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Good morning all.
On a busy day, this would have been a disaster on the beach.
Elderly Man Crashes His Car On To Popular Beach! | Bondi Rescue Season 9 Episode 6 (OFFICIAL UPLOAD)
Ha haaa!
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Mark Dice:
KAMALA NOT DOING WELL – NEW VIDEO MESSAGE RAISES SERIOUS CONCERNS
Live by the snapper, die by the snapper.
Cash:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at The Grove and Farmers Market in Los Angeles 87
Delta A
LET’S GIVE your heart a beat.
Hope you are well.
Aussie Style R34 Burnout Machine visits the LZ Compound
John Spooner.
I admire John Spooner. He NEVER forgets the hostages in his toons.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Funny!
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Steve Kelley.
Lisa Benson.
Thanx Tom.
This is a working professor in the field, I like his clobber.
Dressed for the occasion, don’t see the need for all those guns but?
Some in comments asked about the two women participants, I looked up
Mrs Emma D, yes she was there.
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Photo shows Professor U. V. Vize, famous explorer and scientist heading the expedition of the S. S. Malygin (Soviet icebreaker 1931.) to Franz Josef Island, where they plan to meet the Graf Zeppelin.
In the expedition, which left Archangel, Siberia, on July 10th, are Umberto Nobile, the Italian explorer, and three Americans, Mrs. Emma D. Dresser of New York, her son, Don L. R. Dresser of Detroit, and Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson of New York.
Also leaving were a group of Russian scientists and newspaper men. They will seek traces of Amundsen and his men who were lost in the Arctic. (Photo by George Rinhart)
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Alas it was all in vain
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Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic. His team included Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen.
They were seeking missing members of Nobile’s crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole. Amundsen’s French Latham 47 flying boat never returned.
Later, a wing-float and bottom gasoline tank from the plane, which had been adapted as a replacement wing-float, were found near the Tromsø coast. It is assumed that the plane crashed in the Barents Sea, and that Amundsen and his crew were killed in the wreck, or died shortly afterward.
The search for Amundsen and team was called off in September 1928 by the Norwegian government, and the bodies were never found.
The guns are for polar bears.
Before we killed them all off, the bears were packed solid from coast to coast.
Literally.
There’s probably a layer of dead Bears holding up the Arctic ice sheet.
Prolly ate all the early explorers but.
True.
Probably true for us here as well.
Amazing what people could make without AI.
Amazing stuff, Kev. I love looking at this shit and the ‘backward countries’ doing stuff that we have forgotten how to do.
I’ll have a look for a mob of barefoot Pakis doing a bottom end and crankshaft engine repair on a late model tractor in the dirt later on.
Nothing better than relaxing next to a warm stove on a cold winter’s day with a couple of cats keeping you company.
Well, for me a beer or something a bit more potent would enhance the experience.
Are you getting your daily dose of Quadrant articles via email? Today’s From The Archives is by David Martin Jones and is entitled The Illiberal Left and Political Islam: How did the marriage of political Islam and the Left come to be? Look to the West’s activist media, academics and agenda-driven elites.
Recommended Reading.
I get my local newsagency to put away Quadrant every month. Have been doing it for a few years and now have built up a bit of a collection.
I prefer to read a proper magazine or book rather than on a phone or other device.
Lately I have been thinking about subscribing to the digital version of Quadrant if only to read stuff in the archives, post the odd comment and add a bit of cash to the cause.
Fortunately for him the next state election is 2 years away.
‘Don’t run your dishwasher’: NSW Premier urges residents to conserve power (Sky News, 27 Nov)
It seems the Grid is some sort of new deity we have to worship and make sacrifices to. I don’t want to help the grid I want to boot feckless politicians out, including a Mr Minns.
Bit like staying home til you went blue … to ‘protect the NHS’?
Solar tail wags electricity dog!
Having buggered the power generation system for no more than ideology and boasting rights at the stupid table – they have the temerity to abuse ordinary Australians and the business sector for daring to use power in a manner we all expect in a first* world country. (*re-assessment pending) Labor/Greens/Teals are stuffed as they make the mistake of believing voters under the age of 40 believe the same nonsense their parties do. But where is the Coalition?
Minns’ statement might -just might – be a turning point in politics. For the first time, many voters might appreciate the effects of the energy policies of Labor, the Greens and the Teals. Minns might be safe (although what’s the position in the Legislatuve Council?)
But the ALP might be facing a wipeout in at least NSW in the coming federal election.
I find an amusing way of drying clothes is – after 3pm – put them in the dryer and crank up the aircon to cool the house down.
Unfortunately, I think the solar panels are thwarting my evil designs on the Grid God.
In the UK they worship the NHS so not to be outdone we now must worship The Grid.
All she needs is a sewing machine and it’s my perfect place. Thanks Dover!
Today in the Senate
That’s if The Lidster can bully her way in.
I want to sit and watch the rest of the cartoons, but I have to go to Longreach for some shopping…
But I’ll leave the aircon on so Elsie doesn’t get uncomfortable in this Dreadful Boiling Oceans Heat.ALT+0153
My TM symbol didn’t work… rats!
I suppose recharging your electric car is out of the question?
Or does it use a different kind of electricity?
Dover,
the Lady in the painting is very much like British actress Patricia Hodge.
True
https://apnews.com/article/australia-social-media-young-children-bf0ca2aedaf61b71fe335421240e94c4
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first law.
The major parties backed the bill that would make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts.
The legislation passed 102 to 13. If the bill becomes law this week, the platforms would have one year to work out how to implement the age restrictions before the penalties are enforced.
Opposition lawmaker Dan Tehan told Parliament the government had agreed to accept amendments in the Senate that would bolster privacy protections. Platforms would not be allowed to compel users to provide government-issued identity documents including passports or driver’s licenses, nor could they demand digital identification through a government system.
It was never going to work anyways and still won’t. Always a trojan horse for introducing digital ID and nothing to do with safety for kids.
That’s it. Keep pushing you Marxist bastards.
Our patience isn’t infinite, and there’s an election coming up.
You do intend to hold those elections, do you not, Mr Albanese?
Ha! I hope it reaches Minns’ house.
The blackouts have begun. wooooooo
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14133853/power-outage-sydney-cbd.html
shitholeification!
Bruce of Newcastle
November 28, 2024 6:46 am
Yes it is a religion, why otherwise normal, intelligent? people would still adhere to it despite all the scientific rebuttal is just beyond belief.
Not to mention the enormous amount of money we spend maintaining this foolishness.
Real religion, I mean believing in a God, I can see the reason, there is so much in this world we cannot explain, that it’s easier just to believe.
Lazy way for a lot, and I’m sure others disagree and have different reasons.
So be it.
Sounds like the hysteria about “we must protect the NHS at all costs” in Britain in recent years.
So, what proof of age will they get?
Maybe I just continue with my fake name and d.o.b.
Desensitising us to facial recognition.
I cannot condone the use of fake names.
Nice one “Humphrey”
Clever technologically minded young people will find a way past/over/under this fascist move, just like they did with the last fascist government move – the covid ID/Passport. Then the fascists will have to pretend not to know that they can be thwarted. They have a very limited playbook and keep playing the same dumb moves over and over again. Look for the pattern….
You will fit in well here, Kel…
Ungratefule swine! .. mobile phone! .. pair of ’em should be either in Sri Lanka or gaol . https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/priya-nadesalingam-hits-out-at-migration-bill-saying-biloela-return-impossible-without-mobile-phone/ar-AA1uRaz3?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=10f6e04126904225bb8df4328f396f16&ei=25
You’d think given a gift by another slimey FC judge they would just get on with life.
The fact they are twitchy about mobile phones tells you that bombers are over target…
Denested.
Kel November 28, 2024 7:14 am
I should hope not, it’s bad enough that we have to do it with the financial institutions, they are at least supposed to be safer, though it was proven otherwise.
Imagine all these shady baskets getting hold of your passport and D License details?
What a bonanza for shonks it would be. Nigerian scammers dare not dream of it.
And what of the sites that are pay sub only, having not only your card number but all the other details?
Are these politicians living in our world?
These fascist moves will be worked around like the Covid ID. There are some very clever young technology people out there.
Both Liberal (Covid) and now Labor have exposed themselves.
No Kevin. We are living in Theirs.
Victorians and Queenslanders should ensure their indoor environment is as comfortable as possible by using their AirCons. Set to 17 for cooling and 28 for heating as required.
Queensland power is for Queenslanders.
Let the Sydney doctor’s wives get their democracy good and hard.
Idjit Minns, its nothing to do with the means to produce electrickery, it’s idjits like you and fellow travellers who are stopping it. No other reason. Plain and simple. Have you removed the aircon from your house? Maybe the dishwasher. Don’t forget the dishwasher uses less water that doesn’t use as much power to heat it. Since you don’t have the answers nor the ability you’re taking money under false pretences. If you had any honour you’d resign.
Turn off the aircon in all NSW government buildings.
Particularly Parliament House.
If he had an honour, he wouldn’t be a politician!
