What’s the real size of China’s economy?
Open Thread – Mon 25 Nov 2024
- Destroying Trust
- Open Thread – Weekend 22 Feb 2025
- Open Thread – Thurs 20 Feb 2025
- Open Thread – Mon 17 Feb 2025
- The Holistic Rewards of Christianity
Poilievre is showing definite JD proclivities. MSM. “People are claiming that you …… blah blah. How do you respond”? Poilievre.…
The UNiparty continues Australia’s population ponzi. An example of why all moslem immigration must cease and deportations started. Once moslems…
They are “churnalists, alright: Just not “fearless reporters. I have posted elsewhere: General William Tecumseh Sherman had some thoughts on…
RFK jr is seriously considering banning mRNA “vaccines”. That kills their new preferred mRNA fluvax model dead. Given the mode…
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of Peter Thiel explaining to the Free Press’ Bari Weiss how Elon Musk wasn’t wrong in thinking how bad things could have gotten for America if Kamala Harris had beaten Donald Trump.
Oops. I must have used a banned word. Sorry, Lord Dover!
Bungonia Bee
November 26, 2024 6:59 pm
some very welcome discussion on Chris Kenny’s show tonight about the ICC going well beyond its writ.
…
The court was not supposed to be a free-range attack chook.
Any country which does not withdraw from it now is suspect.
I remember thinking just that when we joined up to the ICC and knowing at the time it would eventually be taken over by the forces of darkness and would be used to attack countries such as Israel, the US and maybe even Australia. It was effectively the weaponised arm of the UN human rights commission. I think it would boost the libs election prospects if they announced that if elected they would withdraw from that corrupt organization. Unfortunately under the current lot of fascists there’s no prospect of that happening.
Howard & Downer front and centre.
Malcolm Roberts – Absolutely terrifying.
One Nation Defending Free Speech Since 2019
Keith Pitt raises concern around the ‘urgency’ of social media ban
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you mob.
Punishing the single malt, and reading Peter O’Brien’s defence of Sir John Kerr, and his actions in 1975, having dined very well, is an occupation worthy of a conservative…
There were two facets of Kerr’s actions. First to dismiss Whitlam (and I’ll leave this aside). Secondly, to dissolve both Houses under s 57 of the Constitution, which permits dissolution to resolve a deadlock between the House and the Senate. Kerr’s action in this case was unlawful because he used this power for an ulterior purpose, which was to make his dismissal of Whitlam effective. It was not to resolve a legislative deadlock that fell within the requirements of s 57.
Serpent and a total Croc: Inside lawfare plot to block $5.8bn gas projectAcademic and cultural experts exchanged emails and text messages coaching each other on how to use a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map to block Santos’s Barossa project in the Timor Sea.
From the Oz. Anyone able to post the full article?
……and we are surprised?
Not a good look for UWA, now home to Prof van Wrongselen.
SHOCKING Proof the Woke Left Are Racist BIGOTS! – Carl Benjamin
Sonar image was rock formation, not Amelia Earhart plane: explorer
A sonar image suspected of showing the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, has turned out to be a rock formation.
Deep Sea Vision (DSV), a South Carolina-based firm, released the blurry image in January captured by an unmanned submersible of what it said may be Earhart’s plane on the seafloor.
Not so, the company said in an update on Instagram.
“After 11 months the waiting has finally ended and unfortunately our target was not Amelia’s Electra 10E (just a natural rock formation),” Deep Sea Vision said.
“As we speak DSV continues to search.The plot thickens with still no evidence of her disappearance ever found.”
The image was taken by DSV during an extensive search in an area of the Pacific to the west of Earhart’s planned destination, remote Howland Island.
Earhart went missing while on a pioneering round-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan. Her disappearance is one of the most tantalising mysteries in aviation lore, fascinating historians for decades and spawning books, movies and theories galore.
The prevailing belief is that Earhart, 39, and Noonan, 44, ran out of fuel and ditched their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in the Pacific near Howland Island while on one of the final legs of their epic journey.
Earhart, who won fame in 1932 as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, took off on May 20, 1937, from Oakland, California, hoping to become the first woman to fly around the world.
She and Noonan vanished on July 2, 1937, after taking off from Lae, Papua New Guinea, on a challenging 4000km flight to refuel on Howland Island, a speck of a US territory between Australia and Hawaii.
They never made it.
AFP
Thanks for that update. I have a long-standing interest in the area of Morobe Province, PNG, where Earhart and Noonan last departed from. While a relative backwater now, in the 1930s, the four airstrips in the Morobe Goldfields – Wau-Bulolo-Lae-Salamaua – were among the busiest in the world (Yes, the world!) in terms of freight-carrying.
It was the existence of these airfields that prompted the Japanese to seize Salamaua and Lae – and later unsuccessfully make a grab at Wau – in early March of 1942 (the latter in Jan-Feb ’43).
The Hollywood actor Errol Flynn spent some time in the Bulolo Valley, and the Parer family – including aviator Ray and the later famous Damien – were also also familiar faces. In the Pacific War, Kevin Parer was the first civilian killed on the mainland of New Guinea in late January, 1942. On the same day, the first American servicemen to be killed in action in the SWPA, was shot down while piloting a RAAF Catalina along the northern shore of the Huon Gulf, east of Lae.
The Huon Gulf (Lae-Salamaua waters) was the location of one of the earlier naval aviation attacks on shipping in March ’42, and twelve months later the grave for 11 of a convoy of 16 Japanese merchant and combat vessels in what was known as the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
List your top five memorable Trump moments:
Beating Hilary. #1
”They’re eating the cats”.
“You called women fat dogs and slobs” …”Only Rosie O Donnell”.
“Fight, fight, fight”!
Trump looking at Biden during the debate “I don’t think he knows what he’s talking about”.
And bonus Trump: “Little rocket man”.
!
You’re fired #1
#7 RFKJ
#8 Musk
#9 Rogan…..
Avi:
Avi Yemini TROLLS hate mob who fail to intimidate Jewish community
“Because you’d be in jail.”
That locked in the 2016 win.
“Fight! Fight!” cemented the comeback.
Roads, rates and rubbish. Or not (the Tele):
‘Whatever they so choose’ will in all likelihood involve purple hair dye, amyl nitrite and nose rings.
Correct, Mr Gannon. Correct.
Clover Moore is a NSW B-grade version of Daniel Andrews. The sort of thing that would arrive packaged at your front door if you bought Daniel Andrews on wish.com.
This should be against the law too.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lTF6Jzav8wk
Eating the cats.
Zaf, that’s the lame and gay “people of Springfield” tune by some soy douche.
This is the original house banger. With more better lyrics from the o.g. debate. The bloke who patched it together on the fly was absolutely havin’ it large, but got scrubbed from YouTube because of saturation Dancing Pepe memes. I saw it before- it was a hoot.
Yes. Yours is way better.
Excellent.
Seb Gorka in Trump cabinet.
‘Silly Love Songs’ (from ‘Rockshow’) – Paul McCartney And Wings
Cash.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane in Little Tokyo downtown Los Angeles 18
John Spooner.
Would be funny if not true. Morons
Excellent how he depicts Australia as the broken rudder.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Truth
Looks like we got it all wrong about the phallic symbols the Romans used so freely.
From the Sh..t towns site, I hope they won’t mind and rockdoctor isn’t too miffed either. (they allow sharing so should be OK)
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Townsville (or Towntown in English) was named after Robert Towns, a notorious slave trader who was well-known for the practice of ‘blackbirding’, which is Australian for abducting South Sea Islanders and forcing them to work on your sugar cane plantations. In true shit town fashion, Townsville honoured their namesake with a bronze statue for his services to racism.
Townsville has been dubbed the unofficial capital of the ‘Tropical North’ complete with all the horror that entails — oppressive heat, nightmarish disease, and wildlife that devours wayward tourists. And that’s just Flinders Street on a Friday night.
Also nicknamed ‘Brownsville’ due to its arid climate rather than the complexion of its residents, Townsville has an annual rainfall comparable to the dustier parts of the Sahara, aside from the handful of days when it’s pelted with the sort of Biblical monsoons that would get Noah’s arsehole twitching.
Unlike its neighbor Cairns, Townsville has not been overwhelmed by tourism — for good reason. Aside from being a Kmart Cairns, Townsville is known as a hotbed of youth crime and car theft, which makes it an ideal place to stop if you want an insurance payout.
Townsville is the only place in Australia where every high school has its own youth court, juvenile prison and parole office — the only reason they aren’t all packed is because no one goes to school. The city’s main tourist attraction is Reef HQ, the only living coral reef in captivity — in Townsville, even the reefs are in gaol.
Townsville also has an impressive collection of defunct sports teams, including the A-League’s Northern Fury Football Club (who were not very angry and only vaguely played football) and the Townsville Crocodiles (who managed a staggering zero titles in largely mediocre 23 seasons). The pride of Townsville is the North Queensland Cowboys, who are best known for getting thumped by the Broncos and fingered by John Hopoate.
Yup Robert Towns was a well known blackbirder but flawed as he was he built a shipping company from nothing, whaling company and was one of a few that got the settlement of Townsville going.
Only thing Sh&% Towns misses is the ALP corruption that seems to infest this place and as an old blue collar ALP city they seem to keep voting for. Cowboys money pit too, I like a growing number of other residents are over the constant demands for handouts from this club, they are very profitable.
I liked this scene from the magnificent seven.
Proves that some people are just too stupid and better off …
She is big alright.
Taken care of everything to sit in comfort.
Provided one dresses left!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/panic-ottawa-canadian-pm-trudeau-calls-trump-two/
Trudeau hints he will double down:
What a fool.
Good luck with playing hardball with not only the USA but Trump as well.
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/11/afghanistan-islamic-state-murders-10-sufi-muslims-during-prayers-at-sufi-shrine-for-being-the-wrong-kind-of-muslim.
So there you have it – if they’re fellow religionists and you don’t like them, or they have something you want, then you can just relabel them as apostates.
What a handy little phrase in the Most Holy of Books.
Thanks, Tom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UymmZZP5Ck
Don’t you get annoyed with these manufactured stories that have no basis in real life, but masquerade as reality?
I went down about thirty comments – not one had twigged that this is propaganda. It was treated as being reality.
Scary that people are unable to discern the truth.
YouTube has been invaded by these AI mini- docos, I can pick the voices used , not human, too perfect.
I hadn’t thought of that, Hzhousewife, I go go by the ‘Twee Factor”.
…and the picture. Too perfect, posed.
The “mini- docos” is a good description. Multiple scenes taken from movies with a narrative overlaid. There are many WW2 miniDocos where the creator hasn’t taken the time or has no clue as to the subject. I briefly watched one last night about the Panther (Mk V) tank – some of the photos/videos were of Mk IV and MkIII versions.
Pathetic.
The BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year 2024 isn’t.
?
She is a very strong, flat chested female.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 26, 2024 10:08 pm
Serpent and a total Croc: Inside lawfare plot to block $5.8bn gas projectAcademic and cultural experts exchanged emails and text messages coaching each other on how to use a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map to block Santos’s Barossa project in the Timor Sea.
From the Oz. Anyone able to post the full article?
