the Paywallion:
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst was all about narcissism, not gender
Zoe Booth
4 Nov 2024
The backlash to Lidia Thorpe’s hate-filled tirade against an elderly, cancer-stricken King has attracted all manner of opinion and headlines over the last fortnight.
According to Nikki Gemmell in The Weekend Australian (“When females speak out, they’re punished”, 2-3/11), it’s almost entirely about her gender. But the response to Thorpe’s latest outburst had nothing to do with gender and everything to do with character.
Nikki, it’s time to move beyond the victimhood narrative.
Thorpe is precisely where she is today because she’s a woman – not just a woman, but one who identifies more with her “Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung” heritage than with her white ancestry, a choice her father has publicly criticised.
The truth is, Thorpe’s attention-seeking performances have already drawn public ire – exactly as she intends. She knows these explosive outbursts do little to advance the Indigenous cause or foster support for a treaty; in fact, while they might impress the far left, they only alienate the average person.
So why does she keep doing it?
One answer might be found in a recent interview I did with Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University. In a discussion about colonialism and Australian history, Biggar discussed how many left-wing activists are not driven by the causes they claim, but rather by their own narcissistic motivations. I would know; I was swept up in far-left activism during my last years of high school and at university. I recall the thrill of policing people’s language and ideas, and actually seeing it work as people backed down. There’s no question good people are susceptible to public shaming, which I carried out on a far smaller scale than Thorpe’s attempt to shame the King.
I do not doubt that Lidia wants good things for Aboriginal people and women. But her actions reveal that, like many politicians, her primary goal is advancing her own fame or infamy. For a narcissist, infamy is better than obscurity. As Oscar Wilde wrote through his character, Dorian Gray, the archetypal narcissist: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” With an outburst every month or so, Thorpe is obviously hooked on the feeling.
Adolescence and early adulthood are naturally narcissistic stages of life, as one explores identity and seeks belonging, even validation. It took years of maturity and distance from university echo chambers for me to move beyond that phase. At 51, Lidia is still stuck in it – and it’s no surprise. Building a career on two immutable characteristics she didn’t earn – her race and sex – have proved successful.
Thorpe wouldn’t be this successful if it weren’t for social media. Like Will Connolly, or “Egg Boy”, the then 17-year-old social justice warrior who went viral for assaulting former senator Fraser Anning, or the Just Stop Oil activists who deface works of art, Thorpe knows inflammatory behaviour will go viral. It’s worth noting Connolly still has a huge Instagram following more than five years after his assault on Anning, which garnered him the support of Magda Szubanski and a spot on Australian Story.
It will be the same for Thorpe, who has built a personal brand of being an angry Indigenous woman – perhaps the opposite of fellow Indigenous female politician Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who rejects identity politics. The ubiquity of identity politics and social media enables narcissistic personalities to thrive by simply broadcasting their identity and recording their provocations. But as Biggar puts it, “revolutionaries are very good at pulling stuff down, not so good at building stuff back up again”.
So, while Thorpe hurls abuse at King Charles and calls for the abolition of colonial Australia, she might consider that it was the colonisation of Australia by the British – with all its innumerable faults – that enabled her to achieve such social and financial power. As I’m learning from Robert Hughes’s The Fatal Shore, life for Aboriginal women before British colonisation was far from idyllic.
Zoe Booth is the host of the Quillette Cetera podcast.
Huff & puff all she likes. Lidia will be forgotten as soon as she’s dispatched from Parliament and probably not even worthy of a mention within a generation.
Gemmell is rarely (never?) worth reading. Along with Phatty Adams an automatic page turn.
Rockdoctor, I know that Pauline is not everyone’s cup of tea, but if she puts up a ‘go fundme turnout’ I will chip in for her.
Me too. She should do a Folau.
Me too. I’m just waiting for the fundraiser link.
For someone who repeatedly vilifies her adopted country (and its white inhabitants) Faruqi is a protected species.
She can hand it out but can’t take it.
Dems’ Plan To “DISQUALIFY” Trump Victory In Congress & Install Kamala! (live Rumble Time show)
They will deny an election result? How very fascist of them.
How are they going to do that if they don’t have a majority in either house? Causing mayhem on the streets is what they usually do and never pay for the consequences.
So why does she keep doing it?
Therein lies the rub. Why? Because Thorpe can and Thorpe does. She’s empowered to do so. We live in a society that nurtures and rewards the likes of Thorpe and Fatso Faruqi. Overnight, eminent UK historian David Starkey has put up a video which I am yet to listen to, will probably do so tonight. The title of the youtube video is…
Britain is Governed by Minorities for Minorities
And so is Australia. But we’re not being ‘governed‘ by minorities, we’re being ruled by minorities, a minority elite. The decision against Hanson is one example, as was the decision last month against Latham. The courts are now legal arms of the activist left and they will use their judicial power to silence us ordinary folk. They’re coming for us.
Hanson must appeal. I have no doubt she’s shattered as was Mark Latham last month when he lost his case against the sinister Greenwich. In hindsight (always a wonderful thing), perhaps last year Pauline Hanson, instead of joining in with the howling lynch mobs to condemn Latham, should have stood by her man?
Yes, she should have stood by Latham.
Her chief of staff is gay and I think he advised her to dump Latham.
Agreed, she should have stood by Latham. It pains me to say this, but now she knows how Mark feels.
Trump rally, Virginia .. The Roanoake womens swim team on stage ..
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1852833869310927258
ABC TV Declares Kamala Has Won Election in Pennsylvania On Live Broadcast! (live Rumble Time show)
setting up the steal 2.0
As you Cassie, she should have stood by her man, which is why I will not support her.
Don’t be a silly old buffer. I was a bit sad to see this split, but Latham’s flameout couldn’t be supported.
Rubbish ..! Latham said nuttin’ that a lot of “normal” folk agree with .. Straightforward, if salty, description of a pillow-biter .. FFS!
The jurdge in that case was a flog and could have been a footy referee.
I understand there are now books in school libraries describing the act but a description on social media is illegal. You learn something new every day.
Why not? He just told the truth.
Temu Poses Extreme Danger! Ultra-Low Prices Due to Exploiting US Logistics Loopholes & Fake Tracking
I luv TEMU .. never had any probs over 2 years shopping there ……!
Prices half to three quarters cheaper than Oz equivqlent, free shipping & a12 days delivery guarantee ..
What’s not too luv .. ? LOL!
Clicking on Zipster’s link brought up a recent Estee Palti impersonation, and her interview with a NZ blogger. She agreed that she will have lucrative work if Harris is elected. In that event, this will really be a source of joy.
Last Minute Polling and Betting Market Shenanigans (It’s a Ruse)
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Why does a single judge get to decide? Even the highest court in the land has a panel to allow for different interpretations. If you asked a million Australians, you’d get a significant split.
What we have is judge, jury and executioner all in one. 13th century England had a superior justice system.
Why aren’t these cases tried before juries? Are they insinuating that we are all racist?
All except the Chosen Ones of the PC Left.
Of course! Unless you agree with them, which means racist is a euphemism for dissent.
As you Cassie, she should have stood by her man, which is why I will not support her.
You should support Hanson, I will support her. Mehreen Faruqi, apart from the fact that she is an open Jew hater (something for which she receives little flak for) is the most sinister, dangerous and depraved person to ever sit in parliament.
Lawfare by judges. He knew they couldn’t afford to appeal so have a decision that would otherwise fail on appeal. And like politicians, let’s do away with the “honourable” honorific. It’s antiquated and undeserved by title and action.
Like I say an undemocratic hangover from the Norman conquest. The courts are very dangerous. Justice dependent on financial resources is not Justice.
I think a critical mass has been reached in American politics, people are coming out more and more against the status quo of Democrat Party leftist oppression. The more individuals and groups stand up and say “that’s too far” the more others will be encouraged to do the same.
There is hope yet none of it would have been possible without Trump, just look at our woeful example. Where is our Trump? Clive Palmer may have been it but he is only interested in Clive Palmer, Australia is an afterthought to him. Gina Rinehart does as much as she can but she does not have the temperament and ego to take on the left.
A major part of the problem is that there are a lot of people in Australia who, when faced with collectivism, fight it with a different type of collectivism. Hanson and Palmer aren’t about making fundamental change, they are about changing one set of people in charge deciding how to spend other peoples’ money for another set of people in charge deciding how to spend other peoples’ money.
but Latham’s flameout couldn’t be supported.
I supported Mark Latham, I still support Mark Latham. His words might have been crude but they were an accurate description and most heterosexual males would agree 100% with Latham’s words. I would also add that Latham’s spicy retort was to a post on X where Alex Greenwich had called Latham a ‘disgusting human being‘. Is that not a ‘flameout’ too or is it that some flameouts are kosher and some aren’t? Oh I know, a flameout can’t be supported if it emanates from a white heterosexual male but if you’re of a ‘minority’, be it a sinister inner city homosexual or a fat Jew hating senator with brown skin who thinks people like me are ‘unclean’ and belong ‘in a rubbish bin’, then you’re given a free pass for your ‘flameouts’.
A flamer having a flameout. Latham was accurate. Should have said it parliament though.
I wonder what would happen if someone used Greenwich’s words against him and replied to one of his tweets, calling him a “disgusting human being”?
How any American who has been experiencing eight years of Obama then seen what Trump actually did versus the dirty tricks forces arrayed against him – culminating in the stolen 2020 – then four years of two empty suits being manipulated from behind the curtain – how any sentient and well-intentioned person can still (i) support the Dems, and (ii) worse, say they are voting for Kamala, is a mystery.
Two activist judges – O’Callaghan and Stewart.
The first thinks a description of homosexual activity is illegal, the second believes advice to go home if you don’t like it here is racist.
The first was to an out and proud invective laden pervert, the second to an out and proud race baiter who has been race baiting since she first stood on her hind legs in our parliament.
Between them, these two stars of the court have destroyed a political party that spoke for people who are unable to speak for themselves.
Well done gentlemen. Pass the port. Burp.
Plus Bromwich,. The cocks in frocks decision was outrageous.
Courts are inappropriate mechanisms for considering cultural issues that rely on opinion of a single person, not law.
Huh? Is it okay to bring families into it?
On Iowa
https://x.com/RealSKeshel/status/1852851584029618509?t=lbS-DniiPyf7UX5jMMkhAA&s=19
I doubt that mUntard will take the bet. He started walking back his support for the “GOAT pollster” last night.