ABC chair Kim Williams yesterday.
From The James McPherson Report today:
Nails it!
These “Assisted Dying” Ads are DISGUSTING
I’m waiting for them to team up with funeral homes to run joint ads. Coordinate your death and funeral arrangements and get 10% off your gold star reception. Family packages now available for two or more family members dying together. Group packages available. Endless possibilities.
small steps to the Logan’s Run carrousel
I’ll believe Minns and co. when they turn off the aircon in Parliament House, electoral offices and MPs’ homes ‘for the grid.’
Not holding my breath.
I recall that an emergency generator was installed in parliament many moons ago. Wonder if it still works.
You mean like in hospitals? I wonder why.
From the Daily Mail power outage link
These are not particularly high temps for Sydney at this time of year. My phone had a warning 26degrees “extreme heat” on it last night.
This is gaslighting, pure and simple.
All it means is that the power grid is in such disarray it can no longer handle normal usage in late Spring-early Summer. What will happen when we get to February?
This disgusting state of affairs can be laid at the feet of Bowen, sure. He’s low hanging fruit. But it can also be directed to that Turnbull grifter and his associates. Many…many people have grown richer and can look to more riches because of scam policy and infrastructure neglect.
The sooner the boil bursts the better.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has urged his state’s residents to conserve power and “help the grid”.
I suppose it’s more accurate than “saving the planet”
Stuff the grid.
We’ve been warning about this for a decade and if people haven’t taken steps to ameliorate the problem, then bad luck.
Totally normal behaviour.
WATCH: Sad Leftists Gather to Engage in a ‘Primal Scream’ over Election Loss (27 Nov)
They really aren’t handling this well.
Statement from Trump-Vance Transition Team
Including Matt Gaetz.
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: Elon Musk says the Department of Government Efficiency will audit the IRS.
Don’t forget the Pentagon.
@iAnonPatriot
FBI Agents are getting arrested.
One would have thought that in this day and age there would be a better solution than using police resources to address the bridge high load problem. (Authorities crackdown on drivers with high loads after Queensland rail bridges struck almost 400 times in a year). My thought would be to use advance cameras that detect high loads and then provide a flashing alert well in advance with direction to driver to divert. Also trucking companies to install a ping alert linked to the cameras (opportunity for creative app development here). Other Cats might have better solutions.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/queensland-rail-bridge-strike-police-traffic-crash-crackdown/104654188
There is a website HERE that shows trucks hitting a brudge in North Carolina.
Height detection system activates warning signs. flashing lights etc.
It still gets hit regularly,
cameras are too busy policing ‘pre-crimes’ like phone use or 3kmh over the limit perhaps?
For Sydney Harbour Tunnel, if the vehicle is over-height, they start a “waterfall” and project a “STOP” sign onto it, Impossible to miss – you literally have to drive through it to keep going.
Deleted.
Winston wearing his cranky pants today.
Nah. Police union wouldn’t want their members to be replaced by technology…
@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING
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General Keith Kellogg has been tapped by Trump to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia.
just keep him away from the food pyramid
A pretty busy few days news wise.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-year-of-war-idf-data-shows-726-troops-killed-over-26000-rockets-fired-at-israel/
So, I guess everyone is still happy with the IDF incursion in Gaza?
That is great. Hamas must be finished by now, it has been 14 months.
Interestingly, desertion rates from the IDF are above 15%.
The Israel economy continues to plummet and the “Exodus” from Israel proceeds alarmingly. Those not returning to Brooklyn are buying up big in, of all places, Cyprus.
Interesting comment from Bibi Pfizer’s wife, that the IDF are plotting to kill her (deadshit) husband. I’m sure he has the “complete confidence” of his army and there is nothing to worry about.
In other great news for Israel, Iran now has nuclear missiles.
Yep, this is as a direct result of Israel’s incursion into Gaza.
Well played Israel, should play out nicely.
The Biden administration, completely against the Ottawa Convention 1999, will now supply the Nazi’s, …., sorry, Banderites, in Ukraine, massive numbers of landmines. They have nothing else to give.
Ah, those American values rising to the top, yet again.
Ivan has built up significant stores and men immediately behind the front lines in Ukraine’s east.
Add this to the recent Oreshnik debut and the outlook for the ‘elensky regime, is the opposite of rosy.
“Saigon on the Dnieper” is about to open in a theatre near you.
Don’t miss out!
Lastly, the US controlled Pakistani Army thought it was a good idea to kill hundreds of peaceful protesters in Islamabad yesterday.
They were protesting the gaoling of Imran Khan and the last thing the Yanks want, is him released from prison. So, they had to punished!
The army was once revered by the population there, ……, no longer.
It is always great, when a nuclear armed state descends into civil war.
With the Biden syndicate continually prodding the bear and Bibi Pfizer escalating to try and get the US to deal with (a nuclear armed) Iran, this is the last thing any normal person would want to happen.
It will be a miracle if we make it to Xmas, let alone Trump’s inauguration.
Hug those close to you, our time is running out.
Pretty much.
Actually it was the crypto-shiite obama that gave Iran the nuke
Rufus is proof that microdosing LSD doesn’t have a very good effect on the brain.
“Imagine all these shady baskets getting hold of your passport and D License details?”
It’s already happening, Kevin. Hundreds of random people contracted to deliver wine and other alcohol that they won’t release unless they sight (and typically record) licence or other identifying data.
ah yes, ‘sight’ vs ‘record’ …… why does *anyone* (bank, PO etc) need to photocopy or scan your ID ….. all they need to do is sight it at the time of verification. Way too many intermediaries recording these details, including shops that want address or phone number when making a cash purchase. I just say ‘sorry I can’t give you that, I’m in witness protection’.
Oh well, that means I’ll go back to the bottle shop for stuff and if Pauline doesn’t stock it, she’ll order it in for me.
A pity about the distillers who have set up extensive mail retail systems and the people who work there.
And a pity about the organisations who have used the distillers as a fundraising venue. I’ve ten? bottles of flavoured ethanol from One Nation, and that will stop if I have to give more information beyond my credit card.
And this is the person thrust into contention for President of the U.S. Can there be ANY doubt that they hate us? On the other hand, the perfect puppet.
@_johnnymaga
Kamala’s been showing up to events plastered for years now.
It’s incredible how nobody in the media has asked questions about this.
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: With almost all votes counted, every state has shifted toward the Republican Party.
are you gonna whine for the whole journey?
Probably.
Tie a kennel to the roof and lock him up in it.
Looks like the Sydney CBD outage was due to a fault.
But the grid is in danger of not meeting peak demand due to scheduled autumn maintenance at three of the four NSW coal fired plants.
So there is a lack of redundancy in the system which renewables obviously aren’t capable of fulfilling and can’t be relied upon to do so in the future because of their reliance on the weather.
This is an object lesson for politicians.
Don’t count on them getting the point.
You are correct. The likes of Bowen and Keane don’t get it
I don’t understand. We are in the final days of Spring.
Oops…my bad! Should be spring!
Such maintenance is usually scheduled for autumn and spring because demand is historically lower than winter and summer.
like communism, when the green nirvana fails to materialise, the answer is always ‘we need to go harder..’
I understand there have been quiet negotiations going on with the EEEEVIL Coal Power Station Barons to maintain their equipment, just in case.
Perhaps the message is oozing by some kind of Political Osmosis into the brains of the Masters of the Universe?
Rufus T Firefly
November 28, 2024 8:13 am
Whatever it is, that you are smoking or drinking, injecting, chewing, just put it down.
He’s getting his supplies from the Gimp.
Against the Tide: Why Trump won back the heart of America
Scott Baio Drops The Diddy List! ? #diddy
Can someone enlighten me as to what being on this list means? Is it like the Epstein list?
Minns is home from work that early?
The staffer who wrote his speaking notes is an idiot.
And an idiot reads them.
Sounds like he’s morphing into Ron Burgundy. 😀
@KenPaxtonTX
BREAKING: Texas Sues BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard for Illegally Conspiring to Manipulate Energy Markets, Driving Up Costs For Consumers
Texas will not tolerate the illegal weaponization of the financial industry in service of a destructive, politicized ‘environmental’ agenda.
BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street formed a cartel to rig the coal market, artificially reduce the energy supply, and raise prices.
Their conspiracy has harmed American energy production and hurt consumers. This is a stunning violation of State and federal law.
It seems the Grid is some sort of new deity we have to worship and make sacrifices to.
Like the Brits and the NHS during Covid. Complete inversion of purpose.
I suggest everyone charge their electric cars, turn on the dishwasher and crank up the aircon to eleven. Bring on the collapse!
She taunts me racially every day!
We don’t care, you illegitimate troublemaker.
So, what proof of age will they get?
I suggested to my federal member that it would be a button to press on screen “I am over 16”.
Yep.
Next.
@nicksortor
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Obviously Ferrari thinks they have an excess of demand for their products …. like Jag-were
Hahahahaha going to be a delicious 4 years.
