Korea’s natural state is to be governed by an invader.
Open Thread – Mon 25 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 2 Dec 2024
- Put coal in the Coalition energy policy
- Anglicanism blighted, Screwtape delighted
- Open Thread – Weekend 30 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 28 Nov 2024
@EricLDaugh JUST IN: The dog named “Trooper” that Florida Highway Patrol rescued from being tied to a pole during Hurricane…
@EricLDaugh HOLY SH*T Things are going down in South Korea. Soldiers are roughing up civilians. Is this the “democracy” the…
It’s government spending moron.
Not sure what’s going on here. @GuntherEagleman BREAKING: South Korean military announces the Martial Law will stay in place after…
Quadrant usually put out a Christmassy-generous-giving time appeal for tax-deductable donations… sometimes I do, but at the mo I’d put a caveat on that I will donate over and above only if they bin the weak Feildhouse texta drawing, and the pathetic “Quad Rant” fineliner comic.
Having said, it’s been a hot year for donations, including Pauline Hanson’s defence, my dog’s rehoming group, and Currency Lad’s appeal.
Maybe that’s C.L.’s story- he done take the money and run a-Venezuela!
Still waiting to hear if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel#Post-government_career gets a guernsey in Trump’s cabinet. Wasn’t he touted not long ago as favourite for FBI director? Perhaps he’s being held in reserve to become a special prosecutor for The Steal Retributions?
Meme of Elon considering buying MSNBC:
Don’t want an EV? You’re not alone, not that you’d know it listening to Labor
We gave EVs a go, especially Teslas, which for many drivers served more as yacht-like status indicators than as means of transport, but they’re not for most writes Tim Blair.
Daily Tele
Dutton, you dumb-arse
Walked through the front door, back from Bintang-Land a few hours back.
On the kitchen bench is a note from the son and heir:
Ah geez.
Riiiight….
Attaboy.
Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob.
Archie Rose single malt is quite drinkable.
Australian single malts have made much progress, since they were distilled from potatoes, fit only for treating blowfly strike in Merino sheep, and never intended for human consumption.
So.
If he bags one you could be the only guy in the Territory driving around with a pair of buffalo horns on the front of a Toyota Prius?
Hey.
Hey, hey, hey hey hey.
It’s a Manuel Ute, thank you very much.
Senator Rennick
Labor are ramming the social media ban through parliament without scrutiny
LEAKED Internal Memo: Jaguar rebrand strategy comes from the VERY TOP | MGUY Australia
Far-right populist surprises in Romanian presidential election appearing set to enter runoff
@pvtjokerus
Since we are urged not to use our air conditioners for the next few days why haven’t we heard anything about owners of Teslas being told not to use them or recharge them? Surely they should have been urged to used their other cars, the ones that run on petrol which is not in short supply even if just as pricy as electricity.
I’m not sure McSweeney is Test standard at the moment. He could be down the track, but not now. Throwing him in the deep end like this is dodgy.
Selectors should grow a set and pick Jake Fraser-McGurk. If you hold the world record for a List A century (29 balls) you obviously have a ton of talent. Plays his natural game but dial it back from 11 to around 8.
They did it with Warner and it worked.
If not, Plan B would involve Marcus Harris or Cameron Bancroft, and that would be like a dog returning to its vomit.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha November 25, 2024 2:59 pm
Would you buy a used house from this man?
https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/joe-burns-326632
Joe Burns is out of calculations as he is
now representing Italy in cricket, the rotten Dago turncoat.
Neil is:
a) Turning in his grave, or
b) cursing Aussie selectors.
I see scrolling down at his Cricinfo [age that Joe Burns made 108 not out for Italy vs. Romania.
Forza Giuseppe!
At 12, Jaiswal moved from rural Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai for cricket. He slept in tents and sold pani puri to earn pocket money. When Jwala Singh, a local coach, took him under his wing two years later, after watching him at Azad Maidan, Jaiswal’s career began to take off.
Mindblowingly badass.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills 70
Steve…. I’m sure that Cash dawg is lovely… but all he does is stand around, panting.
Let me know if he ever does something epic, like running down a bag-snatcher, or hearing the distant cries of a trapped child.
Dover
Would you believe it? Can you believe it? 13% of the Russian population actually had the temerity to vote against Pukin. The sheer audacity! It makes thoughtful people like us suspect that the 13% might actually represent a failed attempt at electoral fraud. It’s incredible that their so-called “decent” electoral system managed to limit the fraud to just 13%. Amazing, isn’t it? You agree, right?
The Mideast seems to be calming down a bit, with chatter about a possible ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Ukraine’s situation will be resolved one way or another—hopefully for the better.
The markets appear to be responding very positively to the Treasury Secretary’s appointment. Importantly, the American left seems to have accepted their defeat—or at least shown signs of resignation.
If Trump succeeds in getting his reform package through—and it looks likely—this could mark the start of another golden age for the U.S., provided there are no major flare-ups like wars, which are unpredictable.
Should the rest of the decade remain peaceful, we might witness a repeat of the Roaring Twenties from a century ago.
It’s interesting how history seems to echo a tiny bit: a major pandemic, a business-friendly administration, and perhaps fewer wars.
Owning U.S. stocks, such as a Dow ETF, seems a good bet in this scenario. While it would be surprising, it’s not inconceivable to see the Dow at 150,000 by 2030, representing a 22% annual compound return. Economic growth could accelerate massively.
It’s amusing, the Australian government looks like something out of ancient history. Their ideas are so antique.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel..
Ben Garrison.
Oh dear turkeys and chickens coming home to roost — looks like Labor has a woman problem and BTW so do the Greens in Victoria:
From the Oz
Nostalgic Brits reminiscing.
Picture, As we were not so long ago.
some of the comments;
“Powell tried to warn us, but we didn’t listen.”
“one has to remember that integration works both ways. Modern immigrants have to accept our culture not force theirs upon us.”
Fat chance I say.
Facts tell different.
More of British.
Love it or hate it.
Yum.
Pork pies.
Sadly I missed it with my children, they were not interested but we had a jolly good time when I was growing up.
Not always at a creek but always near some water where you could play and cool off.
Good times.
It was tried before many times and faded away because better technology.
————–
Electric taxis were introduced in London on August 19, 1897, marking an important milestone in automotive history. These vehicles, known as the “Bersey cabs”, were named after their inventor, Walter C. Bersey. At the time, they were hailed as the “horseless carriages of the future” and were revolutionary due to their quiet operation and lack of emissions compared to horse-drawn carriages.
The Bersey cabs were short-lived, ceasing operations by 1900.
Why?
Competition from Internal Combustion Vehicles:
Gasoline-powered vehicles became more affordable and practical, offering greater range and reliability.
They quickly overtook electric vehicles as the dominant automotive technology.
A bathroom of old, lucky some.
Others bathed once a year in May or later in the rivers.
Brides carried bouquets because of their fragrance too, but it’s not for the reason you think. “Before modern bathing routines, a wedding bouquet of fragrant flowers and herbs helped conceal body odor
>snork<
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1081057370416773
You have to open it to see what’s inside.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1029649001876570
My answer to the biological seasons of women and their relationship with men over a month.
Something for the farming community. There’s a huge untapped resource of jelly bean manufacture going begging.
Perhaps one of our intrepid businessmen could take up the challenge?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/598240395961911
Petition for General Elections in the UK Surges Past 2 Million Signatures, as Leftist PM Starmer Keeps Sinking in the Polls.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/petition-general-elections-uk-surges-past-1-million/
Todays “End of the World News”
Arabica Futs “Bull Run” Surges To 13-Year High Amid Panic About Brazilian Stockpiles
Is everyone still asleep?
No Winston, awake & reading that Prof Jay Bhattacharya will be appointed head of the National Institute of Health by The Don. It just gets better and better! The Prof was the instigator of the Great Barrington Declaration which valiantly opposed the mRNA vaccines.
Today’s Tele:
EVS ARE JUST THE LEYLAND P76 OF OUR SAD NEW ERA
TIM BLAIR
26 Nov 2024
Poor EV owners. They’ve fallen for the same dumb hype that saw a previous generation of Australian car buyers also reduced to figures of pity and scorn.
There was a time when electric vehicles genuinely did seem to be the future of personal transport.
Numbers were increasing. Recharging stations were popping up all over the place. Celebs drove them!
But the EV market is now collapsing like Australian batsmen.
“Battery electric vehicle sales in Australia have flattened in recent months,” University of NSW academic Milad Haghani and his Swinburne colleague Hadi Ghaderi reported in October.
“The latest data reveal a sharp 27.2 per cent year-on-year decline (overall new vehicle sales were down 9.7 per cent) in September. Tesla Model Y and Model 3 cars had an even steeper drop of nearly 50 per cent.