I wonder how discussion of the US election is going on his two blogs (Phat Pussy and the other one). Is anyone other than mUntard, Steve from Brissy and Non Mentis active at either?
Is Ed Case another one?
LOL.
He claims to not to be a lefty, but rarely attacks leftists, mainly conservatives, like Abbott, Trump, etc.
LOL. Where’s the Gimp.
KamelToe has been endorsed by prominent white supremacist Richard Spencer.
By her friends shall you know her.
Thanks for the link, Zippy. It’s always fun to see what concave-skulled dribblers are thinking.
Save time, just read your own contributions here.
You left yourself open for that zinger Monty.
Projection from lefties is always fun.
Lots of it coming from Dems this morning.
No bet for you …..!
And existence. Don’t forget existence.
Bungie, I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the vox pops.
America is huge, so huge that it boggles the mind. Communities are insulated, particularly that band through the middle. They don’t have to vote. They don’t have to stand in line on a weekday in all weathers (remember, it’s November) if they don’t want to.
That’s why getting out the vote is so critical for the republicans. Last time they made a critical error, waiting for polling day. This time, they’re voting early and intentionally.
Joe Siracusa made an amusing observation on Sky this morning – there’s no sausage waiting in the parking lot. He’s obviously au fait with a great Aussie tradition. Perhaps the GOP can adopt it next time, maybe Trump with his stint at the drive-thru made an American style start.
Men Have Already Abandoned Women: The Simp Vote in 2024
Summary: In the video “Men Have Already Abandoned Women: The Simp Vote in 2024” by Aaron Clarey, the host presents a controversial perspective on gender relations, dating dynamics, and societal changes due to evolving technology and shifting norms. Clarey argues that men have increasingly abandoned traditional romantic pursuits due to the low cost of alternatives like pornography and artificial companions, which he terms as “Nebraska.” He criticizes the expectations placed on men by women and the societal shifts brought on by feminism, expressing skepticism about the sustainability of relationships under current conditions. He discusses the implications of the “simp vote,” where men who seek approval from women may influence political and social policies that favor women but do not positively impact relationships with men. The video concludes with a discussion on the future of relationships as men and women navigate their competing interests. ### Key Points by Section: **Introduction** – Clarey clarifies he does not support repealing women’s rights but believes men should not be responsible for women’s choices. – He expresses a desire for a world where men and women are treated as adults capable of managing their own problems. **Women’s Rights and Responsibility** – Men historically took care of women but with changes, women should now handle their own lives. – Clarey mentions the importance of holding women accountable for their decisions instead of shielding them. **Alternate Solutions to Relationship Dynamics** – Introduces concepts like sex bots and AI companions as viable alternatives for men who are disillusioned with dating. – Suggests that technological advancements could reduce men’s dependence on traditional relationships. **Economic Decision-Making in Dating** – Discusses the cost-benefit analysis men perform when considering dating, especially in light of the easy availability of pornography. – Highlights how ‘Nebraska’ (a euphemism for pornography) has severely affected men’s interest in pursuing real relationships. **Men’s Rejection of Traditional Relationships** – Explains that many men feel overwhelmed by women’s expectations and societal norms, leading them to abandon traditional dating. – Argues that young men increasingly refuse to invest in relationships, with high rejection rates contributing to this trend. **Cultural and Technological Impact** – Asserts that social media has distorted women’s expectations, making dating more challenging for men. – Claims that the welfare state and government policies have also shifted power dynamics between men and women. **The “Simp Vote”** – Describes the “simp vote” as men who compromise their values to gain approval from women and discuss how it influences political landscapes. – Argues that this group disproportionately affects voting outcomes, perpetuating policies that may not benefit men. **Long-Term Consequences** – Predicts an increasing disconnection between men and women, with marriage rates continuing to decrease. – Suggests that this trend could result in a societal collapse where traditional relationships are no longer viable due to the lack of mutual necessity. **Concluding Thoughts** – Emphasizes the need for men to recognize their value and to potentially disengage from the current dating scene. – Recommends Clarey’s own books as resources for understanding the current dynamics and for personal reflection on the subject. The video concludes with Clarey encouraging viewers to focus on personal development and enjoyment of life beyond dependent traditional relationships.
this one’s for you too mutley
It would be a riot if Trump took New York, all because they figured, “Eh, no need to worry about that one.” Imagine the scramble
New York Post Sunday cover
Re the bet offered in the US on the Iowa poll, I doubt that mUntard will take that bet. He started walking back his support for the “GOAT pollster” last night.
I wonder how discussion of the US election is going on his two blogs (Phat Pussy and the other one). Is anyone other than mUntard, Steve from Brissy and Non Mentis active at either?
Probably not well, else why would he be here, begging for attention.
Thank you TE for the opportunity to bid on the election outcome.
I have chosen to adopt the Democrat strategy.
I shall submit a bid on Thursday.
The Sydney Institute tonight is featuring the authors of a new book on the so called “Cronulla riots” all those years ago. Written by then Minister Carl Scully & a senior policeman ( will post the details later). The upshot of the book is that the riots were not accurately reported by the media. Amazingly, Scully claims that the Islamic youth were planning a major assault on the suburb which was very narrowly averted.
That this book should be written now is extremely interesting. Maybe the authors fear that a similar situation is arising now. Will report on what is said.
For those who read the Oz – I managed to get lead letter today on the despicable failure of the so called inquiry into the management of the Covid pandemic.
Saw it Vicki. Great letter. I got a short sharp one published last week. Doesn’t happen very often.
Trump will lose NY by 15-20 points.
Harris is far more likely to pinch FL and/or TX. Trump is running a lot of ads in Texas.
IF (big if, sure) DJT wins the national popular vote, he’s a shoe-in for president in a “landslide”.
Why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
Stop trying to make “democracy sausage” happen. It’s not going to happen.
Seriously… had anyone actually ever seen or received one before the ABC-ALP-MSM blob axis launched the meme in 2021? I’ve certainly never seen it, and I get around a lot on election day, having two brothers overseas to front up for. I’ve never even seen so much as a covfefe van. Voting around here has always been park up, line up, get in, get out, with maybe the old guard sparring friendly-like for an extra five minutes afterwards.
Massive traffic jam getting into the city. The marathon is on.
I’m cabbing into NYC with a Bangladeshi driver playing annoying ethnic music. He’s voting Trump. “No more wars and less inflation”.
China will make move if Kamala wins. Taiwan blockaded now and Dems too disorganised to react. World will explode and she’ll be cackling Joy.
Pauline Hanson was smashed in the Federal Court last Friday. Her One Nation party now faces bankruptcy, with its legal bills estimated at $900,000.
Pauline was never gonna win given the Oz multi tiered predudiced-against-white “justice” system active in Oz, these dayz ..!
“Fatso” relied on that hence the “legal” action …!
How the hell do you spend $900000 on legal costs. Monica won two of counts self representing in the country court (?).
The Stasi blew $200000 but could not prove their case and the judge has the cheek to award costs against Monica ..The laws is an ass.
Husband is watching recorded Brazilian GP. Since we know the result – ruddy Verstappen win again, I refuse to watch it. Practice had promised more.
I see the Nazi is here dribbling.
Leaking, Cassie. Leaking.
Dribbling is via the mouth.
Leaking is via the anus.
This is the first response to a question.
@rfgeier
I’m sure some are thinking today it’s a squirrel but tomorrow it could be me or my children. It’s also a complete repudiation of the age old saying about a man’s home being his castle.
No it won’t.
I’m not trying to make anything “happen”. I was simply reporting on what I saw this morning. I found the observation, from an American, amusing.
Sad that you haven’t been to a polling booth with the barbecue and it’s dessert neighbour – the cake stall.
It may be that it only exists where the votes are cast at school halls and the P&C is fund raising. Although I have spotted it elsewhere in my fifty years of voting.
Surely they can’t be this stupid!
@RealMacReport
Breaking: Kamala Harris supporters displaying her yard signs, as they are now receiving warning notices about illegal immigrants potentially moving into their homes.
She’s certainly trying to pinch Georgia…
“There Are NO WATCHERS”: RNC Sues Georgia Counties Over “Last Minute” Decision To Accept Weekend Ballots, Block GOP Observers (3 Nov)
@DefiantLs
Trump said it best, “If Kamala can’t handle an interview with Joe Rogan, then she can’t handle the presidency.”
@RepClayHiggins
Ditto Australia
@joma_gc
I keep noticing her surrogates read their lines off of their phones like hostages under duress.
@F530Josh
@BehizyTweets
Hardly random.
Who is/are “them”?
One person is not a “them.”
Further to Nick Cater’s article posted above here is a link to Dr Adi Paterson, Nuclear Scientist testifying at the Senate hearing. Well worth watching if you haven’t seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZqlWUZ0Oz0
WATCH: Trump Brings Women’s Swim Team That Stood up to Trans Athlete on Rally Stage
From CH7 news.
Wow.
I have seen ads for Channel 7’s election coverage panel and they will have Anthony Scaramucci as a commentator. Scaramucci? The guy Trump fired 10 days after giving him a job in his media team in 2017? Yeah, he will be an impartial commentator.
I’m surprised they don’t have Michael Cohen on the panel.
Obama Judge Rules that SoS Adrien Fontes Must Turn Over Records of 1.2 Million “Inactive” Voters on State Voter Rolls — But Not Until December 2
This judge is now laughing in their faces. This will really rehabilitate the judiciary’s sinking reputation.
It could also, and obviously has, lead to mental health problems.
Climate Researchers Warn: Warmer Climate Could Lead To “Cold Waves Across Northern Europe”!
They have completely abandoned any knowledge of physics. What do we call that? Devolution?
Idiocracy
The fix is in.
I’m afraid so.
In contrast, the phrase best describing Monty’s oeuvre is that immortal line “the dance of the low sloping foreheads”.
Channel 7 jumped the shark in 2020 with its Red Screen of Death during the Covid panic, which they fed on a daily basis.
That was when I turned the activists on Sunrise off. Permanently.
I see they are again lying about voter fraud in the States. I can only assume there is some sort of monetary advantage in it for them to do so.
No, they do it for the social credit kudos from leftards.
I’m over the US election, with all the wall to wall coverage. That said, the whole Trump v Harris thing is a crock. Joe obviously wasn’t calling the shots and there’s no reason to believe Kamala will be anything more than a cackling puppet.
In any case, while the risk to freedom is arguable, the Democrats’ extreme tolerance of bad behaviour has resulted in literal shitholes, with footpaths being largely impassable unless spreading shit is your thing.