Pommy bint on Sky trying to use Musk’s father to link Elon to Eugenics.
now do Gates 😉
Trump adviser hounded by angry neighbors after he bought home on liberal island off Maine coast
Tolerant lot these Leftists.
11 State Attorneys General, Led by Ken Paxton, Take on BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street in Groundbreaking Anti-Trust Lawsuit Over Coal Market Manipulation
Germany closing factories at home, opening them in China
While importing immigrants who will need to be supported for eternity.
Donald Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Ukrainian Lawmaker
Just like Obummer.
Trump getting it would be a brilliant Up Yours!
Trump Cabinet Picks Targeted with Death Threats Including ‘Bomb Threats,’ ‘Swatting’
Evil to the last.
Biden DOJ Seeks To Gag Texas Doctor Who Blew Whistle On Child Trans Surgeries
The Bee
Kamala Officially Unburdened By Sobriety
As a community, we must do more to support our female entrepreneurs – to give them the opportunities they deserve and need to turn their ideas into thriving businesses.
This would not only benefit them, but our country as well. Research has shown that boosting the number of female entrepreneurs to parity with men would add between $71 billion and $135 billion to Australia’s economy.
Did you get that? Women are even more deserving of e-money because discrimination and better than men.
I, particularly, do not give a good gad damn, and I’m even apalled that a financial institution would look harder at an applicant’s gonads than their business plan.
I’m even 180 degrees the other way. If this wimman seriously cared about women’s wellbeing and success in life, she’d follow the evidence and prefer women to go into marriage and children, rather than debt and work.
Effing NAB. I seriously can’t wait to get free of the banks.
Wally, that research was conducted under strenuous circumstances involving the questioning of a purple haired monster and her cat that identifies as a dog. Her busines model to groom cats into behaving like dogs so not to eat the faces of cat ladies when the die. Money for jam.
As known for decades. There is nothing genuine about climate “science”.
German Researcher: Doubling Of Atmospheric CO2 Causes Only 0.24°C Of Warming …Practically Insignificant
Ennk! The model he used was HITRAN only. No water cycle is modeled in that so it is simplistic, cannot generate changes in water vapour (the most powerful GHG).
Quote:
No water, no credibility.
How many people upvoted this comment without clicking through to read the fine print first?
Golly, I wonder what caused them to be in such straits?
Nissan seeks new investor to survive Renault exit (Tele, 28 Nov, not paywalled)
Ok so we have “12 or 14 months to survive” and we’re doubling down on cars people don’t want to buy. Um, guys, better prepare for that survive thing not happening.
Well Honda have lost the plot for the last 20 years anyway. Might be the end of them, doing a JV with what is left of Nissan.
Wonder if Renault has been siphoning money to itself a la Air NZ sucking the already beleaguered Ansett dry in the 1990’s.
Nissan has been in trouble since at least the 90s. Uninspiring catalogue of cars (save the Z cars and Godzillas). A merger with Honda or Mitsubishi or both on the cards.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha November 27, 2024 9:47 pm
Then perhaps they should be just left in the squalor because it seems our good intentions have been weaponised against us for private personal and commercial gain.
It seems extinction of aboriginal children is preferable to removing them from dangerous domestic situations. These people are evil beyond belief.
Roger, quoting James McPherson, at 7.50am:
That deserves a thousand likes.
Williams is a dangerous buffoon.
He’s dangerous because he’s now asking us to believe he’s in charge of the ABC when he knows that’s not the case.
He is a buffoon because he’s powerless — and ABC staff know that.
ABC staff will make a point of NOT doing whatever Williams asks of them. Defying management and the board is how the communist staff collective maintains control of the ABC;s poisonous propaganda output.
Another inconvenient truth for Liberal voters, courtesy Jim Allen at The Spectator:
Totally agreed, seems the spirit of George Brandis lives on.
Another thing, the Parliament could have checked the HC but didn’t. They may have had trouble with senate but didn’t even try. Shrugged shoulders and moved on like they approved of the changes.
The ALP I give more credit because they are incompetent as well as carrying out what they intended to do. Open borders by stealth.
Yes. At least the Liars do what is says on the packet. Brandis was a worm.
Il Penseroso, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1875
The detail almost drowns out the subject, but very nice anyway.
The Supreme Court has Made Parliament Redundant: David Starkey
“Dems Made A Deal With The DEVIL!” Ana Kasparian SLAMS Her Old Party Feat. Victor Davis Hanson
Which runs on other people’s money.
$1.1bn not enough: ABC chair puts his hand out for more public money (Paywallian)
The best way for the ABC to reach its potential is to defund it. That way it will at least stop being catastrophically awful.
Platforms would not be allowed to compel users to provide government-issued identity documents including passports or driver’s licenses, nor could they demand digital identification through a government system.
A lot comes down to the definition of “compel” and “demand”.
If the legislation uses the terms in their dictionary sense – no change to anything.
If it is Weaselese for ‘require as a condition of service’ – then Australian soshul media is likely to fall into a technology hole in 12 months time.
A horrid cynic might think this amendment is a half-smart piece of political arse covering.
Entirely, Doctor.
It will be not mandated just like the
“ vaccines” were not mandated – of course, without compliance you could not work, travel or socialise, but not compulsory, oh no, definitely not.
It looks to me like they have taken the easy way out and instead of copping the flak for their demand for a universal ID, they are telling the owners of the business “Do our jobs for us, or cop a massive fine.”
So for all the legal minds out there, isn’t this a form of civil conscription?
Spiked exploring the rise of HR.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/27/the-murky-origins-of-human-resources/?utm_source=Today+on+spiked&utm_campaign=03439dc988-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_27_08_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-03439dc988-99421334
Bons – that article is much more interesting than it initially seems.
And yes, there’s an element of a Maoist “Struggle Session” in the workplace.
Bowen, being rather flaccidly interviewed by Laura on Sky, continues to blame coal fired power for the knife-edge situation, and maintains that more investment in intermittent power will fix things. Batteries are often mentioned, but we know they are inadequate. Gas is often mentioned for firming, but we know that various governments have knobbled gas.
Jim Allen’s Spectator piece reflects the common fallacy that legal reasoning provides a sure guide to decision-making in cases where the result has political consequences. The open-ended nature of the legal boundaries, and moreso of fact-finding, mean that the political standpoints of the judges must intrude and even be determinant. The same judge will adjust their standpoint over time in reaction to changes in the political environment.
I’d suggest Allen is an “originalist.”
There’s another giant fallacy with this theory. A Founding Father may have a clear view about the Constitution meant, but did he intend that this view should prevail forever? Or did he allow that changing circumstances would require a different interpretation? (Circustances such as technological change for example? See the High Ciurt decision in Brislan.)
Unapologetic Thorpe pledges to ‘continue to disrupt’ against racism
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe says she does not regret ripping up and throwing the paper pieces at One Nation leader Pauline Hanson on Wednesday, for which Senator Thorpe was suspended from the chamber for the week.
She said Senator Hanson’s move to question the citizenship eligibility of Labor-turned-independent senator Fatima Payman was an “act of racism”.
“She constantly is, across the floor, spewing racism and disgusting violence towards us and anybody else who is not white,” Senator Thorpe told ABC TV.
“I am not one to stand or sit silent and allow this to happen.
“I would do it again.”
She accused Labor and the Coalition – after they brought, and voted for the suspension motion – of “uphold(ing) this colonial violence that continues to be perpetrated against black and brown people”.
She pledged to “continue to disrupt” until racism is “taken seriously”.
“It seems like there’s one rule for white people who get away with racism and there’s one rule for us when we call that out, we’re the ones that are the naughty little black girl again,” she said.
“This suspension actually allows me to hang out with the people and go protest on the lawns, and it makes it very difficult for the government to pass legislation because they needed my vote.
“I hope they have a good day in the Senate and they may not be able to pass the legislation that needs to be passed today because they suspended me from participating, and they suspended me for standing up to a racist.”
Be PROUD, you Greens, who inflicted this shrieking harridan on us!
Just as a lot came down to the definition of “we will not mandate vaccination.”
But if you want to go to the pub for a beer, then you get the clot shot or else. And if the Publican serves you, then she’ll get a farking great big fat fine. But, no. We won’t mandate it.
At this point we need to (…Now that’s enough of that Winston. You know that the practice of ********* is abhorrent – well, in these circles it is. I’m not sure about Labor Youth Camps. – Dover Beach.)
Is this misinformation or disinformation, Kim?
Perhaps Senator Babet, who is “not white”, could help us out?
Williams is a walking talking example of old and busted.
Bowen continues to maintain that new transmission lines are needed regardless of power generation type. No.
Build nuclear or gas power where coal power is now or has been recently until it was dynamited to the ground or starved of income, and the transmission lines already exist. Better still, refurbish the coal fired generators where they are. WE have hundreds of years of coal.
Why not use coal!
We need Donald!
If you consider the title, that is probably intended by the artist.
Many long years ago when I was visiting the local doctor with one of my young kids, I asked him to look at the lump near my left wrist. He took a look, felt it and said it was from the thinking position!
The Economist is signalling that UKR casualties at a minimum 480K.