“Sales also fell in August (by 18.5 per cent) and July (1.5 per cent). There’s a clear downward trend.”
There are many reasons for this, which we’ll get to in a minute, but readers of a certain age may first be reminded by the EV sales slump of an earlier local vehicular debacle.
In 1973, the Leyland P76 sedan was launched to considerable consumer interest. A rival to Ford, Holden and Chrysler, the P76’s unusual design was informed by a then-extraordinary level of market research.
Potential buyers told Leyland what they wanted in a car, and Leyland believed them. This turned out to be a mistake as big as the P76’s boot.
Buyers, you see, had told Leyland they wanted a boot that was absolutely enormous.
Specifically, they wanted something large enough to carry a 44-gallon drum. Apparently there was a great deal of 44-gallon drum delivery carried out by private motorists during the mid 1970s.
So Leyland bet big, literally, on the P76. And they bet wrong. After an initial sales surge, demand died. It turned out that Australian drivers, beyond those enthusiastic early adopters, wanted something more besides brutal wedge styling and a boot like a Kardashian’s arse.
Leyland’s geopolitical timing also wasn’t great. The year of the P76’s launch was also the year of the OPEC oil embargo. Large cars took a sales hit, none more so than Leyland’s local folly – despite all that market research, and despite the P76 featuring several examples of technological progress.
Which brings us to our current flock of super-advanced electro-techno buggies that nobody wants. Academics Haghani (a “senior lecturer of urban analytics and resilience”) and Ghaderi (a “professor in supply chain and freight innovation”) rightly point out in their piece for The Conversation that reduced government incentives for EVs are causing reduced sales.
NSW and South Australia ended their $3000 rebates in January. NSW also deleted a stamp duty payback for new and used EVs up to a value of nearly $80,000. Victoria’s $3000 rebate ended in 2023. Queensland’s $6000 EV deal was withdrawn in September.
Without those incentives, market forces are forcing EVs out of the market. But our university mates see further reasons for EV abandonment.
“Misinformation and politicisation are rampant,” they wrote, blaming “persistent misconceptions”, “exaggerated concerns”, “myths” and “false narratives”.
Put this panic about misinfo in the misinfo file. The truth about EVs is that – just as with the P76 – Australians have figured them out.
It’s really very basic. We don’t care to pay thousands of dollars more for cars with few additional cabin features above normal vehicles. Sometimes, in fact, EV buyers pay more for less. EV heating and cooling systems are famously rubbish.
We don’t enjoy waiting for 30 minutes to recharge. Nor are we entertained by recharging stations that require a new phone app download, or that feature broken chargers. Or are located in sketchy, unserviced backstreets.
We who enjoy driving find little pleasure in commanding vastly overweight battery slabs with wheels. Australians gave the P76 a go, before the design’s style, quality and engineering shortcomings became overwhelming.
We also gave EVs a go, especially Teslas, which for many drivers served more as yacht-like status indicators than as means of transport. Then we moved on from EVs as well.
One important difference between then and now, however. Then-PM Gough Whitlam dismissed the P76 as a dud, and his future treasurer Bill Hayden called it a lemon.
“Consumers vote with their dollars, and they were not voting for the P76,” Hayden told parliament in 1974, the year the car was discontinued. “It was as simple as that.”
Fifty years later, consumers are not voting for EVs – yet support for EVs is still universal among Labor MPs. How many of them would fit in a P76 boot?
India: Muslims attack police during special election in Uttar Pradesh and play the victim a minute later
?An incident of Muslims initiating violence and using women and children as shields was recently reported from Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, and provides a notable example of Muslims using similar tactics worldwide. On Wednesday, November 20, sudden mayhem broke out during by-polls in Meerapur of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. In India, a by-poll, also known as a by-election, is a special election to fill a vacancy that arises between general elections in a state or national legislative body. As the constituency geared up for the by-polls, an unruly crowd emerged out of nowhere and started throwing stones at the state police who were patrolling the area. The tension escalated and became a major clash after the officials retaliated and tried to disperse the violent crowd by waving their service pistols.
Elon:
Musk Brands UK ‘Tyrannical Police State’ (25 Nov)
Labour will of course double down since they have a chance to do what they always wanted and have four years to do it in. But after those four years Labour will be absolutely exterminated in the election…if there’s an election.
Today’s Tele:
TIME FOR AUSTRALIA TO GET OUT OF BIASED ICC
GREGORY ROSE
26 Nov 2024
Imagine that in March 2025 President Donald Trump visits Australia on a trade and security mission where he is arrested. His rash public statements against The State of Palestine, posted to social media, are said to be crimes prohibited under the (hypothetical) UN Treaty Against Internet Misinformation.
He will be extradited to Geneva where the Misinformation Court presides.
Australia signed that treaty but the USA did not. The US Congress rejects the legality of the arrest.
The USA then declares that its head of state is being held political hostage by Australia and, if not released in 24 hours, diplomatic relations will be suspended and a rescue secured by forceful means. Many countries, certainly if it were Xi, Putin or Modi, might act similarly.
The situation is the same for an arrest warrant issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for extradition to the International Criminal Court.
Australia is a party to the ICC Statute. Israel, like the USA, is not.
Most Asia-Pacific countries and major powers rejected the ICC. None would accept the arrest of their Head of State based on a legal complaint by a third party under a treaty they are not bound by.
But Israel is not a superpower, it’s less than a third the size of Tasmania and is under continuous assault by surrounding Muslim militants.
It is especially isolated as the only Jewish country among 170 predominantly Muslim and Christian countries in the 194-member UN, most of which put it under constant diplomatic assault.
In the same way that a dominant power delivers victor’s justice, the ICC serves the political ends of dominant blocs in the UN, which give automatic majorities for anti-Israel hostilities, including through UN courts.
In issuing arrest warrants against the Prime Minister of Israel, the ICC is performing tasks designed for it by the UN. Part of the ICC Statute on war crimes was even designed by the UN specifically to criminalise Israel, by redrafting the laws of military occupation retrospectively.
Analysis of ICC cases has shown that it is used principally by dictators to punish their opponents: between 2002 and 2021, 17 out of 22 cases where countries referred their domestic matters to the ICC to prosecute were requests by dictators against opponents of their governments.
Yet, the ICC has achieved only 10 convictions and four acquittals across 20 years, costing over a billion dollars. It is naive to think that the ICC serves justice, unless you are an international criminal lawyer, in which case to think so is sensible self-serving careerism.
On Thursday November 21, 2024, the ICC performed as expected. It made its only ever demand for the arrest of an elected leader of a liberal democracy.
It set up a calculated moral equivalence between the sole Jewish state and a terror organisation.
The ICC demand to arrest Netanyahu was celebrated by Hamas, for effectively endorsing Hamas’ strategy of embedding terrorists among civilians and denying self-defence by Israel.
The ICC Chief Prosecutor, Karim Khan, held countless meetings with Palestinian complainants, while avoiding Israeli legal authorities. He ignored salient facts, such as Hamas robbing aid, booby-trapping homes and its destruction of infrastructure.
Nevertheless, he has support from ICC judges, the majority of them diplomatic appointees. Under article 17 of its Statute, the ICC has no jurisdiction if a case is being investigated by the State concerned. Israel has been conducting domestic investigations into its own alleged crimes.
The ICC judges disregarded this fundamental principle regarding Israel.
The official Australian independent investigation into the mistaken Israeli strike on a World Central Kitchen humanitarian convoy on 1 April 2024 found that the Israeli investigation system was satisfactory, similar to the Australian system, but quicker.
The Biden Administration says that it “fundamentally” rejects the ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu. The incoming Trump administration is likely to impose sanctions on the ICC in January 2025.
Prosecutor Khan has said that he will prosecute under article 70 of the ICC Statute those who seek to frustrate ICC processes.
This could mean an arrest warrant for Donald Trump. Imagine, again, that when Donald Trump visits Australia in March 2025, the ICC issues an arrest warrant against him. Foreign Minister Penny Wong says that she respects the independence of the ICC and defers to its processes. This means that the Albanese government would take the American President hostage.
A better idea would be to withdraw from the ICC.
Gregory Rose is a professor of international law at the University of Wollongong and is a former Australian diplomat.
Ps:
TIME FOR AUSTRALIA TO GET OUT OF BIASED ICC
In one word:
Yes
Trump on his legal persecution
Unbelievable – and clearly demonstrating how dismissive western governments are of their own people. So much for health and safety!
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: BIDEN ADMIN CONSIDERING SENDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO UKRAINE
UK AND FRANCE DISCUSS SENDING TROOPS
@BreannaMorello
@RealMacReport
Miranda Devine on Democrats after their election loss: “They will never get anywhere if they continue to delude themselves.”
He’s not wrong.