Democrats are the party of crime. You can’t run a city for 60 years with rampant crime and say it’s beyond your power. Piss or get off the pot. What would earn the title of honourable is for a politician to resign, admitting failure, calling for a new election and insisting your own party not contest the next election. You can have it in retirement but only if your party doesn’t contest as you insist. Of course I’m only talking about local elections in the US, but they run the police so they’re shameless liars when they claim it’s beyond them.
Victor Davis Hanson said: THIS WILL CRUSH THEM
Still, bloody annoyed about my 6 weeks old, 4G phone being rendered useless by the gummint cos, unknown to me, it used 3G for 000 calls .! … So, f***ing, what! ..?
?I’m old enuf to remember when there were no “carry’ phones and folk relied on public “boxes” & house phones so where was the gummint concern, back then, with folk having the temerity to be out & about without access to 000 contact in unexpected circumstances …?
?Luigi & co rorting flight upgrades left, right & centre but me, an OAP, has to cough up for a “new’ phone cos …… WE IS GUMMINT & WE IS HERE TO HELP .. FFS!
No idea what is happening. They warned that 3G would be shut down, but we are still getting 3G on our mobiles at the farm! Now these are phones (using Optus) that register 4G when we are in Sydney.
Go figure.
Your anguish is noted.
But that’s all.
You are #649 in the queue…
Meanwhile, here is some relaxing music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4lvE9hxlZ4
Take it back and demand a refund.
I always use phones until they die and two iPhone 7 models work fine on Telstra prepaid.
From Ch7 news.
Wow,
———————————
They are amateurs compared to TheirABC. This morning they ran a story expressing wonder that Trump is very popular despite his ‘multiple felonies.’ It’s incorrect (re the ‘felonies’), but when did that ever stop them?
No wonder most Australians are under the impression that Trump is an evil would be despot.
After all, Faruqi in her first speech as a Senator also declared we lived “on stolen land” which “always will be Aboriginal land, claimed “bigotry and xenophobia have been allowed to flourish”, and said our “culture of online harassment” targeted “everyone who is not a straight white man”.
Senator Faruqi owns four properties on that “stolen land?”
Which makes her a thief and a colonist. But I’m sure, her colonialism and thievery are of the hood sort.
She is a massive hypocrite.
Top Ender: Harris 276 for me, please.
Polls schmolls.
Famously, ~20% of the 60-odd% of adult US citizens who vote make up their minds on the way out of the door.
My US Soshuls tell me that the media is rising to an extraordinary, 97.3% unhinged, pro-Cakula crescendo. Apparently:
Trump
Unstable and unsuitable
Will revenge, disenfranchise and demonise
Backward looking
Harris
Unexciting but stable
Uniting
Looking to the future
Leaving the impact of the Voting Dead and Surprise Ballot Drops aside, I suspect this election is going to turn on the Lo-Info, who haven’t given a second’s thought to the result, but are going to poll on the basis of some TV talking head polishing a turd.
Some interesting stats on “early voting” include that in at least one state (not sure, but PA?), low propensity voters (who haven’t voted for the last 4 elections) are 100k+ and break 90+% for Trump.
“Keep (the gerkin) out of womens’ swimming”.
Genius stuff young ladies.
Sydney Institute tonight
THE CRONULLA RIOTS – THE INSIDE STORY
with
MARK GOODWIN
Assistant NSW Police Commissioner during the Cronulla Riots
&
CARL SCULLY
NSW Police Minister during the Cronulla Riots
This is how the The Cronulla Riots – The Inside Story has been described…
?
The Cronulla riots in 2005 were triggered by an event the previous Sunday, when an altercation turned physical between a group of youths of Middle Eastern appearance and lifeguards on Cronulla beach. Following the reporting of this event by the tabloid media and “shock jocks” on local radio, a racially motivated gathering was organised via chain texting for the following weekend. Some 5000 people took part and the rioting spread to nearby suburbs.
NSW Police Minister Carl Scully and Assistant Commissioner Mark Goodwin were the key figures tasked with restoring order during the chaos. While the riots are often cited in discussions of Australian racism, the authors challenge the notion that they were solely driven by Caucasian xenophobia.
I was just thinking about the malice, inhumanity, and downright evil shown to Donald J Trump by the Demonrats, and their alphabet agencies but most particularly the vengeful loser- Merrick Garland and his minions at the DOinJ– that Donald J Trump was not permitted to attend the funeral of his wife’s mother, his mother-in-law. That says it all about these soulless monsters.
Our politicians were no less revolting during the COVID lockdowns. When my brother-in-law died there were allowed to be 10 people at his funeral, barely his children and grandchildren. Friends and the rest of the family were advised to watch it online.
I wasn’t allowed to go to my wife’s funeral.
I am still enraged about that.
It is the support act. Not very interesting.
Interesting is what comes afterwards.
This morning they ran a story expressing wonder that Trump is very popular despite his ‘multiple felonies.’ It’s incorrect (re the ‘felonies’), but when did that ever stop them?
While I think that some of these TV commentators are “under instructions” from station owners (eg conservative inclined Karl Stefanovic seems to have totally withdrew from personal opinion after the Paris Olympics), many are just average intellects who have forgotten (or never knew) the meaning of critical thinking.
Sky “after dark” provides the only intelligent and informed comment on political issues.
“Sic semper tyrannis!!”
This translates to: “Thus always tyrants.”
It needs the context of the squirrel story to make the intention clear.
On closer inspection the phase by itself is ambiguous and you really have to know what is intended by modern speakers when they say that phrase because it not derivable from the words alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic_semper_tyrannis
Cuando, cuando, cuando
m0nty
November 4, 2024 8:26 am
It was noted a week ago, that she shifted her campaign to Texas.
Why?
The Dems must know something we don’t.
Remains to be seen.
Could a large concentrations of ex Californians in some districts be ready to be used as a camouflage for a sting?
Too fancy to contemplate?
I wouldn’t put it past the Dems, win at all cost is the name of their game.
Rest of post…
The nookular milkman, dreg sheridini, kroges, richo, joe hildebeast, justin smith, liz storer, bimbecile neilsen, bronny bitchop and the zempilini excepted.
Nuclear milk kills.
Bronwyn Bishop is OK, more sound on local politics.
A once-a-day reminder of the Cat POTUS poll….
Rules:
Choose the number of votes which will elect either Trump or Harris. So a typical choice would be “Trump to win, with 291.”
The time and date you make your choice will be recorded. So first in best dressed will get you your vote.
Note a second vote on the same POTUS number would put you in second place if you won.
Voting open now; closes with final US poll
You can only vote ONCE, but you may change your vote
Prizes:
First placegetter gets a choice of either of my two latest works: Cyclone Warriors – the Armed Forces in Cyclone Tracy, or the 3rd edition of By Derwent Divided, the story of the Tasman Bridge disaster, both out now and commemorating the events of 50 years ago. 2nd placegetter gets the other one.
Prize will be signed and posted within Australia.
Latest – Cat POTUS poll
Trump to win
484 – Bar Beach Swimmer
407 – John
P – 367
357 – AnotherRanga
347 – Vicki
330 – Perfidious Albino
327 – Wally Dalí
325 – Long Time Lurker
323 – Little Gidding
321 – Helen
320 – Cohenite
319 – Megan
318 – eb
317 – mizaris
313 – Chris
312 – Zippster, thefrollickingmole
310 – Beertruk
308 – Harlequin Decline, hzhousewife
307 – chrisl
306 – Digger
305 – Indolent, Old School Conservative
304 – Bill P
303 – Farmer Gez, Tom
302 – Makka
301 – zimlurog
300 – Tekweni, Brislurker
299 – Wivenhoe
298 – 132andBush
296 – mem
295 – Barking Toad
294 – Sancho Panzer
292 – Nelson_Kidd-Players
291 – Its Remarkable
290 – Top Ender*
288 – Mak Siccar
287 – Carpe Jugulum
286 – Rosie
285 – Knuckle Dragger
283 – Lizzie
282 – Steve of Kenmore, Iron Cove
281– Roger
280 – calli
279 – Bruce in WA, Siltstone
278 – Winston Smith, Howie
275 – pete m
273 – Petros
272 – Delta A
271 – Vagabond, Colonel Crispin Berka
*not in comp. so will move progressively right if others want this spot
Harris to win
538 – Lysander
334 – Zafiro
320 – JC
315 – alwaysright
300 – Lawgi Dawes-Hall
298 – Monty
285 – Rafiki
280 – Barry
276 – Dr Faustus
273 – Gilas
272 – Davey Boy
Corrections, changes, or new choices on the Open Thread only please
A few colourful racing identities appear to be awaiting the late mail.
Speaking of Cats and the punt I once laid a $2 bet with Bill Waterhouse, he did not bat an eyelid, but I swear he had $ sign pupils aligned vertically like a cat’s.
Not to mention that her father studied here on a Colombo Plan scholarship funded by the Australian taxpayer, thus equipping him for his later academic career in Pakistan.
[The internet is a very helpful research tool for the inquiring citizen. No wonder the powers that be want to control it.]
This has been obvious to most sentient humans for the last 18 months and particularly during this election campaign. It is truly disheartening that this election can even be close. I’m in two minds about this, sometimes I think Democrat voters are really dumb and other times I think they know what is going on and it’s OK with them. In other words, stupid or evil.
AND is also a choice.
They are dangerous. Walking contagious cancers.
With Barry and Pelosi in the background put me down for evil.
Trump at his best. What parent wants their daughter to compete with men in a woman’s sport? Only the Deviant Party could promote that.
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1852833869310927258
Upgrade Albo being wedged into corners, even by the ABC:
Anthony Albanese has left open the possibility his staff members may have asked Qantas on his behalf for free flight upgrades.
The Prime Minister had previously ruled out the allegation that he personally asked then-Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce – or anyone else in Qantas – for a free flight upgrade. He had so far not addressed whether his staff members had requested one on his behalf.
This comes after a week of damaging allegations for Mr Albanese about his relationship with Mr Joyce.
Mr Albanese was asked whether any of his staff had asked Qantas for a free flight upgrade on his behalf.
“Not to my knowledge, no,” he told ABC AM.
“We have a situation whereby politicians across the board got upgrades. That was because of the way that the system works.”
Education Minister Jason Clare on Sunday admitted that he had personally solicited a flight upgrade from Qantas in 2019 – during opposition – for a personal flight from Sydney to Singapore after an operation where he had a cancer cut out of his leg.