The Ecommunist has rather become a parody of late. I’m not saying that number is wrong, but I personally believe nothing they print, and I subscribed to it for a couple decades before it became unreadable.
Similar, BoN.
Reading it, I felt quite the Capitalist. Then I realised that while I wasn’t looking, they’d been infiltrated by Communist Swine.
Williams is a Brahmin in Australia’s ruling caste, having married into the Whitlam family.
Brahmin bullshitter
Yes as well as being old and busted.
The Wong Chap has a piece in the Hun:
Um, ok.
Now I heard on Ray Hadley’s show that in opposition, she gave the Japanese ambassador a pull through over comments on China. Who the phuck does this slag think she is?
It this new new ‘caring’ bad Penny.
Penny trying to woo back support on the back of tragic young people’s deaths. I didn’t see her hand up when all those young people at a dance party were bludgeoned, shot, raped, mutilated or taken hostage on October 7th. .
More the point this would have been known about in Canberra circles. I reckon even the lefty DFAT would have been shocked at such a massive breach of protocol. Let alone the other missions.
So why’s it taken 3 years to get into the news cycle and only after the ambassador himself put it out there?
I am miffed on why Wong is a protected species, there’s nothing redeeming about the woman.
‘Hand in glove’
Read on the vid as apparently nearly two years old.
Five days ago.
Thanks for that video update.
From 1 year ago:
Lt. General Keith Kellogg,
November 2, 2023
Andrew Bolt on Kim Williams:
Rabz the joint.
Heads on Pikes!
Interesting painting. I’ve had women look at me like that. It did not end well.
Yesterday the usual alarmists and renewables advocates, Matt Kean, Minns and his really stupid energy minister, Penny Sharpe, were out and about telling the hapless citizens to not turn on their air cons when it was hot. My first response was to go through the house turning on every air con.
There was also leftie caller on talkback yesterday saying John Howard was the worst PM. I’ve said this before on talkback. I didn’t give my reasons which are different from the leftie reasons and today I’ll call in and give some of my non left reasons.
Little johnnie signed us up the Paris Agreement and the consequent renewable and zero carbon agreements which flowed from this. The whole global boiling and renewables garbage began with him.
Little johnnie also did not protect our coal and gas energy sources, which were the cheapest in the world.
Little johnnie also introduced the various legislation, primarily the Australian Nuclear Safety Act (1998) which stops nuclear energy being introduced into this nation.
So, the whole energy disaster now facing Australia is due to little johnnie.
In 2002 little johnnie signed off on Australia’s largest gas sale to China. The contract had no inflation clause which means for 30 years China can buy the gas at 2002 prices. Chine can literally buy Australian gas, sale away 10 kilometers, turn around and sell it back to Australia for 3 times what they have paid.
The main reason global boiling and renewables are still going so strong is the media; no one in the media argues against global boiling and many support renewables. The main section of the msm is the abc which is a cesspit of lefties and greenies. Howard was PM for a long time and had thumping majorities in both the house and the senate. But he did nothing about the abc. There is no reason why a publicly funded media outlet should exist especially a hard left, green one, and little johnnie did nothing about it.
One final reason: the narcissistic grub Turnball was going to resign from the LNP. Instead, he was persuaded to stay and knifed Abbot in the back. Little johnnie persuaded him to stay.
Anyone seen NKs in Kursk or Ukraine yet? Or Yemenis?
Please, please, PLEASE, let this happen!
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/11/27/elon-musk-alexander-vindman-committed-treason-will-pay-the-appropriate-penalty/
Salafists have started a new offensive West of Aleppo.
This is the only sensible and cost effective solution to getting out of the almost inescapable hole dug for us by braindead politicians, bureaucrats and roonable carpetbaggers, selling that ol’ time religion* of “climate change”.
Florence and the machine should be the name of a band, not the moniker for a (boring) machine failing to plumb ever more subterranean depths courtesy of the vanity and profligacy of one of the most preposterous waffling windbags to have blighted public life in this country since St Gough.
*36 years (and counting) of anti-scientific, fact and evidence free horsesh*t.
Dig ..baby Dig!
We need to use our cheap (before state royalties) COAL!
4c/kw/hr electricity? It’s possible until the government starts adding their take on it.
HELE Coal – it’s the only way to be sure. Efficient, effective and tiny enviro footprint.
Don’t forget the population growth ponzi scheme, cohenite.
Just so this doesn’t get buried in the “Reply” section…
Thank you mem.
This disgrace of a Foreign Minister is the figurehead of the Good Ship Lu Wigi (registered in a third world port of convenience).
May it soon founder in the Sargasso Sea of its own excrement.
Nicely put Calli.
Registered in a third world port of convenience.
Home port – Shanghai.
“France has stated it recognises that, legally, Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli government ministers are not subject to the rulings of the International Criminal Court and consequently accept they have “immunities” from the arrest warrant issued.”
Frenchies being hit with a cluebat. Finally.
Any bets on whether that bloke, Wong, will also change, NAH, who am I kidding.
Did Wong get legal advice from Attorney-General’s on the legalities?
If he did, and it wasn’t to his liking, he wouldn’t care.
She didn’t “seem” to do it. She did it.
She admitted it this morning, outside the chamber.
Throwing objects at a work colleague in the workplace might “seem” to be assault.
Only if Hanson reasonably apprehended that her physical person would be struck. That’s the common law test of an assault. Actual strking is battery. Of course, a statute can define these crimes in other ways.
From memory, Hanson was looking down at her own papers. She was unaware that Thorpe had thrown something at her.
How does that work for “coward punches”?
A coward punch makes physical contact. No need for thevixtim to apprend it’s coming
The victim
Paper cuts are a bitch
Heh. The Lidbot is a known escalation expert. Next time it will be physical.
Yes. She has little sense of boundaries – she’ll keep on pushing until she gets pushback.
She’s already tried the verbal abuse and gotten away with it, and the throwing of objects is the next line she’s crossed. She doesn’t have the emotional self control to stop at this point.
If you look at her past history closely enough, you’ll find multiple assaults there.
I hope her Bikie friends dont supply her with a weapon.
Early morning coffee and Peter O’Brien’s book on the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government.
Malcolm Fraser is repeatedly described as “ruthless” and “driven.” Elected in a landslide, with a majority in both Houses, and a clear mandate to reverse the shambles that Whitlam had left behind, why did he seen so curiously reluctant to exercise that mandate?
The dog that caught the car it was chasing and then sat down to await the worship of its pack.
Not to mention a ridiculous utterly ineffectual delusional bidenesque Erko clad geriatric whose brain has clearly turned to mush.
The perfect fit for chair of the ALPBC.
Watching the Senate (yes I know). Anyway Senator Faruqi sought leave to read feral Lidia Thorpe’s speech on terrorism. Leave not granted.
Feral Lidia must have been lurking outside the door and yelled Free free Palestine. Clerk called.
Speech recognition captions spell Senator Faruqi as Senator Freaky. How appropriate and funny.
Canadian muzzie kills wife and kids in most brutal fashion; charged with murder but now identifies as trannie and being housed in female prison:
Canadian Trans Madness! Man Accused of Killing Wife & Kids Being Called “Her” by Media & Courts!
Bring back Asylums.
Lunatic asylums, that is.
Hungry for power but no appetite to use it.
Fair comment.
He’d won the prize – didn’t need to do anything more than show it off and give it a bit of a polish now and then.
Pete Buttigieg’s alma mater Harvard ‘to make a killing’ off $335M in funds from infrastructure bill — despite $53B endowment
Smith & Wesson Praises Elon Musk’s Free Speech Platform X After Facebook Cancels Gun Maker’s Account
Consistency is Key – How Hamilton freed President Trump
So how many 4 Corners and 7:30s will Sales and Ferguson devote to ‘proving’ that Vidman’s accusations against Musk are true.
“Proving” in ABC lexicon means MSU and smug anyone who dares to call out their lies.
It’s becoming a bit boring. Can’t the left come up with more inventive liables than sexual misconduct and Wrussia Wrussia. What about a bit of incest, devil worship, or even beastiliaty, that’s always fun but unfortunately these are activities that are fully approved of by the ABC.
Anderson’s declaration that “I will not apologise” is sufficient cause to hit the flush button.
Mrs Snowcone’s 3 part expose on Fatty Trump ranks right up there with any Nilligan dross. Plenty of work for Williams to be getting on with with his current $1.1bn.
Religion is here to stay
‘A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe’
Jacob Phillips, The Critic
why did [Fraser] seem so curiously reluctant to exercise that mandate?
Often said Gough turned into Australia’s leading socialite, while Fraser turned into Australia’s leading socialist….
Mal out campaigning with Sarah Hyphen-Seapatrol wasn’t a good look. Took the noblesse oblige a little too far.
Gough always was a snob. ‘The real trouble in November 1975?’, he once said to an acquaintance of mine with a similar social background. ‘Kerr and Barwick: lower middle class.’
Is Fatima Payman Eligible? Pauline Hanson Demands Accountability in the Senate”
Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
So bottom line I drew was, Payman thinks she’s above the law…
Well, she’s a Muslim so therefore, she must be.