Musk Brands UK ‘Tyrannical Police State’
The Bee
It’s Official: Trump Now Has Hottest Cabinet Of All Time
Paul Homewood had a story about this yesterday but I didn’t put it up since it’s becoming so routine these days. But it fits rather well with Tim Blair’s column:
The Poster Child Of Europe’s Electric Car Future Just Filed For Bankruptcy After Burning Through Billions (26 Nov)
There is no possible way that Northvolt trying to build batteries in Sweden and the UK would ever be competitive. Likewise car companies building cars in Europe using their batteries would be hopelessly overpriced. Add in the collapse in EV sales and you have to think it will be a complete liquidation.
Paywallion:
It’s high time Australia pulls the pin on awful ICC
Ramesh Thakur
26 Nov 2024
Last week the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Israel bitterly criticised the decision as anti-Semitic slander.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad welcomed it. President Isaac Herzog said the ICC had “chosen the side of terror and evil over democracy and freedom”.
The warrants lend the authority of international criminal justice to the goal of delegitimising Israel but are unlikely to lead to the arrest of Netanyahu or Gallant anytime soon. Their initial impacts will be to undercut efforts to produce peace through negotiations, delay the release of remaining hostages and obstruct the goal of eradicating Hamas as Gaza’s governing power. They will not increase aid delivery and food supplies.
The wider impacts will be to undermine every country’s right to self-defence against armed attack while validating the triple tactics of barbaric terrorism by death squads, hostage taking and mass slaughter of civilians exploited as human shields.
They will leach support for the already troubled ICC project by eroding its legitimacy in some countries and convert neutral indifference into hostile opposition in others.
There are other troubling questions on the procedural soundness of the warrants.Karim Khan selected members of an expert panel to advise him on the case. Some had personal links to him. Others were on record accusing Israel of the crimes they were asked to investigate.
The ICC wants to arrest, detain and try the head of a government engaged in an existential war of survival against enemies who have sworn to destroy it and ethnically cleanse the region of Jews. With no responsibility for the outcome of a war, it’s hopelessly naive to demand “a state’s military operations be subject to international judicial supervision in the midst of a conflict”, in the words of Oxford University law professor Richard Ekins.
The absurdity of the charges is exceeded only by the malevolent perversity of accusing Israel of inhumane crimes of which it was the victim on October 7, with Hamas promising to repeat them “again and again”. How many charges are based on dubious Hamas sources? The court resurrects the charge of mass civilian deaths by starvation that has been debunked by the Famine Review Committee. There’s no acknowledgment of Gaza’s low ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths in the history of urban warfare.
The ICC has jurisdiction over member states. Israel is not a member. Gaza is not a state. The Palestinian Authority, seeking ICC intervention, is neither a state empirically nor exercises meaningful sovereignty over Hamas-ruled Gaza. In joining the ICC, it tried to circumvent the 1993 Oslo Accords in which it promised not to exercise criminal jurisdiction over Israeli nationals.
The court’s jurisdiction over member states is based on complementarity. The principle authorises it to step in only when national authorities are unable or unwilling to investigate and prosecute.
Democratic Israel’s independent prosecutors were not given the opportunity to investigate the alleged crimes before the ICC acted. Israel’s powerful judiciary has the will and ability to hold officials accountable. In 2015 former prime minister Ehud Olmert was convicted of bribery and obstruction of justice and spent 18 months in jail.
Cardinal George Pell’s case proved the vital importance of multiple layers of the judiciary. Yet there’s only one court, with variable standards of judges’ professionalism and apolitical independence, to decide international criminal trials.
All 124 ICC member states are legally obligated to arrest the two Israelis should they set foot in their country. But here’s a thought. Donald Trump could quietly invite Netanyahu to his swearing-in in January. If Netanyahu agrees, they can make a joint announcement. After taking office, Trump can consider sanctions on ICC personnel and any country that arrests Netanyahu.
Anthony Albanese’s silence has been disappointing but not surprising. But this is an opportune moment for Australia to withdraw from the ICC. Peter Dutton should commit to do so. It’s unlikely to be a vote loser.
Ramesh Thakur is emeritus professor at the Crawford School, Australian National University and a former assistant secretary-general of the UN.
Matt Gaetz Sex Allegations Was A Honeypot Operation! w/ Ian Carroll
Let me highlight this with as many buttons as the CatApp puts at my disposal-
The deputy PM’s chief of staff- read, brood mare for the Lehrmann-Higgins demographic- “earns” $270 000 per year – even when she’s indefinitely off work because words said.
“toughen up princess” doesn’t cut it, we need a whole load of DOGE- flavoured afuera!
More evidence that canbra is a toxic parasite, a tick, on this great country.
Fits with this story:
Trump’s Popularity Surges Among Young Americans (26 Nov)
Some interesting titbits in all this, like the importance of viral podcasts and the view that the right is now the resistance. It’s very encouraging that the kids are increasingly seeing through the MSM propaganda. It bodes well for Vance in 2028, assuming nothing drastic is committed by the Dems and deep state.
What is the Woke Right? – James Lindsay
Triggernometry
Summary In this discussion on the “Woke Right,” James Lindsay elaborates on the concept, tracing its connections to historical ideologies and current political behaviors. He defines the “Woke Right” as a form of reactionary ideology that mirrors leftist woke thought but applies it to the grievances of a specific demographic—namely, straight white Christian men. Lindsay argues that this ideology employs identity politics in a manner similar to the left’s identity politics, framing itself as an oppressed group in a post-war liberal consensus that has marginalized their beliefs. He contrasts the behaviors and philosophical foundations of the Woke Right with the traditional conservative movements, pointing out the influences of certain thinkers and the tactics used for political influence. Ultimately, he suggests that while the Woke Right may lack the broad influence of the left, it displays similar patterns of victimhood and cancel culture. ### Key Points #### Introduction to “Woke Right” – James Lindsay discusses the term “Woke Right” and acknowledges confusion about it. – He mentions his preference for the more specific term “woke Marxism” instead. – Lindsay suggests “woke fascism” could be an alternate term, drawing parallels to neo-Marxism. #### Philosophical Understanding – Defines the Woke Right philosophically and practically. – Both sides exhibit similar behaviors but target different demographics. – Emphasizes grievance identity politics, particularly from the perspective of white Christian men. #### Historical Context – Traces the rise of a post-war liberal consensus beginning after World War II. – Argues that the neoconservative movement marginalized “true conservatism.” – Suggests that this exclusion led to the current reactionary identity politics of the Woke Right. #### Reaction and Revival of Ideologies – Describes how individuals on the Woke Right claim to have “woken up” to a structural marginalization against them. – Discusses influences of historical thinkers like Carl Schmidt and Julius Evola on the Woke Right. – Highlights their critical consciousness directed toward a power structure they perceive as oppressive. #### Behavioral Patterns – Notes behaviors resembling the left, such as character attacks, manipulation, and cancel culture. – Discusses how this reactionary movement may adopt critical theory for their purposes. #### Influence and Representation – Acknowledges the Woke Right’s lesser influence compared to the mainstream left. – Raises concern that discussions may amplify a fringe movement. – Shares personal observations from a Trump rally suggesting that mainstream discussions might not reflect the extreme views often amplified online. #### Conclusion – Concludes that although there are some influential figures on the Woke Right, it largely remains a fringe group with ideas amplified through specific social media and other channels. This summary encapsulates Lindsay’s explanation and analysis of the Woke Right, illustrating its dynamics, historical context, and the persistent behavioral patterns it shares with leftist ideologies.
At last!
Labor Fems Katy and Clare posing in hard hats and hi-viz.
Don’t they know the repetitive nature of this attempted virtue signaling and fake “we luvz da workers” dress-ups just makes them look phony?
Show biz for ugly people
Sky News UK bovver boy Matthews stands there lying about Trump and the cases Jack Smith has now dropped.
Must’ve run out of cats, dogs and geese.
The Trump Effect: Haitian Migrants Self-Deport from Springfield, Ohio (25 Nov)
Lock up your pets NYC and Chicago peoples!
Taylor Sheridan, who wrote and made Yellowstone, has a new series coming soon. Landman. Watch the two minute clip. Definitely going to give it a go when it’s released.
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1860892910079619112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1860892910079619112%7Ctwgr%5Ed8faabf00889ab19ae0fd9d69a37d93b6ff71149%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.redstate.com%2Fposts%2F2182446
https://x.com/search?q=Swans%20&src=typed_query
Yep. Swans the food of Kings and migrants.
Glorious tale of woe!
High mileage electric car usage is working out almost twice as expensive as petrol (25 Nov)
Interesting that (a) he has to pay nearly two bucks per kWh from fast chargers just about everywhere and (b) a third of them are usually out of service. By comparison petrol pumps are rarely out of service these days.