Mr Albanese said he had been “upfront” on the issue.
“Everything has been declared, and I’ve had no upgrades as Prime Minister,” he said.
Oz
Gonna be a long week for Albo. Then he can sink back into the Chairman’s Lounge for some relaxation.
Albo is resembling the latter stages of the Gillard regime. Lurching from crisis to crisis. How long will da bruvvas let it go on? The election timing doesn’t help. He should have been speared after the Voice failed.
On the Upgrades Fiasco, it really needs a $ figure put on it.
Some enterprising journalist, if one can be found, needs to list all of Albo’s upgrades with the difference between Economy and what he got – Business, First Class – and say “well, that one was worth $5k”. And so on.
At the end of the day 22 upgrades might be worth $100k.
Then we know the PM got a handout worth that much, and we can go on from there.
Computer advice appreciated please.
A month or so ago my old Lenovo ThinkCentre began to display vertical bands covering part of the screen. They don’t appear at startup, but a few minutes later. Their edges are not crisp (fade to black, if you like). This morning they have swallowed half of the screen, which is a tad inconvenient.
Is it likely this is a monitor issue, or is the whole machine pre-kaput?
Any advice would be appreciated thanks.
If you can attach a different monitor to the computer, you will find out if it’s being generated by the computer or intrinsic to the monitor.
Had this happen years ago – needed a new monitor.
I would bet on the screen.
Sounds like a monitor problem.
Unfamiliar with Lenovo ThinkCentre but if it’s a benchtop computer with a monitor plugged into it check the cable between the CPU and the monitor. If it’s loose that problem can be caused.
It would be worthwhile borrowing someone’s monitor and swapping it into place for a check too.
?
Monitor issue for sure
Thanks for the responses, folks. Much appreciated. I’ve been hoping the cheaper solution of a new monitor will do the job, but haven’t yet tried it. The ThinkCentre is monitor & brains all-in-one though. Hmmmm. I might search online for a fix. Cheers, Cats.
Can’t gaol him, can’t shoot him, can’t outvote him.
What other options do they have?
Shoot his aircraft down with Stinger Missile that can be traced back to the Afghanistan debacle.
They can then blame the Taliban.
No, you lying rodent dickhead. You solicited the upgrades directly from the toxic leipreachán.
Stop trying to claim otherwise. Not everyone is as staggeringly stupid as you or or the irredeemable imbeciles who vote for you and the labore pardee.
Aston hasn’t identified this in his book?
Haven’t read it but from what I saw in the press he said “22” and they were worth “thousands” each.
Thanks, TE
Bear in mind that the government can make your life a misery if you owe them a tenth of that or even a twentieth, whether the debt is legitimate or not, the burden of proof often falling on the alleged debtor who can then find themselves trapped in a real-life Kafkaesque encounter with the malevolently absurd bureaucracy.
Lovely painting.
Bolta’s article on the disgraceful fed court judgment against Hansen was good.
Yet Justice Angus Stewart decided Hanson’s response to Faruqi was racist and unlawful under the Racial Discrimination Act, ordering her to take it down and pay Faruqi’s legal costs.
This is the judge:
80.pdf
From his biography:
In that regard, his Honour reflected that he had been born into privilege. He was born white, male, able-bodied, cis-gendered and heterosexual, to parents who had themselves been born into similar privilege. He did not suffer the discrimination, inequality, marginalisation and disadvantage that people of colour, women, people with disabilities and LGBTQI+ people faced, and still face in this world. His Honour recognised that just as he had advantages, there were others did not have such things. That recognition informed the responsibility that he bore to others.
There you have it.
He ought to have recused himself!
Their ideological conviction blinds them to the very fact that such ideology disqualifies them from their very job.
Which begs the question was someone stacking the dice?
Saffie. Doesn’t help.
Law doesn’t seem to figure in his descriptions and considerations. That is grounds for appeal but of course that will cost you yet will not affect one whit this self-declared recipient of privilege.
“It’s the whole vibe of the thing.”
So the “right” judge was selected ……..!
A “bleeding heart liberal” as the Americans would say.
You can add wanker.
I had Trump at 526 from yesterday you must have missed it, cheers and thank you
Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre.
Just a few comments. Trangrid were optimistic in saying you dont need the grid and that a microgrid will work, The reality is that rooftop solar does not go backwards into the 11000v transmission system. It stays in the local grid.
Second the new AGL battery was supposed to mimic the syncronous impact of spining base power to create 50hz. Evidently it cannot do this alone and with so much solar and wind impacting the micr grid. Them of course it ran out of power and needed a “refill”. This test on a small scale is indicative of whart will happen when renewables take too much and baseload is shut down.
Third it is scurrilous that the Australia Institute has not done modelling on the transition. The reality is THEY KNOW the gigantic subsidised costs involved.
They are leaning on the dishonest and deceptive CSIRO GENCOST model.
@Inevitablewest
https://x.com/Inevitablewest/status/1853074570661474812
Nope.
And the hot hosties make the advert quite enjoyable.
Should have ended with parachute exiting .. LOL!
… minus the parachutes.
Makka. I had to stop the ad because I started breathing funny.
…and the pilot with a cigarette!
Glorious!
If the judge is so concerned about his privilege why didn’t he get his hands dirty and learn a trade?
In other words, sorry I am so superior but that’s just how it is folks.
Maybe add a nought.
Power and deceit: Steven Miles’s big election energy con (Paywallian)
Given the Snowy 2.0 project has gone from $2 billion to $20 billion and counting I suspect it’d be a lot higher than just double.
Back in the day, when I worked in a software project area, when we got an estimate from software engineers on a task, we would typically double it and then triple that and we’d mostly end up pretty close.
Now, now Florence is on the mooove ……. again ..!
It appears it was going to cost 36 bill
Mr Albanese was asked whether any of his staff had asked Qantas for a free flight upgrade on his behalf.
Why has no journo asked Olivia Wirth, who was in charge of QANTAS loyalty arrangements until earlier this year, some curly questions?
I used to like her before she married some piggy ALP guy.
Piggy the Liar rising star and one time future PM. That Piggy?
They don’t want to hear the truth. They are j’ismists, they “can’t handle the truth”.
And like mindless fools we are expected to obediently believe that other Govt numbers such as inflation, immigration, employment and climate change are all true and honest.
Shatterzz, make a complaint to the telecommunications ombudsman or fairtrading that they sold you a phone knowing it was not fit for purpose.
Given the MAGA squirrel (RIP) case, Trump should come and out and say something along the lines that:
A BBC presenter the other day reported (miss-spokenly) that the second round of polo injections were underway in Gaza.
I’m sure they’d like something in England to get rid of Huntin’, Shootin’ and Fishin’ as well.
Gaza would also be quite unsuitable for couta boat racing.
The signs were there .. all synchronized swimming events in Gaza were cancelled on 8October .. LOL!
Vermont is my favourite state in the US. The most gorgeous countryside…red barns…rolling green fields…..
I am deeply saddened when I read this comment (in a blog I follow) from a Vermont citizen who is desperate to move to Texas……
Vermont has just gone crazy, the whole state …. nasty, drug addled homeless people have taken over my “cute” little old village (Town Manager “doesn’t know what to do!”) and they don’t even have laws on the books to shift the homeless tent city down the road — so they homeless bums refuse to go to the shelter and urinate and defecate on the back steps of the library, and exposed themselves to the librarians through the window…(“We don’t know what to dooo! We can’t punish people for not having a hoouussee!”) Town business leaders and real estate brokers are BEGGING the town to DO SOMETHING, but alas — the answer, it seems, is Federal money…..but nevere enough of that…
The future of America should Kamala be elected.
20 liters of diesel and gasoline mix.
Nothing else is going to work for you, buddy.
Mrs Paul Howes?
Golly they’re an incestuous bunch.
Positively Tasmanian. I believe Piggy decamped to PwC, though not tax.
Big Business, Big Government, Big Law, Big Accounting… It doesn’t matter.
Big Union
Can see Ms Wirth around long at Myer once Solly gets his feet under the desk. Or a swipe card to the C suite floor as the case may be.
The writers are getting lazy with Trump nation releasing an actual squirrel.
He didn’t release it. It’s dead.
I wasn’t going to but changed my mind. 293 for Trump please TE. Thanks.
OK
Zerohedge is saying that the market is laughing at proposition that, in a few days, Harris has taken over as leading the race. They smell a rat.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-11-03/ignore-polls-markets-are-screaming-trump-will-win
I note no one has tipped the quite live scenario of a 269-269 EV result, with the outgoing House voting Trump in.
No one tipped that for a grand final either. How odd.
My tip covered that (or anything else that would cause a XII amendment process).
The margin of steal is calculated to defeat that possibility.
Great to see so many old commenters from Sinc Cat having a wager!
*waves*
And one name made me reacquaint myself with a marvellous poem. T.S. Eliot, and his fine reference to Saint Julian of Norwich.
Never give up. Never.
Little Gidding!
Re: The Presidential elections my guess is that the Dems have already laid the groundwork to delay the declaration and certification of the votes. The deliberate and unlawful extension of the time for voting in at least one state contravening federal law allows for the vote to be contested. In the interim they will beef up unrest and blame it all on Trump if this occurs. Hopefully he wins by such a margin he will push through all this but it will be testing times.
A very sad-looking Li battery recycling plant.
Lithium-Ion Battery Recycle Plant Explodes in Missouri (2 Nov, via Instapundit)
Given there was smoke coming out of the melted roof in several locations of the vast building I suspect it’s a goner.
(And it did literally explode, which you can see in the short clip from the ABC7 version of the story.)
When the Varanus Island gas plant went up the company did not like it if you referred to it as an explosion. I expect battery companies are the same.
Wow.
You get to be a sanctimonious wanker displaying your ideological goodliness, AND stay on the bench paid for judging everyone else.
F*ck off you idiot.
Chris Ellison booted at Min Res.
Couldn’t happen to a bigger c***.
I expect that view may be widely held. He was a “polarising figure”. Perth champagne sales may show a spike.
A lot of cats here are both old and naive.
The fix is in. Even if Trump wins the vote, they will not let him be Prez.
Feels like a turning point in the way 2016 and 2020 didn’t. Hard to see how it ends well.
There will be cheating.
There always has been cheating and there always will be cheating.
Corruption is intrinsic to human systems.
Incidents of cheating will be seen.