Her religion demands that she be so.
Unfortunately, her religion also demands that we accept her as being above our law.
Hmmm.
“Thorpe identifies as “blak” because one of her eight great-grandparents had Aboriginal ancestors.”
Bolt needs to do better homework.
Both Thorpe’s maternal grandparents have aboriginal ancestors. Her great great grandfather was the war hero Harry Thorpe.
Thorpe claims “he died serving a country he was not a citizen of.” That’s up there with “flora and fauna.”
Might be a different family .. she has stated herself one great gran never rmentioned any other relatives ……
It’s all a game. anyway, my great gran (mum’s side) was born in Oz but no one ever suggests I’m entitled to Oz citizenship by default ….
her father is english. the surname thorpe, which is old english for a small village or hamlet.
Things are bad in Norway
https://youtu.be/aJZVADB4PXs?feature=shared
A friend of mine in the US died last week. Only 71 but in poor health after breaking her back at work a long time ago. Haven’t been able to get to the US, daunted by the weak Aussie dollar. The other friend is in poor health after a stroke in 2019.
Going to try to get over there next year.
Pitn flying into Chicago then driving 150 miles west.
M?ori Haka in NZ Parliament goes METAL!
Maori did it right when colonising a new nation you get rid of stuff leave no loose ends, ok so they chose to eat people.
Why Israel agreed to the ceasefire deal.
Makes sense.
If ever there was a career army chief it was Angus Campbell. The man who said that “exceptionalism” did not belong in the ADF. Disgraceful.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/defence/former-defence-chief-tipped-for-top-diplomatic-role/news-story/71e07fd1e68927f4287025b1ff0068fa?utm_source=TheAustralian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Editorial&utm_content=TA_BREAKING_CUR_04&net_sub_id=284221075&type=curated&position=1
True Vicki, there is or was nothing exceptional about Campbell.
Just another canbra pube
Utterly despicable man.
It is said sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. This is said by ones not capable of such fitting descriptions. The level of sarcasm has been dialled up to eleventy recently, my only wish is that I’d said or thought it first. Our political leaders have no idea how bad they are. I can only hope one their lackeys is on the ball reading this wonderful blog of distinction.
Ok folks this one’s an absolute doozy. The ABC reporting from the upper-middle class ghettos of “Naarm/Melbourne”: a profile of a comically stereotypical Millennial and the kinds of luxury predicaments they face. ‘They’ being especially apposite here as this one is a ‘they/them’ (although that probably doesn’t come as a shock). Let’s hear from Phoebe and her – oh I mean…ah screw that – her pathetic story of how she came to embrace her learned helplessness:
I know. It was a position as one of those annoying customer ‘shoppers’ that clutter up supermarket aisles these days.
26 and this is the first formal interview she’d ever done? I mean if you’re some kind of young genius entrepreneur I might understand that, but this one hasn’t even moved out from home! So I don’t think that’s it.
There is literally no reason for her at this point to feel this way aside from the fact she simply didn’t want the work. Didn’t want to work. It’s her dream job, remember?
Note the post hoc justification.
Why? You went in not wanting the job, remember? Why do you care if the interview went poorly?
Oh yes so proud. You should be. Potential employer: ‘ummmmm right ok sure take a couple of days, no problem [scans list of interviewees to find the fifth placed candidate]’
Does she mean overview? Or that she’ll be subject to oversight? Because if the latter, well…yup that kind of goes with the territory of working for someone else.
What does she do for a living? Well, she’s a “cook, a micro-baker and freelance writer…developer of inclusive vegan & gluten-free recipes. They are currently writing their first multidisciplinary cookbook” lolllll ok so completely unemployable. Woolworths dodged a bullet here. Also, imagine working too hard at her…um… pursuits and being so wrecked from the trauma of it all that you need an entire year to recover.
A shocking plot twist. Well, there’s always the NDIS!
Oh, it would be morally wrong to take the job? It’s quite astonishing what people are able to justify to themselves.
But you’d already decided you didn’t want the job even prior to the interview! Get your freaking story straight.
Presumably these are the same people who told you you’d be perfect for the job you just turned down, right? Or did you only tell people whose opinions you didn’t value about that position? Phoebe has worked hard to justify this decision to herself – and now to the world.
So much navel-gazing is going on here that it’s verging on impressive.
Barista at a vegan cafe.
Which is a lifetime of dependency. Pitiful. Literally pitiful.
26, still sponging off her parents, suddenly discovers she’s ‘autistic’ and has the self awareness of a mollusc.
Yep, her possible employer dodged a bullet.
Oh, I would actually be accountable for something.
It’s the best spin they can put on it. Let’s look at the three reasons given:
(1) Re-focus on Iran
(2) IDF needs a breather; and
(3) separate and isolate other fronts from Hamas.
Not sure how they can’t do (1) if they are fighting in the north since any attack on Iran would only involve intelligence assets and the air force.
Re (2), sounds to me like they’re saying they’re at their limits with five divisions engaged in the north, facing increasing pressure, and the costs outweigh the benefits.
Re (3), not clear they’ve done this either. We could just be seeing a movement from the Lebanese front to the Syrian front if events over the last 24 hours are anything to go by. Also, not at all clear if Hezbollah have agreed to any cessation and are simply taking a breather themselves.
Well, it s quite likely that Israel achieved its objectives, pushed Hezbollah. Back on the other side of the river, knocked off the leadership and activist parts of Hezbollah , and destroyed a shit tonne of rockets.
Hezbollah is still south of the Litani. They still have a significant portion of their missile inventory. Some ofstill being used to the deadline and the larger ones still unused. Their real achievement was knocking off the leadership but that has just been replaced by a younger cadre.
President Trump Announces Agreement with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum-Pardo
November 27, 2024 – Sundance
Amazing what a little “persuasion” can achieve.
We’ll wait and see what the Cartels have to say about it.
I see a replay of the Hamas/Hezbo “Who is the boss today” theatre.
ABsCess Mission Statement: Information must be curated* to enable the low people to understand it.
* In Lowpeopleese: Filtered.
I don’t know if this is a totally mindless proposal as we do have “representatives,” but in the (somewhat) spirit of Athenian democracy, I think each Parliament (State and Federal) should dedicate an hour a week to allow citizens into the chamber to ask questions.
Its my idea of bursting “the bubble.”
Call it: Citizens Question Time.
I know, under Standing Orders, they’re “Strangers” and not allowed on the floor but it could literally take place anywhere.
If you wanted to ask a question, you’d need to:
Am I nuts?
A brilliant idea!
If I’m allowed a high-powered water gun, I’m in.
Being serial (sic) for a moment, I consider it a decent idea which does not have a chance of being adopted. The decision-makers will not acknowledge there is a ‘bubble.’
There is a need, however, for formal consequences of poor policy-making other than ‘being voted out’ (which is frequently a doorway to a higher-paid career in the private sector). How these consequences would work – akin to negligence perhaps? – is beyond my cognition.
A bludgers demands are never satisfied, and the slight will never be forgotten.
Next scam on the list:
Compensation and a Public Apology, because this is not just about money – this is about revenge as well, and the desire to rub it in the whitey noses about who won.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of b@stards.
Environmental Defenders Office ordered to pay $9m to Santos over Barossa gas challenge
Now for the urgent inquiry into how the wrong judge got assigned to the case.
No surprise it was Mordy Bromberg
Hurrah!
And who do you think will bail these bludgers out? Us.
Santos needs to apply for it to be wound up.
Close it, smash it, salt the earth behind it.
More good news. From the Oz.
Uh oh. Now for the bad news.
Senate approves amended guillotine motion
johanna
November 28, 2024 2:06 pm
Reply to Oh come on
They certainly have.
I read the whole thing and I am amazed at how these people think.
Trite, but I say it anyway, we employ an autistic girl and she is one of the best workers, at times we have to slow her down.
I’m not familiar with the degrees and onset of autism, but if you only discovered it at 26 then I think she is seeking an excuse.
Autism is a spectrum: It embraces a range of conditions that vary from highly functional (Aspergers) to Angelman’s Syndrome at the very low functioning end. While I’m not medically qualified, I have had experience in a previous life caring for individuals with numerous conditions on the spectrum, including the latter.
I do sometimes wonder – again, not from a clinical perspective – if many of those who openly tout their autism have been diagnosed with Aspergers, where the challenges are often social rather than cognitive.
TheirABC scrambling after Chief Dickhead accuses Joe Rogan of being a fearmongering source of misinformation:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-28/elon-musk-joe-rogan-respond-to-criticism-abc-chair-kim-williams/104657124
Linky thing wasn’t working)
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Joe Rogan and Elon Musk have responded to comments made by the ABC’s chair Kim Williams, who suggested the popular podcaster “preyed on people’s vulnerabilities” which he found to be “deeply repulsive”.
With the caption “LOL WUT”, Rogan reposted a clip on social media platform X of the ABC chair criticising him during an appearance at the National Press Club on Wednesday.