An interesting observation of Jordan Peterson today on the sharing of a meal at the table. This has meaning for me because, coincidentally, I earlier this morning invited my family to share Christmas with us this year – a bold move considering the volatility of my family!
When people sit at a table, they share food. This is strange; humans are the only animals who formally share food. But it is also normal — so normal in some ways that no one notices its strangeness. The fact that people can actually share food, even when they are hungry, is really quite remarkable.
The dinner table represents a kind of nostalgic ideal. The Old Testament places an immense emphasis on hospitality to a stranger, but the same principle applies within your family. At the dinner table, you get to share your day. You each get to talk and to listen. It is a place to inculcate manners into your children. It is a place for everyone to keep track of everyone else and what is going on in their day, week, and so forth. Sharing food at the table is a time and place for everyone to come together and discuss the separate elements of their life.
Then, a mealtime prayer offers an opportunity to be grateful. People often incorrectly think of prayer as a kind of wish or confuse it as a time to ask for favors, but it is actually a practice. You can practice gratitude, and there are certainly reasons to do so — one of which being that you notice what you have for which to be grateful. In other words, the practice makes you much more aware. It is also a way to stave off resentment. If you become an expert at the very useful practice of gratitude, your life will become much better.
It has been. 2 episodes are out
Look at this big skank:
Lia Thomas Attacks Iowa’s Ban on Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports
Indigenous Affairs minister, Malarndirri McCarthy, was being interviewed this morning by Sabra Lane on ABC radio re domestic violence against women in aboriginal communities.
The ABC was taking the line that this was a “systemic” problem; i.e. racist white police regarded DV as a feature endemic to indigenous culture and fail to investigate the crimes with sufficient rigour.
Was this correct? McCarthy, who hails from the NT Gulf country town of Borroloola (76% indigenous) went off script and inadvertently confirmed the widespread presence of DV in indigenous communities by recounting how many of her aunties and cousins had been victims of DV.
Perhaps the “systemic” problem here is the violent behaviour of some aboriginal men in remote communities and the code of silence that protects them?
wow
So the Treasurer’s office goes on a trip to the Ukraine. What was the Treasurer doing there? How many staff? Lots of questions.
You literally cannot cannot detest bureaucratic Karens enough.
Amish Volunteers Built 100+ ‘Tiny Homes’ for Hurricane Victims but Guess What Happened Next… (25 Nov)
Trump and Elon really do have an Augean stable to clean out.
Unmistakably, when Bush Jr nominated Georgia and Ukraine for NATO entry in 2008. Of course, before that it was on a slow but increasing simmer.
Re crashing EV sales:
The bulk of EV sales are fleet sales to ‘woke’ corporations and government entities. We have seen how that worked out for Hertz (huge losses, departure of CEO) but of course there is no accountability for the expenditure of taxpayers’ money.
The reality is that individuals spending their own hard-earned overwhelmingly do not want to buy them.
I think that Tim Blair was a bit hard on the P76 – it was a much better proposition than an EV. Apparently they are now collectors’ items, with prices to match.
Ugly, though!
I doubt that 2023 EVs will ever be significant collector’s items, not least because you will need a block and tackle to move them.
Just be wary that the mean spirited don’t use the gathering as a way to settle old scores.
I find that the Big Chief standing at the head of the table armed with carving knife and fork is an adequate deterrent. Depends on how far the minions want to risk it!
Also, never underestimate the power of the Christmas cracker complete with useless trinket and dumb joke. And make them wear the paper hats – that’s sure to diffuse stupid arguments. 😀
I call electric vehicles the Spontaneous Combustion Engine.
Too cold? Too hot? I wonder what’s in common with these two stories?
Half of U.S. at risk for blackouts during extreme cold this winter, grid watchdog warns (25 Nov)
Fear of potential blackouts from soaring temperatures puts New South Wales residents on edge (25 Nov)
It’s a mystery. We should ask Chris Bowen about it, he might know.
Jordan Peterson is correct as far as he goes., but he doesn’t go far enough.
Prayer is an act as well as a practice; a speech act to use a term from linguistics.
I think it was Eugene Peterson (no relation) who coined the term “answering speech” to capture the nature of the act of prayer, which is always a response to God, who speaks to us first.
Note how God spoke the world into being at creation in Genesis 1. God continues to speak through creation (Psalm 19:1), which theologians term general revelation because it is generally available to all people. More specifically, God speaks through his word, beginning with Moses and the prophets and fulfilled by Jesus, the word incarnate (Luke 24), which incarnation or enfleshment is, of course, celebrated at Christmas.
Firstly, it depends on the target with the ATACMS. Secondly, given, the situation with the Storm Shadows and SCALP, its a distinction without a difference.
They already had comparable weapons on hand until they expended them all. Re the ATACMS, the US has probably no more than 700 on hand so they were never going to get that many of them. Neither made a significant difference.
There are a few significant bulges emerging in the south and north which is why I’m seeing a number of Ukro-bros losing their shit on my timeline. Moreover, just looking at the line and not what is going on also in terms of the balance of forces will just lead you astray.
More wishful thinking.
Their nonsense does appear on my timeline.
I think that Tim Blair was a bit hard on the P76 – it was a much better proposition than an EV. Apparently they are now collectors’ items, with prices to match.
Ugly, though!
The Holdens of the day weren’t exactly beautiful either. Falcons were generally better looking.
Bloke I know had a P76 6 cylinder. He loved it. I drove it once and it was pretty good (compared to my HR Holden at the time). We used to call it the Leyland P38 Lightning cause it was half as good as he thought it was.
He also used to get ask if it was a Mike or a Mal when extolling its virtues.
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‘Plague of domestic violence’ takes lives of 87 women in NTStephen Rice
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In a landmark inquest into domestic, family and sexual violence in the Northern Territory, a coroner has found that the horrific deaths of four Indigenous women were all preventable, with urgent action needed to prevent a predicted 73 per cent rise in domestic violence over the next decade.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage investigated the four killings and many others for more than a year, finding that at least 87 women had been killed by their partners in the NT over the past 24 years, almost all of them Aboriginal.
Correct. And, in that circumstance, who has more at stake? The person fighting his neighbor, or the person from the other town, goading the neighbor to continue the fight?
Walked early this morning, as it promises to be a very hot day up here. A small black snake was also on an early morning jaunt and reared up as I walked, unknowingly, across his path. No harm done as he swerved back where he came from.
This is the fourth black snake I have seen this Spring/Summer – 2 on my habitual walking path, 1 in the house grounds and the other (a whopper) in the chook pen. Also saw a decent size brown on the track down to the creek.
Please someone set us up with a dinosaur asteroid.
Professor claims hostility to Barney the Dinosaur rooted in white anti-gayness (23 Nov, via Instapundit)
Waiting with interest for the same academic to do the Teletubbies.
(Barney the Dinosaur features as a long running joke in Craig Alanson’s excellent military SF series Expeditionary Force.)
Perhaps the “systemic” problem here is the violent behaviour of some aboriginal men in remote communities and the code of silence that protects them?
Talk about the elephant in the room.
All the stories I’ve read over the last few days are about how society is failing the victims. Police, health services, refuges (all taxpayer funded) are to blame.
It’s Kafkaesque how no-one ever mentions the perpetrators, as though they only exist in the abstract. Occasionaly, they are referred to at a couple of removes, but only in ways that blame others. So we get rubbish like ‘colonialism’ and ‘stolen generations’ and the ultimate circular argument which claims that they had lousy parents, so it is inevitable.
Your average rabid feminist would not hesitate for a nanosecond to blame the perp. But, they are MIA when it comes to Aboriginal women, and Muslim women, for that matter.
Is it entropy? Feminism is now a discredited vehicle for rich, discontented Western women. They don’t give a damn about their ‘sisters’ as long as they can polish their media profiles.
doverObeach
Maybe the genesis is a little bit earlier – February 9 1990
https://x.com/dmills3710/status/1861086202310336688
Note how God spoke the world into being at creation in Genesis 1. God continues to speak through creation (Psalm 19:1), which theologians term general revelation because it is generally available to all people.
In the beginning was the Word….I have always fancied that language – consciousness translated into symbolism – allowed God to “see” the world through us. This is what the German poet Rilke meant when he said:
“We are here so that God may know himself in you”.
I find it amusing that someone took the trouble to downtick my response to Zippy’s link to Dore and the Gaetz imbroglio.
The more I think about Gaetz and his predicament, the more I sniff the smell of swamp. Just about everyone involved in it is a proven bad actor. I had zero idea that it went back as far as it did, and all started with a corruptocrat issuing fake licenses for underage girls…for benefits. Amongst a raft of other dodgy and illegal acts.
Byzantine Washington at its deepest.