Fairly lengthy, but here you go Zulu:
Inside lawfare plot to block Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa gas project
Geoff Chambers and Paul Garvey
8 hours ago. Updated 6 hours ago
Academic, legal and activist figures in the failed Environmental Defenders Office bid to scuttle a $5.8bn gas field near the Tiwi Islands concocted a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map based on guesswork and minimal consultation with Indigenous leaders, according to court documents.
Federal Court documents obtained by The Australian reveal academic and cultural experts exchanged emails and text messages coaching each other on how to use the Ampiji (mother serpent) and Jirakupai (crocodile man) to block gas company Santos’s Barossa project in the Timor Sea.
The new details emerged ahead of Federal Court judge Natalie Charlesworth finalising the matter next Tuesday and amid expectations the EDO will be ordered to pay full costs.
Justice Charlesworth in January handed down a scathing ruling after rejecting the EDO case brought on behalf of a group of Tiwi Islanders led by Simon Munkara.
Santos, whose legal costs are estimated to be close to $9m, asked the Federal Court in April to force four environmental groups to disclose communications with the EDO, amid industry fears that cashed-up environmentalists were co-ordinating finance to undermine resources projects.
The Federal Court documents reveal:
• University of Western Australia marine geoscientist Michael O’Leary sent his expert report to EDO lawyers for edits to ensure it “meets your expectations”;
• Dr O’Leary, who described himself as “just a white fella”, was open to moving the rainbow serpent “where it seems most culturally appropriate”;
• The EDO was invoiced by Indigenous consultant Antonia Burke, campaign head of Stop Barossa Gas campaign and a Tiwi Islander;
• Ms Burke used her campaign budget to pay traditional owners to engage with their research project;
• Ms Burke worked with Greens senator Dorinda Cox to draft a private senators bill called Protecting the Spirit of Sea Country;
• The EDO agreed to fund flights and accommodation for Dr O’Leary’s travel to the Tiwi Islands and offered to pay the academic for his time; and
• Professor Amanda Kearney signed Dr O’Leary’s open letter in support of Tiwi Islanders before being engaged by the EDO to act as an expert witness during legal proceedings
An affidavit and exhibits detailing correspondence between key players in the EDO case reveal Dr O’Leary, a UWA associate professor, and Ms Burke collaborated to devise a “sea country map” identifying assumed sacred locations of Mother Ampiji and the Crocodile Man Songline.
The pair, who worked together to prepare a cultural heritage report underpinning the EDO case, exchanged emails and texts about reproducing images of a serpent and crocodile based on Tiwi art.
The mapping work and cultural report, which was sent in draft form to EDO lawyers for editing, was developed ahead of meetings with Tiwi Islanders.
Text exchanges between Dr O’Leary and Ms Burke show they also endorsed “payment for traditional owners where they provide their time and knowledge as part of a research project”.
Ms Burke told Dr O’Leary that the Ampiji in his map needed to “look more like the actual serpent” and sent through suggested images.
“If the ampiji is round … do you think it could be interpreted that it’s only in that space within the circle? Whereas if it was in the water stretched out it would look like it’s a part of the whole lake?” Ms Burke wrote in one email contained in the court documents.
On July 9 last year, Dr O’Leary told Ms Burke that he was open to moving the location of the “resting place/home of the Mother Ampiji”.
“Maybe I am being too scientific about this and I should just move the location of Ampiji to the area of the lake,” he wrote in an email.
“Ultimately, I am just a white fella and the location of the resting place/home of the Mother Ampiji will be made by the Tiwi Elders and happy to move where it seems most culturally appropriate.”
In another email he told Ms Burke that he should “try and reproduce an authentic looking Crocodile from a Tiwi Artist … to represent the path of the Crocodile man Songline”.
On December 11, 2022, Dr O’Leary had also sought input from EDO lawyers Alina Leikin and Jordina Rust on his preliminary report.
Text messages included in court documents show Ms Burke telling Dr O’Leary: “Confidential: I have been working with Greens (Dorinda Cox) on drafting a private senators (sic) bill which will be listed in parliament either next sitting or August. We called it Protecting the Spirit of Sea Country.”
Mr O’Connell confirmed that the TTO, through Ms Burke, “gave advice to the Greens about a bill that related to the right to consultation”.
Opposition resources spokeswoman Susan McDonald, who as a federal parliamentarian applied for and received access to the court documents, said the revelations “confirmed the murky and dishonest world of activist lawfare enveloping the university sector”.
Senator McDonald ramped up pressure on the EDO to “reveal the extent of its foreign backers and funding trail” and said the Albanese government should commission an audit and immediately cease providing grants to the environmental legal centre.
“These documents are like an X-ray. They reveal the dark and murky world of how extreme green activism is dishonestly using and abusing Indigenous Australians and their heritage; and how complacent the university sector is allowing themselves to be used for that purpose,” Senator McDonald said.
“This is not about identifying and respecting cultural heritage; it is now about inventing cultural heritage to achieve a political outcome, and to stymie economic development and jobs in Australia’s resources sector.
“Nothing could be more disrespectful to Indigenous Australians than taking them for a ride and fabricating and misrepresenting their cultural history.”
The Barossa case was the first in a series of high-profile recent matters involving the citing of cultural songlines in the blocking of major projects.
Months after the initial injunction halting work on the Santos project, Woodside Energy was forced to stop seismic work at its $16.5bn Scarborough gas project off the West Australian coast after Indigenous activist group Save Our Songlines successfully secured an injunction from the Federal Court.
The group had argued that the seismic blasting could interfere with songlines connected to whales and turtles in the area.
But that injunction proved short-lived, with Woodside securing fresh approvals allowing it to go ahead with the work just two months later.
More recently, Regis Resources’ plans to develop the $1bn McPhillamys goldmine near Blayney in central NSW were thrown into turmoil after Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek blocked plans for a tailings dam.
Her decision came after a breakaway Indigenous group argued that the dam could interfere with the songlines of the blue-banded bee. The Orange Land Council – the main body representing traditional owners of the region – has disputed the validity of that claim.
Regis is now appealing against the minister’s decision in the Federal Court.
The Australian understands that a significant cost order against the EDO by Justice Charlesworth next week could be financially crippling for the organisation.
The EDO’s most recent annual report showed the group had just over $8.5m in cash and cash equivalents and just over $1m in financial assets on its balance sheet at the end of the 2023 financial year. After liabilities, its net assets were less than $4.9m.
The EDO collected $13.3m in revenue in 2023, including $3.7m in grants from overseas, more than $5.8m in grants from within Australia, and just over $3m in donations and bequests. State and territory government grants contributed almost $1.2m to the organisation.
After winning the 2022 election, the Albanese government reversed a 2013 decision by former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott to defund the EDO and allocated the green lawfare outfit $8.2m over four years.
Following Justice Charlesworth’s scathing ruling against the EDO in January, Peter Dutton committed to defunding the non-government legal organisation should the Coalition win next year’s election.
The Australian in March revealed that UWA continued to support Dr O’Leary’s “right to share his research and teaching expertise and does not intend to take any further action”, after Justice Charlesworth described the academic’s conduct as being “far-flung from the proper scientific method” and falling “short of an expert’s obligation to this court”.
The Federal Court in January rejected arguments made by the EDO that the Barossa Santos project’s 262km pipeline would cause irreparable damage to First Nations people and their sacred sites. Santos produced its own study, led by anthropologist Brendan Corrigan and involving interviews with about 170 Tiwi Islanders, which concluded the pipeline would not significantly impact cultural heritage sites.
In her ruling, Justice Charlesworth said: “I have drawn conclusions about the lack of integrity in some aspects of the cultural mapping exercise, which undermined my confidence in the whole of it.”
Following the decision, Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher sent an internal memo to employees declaring the drilling rig had been mobilised and drilling activities would commence shortly.
“This decision is not only good for Santos, but it will be of benefit to the whole industry, to the (National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority) and to government lawmakers,” Mr Gallagher said in the memo.
“In addition, it is excellent news for Northern Territory jobs and business opportunities, the NT economy, federal government revenue, export income and trade and investment relationships in Asia.”
In September, The Australian reported that the EDO had offered to pay Santos’s costs over its failed bid to block the Barossa LNG development, which if accepted would have absolved the legal environment group from providing communications it had with possible backers of the court action.
I hope the EDO gets hammered with the costs. This bullshit organisation needs to be made illegal.
Provide knowledge? It looks to me like these are all made up stories to fit whoever is paying for them.
The same probably goes for most of the indigenous art, simply improved with activists’ advice.
What a croc!
Thanks, Beery. For some reason, the “Rainbow serpent” springs to mind.
The issue should go beyond costs and involve criminal charges for conspiracy and lying to the court.
Nice work by Justice Charlesworth. Straight over long leg.
So what you’re saying is we have our own version of the Deep State.
Sky News informs me that I’ll be “blasted” by a heatwave today.
Better pop the stab vest on before I go out…just to be extra safe.
Sky News informs me that I’ll be “blasted” by a heatwave today.
Just another average summers day in Oz then Calli?
50mm overnight in FOB Western Vic …. so I should be OK for another day perhaps
Clickbait Central aka News dot com dot au:
“Devastating”: World reacts with shock to new Trump’s tariff bombshell.
Eh? Lots of countries have used such taxes on imports, even Australia.
News has to keep the shock horror going.
“Australia smashed as Trump reveals tariffs”.
News has been running TDS stuff ad nauseum lately.
Castro’s illegitimate son is about to find out the meaning of FAFO.
He always came across as a smart arse pip squeak that wasn’t real intelligent.
If we do get smashed by Trump, one might ask: what role did Rudd play?
What’s the tariff, err, tax on cars not made in Ausfailure. That’s right we don’t make any. Just another tax grab to spent on the voteherd who contribute nothing.
Had to laugh at the fierce crowds of demonstrators outside the Caulfield synagogue.
Avi’s video confirmed what we already suspected…mouthy, ugly caucasian women and noodly, giggling men.
No match for the Jewish schoolgirls.
I particularly enjoyed the African coloniser. He played along beautifully.
First stirrings of the cyclone season.
Low off Christmas Is towards WA. In horrible shear environment except for around it to a short distance & to ESE. 30kn winds.
What’s a bet BOM names it….
Do you think Barcy will be safe, or should I start tying down the kangaroos and emus?
I call these kind of storms “BoM Cyclones”.
in fact, that could probably include its cat 1 efforts that everywhere else in the world are lucky to get classed a tropical storm.
@libsoftiktok
Would be Trump ass*ss*in Ryan Routh:
-Announced a bounty on Trump
-Biden-Harris stickers on his car
-Donated to ActBlue
-Unhinged anti-Trump social media posts
Politico today: We don’t know why he tried to k*II Trump
Then they wonder why nobody trusts the media anymore…
Walmart rolls back DEI policies, becoming latest US firm to join growing trend
I get the feeling they don’t like to be on the receiving end.
@WojPawelczyk
Joe Scarborough is having a meltdown…
“This is what gets me, somebody pops off on Twitter or some other social and they lie. They make mistakes. You know what the cost of that is? Nothing. They do it again. In fact, it helps them because algorithms are rigged, so you stir up shit.”
I have a bottle of champers to crack when MSNBC goes tits up.