Some results are likely, as has happened before and will again, be held up in courts for weeks to come.
They will try, it might take the Supremes to sort it.UNLESS it is so big, it cannot be rigged.
Hang on. How can that be a live scenario?
According to our betters, Trumphitler is so on the nose compared to Joy Kamala that he’ll end up with 5 votes at best.
Right?
Uhmmmm, aren’t his staff paid by the taxpayer? Doesn’t this lead to questions about the probity of using taxpayer funded staff to lobby for upgrades on his private travel?
Re staff asking for perks:
The general presumption is that staff are proxies for the Minister. If a staffer rings up a takeaway and asks for food to be delivered to the Ministerial Suite, Guido or Ahmed or Ms Ngo assume that the Minister (not personally) will pay the bill. If a staffer rings the Department and asks for something, it is assumed that the Minister wants it, or at least authorises the staffer to ask for it.
Ministers refuse to allow personal staff to be questioned by Parliamentary committees. They can’t have it both ways.
Expect PM&C are in pure panic mode. Everyone being very careful about what is said. Robodebt Royal Commission front of mind.
What you said about surf club being charged for welcome to country at events
Furore has erupted after it was revealed a local surf club was being charged a $500 fee by an Aboriginal corporation each time they held an event on the beach.
Yamba Surf Club was asked by the Yaegl traditional owners Aboriginal Corporation to pay a $500 “fee for service” for each of its four events – including a nippers carnival – over the 2024-25 lifesaving season.
The corporation said the payment was to conduct ‘welcome to country’ ceremonies at the events.
The demand has outraged some surf club members, with one slamming it as “un-Australian”.
See what you had to say below and join the conversation >>>
Would you be willing to pay a welcome to country beach fee?
Yes, it’s important 1 %
No, we’ve gone too far 99 %
Not sure – 0%
3,619 votes
Daily Tele with hundreds of comments – all against
The easy thing to do would be ditch the WTC.
Or was that not possible as the government had given title to the coal indigenous? The article was not clear.
Furore has erupted after it was revealed a local surf club was being charged a $500 fee by an Aboriginal corporation each time they held an event on the beach.
When you think about it there is no PRIDE involved in these 251 ingrates ..
They go thru their entire lives sucking on the white man’s teat ..
How many were born in humpies without white man medical help ..?
How many walk everywhere cos no wheels, wear clothes, use money, shop & the BIGGIE .. avoid CentreLink cos no CL in the “dreamtime” ..
Their whole lifestyle screams “whitie” but all they do is whinge & take the $A39billion a year without a “thank you”
F*** ’em ……….!
Aboriginal activists and money hungry moochers are quickly eroding any goodwill they had with everyday Aussies.
Charging for lifesaving events? For people who patrol the beaches as a public service, gratis? Because they’re community spirited, decent individuals.
Better not want to get into difficulties in the surf guys.
They obviously want to monetize them.
With archive.org broken you have to think someone is going to have a go at the Gutenberg Project too.
Otoh, old personal libraries might have just risen in value considerably.
?
Google’s quick .. as soon as they noticed the Mail online pay-walling stories they thought, “Whoah .. more moolah” ……..
I’ve kept plenty of LPs, CDs, DVDs and MDs because online sources might dry up. I let go the LDs however!
Could I have 289 for Trump please T.E. (If Dover lets me out of moderation)
From the Daily Mail…..so, what is his name?
Provocative anti-Israel T-shirt sees man arrested on Australia’s most iconic beach – Man arrested in Bondi for anti-Israel shirt
A man has been arrested at Australia’s best-known beach for wearing an allegedly ‘offensive’ anti-Israel shirt.
The man, who is yet to be formally identified, was confronted by police at Sydney’s Bondi Beach for wearing the ‘provocative’ shirt about 12.50pm on Sunday.
The shirt featured Israel’s flag alongside the words ‘f**k Israel’ and ‘f**k Zionism’.
The scenes unfolded in front of large crowds of beachgoers who had flocked to Bondi to escape the heat as temperatures soared into the 30s on Sunday.
Australian Jewish Association chief executive Robert Gregory claimed that the man, who is understood to be the son of a former Labor minister, had allegedly been seen wearing the shirt multiple times before his arrest.
He added that many locals had encountered him in the t-shirt, as Bondi and surrounding areas in Sydney’s east are the hub of the Jewish community in the city.
‘The Jewish community has faced a wave of intimidation and vandalism over the past year,’ Mr Gregory told Daily Mail Australia.
‘This man has been repeatedly wearing a shirt designed to annoy residents in Sydney’s east.
‘Day after day, he is spotted in neighbourhoods where many proud Jewish people live, including Double Bay and Bondi.
The man, who is yet to be formally identified, was confronted by police at Sydney’s Bondi Beach for wearing the ‘provocative’ shirt
‘Given his background, it’s hard to believe he doesn’t own another shirt.
Something must be seriously lacking to cause a man of that age to be so desperate for attention.’
A NSW Police spokesperson confirmed to Daily Mail Australia the man was taken to Waverley Police Station and charged with two counts of behaving in offensive manner in/near public place and one count of stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm.
Mr Gregory claimed his shirt had caused great distress to Jewish families in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
‘He presents as an ugly sight, particularly for families and children, who have been confronted by the hatred and swear words he is parading around,’ he said.
‘The Jewish community is peaceful and law-abiding, so if he is looking to cause an altercation, he is unlikely to succeed.’
The man was later charged with two counts of behaving in offensive manner in/near public place and stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm’.
The man was bailed to appear before Waverley Local Court on January 22, 2025.
This creep has been seen at Double Bay, Edgecliff and Bondi Junction. He’s been doing it deliberately.
There must be one Jew in Sydney with a short temper.
Fair change of getting off as it’s basically Nazi like propaganda, not pro Pali.
What happened to Krav Maga and David?
Election Week in Pictures up.
The Shake My Head is decrying the plan to put Musk in charge of reducing inefficiency in the US government.
And I can understand why they would be. In Australia, as in the US, government service is a stinking cesspit of leftists.
Imagine the calamity of an Australian government, seeing a popular move in the US, seeing how much waste went on unnoticed there, deciding that we can do that too?
It was recently described to me by a Director in a public service establishment that “the Dept spends $10 in governance, oversight and red tape in order to spend/procure $1.”
My reading is that upwards of 50% of all Govt is pure waste.
If there is anyone on Earth that could actually arrange a B-Ark for all the government drones it would be Elon.
Thanks, Pete.
Election WIP here.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/election-week-in-pictures-1-the-add-election.php link
OK…why didn’t the surf club just say “No, thanks”?
Swim between the Flags was a great achievement of the traditional culture.
By all means give elbow within Australia it i
A.k.a. the ruling caste.
Thanks Pete for the tip! Here’s a link:
Election Week in Pictures (1): The ADHD Election | Power Line
Meme makers are going to be especially busy!
Uh oh…
I’m sticking with 538 EC Votes for KumAllah.
Anything less and I will be utterly devastated that Whoopi, MSNBC and Muntard have been lying to me that she isn’t the greatest POTUS candidate evah.
Re:
The situation in the US.
If you have bought guns or ammo in the last year, get all your mates on a speed dial list, because I have no doubt the coppers will be turning up at your place to confiscate your weapons if Trump wins.
Remember that the coppers are NOT your friends in many jurisdictions – they will carry out their orders even if they don’t agree with them.
WTF do you mean by this? We West Aussies are in that situation RIGHT NOW.
No need to elect Trump to get that.
And if Trump wins why would American coppers be confiscating guns? Do you mean they will be doing the bidding of Nancy Pelosi?
Shatterzz, make a complaint to the telecommunications ombudsman or fairtrading that they sold you a phone knowing it was not fit for purpose.
Nothing wrong with the phone .. How many folk, actually, knew most of the problem was based on 3G 000 .. ?
I mean, why is/was the “system” still using 3G emergency when most phones were already capable of 4G technology ..
I’m 76 and never used or knew calling 000 was on a different ‘system” to any other number .. How many folk would ..?
All the people being warned by texts for yonks. Given a number to ring which checked your phone’s capability.
Jock @ 11:44
Indeed.
Achieving synchrony is trivial – a wireless internet broadcast can achieve that. The problem is ‘load following’, instantaneously matching sent out power to demand within narrow tolerances.
A tough gig for a piddly grid battery.
So that’s Darwin, and now Broken Hill that have failed under real world conditions. (Are there others?)
I may just point that out the next time an idiot talks about ‘save the planet’.
Alice Springs went full system black when one cloud went overhead and cast a shadow on the solar panels.
Solar-power failure: Cloud causes System Black event at Alice Springs, affecting thousands (2019)
As I understand there’re several solar farms in the NT that can’t be hooked up without collapsing the grid. So they’ve been sitting and doing nothing for years.
Rubber hitting the road on the renewable pipe dream unicorn. Expect more in the future. None of the engineering problems are new or unknown. Will be new to a few BAs and lawyers.
If Kamala is good enough to be a presidential candidate then so is Cardi B since neither is able to make a coherent sentence without a script written by someone else. The proof was in Cardi B’s stuff-up at the Democrat rally.
Watching the clip of the stuff-up I thought Cardi B was calling for patience from the audience while the glitch was fixed. It turns out Patience was an assistant bringing her a phone with the written speech she was meant to give.
While reading a particular political promise from Kamala Cardi B says “She said it to my face” and I thought sure, that’s why you couldn’t remember it without a text in front of you.
This level of ignorance, both from Kamala and Cardi B, must be comforting to the equally intellectually challenged young audience at that rally. Their ignorance about which river and which sea that they chant at anti-Israel protests would compare well to Kamala’s and Cardi B’s inability to say a few sentences off the cuff.
This one seems apt…
Big Serge.
https://x.com/witte_sergei/status/1853172546612658261
In the last few days I have seen more on-air commentators acknowledge the fact that Kamala is totally unsuitable to be a presidential candidate. They also wondered how she got as far as she has being completely ignorant of how government or the Congress work.
They even noticed that Kamala is unable to relate to people or interact naturally with them. There was a suggestion that she may even be autistic. I think she is a good actress and as long as she has a good script she does well. This makes her much more like Cardi B than any election candidates. She has simply chosen the wrong career. She may have gone into law to please her academic parents.
Yes. Her Saturday nite live pre-programmed dance routine with a Kamala look alike seems to have been made unavailable, but it showed she is more of a good-time party girl than a serious presidential contender.