I see the leading Presidential candidate in Romania is ‘pro-Russian’, according to the FT, because he believes Ukraine is none of the Romanian’s business.
Cassie, if you’re scrolling through but not in a good place to comment right now…
Rest assured that many Cats and Kittehs are thinking of you and wishing you well. And for those of us who pray, you are in our prayers.
No offence, Vicki, as I recall you are a Rilke fan, but that sounds like something from a Hallmark greeting card.
God “knows himself” completely without us and, unlike us, he is perfect, so there is nothing we can add to his being. He does, however, rejoice when we turn from our sins to life in fellowship with him.
If it is possible to sum up the meaning of life in one sentence, I’ll take the Westminster Catechism:
‘Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.’
You won’t find that on a greeting card!
😀
So the idea is to sit in your leccy car while it is charging with the AC on 🙂
Dave Chappelle is a comedy superstar. Here he is on LGBT alphabet nonsense, and on fake racist politics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBDzqsm2VSs
Ten minutes of hilarity, minus the poster who should have just shut up and let the man speak for himself.
That’d be a good one to put to talkback radio.
Another one:
What is the point of having an air conditioner if you can’t use it on hot days?
Government(s) should lead by example & mandate that all their offices and parliamentary buildings should turn their a/c off.
“We’re all in this together.”
On any proposed ceasefire re Lebanon. I can’t see it happening without there being a major split between Netanyahu, Smotrich and Gvir. This tells you things aren’t going well in the north, and that there is intense pressure both internally and externally, to come to some sort of agreement.
I, like Johanna, think Tim Blair was unfair in comparing electric cars to the P76 which was a good design (especially in the aluminium V8 form) but poorly executed. I believe it formed the underpinnings for the Rover SD1 (another poorly executed sensational design).
Comforting to think that the Admiral imagines a NATO v Russia war is going to play out like Ukraine or WW2.
So many of these military deadshits have never had a productive job and are glorified pubic serpents. So many of these pricks seem to actually want a big war. No doubt secure in the knowledge that they won’t be on the front line.
It was no accident that Australia’s electricity grid was designed by unemployable arts graduates for whom electrical engineering is a white supremacist conspiracy against the technologically illiterate.
The Australian left and their renewable energy scammers want to reduce home comforts to the primitivity of the Middle Ages because they’re deeply ashamed of the success of our civilisation.
Our economy must also rely on government subsidies so that the animal spirits of the free market are disabled and the left’s mortal enemy, capitalism, is defeated.
The fact that subsidised sky-high power bills hurt people on the lowest incomes the most simply reminds the aspirational that they can’t have nice things like the rich for whom renewable energy is a luxury belief they can easily afford.
Got to love Aussie Post.
Ordered something from Sydney. It made it to the Burnside MC (Nambour) only 10ish km from home, and was scanned in at 2am on Saturday morning.
Looked at the tracking this morning, the parcel is having a nice holiday in Victoria.
This isn’t going to end well…
Two-tier Keir Starmer is now proposing a crackdown on benefits while continuing to host illegal arrivals in motels and provide them with tailored medical and other social services for which native Britons have to go on long waiting lists.
The review of welfare payments is a governmental responsibility owed to taxpayers, but in the present context it could be incendiary.
Wally Dalí
November 26, 2024 1:27 am
Steve…. I’m sure that Cash dawg is lovely… but all he does is stand around, panting.
Let me know if he ever does something epic, like running down a bag-snatcher, or hearing the distant cries of a trapped child.
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When at a dog park he runs amok. That tail of his swings into action. He is a CHAMPION retired show dog, so when Stevo takes him into public spaces he goes into show mode, hence his stance.
I would love to read Pierpont’s column about whether Blue Sky Mining (NL) would invest in this one:
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Western Australia’s ancient Nullarbor may be on the cusp of a wild transformation.
Plans lodged with the state’s Environmental Protection Authority this month will bring 3,000 wind turbines and 60 million solar modules to the vast desert landscape, to fuel the production of green hydrogen and make green ammonia for export.
A new town — where residents ride electric buggies and scooters, and grow fresh produce in greenhouses — will house around 8,000 of the enormous energy project’s workers.
The proposed Western Green Energy Hub (WGEH) has made headlines for its scale and ambition.
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Read on, if you enjoy perusing something that even Blue Sky might have had reservations about putting in a prospectus. 🙂
Promoted by ThierABC.
Johanna, My disillusionment came at the time of the second gulf war, after 9/11, when feminists couldn’t care less how Muslim women in Iraq and Afghanistan were treated.
Further, if feminists were really about women they would also be disgusted how Muslim women in western countries are required to wear niqabs, hijabs and burqas. If these women are free to choose then why don’t they? Or at least some of them.
When I was on a tour in Casablanca* in 2019 our tour guide said that Moroccan women were free to choose how they dress and to look around for proof. He was right, almost half the women wore western clothes. You could say that Moroccans are better feminists than our own.
*Of course, that could have been case in metropolitan and cosmopolitan Casablanca and that the dress code was more enforced in regional areas.
The other day we had a UK general threatening to deploy forces in Europe.
Why are EU military commanders talking like politicians, who actually decide these matters?
It reminds me of the role of the military in provoking WWI.
On the subject of the Jaguar debacle I am today replacing the rear mufflers on my old XJ before it goes out for its exercise. Straight through replacements will be fitted.
I will thus not hear the mockers.
Good point Roger- I recall something about a secret deal between the British and frog senior military. Hateful people. Just look at the treatment of NCOs and ORs here after Afghanistan.
Israel ‘set to approve ceasefire with Hezbollah’
From the Oz.
Rebel News HQ:
Ezra Levant warns Charlie Kirk about freedom of the press in Canada after shocking arrest
Oooh, nice find!
Oldest US firearm unearthed in Arizona, a bronze cannon linked to Coronado expedition (Phys.org, 25 Nov)
It’s very similar to the bronze swivel gun that was found near Darwin in 2010.
This sums up the demorats and leftoids:
Whoopi: ‘I Don’t Care If Biden Pooped His Pants, I Have Poopy Days All the Time.’
Yes, that went on for years prior to hostilities breaking out. As with the Germans, they had the plans ready to go. Of course, that is the military’s job, but the existence of those plans and the planners should never impede upon the options available to the political decision makers.
A lot of blame to go around re WW1. Always best to avert the momentum early before it gathers too much pace.
Arky:“Other than that, you seem to have a firm grasp on how we got here today, but you could brush up on Afghanistan, Syria, Georgia, and other joyful recent Russian adventures.”
Not to mention Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Serbia and Afghanistan – oh wait, those were US/NATO ones.
Neither side is perfect, both want to survive and both want international… power for want of a better word.
Both sides have good people but crappy leaders.
This is what we have, and I don’t think the US “deep state” is much better than Putin to be honest – they even appear to be now wanting to start WWIII before DJT can get in and stop it. For what, money? Ambition? Power? None of those will be much use if the entire world is a post apocalyptic hell hole.
These idiots want an aristocracy with them in charge. And they know if someone really does “drain the swamp”, there’s a good chance they’ll go to gaol. Somehow, they think WWIII is better than going to gaol. FMD. And they’re everywhere, not just the US – including here in Aus.
In short, we ain’t much better when you get down to brass tacks.
People living in glass houses and all that.
And frankly, if you think otherwise then you’re a fool.
My insightful comment about Boomers and service station toilet paper kyboshed by Teh Paywallian I’m afraid.
Four men have been charged over the theft of a police officer’s gun and ammunition from an unmarked police car in north Queensland.
Police allege the group broke into five vehicles at a secure apartment complex in Townsville’s CBD early Sunday morning before stealing a BMW sedan and ramming the car park gates.
Police said a firearm and ammunition that had been “stored securely” in an unmarked police car was also stolen.
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The meaning of the word ‘secure’ seems to have been redefined by QPol. Apparently, it means ‘not meant to have been stolen.’
And, since when was leaving a gun and ammo in a car overnight acceptable?
Woe betide the humble citizen who does that. The finger-wagging could fuel a windfarm. Just before the massive fines and possibly the clink.
What a clownshow.
Trans train terminates here
By Monica Doumit – November 25, 2024
Well, the zap didn’t correct my AFib, so off for a pacemaker. I’m expecting to feel 200% in three hours time. Play nice while I’m gone.
good luck, best wishes Delta
Separated at birth: federal shadow social services minister Michael Sukkar and Melbourne race caller Matt Hill.
Delta A
November 26, 2024 12:54 pm
Well, the zap didn’t correct my AFib, so off for a pacemaker. I’m expecting to feel 200% in three hours time. Play nice while I’m gone.
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Wishing you well, Delta.
I’ll leave the others, but Syria?
Hopefully fertilized by their own (copious quantities of) excrement.
Alex doesn’t give a f*ck. He’s spot on for calling them out wearing masks.