Hours later Mr Musk weighed in, comparing the ABC to Russian state media in a separate post on X.
“From the head of Australian government-funded media, their Pravda,” he wrote.
Always escalate. 🙂
BTW, Joe Rogan has ratings TheirABC could only dream of, without a dime of taxpayer funding.
According to the article, Trump’s Rogan podcast had no effect whatsoever, nor did Cackleberry’s refusal to do the same.
FMD, they really live in fairyland.
Last post, I promise. Enjoy. (P.S. Don’t bother buying an entry in tonight’s Powerball as I already have the solitary winning ticket.)
The misinformation bill may be dead, but not the ideology behind it
The Mocker
It is the season to be jolly, but try telling Communications Minister Michelle Rowland that. As we learned on Sunday, her controversial draft disinformation and misinformation bill is cactus.
This is a distressing outcome, at least according to Rowland. Unlike her enlightened self, most Australians lack the wherewithal to distinguish fact and fiction. This called for a benevolent but omnipresent moderator to steer our thinking. Enter Rowland, who planned to impose huge fines on digital providers that did not meet the government’s definition of truthfulness.
It was not a partisan measure, Rowland stressed. Responsibility for enforcement would lie with the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which is staffed by nonpartisan Canberra-based public servants (Fun fact: the last time the ACT had a federal Liberal MP was last century).
If you believed Rowland, it was misinformation to suggest the government’s motives were anything but altruistic. It was “not a Big Brother bill”, she wrote in the Herald-Sun last month. “In reality it is all about safeguarding Australians,” she insisted.
In reality it was all about safeguarding the Albanese government from scrutiny, but that debate is academic now, given Labor does not have the numbers to get this bill through the Senate.
The bill was draconian, censorious, and blatantly opportunistic. But imagine the fun you could have had with it. So-called Welcome to Country ceremonies predate Captain James Cook’s arrival here by 250,000 years? Disinformation. The “worthy” winner of the Miss Universe competition is a contestant with Jatz crackers? Disinformation. Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has a personality? Disinformation.
The bill may be dead but not the ideology behind it. As experience shows, this government will simply up the mendacity factor to get what it wants. The revised bill was an example of that.
For example, in the original bill, behaviour that was defined as ‘serious harm’ included “hatred against a group in Australian society” based on ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, and other characteristics. But in the revised bill, ‘hatred’ had been replaced by ‘vilification’. As the Institute of Public Affairs noted in its submission, the definition of vilification is wider than that of hatred. ‘Vilify’, the think-tank observed, is “a notoriously vague and subjective standard”.
Far from addressing concerns of free speech proponents following the original public consultation phase, the government was if anything expanding the bill’s repressive remit.
As former Israeli government minister Ayelet Shaked knows, the Albanese government abuses such powers by exploiting ambiguously worded legislation. Due to attend a security conference in Canberra this week, she learned just days ago her visa had been refused on the grounds she could “vilify” Australians or “incite discord”. On Tuesday Sky News host Sharri Markson revealed Home Affairs Tony Burke had made that decision.
Technically, Burke is correct – Shaked could vilify Australians. For instance, she could say Western Sydney is a haven for a throng of Muslims who celebrated in the streets when Hamas terrorists slaughtered hundreds of Israeli men, women, and children in the October 7 attacks.
She could also vilify Burke personally by saying he was missing in action following the attacks, and that when pressured to condemn them he did so belatedly and by drawing false equivalence between the actions of Hamas and Israeli actions in Gaza. And she would be vilifying him if she said his decision to refuse her a visa has nothing to do with the public interest but rather was a desperate and craven attempt to appease Middle Eastern voters in formerly safe Labor seats that he and his cabinet colleagues currently hold.
Then there is Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong. Shaked would be vilifying her if she said this government’s Middle East policies are based not on reason and prudence but resemble more a vox pop of Sydney residents in Punchbowl and Lakemba.
She would be vilifying Prime Minister Anthony Albanese if she said a jellyfish could act with more decisiveness than he has in confronting the burgeoning anti-Semitism that exists not just in this country but also within Labor. It would also amount to vilification if she said Albanese’s dereliction is such that Jewish-Australians no longer feel safe in their own country.
But as previously noted, ‘vilify’ is an open-ended word. The most devastating of vilifications are those that angrily speak truth to power. No doubt that was foremost in Burke’s considerations when he refused Shaked a visa.
And what of Burke’s insistence that Shaked’s visit would “incite discord”? Again he is technically correct, but not in the spirit of the legislation. One cannot imagine, for example, Shaked’s attendance resulting in Jewish-Australians rioting in the Melbourne suburbs of Caulfield or East St Kilda. Nor is it likely you will see members of the Jewish faith gathering en masse outside the Sydney Opera House to celebrate a pogrom of Muslims
Burke’s justification is a reverse onus of public order obligations and a perversion at that. It is the same reasoning that justified the arrest last year of a Jewish-Australian for the crime of waving an Israeli flag on a Sydney street. Rather than arrest the Middle Eastern thugs who intimidate and harass innocent citizens, government placates them.
It is about ensuring “social cohesion” you see. Just like what we are told about “tolerance” and “respecting differences”. The biggest manufacturers of disinformation are those who employ such terminology in justifying adverse measures against those who stand up to the aggressor.
They are the worst kinds of hypocrites. “Freedom always comes with responsibility,” wrote Albanese in the Courier Mail in September. “A right to free speech isn’t a right to spread deliberate lies and falsehoods”. That is debatable, but in any event a notorious purveyor of porkies is ill-suited to sermonising about honesty.
Mind you, I am all for Albanese combating disinformation. He could make an immeasurable contribution in this respect. All that would require is for him is resign his office immediately and never again contribute to public debate.
Albo and his clown cabinet rapidly becoming an object of ridicule. Not what you want coming into an election. Will parliament sit again before we go to the polls? Must be less than 50:50. RBA no longer a consideration.
Coming from a serial liar, absolutely vomitous.
Expect Albo’s credibility to come under scrutiny come election time. No ScoMo this time helps.
The Liars can’t help themselves. Gillard tried and failed on this one too.
Help the grid? Shades of flatten the curve!
Save the (UK) NHS!
Now watch them put those requirements in the attached regulations. They obviously think we are all stupid?
I have had lunch with a largish group of friends, both lefties and righties. When the subject of switching off aircon and other appliances to help The Grid came up the reaction was almost unanimous – no way. All agreed that it was the government’s responsibility to ensure adequate power before any other considerations. I think Labor are going to lose big if blackouts happen.
I think the Coalition would bolt it in next election if it promised to scrap Net Zero and reopen closed coal-fired plants or go nuclear.
I’d be interested in how many gensets have been sold in Australia in the last 5 years – and where.
R.I.P Tom Hughes, 101.
A good Lib politician and a good man.
He stood up for Gorton against Fraser.
Thanks for posting, P. Tom Hughes has gone ahead, as they say — 101 is a splendid innings!
Williams and his charges at their ABC were used to being the gate-keepers and suddenly find that the gates have been breeched by the peasants. This cannot stand. What is even funnier is that Joe Rogan was on their side until they chased him away rather than let him within the gates. They are like spoiled children who were never taught to share.
I didn’t single this out for commendation this morning. But on reflection today’s effort from Chip Bok is my cartoon of the week.
Senator Birmingham resigns from the Senate. I won’t grieve the loss of him. Largely a waste of space.
An exceedingly generous assessment.
He, along with Hume and two others voted against offering care to born alive aborted babies.
Good riddance.
A traitorous slimy, self-serving LINO in the same ‘class’ as Christopher Pyne. Good riddance.
Dunno if posted but worth the watch:
The Real Cost of Net Zero: The shocking truth of the renewable energy push
More troubles in the Grampians.
I’m shocked, Humphrey. The Victorian public servant responsible for the climbing bans in the Grampians has been sacked for incompetence.
How about the clowns responsible for Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop — the Dan Andrews financial black hole with no business plan costing the state billions in spending and borrowings?
Too much to ask.
Still, a useful precedent has been set.
It’s a start. Clearly not one of those decisions that made itself.
Grosser Mercedes spotted, quick tell mike burgess, he’s been looking for one of those.
Always keep the half track under camouflage. Can’t be too careful.
The pain and agony.
Kamaltoe “needs to go away and never come back”.
Carville:
Carville: “Young Progressive Staffers” Sank Harris Campaign, “You’re 23 Years Old, I Don’t Give A Sh*t What You Think”
But who will SA appoint in his place?
Dr in Texas comes out against Trump and Gov Abbott’s plan to get rid of illegals. Do you reckon the doc’s a poofta:
Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens hospital over immigration policy
Yep
@catturd2
This is what Trump’s doing while the Biden regime is trying to send another 28 billion to Ukraine and start WWIII.
One way to stop the flow of these drugs into the US is to put strychnine in random batches.
@robinmonotti
DO YOU SEE IT, YET?
‘Eugenics and the master race of the left’:
“Eugenics is the dirty little secret of the British left. The names of the first champions read like a roll call of British socialism’s best and brightest: Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, John Maynard Keynes, Marie Stopes, the New Statesman even, ..the Manchester Guardian..