And the crappiest news of the year, I’m interviewing all day Wednesday so am going to miss the results coming in.
does anyone have a site I can take a sneak peak at during the day? Except for the stolen election and George Dubya Junior’s elections and Carter, the result has always been known on the day (Wednesday, Perth time):
2016 (Donald Trump) – Result projected on Election Night (November 9 in Perth).
2012 (Barack Obama) – Result called on Election Night (November 7 in Perth).
2008 (Barack Obama) – Result called on Election Night (November 5 in Perth).
2004 (George W. Bush) – Result known the day after Election Day (November 4 in Perth).
2000 (George W. Bush) – Results delayed by a month, resolved by Supreme Court on December 12, 2000 (December 13 in Perth).
1996 (Bill Clinton) – Result projected on Election Night (November 6 in Perth).
1992 (Bill Clinton) – Result projected on Election Night (November 4 in Perth).
988 (George H.W. Bush) – Result projected on Election Night, November 9 in Perth (late evening, around 9:30 pm AWST).
1984 (Ronald Reagan) – Result projected on Election Night, November 7 in Perth (late afternoon, around 4:00 pm AWST).
1980 (Ronald Reagan) – Result projected on Election Night, November 5 in Perth (afternoon, around 4:15 pm AWST).
1976 (Jimmy Carter) – Result projected the day after Election Day, November 4 in Perth (mid-morning, around 10:00 am AWST), due to a close race.
1972 (Richard Nixon) – Result projected on Election Night, November 8 in Perth (afternoon, around 3:00 pm AWST).
The Conservative Treehouse. They have threads with what is going on and updates, and excellent commentary from commentors. I don’t know if you have ever been there but it is an excellent source and a very smart owner who has very very good opinion pieces and highly respected in the MAGA world.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
Vivek Ramaswamy – We Don’t Need a Managerial Class
parasites
Vivek Ramaswamy – Why the FBI Must Be Dismantled
the enforcement arm of the demonrats
Vivek Ramaswamy – Why Wokeness Is Such a Serious Threat
Is this the same guy who attended the violent anti-Israel protest on the Opera House steps on 9th October last year? Or are there more anti-Semitic children of Labor politicians? Makes you wonder where they picked up their attitudes.
From their parents at home.
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Snap, see my comment at 1309.
It means we can put two and two together.
Leftism is an equal outcome brain rot.
Top Ender:
“A cancer cut out of his leg”.
How many sutures? If it was a BCC, the most common type, it would have taken one suture – maybe two.
It’s called a Minor Operation for a reason. Usually carried out in the docs surgery, under a local anaesthetic. That is, infiltration with a bit of Xylocaine.
That question needs to be asked of Minister Clare.
He claimed it was a melanoma.
Also done in a GP’s surgery with a local.
Nothing to stop him paying for his own upgrade like u and me
You mean on Pigs Might Fly Air?
Exactly.
Imagine Joe Blow saying”I’ve had an accident and need a FREE upgrade for comfort”.
Clare in more trouble than Albo with the Code of Conduct. Needs to keep an eye out for buses.
Is this the same “son of a former Labor minister” who was screeching Jew hatred on the Opera House steps on 8 October last year?
If so, he is pushing his luck.
Vivek Ramaswamy – How The Deep State Controls the President
Smart guy. This is what happens in universities where I’ve seen it most.
In Certainly Not Antisemitism news:
Cleric Wissam Haddad a ‘sacrificial lamb’, defends alleged anti-Semitic sermons
[Unlinkable OZ]
Well, of course.
Just quoting.
Although, a bit one sided I’d have thought, given that Christian and Jewish scripture is largely silent on Islam.
So, scientific backing.
Almost gets to ‘Some of my best friends are Jewish…’
So, evenhanded.
A bit unoriginal here – minus 10 points.
But the way the Federal Court appears to run, this Lamb will be found innocent, receive his costs, plus damages for vexatious litigation.
Must be a bit nervous … kicked the hornet’s nest?
Whether the Federal Court lets Haddad off lightly, or not, I applaud the Jewish cleruchy for bringing an action against him. If the police and/or government won’t act, justice must be sought in the courts.
Unfortunately, the Federal Court is a court known for its Left leaning sympathies …the “oppressed & oppressor” thinking. Which, of course, has no place in a justice system based on coded legal precepts.
It’s interesting that he’s described as a ‘fundamentalist’ and not a ‘radical’ or ‘extremist.’
He never mentioned what his book says about homos?
Please let the judge be the biggest fairy since Liberace.
Deindustrialization in Europe?
Summary: The video by Patrick Boyle discusses the current state of industrial production in Europe and raises concerns about deindustrialization driven by factors such as high energy costs, sluggish internal demand, and competition from the US and China. It highlights declining industrial output in major European economies, the challenges faced by companies like Volkswagen, and the implications of high energy prices due to shifts in energy sourcing and environmental policies. The video further explores economic models of growth, the impact of global competition, and the necessity for Europe to pivot towards more sustainable and innovative industrial strategies.
The Russian sanctions screwed VW, as well as their woke belief in EV’s.
Viki. Peter Santenello has an excellent Youtube on Vermont and its troubles and causes.
It was his home state.
According to him, parents are sending their kids to college next door in New Hampshire, not Vermont whose colleges are populated by out of state rich kids who he blames for undermining the culture.
Significant blame is attributed to the universities.
The citizens are rebelling. One strategy, which sounds dangerous, is to have volunteers in the streets in shifts. They identify criminals and document their activities. Because police and local government can’t be trusted, they work to state prosecutors who apper to be straight but are often let down by the judiciary.
Thanks bons!
I love New Hampshire as well. Spectacular in the Fall.
A “teal” MP has spoken out over the Qantas perks saga, after the independents drew criticism for their silence, with Allegra Spender becoming the first politician to renounce her membership to two lounges.
In a move that will further increase pressure on the federal government to address growing community discontent about the perks MPs and Senators frequently receive, the independent MP has written to the major airlines requesting they not give away any more freebies.
“It’s time to end the upgrades,” she said.
“Special treatment of politicians by Qantas and Virgin has undermined public trust in government and effective competition in the aviation industry.”
Ms Spender said all sides of politics enjoyed the perks and “both major parties have failed to bring increased competition and lower fares to Australian travellers”.
“Both the Labor and the Liberal parties have blocked greater competition by Qatar Airways,” she said.
Ms Spencer said parliamentarians should not take upgrades, and has asked Virgin and Qantas not to offer them.
“I am also cancelling my Qantas and Virgin VIP Lounge memberships, which I was given when I entered parliament,” she said.
Daily Tele
Hopefully she will now travel everywhere in an electric car to help save the planet.
Well, she was good for something at least.
Spender, the Marie Antoinette (by birth) of Australian politics.
Hahahaha The Iowa Poll
What does this D and R represent?
This bloke is obviously not the full Dinar.
However, he’s probably the most intelligent person in his community,
hence his leadership position.
It’s a worry.
Jeeves will provide snacks and drinks for Allegra and manage her phone calls after he drops off the Lambo at valet parking.
Fuggin hypocrite.
Trump to win, 291 (this makes me Cohenite’s understudy)
OK
Spender illustrates Aston’s comment that those who have been brought up on what they consider the wrong side of the tracks have the biggest sweet tooth for perks once they gain power.
Like Turnbull, she’s wealthy in her own right and can afford expensive travel without resorting to “don’t you know who I am?”.
Others, scrabbling up the greasy pole and trousering what they can for a rainy day will always go for the freebie. They fear a return to hardship like they fear ebola.
I’d like to hear from some less wealthy Teals. C’mon girls…you wanted transparency didn’t you? We’re beginning to see straight through you, so you’ve got that far.
There aren’t any.
The Teals counter-revolution is by the rich against the poor and lower middle class to prevent the hoi polloi enjoying the lifestyle to which the Teals in their inner-suburban mansions have become accustomed.
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Guess that counts out Kate Chaney. Inside run might only be matched by Christian Porter till it all went tits up.
Exactly!
Simon’s Stepford Wives have a problem.
Continuing the theme of Spender’s VIP Lounge stunt.
She will still have her business class lounge memberships.
She wouldn’t know that there were seats in rear of the curtin.
Business class lounge .. FFS! ..How many different “elite” lounges do these Oz airlines operate ….?
You suspect it would be quicker to list the times she has flown Economy.
From the Powerline “Peanut” edition .. LOL!
Such a wuss. We skulled a stubbie ,cut it out with a fish knife, cauterized the wound with a fag, sewed it up with fishing line, and then went back to killing the crocodile with the knife.
I had a look on the Qantarse website and I can’t find the tickbox for melanoma upgrade?
Canberra dark web.
the Journey
Wedding seems to be a long way from the other three.
I keep a hidden bunch of cash, enough to last several weeks, in case this happens to me. I figure it would keep me going until I can get help from familty.
The Future Of Debanking (4 Nov)
Lefties are evil. There’s no other word which applies more appropriately.
Not to mention the form of ‘debanking’ where your local branch is closed.
If you have a problem, welcome to the phone menu or the chat cyberbot.
Some people just don’t like foreigners and have their reasons. I don’t feel that way myself, but they are entitled to their opinions, and in a civilised society should be able to express them.
The idea that some opinions should be suppressed is vile.
It’s not foreigners.
It’s religions.
There are two religions at the moment that are intolerant and totalitarian. Who wish to enslave everyone. Excluding both of those religions is prudent and reasonable.
I am happy to accept any person in who apostatizes from either religion. With the caveat that if their apostatization was fake they should be immediately deported.
Deep State Plots Against a Trump Victory as America ‘Prepped for Martial Law | Neil Oliver
A preview of what will happen if any government is daft enough to award ‘restitution’ to descendants for alleged past wrongs here:
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Darwin man Brian Long and his brothers heard the stories of how their father John was regularly beaten in the Garden Point Catholic mission on the Tiwi Islands, after being removed from his home in Ti Tree.
Mr Long said he and his brothers were impacted by the damage caused to their father.
“He didn’t like religion, so the Catholic brothers tried to beat it into him,” he said.
“My dad used to beat us up but I don’t hold that against him because that’s how they grew him up, he thought that was the norm.”
Almost two years after they won a $50 million settlement from the federal government, descendants of NT Stolen Generations say the wait for compensation is adding to their trauma.
Mr Long and his siblings jumped at the chance offered by the class action to receive compensation on behalf of their parents.
But Mr Long said he was disappointed to now be told by Shine that he would receive about $3,000.