Alex BATTLES Antifa Protestors at TPUSA Event!
Just read the ABC story on the Nullarbor green hydrogen hub. The usual WA “sustainability” experts including Professsor Peter Newman, the wanker.
As of this day, in the interests of saving electrickery, I have declared that electrick bikes and scooters may not be used or charged.
This is allegedly a parody
What is the original photo that this parodies?
These black seagulls seem to have a poor understanding of the concept of potable water and basic food hygiene.
Johanna, My disillusionment came at the time of the second gulf war, after 9/11, when feminists couldn’t care less how Muslim women in Iraq and Afghanistan were treated.
Further, if feminists were really about women they would also be disgusted how Muslim women in western countries are required to wear niqabs, hijabs and burqas. If these women are free to choose then why don’t they? Or at least some of them.
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Agree, Crossie.
Notice how they focus on the top jobs? How come I’m not a CEO etc.
They probably employ illegals at cheap rates to clean their house and mind their children.
In the wild:
Neil Oliver Interviews Edward Dowd – They’ve created a monster!!!
Dr. Suneel Dhand
I am SHOCKED: TRUMP’S New U.S. SURGEON GENERAL Pick
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SA Liberals threaten repeal ahead of historic Indigenous Voice addressDavid Penberthy
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South Australia’s Indigenous Voice will make its inaugural formal presentation to state parliament on Wednesday in what will be the first such address ever made before an Australian parliament.
But the South Australian Liberals are saying it should be the last and are threatening to repeal the legislation which gives SA elected Indigenous leaders the right to address not just state parliament but also state cabinet and departmental chiefs on issues of concern to Aboriginal people.
Referendum? What referendum?
Libertarians trying to wake the Liberals up, vainly I suspect. Dutton is pushing it!
Liberals hit with ULTIMATUM over social media ban support | 6 News
Play stupid games; win stupid prizes!
Student activists’ fundraising appeal after car crash en route to Rising Tide People’s Blockade in Newcastle
A group of “poor student activists” are crowd-funding after they crashed a car on their way to the anti-coal blockade in Newcastle while uninsured.
A group of student activists who were on their way to the Newcastle Port protest has raised almost $8000 after they were involved in a “major crash,” with one member of the group suffering a broken finger.
According to the fundraiser, organised by University of Sydney student Jasmine Alrawi, the group ran into trouble as they were driving to Newcastle to join the Rising Tide Climate Blockade last weekend.
“We were [going] to join the blockade of the world’s largest coal port with all our equipment in the boot when we got into a major car crash on a freeway,” the fundraiser read.
“The airbags were deployed and the front passenger and driver suffered minor injuries including a broken finger. Luckily everyone is okay, just a bit shaken.
“Unfortunately as poor student activists the car was not covered by insurance and we have been burdened with a huge bill to cover as a result.”
By Tuesday morning, the fundraiser had received 98 donations and sits at $7595 – just a couple of thousand dollars shy of the $10,000 target.
The page explained repairs for the car were expected to cost more than $10,000, leaving no choice but to write-off the vehicle and replace it with another car worth $15,000.
“The repairs are looking to be well over $10k, so it is looking like the car is a write off and we will have to replace it, being around $15k. We are also burdened with paying for the repairs for the other cars in the crash which will be thousands of dollars,” the page read.
“Already in huge shock with the accident, the burden of the expenses is only adding to the distress we are facing. The owner of the car has also just lost both their parents and have little support network to pay the costs.”
According to the page, three members of the group caught the train to Newcastle to participate in the blockade after “spending hours in the emergency room (dealing) with injuries”.
“That is the spirit that we take to our activism whether it’s for Palestine or the climate,” the page read.
The group went on to describe themselves as “some of the most active and dedicated campaigners in Sydney,” known for establishing the controversial University of Sydney Gaza Solidarity Encampment and attending “every weekly Palestinian demonstration”.
According to her Facebook account, Ms Alrawi contested the USYD Student Representative Council election this year with the Left Action group, also known as the Socialist Alternative (SAlt).
SAlt is one of the most present activist groups on university campuses across the country with a self-professed goal “to overthrow capitalism”.
The group’s crowd-funding pitch ended with a final appeal for people to “donate generously”.
Ms Alrawi was contacted for comment but did not wish to speak with media.
Daily Tele
Germany has run into headwind with its energy supply. In fact the problem is no wind. The comments below the article are well worth reading.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/alternative-energy-crowd-gets-desperate-wind-drought-refuses/
Vicki,
Rilke is much mentioned in this article from First Things.
What Musk actually said was that with completely open borders and millions flowing in local populations would be overwhelmed in subsequent elections.
Elon Musk Noticed Something About the Election No One Noticed
WANTED: SWAMP-CLEANER!
Immediate start! Lots to do! Must speak English. Non-woke applicants only please.
Fake students complain to Indian newspaper after Australian ‘ghost college’ crackdown
Indian students have brazenly admitted rorting Australia’s visa system through dodgy “ghost colleges” that leave them “free to work until they get residency”.
The Albanese government announced in August that around 150 so-called “ghost colleges” had been shut down and another 140 issued warning notices by the regulator.
Ghost colleges or “visa factories”, which offer no real courses but enable fake international students to come to Australia for work, have long plagued the troubled vocational education sector. Labor earlier this year announced a renewed crackdown, promising “shonks and dodgy operators” would be weeded out.
Following the August announcement, Punjab-based newspaper The Tribune published a sympathetic article about the “bleak future” faced by affected students after paying thousands of dollars in fees.
The article reported that some of the 150 colleges shut down for failing to show proof they were offering “any regular training or studies to the students” either worked with or were co-owned by “unscrupulous agents and study visa advisers from Punjab”.
“For decades, illegal private colleges had been providing backdoor immigration and work rights to internationals students,” the article read.
“Hundreds of students from North India rush to these colleges every year ‘to take dummy admissions and instead work’, while their attendance and course certificates are taken care of.”
One such student told The Tribune he “came to Australia two years ago as a student after being assured that I can work five days a week, while my attendance and course would be taken care of”.
“Now, I have been told by my Punjab-based agent that the government has sealed the college,” he said. “The agent who sent us here has already shut operations in March after being booked in a visa cheating case.”
Another student said she and her brother were working at a cafe in Adelaide but in August they had been asked to report back to the college.
“The authorities later shut the college,” she said. “Till now, we have no idea how to handle the situation. We have already paid the entire course fee.”
One migration agent who had sent more than 250 students to Australia over the past four years said he had already shut his operations in Punjab “after Canada and Australia tightened the noose around study visas”.
“Many private colleges in Canada and Australia have funding from agents like us,” he said. “We have told the students not to panic and there will be a way out soon.”
Another agent said, “The students know that the college admission is a mere formality and that they are free to work there till they get residency.”
The Tribune’s article, which was published in September, went viral after being shared on Reddit this week.
“I don’t think anyone would object to international student levels if the industry was primarily about education, and not considered as a pathway to migration with all the unscrupulous actors that then creates,” one person commented.
How do you feel about ‘ghost college’ students?
It’s not their fault – they are being sold a lie 4 %
They are knowingly rorting the visa system 95 %
Not sure 1 %
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Another shared that they had worked at a ghost college.
“There were over 600 students on the books, but we’d be lucky to get even one of them showing up,” they wrote.
“This was for an English pathway to VET program. For those who don’t know, there’s a piece of legislation that says students in ELICOS (English) programs must attend at least 80 per cent of their classes or risk having their visa cancelled. I was the director of studies at the time and I was kept in the dark about how this was a ghost college. I kept getting frustrated that I couldn’t hire more teachers (legislation requires 1:18 ratio of teachers to students) and that I would have to report students en masse for non-attendance. I basically got told to shut up.”
The commenter said they “soon found out these students had been brought over on student visas in a deal with a construction company — the students would work in construction all day instead of coming to class”. “They were tricked, as far as I know, and brought over from some poor areas of China,” they said. “I quickly resigned from that role and reported them to I quickly resigned from that role and reported them to [the Australian Skills Quality Authority].”
Many took issue with characterising the students as the victims.
“They’re not exploiting vulnerable students,” one said. “They’re co-conspirators in a scam. Pay me money and I’ll give you a fake degree so you can scam the student visa system. The only people being exploited here are the citizens of Australia.”
Widespread abuses of Australia’s visa system were identified in the March 2023 Nixon Review, commissioned by the Home Affairs Department, which recommended a targeted crackdown on “high-risk” VET providers.
At the time of the review, there were roughly 4000 VET providers in Australia, around 800 of which took international students.
The report warned that while the skills regulator had made detection and deterrence of “non-genuine” providers one of its priorities, the sheer number “necessitates ASQA’s risk-based regulatory approach” and that its “primary focus is on achieving quality education outcomes rather than deterring and disrupting visa exploitation”.