And now wont be able to hide behind the MAD bill
What he described is exactly what the MSM do, what they really resent is anyone intruding on their turf. Boohoo.
I get it. Jaguar is only for the rich woke elites.
@JebraFaushay
This man says conservatives can’t afford a Jaguar so their disgust over the woke commercial is irrelevant.
?Like to know who made the grants. Has that been revealed yet?
Especially the overseas ones.
Yes, it would be interesting to see who is intruding into our domestic affairs.
@CitizenFreePress
CATHERINE HERRIDGE BLOCKBUSTER STORY
The untold story of Hunter Biden reporting at CBS News.
1) Hunter Biden is deeply racist | N bombs were all over his emails.
2) CBS News killed the story.
Somebody Met Crooks At His House At 2PM Before He Shot Trump
Chris Wray?
who is the media now?
buggywhip manufacturer berates henry ford
Hunter’s use of “n*gga” was just ostentatious tough stamps, like a neck tattoo. Or naming a kid “Hunter”. Not racist.
His ongoing sledging of Asian prostitutes was totally racist, though, and totally icky to boot. So he’s a sure fit for racism, drug use, drug trafficking, gun crime, and of course massive Mammon-worshipping corruption which should have dragged Pedo Joe down instantly. But you know, it didn’t, for reasons which should drag the whole MM and half of the DNC down as well, but it won’t, because Lizard People.
Here Are the Seven Men Shot in the Head by Capitol Police on January 6, 2021 Without Warning
NYT Claims Automakers Want Trump To Keep EV Mandates. One of Them Tells the Free Beacon That’s Bogus.
Pfizer pregnancy trial showed the COVID shots increased AESIs (like major congenital abnormalities) in newborns by over 4X
THIS is what they were working up to.
@SteveGuest
John Kerry: “We’re on the brink of needing to declare a climate emergency, which is what we really have. And we need to get people to behave!”
WATCH:
He’s a very dangerous man because he agrees with his delusions.
Oh dear – protesters on their way to Newcastle crash their car, and are uninsured. Rumours are it was unregistered.
So sad, how terrible, move on.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/student-activists-car-crash-fund
I wouldn’t give them the steam off my piss.
Among their costs to pay is the “damage to the other car involved”.
How Peanut the Squirrel Might Get Revenge on New York’s Gun Control Laws
Inconvenient truth…
UN advisor fired after determining no genocide in Gaza (26 Nov)
Not allowed to go off message. The UN is really ‘way past its use by date and stinks like a trash bin.
Fine, Call Me “Right-Wing” – Konstantin Kisin
EXPOSING Gender Dogma: My Intense Debate with a LEFTIST Activist
Just occurred to me as I whirred away on the sewing machine…
The police who warned off Avi Yemeni interviewing a Caulfield protester because it might “upset her” were the same police pepper spraying protesting grannies during the Covid protests.
Two tier policing example #7537
… and have never got around to solving 13+ arson attacks on churches.
‘Ridiculous’: Andrew Bolt slams NSW electricity warnings
For those wondering, I used a prime number because it’s a prime example.
😀
Show off – but impressive all the same.
Andrew Lawrence
The Most Hated Man in Britain…
That’s 6:46 hours per day. I call bullsh!t on that stat.
And remember, the nuclear cooperation agreement they refused to sign was not with the Great Satan Trump but with the Biden, Starmer and Trudeau governments. Woke and silly as they are, they aren’t that stupid.
Have all you NSW people behaving responsibly and turning off your environment killing aircons?
Huh?
We do have ways to make you behave.
Ready to rock…
There seems to be a bit of wind today so we may get lucky.
Your taxes at work!
Convicted murderer Alicia Schiller approved to receive IVF treatment
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A convicted murderer who stabbed a Geelong mother to death over $50 has been given the green light to be released from prison for IVF treatment.
A convicted murderer who stabbed a mother to death over $50 has been given the green light to be released from a Victorian maximum security prison to undergo IVF treatment.
Alicia Schiller has been approved by authorities to receive the self-funded fertility treatment while housed as an inmate at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Melbourne’s west.
It is understood that Schiller has required special escorts to attend external healthcare appointments.
Schiller was sentenced to at least 16 years in jail in 2017 after she was found guilty of murdering her Geelong housemate Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert in a drug-fuelled rage three years prior.
While under the influence of ice, the 25-year-old jumped on Ms Evertsen-Mostert’s bed and stabbed her three times with a knife after she discovered the mum of three had taken $50 from her room to buy drugs.
Ms Evertsen-Mostert’s four-year-old son was inside the home when she was violently killed.
There are special units at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre where women can live with their children while serving sentences.
Jim Gentle, the father of Ms Evertsen-Mostert’s then partner, Jason, told the Herald Sun his son would be “very upset” to learn Schiller was planning on having a baby in prison, and receiving assistance to do so.
“I don’t think it’s the right thing, to give her a child,” he said.
The Herald Sun has been told Schiller, who is now in her mid 30s, would raise her child in the prison until it was five years old.
The child would then be placed in the care of Schiller’s mother.
Schiller has told other inmates she funded the IVF treatment by using the proceeds of a property sale.
It is believed she wants a second chance at being a mother after she was unable to raise her first-born child due to being imprisoned.
A Department of Justice and Community Safety spokesperson said: “We cannot comment on individuals in custody and their private health information”.
A 2010 court ruling granting an inmate the right to undergo IVF is understood to have been a major factor in the current decision to allow the treatment.
In that case, 45-year-old Kimberley Castles successfully argued she should be allowed to continue her fertility treatment, which she was getting prior to being jailed.
Her barrister Debbie Mortimer SC accused the Department of Justice of breaching its duty of care and her client’s human rights by denying her client access to IVF.
Castles, a mother-of-two, was doing an 18-month stretch at minimum security Tarrengower Prison in central Victoria for welfare fraud.
Schiller has a lengthy criminal history, dating back to when she was a teenager.
In 2008, she was charged with assault after a man was left fighting for life.
While on bail, she approached a witness and punched her in the face up to four times.
Two years later, she was jailed after she took part in a gang bashing of a 56-year-old woman who confronted her over stones thrown at her car.
In 2013, Schiller assaulted an elderly woman on a bus after the woman refused to hand over money.
She was also convicted on charges of shop theft, possessing proceeds of crime, being drunk in a public place, multiple counts of forging prescriptions and obtaining drugs by false representation.
Herald-Sun
She’s a looker:
Alicia Schiller appeal: Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert’s killer back in court | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
IVF? She should have received a manila/hemp long drop.
and the taxpayer raises the kid?
It’s interesting how a convicted criminal’s human rights are taken into account, but law-abiding citizens who chose not to be waxed were informed (by the courts) that the breach of their human rights was justified ‘for the greater public good.’
Oookay then. Good to know where I stand.
Words fail me.
But notice that the barrister in the earlier case that established these ‘rights’ was one Debbie Mortimer – now installed by Dreyfus as CJ of the federal court.
Reducing the elevtrickey generation capacity seems to reduce the available electrickery.
Who knew this?
We have top brains in our parliament and AEMO.
Crossie you have your “b’s” where it should be “d’s”.
Latest news from the nest. Look closely and you’ll see two little beaks. I suspect there’s a third in there too.
We have a flock of Straw-Necked Ibis at the moment. Unlike the urban Ibis they are quite useful. Nicknamed “Farmers’ Friends”, they eat insect pests and improve the soil. As Summer arrives, so do the birds. Galahs, Red Rumped parrots, Eastern Rosellas, as well as other permanent residents, are plentiful.
What species of seagull is that?
A willy wagseagull!
I’m at a lower than usual ebb with birds at the moment since there’s a lot of food around and they have pressing family duties. The currawongs and kookas have vanished, and most of the noisies too. The fig trees are laden with fruit, which means figs for the fruitivores and lots of yummy fig wasps for the noisies.
Convicted murderer Alicia Schiller approved to receive IVF treatment
I don’t know about the world, but Australia has definitely gone mad. The next federal election will determine whether this is terminal and/or widespread/ and/or recoverable.
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
[to the sound of maniacal laughter]
Criminal justice is largely a state matter.
Note it’s Victoria.
All the focus has been on Trump’s persecution by the demorats and swamp, but what they’re doing to Giuliani is criminal:
Rudy Giuliani erupts at NYC federal judge as January trial date set in $148M defamation case
And it’s now official, the worst mass murderer in history:
GOTCHA: Top NIH Scientist Admits Fauci Likely Funded Wuhan Lab, Questions Vaccine Efficacy.
And this murderer typifies the demorat arrogance and disconect:
WATCH: Alec Baldwin Blasts Americans as ‘Uninformed’ in Post-Trump Victory Meltdown.
They’re less uninformed than stupid Alec who knew less than zip about gun safety.
Dover quoted
Another quote from the same source
Uhuh. Does anyone believe this supersoldier story?
Jeez. I hope there’s not two of them or the war will be over by Christmas.
Was all this before smoko?
Apparently, a ‘cessation of hostilities’ is proposed to begin 1pm our time.
The outrageous loophole at the heart of Anthony Albanese’s superannuation plans – and it will make many Australians VERY angry
By STEPHEN JOHNSON, ECONOMICS REPORTER FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
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Anthony Albanese will be exempt from his own superannuation tax hike when he eventually retires to live at his $4.3million clifftop mansion – and so will a handful of Australia’s top politicians.
Daily Mail. “Fook you, Jack, I’m all right.”
Did anyone ever think it would be otherwise?
Politicians were also going to be exempt from their own misinformation/disinformation legislation. This bunch are the most arrogant lot since the French Revolution.
…and without any style or sense of duty as was widespread in that aristocracy.
An election killer.
Rightly or wrongly (rightly), Joe and Jane Average will view this as yet another example of the distance Elbow and his progressive jazz-handers are putting between themselves and the ordinary people who keep the country going.
It’s a Victorian state government issue.
…but all part of the same Labor progressive swamp, IMHO
The Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers being tasked with keeping Hezbollah north of the Leontes, which they conspicuously failed to do after the last agreement.
I note Israel has reserved its right to strike at a recalcitrant Hezbollah under the deal.
In A Blizzard of Contradictory Numbers news:
Bowen declares mission accomplished on 2030 emissions as 2035 row heats up
Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will claim a major win in the fight to meet Australia’s 2030 emissions target after closing part of the predicted pollution “gap” with policies to get more Australians into EVs and expanding use of grid-scale batteries.
The National Greenhouse Inventory shows a distinctly different story.
At present Australia is in recession, and running at about 28% below 2005 CO2 emission levels. Almost all of this so-called reduction is due to booked changes in land use (policy wonks will particularly note Figure 16) – and most of that is an accounting trick (reduction in rates of land clearing from 2005 levels is counted as ‘emissions reductions’).
With only about 2% of the 28% reduction from 2005 levels due to renewables, changes in technology and industrial output etc – and changes in land use now flat-lining – Bowen is relying on a heroic 15% reduction by 2030 due to a truly massive uptake in EV’s and grid-scale batteries.
No doubt someone in the Opposition Party Room or the Meeja has read the NGI report and will use the official numbers to take the little ponce to task over this.
From the voice to anti-Semitism, does this PM have any convictions?