“They’ve created a mess, we’re getting traumatised again just for a lousy couple thousand dollars for my parents, who lived on that island, incarcerated for over 20 years,” he said.
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Similar tales of woe follow. Apparently, uncorroborated accounts were accepted as evidence.
The lawyers took a bit over 20%, and there were other costs. Still, it was money for nothing IMHO, and now everyone is upset and squabbling within families about who got what, or didn’t get anything.
A more divisive and destructive course of events is hard to imagine.
So it was all about the money .. as usual .. FFS!
No, no, no – we are constantly assured that no amount of money could ever etc etc.
Except when there is money on the table.
The Pakis are already one wicket down at MCG…
Barely anyone in the crowd…
Cricket was loosing me when they had rent a cops taking any sprit out of the crowd then lost me totally with monkey-gate. Since then has become sterile devoid of any characters.
Probably be more Paki’s than Aussies in that crowd. My last Boxing day test would be 20yo ago now had as many Indians as Aussies in the crowd.
I’m greatly enjoying that the QANTAS upgrade debacle is still playing with the volume up.
Handsome Travelling Boy will be livid that the story has survived the weekend – and is now being fuelled by other guilty parties. He will be surrounded by deeply annoyed colleagues, distraught at having the oxygen sucked out of their political messaging before the long Christmas holiday.
Dumbo Clare certainly hasn’t helped his boss. The raw facts that apply to anyone else are brutal:
If you have an injured leg and you absolutely need to join the family on holiday, and economy flying is going to be uncomfortable, you either:
If you choose Option 3, you create an obligation to your friend.
If you are a politician and your ‘friend’ is a regulated business, your obligation likely compromises your ability (or perceptions thereof) to do your job properly.
Unless, of course, you have no intention of meeting your obligation.
Either way you are an entitled shit, grifting you position.
I find it very interesting that Dr Jim hasn’t been embroiled, but there seems to be plenty of info being made available about Albo.
cui bono?
Maybe I am being unfair and Dr Jim is very busy preparing his Santa Claus mid year budget. And then looking forward to the Ides of March no doubt.
Thoroughly evil practice in success or failure.
Why no autopsy – just speculation?
Well done Kiwis!
Cricket world stunned as New Zealand clean sweep India in historic scenes (3 Nov)
They out-spun the masters of tweak on their home soil. Breathtaking.
Make that two down now.
(I still struggle to go for Australia, since Cummins is still there)
Look, call me supersoft but I was laughing through my tears and crying through my laughter at that powerline set of memes about the fate of poor little Peanut and his running mate Rocky Racoon. It symbolises so well the pure powerlessness and smallness people feel in the face of the impassive deep state.
When the deep state, the managerial class as Vivak terms them, send a SWAT team to make their bureaucratic will felt against two tiny little animals doing no-one any harm and bringing enjoyment in hard times to millions, then things have come to a very sorry pass. They’re claiming these animals could have rabies as their excuse, now they’ve decided they need one due to adverse publicity to their over-reach. This is bullshit, for so could every other squirrel and racoon around need testing in that case. No need to euthanase them for testing anyway and ruin one man’s private zoo.
Peanut was happy with his human tree and snuggly feeder, and seemed to enjoy his life with freedom to leap and cling at will. Animals tell us a lot about ourselves, and other people. Case in point here.
johanna
November 4, 2024 3:02 pm
Reply to Boambee John.
Re staff asking for perks:
The general presumption is that staff are proxies for the Minister. If a staffer rings up a takeaway and asks for food to be delivered to the Ministerial Suite, Guido or Ahmed or Ms Ngo assume that the Minister (not personally) will pay the bill. If a staffer rings the Department and asks for something, it is assumed that the Minister wants it, or at least authorises the staffer to ask for it.
Ministers refuse to allow personal staff to be questioned by Parliamentary committees. They can’t have it both ways.
I dimly recall from too many decades ago a request from a staffer, supposedly at the behest of a minister.
Because of the nature of the material requested, someone much further up the chain phoned the minister, to arrange delivery. The minister was surprised. Possibly the staffer was even more surprised.
If DJT gets in the big chair again he should rehome six squirrels, and call them all Peanut.
What about gerbils?
Might have to ask Richard Gere about that.
TE,
put me down for TRUMP, 480, please. 😀
“m0nty
November 4, 2024 11:28 am
I note no one has tipped the quite live scenario of a 269-269 EV result, with the outgoing House voting Trump in.”
It would be the NEW house that votes, M0nty, not the old (current) one.
This is the email for special requests at Qantas (i.e. medical flights):
specialhandling@qantas.com.au
And this is the email I sent them:
Upgrade for Xmas Required
Hi Qantas,
I hope you’re well.
Having grown up in public housing and missing out on most pleasures in life, I write to seek an upgrade for my flight to London.
Well, to be honest, I haven’t booked a flight to London yet but having never paid a bill in my life and basically going from school to university to union to Parliament to the PMO, I have basically lived off entitlement my entire life.
As such, for my ride on your A380, I would like you to reserve the entire top deck for me, some Thai masseuses, my dog and a bag of cash (for pocket money) from the gay leprechaun. Jodie can fly Jetstar. Can P Diddy come along; I heard he’s fun.
Don’t worry, for quid pro quo, I’ll keep Qatar out of the country and give you flight priority over all other airlines.
Regards
“Your friend” **wink wink**
I’m buggered and it’s only 3:30
Spot puttied and sanded back the rear area of the Model A.
Emptied and cleaned goldfish pond.
Put the stinky goldfish water on the fruit trees.
Wondered why the bucket was splashing water on me, only to empty a fish onto the apple tree. Had to pick up stinky fish with bare hands.
Was more cautious next time filling the bucket, only to have same stupid fish emptied out on the fern tree.
I think it was trying to make a run for it.
Stupid fish.
Why aren’t you using lead?
It still has some lead in one of the fenders.
Probably from a repair in the 40s or 50s. Looks ugly.
This thing is a mosaic of historic f*ck around repairs from 90 years of Arky types.
Have to stake the tomatoes.
303s are good for that.
Might see if I can break down the tomato staking into easy steps and get the girl to do it.
Or the old woman.
From the Oz.
Far right US pundit Candace Owens launches legal challenge against Tony Burke
Far right American commentator Candace Owens has launched legal action against the Australian government following the rejection of her visa last month.
Ms Owens was booked to tour the country for a series of shows across November, but Immigration Minister Tony Burke blocked her visit on character grounds, arguing her controversial views could potentially incite “discord” in society.
“From downplaying the impact of the Holocaust with comments about Mengele through to claims that Muslims started slavery, Candace Owens has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction,” Mr Burke said on announcing his decision to knock back her visa request.
“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else.”
In a statement, a spokesman for Ms Owens said the challenge would argue Minister Burke’s decision was made with “clear bias and improper motivations”.
“According to Ms Owens’ legal representatives, Mr Burke displayed prejudice against her case from the outset, making public remarks that cast doubt on his impartiality long before a decision was made,” the spokesman said.
“Mr Burke also revealed private details of Ms Owens’s application to the media, further calling into question his neutrality.”
The spokesman said the grounds for Mr Burke’s refusal were “legally unreasonable and unjustifiable”.
“The minister’s conduct suggests that this decision was aimed at boosting his public image rather than upholding a fair process,” the spokesman said.
“Mr Burke has been asked to step down from any further involvement in this case. An impartial official should reconsider her application.”
The legal challenge follows a concerted pushback from Ms Owens across her social media channels in which she lashed the government for what she called a “petty act of vandalism”.
“I also want to make it clear to you guys that I found out at the same time that the press found out, so his office chose to leak this,” she said.
“This is supposed to be a private application process, so unless I spoke about this, no one should have known about this.”
She suggested her application was blocked due to her coverage of attacks on Palestinians in Gaza.
“I just wanted to make sure that every person knows that despite me being fired, demonised, spoken ill about, I haven’t changed my position,” she said.
“That’s what this really is, a petty act of vandalism. No one’s worried about me coming to Australia because they’re angry that they’ve put this narrative out about me and my listeners haven’t accepted it.”
Muslims were not the first to have slaves of course, but historically as a group they are almost certainly the worst slavers.
Why does daytime Sky News keep giving oxygen and airtime to unrepresentative fruitcakes like David Pocock, who represents no-one outside the loony left in Canberra — the only city in the nation that voted for constitutional apartheid in the Voice referendum?
Donald Trump Jr.: Peanut The Squirrel Controversy Exemplifies ‘Overreach’ Of The Democratic Party
shatterzzz
November 4, 2024 12:36 pm
Nothing wrong with the phone .. How many folk, actually, knew most of the problem was based on 3G 000 .. ?
I didn’t.
The emails from Amaysim only started mentioning 000 access block in August, as a sideline to the whole phone (a 2013 Samsung Galaxy S4) becoming a brick last Monday and needing an urgent upgrade.
Multiple SMSes every day, for 2+ months, warning me about the coming safety Armageddon for the old workhorse.
Last Wednesday, while the old S4 was still working, days after the alleged deadline, I switched over to a new 5G phone and SIM.
As of 10 minutes ago, I can still make 000 calls on the S4… but no phone calls or data, even using the new SIM.
Conclusion: My old S4 made both 000 and normal calls on 3G, and Optus turned off the 3G call/data networks ONLY sometimes after 30th October ie. at least 2 days later than their stated deadline.
The 3G 000 will presumably go soon, but who knows…
I think mine is a Galaxy S9, a little less old, and I had to do a massive number of software upgrades in order to get it 3G/4G operative, with 4G all ready to dial emergency now (apparently – Vodaphone advise you not to try to see if your phone reaches triple 0, because they’ve been inundiated at triple 0 by people doing ‘tests’.) The kindly yoofs at Vodaphone helped me to do the upgrades. I am with Vodaphone because at one time it was the only carrier that would reach our ‘dead’ spot in Vaucluse. lol, as bad as the outback we were, in small pockets of this suburb, on a peninsula surrounded by harbour and the ocean all the way to Chile.
I am due for a new phone but I can’t bear the thought of what I’d have to save, photos and contacts, and the bother of learning a new phone when I’m only just getting competent on my present one.
I’m with Amysim & I was gone at 6.00am (rise time) last Monday ..
Lysander at 3:32 pm
Albo has been on the public tit since The Great Man stuck him in a corridor as a Tom Uren staffer. While it would be great to see his career end in ignominy I am not holding my breath. Of course, as a pre Howard parliamentarian and exPM the bills would just keep coming.