Separately, an interim parliamentary committee report into the international education sector, published in October 2023, confirmed the problem had been widespread for years in the scandal-plagued VET sector.
“We refer to them as ‘ghost schools’, because there are very few students to be seen,” Australian Academy of Vocational Education and Trades (AAVET) managing director Menelaos Koumides told the committee.
“I’ve walked into a few, looking at hiring premises. You will see teachers at desks, on computers, in empty classrooms.”
There were nearly 970,000 international student enrolments in Australia in between January and August this year, according to the Education Department, a 15 per cent increase on the same period in 2019.
China was the biggest source (22 per cent), followed by India (17 per cent), Nepal (8 per cent), the Philippines (5 per cent) and Vietnam (5 per cent).
Growth in enrolments was the highest in the VET sector at 42 per cent.
There have previously been calls to deport any students found to have been enrolled in ghost colleges — but experts warned this could simply trigger more international students to apply for asylum as supposed refugees.
“It’s a very delicate area the government is constantly dealing with,” said Melanie Macfarlane, chief executive of MM Migration and Recruitment and chair of Immigration Consultants of Australia.
“I think they’ve shot themselves in the foot in many ways, because with all these measures coming into place [cracking down on international students], they’re being influenced to apply for asylum.”
Last month, international students staged protests against recent visa changes, saying they feared being forced to return home and warning Australians “you need us”.
The federal government recently tightened the rules around the popular 485 temporary graduate visa as part of its migration strategy, reducing the age cap and tightening English proficiency requirements.
The 485 visa previously granted full post-study work rights for international students for up to eight years, making it one of the most attractive of its kind in the world and creating a large group of “permanently temporary” migrants.
“We don’t deserve to be singled out because of our age,” said JC Coca, a speaker at one event, SBS reported. “Australia, you need us! You need my skills!”
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“Unprecedented State Of dismay” | Keir Starmer BLASTED Over State Of Britain
Tim Pool on Trump tariffs: “Based AF”.
and “I say we put 100% tariffs on China”.
Even libertarian beany boy gets it now.
Trump announces a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico, plus an extra 10% on China above whatever else he decides (was it 100%?), tied to fentanyl smuggling.
Like most of his economic policy ideas, it is so stupid that you can’t take it seriously.
Will the Labour Government Collapse Soon?
Watch the latest Timcast podcast.
Tim gives the most cogent and beautiful tariff defence using the skateboard industry as an example.
JC posted a piece at the weekend by a Daily Telegraph journalist on the frustration of the British citizenry at this in-yer-face two tier system.
This piece also touches on the increasingly desperate government attempt to generate “Controlled Spontaneity, a theater of coerced togetherness attempting to displace natural feelings of anger and demands for change into depoliticized grief”.
Government in Britain is appears to be coming to terms with the consequences of the inevitable numbers game of multiculturalism.
The British Muslim population has grown since 2000 from around 1.5 million to 4 million. Mostly tightly concentrated on the major cities.
Pew Research (albeit in the US) suggests that ~40% of this population is devout – that is to say strongly Islamic.
If, for the sake of argument, ‘military age males’ makes up 25% of this ‘devout population’ and 1% of that subgroup is of an active jihadi persuasion, the UK possibly has something like 4,000 potential terrorist actors waiting on the go-line – with a top cover of 1.6 million fellow believers in fundamental Islam.
A tough call for security services and government agencies – and an enduring testimony to the flabby governance of the past 25 years.
I can see no solution. Islam is in place to expand, not moderate and adapt – and simplistic ‘hard arsed’ deportation models are constitutionally and politically unavailable in the UK.
Whatever the problem, whatever the range of possible solutions, Government will typically take the easy compromise. The broad-based government clampdown on public discussion on these issues to avoid triggering whatever comes next is arguably the last shot in the locker.
‘General disillusionment’: Albanese government under fire over social media age ban
Trump is going to use tariffs to pressure Mexico and Canada to prevent border trafficking.
Seems fair, good fences make good neighbours.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1861213541446963495?t=lWmsFxGbE5mczmiQu3va1w&s=19
Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather reveals why he cannot afford to buy a house – despite earning more than $230,000 a year
Daily Mail.
For those who are interested and have a spare 45 minutes to listen to this interview with orthopaedic surgeon Prof. Ian Harris on evidence based medicine and the efficacy of much orthopaedic surgery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOc9b1LArZY
In Alinsky news:
Pro-Palestinian man arrested at synagogue protest
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Coming shortly: Minister Burke and Senator Wong denounce violence from all sides and condemn growing militant Islamophobia.
“This is Europe we’re talking about—since WWII, the biggest weenies since the word was invented to describe them. NATO was and still is a defensive alliance, primarily meant to defend Europe with mighty U.S. assistance from the predatory orcs.”
All true enough, but when your are planning military defenses, you can’t rely on intentions, you have to rely on capabilities – capabilities generally change slowly, but intentions can change overnight.
As I said, I don’t like Putin per se, however I can see his PoV – they gave up communism and power over their vassal states, they wanted to join a peaceful and prosperous US/EU. They not only got rebuffed, but pretty much every promise made to them was broken. They only “got rowdy” when it looked to become existential to them – and that’s being pretty tolerant as far as I’m concerned.
Ukraine was ready to sign a treaty until Boris Johnson – no doubt with the approval and perhaps even at the instigation of the US – told them to keep fighting and we’d help them. As you say, we should have stayed out of it. We didn’t. Why? So the west could “crush Russia”. Why? Beats me, but likely “because we can” and “who’s gonna stop us?”. Bad reasons. Very bad. We’re supposed to be the good guys, and good guys don’t beat the crap out of you after you give up the fight, and they don’t tease and taunt you to push you into a fight that no-one wins. But that’s what “we” did. Not just shameful, but downright dangerous.
For me, I like DJT’s response to the “Which side do you support?” question, which was “I want people to stop dying.”
I’m on board with this also.
Did you not get the memo, dickhead?
“Property is theft.”
Ukraine was ready to sign a treaty until Boris Johnson – no doubt with the approval and perhaps even at the instigation of the US – told them to keep fighting and we’d help them.
Didn’t know that or had forgotten. I’ve loathed that repulsive Eton Oxford deadshit for years.
“If Trump succeeds in getting his reform package through—and it looks likely—this could mark the start of another golden age for the U.S.”
There are several SCOTUS rulings that seem to indicate that a very large portion of the various departments rules and regulations are not constitutional. If DJT can pull it off and dump those completely at a stroke, then several $00 billion p.a could be pulled from the cost of doing business in the US. If he also does his “Drill baby, drill!”, the cost of energy will also drop (at least in the US), putting downward pressure on prices.
Just those two things could make a huge difference and very quickly.
I’ve performed unnecessary surgeries because my patients made me.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/confessions-of-a-sydney-surgeon-why-your-operation-may-not-work-20160303-gn95ya.html
Anger over ‘indulgent’ Welcome to Country as Elder drags out ceremony for ‘excessive’ amount of time
Daily Mail.
From Rosie link.
F*cken hell.
I knew this was probably the case, but it is still a stark and unsettling thing to hear admitted.
I’m torn between contempt for anyone who would needlessly put people at risk of the serious complications and injuries that surgery causes, and respect for the fact that someone had the courage to break ranks and bring it out in the open.
I think that maybe doctors and surgeons aren’t the right people to oversee morals and ethics within their professions. I think that the qualities of being able to compartmentalise and dehumanise required for the job might make them the worst people to judge the rights and wrongs of the issues and it’s time to bring in patient advocates from outside medicine altogether.
Like most of his economic policy ideas, it is so stupid that you can’t take it seriously.
But you took biden’s economic policies seriously, didn’t you dickless.
If this is accurate, can’t see Hezbollah agreeing to this proposal.
The British Muslim population has grown since 2000 from around 1.5 million to 4 million. Mostly tightly concentrated on the major cities.
Pew Research (albeit in the US) suggests that ~40% of this population is devout – that is to say strongly Islamic.
If, for the sake of argument, ‘military age males’ makes up 25% of this ‘devout population’ and 1% of that subgroup is of an active jihadi persuasion, the UK possibly has something like 4,000 potential terrorist actors waiting on the go-line – with a top cover of 1.6 million fellow believers in fundamental Islam.
Professor Clive Kessler:
Deradicalisation of militant Muslims not a viable option
Among Muslims worldwide today, about 10 to 15 per cent, it may be suggested, are modernist, reform-minded and democratic; perhaps another 10 to 15 per cent are militant, radical, extreme and potentially active in violent forms.
Between these two clusters, the 70 per cent in the middle represent what may be called conventional or quasi-traditional Islam.