Every leader is beholden to others, from factional comrades to other party members. But since becoming Prime Minister, Albanese has shown he’s entirely beholden to others. He can’t hide it, and he doesn’t appear troubled by it either.
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
There is no doubt that Anthony Albanese will confront voter concerns about his leadership. Not about his style, but what he did in office. Sure, the Prime Minister hasn’t embarrassed himself by trying to insert himself into five ministries, as his predecessor Scott Morrison did. (No wonder Morrison found it so stressful leading the country.)
No, the PM’s problem is of a different nature. Albanese has not taken command of even one ministry – namely his own. To be sure, plenty of policies have been pursued by the Albanese government. But which among them are Albanese’s?
Every leader is beholden to others, from factional comrades to other party members, donors to other loud vested interests. But since becoming Prime Minister, Albanese has shown he is entirely beholden to others. He can’t hide it, and he doesn’t appear troubled by it either.
It started with the voice. The proposal to change the federal Constitution was never Albanese’s policy. And it showed. The Prime Minister was out of his depth throughout the long debate. He was not across the politics on either the Yes or No side, and he appeared unconcerned about his poor grasp of the monumental nature of the constitutional change too.
This first test of Albanese’s leadership was a harbinger of what was to come. He continues to look comfortable being beholden to others, at times resembling a lower-level bureaucrat whose most difficult day at work is deciding what to wear on casual Friday – while others do the serious work.
Though Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has put forward the eminently sensible suggestion of conducting a thorough audit of all current spending and programs, Albanese could never do this. He remains beholden to those Indigenous activists and bureaucrats who make money and careers from the status quo.
Next, consider the Prime Minister’s problem with Kevin Rudd – a problem all of his own making. Rudd’s critiques of Donald Trump were self-indulgent and hyperbolic. Trump is not known for letting even minor grudges slide – unless there’s something in it for him. Though Rudd has forged high-level connections in the US across the political divide, what he offers now is a constant reminder that Australia’s representative in America thinks Trump is “the most destructive president in history”. Deleting tweets is not the same as changing your mind.
Given our relationship with the US is a critical one, Albanese’s dilemma about Rudd is our problem. If he removes Rudd, Albanese will look like a wimp to both Americans and Australians. And just imagine what Rudd might tweet about Albanese.
Rudd should step down. No one – not even Rudd – is special enough to stay in the role given his public attacks on Trump. And the chances of that happening? Instead, Albanese – and Australia’s best diplomatic efforts in the US – are beholden to a man who described Trump as the “village idiot”.
Next, take last week’s rampant anti-Semitism in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. As Rabbi Benjamin Elton, the chief minister of the Great Synagogue in Sydney noted in these pages on Monday, NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns showed leadership by condemning the wicked trail of anti-Semitic damage and destruction. “It is unacceptable, un-Australian and it will not be tolerated,” he said.
Albanese reached for weaker words, describing it as “disturbing” and “deeply troubling”. He could have been commenting on the state of the Rabbitohs after their penultimate placing on the 2024 NRL ladder.
Alas, Albanese can’t muster up strong words on anti-Semitism – beyond motherhood slogans that it has no place in Australia – because his re-election as PM depends on winning seats with large Muslim populations. Albanese may win some votes, but few will reward him with respect.
There was more weakness from Albanese when the ICC last week issued arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant. Democrat President Joe Biden denounced it as outrageous moral relativism by the ICC to lump Israel and Hamas together. “We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security,” Biden said.
The Prime Minister of Australia was mute.
Albanese could have commanded this issue – and scored some political points too.
He could have said something like this: “Today, we are going to give notice that Australia will withdraw from the Rome Treaty that established the ICC. Our membership of the deeply flawed and highly politicised ICC is the unfortunate legacy of John Howard and Alexander Downer. We hoped that the ICC would not destroy its credibility by succumbing to anti-Israel politics. But it has.
“Therefore, we must now draw a line in the sand. Though we will continue to criticise the excessive actions of the Netanyahu government, we will always stand with Israel against threats to its security. We do not support these arrest warrants. The ICC has put us in the impossible position of having to arrest Israel’s leaders should they step foot in this country. Israel’s leaders are always welcome here.”
Albanese remained silent because he is beholden to the Penny Wong wing of the Labor Party that has long shown a withering disregard for Israel’s war of self-defence against terrorists who invaded Israel and murdered over a thousand innocent people on October 7, 2023
Next, take the recent Cbus scandal. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission is suing the $94bn industry super fund for allegedly not processing more than 10,000 disability and death benefit claims in a timely manner, leaving members $20m out of pocket.
This scandal was waiting to happen. Governance rules for industry super funds are no secret. Members of industry super funds do not get a vote on remuneration policies pursued by the trustees. They don’t usually have meetings of any kind. They don’t get to vote on anything.
No matter how incompetent or even corrupt the trustee of an industry super fund, or its directors, may be, there is no mechanism for the ultimate test of accountability – being removed by members. In a system where workers are forced to contribute 10 per cent or more of their earnings to super, it is grossly inappropriate that members are forced to be passive. Industry super funds would never agree to be bound by the rules that they sanctimoniously but rigorously enforce on ASX-listed companies.
Albanese can’t go anywhere near promising to fix the flawed governance laws that leave working class Australians worse off. Just follow Labor’s rivers of gold. Super industry funds funnel money to unions and unions fund Labor. In other words, Albanese is beholden to powerful vested interests that result in the national interest being sidelined – again.
It’s the same stinking mess of conflicts on donation reform. Albanese won’t even enter the political playing field on donations because he is a puppet for people far more powerful than him. It’s laughable that Albanese can speak of donation “reform” while carefully carving out union affiliation fees. But there it is.
The only policy that has the mark of an Albanese conviction is housing. Labor says its Help to Buy plan would help 40,000 first-home buyers and its Build to Rent plan would encourage tens of thousands of new rental homes. Let’s see.
Albanese often falls back on “shucks, I’m just a public housing boy” sentimentality as he exudes a Dorothy-like wonder at reaching high office. One can imagine the boy from the inner west whispering to his pet cavoodle, “We’re not in Camperdown anymore, Toto.” However, leadership has nothing to do with where you came from. It’s what you do when you become leader that counts.
Oz. Article is just out but has 400 comments so far agreeing
Meanwhile, in the UK, the government is tinkering with regulations mandating the uptake of EVs by 2030 after carmakers & trade groups warned them last week that poor sales would lead to job cuts & factory closures.
Fatima Payman says Pauline Hanson brings ‘disgrace to the human race’ as old eligibility row resurfacesDan Jervis-BardyThe West Australian
Wed, 27 November 2024 7:27AM
A fired-up Fatima Payman says Pauline Hanson brings “disgrace to the human race” as the One Nation leader continues to hound the Afghan-born senator over her eligibility to sit in Parliament.
Senator Hanson wants an investigation into whether Senator Payman falls foul of section 44 of the constitution, which prevents foreigners and dual-citizens from sitting in Parliament.
Senator Payman – who was eight when her family fled Kabul – addressed the issue before 2022 election, explaining that her attempts to renounce her Afghan citizenship could not be completed because the Afghanistan embassy in Australia had no contact with the new Taliban regime.
She received legal advice at the time confirming she took “all reasonable steps” to hand back her Afghan citizenship, meaning she was eligible.
But Senator Hanson continues to pester Senator Payman over her citizenship status, renewing her pursuit after the Labor outcast last month launched her new political party Australia’s Voice.
The One Nation leader on Wednesday morning won Senate approval to table a letter from Senate President Sue Lines regarding Senator Payman’s eligibility, which she wanted referred to a parliamentary committee for investigation.
The major parties allowed Senator Hanson to table the documents as a matter of procedure, not because they supported her pursuit of Senator Payman.
In her response to Senator Hanson’s letter, Senator Lines said she could not take the matter further because it did not meet the requirements for the Senate to consider questions about eligibility.
Before the letter was tabled, Senator Payman defended her eligibility while unleashing a blistering attack on Senator Hanson.
“You’re not just vindictive, mean, nasty – you bring disgrace to the human race,” she said.
“You have no dignity whatsoever as a Senator in this prestigious place, where we’re supposed to bring unity, where we’re supposed to have that freedom of expression, yes, but within boundaries of confinement of respect.”
Holding a copy of the legal advice that confirmed her eligibility, Senator Payman challenged Senator Hanson – who once wore a burqa as a stunt in the Senate – to “pack her burqa and go to Afghanistan and talk to the Taliban” about her case.
“Do you want to see it (the advice) for yourself?” Senator Payman said.
“You’re in absolute denial. All that Senator Hanson does in this place is spread hatred, spread division because that’s what you’re made to do here.”
Here is the video:
Furious Fatima Payman uses Senate to accuse Pauline Hanson of racism – ABC News
A muslim – who believes the world is divided between muslim and non muslim – is accusing someone else of divisiveness?
Does she not have a mirror?
Methinks the senator doth protest too much.
Has she retained her Afghan passport?
Huh? That is Payman’s idea of the best use of parliament’s time? Seriously?
never forget which scum brought these vermin to our country
In direct contrast (the NT News):
And:
If you really want to do it, you’ll do it. The anticipated razor-blading of the NT’s monstrous and self-perpetuating bureaucracy will save the taxpayer quite a bit of coin.
If you want to fluff a bit at a presser and then stay deep in the trough….
…perhaps treating every Australian equally would solve the problem?
Hit the nail squarely on the head, Winston.
No progress in ending aboriginal failure can or will be made until the vast aboriginal industry vanishes.
100% defunded.
It’s Time to stop the epic nepotism, waste and rorting. Treat aboriginals like all other Australians.
Any State or Federal department that protests taking on the extra work of handling aboriginal clients must be stared down and told “ It is an additional 1-2% client base, deal with it and call it an efficiency dividend.”
I note also that Hezbollah have remained silent.
Can’t believe you missed the sarcasm.
Looked like Russian propaganda. Poe’s Law.
I never see anything like this on pro-Russian sites unless it’s a pisstake.
perhaps an emoji was missed
Says Senator Payman, Senator for WA, who three weeks ago was in Melbourne addressing a rally calling for a boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel.
I’ve been comparing the header painting with this by Burne-Jones.
Wondering what each artist is trying to convey. The Vasnetsov has an odd sense of malevolence about it…is this angel a Luciferian type? Does it appear as an angel of light but is really something quite different?
The B-J ones (there are more – this is part of his creation series) leave you in no doubt – if there is personality there, it is off in the far distance, along with their gaze. They are benevolent servants, patiently doing as they are told despite the flurry of wings.
I’d like to see the Creation Series refurbished/cleaned up before I drew any conclusions, calli. They seem to need it.
But looking through Vasnetsov’s works, this one I like. The stoicism of the Russian peasant, with bugger all to their name and never seeming able to get a master that treats them well.
“Are you thinking what I’m thinking love? He’s just standing there. With borscht or mashed potato?”
PHON fighting fund slowing down. $675k
Still a lot more then Faruqi raised to fund the legal action.
New leader reluctant to stick his turbaned head over the parapet.
Chuckle.
Regarding those evil anti-scientific criminal parasitic imbecile deadsh*ts at the EDO, if people are interested, there’s a full list of their funders and donors at pages 60-61 of their 2022-23 annual report.