Thus George Bernard Shaw could write: “The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man”. Later he mused that “the overthrow of the aristocrat has created the necessity for the Superman”. The revered pacifist, disarmer and philosophical titan, Bertrand Russell, dreamed up a wheeze that would have made even Nazi Germany’s eugenicists blush. He suggested the state issue colour-coded “procreation tickets”. Those who dared breed with holders of a different-coloured ticket would face a heavy fine. That way the high-calibre gene pool of the elite would not be muddied by any proletarian or worse, foreign, muck. The New Statesman agreed, explaining in July 1931: “The legitimate claims of eugenics are not inherently incompatible with the outlook of the collectivist movement. On the contrary, they would be expected to find their most intransigent opponents amongst those who cling to the individualistic views of parenthood and family economics.” The bottom line is bleak but clear. Eugenics, the art and science of breeding better men, is not just the historical problem of Germany and now Scandinavia, nor even of the jackbooted right. It took root right here in Britain – pushed and argued by the left. Indeed, contempt for ordinary people and outright racism were two of the defining creeds of British socialism.
The trouble began with Charles Darwin. His breakthrough work, The Origin of Species, did not restrict its impact to the academy and laboratories. Instead it transformed the very way mankind understood itself in the 19th century, its message fast spilling over into the realm of political ideas. Suddenly the religious notion that all life was equally sacred was under attack. Human beings were like any other species – some were more evolved than others. The human race could be divided into different categories and classes. When Karl Marx took on the task of charting human development and defining the class structure, he acknowledged his debt – dedicating an early edition of Das Kapital to none other than Charles Darwin.
From the beginning, socialism regarded itself as the natural ally, even the political version, of science. Just as biologists sought to understand animals and plants, so scientific socialism would master people. According to Adrian Wooldridge, author of Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England 1860-1990, and a recognised authority on early ideas of human merit, progressives believed the only enemies of Darwin were reactionaries, the religious and the superstitious. Science, by contrast, represented progress. Crucially, these early leftists regarded science as an utterly neutral tool; something could not be scientifically right and morally wrong. In this climate, says Wooldridge, “eugenics became the political correctness of its day”. If you were modern, you believed in it.
The result was a Darwinian commitment to improving the quality of the nation’s genetic stock. Many of the reforms admired by today’s leftists were not, in fact, borne of a benign desire to improve the lot of the poor, but rather to make Britons fitter – to guarantee their survival as one of the globe’s foremost races. Thus the Webbs pushed for free milk in schools not because their hearts bled for undernourished kids, but because they were alarmed by Britain’s performance in the Boer war, where troops had taken a good kicking at the hands of the black man: the Webbs believed a daily dose of calcium would improve the bones and teeth of the future working class.” Jonathan Freedland
Funny how quick it went from widely accepted to complete wrongthink.
When Hitler showed the world where it led.
@robinmonotti
Increase all CO2 emissions to save the planet from famine.
@robinmonotti
THE REAL REASON FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT CO2:
The Sun’s wobble, plus irregular orbits, modulates the varying Earth-Sun distance, resulting in climate change. You can’t see the wobble: it’s VERY slow. It wobbles by the maximum length of two diameters of the Sun. This is the pattern over 76 years, from 1944 to 2020.
Would never vote for Hume. Might vote for McKenzie.
Why did the Birmingham mediocrity pull the plug now I wonder?
Same here. Election nigh & ALP muck raking machine would be at full steam.
Diddy list? ?
@robinmonotti
YOU ARE THE CARBON THEY WANT TO REDUCE!
“GPs told to stop prescribing blue inhalers that harm the planet”
NHS guidance says the devices used by millions have a ‘greenhouse gas effect’
Kevin O’Leary calls Kamala Harris a ‘broken’ candidate with ‘no compassion’ in brutal on-air critique
Looks like the ever so precious “narrative” is breaking down.
Ah, Victoria. Thanks, Dan. Thanks, Labor (the Hun):
Of course he has.
Of course he was on bail at the time.
And:
Both the QLD and NT opposition won elections on the crime platform. Not holding my breath for the Vics to do the same, as they are so institutionalised into being in opposition their primary focus is themselves.
so institutionalised into being in opposition their primary focus is themselves.
Yes with a few honourable exceptions (Bev McA and Moira) sadly true. You get more sense from the Nats.
John Pesutto is a LINO and utter mediocrity.
I can’t believe Jeff Kennett recently threw his support behind him, against Moira Deeming.
Perhaps because the Nats are largely a regional and rural party. Cities breed dependency. When you’re half an hour from any help, you’ve got to work it out yourself
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk’s hilarious response after ABC boss called Rogan ‘repulsive’
Lovely darts.
Greg Barns, a leftie lawyer from Tasmania, can only find the Irish government as an example of great government:
Greg Barns: A prisoner loses their liberty, not the right to give birth
When a person is sentenced to prison it is the deprivation of liberty that is the punishment — to deny them the right to birth is morally unacceptable.
Naturally there is public discussion about a woman serving a 16-year prison sentence in Victoria accessing IVF.
Because of the nature of the crime Alicia Schiller committed, a fatal stabbing, it is an emotional debate.
However it is important to state at the outset because Ms Schiller is in prison does not mean she should be deprived of the right to access health care available to the rest of the community, including fertility treatment.
When a person is sentenced to prison it is the deprivation of liberty that is the punishment.
To deny a prisoner the right to give birth or to have involvement in the life of their child is to further punish a person and this is morally unacceptable.
There is also the fact that prisoners who have young children with them in a caring appropriate environment, which all prisons are obliged to provide under international rules, rehabilitate better and therefore are a lower risk of reoffending on release.
Just as importantly, and this is something we all know, ensuring children can bond with their parents from birth is critical to ensuring their positive development.
Perhaps the case of Ms Schiller will trigger a broader discussion about the critical importance of our prison system ensuring a nurturing environment for women who are pregnant when they enter prison, or who were accessing IVF and other treatments before they went to jail.
Women and their children must not be punished when they live in prison.
It seems however that the general public doesn’t agree:
Should prisoners be banned from accessing IVF?
Yes 90 %
No 10 %
2418 votes
Victoria is not the only jurisdiction that has allowed women prisoners to access IVF.
Ireland has introduced a scheme recently.
Yes. And the Irish government is well known for embracing every loopy leftie argument on the planet.
The head of the Irish prison service Caron McCaffrey said last year that “we need to be very clear that just because you are in custody, the only right you’ve lost is your right to liberty, you haven’t lost your other rights, including your right to family life and we do a lot, and as much as we can, to support the links with your family.”
This is right and should be remembered by all engaged in this current debate.
Greg Barns SC Criminal Justice Spokesman for the Australian Lawyers Alliance
Link
No prisoner has “the right to give birth” via artificial means.
Where in the Constitution does it say that?
Greg Barnes needs to have his licence to practice removed. He is clearly incompetent, and unable to put his ideological beliefs behind society’s needs.
So did he object ethe Andrews-Setka-Patten Stalinst pervert thuggocracy’s denial of the right of its political prisoner, Cardinal Pell, to celebrate the sacraments? Not on your Nellie.
‘TERRIFYING!’: Labour MP’s call for ‘blasphemy laws’ signals an ‘ALL OUT ATTACK’ on free speech
It would be a very good idea for the many arrogant Western Governments to remember these words because it appears the people are getting pissed off.
FMD what an effete old turd the ABCess chairperson is. The legacy meja really is an abomination. Went up to the meal room at work this morning and Ch9 was on the high def TV spewing out poison with the usual chain saw voiced harridan.
Victoria is not the only jurisdiction that has allowed women prisoners to access IVF.
As long as it’s not Mum, Dad the kids and the Kingswood, anything goes. It’s regular families that they hate and will undermine it in every way possible.
Senator Jacqui Lambie Slams Government Over ‘Mother of All Guillotines’ on Legislation!
Re Chagos Islands agreement
Trump Veto Absolutely STUNS Labour
I find it fascinating that Trump’s prospective appointees seem to be launching themselves into action right away, more power to their arms.
Starmer lied about the support of the incoming US Government.
I pointed out a couple of weeks ago that Starmer appears to be trying to dismantle what’s left of the British Empire and that the Falklands Islands with their immense resource wealth, and the Gibraltar bastion, are in his sights.
And if the Royal family don’t withdraw assent, they will suffer the same fate as this unrepresentative Marxist Regime.
And the screw turns just a tad tighter.
Greens at 10 to 14% support are RUNNING OUR COUNTRY !
Mother nature was very cruel to Senator Hanson-dung
Poor old John Setka has PTSD !!!! Whatdya reckon on an NDIS package to aid him in his retirement?
One of the most hilarious things I have read for a long time:
Spot on – giving it to ABC Chair Kim Williams. – Michael Smith News
“I’m ENJOYING This Dispute” | Keir Starmer Accuses Elon Musk Of Spreading Disinformation
Now there’s someone who’s obviously well insulated from cost of living pressures and mortage stress.