As many know we have been in disagreement with our energy company re digital meter reading for our solar system in an area where there is NO communication. We have had to go to the NSW Ombudsman, who has been fantastic.
Without going into details, the energy giant will not give up &, rather than paying into our account as in the past,& according to directions from the Omsbudman, they just accumulate the money they owe us.
Few people will go to the lengths we have gone to & husband will not give up. But, quite frankly, I think it is scary & is predictive of problems we, as consumers, can expect from these energy giants.
The real problem in these companies is finding anybody willing or authorised to make a decision. I expect the Ombudsman is just shunted to Legal while the line managers continue as usual.
Bear, what surprised me was the open hostility of the “resolutions manager” we were connected to today. He actually transferred the amount owed to our account while we were on the phone (we checked it in our account) but he was really “antsy”. Probably heard my comments in the background!
They don’t make it easy. QANTAS still in the firing line for that reason.
I know the name Whittaker has a trigger warning here, but Noel Whittaker (in spite of writing for the former Fairfax press) is a beacon of good sense on personal finance and investment in general. On customer service,he has a very good tip: if you’re not getting anywhere, just drop the word ‘ombudsman’ into an email or a phone or chatbot conversation and they’ll jump to attention quick smart!
Doesn’t a decision by the EWON have effect as a judgement? If EWON has ruled in your favour, aren’t you then a judgement creditor?
If you are a judgement creditor, I believe you can start insolvency proceedings (see https://nswcreditlaw.com.au/2024/07/09/using-insolvency-proceedings-to-enforce-judgment/) against the energy company. Might get you a quick result.
Conclusion: My old S4 made both 000 and normal calls on 3G, and Optus turned off the 3G call/data networks ONLY sometimes after 30th October ie. at least 2 days later than their stated deadline.
The 3G 000 will presumably go soon, but who knows…
Yep. 3G still working on the farm, although weirdly 4G appears from time to time.
So everyone can now claim money because of trauma to their grandparents but only if you are aboriginal. Those of us with parents and grandparents who suffered in various wars could be experiencing far more inter-generational trauma if we cared to manufacture it. But we don’t. We just accept the past as the past.
My grandfather spent nearly two years as a prisoner of war of the Turks folowing deafeat in the Seige of Kut Al Amara in 1916 in what is now Iraq. Part of over 7000 captured British troops he was force-marched 1,100 km in poor physical condition following the seige, to be interred in a barbed wire compound near Aleppo in what is now Turkey where he and others survived by eating rats and what ever else they could find. He was shot in the jaw for making fellow prisoners laugh when mocking by imitation a turk wearing a fez. He had a broken mouth on one side for ther rest of his life, and also suffered coal-dust disease of his lungs due to his work as a miner in the south wales coal fields before that war and during the depression. My mother grew up in a household often out of work and penniless.
4250 of the 11,800 prisoners, many of them Indian soldiers, died in this time.
Hard times indeed.
My father’s ancestors were Scottish crofters. They were evicted from their smallholdings to make way for sheep farming, marched down to the nearest seaport, told “The Laird has been pleased to pay for your passages to Australia” and “Put on the ship” then and there. Where’s my “inter-generational trauma?”
Lucky you!
My family – the good ones sailed and the criminals stayed behind.
Contact the Scottish parliament, regards payment of your inter-generational mental trauma.
I read Russell Braddon’s The Siege on the subject nearly 30 years ago.
The British commander, Major-General Sir Charles Townshend hardly covered himself in glory (disgrace instead) and unlike his men sat out the war in comfort.
Townshend sat out the war as an “honored guest” of the Turks…
Very strange how only African-Americans and Aborigines suffer “inter-generational trauma.
Thanks for that Lizzie. Another obscure battlefield where men died for their countries. I’ve never previously heard of that campaign.
Siege of Kut (wiki)
Thank you for the service of your grandfather. None of my family served at the hot end except for my grandfather, who I believe was a captain of engineers. I have a photo somewhere. However his job was to build atom bombs, not fight, since he was a chemical engineer.
“Everything has been declared, and I’ve had no upgrades as Prime Minister,” he said”.
But plenty before I became PM.
This Labor lot continue to astound with their sheer ineptitude.
Even terrible at lying which is their main talent.
Alexander Dugin’s “Chaos” Philosophy
he video discusses Alexander Dugin’s “Fourth Political Theory,” focusing on his metaphysical framework underpinning his interpretation of Eurasianism. The commentator critiques Dugin’s ideas, drawing parallels between his philosophy and Western nihilism. While Dugin aims to transcend traditional ideologies—liberalism, Marxism, and fascism—his vision inherently features a kind of nihilism rooted in chaos. The speaker examines Dugin’s emphasis on chaos as the primal state that undergirds order, contrasting it with traditional metaphysical concepts of logos and higher truth. The discussion also addresses Dugin’s approach to freedom, which seeks a collective existential condition over individual rights, positing a chaotic socio-political landscape that in some ways mirrors the criticisms levied against Western individualism. The overarching thesis posits that both Dugin’s work and Western liberalism share a belief in chaotic determinism that could lead to nihilism. **Key Points by Section:** 1. **Introduction to Dugin and Eurasianism:** – Dugin as a significant contemporary intellectual; not the main driver of Russian geopolitics. – Eurasianism is a geopolitical analysis of a unified civilization encompassing parts of the former USSR and nearby regions. – Western liberalism disrupts historically rooted geographical civilizations. 2. **The Relation of Nihilism and Geopolitics:** – Both Eurasianism and Western liberalism lead to nihilism through different paths. – Dugin’s version of Eurasianism emerges from a critique of the logocentric order, advocating for chaos as a starting point. 3. **Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory:** – Proposes a movement beyond previous political ideologies: liberalism, Marxism, and fascism. – Chaos is portrayed as the primary state, with order as a derivative concept. – The denial of a unified ontological essence—rejection of logos. 4. **Chaos and Metaphysics:** – Dugin distinguishes chaos from divinity; chaos becomes the fundamental premise of reality. – He emphasizes pre-order chaos and chaotic logos while critiquing traditional metaphysics. 5. **Freedom in Dugin’s Framework:** – Dugin’s concept of freedom deviates from Western notions of individualism, favoring collective identity and cultural freedom. – “Freedom” is conceived as freedom from individualistic constraints, moving into a general existential framework. 6. **From Individualism to Collective Being:** – Freedom in Dugin’s theory is tied to the collective rather than the individual. – Dugin’s political subject is not individuals, but “being” as encountered in specific cultural and geographical contexts. 7. **Political Strategy and Historical Context:** – Dugin suggests promoting disunity in rival societies as a strategy to counteract Western universalism. – A differential approach to ideologies is promoted, valuing discord as a tool against homogenization. 8. **Nihilism and Determinism:** – The critique of both liberalism and Eurasianism as forms of nihilism rooted in a belief in impersonal dynamics. – The dismissal of logos leads to an accidentalism that is common ground for both ideologies. 9. **Conclusion:** – Both Dugin’s and Western liberalism’s philosophies can lead to nihilism, with foundations in chaos. – The speaker hopes for a re-evaluation of Dugin’s philosophical approach that moves beyond chaotic frameworks inspired by post-structuralism and occultist influences. The discussion is nuanced and critical, reflecting on the implications of Dugin’s thought and its potential consequences in geopolitical contexts.
I’m not saying, not at all, that the Judge who found against Pauline Hanson has a teenage son who gets around in a dress, uses a girl’s name & wears lipstick.
Nor am I saying the Judge is an immigrant who arrived here just over 10 years ago.
Neither of those things, even if true, would have had any bearing on the strict-black-letter application of the law.
It was a strict application of the black letter of the law, was it not?
Found a tweet referring to the subject and it seems in the public sphere so can’t be contempt, even daddy poses for pics with his son in a SMH article 3 years ago. He’s proud of it.
Also the kid is 20 now so an adult that has thrown his lot in with this gender bending mob very publicly and so is fair game now.
A family full of freaks
Don’t underestimate the power of the squirrel.
A good chunk of people are true animal lovers.
The very idea of a raid on a rescue farm that ends up with the murder of two rescued pet animals is just the thing to wake them up to the over reach of state powers, whereas anything the state might do to an actual human being they would shrug right off.
Wouldn’t surprise me if it does bleed into election results.
Squirrel murdering bastards.
Labor knows this well. The saga of Molly the mapgie was an existential assault on the ALP Qld government, and they knew it.
It was fun to watch!
Absolutely, Arky, little Peanut as a classic example of the big state overreach.
Peanut has touched peoples’ hearts. The smallest little living bundle of fur.
Full of life and fun. Loving a cuddle, and a scamper around.
I am trying to get ole Hairy to watch it. So far he won’t but I’m working on it. It is symbolic, I say, of the whole of what this election is about: the overreach of the state into all aspects of peoples’ lives and the inability we have to fight it under the ‘woke’ administrations. Power for power’s sake.
And poor li’l Peanut, he never hurt anybody, but brought joy of the sort that Kamala could only dream of to millions of people now saddened by his brutal state-sanctioned murder.
It’s worse than the terrible fate of Speckled Jim. 🙂
These statements are certainly both carefully worded and full of holes.
The word is that the political classes and their senior bureaucratic hangers-on quietly prefer Qantas (and other airlines’) first class to the VIP squadron for long-haul flights because the commercial alternative is more luxurious. They’ll never say so in public, of course.
Parks in Taipei are full of squirrels.
First time I ever saw the critters.
Much better than stupid, dopey possums.
We should bring them here and see if they replace possums in that urban tree rat nuisance critter ecological niche.
Let them fight it out. Let the best tree rat thing win.
Never seen a squirrel.
Cafe young brushtail mum has just last night arrived with kid on her back for the first time. I have no idea how the kid ever managed to fit in her pouch since she’s a small female. Maybe possum pouches are like the Tardis.
Kid is third generation of Cafe brushtails since mum is the daughter of the original Cafe brushtail. I can see why they infested New Zealand. They’re tough and fecund and like bread and carrots.
Your cute brushtails will eat everything in your garden – fruit, flowers, all plants. They completely destroy. Only a couple of hungry cats will keep them out. There is no stopping them except a Lidia Thorpe couturier.
Used to be feral squirrels in the trees around South Perth because of the zoo. Grey colour, not sure of the species. They did not establish more widely, and I think it was because of repeated efforts by the authorities.