Some other “interesting” (and infuriating) information is included in that document as well, such as a statement noting that their federal funding which was withdrawn in 2013, would be reinstated in 2023.
BTW, the EDO is a charity.
If the frigging rats’ nest can’t be shut down, it needs to be defunded by the feral government, its charitable status revoked and criminal proceedings instituted against its directors and various members of its staff and legal contractors, at the very least.
Over to you, Dr Mutton.
Interesting. I know a few of them.
and now I feel unclean.
No pager yet?
Their (Zionist secret agent) carrier pigeons have sabotaged delivery of their communiques, presumably.
Which has now started:
ZEV Mandates Force Closure Of Vauxhall’s Luton Plant (26 Nov)
They’re forced to close an ICE van factory because not enough EVs are being sold to keep them on the ratio target – which is getting worse each year. So the only way they can stay on target is to not sell cars. Which is crazy.
to quote Neil Oliver: “It’s not about going green, it’s about going without…”
Not sure what the situation is here, but this is being hailed as a major breakthrough. Certainly, Australia with it’s vast barren areas needs full coverage more than most.
@cb_doge
BREAKING: The FCC has officially approved Starlink’s license for its Direct-to-Cell program.
Starlink Satellites will be able to broadcast direct to your mobiles. There will be no deadzone anywhere in the world for your cell phone. Starlink will save lives.
Will I have to buy yet another bloody phone?
I currently have 7 – 6 of which have been made redundant/obsolescent.
I believe the idea is no. You will need a subscription no doubt, although I understand at least Telstra and Optus have a deal.
With who, then, are they negotiating?
Said leader, presumably. But not directly.
Can’t believe you missed the sarcasm.
I can look past the sarcasm.
One of the benefits for Israel in killing the media officers of Hezbollah is that it allows them to suggest that negotiations are ongoing without word emanating from Hezbollah itself. This is a boon for their psychological operations.
Obviously, $1B+ wasn’t enough.
@NewsWire_US
Just look at this. I doubt that $10B would have done the trick.
@Brick_Suit
Drunk again. I could feel some sympathy for her except that she made her bed and can lie in it.
She’s been drinking and is concentrating hard on saying the right words. Reminds me of a conversation you might have when four beers in to a long afternoon of drinking.
Pissed again. One should only do this in private.
She has aged.
That’s central planning for you.
To keep them afloat, the government will allow them to continue to sell ICE vehicles – which is what the market prefers – and make up on the accounting after 2030 when they’re making & selling only EVs.
Not hard to predict a mad rush for ICE vehicles in the meantime, which will be quit embarrassing for Herr Starmer & Co.
In the meantime, what are they supposed to do with the unprofitable EV production lines…mothball them?
In the meantime, what are they supposed to do with the unprofitable EV production lines…mothball them?
Use taxpayer funds to purchase them and give them to incoming migrants. Thus the numbers look great and the road toll will increase, killing off more of the filthy palefaces. Win-win.
Yes, they’re escalating for all they’re worth.
WAR FOOTING: In the Midst of Major European War Escalations, British Heir Prince William Dons His Combat Uniform and Joins Live Firing Training With Welsh Guards
I bet he’s not the only one.
CEO of Southern California nonprofit admits stealing $1.5M in COVID-19 benefits
Biden’s Folly – An Act of Desperation
Either the Washington Establishment has taken leave of its senses, or they all believe they will not suffer any personal loss from the crisis they are creating.
The Banker’s war will continue…
All over the adoring UK media…
Prince William wears military uniform as he fires a gun in training exercise with snipers
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1980819/prince-william-military-uniform-welsh-guards-visit
Rifle.
The headline writer another useless, mal- informed youth.
Technically, both are correct.
That beard needs to go. Otherwise it’s just a photo op.
All to do with the welsh elections I expect. The establishment would want Farage to get up too many seats.
Not want
And This Is Why the Public Doesn’t Trust the DOJ
Notice the report didn’t do a decent investigation into the Biden administration and concentrated on the previous Trump period.
Do they think we won’t notice?
Fragment of.
Extraordinary ‘Epic’ Viking sword discovered
So funny. I recognised him immediately but had no idea what his name was. 96 is a good innings.
Earl Holliman Dies: ‘Police Woman’, ‘Twilight Zone’ & ‘Forbidden Planet’ Actor With Dozens Of Film & TV Credits Was 96
The dumbocrats are just so tiresomely predictable – from the Oz:
Pathetic.
Its taken her 25 years to realise she was offended?
The Brittany D A M ( Delayed Appreciation of Molestering) was concerning – this one is epic.
The DNC/MSM complex was silent about KamelToe’s husband impregnating the nanny in a previous marriage.
Does sticking his dick in the nanny count as “touched her inappropriately”? Curious minds.
All they are doing is making people not believe a real assault when it happens.
Correct, as I’ve written previously. NONE of this is about women and girls universally: The goal is to promote the interests of a very exclusive coterie of western, affluent females who lean dangerously left, from the cocooned, low-risk protection of first-world institutions, at the expense of females of all ages who were born without the same comparative privileges of the Mean Girls class.
I believe that these women perfectly fit the traditional definition of misogyny: A pathological hatred.
All he needs say is she tripped him and if it went in it doesn’t count as it never touched the sides as she’s such a big c***.
Great to see David berate the cops. I’ve said it before, cops wearing masks is BS!
Rebel News HQ:
Freedom activist who fled Iranian regime speaks out after Ezra Levant’s arrest
Who was it getting a pacemaker overnight?
Are they here today?
Delta, hopes she’s good.
Delta A. I haven’t seen her here today.
Angels have personality because they have will/ volition. What distinguishes the good from the evil is to what ultimate end that will is disposed towards. When I look at the angel above what I see is a determination to achieve its divine task. I also note the halo, symbol of divine light.
Another one:
Jim Abrahams, Brilliant Director of ‘Airplane!,’ ‘Naked Gun,’ Dies at 80 (26 Nov)
Back from the olden days when comedy was funny.
You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
A hospital? What is it?
It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.
Back from the olden days when comedy was funny.
When there WAS comedy.
He’s a Kennedy. Chasing skirt is built into the DNA. Does anyone expect anything else? Does anyone care? No.
In more news, Donald Trump said something insensitive and ambiguous in order to bait the media into covering him.
Yawn.
I think we’re going need more fire engines. And not electric ones.
Inquest ordered into Lithium-ion battery caused fires (Paywallian)
Two hundred and seventy five Li battery fires in only one state and one year? Wow.
Perhaps one of Trump’s conditions for the peace negotiations will be a new election in Ukraine.
Explain how you hold a national election in a country with a large chunk of it’s territory under occupation, under bombardment and missile fire, and engaged in a war with an active, 1000 odd mile frontline, and much of it’s female population dispersed into neighbouring countries.
After the cessation of hostilities.
The idea that they can’t conduct an election in a large chunk of the country in which everyday life is minimally effected, or in which embassies and consulates abroad can’t provide voting facilities to citizens abroad, is nonsense.
Absolutely. UN could arbitrate cessation of fire. They won’t hold elections because they already can predict the result in the territory east of the Dneiper.
Last night on Sky Chris Ulhmann tagged renewables as parasitic power sources since they are useless unless backed up by electricity generated from coal, gas or nuclear. In other words, they feed off the power sources which they are striving to harm. I thought that was a brilliant expression and we should use it until it becomes accepted by the mainstream. From now on each time I mention either wind or solar I will call them parasitic renewables.
Please avoid using the utterly misleading misnomer ‘renewables’, as they are not renewable. They have to be replaced after a decade or so.
Good point. Parasitic electricity sources or generators does describe them better.
The windmills in cold weather have to be motored from the grid to keep the gearbox oil up to temp.
gearbox oil? gearbox oil? what is that !!!!!
Friends inlaw relative is currently delivery gallons of the stuff every month to certain whirly-bird parks.
Ruinables seems apt.
Many thanks to Michael Smith.
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02e860db2f35200b-pi
Is that a young snaggletooth?
Yes, when he was at his most handsome.
Don’t forget intellect.
But what they don’t have is a material human body, meaning artistic renditions of them are visual metaphors subject to the interpretation of both the artist and the viewer.
I suspect it was because of this, at least partly, that the eastern church came to place strict canons on the iconographic representation of supernatural beings. Thus Vasnetsov received some criticism in Russia for church frescoes done in the Western romantic style.
(Meanwhile, I’m waiting for someone to bring up dancing on pinheads.)
I note also that Hezbollah have remained silent.
With who, then, are they negotiating?
This is a fair question. At present, the Lebanon ceasefire seems to be based on a Biden/Macron announcement.
The Lebanese are arguing that they don’t have the resources to field 5,000 troops to enforce Hebollocks withdrawal. And Israel is requiring the right to go back in if there’s any further nonsense.
Not sure exactly how this all sticks together.
@simpatico771
Also scored five holes in one in his first round of golf.
Radical! There are usually only four par threes in an 18 hole full course.
Perhaps he played on a nine par three hole mini course*?
If he’d scored more than that he would’ve been executed for breaking Kim Jong-Il’s record.
He may be dreading a signing of an agreement in case Israel offers him a pen and says he can keep it.
Nothing says “Peaces Be Upon You” like a special edition Mont Blanc.
Old School, sadly.
Yeah, yeah, whatevs.
Get back to me when you’ve got a story about him leaving a girl to drown in his Oldsmobile invertible.
Two hundred and seventy five Li battery fires in only one state and one year? Wow.
John Goodenough who was leader of the team which figured out rechargeable lithium batteries said they were great batteries but he worried about their safety which he thought would make them unsuitable for mass use. I’d say he was right.
Please avoid using the utterly misleading misnomer ‘renewables’, as they are not renewable. They have to be replaced after a decade or so.
That is what is meant by “renewable”.
The renewable part is the source of taxpayer funds for the replacements.
Renewable money. As soon as a dollar is spent it renews itself from our pocket.
Recall time?
Insurers refusing to touch buildings or aircraft containing a lithium battery?
Oh what fun it is to ride on an
EV without a battery.
If that’s his best argument he has a problem, because nowhere near 81% of Australians watch the ABC (it seems to hover around 12% across the board and has been decreasing over the long term).
Which also begs the question, how do they know it’s reliable & trustworthy if they don’t watch it?
Over to you, Mr. Dutton.
A majority of Australians want the ABC burnt to the ground and the sites salted. Also the personnel to be decapitated and their heads placed on spikes.
Sadly, he’s right.
The mainstream is becoming narrower.
What the ABCess trades on mightily is nostalgia: ‘Your parents and grandparents grew up trusting us … you wouldn’t want to disappoint them, would you?’
The key is to shift from that nostalgia to present day relevance. Acknowledge the historical part played by the ABCess – emphasize especially the radio days (to demonstrate how much technology has advanced, and how easily accessible it is now) – but then focus on the responsibility that falls on the Australian taxpayer in this harsher economic climate.
It’s important to blunt any ‘The nasty conservatives hate us’ tactics, and if they make it personal, bring it back to the taxpayer and consumer choice.
Above all, political support for the ABCess needs to be poisoned.