The question is: what is the relation of the views of the radical extreme to those of the centrist mainstream? Are they opposed, a deviationist breakaway, or are they basically identical, or at least complementary?
It would be reassuring if things were otherwise, but the basic facts are clear. Like the radical fringe or fundamentalist extreme, the Muslim mainstream adheres to, through explicit affirmation or by unreflecting habitual assent, the same underlying propositions that constitute the radical and militant world view. Like that of the militants, their Islam, or view of it, is basically supersessionist.
That is, they hold, as core Islamic doctrine has held from the outset in its Koranic foundations, that Islam embodies and carries forward all that was once good in Judaism and Christianity (a fact that now makes those predecessors superfluous and lacking in continuing spiritual value and authenticity); and that what it does not carry forward from them is not good (and was the expression of an earlier, incomplete and defective revelation or else the result of the subsequent faults, sometimes wilful, in the recording and transmission of the sacred revelation by rabbis and priests).
And it is triumphalist, holding the view that Islam succeeded in the world, notably in its engagements and confrontations with the worlds of Judaism and Christendom, because its belief system was superior (and its long-lasting political ascendancy was conversely seen for a millennium as the proof and vindication of Islam’s religious superiority). While the power of Islam may have been eclipsed during the past two or three centuries, the subordination and shame of Islam is temporary and ultimately will be reversed.
Many Muslims, not just the militants but those throughout the mainstream or centre ground of their faith community’s social spectrum, chafe against the humiliation the world of Islam has experienced in modern times at the hand of non-Muslims, believe this situation must and will be reversed, and that determined action on the part of the faithful is necessary to bring about that divinely ordained historical restoration of Islamic dignity, autonomy and even ascendancy.
I think there’s no maybe about it.
Couldn’t help but copy and paste this comment from barking mad lefty and Trump-hater supreme, Martin, over on C.L.’s blog:
Don’t know about the “whining” part, but if true it suggests at least two things.
Not only are these people in the country illegally, they are taking American jobs and are almost certainly underpaid and not getting full benefits, all violations of federal law.
But Democrats and their supporters are okay with slave labor and multiple violations of the law.
From what I’ve seen of medical ethics/ bioethics, you might be jumping from the fry pan into the fire.
A while back I posted an article about the origins of this in the UK in the mid-2000s….have to see if I can find it.
Here it is:
Controlled spontaneity: The secret UK government blueprints shaping post-terror planning
It had its origins in observations of the public reaction to Princess Diana’s death and was developed as a form of mass “mind control” in preparation for any terror attack at the London Olympics.
As one door closes, another opens …
Ideally, those jerbs could be filled by newly unemployed bureaucrats and other swamp creatures liberated from their positions of unearned power.
Oh, the indignity.
That or they could head to San Francisco, pitch a tent and start inhaling their farts all day.
Well, that was nice. Our cruise includes a chauffeur pick up from home to the airport. Our driver called Scott was a blonde Aussie looking like one of Trump’s bodyguards, not the usual subcontinental taxi driver chaps. He collected our bags from
our front door, hauled them up the steps to the road and loaded them into a swish new BMX X7 and we were away in style.
We’re now at Rydges airport hotel just steps away from the check-ins, on a high floor airport view side where Hairy is doing his usual reccy of the incoming and outgoing flights. He’s like a kid with a new toy here every time we fly out o/s. There goes QF1 to London via Singapore, he announces, in his element fixed to the window glass, reliving his years of work-based travel and our other trips. Qatar just over there, he notes with a satisfied tone. Courier plane coming in now.
And so it goes on.
Feel like a cup of tea. I enquire.
Or would that break the spell?
Funny, I suspected this all along. Pulled straight out of their elbows, to put it politely.
BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Group: NIH Chief Confesses COVID Health Initiatives Were Completely Made Up… “I Probably Shouldn’t Be Saying This Out Loud”
Definitely not the country we grew up in.
” A Sydney tattoo parlour has offered free tattoos of Hezbollah leader …”
Daily Telegraph.
A few here made prophesies about how Notre Dame was going to be ruined.
It is better than ever.
Cant wait to have a look myself.
https://x.com/father_rmv/status/1861059998928802284?t=_PFFwtiKColZmzGjDOMVQw&s=19
Already winning.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/walmart-rolls-back-dei-policies-becoming-latest-us-firm-join-growing-trend?intcmp=tw_fnc
Those A380’s do look magnificent as, the size of a block of flats, they charge down the runways and gleam up into the late arvo sunshine of the skies above Sydney.
QF11 bound for Los Angeles, intones Hairy knowledgeably.
Hmmm
Estonia you say…
‘Accident’ happened around 5pm Friday with 8 evacuated on UK special military medivac flight to UK and on Monday 5 had been released from hospital.
Twelve British soldiers injured in major traffic pile-up in Estonia – local media | UK News | Sky News
Should start to get interesting in the next couple hours as the Sun goes down. NSW wholesale electricity price is currently $920/MWh going into the evening peak…
https://aemo.com.au/aemo/apps/visualisations/elec-nem-summary-tiles.html
From The James Macpherson Report today:
An interesting history of the moral and technical use of Dum Dum bullets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJw0QWofEVk
The St Petersburg Declaration figures prominently.
some very welcome discussion on Chris Kenny’s show tonight about the ICC going well beyond its writ.
The court was set up to act where countries did not have the ability through their own legislation – or because of dictators’ controls – to address war crimes.
The court was not supposed to be a free-range attack chook.
Any country which does not withdraw from it now is suspect.
It’s also mentioned that the new Trump administration might make things very uncomfortable for the people involved in this miscarriage of justice.
OK I’ve got it. Aussies are all racist and need to be retrained, counselled, be given guidelines and penalized if they err. Some jumped up jerk paid lots of $’s is spouting out what he’s been paid to sprout. Go away. You and your Gov funders are the racists not us. Most Australians don’t give a hoot what colour creed or background you come from. Just pull your lot, do your best to be kind to others. And for goodness sake get a sense of humour.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-26/race-discrimination-commissioner-releases-plan-to-end-racism/104648822
Brit soldiers injured in traffic accident in Estonia
I never knew there was a town in Ukraine called Estonia
BTW anyone seen hide or hair of the North Koreans in Kursk or Ukraine? Latest is there are Yeminis fighting for the Russians. Western intelligence is very inventive. Does anyone believe a word they say?
What does ‘gnostic’ actually mean in current usage? I only ever see it used as a pejorative.
Champion Lakes fire lit by schoolboys playing with deodorant can and lighterBy Daile CrossUpdated November 26, 2024 — 2.26pmfirst published at 7.15am
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The two teenagers accused of sparking a bushfire in Perth’s south that continues to rage into Tuesday were playing with a lighter and deodorant can after school at their semi-rural property when a small explosion caused flames to spread quickly.
The fire, in Champion Lakes, burnt through more than 150 hectares of land, closed Tonkin Highway, and forced the evacuation of people from their homes on Monday.
It continues to burn out of control nearly 24 hours later, with a watch and act alert in place.
The 14-year-old boys appeared in Perth Children’s Court on Tuesday, charged with wilfully lighting a fire.
Their lawyer explained the teenagers did everything they could to stop the fire before calling triple zero to ask for help. The pair were granted bail after one pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.
Their home is now too damaged to live in.
Ha.
I have no idea if this is true, but I just read that there was a porn actress who styled herself as ‘Helen the generous’.
Interesting.
The world’s safest countries if WWIII breaks out.
Guess who ain’t listed?
A Yoorrook Submission A Three Volume Set about the Real Truth from the Records Depicting real indigenous culture in Australia and the early days of modern Australia.
From “Dark Emu Exposed.” Seems they are in so much demand, there is a ten day delay in filling orders…
Race discrimination commissioner releases plan to end racism in 10 years
Just saw the Israeli ex minister on Sharri Markson who Tony Burqua refused a visa to visit Ausfailure. Talk about a good looker.
Ayelet Shaked is her name.
Tell you what- you’ll have my full-throated support if-
one, after the end of the ten year period, “racism” will be either announced as dead, or incurable – and
two, the whole boondoggle is then disbanded, forever.
Kneel
November 26, 2024 3:03 pm
There is money to be made from armament manufacturing.
Eisenhower knew that and warned future governments.
No need to say, for an army to exist there needs to be a potential enemy and China at present isn’t it. Or the Chinese threat alone is not important enough.
Predator /pr?d??-t?r, -tôr?/
noun
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
I’ve hesitated to publicly comment on this issue previously for a variety of reasons. I’m aware that transexuality is not a new concept, and I don’t wish to comment on the plight of any adult who finds themself in this predicament, however …
… I DO believe there is a rational justification for labeling adults who actively encourage, solicit, and make either the whole or part of their living from this state of mind in either adolescents or pre-adolescents as PREDATORS.