Like all Greens, a lying f-wit.
Looking at her lately, I would agree she’s well insulated …
Watching Barnaby on Bolt…
Oh dear. He’s past it. Gibbering, telling long winded stories and bizarre analogies. Trying to be funny and failing miserably. All that’s missing is his elbow on the bar.
This is serious, Barnaby. It has gone beyond a joke. And if you say “swindle farms” one more time…I’ll be very cross with you indeed. It was good the first time, it’s now tired and rancid. Get some new material and stay off the turps before you go on air.
Just take a lesson from Kamalala. It isn’t a good look.
It was reported he was off the booze after being filmed rolling around on a Canberra footpath. Maybe he should go back to being a rural accountant and a husband & dad who’s home at night.
Is he vertical?
The Beetrooter would be amongst the hardest hit by RBT in Parliament House. But it would make hilarious TV.
“Just waiting for a mate.”
The Filth Filter don’t have a great number of statesmanlike figures to choose from for their ‘expert’ commentary, I guess.
Though I haven’t watched for many years, F-grade comedians who couldn’t hold a real job used to be the go-to for all types of serial (sic) subjects.
I frequently think that aliens haven’t invaded because the word has gone out that if our broadcast meeja is any example, we’re just too whack-a-doodle to make the potential resource gains worth the effort.
I watched a bit of Barnaby on Bolt on YouTube recently.
About 30 seconds of Barnaby was more than enough for me.
I don’t know why Bolt has him on.
Utterly incoherent as usual.
Criticising labore and the greenfilth for their electrickery idiocy.
Remind me again, you expedient hypocrite – did you or did you not support Goose Morristeen’s year zero sellout?
Oh, that’s right – you did.
So STFU, you irredeemable imbecile.
Next up, Gen Buck Keane (Retd) of the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy.
Grate, I can hardly wait.
Trigger warning for Mem – I suggest you don’t read the tributes of various Cats above to Senator Simon “delusions of adequacy” Birmingham.
From 4:45pm on.
Chuckle.
Mem’s a good egg, really.
Just logged in to find my nom de plum in dispatches. Will review with interest between sorting out bedding for last minute guest.
While in Longreach, I passed a local butcher. They advertise their own award winning sausages.
>Shrug.< Why not?
So 10 Kilo of thick and thin snags – beef only.
Get them home and pack some for the freezer. One was broken, so Elsie got a feed. She hasn’t stopped following me around and wailing about hungry. Apart from the time spent napping.
A kilo of Grass Fed Rib Fillet.
Dropped on cast iron frypan and allowed to sear. Flipped.
The best feed I’ve had in years. Tender as, I wanted to cook the other three but steak for the next three days.
…and 4 snags plus three eggs to come.
I suppose I need some vegies. So I’ll cut a tomato in half that I just took out of the garden. Flick the bird shit off. Yum.
Independent butchering seems to be thriving in regional QLD.
Those awards are fiercely contested too.
Good to see.
Food fit for a king.
And here’s me in the middle of trying to lose weight; 16.5 kg down so far.
This was the first meal of the day for me. I tend to lose weight when I only eat once.
The four snags had a garnish of local made Mango chutney.
Delicious. I haunt the shops for this sort of stuff.
The tomato needed a couple more days on the vine.
And a wash, instead of just flicking the bird shit off.
Did he recount the tale of when he publicly said MPs should be exempt from getting Covid vaccinations because ‘it would just lead to arguments’?
In the immortal words of a poster (whose name I sadly can’t recall) on this august journal of record:
‘GET FKT BARNABY!:
Wife was working in a small area of a large department, no power to get get changes made. We know best from central planning. Went elsewhere., now advising said central planning when they admitted they don’t know what to do. Hundreds of thousands wasted. I’m lying, its millions.
Like the tailings cross auger in my harvester that snapped apart at 1am the other morning Barnaby is no longer fit for purpose.
Unlike the cross auger, which has now been replaced, Barnaby is still flailing around inside the “machine”, making a lot of noise but essentially useless.
He should never be forgiven for backing the net zero BS.
Old derros like this are dying out across the country in my experience.
I like his missus – she’s got a brain. What did she see in him? …and be gentlemen now, lads.
I’d forgotten that one.
Add it to the list.
Basically giving away the fact that a significant proportion probably weren’t bothering to take the useless dangerous chemical concoctions.
A truly loathsome ridiculous utterly useless hypocrite.
Repeating myself, Joyce should have done a John McEwen and refused to serve in a gubmint led by Trumble.
However, McEwen sparked a leadership crisis when he announced that he and his Country Party colleagues would not serve under McMahon. McEwen is reported to have despised McMahon personally.
John McEwen – Wikipedia
To me Trumble was always beyond the pale. Why people gave him any leeway is beyond me.
Heard about my old boss/ shearing contractor.
Broken his neck – tripped over a goose.
So close to Christmas, I suspect the goose of ulterior motives
Be wary of the honk in the night, it honks for you…
Akin to Senator Cash earlier this week proclaiming that the Liberal Party was all in for protecting free speech, despite having drafted the first iteration of the censorship/disinformation bill in early 2022.
If politicians hold voters in such low regard as to lie to them like this, they shouldn’t wonder that voters return the favour.
Do polipatricians REALLY wonder though? Or are they incapable of/disinterested in knowing what the lowpeople think? After all, we only exist to them for a month or two prior to the next erection, and thereafter not at all.
The under-16 soshul meeja ban thing opens the way for a non-governmental ‘Social License’ enterprise. Like paypal but without the money transfer.
The social media ban is excellent, because about 5 million kids are now going to regard government as their enemy and will be evading the restrictions via VPNs and Tor.
And by that the resistance has just been multiplied enormously.
Huh. I hadn’t thought of that, Bruce.
If only we had a smart conservative party to take advantage of that: Big grubbermint HATES you!
‘Bad day for democracy’: Labor slammed as ‘more radical than Whitlam’
It is not surprising since even The Great Man put the young Trot in the freezer.
I’m just beginning to watch Beyond Deception Strategy on X, after someone here (my apologies for not recalling who) posted it some days ago.
While I’m only a few minutes in, I’ve realised that my well-worn refrain about the enabling media has substance, though I’m not sharp enough to come up with the details myself.
Don’t know it this is true, but if it is, it means the Russian central bank is concerned about a run on the currency. This is very ungood with the CB lending rate at 21%. Russian economy doing really erll.
Sounds like it is true. Oh my.
Eighteen minutes into the BDS film (mentioned above), and here’s a middle aged Israeli whose brother was kidnapped and murdered 20 years ago by h@m@s (I still refuse to use their full preferred name, one meaning of which is ‘courageous’ – I spit on such cowards), and who now works as a volunteer ambulance driver, transporting Pally kids from the border to a pediatric hospital in Haifa, where they receive exactly the same treatment as Israeli kids.
(I’m guessing this was made pre- 7 Oct).
Obviously Sales and Ferguson wrote William’s babble.
I mean, he didn’t learn all of those sublime political insights in the Opera House cocktail bar.
Or, perhaps he did.
We were promised so much from his inciteful, centerist balanced leadership.
He is even worse than the bra ads editor, and that is an impressive achievement.
Leo Puglisi speaks to BBC as social media ban is passed | 6 News
Mark Zuckerberg meets with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Australia has declared war on social media | Emilie Dye & Tom Switzer
I’ve finished watching Beyond Deception Strategy on X. It wasn’t as revelatory as I had hoped, but still worth it. Much of the nearly 1 hr piece focused on examples of ‘peace activists’ (the label makes me shudder) who, while well-meaning, seemed somewhat delusional.
It seems akin to pleading with a mosquito not to bite you, when that is what the mosquito exists to do (and sees you only as a source of nutrient, let alone does not speak the same language).
The revulsion I feel for the leeches and lepers who parade as ‘activists’ (how I despise that word!) cannot be described in proper English.
Words fail me, they honestly vooking do.
Note: In Australia we have veterans homeless, living on the street and yet here is Stephanie Copus-Campbell, wife of the former Chief of Defence Force, Angus Campbell spending $335,000 travelling the world in luxury on Australia taxpayers funds. The last I heard of Angus he was in Paris – it is possible he is travelling as the handbag with no thought of the disaster he has left behind him.
Eye-watering amount Albanese’s ambassador for gender equality has spent flying around the world at the expense of taxpayers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14118965/Ambassador-gender-equality-stephanie-copus-campbell.html
Aaaand now for something less world-changing:
Watching a Rocket Launch at SpaceX with Elon Musk!
(Kai Trump – YouTube – approx 12 minutes. Several interesting questions at the end which Elon answered simply enough for me to understand!).
Something for the absent Dot:
Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars [Metal Cover by Beauty In A Plastic Bag].
I hope all of our absent friends are keeping their heads above the waterline.
@bensmithlive
In this interview with the cancer surgeon Dr. Kathleen Ruddy, she talks about her patient who had cancer in 11 bones in his body.
A few months later, this patient was told he was in a remission.
How is this possible? He took Ivermectin ?