How do they know?
A warm inner glow from 60 years ago, and memories of Blue Hills (which would be rejected as “settler colonialism” if proposed now).
Why AW is one of the best.
Dan’s lawyers flailing around trying to scare the opposition:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-14130021/dan-andrews-bicycle-accident-ryan-meuleman.html
Slugs and Grubs must smell definite blood in the water. They are shitting themselves. Very good to see young Ryan has an excellent legal team on his side this time.
I enjoyed the way Mr Catlin threw down the gauntlet.
The slow burn continues…
Kristian White: Police officer who tasered 95-year-old Clare Nowland found guilty of manslaughterMatt ShrivellThe Nightly
Wed, 27 November 2024 9:53AM
The police officer who tasered 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland in a south coast nursing home has been found guilty of manslaughter in the NSW Supreme Court.
Senior Constable Kristian White, 34, used his taser to subdue Clare Nowland after staff called police to the Yallambee Lodge, Cooma on May 17, 2023.
Mrs Nowland had been threatening staff and residents of the nursing home with a steak knife while she moved around the facility and the police responded to a triple-0 call for help.
In video footage played during the trial, White was heard saying “nah, bugger it” before shooting the great-grandmother in the torso with the taser.
The jury handed down its verdict at the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney, finding White guilty of the single charge of manslaughter after deliberating for 20 hours.
Mrs Nowland who had dementia fell to the ground and hit her head before dying of an inoperable brain bleed in hospital.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC successfully argued White was criminally negligent or conducted an unlawful and dangerous act by firing the Taser in a move which was “utterly unnecessary”.
In reaching its verdict, the jury rejected arguments by defence counsel Troy Edwards SC that the 34-year-old officer’s use of the Taser was a proportionate response to the threat that Mrs Nowland posed.
Good news, although, as I have stated from the start, the nursing home is equally culpable. That they could not disarm that poor lady utilising protocols that would have been in place, yet decided, nah, call the Cops. That was covering themselves.
Shameful.
Exactly. If she wasn’t a threat then why were the police called at all?
Cooma is not on the south coast. Talk about sloppy journalism.
Probably confused with Cootamundra.
what they have done to Guiliani is beyond disgusting.
This is so wonderful. A toddler is being fitted with glasses. After a little fidget as they are placed on him, the wonder and joy when he can see!!!
The same as the clips you can see of deaf babies upon hearing their mother’s voice for the first time.
Make sure you have sound, it is English, with Dutch sub-titles. Enjoy.
https://x.com/buitengebieden/status/1861505832208289922
I just was watching exactly that video at Ace’s. He didn’t like the glasses…until…
Bruce, that’s where I found it!
Owl likes scratches! The bird and animal vids are always awesome.
The Lebanese are arguing that they don’t have the resources to field 5,000 troops to enforce Hebollocks withdrawal. And Israel is requiring the right to go back in if there’s any further nonsense.
They can alwayz ask the IDF for assistance .. LOL!!
Call me Flamin’.
Stolen from Ace while waiting until Elon’s next Starlink rocket, which I by chance saw is just about to launch. Always a buzz to watch this happen live from the far side of the world.
hahahaha good one! 😀
The rocket launch is postponed for about 40 minutes, so I think I’ll go back to Ace’s.
Brilliant, I have now stolen it and sent to family and friends. Ta very much.
In other slow burn news, weren’t we supposed to have a decision in the Brittany Blob Reynolds defamation in the West by now? Marty must be itching to have a go at that trust.
So long as the Blob loses, I’ll savour the reading of it for a time when I have some peace and quiet and a good whisky. OTOH, that’s what I anticipated with respect Lee J’s judgment.
A touch tropical today.
Cold beer.
Seafood picnic.
Beach shelter.
Beach cricket.
Aircon.
Surf Club bar.
I’ll have to check into the “trusted by 81% of the people’ website to remind myself of why I djould be setting my hair on fire.
Jury still out on Williams IMO.
From the same people who refer to the ALPBC as “free”.
HTF does putrid grifter Moore not get prosecuted for diverting Council funds to events that have no relationship to the Council’s charter.
A number of US states confronted by inner city local government communists voted in by drifters and druggies solved the problem by extending the vote to commercial tenants.
That makes sense. They pay exorbitant rates and councils have potentially devestating impacts on the business environment.
Well, they were a pair of Erkos, so it’s understandable.
In other mayoral news the rise and rise of Baz seems to have hit a speedbump in the West. Baz seems extremely coy over his mysterious benefactor.
When I mentioned angelic “personality” I was simply comparing artistic renditions.
Lewis’ angels are viewed hurtling through space as their real presence is elsewhere and they’re “keeping up” with planetary rotation. Their facial expression – devastating, burning Charity.
Except for the one who looks after me. That one is tired and a bit fed up. When we finally meet I will have to apologise profusely.
Just wait until you meet mine.
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
😀
Funny bugger Mr Frisby.
https://youtube.com/shorts/RkV6hlL-ang?si=2g07Kze4L-nJrxeo
Haw!
The Truth About AI’s Impact on Meaning and Democracy! | John Vervaeke
Summary In this extensive discussion, cognitive scientist John Vervaeke articulates concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on meaning and democracy. He explores the connection between the current meaning crisis—a widespread sense of disconnection and lack of purpose—and the influence of AI on human cognition and social structures. Vervaeke discusses how AI can manipulate attention and perception, leading to a distortion of reality and a detachment from genuine social connections. He emphasizes the need for an ecology of practices, including philosophical and contemplative traditions, to cultivate meaning and support rational discourse in democracies. The conversation also touches on the historical patterns of societal crises, collective intelligence, the importance of community in self-correction, and the philosophical implications of meaning derived from AI interactions. ### Key Points #### 1. The Meaning Crisis and AI – The current political landscape is highly polarized, resembling a culture war. – There is a perception that traditional systems to solve conflicts are failing, leading to a “meaning crisis.” – AI may worsen this crisis by providing attractive content detached from reality, manipulating human attention and salience. #### 2. Distinction between Truth and Bullshitting – A concept discussed is Harry Frankfurt’s distinction between lying (conveying false things with intent) and “bullshitting” (manipulating attention without concern for truth). – Modern advertisements often exemplify this by focusing on catchiness rather than truthfulness. #### 3. Evolutionary Perspective on Meaning – Human fulfillment is often derived from contributing to the group, but AI threatens this as it may outperform humans in many tasks. – AI can shape how we perceive our connections and contributions, potentially leading to disconnection from real group dynamics. #### 4. Religious Relationships with AI – Vervaeke raises the concern that humans may begin forming religious-like connections with AI, interpreting it as a trusted source of knowledge and understanding. – Such relationships might lead individuals to rely solely on AI’s perspective, limiting their capacity for independent thought. #### 5. Mental Health and Vulnerability – The discussion mentions rising rates of mental health issues, particularly among the youth, and a concerning trend of considering suicide. – Fantasy worlds, including those created by AI, may provide an escape from reality, which is dangerous and can lead to deeper disconnection. #### 6. The Importance of Rationality and Dialogue – Vervaeke argues that democracy relies on dialogical rationality, where ideas are challenged and self-correction occurs through discourse. – There is a need to focus on cultivating rationality skills rather than just relying on AI outputs. #### 7. The Role of Philosophy and Ecologies of Practices – Society must cultivate an ecology of practices—various methods for enhancing rationality and meaning through community engagement. – Historical precedence shows that during crises, new philosophical and spiritual movements can rise to restore meaning and communal connection. #### 8. Socratic Insight and Democratic Health – Socrates emphasized the need for self-examination; the unexamined life is not worth living. – Current political climates often discourage this self-examination, leading to rigid ideological positions instead of constructive dialogue. #### 9. Historical Patterns and Potential for Renewal – Historical examples demonstrate that societies can emerge from crises through philosophical evolution, collective intelligence, and dialogical practices. – The discussion suggests that individuals can be instrumental in fostering environments that encourage such renewal today. #### 10. Final Thoughts on AI and Human Engagement – Vervaeke stresses that while AI holds great potential for changing society, its impacts must be navigated consciously to promote genuine meaning rather than superficial connections. – The philosophy of wisdom and practices from the past may offer pathways to create a better future amidst the challenges presented by AI and meaning crises.
A few weeks ago I visited Cragside, the extraordinary Northumberland home and grounds designed and built by the Victorian industrialist Lord William Armstrong and his wife.
In the house there is a large display of (mainly) Victorian art. While I am very far from an art historian, I was struck by two recurring themes: sentimental representations of death (faithful dogs lying by dead masters, sheep and dead lambs, weeping families mourning a dead child) – and angelic messengers in various situations.
The personalities of the models for the angels (which seemed to be all female) generally shone through – as with the Vasnetzov above. Which left a lasting impression that, rather than embodying any serious religious symbolism, this was a particular decorative fashion of the era.
Except for the one who looks after me. That one is tired and a bit fed up. When we finally meet I will have to apologise profusely.
Lovely thought, Calli. Very touching.
This might be an accurate representation. Note all the sharp objects one can injure oneself on.
Try this one.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/sad-dnc-staffers-fired-after-election-reduced-begging/
Whatever made them think Kamala and her inner circle cared about about anything or anybody except power? Surely they knew she was feckless.
Perhaps they will learn a painful lesson about leftism.
Do I care? These people have lied for food. Not a problem when everything is going their way. Hope they lose their house.
Sadly they have the chance to learn an expensive but very important lesson – modern western left wing parties are not in the least interested in the welfare of working people.
Heh, the NSW electrickery price just hit $17,500 per MWh and AEMO has ordered the Munmorah big battery to kowtow.
Which they’ll joyfully do at that rate of tariff.
If they have to actually tell a wimpy 100 MWh battery to dribble out power over 4 hours it’s all on a knife edge, looks like.
It’s a knife that has been sharpened for years by the climate alarmists and those in government. Just like the idiots who hid behind the “health advice” about covid, they will ultimately say they have been given wrong info and merely acted in what they thought were the best interests of the nation.
We can only hope that Blackouts Bowen and the rest of them get something in the way of comeuppance, one day.
It’s not just the politicians – although they have the resources to be better informed – it’s the media, the BOM/CSIRO, assorted NGO climate council types, and the celebs that all sing from the same song sheet that have “misinformed” the public.
So, KamelToe’s campaign staff now admit that she was never ahead during the campaign.
The only person dumber than that pollster in Iowa is mUntard.
Muntard…whole lotta silence from that quarter recently…chortle, chortle…
That one didn’t age well.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14129873/Molly-Magpie-rspca-desi-queensland.html
I would suggest the bureaucrats throwing their weight around think a little more carefully, and ponder the words:
“Peanut the squirrel.”
Frigging idiots. Magpies are tough as nails and they automatically forage. It’s genetic. You don’t have to teach them. These wretched Karens need to be marooned on an island somewhere.
When out walking I often encounter graduates of the Cafe (magpie sub-branch). They do extremely well.
A animal care worker made an anonymous complaint to a mob of pettifoggers out of Sydney called XD Law who took it pro-bono. A look through their website at the other slime they represent gives you an idea about what they are all about.
The complainants name was suppressed, I think if you are going to poke your head up here you should wear the crap that comes your way but the judge obviously different. They brought up that old chestnut about death threats online.
The fact DESI has released this tells me that their may be a fight going behind the scenes.
Just leave the bloody Maggie where it is.
I can’t find any details of the judgement, judge or evidence presented (even with complainants names removed), this was decided on 21 Nov and there’s still nothing up on the Supreme Court website or Austlii. Queensland Supreme court has been all over the place lately.
Of for Pete’s sake, it’s a bird among millions of others like her. She likes where she is or she would have left. Leave well enough alone. But no, we have arrogant people who think they are doing good causing anguish wherever they go.
But no, we have arrogant people who think they are doing good causing anguish wherever they go.
Eggsactly and with the contacts to mount a pro bono Supreme Court case. I wonder if the complainant is even in Queensland.
Where did costs go? Did the Qld taxpayer pick up the tab? Prying minds want to know…
Like much on the Left, it’s about being able to force people to submit to their demands.
Bunch of arrogant fascists.
BoN:“If they have to actually tell a wimpy 100 MWh battery to dribble out power over 4 hours it’s all on a knife edge, looks like.”
They mention the “reliability standard”, which may mean simply that having an extra few MW means they can afford to lose a generator and not go down. IOW, they have enough if everything goes right, but not if something goes wrong. The small amount from the battery can “fix” that, and make sure even if something goes kaput, they won’t need to load-shed to keep the grid up.
A 100 MWh at that rate is a cool $1.75 million. For four hours’ work…
BUt if they had to load-shed 4-500MW to keep the grid stable, they’d lose a lot more than that!
Knife edge stuff at what, 34oC?
Damn absentee neighbour has just put a young bull in the paddock on our boundary. Neighbour insists that he will be preoccupied with his own harem of young heifers. We beg to differ, previously having had to sell our bull who was a fence jumper.
Not surprisingly the young blood took immediate interest in one of our young cows who is “on heat”. These young ladies are shameless at this time – she immediately paraded along our fence line & he immediately lost interest in his own harem.
Unfortunately, neighbour knows little about cattle & we will now have to put a “hot wire” along the top of the entire length of the boundary fence where the bull is grazing at the moment. Doubtful that he will contribute to the cost. Too hot to begin until next week. Fortunately he will only find the heifer irresistible for about 24 hours.
The Dividing Fences Act 1991 prescribes that a stock fence must be stock proof for the type of stock contained. If the bull gets into your property you have an action against the neighbour.
The Dividing Fences Act was about when I decided there must be something better to do with my time.
Ah the law! Unfortunately, cohenite, we all know about the Dividing Fences Act. But trying to enforce that Act is a minefield. Most of us have had experience at some level.
In some cases, a phone call will work. At other times we have found a formal letter and threat of legal action works. It depends on the recipient. As always.
Experience and having better things to do – suggests to us that a “hot wire” represents less effort and expense.
Does that include conversion to steak?
No! He is actually quite a nice young bull.
Recently read about a grazier who shot a neighbour’s bull which jumped the fence into his property. Not a good choice and not approved by the law. Bad repercussions.
Meanwhile in the Hobart Mercury:
How do you rate Anthony Albanese as PM?
Poor 90 %
Average 5 %
Good 4 %
Best ever 1 %
3,718 votes
Vote here if you can climb the paywall
Tee Hee, they used the term “wet lettuce leadership”, somebunny sees Leak’s cartoons.
Paywallian: ABC ‘must get better, serve truth not causes’: Williams
ABC chairman Kim Williams says the public broadcaster must get better at ‘exposing misinformation, correcting disinformation and arming Australians with the skills needed to counter’ the two phenomena.
1. As a matter of tactical necessity, ABC staff will ignore what the chairman is asking of them because to indulge him would encourage the delusion that the board or the management – not the staff collective – actually run the joint.
2. ABC editorial staff see themselves as the propaganda arm of the Australian Greens, attacking the Stupid Frigging Liberals and the ALP from the loony left. (Note: news scripts in ABC news bulletins read like Greens press releases). No ABC manager or chairman will ever overcome the iron will of the staff collective to run the place according to the collective’s rules without any direction from outsiders, who will simply be ignored – with zero consequences.
The ABC will demand — and get — $A1.1 billion p.a. even after its TV and radio ratings drop to zero. The ABC will harrass and fact-check any MP bucking the system into silence.
He’s the boss, so what’s stopping him? Get to it, man.
A 100 MWh at that rate is a cool $1.75 million. For four hours’ work…
A Tesla car battery of 100KWh costs of the order of $20,000 so a 100 MWh battery ought to be about $20 million. $1.75 million for half an afternoon seems a tad excessive. Nice return on capital though. We begin to see why so many scammers are keen on renewable energy.
“ABC chairman Kim Williams says the public broadcaster must get better at ‘exposing misinformation, correcting disinformation and arming Australians with the skills needed to counter’ the two phenomena.”
Here’s a tip Kim – turn off all ABC transmissions and the amount of mis- and dis-information in this country will drop significantly.
You’re welcome.
“… so a 100 MWh battery ought to be about $20 million. $1.75 million for half an afternoon seems a tad excessive. Nice return on capital though.”
“Shaving” (buying off peak, selling on peak) is what they do.
And don’t forget they need to pay back the capital, with interest, in under 10 years or they’re screwed ($20M for the battery and no doubt more for ancillaries and staff, so they’ve gotta get, what? $100M or more back).
Yep. Averages look much more ordinary.
Over at Jo Nova’s site they are discussing the future of energy sources – both here and from interstellar sources. They are talking about Thorium – of which Oz has 50% of earth’s known supply. Since this is a spectacular source of energy, I have often wondered why it is not mined here. Indeed, why it is not used as an energy source.
It is extracted with heavy mineral sands as concentrate containing about 10% thorium. The heavy mineral sands are mined for rutile and ilmenite, which are used to make paint pigment. The thorium is an unwanted byproduct.
But the sand miners blend it back into the tailings because (a) there’s no market and (b) the radioactivity makes it a problem.
It’s a terrible waste. On the other hand we know where it all is so all we have to do is go and remine those sands.
Fatima Payman says Pauline Hanson brings ‘disgrace to the human race’ as old eligibility row resurfaces
From the “West.” Comments suddenly gone down the memory hole..
Is that as offensive, and actionable, as saying “ Why not go back to where you came from”?
re: Zipster on Vervaeke
Admit it. We could do a lot worse than a Church of Grok.
Grok in action…
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823742501884453312
I love this so much I must have watched it fifty times in the past couple of weeks.
That’s interesting.
I didn’t think cattle had beer goggles.
I had to look up what beer goggles are??!!! In this case, it is due to hormones. Bulls have got to be quick. But then I suppose that applies to a lot of males!
I think Jim Rickards has a good understanding of the direction of world events. This is in his latest newsletter:
Remember Biden? He’s till the President and He’s Still on the Road to WWIII.
Joe who? Even close followers of politics wouldn’t be blamed for having that reaction if someone asked about the status of Joe Biden. He barely campaigned for himself when he was running for re-election as president and did almost nothing to support Kamala Harris in her campaign.
Biden’s only noteworthy actions were to torpedo Harris’s slim chances by calling Trump supporters ‘garbage’ at the same time Harris was conducting a rally next to the White House. Of course, Trump supporters turned out to be more than half the electorate on 5 November.
Since the election, Biden has fallen completely off the radar screen except for a few videos of him trying to walk to the beach and almost falling face down in the sand.Does Biden even matter anymore? Unfortunately, yes. He’s still the president of the United States and will be until noon on 20 January, 2025. That’s almost 60 days during which he could start World War III.In fact, according to this article, that seems to be what he’s trying to do.
Biden has just authorised Ukraine to use US-supplied ATACMS intermediate-range missiles to strike inside Russia. The ATACMS have a range of about 200 miles, just long enough to hit Moscow. They can also hit many Russian targets closer than Moscow, including nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons storage areas and radars.
The green light to fire ATACMS at Russia will also apply to UK and French cruise missiles such as the Storm Shadow and SCALP.
Russia has responded to every new weapons system given to Ukraine by increasing its attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, especially the power grid.
The ATACMS are the latest in a long line of weapons systems provided to Ukraine including Stinger missiles, Patriot anti-missile batteries, Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, HIMARS rocket launchers, drones, and long-range artillery. Last summer, Biden delivered F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as the latest wonder weapon.
All these systems have failed. Armoured vehicles have been left burning on the battlefield. The Patriot anti-missile batteries have been systematically destroyed by Russian hypersonic missiles. The artillery is useless because Ukraine has little ammunition, and the US can’t manufacture the 155mm shells in large quantities. The F-16s have been shot out of the sky. That’s not surprising because the pilots were ill-trained.
Will the ATACMS make a difference? No, because the Russians have already moved their most valuable assets out of range and have a proven ability to destroy the launchers or shoot the missiles down as needed.
What’s the point? That’s an easy question. Biden doesn’t care about Ukraine, and he knows they will lose the war. He just wants to keep Ukraine fighting until 20 January so that when the collapse of Ukraine happens, he can blame Trump.
Biden has spent the past 50 years as a stupid and now demented politician who blames others for his failures. The collapse of Ukraine will be no different. Let’s just hope we don’t end up in World War III before Trump is sworn in.
Vicki I think Lu Wigi is using Sniffy joe biden as a role model for incompetence. Whilst Lu can string more words together than joe they still amount to the same. Not worth the dunny paper written on. Used of course. If it was up to me they’d be executed as traitors then worry about the intricacies later. Neither one has improved the lot of their constituencies in their time elected.
Fair enough. Think of the angel above as something like Gandalf, who in Tolkein’s legendarium is a Maiar. Although often jovial, his face did take a turn when confronted with a balrog or wraith.
Can’t pass that up.
Gandalf the Golden
(From Ace’s animals thread Pogria and I were talking about earlier…)
What sort of lamp is she holding? It looks like she’s holding a drink.
Hmmm seems the Tiwi activist inventor of cockidile man’s webpage is down:
https://antoniaburke.com/
It would be good to use this case against her and find out which govt funds she receives. Write to your local MP about her.
What a laugh:
‘Deeply repulsive’: ABC chair attacks Rogan
I wonder how many of those “conspiracy theories” – particularly around Covid – turned out to be right?
Most.
The Joe Rogan podcast with Trump has reached 90 million views to date I believe, suck eggs Mr Williams, the ABC can only dream.
What about his abortion of an organisation’s central role in the corrupt and contemptible Stalininst political show trial of Cardinal Pell?
It also appears that Antonia Burke, the crock-a-liar inventor is seeking money for a current project on stopping Santos:
In the Shadow of Mines | Documentary Australia
Linked in isn’t private, get in while you can and screen shot it:
https://au.linkedin.com/in/antonia-burke-5805b0a4
Sum total of Private Experience without public funding, zero:
Indigenous Community Consultant
Antonia Burke Consultancy
2013 – Present 11 years
Lead Facilitator – Trauma Informed Care & Recovery
We Al-li Pty Ltd
Jul 2017 – Present 7 years 5 months
Queensland, Australia
Business Analyst
The Stronger Smarter Institute
Dec 2016 – Jun 2017 7 months
Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
***Warning Kamala Harris word salad ahead***
The Stronger Smarter Philosophy articulates a set of five interconnecting strategies:
* Acknowledging, embracing and developing a positive sense of identity in schools
* Acknowledging and embracing Indigenous leadership in schools and school communities
* ‘High expectations’ leadership to ensure ‘high expectations’ classrooms, with ‘high expectations’ teacher/student relationships
* Innovative and dynamic school models in complex social and cultural contexts
* Innovative and dynamic school staffing models in complex social and cultural contexts
Capacity Building Associate
Lumbu Indigenous Community Foundation
2002 – 2006 4 years
Lumbu was Australia’s first Indigenous-led and controlled national charity to support community development in Indigenous communities. Lumbu established Australia’s first social venture capital-type avenue of support. It provided critical non-government support to indigenous leaders and their ventures in the start-up phase. As the Office and Finance Manager I was responsible for the development, review and maintenance of the Foundations administrative and finance systems; prepare operational and project budgets; monitor and increase returns on the Foundations investments and assets.
Achievements
• Identified and sustained productive relationships within the NGO, philanthropic and Indigenous affairs sectors to benefit the work of the Foundation and its affiliates
• Set and reached agreed milestones, developed and implemented technical assistance plans for each stage of progression.
• Delivered a social impact tool to monitor the Foundations work in the community.
Transport Driver
Royal Australian Army Reserves
Dec 1998 – Dec 2005 7 years 1 month
Brisbane, Australia
• 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (QMI) – Combat Support Squadron
• Provide transport and driving support to the unit
• Assist the squadron leader with preparation of driving courses
• Attending exercises in the field
• Perform general soldier duties
It was bad enough that ACMA was going to police speech and information; Willaims wants the ABC to do it.
He’s even got it the wrong way about:
Misinformation is inadvertent error and therefore warrants correction.
Disinformation is deliberately misleading and warrants exposure.
Just go away you old fart.
I wouldn’t trust the ABC if it said the sun sets in the west.
Well, perhaps not the audio.
For which nobody was responsible, apparently.
The ABCess considers its viewers as not-the-sharpest pencils, which is why it wants MORE taxpayer funds to remind the great unwashed that, to quote the eminent Buffy the Vampire Slayer: ‘Fire bad, tree pretty.’
Soon we’ll all be able to tell the misses from the disses, the pollies from the wallys, and Aldi-brand baked beans from SPC-brand baked beans. All thanks to our wonderful teachers who only want the best for we plonkers.
Hmmm… might this be a tactic, to emphasize that the ABCess considers its loyal audience as barely socially literate and highly-deficient in ‘lived’ experience?
So arrogant Williams has unilaterally allocated a censordhip role to the ABC.
Not only is that role well out of it’s charter, but he is telling us to trust the organisation that has suffered more lawsuites than any other network. So Sales and Ferguson who corruptly perpetuated the Russia hoax for years after it was dispoven and dishonest conspirator Milligan are to be our arbitors of truth.
Fuck off Williams.
He was never an appropriate Chair. No more than playmate of the woke.
Only officially approved conspiracy theories are acceptable at their ABC.
Secret EU Power Grab DISTURBS Europe
Socialists doing what socialists do – take control of everything.
IN FULL: Trump’s counterterrorism pick Sebastian Gorka sits down with Sharri Markson
Sharri gets Gorka on? That’s a serious coup, well done lady!
I saw the interview last night. Very good. He was shafted last time by those swampies in Trump’s White House. Obviously Trump did not think Gorka deserved it and has engaged him again. I think that’s a double flip to Kelly and Milley.
Thumbs up…
The more you look at the talk of the ‘cessation of hostilities’ the more opaque and confected it appears.
It’s a Claytons cease fire and the Israelis know it.
Hezbollah won’t even begin to honour to it, and Israel will hammer them from from the second a Hezbollah patrol is sighted in a demilitarised area, or a rocket takes off.
And good on them.
The thing is it appears to be entirely from the US/ Israeli side. They’ve had a tough time since the ground invasion began. If things were going well they’d push to the Litani and demilitarise the area south themselves.
Hezbollah will see it as a sign of weakness
But Hezbollah always sees things as a sign of weakness.
Would they be wrong to see it as that at least so far as the ground invasion was concerned?
Sorry about the mess below. This is the first time I’ve managed to load an image and I’m not sure what happened.
Here’s a news article about it.
Jay Bhattacharya, prominent physician and economist, nominated by Trump for NIH director
If you paste the full url in plain text it will work so long as it ends in .jpg or .png. Other formats don’t work, not even .jpeg. Go figure.
You can also paste .gif files, either single images or animated.
Always though you need to paste the raw url in plain text, otherwise it doesn’t work.
Example from your linky:
This is excellent !
The ABC can fuk off. Unwatchable, unlistenable, dishonest, deeply offensive and beyond reform.
And they are its good points.
With the honourable exception of Classic FM. I don’t know how it survives in the ABC worker soviet.
Pauline Hanson
Appeal Officially Filed: The Fight for Free Speech Continues!
They don’t make movies like this anymore.
Yes. Seconded. RIP Mr Jim Abrahams.
Leslie Nielsen had an amazing career.
After 30 years of playing serious, po-faced roles in countless movies and TV shows he became a comedic (usually deadpan) star in the 1980s, at the age of 54.
PM ‘totally abandoned’ middle Australia, pursuing ‘ideological’ vanity projects
How the ABC gunna do that?
Only 8% of people under 40 watch ABC news programs.
Compulsory viewing?
Sit on their billion dollar a year subsidy until the commercial FTAs go broke.
‘Drunk’ and dishevelled Kamala Harris emerges with bizarre first statement since election defeat
The first comment –
I find Williams’ Problem Glasses deeply offensive.
The joke’s on him.
He paid a couple of grand for a pair of bespoke Erkos that make him look comical rather than eminent.
Should’ve gone to Specsavers like the rest of us.
And Penny Sharpe’s inappropriately bright red ones.
Just imagine the nightmare if she had won!
@bennyjohnson
The Trump effect
I really feel for the walloper who tasered the 95 year old. Guilty of manslaughter. Hobson’s choice. Probably should have left her for the staff to deal with. No winners here although the family seem pretty happy.
The staff could have, and should have, dealt with her behaviour. We get trained how to do it – two staff with a sheet walk around her and pin her arms.
Or was the copper showing off in front of them?
Risk of blackouts in Australia SLAMMED
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Thorpe has been suspended from Parliament.
She chucked a torn up bill in Pauline’s face and flipped the bird.
Meanwhile Payman needs to get her facts right. pauline’s tweet was immediately after the Queen’s death, not a “couple of weeks ago”. Be careful about misleading Parliament young woman. They don’t take kindly to that sort of thing, magic hijab or not.
>snork< “Magic Hijab”. Ha ha! >double snork<
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November 27, 2024 6:14 pm
Not really, there are times when a knife wielding person needs to be dealt with even more harshly than a taser. Like a a bullet.
In this case he could simply step out of her way.
What was she going to do, chase him while hanging onto her zimmer frame?
People with that lack of judgment of a situation should not be in the force.
Senator Lidia Thorpe to be suspended from Parliament after another controversial stunt
Daily Mail. It’s only for the rest of the week, on full pay, but it may set a trend…
Until Parliament starts imposing steep fines, this awful behaviour will continue.
They will unsuspend her when they need her vote.
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Filthy Catholics.
Every single one of their priests is a peddler, and their establishment hides it. Nobody else does it, just the Micks and their Papist heresy.
Heresy, I say! Nobody else! Catholics! Emerging from tunnels! Like lizards! Preying! Covering up! Only them!
Oh wait (the CM):
19 years. Quite the time spent at large.
That could have ended his working with children card right there. But no:
And:
Feeble indeed. Also:
Uniting. Church. Policy.
Unbelievable.
This isn’t a swing at the Uniting people (although they certainly deserve it in this instance), but an illustration that this sort of thing is by no means limited to followers of the shamrock.
And if course there’s the torrent of information that has come out about state schools and institutions in Tasmania and Victoria in the last couple of years, after the Gillard-McClellan sham royal commission have the world the impression that any such thing was unthinkable.
McClellan had no excuse, by the way. Over twenty years before Teacher’s Pet, Justice Wood’s royal commission had found the same thing about the NSW department of education. But he has been consigned to the memory joke as a reactionary purveyor of moral panic and a fascist redneck homophobe.
Must have been the mandatory vows of celibacy, don’t you think?
The Senate voted 46-11 in favour of ordering Thorpe out of the chamber until the end of tomorrow.
The Coalition, Labor, Ralph Babet, One Nation, Jacqui Lambie, and David Pocock voted for the suspension.
Naturally the Greens voted no. Thorpe was not in the chamber and did not vote.
By the look of things 18 other Senators had something better to do than maintain a fig leaf of self discipline.
Hobson’s choice?
You must be kidding.
She presented zero threat to him.
He and his partner spoke to her for just three minutes before he said ‘Bugger it’ and tasered a tiny 95 year old.
Lazy, cavalier and grossly excessive
Very good pick.
Oh yes.
Once upon a time the jacks were people you called when you needed help, and you got a) at least one six foot bloke with a bit of common sense, discretion and life experience, and b) the help you wanted.
I think (will be corrected) that this copper had twelve years in. If that’s the case, he’s never seen an angry man in that time, let alone dealt with one, and has in all likelihood never left a police station before then.
Supercop 2024 clearly met his match in the shape of a 95 year old, 45kg woman who was effectively immobile. Steak knife, or no steak knife.
This pudgy, callow imbecile got his right whack by twelve men good and true, and no mistake. Weak as piss.
Seconded.
TURDED!.
Fourthded
Large church bureaucracies are even more opaque than government ones and the average pew warmer has little idea what they get up to, for good or ill, in her name. This is just one instance where churches are failing to live up to their own standards.
So who will be the first Stupid Frigging Liberal federal leader to call out the climate scam as an anti-scientific religion for athiests?
I don’t think it will be Mr Potato Head (a.k.a Dr Mutton — h/t Rabz).
The climate denier insult still works too well as a shut-up censorship button for the loony left.
So we will keep tip-toeing around the truth for another decade or more while our prosperity is flushed down the toilet because we’ve put political parasites who’ve never had real jobs in charge of our future.
Until the silent majority of Australian normies start getting aggro about having their standard of living hijacked by political saboteurs we will continue to lose the cultural argument.
The climate scam isn’t just by pollies – it’s the majority of the media and celebs and all sorts of dopes who don’t read enough. The propaganda is everywhere.
Rosie,
this is what the ABC have in mind for we unbelievers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH3htkMU-PU
Bending over backwards to accommodate an employee who was caught kissing a toddler.
I’m willing to wager a passionate kiss on the lips, not an absent minded peck on the top of head that was the subject on the report.
Didn’t know he also offended in Pisa Italy.
Clearly a member of a very successful paedophile ring.
Exactly what I was thinking Pogria.
Watched Clockwork again with my convalescencing offspring a couple of weeks ago.
One of the reasons I don’t like peas.
Peas, Lol!
Great minds etc.
It’s exactly what I see every time the ALPBC, and every other filthy media demands we believe them, and ONLY them.
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